Recently I was inspired by the famous American lawyer (Outdoor Boys) to try wilderness survival myself.

The plan: travel into northern Scandinavia and survive for 11 days entirely from what I could hunt, fish and gather.

Small problem: I had almost zero practical experience and am a veritable dubmass

I brought a 6.35 mm rifle, fishing gear, knife, sleeping system and cameras, then rode about 3,000 km north on my motorcycle.

Day 1

berries everywhere, but I immediately lost about a third of my lures by throwing heavy treble hooks into a shallow rocky river.

Day 2

found a shallow rocky lake, lost even more lures, saw couple of ducks, fired, hit none of them. Later discovered my scope had been knocked badly out of alignment during the ride.

By now I was mostly eating berries and getting properly hungry.

Day 3

rain, no fish, the ducks have been scared away by my horrible aim.…