'Safety' Post Category

A first aid kit for hiking is an important piece of gear to have with you when you get in to the outdoors. For shorter, relatively easy trips where you’re with other people you don’t really have to worry about hurting yourself. Anything that you d...

It’s very helpful, when camping, to have a few essential camping survival supplies with you. Many of those supplies you might need anyway, not for a survival situation but just as a course of regular camping usage. Fire starting equipment, for ins...

A bear canister is a useful piece of gear to have in bear country, but also a very heavy piece of gear to carry around with you when backpacking or camping. Which makes sense, because a bear is a big, powerful animal that a lightweight canister wo...

When you’re lost, alone in the wilderness, a GPS personal locator beacon is the little piece of technology that you really want to have with you. A survival kit will help you survive, but unless you have something like a GPS personal locator beaco...

If you don’t plan on spending the night outdoors but want to plan for the possibility then an emergency sleeping bag is a good addition to your backpack. In an emergency situation, and especially an overnight one, it is often going to be essential...

Bear pepper spray is only useful if you can have it out and ready in a short amount of time. Bear pepper spray that is stuck in your bag might as well be back at home for all the good it is going to do you when a bear charges you. Which is why if ...

A bear canister is a useful, and sometimes required piece of backpacking or camping equipment when you find yourself in bear country. Unfortunately, bear canisters can be rather heavy, and so finding an ultralight bear canister can be very useful....

Bear pepper spray is an incredibly useful item to have when you find yourself hiking in bear country, but it can be a little difficult to find, and you may find yourself wondering about where to buy bear pepper spray. What some people might not re...

A can of bear deterrent spray will definitely convince a bear to leave you alone, but a big part of what something like bear deterrent spray does is give you peace of mind. Bear deterrent spray is as much for scaring away bears as it is for your o...

Most people will go for years without ever needing camping first aid kits. But then if you ever do need a first aid kit while camping, you better hope that you have one somewhere in your backpack. And if you don’t have one, you better hope someone...