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Wilderness Survival Video Series

...with Thomas Elpel & Felicia Elpel

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Wilderness Survival: 3 Days At The River

No knife. No matches. No food, sleeping bags or other gear. Join Thomas J. Elpel and 13 year-old daughter Felicia for this extraordinary primitive camping experience in southwest Montana. In the cottonwoods along the Jefferson River they demonstrate all the skills required to meet their basic needs, starting with nothing but their bare hands. Skills include:

* Shelter: Grass sleeping bag on hot ground. * Fire: The cottonwood root bowdrill set. * Water: Boiling water in found bottles and cans for purification. * Edible Plants: Cattail Roots, stinging nettles, rose hips, burdock, mustard greens and milkweed shoots. * Fungi: The edible tree mushroom. * Meat: Porcupine--killing, skinning, butchering. * Cooking: Shishkebabs and hot rock stir-fry. * Tools: Discoidal stone knives and digging sticks.

Disc 1 of 3

(about 91 minutes)

Wilderness Survival: Mountain Meadows

Mountain Meadows: Camping with almost nothing but the dog

With little more than stone knives and the dog, Thomas J. Elpel and cousin Melvin Beattie venture into the Rocky Mountains to survive with whatever they can find and improvise from their surroundings. Among the wildflowers, wildlife and scenic meadows of southwestern Montana, they demonstrate all the skills needed to meet their basic needs, including:

* Shelter: A debris shelter with hot rocks. * Fire: The mullein on sage handdrill set. * Water: Purifying water with Aerobic Oxygen. * Edible Plants: Sweet cicely, wild sunflower, dwarf huckleberry, musk thistle stems and "artichokes", brook saxifrage, rose petals. * Meat: Ground squirrels--killing, skinning, butchering. * Cooking: Cooking on an upright rock slab. * Tools: Glass-knapped knives & the jo stick.

Disc 2 of 3

(about 91 minutes)

Wilderness Survival: Mountain Lakes

a survival fishing trip: With little more than a flint & steel kit and a copper drinking cup, Thomas J. Elpel and daughter Cassie trek five miles back into the Rocky Mountains for a few days of fishing, fun, and survival living. Among the spectacular lakes and mountain peaks, they demonstrate all of the skills require to meet their basic needs, including:

* Shelter: Rock and log shelter with a fire. * Fire: Flint & Steel Kit + Making char cloth. * Water: Drinking from mountain streams. * Edible Plants: Wild onions and glacier lilies. * Meat: Mountain Suckers-fishing by hand, snagging by hook, plus fishing laws. * Cooking: Cooking fish on hot coals, plus steaming wild vegetables in a stone oven. * Tools: Tin can knives, plus forging the nail knife and making a pine bark pot.

Disc 3 of 3

(about 104 minutes)

This video was added to our catalog on July 12, 2006 in Sports & Outdoor::Outdoor Skills and Sports & Outdoor::Camping.

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