The Nature Reliance Podcast: Where Wilderness and Human Nature Collide
The Nature Reliance Podcast explores real stories of wilderness survival, human decision-making under stress, awareness, and the lessons nature quietly teaches us all.
Hosted by Craig Caudill of Nature Reliance School, this podcast blends immersive storytelling, historical accounts, wilderness experience, modern psychology, and reflective analysis into a grounded exploration of what happens when people are tested by nature, uncertainty, fear, and consequence.
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From historical wilderness disasters to modern survival incidents, tracking stories, close calls, and lessons learned in the field, each episode examines not just what happened, but why.
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Nature rewards humility.
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The Nature Reliance Podcast: Where Wilderness and Human Nature Collide
#36 10 Ways to Extend Your Phone's Battery Life.
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With the popularity of using smartphones as the primary navigation device while in the wilderness, extending the battery life is critical. Tracy Trimble, an assistant instructor with Nature Reliance School, and co-author of Essential Wilderness Navigation discuss ten ways of doing just that. Having served several years on a local search and rescue team it is apparent that the general hiking public doesn't protect the phone's battery life. Following these ten options will greatly increase a normal operating modern-day smartphone.
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