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go on a few camping trips into the local area. use these trips to learn what you DON'T need to bring. learn how to improvise with what little gear you DO bring.

Hi there. Today is your lucky day. I happen to have taken some classes under some survival experts and I could give you a dickload of information based on practical experience. Now I don't claim to be a survival expert myself but I have definitely spent a lot of time around people in the know who have studied under tom brown.


It's unfortunate that the Tracker School classes are so expensive. But the fact that you know about Tom Brown's tracker school shows you are on a good start. Tom Brown is nuttier than a squirrel but he is definitely the real deal. He makes Bear Grylls look like Jackie Chan let me put it that way.


You could definitely invest in some of Tom Browns books. ON your own, you could probably learn a lot just by reading some of his books to learn a new skill one at a time. Go camping and then test it out.


For instance, read about the basics of building a basic debris shelter. Then go into a wooded area and try it out. You wont get it right the first time. Trust me.


Let me put it this way. As a third year engineering student, if you can be teaching yourself Cal 2 and Differential Equations building a Debris Hut or starting fire by friction should be well within your intellectual grasp.

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>>687

>Your biggest weakness will probably be bringing yourself to the woods.

>sacred tenets of wilderness survival

Stick to telling us what you learned from your fancy-dancy classes and spare us their rhetoric.

>>605

No scenery in the Rockies? Have you ever hiked the continental divide?

VA appalachian mountains
beautiful.

nothing like the Sierras

>>612 You got trolled by a sarcastic comment.

Also, vaseline (petroleum jelly) on cotton balls burns clean and hot. I can't tell you if it starts with a spark or not, maybe someone else can.

I just made a bunch of paraffin-wax/sawdust firestarters for a friend with a woodstove who buys expensive ones. It was cheap and easy, and they work just as well. Now I have a request from someone else to make them.

Here's the 'recipe':

1 box Gulf Wax (1 lb)
5 cups fine sawdust

Melt in double boiler, mix paraffin/sawdust in some old container, press while hot into molds like old muffin tin, toilet paper tubes, etc.

The ones I made are short little muffins, not even as tall as the muffin pan. They seemed to burn steadily for about 15-20 minutes, so I imagine they could possibly be used as fuel tablets for a camp stove or something.

>>612
Hahahaha yeah you got trolled. That's a fucking hilarious troll post btw.

Convex lens.

Is it safe to go on a bike tour in the deep south? Don't they hate that kind of stuff?

>>640
People in the South are the most friendly people in the US overall. Just remember a few things. Don't look like a fucking bum, dirty hippy, or weirdo. DON'T. FUCKING. TRESPASS. They WILL shoot you. Be polite, and don't act like some stuck up yankee.

>>644
I've lived in the South my whole life, but I don't have a drawl or live in a trailer. I'm not stupid, either. I think you're right, if you don't act like a fucking creep everyone will think you're all right- even if we do notice your strange Oregon and Massachusetts license plates on your Subarus.

I'd steal gas.

I heard somewhere that scooters don't have very much sleeping room.

Also the first semi to pass you will make you shit your pants, I guarantee it. They have no respect for four-wheelers and even less for two-wheelers.

>>674

Really? Because us truckers always figured it was the other way around!

Seriously, though, we have a lot of respect for two-wheelers. Anytime we spot one, we'll put the word out on the radio for everyone to take notice so we can better guard our blindspots. It's just professional courtesy and makes the roads safer for everybody.

>>613
No bees in the south either (Alabama/Tennessee). Although I did see 1 (ONE) the other day early in the morning in my backyard.
>>285
Same here bro. I've lived in Alabama and now I'm in Tennessee. Not many fireflys that I can remember from the past few years. I remember when I was little we used to catch them all the time in the summer (junebugs).

I think it was Einstein who said that if bees were to dissapear the world would fall apart. I can't remember exactly how it went, basically shit sux after there gone.

>>613

Well, I don't know about you... But in my location of so cal. There is a shit load of bees in spring and summer.

>>685
Seems like the schooling is still shit though.

If it's winter time you will need some sort of shelter. Whether it's a bivy bag, tarp, or tent. You will need something.

As for your girlfriend, how long is your trip?

>>678

>>winter time

>>As for your girlfriend, how long is your trip?

Did you even read his post? He's camping for a week, and doing so two months before Winter. OP, I'd always recommend a tent since it's just protection against natural forces in general (rain, etc, though I don't know New Zealand's climate very well so I apologize if I'm way off the mark). As for a winter tent, I'm not sure; you would know that better than any of us considering you live around there and know the weather patterns better. Best of luck.

>>680

I did. What I meant by how long is how many kilometers. You can interpret it as "Because it's winter time..." I'm just weird when it comes to the way I word things.

Sage for not adding anything to the thread.

>>667
In my experience, the literature on edible plants tends to be neither comprehensive nor practical.

>>669

>>667 here. What literature are you looking at? I suppose you're right - I know tons more about plants than many people (and I realise that I know comparatively little). But it's just one of those things I've always been interested in, so I've picked up tidbits of knowledge all my life from various sources - written and human.

Any time I go out in the woods or such, I tend to just nibble on the various edible plants around me. I don't think I would like to try and subsist on the stuff I sample - to get a decently filling meal one would have to spend a lot of time foraging and possibly preparing before consumption (also depending upon season and area).

I have found a good amount of information online, using ye olde google. To find out whether it's really practical information you sometimes have to actually try it out.

>>645

Bring a car?

But if you insist on hiking, then get dry foods. A can of tuna generally has about 50% of it's weight taken up by the brine and the can, so very inefficient. A packet of freezedry soup and vegetables has about 1% wasted weight in it from the foil packaging, the rest is eaten.

Dried soup, pasta, dried meat, vaccum-sealed and heat-treated, precooked meat (like some bacon types), raisins or sultanas, dried fruit like banana chips, high-energy foods like honey and peanut butter are relatively heavy but it's worth it for all those nice oils, salts, sugars and calories. Whole wheat bread can be pretty good if you have space.

Carrying the water to cook these foods in is the biggest pain in the ass. You can have two weeks of rations in a basic backpack, but without water you won't be able to prepare much of it.