living in untouched nature
Please note: This article covers a setting where you are remotely and you have restrictions on the weight and space you have available. If there are no restrictions you can take of course not needed things like a fixed blade knife. There is hardly any other topic which is so Read more…
The following information is based a lot on my own observations and is only partly confirmed by scientific research. I cover the behavior in the northern natural forests and not in destroyed “productive” forests. When the first serious snow comes moose changes their behavior a lot. With the snow their Read more…
On common channels people talk often about how to gather food in nature. Especially in the German outdoor/survival community there is a strong misunderstanding of what brings how many calories. The kinds of food I cover here is not a complete list, there are more I will cover in further Read more…
A bore snake is a long fabric rope with and integrated bronze brush for cleaning the bore of a rifle or a shotgun. Due to it’s length with just one pull through you have a lot of fabric cleaning the barrel. I used it myself for years in the wilderness Read more…
The hole topic is very complex. I will only touch it here to give additional input and let people think about it. log buildings are good, but … Log buildings are great, they have a lot of advantages. Because they are of pure wood the statics are often not a Read more…
The time that post was written is not the time it was published. The weather forecast is extremely imprecise in Lapland. For example right now we have pretty heavy snowfall and we already got several centimeters of new snow: When we look at the forecast, right now, we do not Read more…
Most Finns know already very good how to cross an open river or creek. But in a German outdoor forum there was a thread with quaint suggestions what you need to do for it. A lot of people there seem to use crocs, sandals or surf shoes. They are not Read more…
For over 15 years I hear about the so called ponchosauna. As I’m a big fan of ponchos the idea seem to be great: You take a candle and light it under your poncho to get warm. You often hear how fantastic this works, but the truth is different. As Read more…
I often discover people who inform themselves a lot about wilderness living, bushcraft or survival. Some wilderness instructors are also of this kind and have a some knowledge about specific skills. Basically nearly everything you find on Youtube is of that kind. But unfortunately something much more important is getting Read more…