One of the benefits of cruising Google Books , Internet Archive and similar sites is unexpectedly tripping over something useful or enterta...

(C'mon, admit it -- when you saw the title of this post, you thought I was gonna talk about nuclear radiation. Am I right?) I absolutely...

In Tuesday's post I talked about using a small leather pocket sheath to carry an everyday fixed-blade knife and a single-AAA light. Hap...

I shared one of Kevin Estela's helpful PowerPoints back in 2009 ; his name also came up in " On 'false gods' " a week ...

Yes, that's a Duraflame log. More about that in a bit. My wife, younger spawn and I relaxed at the village diner late this afternoon, f...

Finding uses for empty Altoids tins has become, for some people, an obsession. I'll admit to having a mild case of tin-tin-adulation mys...

I'll admit to being hesitant about this installment of Urban Resources . I mean, just about every outdoorsman, farmer, biker, cop and fi...

It was well after dark tonight when I set about building our backyard fire . The mercury had fallen back into the single digits, but this wa...

It's the perfect winter's morning -- there's snow on the ground, the sun shines from a clear sky and the winds are calm. Bitter ...

Horace Kephart caught up with me today. "The success of outdoor cookery depends largely on how a fire is built and how it is managed. A...

Fatwood , the resin-rich heartwood of pines, is the ultimate natural firestarter. Until you've watched it burn -- whether you harvested ...

As we wrapped up our purchases Saturday afternoon, Mrs. KintlaLake and I were asked about magazines. The LCP and the P22 were supplied with...

Checking out with my purchases at the drug store last week, I glanced over the selection of mints and chewing gum. Next to the regular-sized...

Most days, I prefer to "roll my own" kits -- first aid, survival, bug-out and so on -- but there's no denying the convenience ...

"Son, act like you've been there before." (Paul Brown, legendary football coach, to a player who had danced in the end zone a...