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Food

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Using your small knife. Using your small knife. Also visit my gallery With Pictures from some of my trips outdoors. Click Picture below. What we need to live. Many people regard searching for food as their first task in a situation of crisis (lost in the wilderness). Food is the least important issue when it comes to "survival" as most people are rescued before starving to death. People lying still in the terrain are hard to find. They don’t show on thermal cameras either, obviously. I think very few.

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Foraging

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Using your small knife. Using your small knife. Also visit my gallery With Pictures from some of my trips outdoors. Click Picture below. What you can find growing in the wild. The easiest way to obtain food is by foraging. Most hunter-gatherers actually obtain as much as 80 percent of their food from gathering rather than hunting. Foraging on the tidal sone. And in northern Norway, the coastline/ocean is the place to do it. It is no coincidence that most people here mostly live by the coast. Cook until i...

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Hunting

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Using your small knife. Using your small knife. Also visit my gallery With Pictures from some of my trips outdoors. Click Picture below. Snaring, shooting and butchering. Hunting and trapping is heavily regulated in Norway. Some of the traps and methods I mention in the below text is also illegal to use. Check the law before you hunt or trap. The forests of the north aren’t actually crawling with wild animals. And only a few of them are suited as food. The amount of meat from the moose made the effort wo...

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Natural shelters

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Using your small knife. Using your small knife. Also visit my gallery With Pictures from some of my trips outdoors. Click Picture below. If you really want to go wild. Natural shelters are not very common, but sometimes you could find usable shelter. Caves and overhangs (if they`re dry), between rocks, snow banks (dig into it), under downed trees, sand burrow, hole in snow around tree trunk. The shelter doesn`t have to be much to look at, just a place to keep you safe from the weather. The shelter could ...

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Tors Homepage

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Using your small knife. Using your small knife. Also visit my gallery With Pictures from some of my trips outdoors. Click Picture below. Welcome to my place! This site is dedicated to primitive skills, bushcraft and other aspects of outdoors life. You will find info on making shelters, how to light a fire, finding food in the wild, info on knives and other outdoor equipment and a lot of other things. I hope you will find the information on this site useful. This site is still under construction.

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Water bottle

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Using your small knife. Using your small knife. Also visit my gallery With Pictures from some of my trips outdoors. Click Picture below. Something to carry Your water in. I seldom carry a water bottle for drinking while walking because I don`t need to. Drinkable water is abundant here and my kuksa is always at hand. In winter I mostly carry a waterbottle though as creeks and lakes are frozen and covered in snow. An ordinary vacuum flask will also do, but it is bigger and heavier. They freeze at the top, ...

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Winter shelters

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Using your small knife. Using your small knife. Also visit my gallery With Pictures from some of my trips outdoors. Click Picture below. A home in the cold. Most people I know use a tent as shelter in wintertime. But suppose you didn`t have one. Winter shelters do not have to be time consuming or difficult to build. Some times it is enough to dig down in the snow, making a snow trench or digging into the snow to make a sort of "lean to", like the one on the photo below. Cut an entrance trough the blocks ...

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Tarps and tents

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Using your small knife. Using your small knife. Also visit my gallery With Pictures from some of my trips outdoors. Click Picture below. Easy to carry and quick to set up. A tarp for shelter is often enough for most of us when out in the woods. Most of us is out in rather nice weather anyway. The tarp does not have to be expensive. A green plastic tarp bought at any gas station is more than enough. I mostly use the 4 X 6 meter version. It is rather bulky but weigh almost nothing. Mountain tarp from Jerven.

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Water

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Using your small knife. Using your small knife. Also visit my gallery With Pictures from some of my trips outdoors. Click Picture below. It’s important to drink often. If you loose 3% of your bodyweight in water, your efficiency drops 20%. Loss of 10 15% of the body fluid is life threatening. An adult person needs approximately 3-4 liters a day. With hard physical labor one needs even more. Always remember to keep your Water bottle on your body in winter or it will freeze. To be on the safe side or you s...