AYO sc/out/s HARSH CLIMATE STORIES THREAD I frequent /lit/ and

>>928350
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No Country for Old Men is A E S T H E T I C with the 80's rural Texas and neo-western themes

>>928527
>t. too young to have watched Hud

>>928537
My apologies sir

>grow up in West coast US until 14
>Move to Canada with mom
>Second winter there decide to go exploring in the bush
>Decide to take way I haven't gone before
>Starts to Blizzard
>I'm in tennis shoes, jeans, a shirt, and cotton zip up hoodie
> Get lost
>Wander around freezing and wet for 2 hours trying to find a road
>Find one finally
>Another 2 walk home
Achilles were bloody when I got home and was happy that I didn't die. Wasn't deep innawoods or anything but changing climates and having nobody to teach me anything was a huge and tough learning experience. Also, McCarthy is a fucking amazing author. I guess he pretty much grew up in a shack in the South growing up. The road has a nice /out/ feel to it.

>>928350

I live in central Alberta, Canada and that's of course where I go do my bushcraft. I like to like to live out there as often as possible for as long as possible when I can. I try to live like the old trappers and traders because I just find it really appealing and practical. I take essentially just a wool blanket, a knife, a small axe, a saw, some food and a pot, and then a bag of backup supplies that just stays incase of emergency.

>Have done survival scenarios a lot before
>Decide to try hard mode this time
>Middle of winter
>About -30C
>2 or 3pm, only maybe 2 hours of sunlight left
>no tarp, no means of shelter, nothing
>build a fire, keeping it small until it gets dark and cold
>build a sketchy shelter, bare minimum, hardly anything at all, just a big heap of wood and spruce boughs resembling a lean-to
>Hard mode so no using axe or saw
>Start collecting dead standing trees, nothing bigger than fist diameter
>In that weather, you need hundreds and hundreds of pounds of logs at least 8 inches in diameter
>hard mode so no flashlight
>takes twice as long to collect wood in the dark with night vision but I keep at it until something like 10 or 11pm
>I have a pile of twigs compared to what I should have
>Get ready for the night, build my fire slightly bigger but still really small
>Over that night I got 30 minute intervals of sleep before I woke up from the cold and slid more of my overgrown pencils into the fire
>I kept having to get up and do jumping jacks, pushups, and squats to warm myself up
>I felt like you do after leaving a cozy and warm restaurant after 2 hours, suddenly the slightest cold makes your muscles spasm and it feels like your bones are bleeding ice
>spoiler i lived

I heard Mors Kochansky say this as the most important attitude to have in wilderness survival: 'The bush is neutral, its neither for or against me no matter what I do. The bush is not that interested, what matters is what I do and what I put into the situation.'

>>930105
I'm not really explaining it too well but that was the coldest I've ever been. I have this strange thing I guess where my feet and hands don't really ever get colder than the rest of me for some reason (if there's no exposed skin of course). I don't know why but my toes or fingers never get numb as long as there isn't direct heat loss from there. Maybe good blood circulation idk.