Leon Pantenburg at Smith Rock State Park

A woman sprained her ankle at dusk, in the middle of a forested urban park on a routine evening winter run and almost froze to death. A car got stuck in the snow on a rural road only a few miles from a major highway and the driver died of hypothermia and dehydration.  A man took a day-hike on a well known trail, got lost and was never seen again.  These avoidable tragedies happen all the time.

Most people never think about the need to survive anything. But you, the average person, could easily be one slip, journey, natural disaster or crash away from real trouble.

This website, written by Leon Pantenburg, is about proven and tested common sense survival techniques that anyone should learn whether living in a major metropolitan region or recreating in the wilderness.

• Using your common sense to survive any unexpected calamity can turn a dangerous situation into a mere inconvenience.
•  Pack and easily carry the right tools with the confidence to know how to use them and you and your family will survive any emergency.
• Check out the categories on the left hand side of this page to learn how to be completely prepared for anything that life throws at you.

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” First Amendment, Constitution of the United States.

My Philosophy: Advertisers ultimately finance freedom of the press. For this website to remain a free resource for people, I need to work to cover the overhead.  Part of what I do is accept limited advertising fees for reviews or product placement.

SurvivalCommonSense.com features spectacular photography and a common sense approach to urban and wilderness survival. (Pete Erickson photo)

This leads to a valid question:  Can any story  published on SurvivalCommonSense.com be trusted when there is an advertiser with the potential to call the shots?  Well, the answer is yes.

Here is how it works with my site:

You see paid advertisements in SurvivalCommonSense.com. These ads were accepted after I checked out the services or products. Advertising is only accepted from vendors of products and services that I know and trust. If I’m not familiar with these products or sites, other respected and credible people in the preparedness or survival communities are contacted. A “thumbs down” from any of them is an automatic rejection from SurvivalCommonSense.com advertising.

So, does having paid sponsors flavor the editorial content of this site? Yes and no.

Yes, I appreciate financial support, and will be inclined to look favorably upon sponsors’ products or services.

The goal of SurvivalCommonSense.com is to encourage readers to enjoy the outdoors safely, by teaching common sense survival skills. (Pete Erickson photo)

No, I will not write stories promoting products, under the guise of “news.” I will do paid product reviews, depending on the item and fully disclosed. But all I ever guarantee is  fairness. If I wouldn’t use a product myself, I won’t help sell it. This leads to another point:

If  you become a paid advertiser on SurvivalCommonSense.com, you understand and agree that you have no control over editorial content or what I write.

Here’s why: SurvivalCommonSense.com serves readers seeking information about wilderness and urban survival techniques and equipment. These folks help direct subject matter selection with their feedback. They don’t determine editorial content .

My personal integrity and reputation is all that separates SurvivalCommonSense.com from hordes of  unethical internet “survival” sites. My byline guarantees I did my best in research, writing and fact-checking. This site is, now and forever, rated “G.” I am honored when members of  Boy Scout troops visit the website to learn more about the outdoors, or when parents refer my site to other parents.

These are the rules for advertising on SurvivalCommonSense.com and that’s how I do business. – Leon Pantenburg

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Author Leon Pantenburg relies on wilderness and urban survival experts as sources and regularly contributes outdoor and survival-related articles to other similar blogs and websites. (To read his bio, click here.)

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Leon Pantenburg is a wilderness enthusiast, and doesn’t claim to be a survival expert or expertise as a survivalist.

Leon Pantenburg

As a newspaperman and journalist for three decades, covering search and rescue, sheriff’s departments, floods, forest fires and other natural disasters and outdoor emergencies, Leon learned many people died unnecessarily or escaped miraculously from outdoor emergency situations when simple, common sense might have changed the outcome.

Leon now teaches common sense techniques to the average person in order to avert potential disasters. His emphasis is on tried and tested, simple techniques of wilderness survival. Every technique, piece of equipment or skill recommended on this website has been thoroughly tested and researched.

After graduating from Iowa State University, Leon completed a six-month, 2,552-mile solo Mississippi River canoe trip from the headwaters at Lake Itasca, Minn., to the Gulf of Mexico.

His wilderness backpacking experience includes extended solos through Yellowstone’s backcountry; hiking the John

A much younger Leon at a silver mine in the Beartooths.

Muir Trail in California, and numerous shorter trips along the Pacific Crest Trail. Other mountain backpacking trips include hikes through the Uintas in Utah; the Beartooths in Montana;  the Sawtooths in Idaho; the Pryors, the Wind River Range, Tetons and Bighorns in Wyoming; Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, the Catskills in New York and  Death Valley National Monument in southern California.

Some of Leon’s canoe trips include sojourns through the Okefenokee Swamp and National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia, the Big Black River swamp in Mississippi and the Boundary Waters canoe area in northern Minnesota and numerous small river trips in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest. Leon is also an avid fisherman and an elk, deer, upland game and waterfowl hunter.

Leon and hiking partner John Nerness pitched their tarp in this Death Valley "forest" during Christmas of 1977.

Since 1991, Leon has been an assistant scoutmaster with Boy Scout Troop 18 in Bend, and is a scoutmaster wilderness skills trainer for the Boy Scouts’ Fremont  District.

Leon earned a second degree black belt in Taekwondo, and competed in his last tournament (sparring and form) at age 49. He is an enthusiastic Bluegrass mandolin picker and fiddler and two-time finalist in the International Dutch Oven Society’s World Championships.

Contact Leon at: survivalsenselp@gmail.com

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