All videos for the tag : jasper (10 videos)

  • A demonstration of where what and how to look for and use rocks that will spark when struck with a piece of high carbon steel such as a carbon steel knife. To catch the spark I’m using Chaga or True Tinder Fungus. Chaga grows on Birch trees and after drying works like charred cloth for…

  • Back to the big bend gravel bar.Lots of rock collecting.

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  • 2nd half of part 4. More survival fun along the creek If you want to learn more about knapping you will need to find someone who knows more about it than me. Paleomanjim here on youtube has a great beginner series starting here: There many other great knapping gurusout there too. I make no claim…

  • Back up the creek. We are exploring more of the area and starting to establish our primitive camp. Today I only brought a lighter… and the cloths on my back. This is the first part of a 2-part day trip we took. There was just too much going on that day to leave out. I…

  • starting on a new shelter. Sparkey, the dog, rolls on a dead rotting salmon carcass so we spend the trip trying to avoid him. He has gotten salmon poisening before so he cant get it again, thankfully. What a knucklehead!

  • Back to the pirate ship! Make fire, shelter, stone tools and use the tools to cut shoots for arrows. Another miserably fun outing.

  • A hike up the creek to have fun and practice some survival skills and collect natural materials for primitive projects. Very cold and wet!

  • The 2nd half of day 2 and day 3. We really didnt do a whole bunch. We did a lot of swimming, hiking and being lazy. At times the forest fire made it so smokey we couldnt see the hills around us. I make a failed attempt to cut a bow stave. Pretty much NO…

  • Day 2and a half… We eat our frog, dodge snakes and trudge through the barren wasteland. We are living off blackberries and frog meat. We decide to move upriver to better hunting grounds and to find another swimming hole before we bake to death in the blazing sun.