I fall through the ice, wet ( +1C or 33 F )

[@Wintertrekker]

Good demo showing how to just get on with it and deal with an issue. Get fire going, make rack, and dry out. Good stuff! Man your hand drill is efficient!

[@Waldhandwerk]

Cool drying rack! Great job Fredde, ...ha´ and a floating Hand Drill fire after you fall in the cold water, ...fantastic! The drying worked very good! Take care my friend! Sepp

[@gotrocksinhead]

Great recovery from falling in the water! You seemed to have calm clear thinking despite being soaking wet and freezing. Great job! Dan

[@EconoChallenge]

You have got the perfect boots for this. The liner comes out for faster drying. Good Job!

[@RDPproject]

This is the perfect reason why people should know how to make fire without matches, firesteel or a lighter. If they are in your pocket and get soaking wet and dont work or you lose the firesteel...then the old trick of rubbing sticks together is the only way to get a fire going. Good video Fredde.

[@varavild]

You always make it seem so easy Fredde :-) The ice is pretty bad this year here too. Still about 60 to 75 cm but very brittle. Great vid! Take care my friend!

[@IHatchetJack]

I think about falling through ice and I shiver. Glad you're okay!

[@dcordry]

Good job, Fredde - thanks for showing us your response to a serious accident.

[@PHARRAOH]

@hobbexp dont let those clowns bring you down. the rest of us love your videos. hows your hiking cat doing? You really come a long way with the hand drill my friend. great job

[@TomsBackwoods]

Awesome Fredde! Thanks for posting!

[@tysy73]

I love videos like this. Well honed skills are such a beautiful thing.

[@obiwanjacobi]

Its times like these when you can really appreciate a good warm fire. That is way I thing the fire skill is the most important to master. Fire is everything.

[@mazadan]

nice Fredde are they Ecco boots you have . a nice relaxed video of drying out and showing i suppose how it is done :o)

[@phrankus2009]

Good to have that much daylight to affect your recovery. Darkness can complicate challenges. Great job, BTW !

[@Pawoodsman]

Always a great show freddie.

[@canesser1]

@hoosierarcher Truer words never said! Just the shock of being suddenly immersed in near freezing water finishes many people as inhalation is the first reflexive action. No ill effects these many years later? What region of the continent did this happen in?

[@hobbexp]

@Naturliebe i like matches, i use matches to start my fire that day, they are easy to keep dry in a plastic box, fredde

[@stymye]

very good idea with the mora knife blade under the ember

[@bindlestitch1]

Great stuff, Fredde. A lot of people would freak out in that situation. Very cool, my friend. Boots are no fun to try to dry out. Iz

[@scandipix]

Tjenare fredde vilka material använde du för ditt hand set? Gött att se dig igen.

[@bandel4]

Thanks for the video Fredde! I don think I can last in that kind of coldness!!

[@replacher]

sehr gut und richtig reagiert! super!

[@hobbexp]

@Wintertrekker thanks,, yeah, just confront the problem, and do the best to solve it, fredde

[@busycando]

Looks like a good time for a cup of coffee!!

[@AvoidingChores]

Yup that was wet ;)

[@NWBushman]

@hobbexp Not every bioregion allows friction fire. That is why it's sound advice to recommend a backup!

[@houseoffire72]

Well done sir!!!

[@oregoncarver]

Fredde--I miss your old videos and wish you would re-post them. Especially the ones on bow making and shooting. And fire making with bow drill and hand friction. Thanks, Docl

[@koolaidnd]

@RDPproject Starting a friction fire while you are wet cold and shivering is insane. This is the prefect time to use a road flare to start your fire. REI matches in a good match safe will save your life a lot better then friction fire skills.

[@69Grunden]

Darn water seems to go were ever it wants. Nice fire though, thanks for sharing...

[@hoosierarcher]

When I was 12 I fell through the ice on a small lake in Michigan. I swan around under the ice finding pockets of air trapped on the underside trying to find the hole I had fallen through with out much luck. I was disoriented and confused and the bone chilling cold of the water didn't help. I was just about to succumb to hypothermia when I found a thin spot in the ice where an ice shanty had been. I punched my way through the 2 inch or so ice and clawed my way out. I can sympathize.

