Homestead Hangout Sunday - About Getting Lost In The Deep Woods 

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The worst enemy you can ever face, is yourself, because he/she knows all your fears and weaknesses. Really enjoyed this personal style of vlog and thanks for showing us around the village Lars!

Daniel Boone is quoted as saying “I’ve never been lost but I’ll admit to being mighty confused for a few weeks”

Got lost in my basement looking for the vodka one time........well I found the vodka first and then got lost a bit later.

Excellent Sunday video. I love your ," do something awesome" , line .

Great video, always great to see this family homestead. You are very lucky and blessed. The homestead just needed someone to come along and bring back life and excitement and that was you and a wonderful place for the ninjas to grow up. And the boss is always on patrol and catering for the family. Great dog the boss.

you are awesome. i'm travelling without moving from my chair and you are delivering such a good vibe my friend. I wish you and your family the best !

Love your Sunday story time! I remember you doing this more often early on in your channel. Keep up the great videos lars!

I enjoy seeing the homestead material...the old architecture, tools, techniques, locations, events, the history behind it all. Fascinating and worth preserving in video. Too much history has been lost already. Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work!

I always thought that whenever a Danish guy gets lost he just puts his nose up in the air and follows the smell of the bacon. ;)

Much love to you and the wife and the ninjas! More videos with the babushka down the road!

Got lost once while metal detecting in a forest. Like you looking for mushrooms, I was looking down at the ground and got off the trail. Everything looks the same when you are in the woods. A terrible feeling when you first realize that you are lost.

Lars, I really enjoy the Kephart books. I've gotten rid of a lot of my old books. Not the Kephart ones, though. Once I decided to take a hike while my wife as at a meeting at her school. Her school is on the edge of some wooded country, so I was literally only 30 minutes away. I told her I would be back without fail in about an hour-and-a half. So, I'm hiking along just south of the school in a mixed chapparal and open meadow area and see a huge rattlesnake spread out on the grass in front of me. I thought it was a big branch at first, but then made out the markings and saw it breathing. This occupied me for awhile, and then I moseyed on down the hill. It was easy walking and new territory for me, so entertaining and interesting. Eventually I realized that time was short and I was due to get back. Then I realized, altho I thought I knew within 180 degrees generally the right direction, I wasn't at all certain of the correct direction. The fact that I was several miles away by then and short of time with no certainty of the most direct route back, I found myself increasingly hurrying in a sort of general direction and worrying about where I might end up, worrying about not being on time, and worrying about being missed. Looking back, it was in fact kind of a panic-y feeling. So, you might say to yourself that you're a great big man and an experienced woodsman and completely under control of yourself and your destiny, but under the right circumstances (uncertain of your route, under time pressure, hurrying up hill, a bit fatiqued and increasingly anxious about your situation), you may find that you're not the Daniel Boone that you thought. Turns out I had headed in essentially the right direction, I arrived only a few minutes late, and with a new lesson and appreciation for keeping better track of my surroundings in any circumstance or situation.

That’s a beautiful,dog ! His instinct is to protect the family, he knows your an alpha and can handle being away, his instinct is to protect the family, great dog... also,mastiffs like watching tv when it’s an option.

Lars , great to visit with you again, thanks for sharing, stay safe , God bless !

Exactly correct on the feeling at the first moment you realize you are lost. Great points 👍

Really enjoyed the little history tour of the homestead. Thanks. Looking forward to the Gator repair video. Would also like to see the motorcycle repair as well.

Really enjoyed watching that! Thanks Lars.

Love this video, loved the reading. Great info. Always nice to see your family and, of course, your dog! :)

I just like to see what your doing which is a getaway for me. No body cares what the video is about just keep them coming we look forward to seeing them Stay safe looking forward for our next visit

we just got 2 feet of snow in the up of michigan im moving to russia

Great advice and video! Thank you!

Thanks for the upload Lars. I've been stuck all alone for so long now, and since I've been watching you for years now, it's like getting a visit from an old friend. Hey Lars, I had a fur hat a family friend brought back from Russia, but someone stole it. Do you know of any good stores I could order one from? A getting lost in the woods could be a full length series from you if you ever run out of stuff. The sort of place you're in is so so easy to get lost.

Lars, you have that rare combination of intelligence, practical know how and charisma that makes everything you say fascinating. What ever videos you make, I always watch. Hope to hear good news about that family factory.

The best survival vlog you ever did!

Love that book too Lars. Great video.

I always enjoy your videos because they vary, there's always something new and interesting to watch and learn.

Lars Campfire Chats! Drinking Tea and sitting by the fire and blah blah blah

Thank you for all of the background on your life. You answered a lot of questions I have had. Yes, that flat forested terrain is a easy place to get very lost. No landmarks. I live in a very mountainous region. It is hard walking sometimes, but having good landmarks really helps. Cheers.

I vote "YES" to Sunday videos! I love the little talks from a foreign land. Cheers from Canada

yes I can relate to story about the mushroom hunting I was in the Everglades trailing a deer and got totally lost for 24 hours. But I got my bearings by the Big Dipper the Little Dipper and sunrise. Nowadays that I'm older I always have a GPS in a compass. And I enjoy these types of videos you know the ones you called Blah Blah Blah.

