Kodak 5200 mAh Powerbank: $15 at Safeway/Woolworths 150 grams (139 minus cord). This is cheap enough you could just use it once (instead of 500X!) then throw it away! Doesn’t the world just keep getting better and better? Of course there are lighter (if not cheaper) options. For example, I usually carry a spare battery […]
Hugh Glass (‘The Revenant’, ‘Man in the Wilderness’): ‘Although I had lost my rifle and all my plunder I felt quite rich when I found my knife, flint and steel in my shot pouch. These little fixens make a man feel righ peart when he is three or four hundred miles from any body or
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A very useful Instructable by Captain MacTavish but I think I would stick with the method suggested here: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/if-you-could-only-carry-two-things-in-the-bush-what-would-they-be/ & here: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/how-to-light-a-fire-in-the-wet/ What you will need is a gum wrapper and a “AA” or a “AAA” battery Step 1: Prepping Place the negative part of the battery on the metallic part of the wrapper. Step 2: The Fire:
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At last, a broken zipper fixer: What a brilliant idea: FixnZip® isn’t your average zipper repair kit. It’s a replacement zipper slider that you can install without tools or sewing. FixnZip® replaces damaged or missing zipper sliders. Repairs broken zippers that separate or come undone. Fits a range of zipper sizes. Works on nylon
Sick of those out of focus selfies with the end of an arm at the bottom? All you need is a large rubber band or a hair tie and a forked stick you pick up in the bush. Loop one end around one end of the camera then around the stick (as shown) then around
Now I mean: if you suddenly found yourself there, having fallen out of a boat, after a plane crash which you miraculously survived – or if you were just magically transported there from your living room in just your shorts. Hauroko Burn Dusky Track Fiordland NZ. I think they should be things which you could
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We have all seen the pics of folks camping with their dogs. Time our feline friends got into the act: http://www.boredpanda.com/camping-with-cats-ryan-carter/ See also: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/most-travelled-cat/
[From: Fifty ways to Make Survival Tools from Trash and Household Items, by Ken Youngquist (Available here: http://survivaltek.com/?page_id=4386)] ‘Sealable plastic bags go way beyond keeping sandwiches fresh. They are a transparent water tight container that comes in various sizes and thicknesses. I prefer freezer bags because they come in a thicker material and are much
Phone numbers hijacked remotely. Gmail hacked. Logins & passwords stolen. Bank accounts breached and plundered…You need to know how to protect yourself. My posts will be a bit lighter the next few days as I rebuild computers, etc. This post is not about ‘ultralight hiking’ I know, but you are likely to be hiking a
The gendarmes decreed that we had to upgrade our firearm storage though they had (as far as we could tell) safely and happily lived in the same cabinet for over thirty years! We had to buy a safe. Fortunately gun safes have become much less expensive over the years. We carefully chose one from eBay
