I finally succeeded in making a fire but I went with the flint rock technique instead as it is not much of a hastle like that of wood.
It took me weeks until I perfected it.
[quote=“yarrow dreamer, post:37, topic:228”]Joker,
Just curious–since you chose Pasayten–have you read Tom Harmer’s books? I read the second one first, What I’ve Always Known. Now I’m working on Going Native. Good reads, specific to that neck of the woods–white guy goes to live with local Salish/Okanogans and learn their ways.[/quote]
I am still thinking seriously about Pasayten…
I have decided that I’m not going alone however so until I find a partner , I will most likely practive my survival skills until the end of time.
[b]( Would like to find a woman eve but, what are the chances of that happening in this deteriorating age? :D.)
( Slim to none.)[/b]
[quote=“animalhands!, post:39, topic:228”]hey joker
wood type is a huge factor…where are you and what woods are available? as for the two rocks method…not all rocks spark. so good luck. (river rocks make a quick, usable knife though)
take the wood you’re using and push your thumbnail into it. easily marked? with a bit pressure you should get a mark. if it marks too easy the wood may be too soft, too hard and, well, it may be too hard. any wood [i]can[i] work but oaks, hckory, aspen, etc, are kinda difficult. juniper, cedar and willows are pretty good. cottonwood is very easy. if possible, dry out and use a root for the hearth, spindle too if its not too thin. coniferous woods are very hard to use.
thats myspace page with a bowdrill primer
good luck[/quote]
Rocks with a good sharp knife I found to be the best way of making a ember.
We fall to pick ourselves up again.
I have decided that if I don’t find anybody to go with me I’m still going out in the wilderness nonetheless…
I would rather die on my feet of starvation or mental insanity of being isolated by myself then sit another day in this insane cartoon of human existance.
My projection of leaving will either be the summer of 2008 or 2009.
(With any luck all the insane human super powers will annihilate each other.)
[b]Things I will never miss.
- I will never miss the grocery store where morbidly obese people walk up and down the shelf lines like overly caffeinated or drugged up zombies.
I will never miss the grocery store period.
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I will never miss the poisonous vapors of televised propaganda or popular social culture advertised like opium for the masses.
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I will never miss politics,governments, and authorities with their hypocritical hysterical forms of justice or morality.
Their laws are a joke and it’s existance is a falsehood in the face of nature.
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I will never miss the religious selling their various poisonous fantasies of false hope.
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I will never miss the various forms of insanity that comes in the guise of shifting cultural fads.
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I will never miss whorish predatory women posing as house pets who say they look for love when in reality they are looking for a position of money and power with every man they consort with.
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I will never miss doctors or health care practioners with all their various cures for a extreme profit.[/b]
8. I will never miss a car in the middle of night going by my house with their stupid bass music.
9. I will never miss classism,bigotry, and all forms of human ugliness that pertains to economics.
10. I will never miss petty psychologists with their flimsy ideals of how a human being should act.
[b]11. I will never miss scientifical and philosophical madmen with all their various poisoning envisionments of progress or their petty ideals of a future utopia.
They are the scourge of the earth.[/b]
12. I will never miss educational and academical institutions for their mass indocrination of creating new generations of slaves every decade.
13. I will never miss paying taxes or the insidious conception of money.
14. I will never miss the idiotic ramblings of people talking about televised sitcoms or some new social hype.
15. I will never miss servitude, enslavement to other people or being at the disposal of others.
16. I will never miss the pompous rich aristrocrats with their prejudices.
17. I will never miss individuals in society who think they are more priveleged or better than others by their hypocritical forms of living.
18. I will never miss the stupidy of sporting events.
19. I will never miss the act of war in which individuals plunge themselves into murder,death, and mayhem for ecnomics.
20. I will never miss the fear tactics of governments or their false flags.
[b]21. I will never miss the police who are thugs working for the government.
- I will never miss the televised media ever! Everytime I watch the news there comes a time where I want to throw the television out the window.[/b]
23. I will never miss the upkeep of vehicles and gasoline.
24. I will never miss civilization’s pathetic ideal of freedom which really isn’t genuine freedom at all with it’s confinements and restraints.
25. I will never miss the socially constructed ideals of responsibility, duty , and obedience.
26. I will never miss the idiotic ponderings of the herd mentality.
27. I will never miss the idiotic holidays and celebrations where people try to out do one another in flashing their wealth around.
28. I will never miss the insidious holiday of Valentine’s Day! >:(
29. I will never miss mass consumerism!
30. I will never miss the ramblings of false prophetic economical idealists.
31. I will never miss the ideas of economical production or their fallible idealizations of distribution.
[b]32. I will never miss people pretending that they are interested in what I have to say.
- I will never miss people with their idiotic fake civil forms of public politeness.[/b]
34. I will never miss commercialism or public advertising.
35. I will never miss big city life.
( List can be subjected to change in the future.)
[b]Things that I will miss but at the same time I can live without.
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Icecream.
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Air conditioning during the hot summers.
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The bathroom.
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007 movies.
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Horror movies.
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Liqour and Alcohol. ( Although I may find a way to produce it in the wild.)
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Ice in my drinks.
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Chinese and Italian food.
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Rock and Techno Music.
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Internet Debating/ General Internet ( Of course hopefully I will be able to update people on the internet of my wilderness journeys by going to a public library every four to five months.)
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Pizza[/b]
12. Chess tournaments.
13. Eye candy. 
14. Animal Planet. ( Very informative and educational.)
15. The library.
16. Action movies.
17. Comic books. ( Don’t laugh.)
18. Motorcycles.
19. Cigars.
20. Classical Music.
( List is subject to change in the future.)
For all of you familiar with the movie: Planet Of The Apes,
This is what I really want to take with me to the wilderness:
Lady primitivists you know where to find me. 
8)
( I wish.)
Pretend that I am Charleston Heston:
More Nova Pictures:
( Yes I know she is probally a trillion years old now but still… :P)
Or the Nova from the newer edition if you like: 
My shelter that I have in mind for my journey will probally look alot like this:
( I just hope such a shelter can outlast any strong winters that I’ll encounter.)
( I will probally need a opening at the top during the winters so that I can start a fire inside. Hopefully I can construct a large enough one where a fire pit can be put in the middle.)
Happy trials!
Thanks.
I will keep everyone posted.
Later this week I want to try my hand of making traps for small animals.