Awesome video! Would love to see more of the homestead!!

I got lost once too and experienced the bush panic. I'm glad it happened in a low risk situation that I was about to get out of in a couple of hours. Definitely have to sit down, calm down, inventory the gear and figure out options/risks. I heard some guys make a cup of tea. Some of that is just a focusing ritual to pivot the mind away from the bush panic and into the solutions.

Nice relaxing video Lars. Magical sky btw!

Good morning to you all, hope you all are keeping safe in these difficult times and most importantly grandmother 👵 hope she is keeping busy .

Love the architecture of your farm buildings.

I like the Sunday update concept! Keeps me in the loop so to speak lol.

You have a beautiful home. I totally get you having so much fun out there with so much big boy toys youll never get bored

This was a very awesome and informative video. It really is stunning just how accurate that book is, but I suppose some things (like man's fear of being lost) never change. Even after a hundred years the panic setting in is exactly the same. :)

Been lost in the wilderness more times than I like to admit. One good thing that comes out of that, specially when in an area that has rough terrain and dangerous animals, once you realize you're lost it really puts you into contact with the environment, knowing that even the smallest mistakes can mean you're never found. Your hearing becomes more acute, you find yourself observing everything more closely, thinking more about what you're doing at the moment.

i got lost in the woods once. Thankfully the dog knew the way back home.

Thanks for teaching me a lot May you and your family be safe Sunday video is a great idea and I wish you the best John, from USA new York

Pretty awesome Storytelling Lars! I would like to hear more of that kind. A Sunday Story format would be great. Stay healthy!

Thanks Lars. You are one interesting fellow. I work with Search and Rescue here in Maine and we are constantly hauling out folks who get lost or injured in the Appalachian Trail because they are unprepared and don't know what the heck they're doing.

Thank you , Lars .

I really liked this video! I like seeing just the homestead and how you keep it going. I love your gator videos, exploring, have enjoyed the babushka videos your wife helped with too! I couldn't believe it when she climbed down in the basement in that last video! Thanks for the videos Lars! Best to you are yours.

Awsome home Lars. Said it before and will say it again. Freedom is what you make of it.

Lars, This is one of your best videos. Do not be afraid to do more like them. I was a professional forester who was sure he would never get lost. One time, without a compass but with a setting sun I walked 90 degrees off from the correct direction. A walk that should have been 30 min. turned out to be 2 hrs - and this was in country much more varied, with mountains, than the flat forest you are in, where every direction looks exactly the same.

Hello from Florida, USA! 80 degrees F here today ... humid too! I really enjoyed the short tour and the story about the wife's family homestead. Yes ... I would like to see/hear more about the homestead on your Sunday videos!

Great video, very interesting hearing about your past experiences and wisdom!

Can't wait to see you ride the Yamaha again. Thank you for keeping us updated with the spring weather at the Gulag

Yes I like the video, and thank you for introducing me to Kephart. I plan to read his other book "Our Southern Highlanders". having spent and enjoyed time in Tennessee US and the Smoky Mt. range.

Fantastic episode 💥stay safe my friend

No views17 likes (no. 17 is mine ). You are so popular Lars that we hit like first and then watch :).

It good to see you are all well and the weather is getting better it was good to see the family to ....brilliant ..

Awesome video! I love to see the little ninjas and your wife! The experimental garden sounds really interesting. I'd love to know how it turns out. Love to the whole family.

More videos relating to your kitchen garden would be interesting to see. I feel like there hasn't been many if any over the years talking about your own garden. Love the videos as always!

It's nice to think there's a good man and his family on the other side of the world

I LOVE THAT DOG! Sorry, I just keep saying that. But I do. 🤗 He's such a good boy. He wants to stay home and protect the mom and his little ninjas. And thanks for the link to those domes. Those things have had me so curious the entire time I've been watching SurvivalRussia. 👍

You're so awesome Lars...I truly love your humility and honesty...love videos like these when you show us your more personal side...it's always a show of your character and that's why I appreciate your advice like none other survival channel on YT...your advice is for life not just for "camping". Thanks a lot Lars and keep it up! Can't wait for the new video on the Gator...I love that beast!!

Much love from Appalachia, West Virginia. You provide some really class material and I believe that you're really helping people with your wholesome content. You remind me of a European version of many of my similar minded survivalist friends. Stay safe my friend and thanks again for your diligence.

Thanks brother for another great video, and the Sunday ideas sounds great!

Thanks for sharing your book recommendations. Nice as well to know more about your background while keeping secret your private life. In order to find and know about yourself, you have to get lost at some point ... There is a lot of work to do in your homestead but you have great people around you for support and this is the price to pay for freedom: there is no free lunch :-) Take care and stay safe!

Enjoyed the tour of your home place and finding out a little more about you and your family. I do like this type of video as well as the bushcraft video's.

Hello Lars. It's good to reconnect with you. I hope that you had some good snow this winter. Your videos are very informative and I have enjoyed your site for a long time. I wish you and family the best in safety. God Bless

Good reminder about getting lost in the woods can happen quite easy.

