A few more sub zero pics from past jaunts.
Teaching some young adults all about Finnish marshmellows and BB cups... Winter here when surface water is frozen and some lakes freeze to the ground, reminds me of that old stanza, 'Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.' I chuckle sometimes when people discuss water purification in the winter. For us here it's "melt it, melt it really, really hard until it bubbles, and drink it."
In this picture, we were standing on untold litres of water, but without a way to chop through 3' of ice, you'd be as dry as... well, you'd get dry quick in the sun and cold and dry winter. EDIT: I don't boil 'snow' water. I know some say you should, and IF I wanted to purify it, I would, but I personally don't bother. YMMV.
A few random winter piccies:
This was a wet winter day (my LEAST favourite sub zero kind of days!) and as you know in wet climates anywhere, it's important to get to dry wood.
A random Mora bushcraft black. A great winter knife (handle) but as I batonned with it to get to the dry wood, I didn't have full confidence that it could handle heavy batonning. Just my opinion, though, and many use these knives hard.
Random piece of Manitoba real estate.
Old burr oak, showing more growth on S side of tree (left side of photo).
And finally, before I shame the forum with slides of my vacation... kidding, of course. (We're allowed that here, right?
)... here's my avatar pic closer up.
Thanks for looking. Hope it's interesting for you.
ATB
KK