Survival

Just a late thought on the below blog: if it is not possible in the 2013/14 Winter time frame, perhaps it would work for a 2014/15 time frame, if I have been able to purchase some suitable land... and use this idea as a basis for an initial place to stay until more suitable quarters are built... Saving on Rent and Living Off Grid for the year or so, while the logs are cut, peeled and dried for an small cabin.... Add a little bit of Solar Electric for the few things that need it, like computers, charging cell phone, etc... have to think more on this over the summer ;D

Ok, not sure how to pitch this... but some thoughts on Homeless Camping:

it is going to be low tech to begin with... a normal "homeless" person in Toronto, or Southern Ontario, has only the bare necessities, and is dependent on the city infrastructure to survive. What I am thinking of is a lot less dependent on the City, and more to do with my own wits and ingenuity in a woodland setting... depending on grocery stores and hardware stores purchases, where absolutely necessary... NOT going completely back to the Paleo-Lithic ;D
   A book I read many years ago, on wilderness survival, that actually happened, during the WWII era, detailed a campsite that was a canvas tent, covered by a web of branches, covered by a tarp, and then turf/soil and more branches.... an igloo of branches and soil, with a tent inside... with a small fire for heat...
   This form of survival technology, kept the people alive and secret from the German Military, who were hunting them... this comes to mind now as a way forward... however I am not entirely convinced at this point in my life I can pull it completely off...
    The problem that I see, is that the people involved were armed, and had very little in the way of local wild life to deal with... and when they did, it was mostly for food... some things that I won't have the opportunity to work... so for me the wild life may be a more pressing problem than the need for shelter and food...
     Which leads to the next question, how far from civilization do I care to go... at present I have only a hazy idea of where I might end up come September / October... so if I have any thoughts of living off the land through winter, it will have to be determined by then...
      I don't see there being a problem with the isolation... there will be more than enough to keep me busy... and even more if I want to add extras that won't deal with the immediate point of survival... like doing experimental archeology in the form of say preparing arrows and a bow, or making implements out of wood or stone...
      One piece of experimental archeology that I would like, in this environment, is to determine the size of fire and perhaps a hearth or clay/stone stove that a hunter gather live style might use... these are rare on the records, because they don't survive, but it seems to me that they must have developed something of the sort later on, pre Neolithic... about 10,000 years ago...
      I know from experience that a few candles can keep a closed space 19 ft x 12 ft x 7 ft, relatively warm on a Winter's night... but what size fireplace / stove... Say, a fire chamber 2 ft. x2 ft. x2 ft., within a rock/clay casing, with a chimney pipe of clay rock through the roof... kind of like a mini-Russian / Finnish stove...