Winter Survival - Winter Skills Course '10

[hoosierarcher]

If you have a reflectic mylar emergency blanket and you fasten it to cover the back wall/roof of your leanto it will reflect the heat from the fire back at your side away from the fire..

[Mammoth10000]

People pay to follow your training ?

[primitiveskills]

@Mammoth10000

And volunteer, and apprentice, some for multiple years. It's not so much training as it is living and growing in the skills, and striving for four season full survival skills (no knives, or dependency on gear) in comfort. Have been doing so since August, 1989. Are you interested?

[primitiveskills]

@Florin888 Good Points, all of them. W/O the healthy & diverse landscape & an established community of folks well versed in plant uses, tracking, & awareness skills & w/o the health/vigor of a dynamic lifestyle w/ healthier food than we experience in our more sedentary/nutritionally poor existence, these excercises toward reclaiming ancestral wisdom fall short of the ideal. Still, no excuse to ignore that that is being lost to conveinince/ease. Besides, it's not only empowering, it's fun.

[rycan84]

vvvvvv oathkeepers org

[TZ3z]

@guyduran, I've actually slept several winter nights in well padded and insulated lean tos I've made my self and felt warm the hole night.

[guyduran]

lean twos are worthless as a survival shelter

[FueledByTyeler]

if you heat up rocks throughout the day and put them under your bed, it makes that a lot more comfortable

[mogges1]

That sure sounds like Less Stroud from surviver man

[Florin888]

So, for few days spent in the wilderness, we are supposed to cut several trees having more than 10 years old... What if all the other million campers would do the same? Quite ecological and "nature friendly"...

[primitiveskills]

@Florin888 Rather than view nature as a sterile and separate entity, we cultivate the caretaker attitude prevailent in hunter-gatherer communities across the globe, selecting pioneer species whos size and spacing contribute to an overcrowded and diseased forest. T'was the view of many cultures that our species is meant to encourage biodiversity by culling out the plentiful for our survival, with seven generations into the future in mind, & encourage the rare by active gardening/mngmnt.

[primitiveskills]

This stark contrast to a model that views nature as a resource or meuseum that one passes through, poops in plastic bags in, & uses petrolium based fuels to creat a mythical "no impact" on an equally mythical "closed ecological system". You should come to our school sometime & view the verticly stratified biodiversity & health of indicator as well as apex species. It is a direct result of living WITH the landscape instead of on it.  Our whole premise is to reconnect folks with this knowledge.

[SUP3RZ0MB1E]

@Florin888 Because the Natives of this land, and pioneers who came here, never cut any trees down....

[SilentWolf1966]

The Perfect Tune "Change" Love it keep up the work Brother.

[Ve4478]

Did anyone else see a Unicorn at 0:30

[danwormald]

what did that tree do to you ?? 

[poorsurvialest]

how do you make the fire board?

[ShadeToSun]

Thanks, good information.

[DeimosSaturn]

You got your good boy phone and your naughty boy phone, your naughty boy phone and your good boy phone...

[squathacker]

what about coal beds?

[primitiveskills]

@squathacker Coal beds and hot rock beds work great in sandy soils, as long as they are allowed time to drive off the moisture if the ground is wet. I used them all the time as a kid growing up in the pine barrrens, but if you don't wait, the steam will soak you. Other than that, very effective. In this part of main the soil is too rich in clay and wet loam or too frozen to make hot rocks or coals practical to dig out, construct, or dry.

[MrBackpacker123]

great video! I was wondering what kind of places you can gather wood, have fires, and build shelters without getting busted by rangers?

[nitroflesh]

Good music in the beginning

[95civex]

god.... great song. love blind melon and miss shannon

[ArtisanTony]

Nice course! Get yourself a decent camera! You will reach more people.

[dithyramb956]

i can use a liter one handed

[primitiveskills]

@dithyramb956 Excellent skill to have & one of the first in the progression. Lighters are great tools. Matches should be your next step, as they burn at a higher temp. & are better at lighting wet/course tinder. After you've got one match fires in the rain mastered, you'll be ready to tackle the next step in weaning of the dependency of others, friction fire off the landscape. Start with a knife & paracord in order to get form & learn about materials. Check out our vids for more info.

[dithyramb956]

@primitiveskills ok, thanks

[wilcox1219]

Do you still do course's in Maine? Email me with the details. Hope to here from you soon.

[primitiveskills]

@wilcox1219 Hey Jason, Thanks for your interest in our school. We do offer courses year round. Just click on any course on our calendar on our website. It's primitiveskills "dot" com. You can field questions to the staff from there as well. Hope to see you at a class!

[irish420Hitman]

hahaha wow good choice of music, I wasn't expecting that, I had to check if my itunes was playing

[shtfprepared]

The girl is hot, wish I could find a girl like that for my winter survival trips in the woods. NONE of the girls I know want to do it. They only want to go in the summer or fall.

[Zambaku]

Poor trees...I bet the tree spirits hates you.

[primitiveskills]

I appreciate your awareness of doing things in a "sacred manner". Thank you for bringing it up! The trees taken are Balsam Fir, a fast growing pioneer species that normally chokes out the understory. By thinning the weaker ones, we open the understory for more tree diversity as well as encourage the health of the healthier balsam fir that remain. The result is a healthy, diverse forest w/ multiple canopy development 2 include a wide variety of edible/medicinal understory plants/shrubs.

[shtfprepared]

@primitiveskills Nice response to the uneducated "tree lovers".

[theurbanabo]

Yes, "caretaking"....really just conscientiously and carefully expediting what nature will manage doing any how. So as organisms that need to use tools to survive, conscientious, harvesting of needed resources is must...I think the tree-spirits will be most grateful in the long run.

[1EvilClown1]

whats the name of the song ?

[irish420Hitman]

the song is called "change" by blind melon if you haven't found it yet.

[DrChrisBiomed]

you said that at 06:50 you won't be comfortable surviving in a artic lean-to, as you have to maintain the fire during the night. Do a search for "nying eld" and you'll get a method that we here in scandinavia use, it's virtually maintenant free log fire. Try it.

[kinzuaBrian]

very very..cool! thx