Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 660 Frozen River

With sticks, survival is half the battle!

This is of course a joke of the water friends.

But a straight tree stick is definitely a surprise for Bi Fang, and a pathfinding stick in the snow is of great help.

Protect joints, maintain balance, and save effort when walking uphill, effectively increasing the average speed.

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

With the strength of Bi Fang's joints, he is naturally not afraid of impact, but it is really delicious to help maintain balance and increase the forward speed.

In particular, the tree stick itself is not so dry that it will break when it is folded. On the contrary, it still retains a considerable degree of toughness, which can be used as a pathfinding stick.

And with its original length, it can barely be used 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 resilient, it is still a bit improvised to be used as a spear.

As for mobilizing weeds to scare snakes away, and removing thorny vines and cobwebs on the road, it seems useless in the Arctic.

There were no trees nearby, and it was evident that it had been blown here by the wind after it had been snapped off from a tree, and there were still many branches on it.

Bi Fang chooses a section of appropriate length and straightness, and cuts off all the excess with a knife. The larger branches are collected to weave snowshoes, and the smaller ones can be used as fuel if they are useless. Not an iota was wasted.

"It's not the first time I've made snowshoes. Sometimes, in rough, snowy conditions, you find your boots keep getting stuck in the snow. In those cases, snowshoes are It seems very necessary."

"Getting stuck in snow is like getting stuck in silt when planting seedlings in the south. It takes more energy to walk. Energy is precious. 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 region. Although it has no leaves, it has dense branches and is a good material."

Bi Fang cut off 5-10 large branches about half a meter long and tied the bottom of the branches together. The branches were loosely gathered together along a midpoint. Next, he tied his feet with a belt. In the front 1/3 of the branch snowshoe.

"If you have more time, you can make a more complicated trail snowshoe with small saplings and string, but we don't need this, Greenland is still quite wide."

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

But from the air it looked like a vast and empty wilderness, here and there jagged black peaks pierced here and there by blinding white ice fields stretching endlessly.

Greenland as a whole is a very diverse island: in summer, the meadows near the coast bloom with purple saxifrage and yellow poppies, as well as shrubs of montane ash and birch.

However, the north-central part of Greenland is enclosed by a huge ice sheet. Within a few hundred kilometers, neither a grassland nor a small flower can be found. It is quite vast and wide, looking like a white desert.

"If you're not going to be walking on smooth ground with snowshoes, but going uphill, downhill, or across slopes, then you need snowshoes with some ground grip, so the toes, heels and There should be cleats, hooks or something on both sides to keep your snowshoes attached to the ground."

After briefly introducing other situations, Bi Fang moved on.

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

Looking at the sun above the head, today's weather is also quite good, the sun is very hot, the surface of the snow layer has melted and frozen, and it rustles when stepped on.

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

Bi Fang suspects that today's temperature may only be minus 20 degrees, which is far less scorching than the previous few days.

The whistling wind was like a pair of ice knives, as if it was about to kill people. Maybe the meat cut off was better than the iced sea bream from the Beichen Sirius blade.

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

Under normal circumstances, I am a very purposeful person, so that I can establish a stable living condition in the wilderness step by step, but I don't want to think about it, and I will use a hammer here and a stick here.

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

More people think that willpower is a psychological topic, but they don't know that it should be classified as a physiological aspect.

This thing is a kind of consumable, and every confrontation with instinct is an 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 unzipped the zipper that covered his mouth and nose, exposed his face to the cold wind, rubbed his face, took a deep breath, and tried to increase the blood oxygen content as much as possible, only then did he feel refreshed.

It's time to pick up the pace.

The unprecedented hunger made Bi Fang burst into potential. With the help of snowshoes, he even ran faster than when he first came to Greenland.

Bi Fang squatted down, smashed a light blue ice cube with rounded corners, and stuffed it into the dry water bottle.

"The older the sea ice, 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. Its part under the water will appear light blue. Fresh sea ice is It is milky white like milk, and its shape is angular after smashing."

【What's the reason? 】

"It's what makes the microstructure different, and it's different from ice to ice."

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

After a snowstorm, there is almost no exposed ice on the ground, and snow has to be shoveled to get water.

"The sea ice formed by nascent ice is small needle-shaped or thin ice crystals; a large number of ice crystals condense and gather to form sticky or spongy ice. When snow falls on the sea surface where the temperature is close to freezing point, it can directly form sticky ice without melting. ice."

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

"If the nascent ice continues to grow, it freezes into a thin elastic ice layer with a thickness of about 10cm. The bottom will collide and squeeze each other, and the edges will rise."

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

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

river?

Found the river! ?