Comments by "" (@TheFoolintherainn) on "Kusk Bushcraft" channel.

I use snow as a winter water source in Alaska the snow at the top of the surface is very light and airy so a 5-gallon bucket of surface snow will end up being only a couple inches of water The snow under the surface is compressed, no air- you'll get more water out of 1 cup of compressed snow, than one cup of surface light airy snow And they'll be less fresh bird turds in the surface. 😁 the trick is to melt it a little at a time. Melt a small amount, bring it to a boil, and use the boiling water to melt more snow It will be quicker, you'll use less BTUs/heat... The boiling water will start the sanitizing process immediately. stop adding snow, bring it to a full boil for 10 minutes, and it should be potable -I'll sometimes use snow water for coffee, so it goes through a filter... You may want a filter. I've also use a Brita pitcher for the boiled water at camp. In a survival situation, you'll have to eat the bug legs! Overall, when in survival mode, we think in terms of conserving our resources Example -when using propane stove, I don't cook spaghetti, but angel hair pasta cuz it's done in no time Less BTUs So there's a few tips on melting snow to use for potable water... I'm still alive so it must work! But I'm just an idiot on YouTube-this is your health and your survival-do some more research so you know. Maybe someone else has a better tip. I'm not trying to sell you anything. I don't care for groundwater in most places Using rainwater, snow water, most spring water - Your hair and skin will thank you!
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I agree with you. I could go down a long list of dangerous things this guy has done in this video-but he's basically a kid camping in his backyard To be fair, he states in his description he is not an expert. Yet, based on the questions I'm seeing- many folks do not read video descriptions. He's having a good time-it is what it is. But this is definitely not "survival" techniques FYI- the FIRST thing you do is gather firewood- 3x times what you think you need. fire & water first You're out of the woods & back at camp 60-90 minutes before dark, depending on weather, because anything can go wrong Yet, there is something to survival of the fittest... If something like a Peps froze out in the woods trying something like this? that may not be a big deal. But peps is justa wannabe YouTuber thinking they know something. Hello from alaska-can't wait to see the next set of idiots that try to feed dandelions to moose, or clean their fish down by the cabins so they can post photos of a moose kicking their asses and bears coming in where they don't belong,on their freak book pages Of course the tourists don't come armed with anything more than smartphones - so we got to keep one loaded when they are around They don't tether their dogs, thinking they're trained, Their dogs get loose, the K9 instincts kick in and and they start heading out to the woods, I got to grab the ATV and my Malamute to go track em down before they become food for the woods Then back where I used to live in New England, you'd have the idiot hikers in tank tops and shorts hiking up a few thousand feet altitude where it's below freezing A friend of mine had to build a warming Hut cuz they were knocking on his door 24/7 freezing their asses off. The man couldn't get a moment's Peace so he built them a little hut so they would leave him the hell alone! Of course they didn't! They all wanted a ride back down the mountain hahaha! Then when I'm living off grid, there's always some new fool that needs firewood or something by February because they didn't stock up and can't get any more firewood in... we're the ones that have to deal with it 🙄 Although it was amusing last winter watching my idiot big bully Alabama neighbor sliding all over Alaska ice-never heard of ice claws I gave him a pair, now I got nothing to laugh at. Other than a Alabama boy driving around stoned trying to plow snow - oh... With his kid in the truck.
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@Peps hey flatlander! How's it going hanging out in your mama's basement? tell us all about surviving in Sub-Zero temperatures Better yet-why don't you go ahead and try it yourself 😁
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He's a canadian-but if you read the description he says no-he's not an expert. And based on these comments, people think he's an expert He's having fun out there-but this isn't survival. Hello from Alaska
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What bear?
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Hello from Alaska. Also a maniac, lived in Canada-I finally gave up on Vermont & the Northeast altogether- Malamute & I don't like the heat. But the 2 legged predators in Alaska are worse! Holy jumpin these pubescent boys are out of control! So I'm thinking of moving up that mountain in Hawaii...
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When it's dry air Sub-Zero here in Alaska, I scoot in and out in my bare feet to grab wood, split kindling, deal with the dawg It's very dry air And Dry snow. A lot of Canadians & alaskans where I live, are used to cold temperatures, out there in t-shirts and sneakers at 0° F We don't like it much above 65°. The human body adjusts to climates, also why we should be eating local food which is designed to be eaten in those climates The other factor is when strong winter sun hits buildings, they go from 10° to 70° in an hour when the Sun goes down, then it gets nasty cold. So he was probably okay while the sun was out, and that's why the first thing you do is gather your firewood, not do it 60-90 minutes before sunset But the snow is bone dry at Sub-Zero-36°. There's no moisture. -36° wind is a lot different than the weather in the video. So I do believe it could've reached -36° sometime at night, when the sun was down for many hours but not -36° while he was preparing camp It's strange - the coldest hours in Alaska, is when the sun is coming up. In the wintertime, it's high noon around 1:30-2 pm The warmest part of the day is late afternoon 3-5 pm I'm originally from the Northeast, I've covered a lot of countries in a few continents, in desert cities, but this daily temperature pattern is strange. Difficult to adjust when you're used to getting up and out in the morning So we're dealing with a lot of variables different than the continental USA And that's why Flatlanders should never be deciding our environmental policy. Cuz they don't understand, the rest of world functions differently away from their narcissistic lives
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Read the description-he's not an expert. As a matter of fact he's showing you some pretty dangerous and inefficient techniques. The first thing you do is gather firewood and water. That right there tells you, he's a novice-but he says it in his description. There's absolutely no RF factor in the way he's using the logs I'm not trying to insult the guy-he tells you he's not an expert. And he is not This is one thing I don't get - real survivalists aren't going to be making YouTube videos often Why do people go to Flatlanders doing weekend warrior experiments for expert advice on survival? Why? Somebody makes a YouTube video and suddenly they're an expert? 🙄
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And do what? Sit around watching Yootoob videos?
