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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46168 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46168 Location: yes
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 21 8:23 am Post subject: |
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minus 27C(by thermometer) and far colder by feel and include nasty winds etc are survivable with food, fuel to melt water and decent clothing/portable shelter or snow hole
a few of my fingers still give me grief from frostbite injuries decades ago but that would be a small price for a new continent
a few months on the ice, i recon my chums might have managed that if we had been motivated to try it
flatish sea ice or high mountains, the weather and difficulties are similar
the fox journey is not that different to Amundsen's slither to the pole in distance, for some of it the ice movement helps and as emigration you don't need to retread your tracks the other way when you get there
paleo kit is pretty good compared to modern stuff for extreme cold, even at minus 20C many plastic fittings crack easily, metal welds itself to a hand(dont ask the best way to free that ) and apart from fat i cannot think of a decent super cold fuel that could be "manhauled" for a long journey
re fuel, some left over bear lunch could melt gallons of snow for a nice cuppa
paleo+chilly is not just kit, much of the kit is the environment or bits of it, it is knowing how to use that which matters
now i want to try the use a snow "waterfall" to melt and filter snow to make tepid clean water with a twist of moss and a bit of lard and a spark again
i am too old and shabby for that, unless i am wrapped in furs on a sled giving bad advice |
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