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If you’re a long time reader, you will have heard about my long term plans to do a survival trip up in Canada for 3 days and two nights. I coordinated it for a trip I had planned to visit family, and my dad ended up coming with me.
The plan was to hit a mountain area of British Columbia where we could test out theoretical skills (this was my first trip) and carry a backup kit if we needed it. I brought simple items (emergency blankets for my dad and myself, flint strikers, survival fishing kit, a cheap rain poncho, aluminum pot and a hand axe and Aegis folding knife (provided by SOG). I also took a small panasonic camera to film all our adventures.
My dad acting as backup also brought a pot, plate and cup, in addition to a regular fishing kit. We headed up to a lake on crown land at about 800 meters where nights were below freezing and where snow in the day was not uncommon.
In this part I improve the comfort of the shelter, make a birch bark cup, dig for and cook cat tail roots, try both cat tail fluff and a Fire puck as fire starter, steam a trout over the fire, collect some wild edible plants for food and determine that I need a camera with an external microphone.
DISCLAIMER: I’m an untrained and unprofessional amature. DO NOT TRY THIS WITH PROPER TRAINING. I am NOT responsible for any harm that comes from anyone trying to imitate me.
