The Edge

Mt. Shasta

Terrain

Small cooking fire

Mt. Shasta from the road. Вид на гору Шаста с дороги.

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A general area of my solo night during the Extreme Survival Camp. It looks cozy in the picture, but...

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While exploring the area, I stopped on the top of the mountain to regroup and to cook me some...

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Survival soup

Camp site

Cutting the tree

Lunch is served. It was okay. Had I roasted the scorpions, they could have been pretty tasty, but I...

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This is where I decided to build my shelter. The ground is fairly level (which is rare on...

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Cutting a dead tree for the crosspiece for my shelter. You can cut pretty big trees with little...

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Fire pit

Building a shelter

Bedding

My original fire pit. I moved the fire closer to my shelter later because the night was pretty...

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Shelter under construction. A few more piles of pine needles and the roof is ready. Строительство...

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Piling up pine needles for the bedding in my shelter. You need at least a couple of feet of this...

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Outside my window

My shelter in the morning

Bow drill method of starting a fire

A veiw from my finished shelter. Вид из моего шалаша.

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My shelter after I spent a night in it. A few yards to the right I found fresh bear tracks - I heard...

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Blowing up the flames from the coal produced by the bow drill method. (NB: if you want to do this...

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Success!

This is my second attempt at starting a fire with the bow drill method (I didn't know what I was...

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