Off-Grid living sounds amazing on paper, and there are definitely some people who are doing this well beyond surviving but thriving and living very comfortably. But there are some key aspects to consider before you venture into off-grid living.
Tents seem to be more of a personal preference, and I used many different tents in the past, including some one and two person tents, and bivy sacks. It served me well, and it is light enough to carry on extended trips. However, I ran into this.
Watch a few episodes of Naked and Afraid, and you’ll see people covered in bug bites, and tons of mosquitoes and ants and other bugs that attack them. There are ways to minimize this, but not all locations will have the necessary items to keep you from getting devoured by bugs. So, what can you do?
Most bushcraft shelters work well except when it rains. When inclement weather strikes, it can be a very wet shelter. Worse yet, it can start to flood on the dry floor that you need to sleep on. The solution to this is making a trench around your shelter.
Lean-To is a great way to quickly make a shelter, but the environment must be just right. There should be plenty of trees around, with available downed branches, or the level of effort to make one is too high that other options are better. In a nutshell, a lean-to is you lean several long branches against a support and cover with either tarp or leaves and/or smaller branches.
This is a great question, and I’ll go over the list below. But this question really deserves to ask the question of the type of camping you are going to do. If you are camping out of a car, bring all the creature comforts. If you are doing a hike through, you may want to minimize what you bring to make the hike a bit easier.
Setting up your tent fast is a skill to be learned, practiced repeatedly, and practiced at least once every 3 months. Every time you set up your tent in the wilderness to practice, time yourself. Try to complete it in under 10 minutes, preferably under 5 minutes. Here are the steps that I have used…
The answer really depends on your situation. Many cases, the answer is yes, but it does have its pros and cons. Not everyone can carry a 4 season tent nor does everyone need one. Not all tents are great in every terrain. For a survivalist, a good tent would be something light, that can house…
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