[@ahardslojdlife]

har du slutat med bågdrillen?

[@canesser1]

@hoosierarcher Wow, that is quite the story!? That was a close call. Dangerous ice conditions up here in Manitoba right now with a record early and epic melt in March!? Expecting +27C tomorrow and it was -25C a week ago yesterday. 18" of snow a week ago, almost nothing now.

[@hobbexp]

@gotrocksinhead i did think for a moment what to do, and i decide i did not like to make my car seat wet. i was surprised over how little i freeze even when i walk barefoot, on frozen ground,

[@hobbexp]

@RDPproject its easier if ppl learn to store there matches in a watertight container, fredde

[@hobbexp]

@tysy73 thanks,

[@rikuk3]

Good video as usual Freddie :)

[@hoosierarcher]

@canesser1 As I said in the original post, Michigan. I didn't make the sudden inhalation because my Dad had been in the Navy and told us about how the reason most people die is they suck in a shocked breath hitting the cold water and instead of air they asperate water. Somehow that came to my mind as I my head was about to go under and I fought off the gasp. Dad also told us, Fear kills. If you let fear take control of you, you make mistakes that take you from bad to worse.

[@hobbexp]

thanks, yeah i did think on what to do, and i do not like to make my seat in my car wet,

[@canesser1]

@canesser1 Doh! ". . . small lake in Michigan." I forget ;)

[@beefy0978]

Impressed!

[@hobbexp]

@rbejder my feet was cold, its still ice in the ground here fredde

[@hobbexp]

@stymye some ppl say it bad for the knife, fredde

[@Cat607]

nice video, rare you get to see the proper response to these situation.

[@dlvmark]

Good job brother!

[@HillbillysNdaBush]

Good vid brother. I am glad you kept it (G) rated...lol

[@rbejder]

cool that you are so calm, I think I would be really worried even with the fire on and every thing. I guess you've tried it before?

[@jkd185]

Hello my friend,nice film. glad to see you back ;0) kind regards streetartist

[@hoosierarcher]

@canesser1 When my grandfather heard about what happened from my Dad he said, "That boy don't have no quit in him I recon." I did suffer hypothermia but had no frostbite. I was blue for two days. I acquired a taste for hot tea over the next week. I must have drank 10 cups a day trying to get warm again.

[@chiefdaddypct10]

Hey Fredde! I miss your videos.

[@hobbexp]

@hoosierarcher woow, you are a fighter, it was not deep, just up to my belly, i do not like to walk on ice on deep water, so i am very careful, and i use to fish there, so i have a idea how deep it is, fredde

[@canesser1]

How long did it take to dry your clothes in that weather Fredde?

[@Cjpmatt]

Hey fredde how's the parang holding up?

[@canesser1]

@hoosierarcher Well said!!

[@hobbexp]

@PHARRAOH yeah idiots, anyway, my cats is good , thanks for asking, fredde

[@gotrocksinhead]

@hobbexp Maybe they are from people who wanted you to film falling in :) They wanted to watch you fall through the ice. heh. heh

[@hoosierarcher]

@hobbexp When I came up out of the ice I was about 100 yards from where I went through. My friends and brothers were standing around the hole crying and wondering what to do. My clothes were freezing so I moved as quickly as I could to the fire and stripped down to my skin wrung out my wool longjohns and put them back on. Just about that time a women came up behind me and wrapped a wool blanket around my shoulders. I went through a stress crack hidden by snow. I was taken to our family doctor.

[@hobbexp]

@canesser1 maybe 2 h

[@hobbexp]

i post this video for 3 weeks a go, and like you can see , it holding up

[@gopanBushcraft]

lite tidigt för ett bad i det fria nu va ? Fredde ;) haha tur att allt gick bra //zeth

[@ahardslojdlife]

aj då, kallt!

[@HoneyBadger4242]

have you ever considered becoming a instructor

[@hobbexp]

nä, försöker bara lära mig nya saker,

[@hobbexp]

WOW,, 3 dislikes after one day,