(14 May 2016, 18:56)harrypalmer Wrote: 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.
You are quite right about the calories need for your activities stated, but the difference is that there is a difference between "foraging" calories needed and "working" calories. A mountain man or a soldier working hard needs far more calories than someone foraging for a living. Ethnographic studies have shown that hunter gatherers need far less calories than agricultural/working based lifestyles. It's a fact that when our ancestors moved to agriculture (neolithic) we required more calories because we were working more hours growing food through farming which is demanding work, the same with a soldier on exercise who is burning up a lot of calories. I dissagree with the midden mound theory of seasonal get togethers as most of these mounds exhibit continuous all year round use. A foraging/hunter gatherer mode of living requires less work than the modern equivelent lifestyle. In a rich enough environment with a good supply of varied food you can collect calories in a few hours to get by.
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