If you’ve ever fallen into ice-cold waters, you know what it truly means to be cold. We often think that we’re cold when the wind picks up or when we’re underdressed for the weather, but there’s simply nothing like being wet and cold. During the winter, we as outdoorsmen are often placed in situations that… Continue reading How to Rewarm your Body When You Become Cold, Wet and Miserable
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The Complete Guide to Land Navigation with the Military Grid Reference System
The ability to navigate terrain with a map and compass is a skill-set that’s become lost in recent years due to technological advances like GPS and its integration into our smartphones. For many of us, navigating a city without a GPS would simply seem ridiculous. In a sense, we’ve become so used to the integration… Continue reading The Complete Guide to Land Navigation with the Military Grid Reference System
Squawk Box Broadcast 014: Crazy Military Ideas, The Open Road and Enjoying Nature
The Squawk Box Broadcast aims to highlight a few of the stories that have caught our attention recently. It’s also a way to broaden your horizons and explore new ideas. Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch >> Spacecraft Films “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan While many manned and unmanned missions… Continue reading Squawk Box Broadcast 014: Crazy Military Ideas, The Open Road and Enjoying Nature
Survival Techniques: Tips and Tricks to Constantly Improve Your Situation
When you spend time in the wilderness with people who’ve become accustomed to the environment, it’s easy to stay humble. Some people don’t see survival situations as survival, they see it as a minimalistic lifestyle. Knowing the environment is essential to becoming a master of it. Here’s a few tips and tricks that I’ve picked… Continue reading Survival Techniques: Tips and Tricks to Constantly Improve Your Situation
ITS Muster III After Action Report
Our 3rd annual ITS Tactical Muster and Skill-Set Development Excursion has come to a close and I already miss our Muster family. Each year gets better and better, with new classes and new friendships forged. This year our returnees made up the majority of those in attendance, which speaks volumes to us about how much… Continue reading ITS Muster III After Action Report
It’s Not Survival Gear if it’s Not on Your Body
We recently received a comment about our Mini Survival Kit and it got us thinking. Is the Mini Survival Kit worth it? Should people add this item to their list of gear to bring on camping and hiking trips? It’s a valid question and one that deserves further discussion. The comment in question was: “While… Continue reading It’s Not Survival Gear if it’s Not on Your Body
Survival Techniques: Building a Shelter to Live Through the Night
While there are some elements of survival that we can live without longer than others, the Rule of Threes is especially important to remember in any survival situation. You can live for about three weeks without food and three days without water, but shelter is the one thing that’s often a deal breaker. Getting out of… Continue reading Survival Techniques: Building a Shelter to Live Through the Night
Huckberry on the Road: An Interview with Jon Gaffney aka The Van Man
A good friend of ours, Jon Gaffney, recently bought a van and decided to hit the open road. While he may or may not be planning on living down by the river, he’s going to be traveling along quite a few of them in the coming months. Jon teamed up with Huckberry in his travels across the… Continue reading Huckberry on the Road: An Interview with Jon Gaffney aka The Van Man
Inside the ITS Gear Closet: Backcountry Essentials
As you can see, there’s a lot of gear in the ITS Gear Closet. We have items that get used on a constant basis, others that are still in the evaluation stages and even gear we haven’t had the opportunity to put through its paces yet. When gear goes through our review process, we strive… Continue reading Inside the ITS Gear Closet: Backcountry Essentials
Coastal California Adventure: ITS and PDW Team Up for Operation Aqua Terra
ITS was recently invited out to San Francisco to meet up with Prometheus Design Werx for a joint operation dubbed Operation Aqua Terra. I can neither confirm nor deny that I also toured PDW HQ and included some photos below. Aqua Terra, referred to as AT throughout the remainder of the article, was based on… Continue reading Coastal California Adventure: ITS and PDW Team Up for Operation Aqua Terra