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Top Outdoor Adventure Videos of the Year

As many of you know, The Outdoor Adventure has a youtube channel with just over 2300 subscribers and 1500 daily views. Because people seemed to like our most popular posts of 2012 article, I thought I’d do the same for our youtube videos. Take a look below to see what was watched last year on our channel.

We do post some content that doesn’t make it onto our channel, so if you don’t want to miss anything, I recommend stopping by BCOutdoorSurvival on youtube.

In 2012 we had over 600,000 views and to make it interesting we’ve taken the top videos and divided them into categories: Gear Reviews, DIY, and Survival and Primitive skills:


Top Gear Review Videos of 2012:

Swiss Ranger Aluminum Military Stove – This old stove can be picked up for $10 and is just plain amazing. They put a lot of research into the design, and it shows.

JetBoil Zip – The solo, bare-bones model of the popular Jetboil system was obviously on a lot of people’s wish lists. What can we say? Stoves are popular.


Top DIY Videos of 2012:

Penny Alcohol Backpacking Stove – This was one of our first videos so we apologize for the quality. It seems though, with the economy suffering people wanted to save money on their backpacking gear… either that or they’re all just pyros.

DIY: How to Make a Backpacking Wood Stove – This easy instructional involving a couple of cans from canned goods turns out a highly efficient stove with afterburner.

DIY Axe Body Spray Stove – Take a simple axe aeresol can and reuse it. It makes a decent little alcohol stove. Plus, it keeps more junk out of the land fills.

Top Survival and Primitive Skills Videos of 2012:

How to cook a fish on a stone – You can’t get a clearly title than this, can you? Oh, and the fish was delicious!

How to start a fire with water – This instructional using only water and plastic wrap was quickly picked up by both Treehugger and Lifehacker and got over 25000 views overnight.
DIY: How to Make an Emergency Desalination Still – My goal with this was to put together a means for distilling dirty or salty water with what a person normally carries on a backpacking trip. It works, even if desalination is notoriously time consuming.

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