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I moved around between three different camps in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.
Lots of plant and tree books, coffee, food, cold weather, and the best scenery on the planet!
Old Axe in a store window. It has a 17 handle, but not sure what brand.
I kept a plastic Nasco Whirl-Pak with me for gathering dry tinder, and another one for treating my water with tablets (thanks Mike Perrin).
Paper birch bark would be my dearest friend in the damp forest
Portage Glacier
Natural tinder
Top left-right: Birch Bark, Cottonwood/Black Poplar (in July/early August), Methuselahs Beard, Witches Hair, Reindeer Moss (bottom left).
I did a lot of this
Animal sign
You need an axe in Alaska not really in the summer though! There are so many birch trees on the ground that all I needed to do was wedge them between two trees and snap them to size.
Hollow-Core bed
Sphagnum moss and hemlock branches.
Towards the end of the trip I gave in and bought a fixed blade.
End
Lots of plant and tree books, coffee, food, cold weather, and the best scenery on the planet!
Old Axe in a store window. It has a 17 handle, but not sure what brand.
I kept a plastic Nasco Whirl-Pak with me for gathering dry tinder, and another one for treating my water with tablets (thanks Mike Perrin).
Paper birch bark would be my dearest friend in the damp forest
Portage Glacier
Natural tinder
Top left-right: Birch Bark, Cottonwood/Black Poplar (in July/early August), Methuselahs Beard, Witches Hair, Reindeer Moss (bottom left).
I did a lot of this
Animal sign
You need an axe in Alaska not really in the summer though! There are so many birch trees on the ground that all I needed to do was wedge them between two trees and snap them to size.
Hollow-Core bed
Sphagnum moss and hemlock branches.
Towards the end of the trip I gave in and bought a fixed blade.
End
