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How Do You Signal for Help With No Phone Signal?
Reaching somebody and being found by them are two different jobs.
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Skills
Skills like navigation and water treatment carry across hiking, trekking, and camping. Learn them once and use them everywhere.
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5 guides in Skills
Each one is field-tested and, where safety is involved, checked by a qualified responder.
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How to Purify Water Safely in the Backcountry
Choose a usable source, match treatment to the pathogens, and protect the clean side when equipment or conditions change.
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How to Use a Compass to Take and Follow a Bearing
Take a bearing and follow it, even when the trail disappears.
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What Are the First Decisions in Wilderness First Aid?
Not the treatment you can remember. The call you have to make.
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Why an Emergency Shelter Needs a Floor Before a Roof
The ground is what takes the heat, and a few hundred grams often beats an hour of building.
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Primary sourcesNPS, USFS, Leave No Trace, wilderness medicine
No fake conditionsTrail facts are dated, sourced, or marked unverified
Field-testedWritten by people who log the miles