Survival Skills

Survival Skills

When It’s OK to Help Find Missing Hikers, According to a Search and Rescue Expert

Emma Veidt

Survival Skills

Do Hikers Really Need to Filter Water Before They Drink It?

Den Mother

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

Survival Skills

Game: Survive the Slot Canyon

BACKPACKER Editors & Contributors

Survival

6 Backcountry Dangers to Watch For on the Trail

BACKPACKER Editors & Contributors

Survival

Could You Survive a Wilderness Blizzard? Play Our New Game and Find Out.

BACKPACKER Editors & Contributors

Survival

Could You Survive?

Edited by Corey Buhay

Survival

Could You Survive in the Mountains? Play Our Game and Find Out.

BACKPACKER Editors & Contributors

Survival

Quiz: Could You Survive?

BACKPACKER Editors & Contributors

Survival

The Hiker's Guide to Staying Hydrated and Treating Dehydration

Elizabeth Haas

Finding Food and Water

4 Hikes for Mushroom Hunters

Stasia Callaghan

Survival

Survive This: Meeting a Menacing Stranger On the Trail

Corey Buhay

Survival

Quiz: Would You Survive?

Backpacker Magazine

Survival

Survive This: A Plunge into Raging Whitewater

Corey Buhay

Survival

Survival Quiz: Can you save your partner?

Backpacker Magazine

Survival

Survive This: Stuck on a Scree Slope

BACKPACKER Editors & Contributors

Survival

7 Uses for a Sleeping Pad

Tom Brown Jr., Tracker School

Starting Fire

The 5 Types of Campfire and When to Use Them

Will McGough

Survival

How to Survive With Aluminum Foil

Tom Brown Jr., Tracker School

Survival

4 Desert Dangers and How to Survive Them

Adam Roy

Survival

How to Navigate at Night

Corey Buhay

Survival

How to Survive With a Headlamp

BACKPACKER Editors

Finding Food and Water

How to Forage Safely

Den Mother

Survival

How to Survive With a Bandana

Casey Lyons

Survival

How to Survive With Raingear

Tom Brown Jr., Tracker School

Survival

How to Survive With Snowshoes

Tom Brown Jr., Tracker School

Survival

How to Navigate by the Stars

Amanda Hermans

Survival

Six Household Items That Could Save Your Life

Zach Pletzer

Survival

Out Alive: Paralyzed

Cameron Zick, as told to Emelie Frojen

Starting Fire

How to Survive With Eye Glasses

Jason Schwartz, Rocky Mountain Bushcraft

Starting Fire

How to Make a Fire With a Bow Drill

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Starting Fire

Starting a Fire Without a Match: Harder Than it Looks

Ted Alvarez