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30 Outdoor Travel Hacks To Turn You Into A Backpacking Badass

Monday, January 4, 2016 11:06
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Whether you’re backpacking in the great outdoors or backpacking abroad, some of these might just save your life (or at the very least, make things a little easier).Whether you’re backpacking in the great outdoors or backpacking abroad, some of these might just save your life (or at the very least, make things a little easier).

Any soda can can be turned into a portable camp stove

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Related article: Build This Cozy Cabin For Under $4,000

Here’s my favorite tutorial for making one of these:
 

Need to know how much daylight you’ve got left?

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Instant lantern

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Recommended brand new product: The Lost Ways

Don’t bring the whole roll

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Wrap a water bottle, lighter, utensil, or virtually anything else with about 5-6’ of duct tape, so you have it if you need it but conserve precious space and weight
 

Also read D.I.Y. Wood Rocket Stove that runs a generator, produces gasoline, runs a fridge and heats hot water at the same time [Video]

 

Also read 50 Life Hacks to Simplify Your World

Keep a DIY first aid kit in a used medicine bottle

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Or better yet, DIY Survival kit

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Cotton pads dipped in wax are great for starting fires

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And chips make great tinder

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An Altoids tin holds a remarkable amount of essentials

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 Must read article: 100 Items that will disappear first in a SHTF Situation (Revised and Updated)

Including everything you need to charge on the go

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There’s a host of these DIY charger plans and kits available online (including some pretty awesome solar-powered ones). Pictured here is the Mintyboost, one of the more straightforward plans we’ve seen, and which can be purchased as a kit:

Waterproof your backpack with a trash bag liner

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You don’t need an enormous backpack if you know how to pack properly

But if you take one, know how gear should be dispersed

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You can reuse that empty toilet paper roll… as an iPhone speaker

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A straw makes awesome single-use toothpaste or ointment packets

 

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Use a lighter to seal the end of the straw.

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They also make good holders for spices

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And for longer trips, upgrade to tic-tac holders

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Forget emergency candles, a crayon will burn for about 30 minutes

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You can waterproof a remarkable amount of things with a little beeswax

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Ditch the pillow, all you need is a bag and the clothes you already packed

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Or, use a ziploc as an inflatable one

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Eliminate the tube, make toothpaste dots

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Simply squirt out a little toothpaste onto some foil and let them harden. Collect them in a bag with a little baking soda. When you’re ready to brush your teeth, pop one in your mouth and chew it up to return it to it’s normal pasty consistency.

“Ok maps” could save your life

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After finding an area in Google Maps on an Android or IOS device, typing “Ok maps” or “Okay maps” and tapping the search bar will store that area in your device’s cache, so it will be available for offline use (perfect if service or WiFi becomes unavailable).

Caffeine Junkie? These brew for less than $1 a cup

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Just add water.

Pack a small microfiber towel instead

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They’re thin, ultra absorbent, and dry quickly– invaluable for the amount of pack-space they take.

Bring a bar of soap (for bug bites if nothing else)

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Beat the itch from backwoods and hostel bug bites, rub a dry or lightly dampened bar of soap over the bite for near-instant relief.

Upcycle an empty plastic soda bottle into disposable utensils

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A lanyard makes a great DIY shower caddy

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Hang it from shower heads, tree branches, or your travel companion.

You can use dental floss to repair a ripped anything

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Get one of these

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Not so much a hack as an essential, and the best $20 you’ll probably ever spend, the LifeStraw can filter enough water for one person for an entire year, and has brought clean drinking water to nearly a million people in Kenya. In an absolute bind, you might be able to get away with a tampon, though we don’t recommend it.

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Other Survival Solutions:

The Lost Ways (Saving Our Forefathers’ Skills, 4 skills you need to learn)

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Survive The End Days (Biggest Cover Up Of Our President)

Survival MD (Best Post SHTF Medical Survival Guide Ever)

Blackout USA (EMP survival and preparedness guide)

Bullet Proof Home (A Prepper’s Guide in Safeguarding a Home )

Backyard Innovator (All Year Round Source Of Fresh Meat,Vegetables And Clean Drinking Water)-DIY

Conquering the coming collapse (Financial advice and preparedness )

Liberty Generator (Easy DIY to build your own off-grid free energy device)

Backyard Liberty (Easy and cheap DIY Aquaponic system to grow your organic and living food bank)

Family Self Defense (Best Self Defense Strategies For You And Your Family)


 

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