Two people share bushcraft tricks for hot, muddy terrain: coating your feet in mud or a urine-mud mixture to stay cool, and extracting sap from gum tree branches to drink on the move. They focus on using what's around you to keep going until you find real water.
Well, we walk on it, we start walking in the mud. So it lay a bit of mud on our foot, let it build up in our foot, mud all the way.
So what do you do if there's, uh, if there's no mud around and your feet get hot?
You jump on the grass, follow shadow. Because now you've got dirt and mud on your feet, we can walk now. You don't feel that, that hot.
So it makes a barrier?
Makes a barrier. Sometimes when it gets that hot and you're in the middle of nowhere, don't know where to go, we piss on the ground and put a bit of mud on the— piss mud on the foot, step on a bit of grass, then we walk along till you go find the next shade. Where you can walk comfortable with your feet. Sometimes we jump along. We jump on top here and just walk on the edge. It's everything we use around us. Grass, roots, trees. Get thirsty, hot day, Clip a gum tree, stick it in my gum, in my mouth. I can walk with it for 3 hours, just sucking on the juice. When the juice go out, chuck it away, put another one. It take us from travel one end to another end until we find good water. So use some juice from plants. What you call them thing? Nutril or something, eh?
Something like that.
Yeah, something like that, brother.
Come on.
Yeah, come on.
