Yes, we all know about 550 cord, it's been covered extensively. Also, I agree with your assessment about "knowledge & a keen wit"; but what has all this to do with what I just posted?:confused:
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Yes, we all know about 550 cord, it's been covered extensively. Also, I agree with your assessment about "knowledge & a keen wit"; but what has all this to do with what I just posted?:confused:
never laughed so hard in my life, i've got to forward this thread on to the rest of my unit.
do or do not there is no try
after this tree planting season im thinking of buying some land north of whiteshell provincial park. maby make a cabin and update my trapping certification.
Please do not take this the wrong way. I am just not familiar with the laws where you are. At 16, do you need parental permission for that sort of thing, or would your parents have to purchase it. Making a cabin - yeah - at 16 years old, how do you plan to pay for it? Just curious.Quote:
Originally Posted by marcraft
treeplanting makes 5 000 - 40 000 a season , im a rooky so ill prob only make around 10K . ill prob get my parents to buy the land for me. and if i wana make a cabin all i need is an axe and land with trees...
Hey, you go right for it, kid!! Power to you.
Thanks Marcraft. I was just curious.
ugh i hate it when im called a kid, im 16 and can (and have) passed for as old as 25
sorry to have stepped on your manly toes ;) won't happen again. If you were female, I would have said "you go, girl", which applies to and is accepted by women of all ages :)
Don't worry --- plenty of time to grow up and get old like the rest of us.
Ah, don't be in too big a hurry to become an adult, Marcraft...that'll come soon enough. ;)
One day, not as far from now as you might think, you'll hear folks *****ing about "young people today" and you'll realize they aren't complaining about you. Not long after that, you'll buy a six-pack of beer and the clerk won't ask to see your ID. From there it's just a downhill slide to getting AARP solicitations in the mail and going to bed right after you've watched 'Matlock'. And you'll wish that just once, someone would call you 'kid'. :D
Being young is a precious gift - enjoy it while it lasts. :cool:
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Originally Posted by wildWoman
Oprah invented that slogan I think....Good old Oprah.:D
like i said , i look older , i never get asked for ID. and i really dont act like anyone iv met whos my age.
A Year? I'd bring a good dog and a good woman.
I know what you mean, Marcraft. I'm 54 and could easily pass for 53. It would be sort of cool to get carded. But if I did, I'd think they wanted to see my AARP card for my discount.
lol smarta**
I personally say it sounds like alot of fun; however I would recommend taking a full backpacking/camping set up with them. do everything they can to survive the month with next to nothing, but if the s$%# hits the fan they have adequate shelters, supplies, and food to safely see them back out. if they make it great. should be interesting hearing there story. if they don't at least they will have what they need to get out alive and well to live another day.Quote:
Originally Posted by spiritman
as ive stated already on this site - go camping to practice your survival skills. much safer and nice to have a few luxury items along when your 2 weeks into living with nothing but a knife.
I turned 15 the first time I went to BC (British Columbia). My two sisters and I went in my older sisters boy friends Hudson Hornet, what a car. My sis San and I who is 4 years older, took off on our own and hitchhiked all over BC and Alberta. We had little to no money, no tent, we did have army surplus sleeping bags. We slept under bridges, bathrooms, peoples homes, in the bush. We had a blast! What did we eat, not much as I remember, though people were always feeding us beer. Heard my first wolf and saw my first grizz that summer. We found work for a few weeks guiding some fellows that were doing mineral sampling, then back into the bush. We learned a lot that summer about roughing it, our dreams, and ourselves.
You don't need a lot to begin an adventure: just the desire, some sort of a general plan, use your noggin, and most of all, don't take yourself to serious. For the uninitiated, a half a day in the north woods in spring with black flies and mosquito's as companions, will pretty much make one sober up pretty quick and re-think your basic plan. If you get turned around and lost out there, it will probably induce panic or the "I want my mommy factor." If you make it out okay, then you just earned some serious experience points on not what to do. As a professional now, my advice is to get training, good training, before one decides to take off in the woods for an hour or the summer. It will always serve you well.
to get back to the original question of this thread:
-my girls
-the dog
-my chainsaw
-my .410
-the ammo for it
-my bow
-enough gas & oil for the saw and truck
everything else (including food) is already in our cabin.