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Please, make sure you're in charge of our environmental policy... You definitely know what you're talkin about 🙄
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We already have!
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Oh they were murdering and stealing from each other long before white dudes came along... And slavery wasn't invented here either- USA happened to be the first government in history to take up arms against slavery-and stupid enough to include it in their history, everybody else whitewashed it... Burnt those books. Native Americans enslaved other natives. That was the first slavery on this continent But long before them, slaves built pyramids So don't go blaming white guys in Idaho on the pyramid's slaves. They've done enough damage, but those Egyptian slave masters weren't white And white slave traders didn't go running around the jungles of Africa to kidnap slaves? They bought them from other Africans who enslaved Africans! Why is it history only started in 1776? You thought native Americans were all smoking peyote together making dandelion necklaces, singing kumbaya? Do you know native American history? Those were some pretty nasty boys! Of course guys take everything, it doesn't matter what skin color they are-all boys rape, steal, lie and cheat. That's how Satan made them It's not race, it's the gender! When are you idiots going to get that?
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I'm not American Indian, many of us do that. I'm sure flatlander environmentalists will tell us how it's all wrong 🙄
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Just keep in mind, in his description he says he's not an expert. Based on the comments and questions here? Nobody's read the description He's a novice experimenting.
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Snow is actually a better fire extinguisher than water... He's just a kid playing in his grandma's backyard. If anyone would read his description-he stays he's not an expert. And I can tell you he's not-I've done a lot of winter camping and off grid life, I'm living in Alaska right now but I don't have a problem with it because he explains it in his description. Based on the questions and comments-people don't read descriptions! That's where videos like this get dangerous We don't like weekend warriors. They make helicopters fly over us
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It's much tougher to survive in hot climates than cold
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It's really not that cold-the air & snow are bone dry and it didn't reach Sub Zero -36° until about 3-4 a.m. I scoot out all the time in -30 degree weather to grab firewood, split up some kindling quick, grab the dog in my bare feet! When the sun is out, it's pretty good heat. And people who live in cold-weather climates have less inflammation. Less health issues. And especially, less Flatlanders. Until elections 🙄
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@50gary oh congratulations! Seriously. Everything feels so contrived and fake on the internet but this is real coming from across the world. I went off grid after I went through major medical issues too. Had to learn to walk and talk again. But I wasn't battling cancer. It was in my control. I hope you're back out there - go live your very best life friend. Greetings from Alaska! Be well. ✌️
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@50gary 👍
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@50gary 👍👍
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@50gary 👍👍👍
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Yeah be careful what you assume-here in Alaska we've got millions of acres of standing black spruce beetle kill - the state wants us to take it down-it's standing kindling Flatlanders don't understand, forests need to be thinned out And I don't picture any Yootoobers actually getting off their couches to do anything like this 🙄 So I wouldn't worry about it. I love ignorant Flatlanders who don't know what the heck they're talking about! I think they should be president!
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Then that is absolutely fine-just do not decide our environmental policies please.
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Fantastic Journey- I'm wondering if that was a change in altitude-I'm originally from New England. We'd have weekend warrior hikers starting out at the trailhead wearing tank tops and shorts, going up a few thousand feet banging down my friends door looking for heat and a ride down the mountain! He finally put up a warming Hut cuz he got sick of them Sounds like life's taken you on some strange adventures-yeah, life's funny I love the Yukon... But I couldn't do much cuz I came through to Alaska during the pandemic And now I'm stuck here.
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True. At -36°, it's dry air
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I don't think you live in a cold weather climate- do ya? perhaps you shouldn't be deciding on the world environmental policies I go outside my bare feet all the time in Sub-Zero 30 degree weather to go grab the husky Malamute, firewood, split a piece of kindling Stop being such an ignorant girl- embarrassing to women
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Bears in that region generally don't come out in Sub-Zero temperatures. Unless there's a bunch of Flatlanders that show up at its cave, make a bunch of noise, try to get its attention to take a photo to put on freak book pages 🙄
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It beats sitting around staring at YouTube videos
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@Cheezy_Bunz if someone's going out in the woods, they're going to have some emergency equipment with them. If there's some sort of a plane crash? Automobile accident? They're going to have something for supplies Not even cavemen were foolish enough to try "barebone survival"- at least they'd carried clubs for God's sake! Surviving in the cold isn't how much heat you can generate for yourself, it's how much you can insulate If you've ever taken your own firewood down for heat? -you figure that out real quick! Cuz that's a lot of work!
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