Friends of Tahoe to Whitney

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As work continues on this backpacker's forum and  the TahoetoWhitney trail guide, I have had the great pleasure to meet a variety of individuals who share my love of the Sierras, backpacking,  the outdoors, and nature in general. To all of you, Greetings, and it has been a true pleasure to make your acquaintance. 

Included in this group are experts on specific elements of backpacking skills, as well as applying backpacking skills to emergency and disaster preparedness. These skills fit together like chocolate and peanut butter...

As the amount of work required to build the trail guide is outrageous, I have not yet constructed links to these people's websites, blogs or YouTube Channels. I am presently working to remedy this shortcoming.

Check out the recently constructed backpacking links page on the trail guide. This page features many good people who can give you a fine view into the beauties of nature across a wide range of locations, climates, and terrains outside, as well as inside the Sierras.

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to both a new feature on this forum, and  to Analytical Survival. The feature is "Friends of Tahoe to Whitney," and Analytical Survival is the first friend of TahoetoWhitney I would like to introduce you to.

Analytical Survival is YouTube channel dedicated to giving you the knowledge to maintain your own infrastructure, you personal, and your family security if, for any reason, our established infrastructure fails.

I have lived along "The Ring of Fire," (as the ring of active fault zones around the Pacific Basin is called) in earthquake country my whole life. I felt the unrestrained power of the Loma Preita earthquake, and many more over my lifetime in California. We all watched Mount Saint Helens.

 As Analytical Survival's sub-theme so wisely points out in the video above, disasters happen on a predictable basis. This fact has been turned into a money-making venture by the insurance industry! 

We only need look at Katrina's devastation to understand that the scope of disaster can exceed the capacity of emergency services, and the possibly even the insurance industry itself.

This makes the necessity of a survival plan quite clear.  Analytical Survival is TahoetoWhitney's recommended site for backpacker's looking to apply your backpacking skills to disaster and emergency preparedness. 

My perspective is quite clear: If you have developed the skills, fitness, gear, and supplies of a long distance backpacker, it will be hard to kill you if the original disaster itself didn't get you first.

If you are geared  up as a backpacker, you will have two weeks to reach a self-sustaining point, or hook up with infrastructure. Analytical Survival will take you into the long term.  

It is my honor, and a great pleasure, to introduce you to Analytical Survival.