Choosing Your Lifeline: Pump-Style vs. Straw-Style Portable Water Filters When you’re deep in the backcountry and your Nalgene runs dry, the stream at your feet becomes the most important thing in your world. But as every experienced hiker knows, that crystal-clear water can hide a host of microscopic hitchhikers like Giardia or Cryptosporidium. This is…
Whether in the African Savannah, the South American Jungle, or a simple family outdoor camping, adequate drinking water is essential. However, the pure water that you can carry with you is limited after all. For the majority of outdoor camping enthusiasts, it is excellent if they can obtain drinking water from local materials, so gravity…
In this article we will discuss some ultralight backpacking gear alternatives. Maybe it’s a bad back or a knee injury for some of us. Perhaps age is slowly creeping up on us. It often happens that after a few miles on the trail, you will think of every little thing you brought and didn’t need….
A portable water filter provides safe, pure, and healthy drinking water on the go. These tiny gadgets contain a built-in filtering system that removes impurities like silt, debris, and germs (including protozoa and virus) from water. They are quite useful for traveling, camping, backpacking or survival scenarios when clean water isn’t readily accessible. They do…
Here are 6 of Britain’s finest long distance hiking trails between 80 to 120 miles that can be walked in approximately one week. Hiking UK [Video] Long Distance Hiking Trails in the UK Almost any distance between 80 and 120 miles can be walked in 7 to 8 days, and if you plan your route…
In the following video, we show you 7 easy and affordable techniques to purify water in case of a survival emergency. If you ever find yourself in a true survival situation, whether you’re lost while hiking, backpacking in the wild, or living through a natural disaster that caused civilization to go down, there are lots…