Wilderness Survival: Three Days at the River (sample clips) with Thomas J. Elpel
No knife. No matches. No food, sleeping bags or other gear. Join Thomas J. Elpel and 13 year-old daughter Felicia for this extraordinary primitive camping experience in southwest Montana. In the cottonwoods along the Jefferson River they demonstrate all the skills required to meet their basic needs, starting with nothing but their bare hands. Skills include:
Shelter: Grass sleeping bag on hot ground.
Fire: The cottonwood root bowdrill set.
Water: Boiling water in found bottles and cans for purification.
Edible Plants: Cattail Roots, stinging nettles, rose hips, burdock, mustard greens and milkweed shoots.
Fungi: The edible tree mushroom.
Meat: Porcupine--killing, skinning, butchering.
Cooking: Shishkebabs and hot rock stir-fry.
Tools: Discoidal stone knives and digging sticks.
3 Days at the River DVD. ISBN: 1-892784-20-3. May 2002.
Full Version: 91 minutes.
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