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Wilderness Survival Skills to enhance your outdoor experience…

There are some outdoor and wilderness survival skills that you should know that could really save your life. Then again, there are outdoor skills that can really help you out that aren’t necessarily about survival. Therefore, we call them “Wilderness Living Skills.”  Skills to improve your experience outdoors. From wilderness survival skills like how to start a five minute fire in an emergency to wilderness survival tips and outdoor skills like how to operate a wilderness Laundromat, you’ll find it here.

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Spear Fishing for Survival

Why a Fish Spear? Grrrrroonk, grrrroooonk is a sound I hear quite frequently near lakes and ponds where I live in Western Washington. It is the telltale sound of a bullfrog. This species is highly invasive to Washington state and they will wipe out any smaller animal in their path so it is legal to [...]

Flintknapping Basics – Part 2

This is the second article in a two-part series on flint knapping basics. Click here to read flint knapping part one. There are two major techniques in flint knapping: percussion flaking and pressure flaking. Both methods utilize a different set of tools, motions, and are used during different stages in the production of stone tools. [...]

Survival Water Filter

How to Make a Survival Water Filter

Is it safe to drink this water? I ask myself that question often and most of the time the answer is no. There often is the risk that bacteria, chemicals and pathogens, specifically giardia, are in the water. Rainwater or dew that is resting on non-poisonous plants such as moss is safe to drink as [...]

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Flintknapping for Beginners – Part 1

This is part one in a two-part series on flintknapping basics. Look for part two soon. Before the use of metals, stone was the primary material used to create cutting tools. Stone was shaped to create knives, arrowheads and spearheads, drill points, and hammers using a technique called flintknapping. This method of turning raw stone [...]

Flint and Steel Fire-making

Flint and steel is a primitive fire-making technique dating back into the Iron Age when steel was first available for this simple and quite effective way to ignite fire. It frequently was used until recently, when matches were invented, making the flint and steel method obsolete. Yet there are many reasons why flint and steel [...]

Throwing an Atlatl dart

Atlatl Basics

by Andrew Meyer, Anake Outdoor School Graduate There it was, flying through the air with a perfect spin stabilizing its flight. An arrow on steroids, six feet in length, fletched like a traditional arrow with turkey feathers, secured to a fire- straightened dogwood shaft with deer sinew, with a business-end of duct tape simulating the [...]

Stone Tools & Flint Knapping

Finding yourself in the outdoors without a knife or a tool — faced with a simple task you usually take for granted — can be quite a surprise and a challenge. Perhaps you need to cut some material, punch a hole, or hammer a stake into the ground. Finding an appropriate rock and making stone [...]

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Wilderness Survival vs. Primitive Living – Part 2

Wilderness survival conjures up images of accidents, getting lost, and general mishaps. These are serious threats to your life and must be dealt with in an efficient and expedient manner. Primitive living skills are at the other end of the survival spectrum. These are the skills and knowledge that all of our ancestors held at [...]

Wilderness Survival vs. Primitive Living

Wilderness Survival vs. Primitive Living – Part 1

I often hear the terms “Primitive Living” and “Wilderness Survival” used interchangeably. To me, they are very different topics. They are certainly related, but I look at them as similar topics on a continuum. Primitive Living is a skill set that all of our ancestors knew at one point in time. These were skills that [...]

Bowmaking Basics

Bow making Basics

I remember making my first bow as a kid. I found a branch on the ground under the black oak trees that grew in our yard. There was a windstorm the prior evening and branches were everywhere. I found one with a bend and tied on a string. Then I grabbed a smaller, straighter branch. [...]

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