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I've always enjoyed this article - I lived in the Yukon for 4 years and we would go on ~10 day moose hunting trips in the fall where we wouldn't see a person, o
by grecy 7y ago
I've always enjoyed this article - I lived in the Yukon for 4 years and we would go on ~10 day moose hunting trips in the fall where we wouldn't see a person, or even signs of people (roads, power lines, fire pits) the whole time. It would be below freezing overnight, and sometimes chunks of ice would come down the river.
We always wondered if we could survive a winter with just what we had.
Anyway, but biggest questions from this article are how did they light fire, and how did they boil water? I assume steel pots, but what would they have done once those were damaged?
- firethief 7y agoIDK about these folks, but my tribe in SE Alaska would put water in baskets woven from bark, and boil it by putting in hot rocks.
- mod 7y agoI doubt they boiled water just to drink it. As for fire, I would assume they never let it go out, or else they learned friction fire.
- 205guy 7y agoI think the article mentioned using birch bark containers when their pots wore through. To heat water in them, they probably heated rocks in the fire and dropped them into the bark bowls full of water. I'm not sure how they made fire, but it was probably tedious so maybe they kept it going constantly--no shortage of wood.
- grecy 7y ago> I'm not sure how they made fire, but it was probably tedious so maybe they kept it going constantly--no shortage of wood. From experience, I know it's a full time job when the temperature drops to -40. You don't want to sleep for more than a few hours at a stretch. One mistake and you're in big trouble at those temperatures.
- defterGoose 7y agoIn the video linked elsewhere in the thread, the hiker explains (and shows) that the riverbed he's hiking up is littered with flints and these red iron-containing rocks. So possibly they can be struck for sparks?