Live Wilderness Adventure - Chapter 657 frozen river

For some tree sticks, survival is half the battle!

This is of course a joke of the water friends.

But a straight stick was definitely a surprise to Bi Fang. A pathfinder stick in the snow was of great help.

Protects the joints, maintains balance, saves effort when walking uphill, and effectively increases the average speed.

Studies have shown that a long pole of the right length can reduce the impact force on the knee joint by more than 40%, especially when going downhill.

With Bi Fang's joint strength, he is naturally not afraid of impact, but it can help maintain balance and improve forward speed.

In particular, the stick itself is not dry enough to break when it is broken. On the contrary, it retains a considerable degree of toughness and can be used as a pathfinder.

And with its original length, it can barely serve as a long weapon.

The reason why it is reluctant is also because the North Pole is indeed too dry. Although the stick is still flexible, it is still a bit improvised when used as a spear.

As for pulling weeds, it has the purpose of smashing grass and scaring snakes, as well as pulling away thorny vines on the road, spider webs on the road and other functions, which are useless in the Arctic.

There are no trees nearby, apparently it was blown here by the wind after it was broken off from a tree, and there are many branches on it.

Bi Fang chose a section indicated by the length and straightness, and cut off all the excess parts with a knife. The slightly larger branches were collected and used to weave snowshoes. The slightly smaller ones could also be used as fuel. Not a single bit was wasted.

"It's not the first time I've made snowshoes. Sometimes, in tough, snowy conditions, you'll find that your boots will always get stuck in the snow. In this case, snowshoes will It seems necessary."

"Getting stuck in the snow is like getting stuck in the mud when planting rice in the south. Walking will consume more physical strength. Physical strength is precious and we must save it. Homemade snowshoes can spread your weight over a large area. , it will be easier to walk on the snow."

"This branch is a pine tree, which is also the most common tree in the polar regions. Although it has no leaves, it has dense branches and is a good material."

Bi Fang cut down 5 to 10 large branches about half a meter long and tied the bottoms of the branches together. On the front 1/3 of the branch snowshoe.

"If you have the time, you can make a more complicated trail snowshoe out of saplings and twine, but we don't need that, Greenland is still pretty wide."

Greenland is essentially a region of towering mountains, massive blue-green icebergs, magnificent fjords and barren outcropping rocks.

But from the air, it looks like a vast, empty wilderness, full of jagged black peaks, occasionally piercing white dazzling and infinitely stretched ice fields.

Greenland as a whole is a very different island: in summer, the meadows near the coast bloom with purple saxifrage and yellow poppies, as well as shrub-like mountain ash and birch.

However, the central and northern part of Greenland is enclosed by a huge ice sheet, and neither a grass nor a small flower can be found within a few hundred kilometers. It is quite vast and wide, and it looks like a white desert.

"If you're not going to walk on flat ground with snowshoes, but you're going up, down, or traversing hills, then you need some ground grip, so your toe, heel and There should be cleats, hooks, or something on both sides to keep your snowshoes attached to the ground."

Briefly introduce the other situations, and Bi Fang moved on.

With the help of snowshoes, Bi Fang's walking speed was significantly higher.

Looking at the sun overhead, the weather today is also quite good, the sun is very blazing, the surface of the snow has melted and frozen, and it makes a rustling sound when you step on it.

Not only that, in autumn and winter, extratropical cyclones often invade Greenland, causing the temperature in Greenland to change drastically, sometimes -50℃, sometimes -30℃.

Bi Fang suspects that the temperature today may only be minus 20 degrees, far less scorching than a few days ago.

The roaring wind was like ice knives that were about to put people to death. Maybe the meat they cut was even better than the ice-cold fresh sea bream that came out of the Beichen Tianlang blade.

With unrealistic fantasies roaming in his mind, Bi Fang felt that he might be too hungry, and his thoughts began to fly.

Under normal circumstances, I am a person with a strong purpose, so that I can establish stable living conditions in the wilderness step by step, but I will not breathe and think about it.

Bi Fang felt that this was caused by the lack of energy in his brain, and his willpower was constantly being consumed in this harsh environment.

More people will think that willpower is a psychological topic, but it should be classified as a physiological aspect.

This thing is a consumable. Every time it confronts the instinct, it is internal friction, and it is also the main factor supporting efficient work.

When the willpower is not enough, it is easy to fantasize, that is, to wander.

"call!"

Bi Fang opened the ramen that covered his nose and mouth, rubbed his face exposed to the cold wind, took a deep breath, and raised the blood oxygen content as much as possible, and then he felt refreshed.

Gotta pick up the pace.

Unprecedented hunger made Bi Fang burst into potential, and with the help of snowshoes, he was even running faster than when he first came to Greenland.

Bi Fang squatted down and smashed a piece of blue ice with rounded corners, UU reading www. uukanshu. com stuff it into a dry kettle.

"The older the sea ice age, the less salt there will be in the ice. When the old sea ice is broken, the edges and corners are round, and the surface is often pitted, and its underwater part will appear blue. Fresh sea ice is Milky white like milk, shattered in angular shape."

【What's the point of this? 】

"It's the microstructure that's different, that's the difference between ice and ice."

Bi Fang pointed to the ice surface under his feet, next to the thick snow that had been dug up and piled up.

After a snowstorm, the exposed ice surface is almost invisible, and snow is shoveled to get water.

"The sea ice initially formed by the primary ice is all small needle-like or flake-like ice crystals; a large number of ice crystals condense and aggregate to form sticky lake-like or sponge-like ice. Snow falls on the sea surface where the temperature is close to freezing point, and it can directly form sticky lake-like ice without melting. ice."

"The ice skin is formed by the direct freezing of the calm sea surface, or the sea surface ice layer formed by the continuous freezing of the primary ice. Its thickness is about 5 cm, which is relatively brittle and easily broken by the wind on the sea surface or the current on the sea surface. Turned into thin rectangular ice cubes."

"If the nascent ice continues to grow, it freezes into an elastic thin ice layer with a thickness of about 10 cm. Under the action of external force, it is easily bent and easily broken into rectangular ice cubes. The thin ice flakes broken by cake-shaped ice are under the action of external force. The bottom will collide with each other, squeeze each other, and the edge will rise."

"The final shape is a circular ice plate with a diameter of 30cm to 3m and a thickness of about 10cm. This level of ice is old ice, and new ice will not freeze like this. It seems that the river section under our feet has been frozen for a long time. already."

The water friends were still listening to Bi Fang's popular science, but when they heard the last sentence, they were stunned for a moment, and then they suddenly reacted.

river?

Found the river! ?