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The area suggested is not a wilderness area - it is quite populated, but with some luck you can find stretches of water which resembles untouched nature. As such the area is generally well-suited for beginners. Kit lists aren't all that important for short trip in the scandinavian lowlands...

I teach the handdrill - and just about every other fireligthing method - on a regular basis. The problem in teaching such methods today is the quite short timeframe in which people expect to master the chosen technique. In the stone age, were people relied up on such methods, one can imagine...

Reindeers, not deer. The collars, and more specifically the numbers on the collars, designate ownership of the reindeer. Most of the reindeers in that area are domesticated. Traditionally each saami family had their own recognized pattern which the cut into the skin of the reindeers ears. This...

Since the OP has not replied I can confirm that the place shown in the video is quite near Rogen. The put-in is "Käringsjönvallen" at approximately 62.353425, 12.471039. //Kim Horsevad

Again, my experience is a few years old, but: Freezing the drive sometimes did help with older drives. The problem was that the motor spinning the platters sometimes would overheat and thereby expand enough to seize. This could sometimes be remedied by freezing the drive. Motors are...

With all due respect for your credentials: I have done the "circuit swap" procedure several times - all with good results. The firmware is not unique for each disk, but for each batch. This makes a difference. (I should add that my experiences and information regarding the firmware are a...

There is a very good chance that most of the files can be recovered. Photos are actually the easiest files to recover, especially if they are stored in JPEG. The procedure is: Connect the drive to another computer. Do a dd to another HD. Do all you recovery work on the new HD. This way none...

Actually, evaporative cooling is one of the most ideal ways of managing hyperthermia. It is also one of easiest and non-invasive methods. The human body is constantly utilizing evaporative cooling, which is the reason a human being is secreting sweat in a warm environment. Evaporation...

Thank you for your answer. If everyone was as prepared as you seem to be in regards to both gear and mental preparation I have a feeling that the number of accidents in the wild would diminish... When I am not teaching I do most of my travels solo. This is my reference point, and my answers...

How would SAR even know something has gone wrong in that situation? What in your first aid kit can make you survive a major wound which you could not expect to survive without that first aid kit? What if you are solo - in a terrain where civilization is days away? Stopping blood loss from a...

My point is that more or less any problem which can be alleviated by a layperson using the contents of a standard first aid kit isn't all that serious. The priorities are different when you are in the mouintains - days or even weeks from help. The standard first aid kit contains no products...

In the nordic countries the three most common types of deadly accidents in the wild are fall accidents, drowning accidents (mostly people trying to ford a river) and hypothermia (in the winter months). None of these accidents can be alleviated by first aid kits. //Kim Horsevad

You don't need protein. You need amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein. The human metabolism can synthesize most of these, but we need 8 (so called essential) amino acids. In the US a organization caalled "Agricultural Research Service" under the United States Department of...

Leaf litter is quite acid (between 3-5 on the pH scale, depending on specific species of tree). This makes it moderately dangerous for most insects, so most insects avoid these environments. An improvised shelter constructed from leaf litter is, contrary to expectation, remarkably free from...

Thats a nice and uniform twist. You mention "rush lights". Is this the same technique as used in the past in Denmark, where the white core of the Juncus effusus were used as the wick in candles made from the fat form sheep or oxen? //Kim Horsevad

The dandelion is actually a rather interesting plant. It is certainly edible, has a wide range of medical effects, of which some are yet to be fully understood. The leafs posses very little digestible material - it will not provide you with energy. It does, however, contain some vitamins -...

I am not quite sure what you mean... Judging from the pictures the man has no obvious signs of vitamin C deficiency. What features do you interpret as scurvy? (Is it some kind of joke I do not understand? English is not my native language. Have I made some kind of grammatical or orthographic...

There are traces of vitamin C in most fish. If eaten raw this might be enough prevent scruvy. Furthermore, roe, especially from cod - and quite possibly also from a number of other fish - are quite rich in vitamin C. Unfortunately I have almost no knowledge of fish in the pacific, but one could...

Can be done both easy and safely - just with the help of a strong rope of sufficient lenght. Tie the strong rope on to the tree. As high as possible. Shoot a small line over a high branch with an arrow or slingshot and pull a heavier rope over. Rope should be considerably longer than the...

Hi, I am not from US - I am from Denmark... I understood the OP as he were about to start cutting wood himself. Over here this process normally starts by felling the tree in question. If you have another procedure in the UK i sincerely apologise for the derailment! //Kim Horsevad