Surviving Mt. Saint Helen's

Everyone has been after me every since I started this survival blog to tell my story of surviving Mt. Saint Helen’s . Although I have verbally told the story many times, especially right after the event, This is the first time this has ever been put to paper or told in such detail. I hope that I am a good enough writer that it gives you some sense of being there but you have to remember this was an event like no other in modern history so it is a bit hard to compare it to other things. May 18th 1980. It was a day of terror, awe, and perseverance. It was a day of the unexpected. It was a day that claimed 57 lives. It was the day Mt. Saint Helen’s erupted. I was living in a little town called Randle in Washington . It was a small town in the...

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The perfect everyday carry for all outdoor enthusiasts

In a wilderness survival situation food, water, and shelter are your top priorities, However, not everyone wants to carry a complete comprehensive survival kit with them. Some people would rather carry just the fundamentals. So I got to thinking about my everyday carry which consists of a knife, fire starter, water purifier and para cord. Well actually I carry 2 knives as my everyday carry because I find it difficult to do small precise work with a large knife and hard to split firewood with a small one. This is not to say that it can't be done, it's just not my preference. So with all this in...

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New Press Release

Mt. Saint Helen's Survivor You can view our latest press release here. http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release-service/248655 check this one out it went out nationwide to all newspapers and mags. saw it in a lot of big news papers. Mount St. Helen’s Survivor Releases Disaster Survival Kits Monument, CO – Nov. 20, 2011 – Natural disasters are increasing around the world, leading many to construct emergency preparedness kits. Rocky Mountain Survival co-owners, Tim Shettlesworth and Dan Rivera, are raising the bar with their newly released disaster survival kit The custom designed pack undergoes rigorous field-testing to insure their efficacy. “We couldn’t find survival kits that met all of our needs so we decided to design our own,”...

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Rocky Mountain Survival releases their disaster survival kits

We all remember the Mt. Saint Helen's eruption. Well, I remember it better than most, for I was living just shy of 20 miles from it in the direct blast path. It was the most awe-inspiring thing I have ever witnessed in my life. This was my wake up call. We were totally unprepared. We spent many, many hours believing we were going to die. First, from the debris that was crashing all around us, and then by suffocation from the ash that was raining down on us and seeping into our home. It became so hard to breathe that we were using T-shirts to cover our faces and filter some of the...

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Survival Kits

Ok, I will say what I have to say about commercial survival kits and be done with it. Commercial survival kits are lacking so much in design and practicality that I feel compelled to write this article. To begin with almost all kits come with water purification. These tablets purify 1 qt of water, but commercial kits do not give you anything to purify water in, this is a serious lack of foresight. Since Rocky Mountain Survival has pointed out this short-coming some kits are now including 1 qt ziplock bags (not exactly a good way to transport water). I even saw one kit that now says the...

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How to beat inflation and insure your family against harder times

Stocking up on long term storage food isn’t just for emergency survival. It’s also your insurance against inflation and harder times. Its always a good idea to have at least a months worth of food on hand but I recommend 3 or more depending on your budget.  Think about it you can feed a family of 6 for 1 month for $435 to $670 dollars, depending on if you prefer 2 or 3 meals a day. You would have to be a pretty thrifty shopper to beat those prices in a grocery store today. So that’s the cost today but what about a year from now or 15 years from now. God forbid you’ve lost your job or find...

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Survival Knives

Well I am new at this Blogging thing, so I figured, I might as well start off with the most controversial thing in survival. Maybe this way I will get some comments. By the way, we will post all comments that are not nasty or derogatory.  A survival knife is both one of your most important tools in survival and I would say the most controversial. Depending on what side of the fence you are on will generally govern your decision about what kind of knife to carry. You have the people that like big Rambo and tactical knives. This I feel is more for the looks than the usability. Then, you have the group that thinks the more expensive the knife the better the knife must be. In some cases this is true but not necessarily.  I myself...

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Our first press release

our first press release was picked up in All Headline News you can view it at the following link http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90064228?Rocky%20Mountain%20Survival%20Introduces%20Custom%20Survival%20K...

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Our Goal

When our family moved back to Colorado and we started doing a lot of outdoor activities, my wife thought it was a good idea to carry a survival kit. In looking for a survival kit she found that commercial kits were basically a joke. This started Rocky Mountain Survival. I have an extensive background in survival and started helping her with her project. The more we dug the worse it got. Not only did the commercial survival kits lack in forethought but a lot of the blogs and information out there was full of political extremists. Well you don't have to be an extremist or a doomsayer to be a prepper. A little common since and awareness of our current state is enough to make anybody a prepper.  So our goal at Rocky Mountain Survival is to...

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Be prepared

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