Northern Pacific Island Survival Exercise

[harrypalmer]

Shell fish... you need to eat a LOT to get anything like your fat and protein needs, something over a kilo a day. Midden Mounds are these days thought of more as a meeting point where people would meet and eat...a bit like a beach party.

I'd not take an axe but prefer a folding saw, something like http://www.amazon.com/Bahco-396-LAP-Lapl...+laplander which work superbly well and are not expensive. Knife wise I'd take a Mora, http://www.amazon.com/Morakniv-Bushcraft...mora+knife great blades and I'd take stainless steel over a carbon version. Tent wise would have to be a two man tent, one man tents are a pain in the ass if your stuck inside when the weather is bad.

I did two Arctic training courses based in Norway, the amount of food and kit you need is staggering; we were eating five or six thousand calories a day and still lost weight.

Threads like this crop up a lot on survival/prepping/bushcraft forums a lot and the bottom line is that minimum kit in the arctic will kill you. Look at the brief era the American 'Mountain Men' were around, they did not go minimal, most took pack horses loaded with shelter, flour, bacon, jerky, sugar, coffee, dried beans etc.