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With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to ...

Catching a fish with your bare hands sounds like the sort of story you’d hear around a campfire, a tall ...

  Some of you might be thinking, “Brett, why should I learn how to pick a lock if I don’t plan ...

Editor's Note: This is a guest article by Brett Stone.  If you stop and think for a second, you ...

A couple months ago my fancy DSLR camera that I use for work purposes crapped out on me. It was a decade ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest article by Dave Elniski. Driving may be the most dangerous task that ...

While bear attacks are rare, a man should always be prepared for a bear encounter. You never know when ...

It’s infuriating how a tiny little vampiric insect can ruin one’s experiences in the outdoors -- ...

Earlier this month, 71-year-old Donald Zimmerman was jogging near Pillar Mountain outside of Kodiak, ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to ...

When you think of perimeter alarms, your brain probably conjures up images of laser beams, loud sirens, ...

It is one of the planet's great ironies that a person can be lost at sea, surrounded by water, and die of ...

Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to know how to give a commanding whistle with my fingers in my mouth. ...

An essential part of being an awesome uncle is having a repertoire of tricks and jokes that ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to ...

It’s easy to forget that rope is a tool; like all tools, it needs to be properly maintained in order to ...

Picture yourself lost at sea, adrift in a boat with a broken engine and torn sails. You’ve sent out a ...

In 2019, Arne Murke and his brother were sailing off the coast of New Zealand, about to head east for an ...

Once upon a time, I figured composting was either for serious gardeners or “zero waste” type folks who ...

In 1978, The Swarm premiered in theaters across the country and illustrated the raw, destructive ...