The best way to prepare for anything is to get ready well before any crisis or emergency situation. Rising to the occasion is not worth chancing. Instead, focus on your level of preparedness. Your Survival Guy spends much of his time focusing on risk. What is your risk tolerance? It’s usually much lower than you […]

Dear Survivor, “I don’t understand bonds,” says everybody. Which is a shame because bonds are a pretty nice asset to own right about now, as many of you do if you work with Your Survival Guy. But here’s the deal. When investors hear what the T-Bill is yielding, their immediate reaction isn’t “let’s buy it.” […]

Everyone is talking about gold. The Wall Street Journal notes the public’s current enthusiasm for gold, writing: Investors have poured a net $11.4 billion into physical gold ETFs since the start of February, according to Morningstar. The funds are on pace to net the most monthly inflows in March since July 2020, during the height of […]

In the last 24 hours, $16.5 billion in bitcoin options expired. Over the course of one hour last night, over $120 million in market cap was liquidated in cryptocurrency markets. Needless to say, bitcoin owners are on a roller coaster ride. Roller coasters can be fun if you don’t mind neck-snapping zigs and zags, climbs […]

You have learned a lot from me about the dangers of heading up the mountain without a solid plan, and a refusal to turn around even when it’s obviously too dangerous to climb. The Lions of Winter by Ty Gagne isn’t just a warning to mountain climbers or backcountry skiers, it’s a warning to anyone […]

One minute you’re climbing up Odell’s Gully in hurricane force winds into blinding snow. The next, you’re lost. When you get to the top of Odell’s, it’s hard to stand as the wind blows you over, but the summit of Mt. Washington is on your mind. You want it. And you go for it. Which […]

Are you prepared for what you don’t know? “The biggest challenge for the center is getting the word to people who are going into the terrain,” explains Jeff Fongemie, lead snow ranger for the Cutler River Drainage and director of the Mount Washington Avalanche Center. As I wrote to you yesterday, even with improvements in […]

In the book The Lions of Winter by Ty Gagne, it’s early winter 1982, a time when rain and snow, thaw and freeze cycles weaken snowpack—the perfect recipe for avalanches. Today, we know a lot more about avalanches because of technology and recorded data. But we also know more skiers seek untouched snow with better equipment, […]

Your Survival Guy just finished reading The Lions of Winter by Ty Gagne, the true story of two young climbers who lost their way in extreme weather on Mt. Washington in January of 1982. The 4-days that followed changed the future of New Hampshire search and rescue. Having personally skied Mt. Washington’s Tuckerman’s Ravine a handful […]