Very pleased to see the vlog to include drone footage .

I would like to see some more videos about you putting that log cabin together after you transported it

very cool video... yall have an very nice place in the world... stay awesome and always keep family safe an close to heart

I truly enjoy all your videos. Keep up the great work.

Thanks for the book title/author, I've just downloaded it to my Kindle. We need more than gardening/diy/cooking at the time being!!

I've been lost a couple times, its a feeling that cannot be described.

Hi Lars. Great to hear from you and what you are up to over the weekend. As much as I enjoy your videos where you are actually doing something, I also enjoy just hearing you just "shooting the breeze". Nice to hear your stories and what you get up to. Cheers from a sunny lockdown in England. I can't wait to get out and do something awesome!

Thanks Laes, hi to the Ninja and the Mrs, we have fun every time....

I really enjoy your videos . Your remote life has alot of hard work but the farm is so big with so much beautiful rugged land . You have the best adventures and coolest toys . The ninjas are so blessed to be growing up there . Thank you for sharing your life .

Keep the great videos coming Lars! Always enjoyable and informative including the tra la la la.

Really enjoyed this video, getting to know what's going on behind and to hear so valuable wisdom.

Really enjoyed this video and format Lars. Less formal, quite entertaining and relaxing. Cheers from Australia.

I thank you for putting those youngsters to work. Good way to build an excellent work ethic. I have had a job since I was 14

I like this content more is most welcome. We have very similar conditions here, flat big forest. I always have a compass on me, always. I've needed it, I've used it. Still 2 feet on snow here. Cheers.

I would easily be lost in your forest. I was lost in the forest here in Indiana. Is very dense and flat here. I was lost in forested area. Holy crud! 8 hrs in a repetitive succession of trees . Yikes. Flat dense on a dark October 31. Loved the reading from the book. I love it when you do " A day in the life of the family " ... It's just so lovely to have you as virtual neighbors..

my dream is to have a place like yours someday. absolutly BEAUTIFUL!

When I was in the US Army Officer's Candidate School we had an orienteering exercise on Bear Mountain in New York that started at midnight. We were given a navigation azimuth heading at the start and had to find our way to the next check point for the next azimuth navigation heading. This wasn't an exercise that took place in a large field range - we had to walk up and down the mountain for hours. We learned real quick about the importance of staying calm, stopping at obstacles and making a choice of options for direction change, knowing to correct for direction changes and not just look at an azimuth on a compass and proceed on the same same direction, and knowing the distance of one's foot steps to keep track of distance. If one is walking in a specific direction and does not compensate for a direction change - knowing how far left or right one moves from their original course - one can wind up miles away from where they think they were headed. This can cause a person that is lost to become even more lost when they think they're heading in the correct direction.. A good compass (or two) is paramount to helping one find their way out of an area they are lost in, as you said. I've said it before and I say it again, I love your videos.

Sunday Survival Sermons sound so good!!

Best Channel on RU-vid....!

Excellent Guard Dog.

Thanks for the video, keep busy my friend 🇬🇧

A Sunday "day in the life" video would be very nice indeed!

Lars, I've often gotten lost on purpose in the woods. It's a good opportunity for practicing your skill sets, and self reflection. It can be very theraputic. For me, the opportunity to hang out with you, would be indescribable! Sadly, I do not think I could ever get to Russia. Stay safe and keep the videos coming!!!

I remember reading Jack London as a youngster. In one of his stories about being lost in the woods the dire danger of lighting a campfire in the wrong place in the woods when the snow is thick is unforgettably illustrated.

Thanks for the update yeah Sunday video kind of pointing out your projects and plans would be enjoyed. Sometime you might give us a tour of the buildings on the property with maybe when they were built and what they originally used for. We're planning our potatoes a little bit differently this year to using feed sacks and manure and hay and straw.

Lars you inspire me all the time to get outdoors, thanks for the videos.

"Rhododendron Hells:' In our Appalachian Mountains there are areas where generations of rhododendron plants have intertwined, forming an almost impenetrable barrier. Cutting one's way out is not really an option. Kephart reports 'swimming' across the tops of some tangled plants to find an easier way forward (or backward.") In any case, this classic book is a great 'read' about almost anything relating to living 'rough' in the woods. Alcoholic but well-educated and widely travelled, Horace Kephart chronicled Appalachian folk culture, described the pitfalls of sheltering in abandoned herder's shelters, advanced a good many adventuresome recipes using canned ingredients and local ingredients...on and on. His work set the foundation for establishment of the Appalachian Trail System.

Lets bring this back! Super Sunday videos

Thanks Lars, nice insight of life in Russia. Love it. ✅

Wishing all my Orthodox brothers and sisters a blessed Holy Week.

Lovely video Survival Russia, one of my favorite guys!

Lots going on with Lars. You even read a passage from an old book. Nice! You even have a motorcycle!

...when I was a young ninja, there was the annual weekend ritual of burning away last year's dead grass from around the old Tarmola, Ontario farmhouse and out-buildings where my gramps raised a few cows and farmed rocks...

Keep up the Sunday vid its always interesting thanks lars