Help please?

[Mortblanc]

There is one more source which I would like to contribute. Those are the video works of Dr. Rob Hood.

http://www.survival.com/

Ron passed away a few years back, but while alive he accomplished something that was unique among "survival instructors". He acquired a BS and MA degrees in outdoor recreation and was nearly finished with his Phd when he died, and sat a position at the University of California where he taught college level courses in bushcraft and survival for almost 20 years.

Ron was a Veteran of the SE Asia war, was actually a real SF type and had done some deep behind the lies work in his younger years. In spite of that he kept his outdoor work on the civilian side of things and stayed clear of the tactical prepping part of things. Not that firearms are absent from his films. they are there, but they are viewed as tools for survival.

His videos are extremely high quality and due to his experiences as a university professor his teaching skills on film are vastly superior to most of the lot. The films offered by both him and his wife are excellent and have won awards from several instructional film societies.

I have a half dozen of his works and find all of the both entertaining and informative. they are the kind of thing I like to play as back ground "white noise" when I am working around the house.

Most of the films are set in the Rocky Mountains of the western U.S., which is much like the Alps, but the urban survival series is pretty much universal to anywhere that is dominated by concrete and large buildings. And Ron always attempted to make his teachings as universally usable in any environment; clothing, how to pick a campsite, firemaking and all the usual stuff.

He has several films dedicated to trapping with sets and snares, which is almost universal in application, and he spends a good deal of tie on primitive fishing.

BTW, if you want to know what I look like then take a look at Ron and add a couple of years. People have accused us of being twins separated at birth.