Outdoors and Skills
Hiking essentials, finding your way, and the fix-it skills every home needs.
The same skills that get you home from a day hike get a household through a rough week: carrying the right few things, knowing where you are without a signal, and being able to shut off the water or reset a breaker without waiting for someone else.
Start with the day-hike ten essentials and the fix-it skills list, then practice one skill a month until it feels ordinary.
In this topic: 4 one-page guides · 1 article · 1 gear review
Skills guide
The National Park Service list for any hike, plus the two things to do before you leave the car.
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Skills guide
The shutoffs, resets and small repairs that turn an emergency into an errand.
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Skills guide
Filtering clears it. Disinfecting makes it safe. You usually need both.
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Skills guide
A clarity filter from things already in the house, and the one step people skip.
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Communication · $$
Worth it if your outages last days or you are in fire country. If your power comes back in hours, your phone and a charged power bank already do this job.
