Solo bushcraft trip - 4 camps, fishing, canvas tarp, fatwood, spoon carving, homemade axe etc.

Solo bushcraft trip in Sweden. Hiking from lake to lake, making four camps, two nights sleeping under the stars, one night sleeping under a canvas tarp, carving a spoon, fishing and cooking pike etc. Open the full video description for more information.

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Date: May 2025

Day: 18°C (64.4°F)
Night: 7°C (44.6°F)

Hours of daylight = 17

Location: Sweden. Clean and classic northern nature. Fresh water rivers and lakes. Pine, spruce and birch forest etc. Mountains, bears, wolves, eagles, reindeers etc. You need to take some care regarding animals, but in general no problems.

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Consuming:

Water and coffee.

Bacon cooked on Y-branches over a fire.

Bacon, onions, garlic, potato, red lentels, salt and chili cooked together in a pot.

Pike cooked on a branch over a fire.

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A few questions:

1. Who made the tarp?
Tschum in Germany. I am using an early prototype - here is the final version https://tschum.de/en/tarp156x300.html

2. What was the scrapings you used for lighting fire?
Fatwood from dead pine branches ignited with a ferro rod.

3. What type of axe are you using? Weight? Dimensions?
Homemade. A classic russian axe design. C45 steel. 700 grams (including handle), 10.5cm cutting edge, 57cm handle, 14.5cm from pole to cutting edge. Here is a video showing how I make similar axe head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaYCA13j1rE

4. What type of knife are you using?
A classic nordic knife, offen referred to by the finnish name "Puukko". Homemade - spring steel and birch burl handle. Here is how I made it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKF7oDsugYc&t=713s

5. What fish did you catch?
Pike.

6. How long does it take to cook a fish over a campfire like that?
About 1 hour.

7. What animal was the skull from?
Wild boar.

8. Why do you sometimes hit with the side of the axe instead of the poll?
Keeps the cutting edge away from you're face and the larger surface area makes you less likely to miss. I usually only use the side of the axe in the beginning (when things can be unstable and or I don't need to hit hard).

9. What is you're kuksa/drinking cop made from?
Birch burl. Homemade.

10. Can I buy an axe, knife etc. from you?
No.

11. Who made the cooking pot?
It is a modified 2L Pathfinder Bushpot. Only the handle is homemade.

12. What do you do for a living?
Youtube.

13. Where are you? How did you get there?
I am somewhere in Sweden traveling on a Bullitt cargo bike and wild camping. Just getting started - 4 weeks so far.

14. What if I want to do the same but it is illegal on public land in my country?
Ask land owner for permission, buy land or travel to another country.

15. What do you do to avoid ticks and mosquitoes?
Ticks don't like me and I do nothing to avoid them. Mosquitoes like me but wind, campfire and clothes (long pants and hoodie) helps a lot.

16. What if I have a question that is not included in this video description?
Consider leaving a comment - I read all comments made within the first few days of a new uploade.

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Some of the gear used in the video:

Tarp = Tschum
Cuting tools = homemade
Boots = Lundhags Forest
Pants = Bläklader (unknown model)
Sweater = handmade by local (not selling)
Wool shirt = Aclima Granddad
Backpack = Eberlestock Mainframe f1
Binoculars = Celestron Outland 10x25
Sleeping bag = Carinthia Defence 4
Cooking pot = modified Pathfinder Bushpot 2L
Raindeer skin = unknown, from Sapmi
Fishing rod = unknown, 210cm 10-30g

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Video gear:

Nikon Z30
Nikon 40mm 2
Nikon 50-250mm 4.5-6.3
Røde videomic NTG
Macbook 2011
iMovie

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