Let's hope it doesn't end up like this!

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 13 Feb 2013, 01:05

RenewableCandy wrote:Sorry I lost this thread for a while. What I meant to say ages ago was, it just shows how very conducive to human living forests are. Even in far-from ideal weather, even with no metal implements for a proportion of the time, even in sub-optimal group size, the people in this story survived for more than a generation. With enough people so that someone could be spared to make charcoal, and a lucky hit of iron ore, they might have been sorted for good.

I would much rather try to survive in a forest then the arctic conditions the Inuit or Eskimos (which ever PC name you choose) have survived in. The forest provides material for shelter and fuel for fires and allows the cooking of food. But if I had the choice I'd pick a spot with a temperate climate and a reasonable growing season with adequate rainfall. Ohio or southern Illinois come to mind.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 13 Feb 2013, 15:18

Yer not wrong. I simply couldn't saw wood fast enough to keep warm at 40-below. And the flies in summer, in that part of the world, are fecking evil.

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 14 Feb 2013, 04:24

RenewableCandy wrote:Yer not wrong. I simply couldn't saw wood fast enough to keep warm at 40-below. And the flies in summer, in that part of the world, are fecking evil.

Well you don't wait until it is forty below to start sawing your wood. That's not the problem even if you had to do it with hand tools. The problem in those northern areas is the short growing season and random early and late frosts that kill your crops. Peoples that have lived off that land relied on hunting and fishing for the majority of their food supply and were limited by the available supply of game and fish.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 14 Feb 2013, 17:01

Good points all, but I meant even if I spent a lot of non-winter days sawing up wood. There's not much of me and I don't work too fast.

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 14 Feb 2013, 17:38

RenewableCandy wrote:Good points all, but I meant even if I spent a lot of non-winter days sawing up wood. There's not much of me and I don't work too fast.

As my daughters would say, "Being smaller then men women have to work smarter to get the same amount done. fortunately that's not difficult."

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 14 Feb 2013, 17:57