3 days bushcraft trip - primitive shelter, Siberian log fire, mushrooms, homemade axe and knife etc.

3 days solo bushcraft trip with primitive shelter. Gathering mushrooms, roasting meat, baking bread etc. Open the full video description for more information.

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Date: September 2025

Day: 15°C (59°F)
Night: 4°C (39.2°F)

Hours of daylight = 12

Location:
Scandinavia, west Denmark. Sea, spruce/pine and hardwood forrest. Some of the most remote in Denmark, but limited how remote it can get. A lot of birds and deers etc. No bears, only a few wolves. You need to be the owner or get the owners permission if you want to do similar bushcraft in Denmark.

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Consuming:

Water and spruce tea.

Chicken cooked over the camp fire.

Cow steaks with salt and chili cooked in the camp fire coals.

Bread baked baked in the camp fire coals (yeast, 1/3 coarse flower and 2/3 fine flower). Served with butter and mushrooms.

Potatoes and onions cooked in the campfire coals.

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A few questions:

1. What type of axe are you using?
Karelian axe. Homemade - C45 steel and ash handle. 900 grams (including the handle), 8cm cutting edge, 55cm handle, 16.5cm from pole to cutting edge.

2. 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 • Making nordic bushcraft knife - blacksmith...

3. How long does it take to bake potatoes and onions like that in the campfire goals?
About 30 minutes - the potatoes need strong heat and the onions more gentle heat.

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

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

6. Do you hunt?
No - all food is from a local store. I only fish.

7. What roots did you use as cord?
Spruce roots. Relatively strong and flexible when fresh/wet.

8. What animal are/was living in the hole?
Not sure - but most likely a fox.

9. 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 and update the question section in the video description.

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Some of the gear used in the video:

Cuting tools = homemade
Boots = Lundhags Forest
Pants = Klättermusen Gere 2.0
Shirt = Aclima granddad
Backpack = Eberlestock Mainframe f1
Sleeping bag = Carinthia Defence 4
Cooking pot = Pathfinder Bushpot 4L
Headlamp = Petzl active core
Sharpening stone = Gränsfors Bruks

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Video gear:

Nikon Z30
Nikon 24mm 1.7
Nikon 50-250mm 4.5-6.3
Røde videomic NTG
Macbook 2011
iMovie