General Survival Shelter 

How to build an igloo for overnight snow camping

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Hello there! Welcome to the Northwest Sisu Outdoors YouTube channel!I hope you are doing great today, and I hope you will enjoythis video about building a real wilderness igloo!if you have trouble understanding my accent,you can always turn on closed captioningIt is winter here in the Pacific Northwest andthat means, it is time to build an igloo!The last two winters I have built igloos in my front yard,very cool ones, with features such as windowsmade of ice, and cozy little stoves. But those igloos were more a typeof recreational igloosand…

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General Survival Shelter 

How An Igloo Keeps You Warm

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For thousands of years, humans, and plantsand animals long before that, have been usingfrozen “sky water” to keep warm. Which sort of doesn’t make sense. Because snow is cool. You might even say it’s… ice cold. YEEAAHHHHH!No one knows for sure who built the firstigloo, but with the right fit and the rightphysics, snow can actually warm you betterthan the inside of a tauntaun. “You’ll be ok, Luke!”So, how can something cold keep you cozy? The vast, frozen Arctic is one of the mostforbidding environments on our planet, yet,the Inuit…

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Fire 

5 Weird Ways To Start A Fire

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– Today we make fire. – Let’s talk about that. ♪ ♪- Good Mythical Morning!– All right, Mythical Beasts, we need youto keep tweet-voting so that we can winshow of the year at the Streamys!- We can do this!– Yeah!All you gotta do is to tweet “I’m voting for #GoodMythicalMorning for show of the- year at the #Streamys. “– Yes. – A hundred times. You can do it a – hundred times a day!Okay, thanks for that. Now, one of thethings that has separated us from therest of the animal…

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Fire 

How To Make a Fire By Rubbing Sticks

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This might be a situation you never thoughtcould happen, but here you are cast away ona deserted island with nothing but the clotheson your back. In this project we’ll be makinga survival fire by rubbing sticks together,because if you can do that, you’ll have amuch better chance of being found alive. Looking around the island, the first thingyou notice are plenty of coconut trees andat the base are some old coconut husks. Thosemight come in handy. There’s also plenty ofwood lying around, so you just need to finda dry piece…

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Fire 

Primitive Technology: Firesticks

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With my hut completed, next I needed fireFor fire sticks I used a fast growing softwood The spindle and baseboard came from the same branchScrapping bark off with a stone flakeThe sticks were left to dry on a sunny rock to dry outCandle nut leaves were used for tinderDrilling holes in the baseboard with a stone bladeCarving a notch from the hole to let the hot wood powder to fall outThe base board is placed on the tinder with a stick separating them so more air can get to the…

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Fire 

How to Start a Fire in a Survival Situation | Basic Instincts | WIRED

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– Fire is one of the most importantand powerful of theprimitive technologies. It unlocked all sorts of potentialsfor us on every level. My name is Bill Schindler. I’m a professor ofarchaeology and anthropologyat Washington College anda primitive technologistand experimental archaeologist. Fire probably started as some sortof a natural phenomenon,like a lightning strike. A forest fire would havedrawn our attention,we would have seen it and probablystarted to realize thebenefits of fire over time. We could probably smell the cooked meatof the animals that weretrapped in that fireand not only died, but…

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Water 

Michael Pritchard: How to make filthy water drinkable

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Good morning everybody. I’d like to talk about a couple of things today. The first thing is water. Now I see you’ve all been enjoying the waterthat’s been provided for you here at the conference,over the past couple of days. And I’m sure you’ll feel that it’s from a safe source. But what if it wasn’t?What if it was from a source like this?Then statistics would actually saythat half of you would now be sufferingwith diarrhea. I talked a lot in the past about statistics,and the provision of safe drinking…

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Water 

How to Purify Water part 1 | Survival Training | Tactical Rifleman

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all right so weather like this everybodyfocuses on the basics which they shouldfood water shelter fire when snow on theground coming down everybody’s worriedabout getting shelter getting that firestarted before the before the Sun GoesDown and that’s good but the one thingthat we often overlook is dehydrationyou have to drink water I have seen guysgo down from dehydration doingcross-country skiing you have to stillgather properly and properly treat waterright so you always want to find thecleanest source of water that you canfind in this case I’ve got a niceflowing river…

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