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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
I guess "roughing it" and "almost died" have changed a bit since I was a young man.
I don't think I could even begin to add up the time I have spent in wilderness hunting camps from high in the Rocky Mountains to inside the Arctic Circle, and some somewhat "underdeveloped" foreign lands to boot. The kind in which there are only two ways to get there - pack string or bush plane. Living in wall tents heated by the firewood we gathered. Eating largely what we shot, although we did pack in "staples", like flour and coffee.
No electronics. No communication with the outside world. Truly on our own, in the wilderness. Nearest help a week or more journey away. It's a rather disconcerting feeling, watching that bush plane fly away, knowing he won't be back for two, three weeks. Did we forget anything?...
From the description on the video: Our heater tried to poison us in our sleep, our Kidde Carbon Monoxide detector was ambivalent about our lives, our lithium batteries stopped charging, and our solar system quit working.
Roughing it. Off grid. Gimme a freakin' break. Fking lithium batteries stopped charging...  |
The heater malfunctioned and tried to kill us while we were sleeping.
The CO alarm failed to go off FOR I STILL HAVE NO IDEA but this thing should have protected us!
We ran out of power and had to use headlamps for 5 days of darkness in order to conserve the battery power to run the heater.
If you want to whip them out to measure them, statistically you're going to lose.
