Survival Skills: Firemaking in Snow, Part 5
PART 5 of 5: A complete series of videos by Nutnfancy and my friend chronicling firemaking in cold and snowy conditions using backpacking equipment only. The series shows the scenery, adventure, survival philosophy, gear observations, our standard joking around, and the good times with long time friend BuggetNuster (YouTube name) and Allie the Mountain Dog. We hiked into the snowy and cold Rocky Mountain bivouac location I had chosen earlier for my Wilderness Lean-To series of videos. A few …
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in my firemaking kit i have an altoids tin filled with matches match striker swedish firesteel army, 1 cotton ball a lighter 2 coghlans fire lighters and 3 tinder quick
dont use stones/rocks near a water system like a river lake etc
You guys rock! One of the best survival series I’ve seen. Testing knives like that is worth its weight in gold. Nothing beats knife discussions like a real test!
Thank you!
i love staring into fire it bbrings back memorys
Bugget how did you like the gortex pants for hiking/cw camping? Also what kind of boots were you guys rocking?
did that kno that rocks stones from the river would explode, very good to kno, cus if i was in this situation and wanted to warm some stones, i would have done it,
great info, thanks man
nice touch using a stove when the fire is going, hehe
the ones that arent wet
lol decorate the baton with fathers and teeth from animals . . . that sounds just like me and my friends when we go out!
What a blast! I wish I could go with you guys! (in case you couldn’t guess by my online name!) Thanks for sharing your good times and expertise! You’ve got a new fan!
The stove is a whisperlite international.
rocks explode when they get heated if they have waer traped inside them. if you dry them with low heat fire to dry them out they wont explode but it takes a wile
how do u know which rocks wont explode when ur heating them??
A excellent series of 5 videos, great campfire (preparation is everything) My firekit also contains trioxane (great stuff and reliabel), there is a big demand for them
men are allways atracted by fire, i guess its in our gene’s You are a lucky man if you can go out in the wilderness with your best friend(s) I consider you a lucky man!! (envy you!!)
Sometimes you do not have tools. In that case you use dead trees by bashing them against live trees. (leverge)This gives you the 2 to 3 inch starters. You can than drag big ‘ol wood to the fire intact. feeding it to the fire one foot at a time. It takes a lot less time than this video.
Dan
nutn, let me know if u have an open spot on your next campout. lol
What is the name of the stove that buggetnuster uses?
good call!!
One of your best videos imo.
Oh that looks like so much fun, i love camping, the sound of that snapping fire is just so calming, I would love you go camping like that, good video Nutnfancy.
It’s wet wood… It hasnt been sitting in a basement for 3 years drying.
What does a fire reflector do?
And the fenix lights look great for the lantern purpose, im getting the lantern attachments tomorrow!!!
It was said in part 4, and I believe earlier as well, that round edged logs don’t catch as well as split logs, at least in the conditions these videos were shot in.
idk….you guys are so gratuitous about this stuff.. I don’t understand why split a 3 inch thick log? or a 5 inch thick log? just toss it on the fire…