Treeless Survival

[elkhound]

Various things ramble

People of the deer author (Farley Mowat)said they ate 5 times a day in the cold and when out hunting they ate 3 times a day and when they ate the 3 times they were starving to death.

Mowat said at that time the govt knew these folks were having huge issues so they supplied him with all these gill nets to hand out even though he tried to tell govt they didnt fish and wouldnt...especially in the winter.He showed them how to use them but during winter times when they needed food the most the ice was 10-12 feet thick.Nobody is chopping through that to set gill nets.

sidenote Mowat wrote the book 'Never Cry Wolf' in 1963 later on in 1983 it was made into a famous movie and its one of my favorite and the best movies ever made...of the same name...Never Cry Wolf !

 

[elkhound]

going to put this here...timber spent 80 days in arctic eating moose and fish...listen to his story about re-feeding for 10-12 days before being able to go home...most contestants it takes that long or longer to readjust....that being said @Sourdough i think theres nuggets here for us.

 

[elkhound]

@Sourdough no elevation....arctic circle on coastline..imagine that...recall what somebody said......yet again heres example treeless area filled with resources...and if they listened they figure stuff out....these folks came here to survive persecution in 1701..why..harshness...and resources......really good documentary that came out Sept 14,2024.


from video description

Pomors or Pomory are an ethnographic group descended from Russian settlers, primarily from Veliky Novgorod, living on the White Sea coasts. Pomors make a living from fishing, since farming in these harsh regions is almost impossible.

47 minutes