Survival Camping - Go Spend a Week in The Woods

We just got back from our annual camping trip and as always, we picked up a few great survival camping tips. :)



Nothing like being stuck in the woods for a few days to help you figure out what needs to go into your bug out bags!

We normally take a nice pop up tent along to set up for our cooking area and food shelter but someone borrowed it recently and ruined it so we had to improvise a bit and discovered that a few tarps worked wonders. (thanks to a very handyman of a hubby!)

We had three tarps (6x8 and 10x12) and used the biggest one for a roof, and then tied the others to the sides with poles and twine. ALWAYS HAVE A ROLL OF TWINE AND DUCT TAPE in your camping survival kit.

Duct tape came in very handy on a couple occasions on this trip. We took our solar shower along and managed to puncture it on a small tree branch but duct tape fixed it even with water spurting out. Believe me, after you wait for several hours for a nice warm shower, you DON'T want to lose all that nice warm water!

Survival camping is definitely a fun way to learn how to prepare for emergencies or simply to know what needs to be put in your bugout packs. Each time you do it, you will learn something new.

Another thing we discovered is that the small shovels we took along to dig up treasures we find with our metal detectors worked great for taking care of 'business' in the woods. Dig a hole, ---- in the hole, cover it back up. :)


We had a lot of fun, learned even more about emergency survival and got sunburnt!