tracking the most dangerous game

Part of the Complete Survivor Class from Ancient Pathways was a brief introduction to tracking.  We practiced tracking humans and then looked at animal tracks as we came across them.  Just like everything else in the class the key to this skill is practice.  I liked how our instructor, Tony Nester, set up the tracking exercises.  Both [...]

Tools for the Apocalypse – Guns

When discussing tools needed during society’s fall the gun is the most obvious choice. Regardless how it all fall aparts, if it falls apart, then a gun will be needed.  Guns will be hard to come by if you wait too long to get one. Growing up in North Carolina and living in Arizona means I [...]

Update on How to raid your library- Green Building

The last temporary visit of the local library yielded some useful videos on how to prepare for Humanity’s waterloo. There were two decent videos on how to build an enviromental house.  From what I have seen so far, the community of people preparing for civilization’s curtains tend to be a conservative bunch.  One place where [...]

2011 Survival conference

I wonder if the 2011 Survival conference is worth going to. Marks against it #1 It is in Dallas. #2 It will be people pitching me a bunch of stuff to buy.  Much of it will seem necessary at the time.  Even putting aside the obvious thoughts on how easy it is to sell fear, [...]

Post-Apocalypse Landscaping

As I been getting the garden ready, I been debating how I should landscape for the Apocalypse. My front and backyards have already got some things going for them.  I have bougainvillea plants under two of the front windows, good for keeping the marauders out. There is a large pine tree in my front yard. [...]

How to survive a bear encounter

As Alan Weisman demonstrates in The World Without Us, no one really knows what animals will thrive after we pesky humans are gone. I figure if one knows how to deal with a bear then you would hopefully be OK with any other wild animals. The presentation is the result of watching multiple videos on [...]

birth control after the Apocalypse

Note: This posting was originally written as a submission for Pool Boy Magazine,  the independent adult lifestyle magazine for badass women, and clearly a NSFW site. Hollywood loves to play with how our sexual morals will change after humanity falls. In reality, some women living in the end times will not want to get pregnant from just any [...]

Lessons learned and thoughts pondered while watching “The Omega Man”

“The Omega Man” This movie was an earlier and much campier version of “I Am Legend” starring Will Smith. While campy, it’s not a halfway bad movie…. Thoughts pondered Would it really be that fun to be the last man on earth? Who knows what we will lament. The descendants of the ones who survive [...]

My case for Phoenix, AZ to be on the list of not the absolute worst place to be when the SHF

Thank you Phil Freedom for putting the following in the Conspire Community Calendar. With our well known Achilles Heel, lack of water, Phoenix gets a bad rap when people are discussing post-Apocalyptic hang-out spots.  But, Phoenix has got a lot going for it. First, you are not likely freeze to death. Here in the desert [...]