Anybody else enjoy primitive survival?

A hobby of mine that started out with watching bear grylls. My favorite sub section of this is fire by friction. I have made many friction fires with many different materials, but am far from good at it :) As the title suggest, anyone else share this interest in primitive skills, knowledge, experience?

I like camping and "roughing it". So I guess primitve survival would be pretty much the same.

When I was really poor I once ate nothing but plain rice for a week. After several days I could barely swallow it and felt like gagging. My shoes started to look rather tasty.

I just made chocolate chip cookies and I think that I'll eat so many that I feel ill instead. That's my kind of self-imposed suffering. >:D

haha yeah, camping for me and camping for my friends are two very different things. My friends want a place to get drunk away from their parents. I want a place to bond with nature and test myself. Eating nothing but white rice would be great, but I never can because makes me constipated. Tried to eat nothing but broccoli for a week before, but only made it 3 days. An entire meal of broccoli is only 100calories and It was like 3-400 calories a day >.< Find a healthy cheap food that has lots of calories and you will be set :) (i don't know of any, lol)

I spent 3 months living in the Appalachian mountains with only a blue tarp, some nylon rope, a knife, an altoids tin to make char cloth out of my own clothing, a sleeping pad, and ate only rice, lentils, and oatmeal.

I supplemented my food with caught animals and wild fruits. Made a friction fire and used my shirt and altoids can to make char cloth, then found a quartz rock to use with my knife from then on.

I made extra rope out of twisted plant fibers.

I used a ceramic hand pump for water, cuz let's face it... roughing it is only fun if you don't have giardia. :P

I'm not exactly sure how far I hiked around... guessing a couple miles per hour, but with elevation changes it's hard to really tell equivalents.

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zeto wrote:

I spent 3 months living in the Appalachian mountains ... tell equivalents.

wow, that's fascinating. were you with anyone else? had you perfected all the skills you needed before having gone there? You gotta change out the filters for ceramic hand pumps, right? Such a cool story, share more of if you have time :)

Grodjakten here! Me thinks Bear Grylls is cooler than ice-cool & awesome as well.

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zeto wrote: I spent 3 months living in the Appalachian mountains

Did you hike the Appalachian Trail? It's something I've been wanting to do for a while.

Cheers.

Well, I learned some primitive surviving skills in the army. It can get pretty cold out here in the winter time. It grew me a spark for wilderness, but I'm nowhere near surviving off the land like some of you guys.

I've found myself preferring mountains and fjords over sunny beaches recently. I just returned from a week in Northern Finland and Norway.

Yes, I'm actually loving it! best I've played in some time now!!!

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/outdoors-unlimited


Oh wait. you mean.

I love the dark, I love the dark, I love the dark.

But I hate nature, hate nature, hate nature!!