I got up early in the morning well before daylight, dressed, and had a bowl of hearty hot whole wheat cereal. I checked my gear and started the truck, scraped the windshield, then hopped in. Everything creaked and cracked in the cold morning air. I headed up to the canyon near our shop. The snow was still falling as I entered the canyon, it had been a while since the snowplows had come through. Soon I was in the parking area at the trail head.
As I got out of the truck I took in a deep breath of the chilly morning air, ahh nothing like that to get a person going in the morning, for me at least, it’s a pure adrenaline rush.
I open the back of the truck up and try to decide which pair of snowshoes to wear, there are 9 pair in there, perhaps I’m a snowshoe addict. I grab a pair of 36″ Tubbs, 9″ wide. It had been snowing off and on for a week and I figured a little extra floatation would be nice. Besides I was carrying a lot of extra gear with me, Beau needed some shots of our gear in the snow, for the re-launch of our website on New Years day. I think I was carrying an extra 60 pounds, but I didn’t care, I was going snowshoeing.
I was soon strapped into the snowshoes, had the backpack on and gear lashed everywhere I could find a place. I headed out of the parking and onto the trail, giant snowflakes were falling, landing on my face and eyebrows. I crossed the bridge over the creek, figuring someone would be glad I broke trail for them this morning.
The cutoff to my trail was just up ahead, I turned to the left and into some deep dry powder snow. Every step I took there was a puff as the light snow shot out from the sides of my snowshoes. I was thinking, “what in the world would I rather be doing right now? This, this is all I want to do, I replied to myself.”
About a month before the snow season began, I had made a debris hut out of sticks and branches, then 
covered it all up with a foot or more of dry leaves. I wanted to try out some of the survival items in my kit, so a shelter like that was a fun way to test them. I spent a good bit of time there before the snows, so now my curiosity was fully aroused and I just needed to see what it looked like after this snowfall. So I would do my photos and visit the ‘ole debris hut.
After an hour of snowshoeing and a little picture taking I arrived at the debris hut, it was so exciting to see a foot and a half of powder snow on the roof and inside was still 2 feet of dry leaves to sit or sleep on, now I really had an adrenaline rush going on.
Man I love winter!! Get out in it, enjoy it. Winter survival can be no worry at all If you have good gear and a survival kit, like our Off-Road Real Survival Kit, haha you know I had to plug it, nothing to worry about, just have fun. Till next time…Perry signing off.
Wilderness Innovation was conceived back in the early 80’s. At that time the primary focus was on preparing Boy Scout troops for winter camping, and winter survival. We taught them how the body functions in the cold, how to avoid hypothermia, and even how to make their own safe clothing suitable for living in conditions well below zero. We began supplying many survival items as well as a variety of camping supplies not only to scouts, but to 
many others also.
Over the years things have evolved with Perry (me) spending 20 years on the East coast, in the Carolinas. There I learned about dealing with heat, humidity, hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, and torrential rains. Recently I moved back to Utah within just a few minutes of the Wasatch Mountain Range with peaks up to 12,000 feet in elevation. Its a great place for anyone who loves the outdoors. I soon found myself involved again in developing products for all those who frequent the remote wilderness places.
During my whole life I have been interested in survival skills and in assembling survival items to put together in various kits. After much study and trial and testing we came up with a couple of nice survival kits and a various other survival supplies. The focus has been to have high quality products at a realistic price.
We also began during this last year providing wilderness training and survival preparedness to both live audiences and on our own YouTube channel. Things have been evolving rapidly as we have worked on refining our educational offerings, and finalizing and testing our own line of products.
It soon became evident that to effectively achieve our mission we had to become much more integrated into electronic media. Fortunately Beau Graves made himself available and has joined the team, helping us to rapidly move forward, it doesn’t hurt that he loves wilderness and survival, which brings on additional excitement to the work we do.
We invite you to visit often, we will be posting new information frequently and introducing some nice new products while broadening our educational experience. Stay with us, don’t miss a beat!!