Survival Skills

Survival Skills

How To Survive Anything in the Woods With Only a Knife

Backpacker

Finding Food and Water

Can You Really Survive by Drinking Your Own Pee?

BACKPACKER Staff

First Aid

Stopped Up on the Trail? Here’s How to Make Doo.

Christopher Tedeschi

Emergency Shelters

How (and When) Hikers Should Use Space Blankets

Adam Roy

Survival

Is It Ever OK to Trundle Rocks?

BACKPACKER Editors and Contributors

Survival

How to Stay Alive in Avalanche Terrain, Courtesy of the Pros

Andy Cochrane

Survival

Pass/Fail: Build a Fire on Snow

Will McGough

Survival

Trapped in Quicksand

Zoe Gates