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I'm not sure what the answer is, but for the record whenever I spent a few weeks in the mountains as a younger person, I never brought rifles, lighters, or gps
by Tor3 2y ago
I'm not sure what the answer is, but for the record whenever I spent a few weeks in the mountains as a younger person, I never brought rifles, lighters, or gps beacons (or any other electronics). I did have matches though, in a waterproof bag. But I also had steel and flint. Knife. And a fishing rod. In fact the most useful modern society thing I brought would be soap.. if you have it you don't think much about it, if you don't then you realize how very useful it is.
- grecy 2y agoI’m impressed! What did you boil water in? Just eat with your fingers?
- Tor3 2y agoI brought a pot.. metal, made for this.. I thought that was a given. It would easily last forty-fifty years (re the original article). Not that I would need the pot all the time, fish I would grill in various ways, e.g. on a stick on a fire, or just leaving them on a flat rock close to the fire. The pot was for soup of some kind which I didn't eat very often. As I don't drink coffee when I'm on a mountain hike I wouldn't bring a coffee pot. A knife is a must, if I didn't already mention that. The main point is that I wouldn't need a rifle, a lighter, or a GPS. I wouldn't even have thought of it. Not that there was much GPS around when I was a teenager. A paper map though, that's useful sometimes.
- grecy 2y agoGPS we carry to save our lives. Even 10 days out in the Yukon without gear in late September would be brutal. Like I said, we often gave ourselves 50/50 of surviving - either build some kind of cabin and stay the winter (need rifle and axe minimum) or walk out.