Make yourself big, yell, curl into a ball… most of the suggestions for handling a bear encounter are Hail Mary tips meant for the last resort. Your best option is to avoid Smokey altogether.
Next to feeding and hydrating yourself, survival in the wild could come down to preventing injuries going from bad to worse. Antiseptics, anti-inflammatories, and coagulants abound in nature. Identifying them could mean the difference between life and dea
My mother Bonnie ran her first marathon this past summer. Never being one to half-ass anything, she decided to not just run a marathon, but to run THE marathon, in Greece, and convince half my family to do it with her.
Just after the New Year, on the frozen and snow-covered January lakes of Northern Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area, I camped in a pristine, white wilderness for a week straight. The expedition, run by Voyager Outward Bound School of Ely, Minn., was
