Category Archive: backpacking

Jul 19

Paracord Survival Necklace With Firesteel Toggle

  Many people who are constructing the survival bracelets seen all over the place, are now making them with toggles made from firesteel, otherwise known as a ferrocerium rod. This adds another survival item to the bracelet, in addition to the cordage itself. A brilliant idea! Based off of this idea, I decided to construct …

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Jul 16

Paracord Survival Necklace EDC

Last week I went on a short 3-day backpacking trip with my wife in Mount Everett State Reservation in western MA. When friends asked us where we were going & we said Mount Everett, almost everyone said, “Mount Everest?” After a few times, it wasn’t funny, though each person that asked us thought it was …

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