About the site:

Going Prepared is about having fun in the outdoors, without the “I need to escape from this place immediately” mentality. This site is not about survival. This site is about always being prepared enough to never make it to the survival stage. There are always exceptions to the rule, however, so I will also talk about what to do when your gear fails or when you end up in a place unprepared.

Comments are turned off on the blog. I know people love to comment, but whenever I post something in the blog, I will copy it over to the forum as a topic for discussion. Please head over there if you want to discuss any post further, since there are friendly and knowledgeable people there waiting to help.

About me:

I am an 18-34 year old male living in the southeast. I have a day job working for a large corporation.

I spent a lot of my childhood outside, with several weeks a year camping, scouting, fishing, and hiking. I love the outdoors and would spend every weekend walking around in the woods if I could. Maybe someday I will just get tired of technology and find a secluded cave somewhere in the Appalachians.

I have never spent six months in the bush, living off of the land with just a knife and a firesteel. I have not hiked the Appalachian Trail or the Pacific Crest Trail. I know how to make fire using several friction methods, but I am not very good at any of them. I have never killed a wild animal for food.

I do have a little bit of common sense though. It makes my inner child cry when I go on a hike and see a family soaked to the bone because they do not have rain gear even though it was raining from the moment they left their house to the moment they started the hike. This blog and the accompanying forums are about making sure you are not that family. I want people to be able to enjoy the outdoors like I do, and having a few bad experiences in the beginning can turn you off of the outdoors for a lifetime.

Enjoy the site, and let me know what you think in the forums!