Salt in the bush

nordic knives carries a really nice salt jug but it costs around 150 dollars. I'm sure you could make or improvise something like that for carrying on the trail. I have just a cheap 2 dollar shaker in my bug out bag because it preserves meat.
 
I carry it while hiking and camping, and it's also in my motorcycle PSK. I sweat buckets on the bike for almost half the year down here, so electrolyte replacement is an issue. I use sea salt for the supposed trace elements, plus some (maybe 20%) potassium salt.
 
Ahhh I thought this was going to be about how to acquire salt while out in the bush.
 
Joben said:
Ahhh I thought this was going to be about how to acquire salt while out in the bush.
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You know, that would make an excellent thread, too. In a survival situation salt could become very important for curing meat, etc.
 
You will DIE fairly quickly without a minimum quantity of salt in your diet! The Roman Empire paid their legions with salt, hence the word 'salary' and it was one of the most critically important and valuable commodities in ancient trade. Many wars were fought over possession of salt mines and other sources such as salt ponds and lakes where it could easily be gained from evaporation---something we still do today. Drive around the southern tip of the Great Salt Lake in Utah and notice the Morton's and other company's salt factories.
 
Unless your near a salt lick,deposit,ocean,mine,or dried lake bed, where are you going to get it ? Nowhere I can think of, especially in the Boreal forest. I always keep a 250ml. Nalgene container in the camping box, and a few small packs from fast-food joints in the survival pack.
 
meat. Meat is salty to some degree. Animals need salt as much as we do and they get it somehow. I know the mountain goats around here love campsites where campers pee, and lick the salt deposits from the ground.
 
I carry a little salt one side pepper on the other dispenser--I love some seasoning on my food and plan to enjoy it till the Doc puts me on the your food will be bland for the rest of your life diet......Steve
 
pitdog said:
When I read the title I thought " I bet that stings !" but I was a little off topic !!!!!
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That was my thought exactly, Pit!!

Anywho...back in Camp Lejeune we would always get bit up real bad by chiggers. The best way to make the itching stop was to scratch the sores til they bled and then go out in the salt water. Worked every time!!

So, along those same lines...you can pore salt on a leach to get to to back out of your skin.
 
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