Learning + Tutorials

You went and got yourself a whole pile of gear to prepare you and your family for an emergency situation.

Congratulations! You are 3/4 of the way there. Welcome to the wild world of prepping. 

Now comes the next most important step: LEARNING HOW TO USE IT ALL.

Don't wait until it's too late. Practice using it all before an emergency!

Back in the late 1980s, an oral surgeon was in the middle of a two-week raft trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, when disaster struck.

He and two other men were on the bank, getting their 18-foot (5.4-meter) raft ready for a trip down the Crystal Rapids when it got caught in a wave, filled with water and ripped the line from their hands.

Updated December 2025

Learning never ends. If you've managed to read all the other articles on this site, congratulations! It's a lot of information.

But we've only begun to touch the surface of many of the prepping and survival subjects and topics introduced here.

We think the books below are a great addition to your collection.

Some you should keep print copies of, and all you should have on your emergency Kindle/iPad.