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The 11 Most Common Survival Mistakes That Will Get You Killed in the Backcountry

By Tim MacWelch

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Learn How to Tie a Square Knot, the Fastest Way to Join Two Lengths of Rope

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Do Not Eat These 13 Toxic Plants (That Look Like Food)

By Tim MacWelch

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How to Identify These 6 Edible Wild Mushrooms

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We Got Stranded on a Sheep Hunt With Bugs, Bears, and No Food

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Montana Man Impales Himself on a Trekking Pole, Then Hikes Out 10 Miles with ‘Gnarly Wound’

By Kris Millgate

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How to Actually Use Paracord in a Survival Situation

By Tim MacWelch

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The 10 Toughest Mountain Men (and Women) in American History

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26 Common Survival Myths That Can Actually Get You Killed

By Tim MacWelch

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11 Outdoor Survival Skills You Can (and Should) Teach Your Kids

By Christine Peterson

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How to Not Die in the Backcountry, According to the Trauma Surgeon Who Saved My Life

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I Almost Froze to Death on a Solo Bighorn Hunt

By Cassidy Caron, as told to Scott Einsmann

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I Survived the Middle Fork During the Salmon River’s Deadliest Week on Record

By Alfred E. Couture

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My Buddy and I Got Lost on a Wilderness Hunt. I Survived, But He Didn’t

By Guy Beauregard

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A Fly-In Hunt Turns into a Fight for Survival Against Wolves and High Water

By Jerry Valentine, as told to Ben East

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A Freak Storm Flipped Our Canoe, and My Buddy Didn’t Make It. Here’s Where We Went Wrong

By Jim Hoagland, Don M. Campbell

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‘End to the Mystery.’ Body of Missing Turkey Hunter Found After 11-Day Search in Southern Colorado

By Natalie Krebs

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How I Almost Drowned During a Coast Guard Rescue in a Freak Storm

By Orval C. Johnson

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I Raised 3 Kids Alone in the Heart of Wolf Country. These Are the Tough Lessons We Had to Learn

By Olive A. Fredrickson

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Search for Missing Colorado Turkey Hunter Enters Sixth Day

By Kris Millgate