Im not to keen on the local wildlife of northern manitoba but the weather can become a problem really fast I would suggest basic sheltering like a pancho and some para cord. possibly a few ration bars just in case, and something with a little more spunk than a knife for those late night bumps ie a .357 or .44 bears will laugh at less
did anyone hear how they faired thier site says they made 13 days
Ended up eating each other after all the underwear soup was consumed at day four. :D
I spent this evening on and off reading this thread and do believe I'll keep an eye out on it to see how these two made out.
Haven't checked their website since they first appeared, but I'm willing to bet they will charge money to view their stupidity.
That is exactly what they did crash,they lasted 13 days,couldnt catch anything other than a cold,and had difficulty getting a fire started,so they bailed.last time I went to their site,they were charging to view their adventure in numptiness......
if they were truly out for the quest of knowledge and to make money fine but to up and run away after thier failure shows me allot about them, swallow yer pride boys and show everyone what you learned maybe your failure( which i see as a learning opportunity) will help some other newbie not make a fatal mistake..
always be prepared-prepare all ways
I guess it never was about surviving in the wilderness. Kind of figures judging from their attitude on the forum.
WE is right. There really isn't any failure. It's all a learning experience. And I'm here to tell you I've learned some stuff in a really big non-failure way before.:o
Those two are idiots they should post on bevis and butthead I plan on a trip too 4 people and a dog 1 canaidian wilderness and 400 pounds of cargo for 3 months with a year of training to go and a year behind us
I know some of you are way more familiar with parts of Manitoba than I am.
Way back in 73 (giving up my age), I went to Gods Lake (there's an island, I forget the name), on a fly in fishing trip for my graduation. It was in July.
Now mind you, back then I knew how to hunt, trap and survive the marshes and swamps of La. as that's the environment I was raised in, but I was so out of my element up there and the one thing I will never forget were the mosquitoes. Fishing was fun up until that guide pulled that boat into the mouth of this one river and the swarms of "sqeeters" came out of there in black clouds.
like i posted on a thread somewhere else, most accidents can be prevented with trainng, patience and common sense. the risk for accidents are there, its how you deal with the situation means the differance between body bag or a great trip. I know I lack in experiance but before I thrust myself and my 3 boys into a situation we are all working on learning and preparing. Other than basic hikes and camping trips, hunting and fishing trips my boys have some knowledge but not nearly enough to survive if we get seperated. Tonite I asked my 13 y/o how long he could survive with only a knife his response was how long does it take to starve. he thought it was funny I didnt and after I explained some of the things that could happen on our trip he lost his smile and opened the book to figure out what he could eat and how
Excalibur - I know that you are doing the studying with your boys for the trip. Are you planning several shorter trips with them as part of the training? Maybe start with 2-3 day trips then progress to longer ones?
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Originally Posted by Tahyo
Its like those starving african children commercials on sunday mornings.....flies crawling all over their faces.......we just get us to it.
yes next weekend is our 15th trip a short hike about 3 miles followed by a 3 mile canoe trip broken into 1 day to hike rest spent fishing 1 day on the water also fishing with the last day at the boat ramp going over rollover drills and water survival
Good plan. Keep it up.
thanks I hope we dont need all the training and just have a blast
atleast they made it out alive mabey next time they will make it. Even failure is a learning tool if we are wise enough to listen (unless were dead)
by the way I am still wet behind the ears here could someone explain to me what the heck is a numpty
I have only read down to half way on the third page of this thread.. I can't give them enough survival information I wouldn't know where to start with these guys..
Over the last 8 or 9 months... I have been building a survival 'pack' and am still building it ... before I even go out there by myself... and I am packing in all the information that I can find and learn before I go out there by myself.. and I am talking beyond the standard 'campsites'.. 'campgrounds'.. whatever.
The best advise I can give them on such short notice.. 30 days (or less?) I don't know when this thread was started... is to get theirselves to a professional survival school and pay the price to attend that for a month before doing it on their own.
The reason that I am building a survival 'pack' and learning all that I can from here and other places on my own.. is that I can't afford to go to a professional school... I wish I could.. but money and time are against me at present. But that is the best advice I can give them.
Without doing that or taking as much time as I am taking to be prepared for it and 'know' the information... I would say .. "don't go" !!
tenderfoot..Quote:
Originally Posted by Excalibur