Benefits of CERT Training

by Mr-Jones | Aug 5, 2011 | CERT, Personal, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survivalism

I live in a com­mu­ni­ty of less than 10,000 peo­ple in rur­al Cache Val­ley on the ID/UT bor­der with vol­un­teer fire and ambu­lance ser­vice.  It’s been 8 months now since I joined my local Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Response Team.  Since then: I have... Read more

Gerber Profile Knife Review

by suburban | Aug 1, 2011 | Gear, Knives, Personal, Survival Gear

A cou­ple years ago, I pur­chased a Ger­ber Pro­file Fixed Blade Knife Drop Point.  I gen­er­al­ly take it camp­ing with me, but have nev­er thought of review­ing it.  In fact, I am not a knife affi­cian­do.  How­ev­er, I’m going to give it a shot... Read more

Higher Standards

by ST | Jul 5, 2011 | General, Guest Posts, Personal, Psychology

Survivalists/preppers have nev­er been por­trayed well in the mod­ern media and enter­tain­ment fields.  At best, they are por­trayed in as a com­i­cal cliché like in the 1983 movie “The Sur­vivors” (Wal­ter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jer­ry Reed – very fun­ny... Read more

Weekend Camping Trip, and a Few New Pieces of Gear

by suburban | Jun 20, 2011 | EDC, Gear, Preparedness

This week­end was my first real week­end camp­ing trip of the sea­son.  It’s pri­mar­i­ly my go-to place for camp­ing in the sum­mer. It also may/could func­tion as a sec­ondary Bug Out loca­tion.  But more on that anoth­er time, and to my point, there was a... Read more

Criminals After the SHTF, or I’m Trying to Get Money for Food, the SHTF for Many Already

by suburban | Jun 9, 2011 | Personal

Not every­one is a hard­ened crim­i­nal.  Not every­one will turn to crime when the SHTF.  When peo­ple are des­per­ate, they do des­per­ate things when their back is against the wall.  Being a for­mer crim­i­nol­o­gy major (a LONG time ago) one of the... Read more