Forget the Match and Strike the Steel!

You’ve finally reached the end of the trail after eight hours of trekking uphill and down. You weren’t expecting those sudden downpours that have left you and your compadres a bit waterlogged. What’s worse than reaching the end of an eight-hour hike tired, wet, and hungry? How about reaching the end tired, wet, hungry, and with a handful of lifeless matches that fizzle out with each strike to the dampness of your surroundings? No fire, no warmth! Now what?

More Survival and Less Knife

Useless Survival Knife articles saturate the web and every article I’ve read fails to point out that, although a knife is an extremely useful survival tool, a knife is only a small piece of the survivability puzzle. Most would have you believe that once you buy a survival knife, you’re all set to take on the wild forces of nature and live like a true aborigine. Let me tell you something—depending on the survival situation, a knife may prove useless. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that’s the truth.