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... released a video called "10survival tips that could save your life..." on YouTube. one point he addresses is an accident he had recently due to his boot laces of one boot getting caught on the hooks of the other boot. this feature is commonly found on many boots and i've to agree with him...

while i was working on Japan's largest camping ground we had some animals dig their way into our garbage storage area, no matter how much we fortified it... .the culprits proved to be a family of japanese badgers who had dug their domicile inside an old shed about 10m from our worker's...

extremely glad that days are getting longer again as my place sees no sunshine for about two months (which collides with our rainy season, so i'm constantly fighting damp gear...)

i tried a simplified version last year for an overnighter and kept one leftover to see if it would survive a few days longer without refrigeration in our obscene tropical humidity (it did, but i wouldn't suggest long-term storage): having no oven and to bake them in a frying pan over open fire...

i'm a grinch, so no special traditions for me...

i live off-grid on a farm in the costa rican rainforest, so when it gets dark i stoke up my fire to concoct my ration of rice and beans :eek2: and work on small projects by the light of my head torch.... i've a few books as well so a few minutes of reading afterwards, too

sadly no pics (=my only camera these days is my phone and that stays switched off in my cabin unless i head to the "office" (=Wi-Fi spot) in the afternoon...) i've seen them a few times in different locations (Costa Rica and near lake nicaragua), some folks claim they only exist south of the...

currently it's rainy season here, which means our "moat" (==river separating farm from civilization ) is much higher than normal, but yesterday i was lucky enough to see a neotropical otter make it's way upstream without noticing me

didn't know they existed until now... given the fact that i had issues with corrosion on diamond stones in our tropical climate this might work as an alternative to touch up a blade on overnight trips (although i won't be able to get one in the near future)

i actually rounded the spine on my whittling knife (homemade from old file) to stop it from giving me blisters. for scraping i often use a dedicated tool made from a short section of machete blade i found along the road

according to a YouTube post from "ReallyBigMonkey1" the winner of season 2 of "alone" passed away a few days ago; iirc he was once a member of this forum under the user name "pict" ...

no idea if he published any books, but Adam Celadin has a few videos on YouTube about knife throwing...

make a poncho?!

shame Daniel Defoe wasn't more specific... but seeing that Robinson Crusoe is supposed to have two good barrels a (and two wet ones) of gun powder and comes up with the idea of taming goats after ca. 11years on his island (when realising he's getting low on powder) i'd daresay it's not gun...

which is how the five-day-week was invented :P

i'm currently rereading "Robinson Crusoe" and in chapter12 he finds cave, to explore it he uses self made candles. to ignite them he uses a tinderbox made from a musket lock "with some wild-fire in the pan". i've no idea what he refers to and my google search for "wild-fire" directs me to...

i haven't tried one myself, but the "jaakari" S is about one litre when folded up... for a collapsible daypack i'm using something similar to a WW2 style veshmeshok (basically a pillow case with draw strings)

obviously the "gendarm of st. tropez" wasn't around... :P (reference to the movie series with Louis de Funes )

google has no reference to it, but according to a YouTube clip Jock McLaren an australian soldier in WW2 (born in Scotland) who was a veterinarian in civil life, operated his own appendix with a pocket knife...

better than using the corkscrew instead the can opener :p