Ahhh.....our beloved American Captain Price.

People underestimate how hard this shit is. Did a survival and evasion course in 2003 in Finnmark in the North of Norway. It lasted a week and we where chased by dogs for the last 3 days. I lost 9 kilos of weight and probably a few years of my life due to those dogs scaring the shit out of me in the middle of the night. Lastly, snow shoe movement training is key. Those things will do weird shit to your leg muscles unless you train with them regularly. EDIT: For clarity, since people are asking "why no skiing", the reason why wrote about snowshoes and not skis is because the course instructors did not want to chase us over a too large an area. If we had skis we would be able to cover all the ground we had available in about 20 hours instead of the week we did it in when wearing snowshoes.

This is what veteran run channels need to be doing, knowledge transfer not worrying about drama.

"always assume you are being observed by some sort of drone"

anxiously scans ceiling of mom's basement

Another former Finnish conscript here.
-Skis or sliding snowshoes are better and faster than normal snowshoes.
-Don't sit on the snow too long or you get a urinary tract infection.
-Use Merino wool or mesh baselayer.
-Don't use nicotine products or drink alcohol, those increase the risk of frostbite.
-Eat a lot, in cold weather body use more energy to produce heat.

BECOMING DEADLY IN THE MOUNTAINS IS BACK

Thank goodness you came back to this content.

Served in the army in northern Norway.
I am by no means an expert on evasion (or escape as we called it), but I would love to share a bit about surviving in the cold, especially in terms of clothing. As mentioned in the video, the key is to adjust your layers according to activity level, temperature, wind and precipitation. The best tips I have for winter ops:
- Your innermost layer should always be wool. Not only is wool warmer than synthetic materials, but it provides warmth even when wet which makes it far superior to any synthetic material. If you have a high activity level I can not recommend wool thermal netting enough. It transports humidity away from your body, preventing you from getting soaked when marching etc.
- We used something called "the chimney principle". Warm air rises, and will bring humidity with it, so ensure air can flow all the way from your legs to your upper torso where you'll need some ventilation so it can exit (wear more spacious clothes, and don't tighten them too much around your waist). If you follow this and use wool thermal netting the difference in humidity is massive.
- You'd be surprised how little clothing you really need when maintaining a high activity level, we often used just wool netting and snowcamo when marching in -20 to -30 C (low wind and no precipitation). It's better to be a bit cold while marching, than wearing too much and sweating. But then it's even more important to quickly add more layers as soon as your activity level decreases.
- One area that's often overlooked is your face, at -40 and 15 mph winds, windchill will cause frostbite in only 5 minutes, so cover your face well (neck gaiter/balaclava with holes for breathing through plus snow/ski goggles is my best tip). Take a look at a windchill factor chart and you'll realize how important it is in arctic areas.
- NEVER touch metal with your bare hands at sub-zero temps, you'll get frostbite almost instantaneously.

At the end of the day you have to try and fail a bit to figure out what works for you, we're all different and accustomed to different climates. Stay vigilant and take action quickly, it's much better to be uncomfortable for a couple minutes while changing clothes, than being absolutely miserable in an hour when you're soaked or freezing.

As a former Norwegian conscript served in the arctic circle: Be careful using face paint in the cold. That’s because the face paint can conceal changes in skin colour, which are signs of development of frostbite.

"If you're not fit, you're gonna die!" More motivation to get back to peak fitness.Thanks.

As a Canadian, this might be useful in the foreseeable future

This is the type of content we want, keep it up!

Good to see you’re back to training videos mate

PLEASE do a desert version!!! the intense heat during the day vs cold nights + dealing with scorpions/snakes/venomous critters have made training in my area somewhat of a living hell. which i think could also be used as an advantage against a pursuing military force

This dude has the best Gun review, survival and comedy. He is straight up funny.

finnish conscript here! i cant stress it enough. CHANGE YOUR CLOTHES when they get wet. When youre moving, you will sweat no matter what, make sure that when you stop for even a quick break, change your wet socks, shirts etc. Also pro tip: if you put a t-shirt on top of the merinowool baselayer, it collects most of the sweat and your merinowool stays suprisingly dry. Great video man!

Happy to see our Merino wool baselayer in action 🙏🏽 9:04

I work for a County Sheriff's Department, and we fairly often will be involved in trying to apprehend people that run.
The ones that get away are the ones that quickly put as much distance as possible between them and the last known location.
Time and distance are the number 1 most important thing when it comes to  escape and evasion.

the finnish military slang word for mitten is "noukkari" stands for "no can do"
(a rarer slang using english language)  hope that warms you up =)

Hey Garand, you brought back some tough memories with this video! I'm an older dude! I went through all of the full Combat SERE courses back in 1991 with the Russian vibe going on at Fairchild.  I'm a taller man and had some issues (you know what I'm talking about), but unlike some guys I didn't crack and made it through. I wish I had all that cool gear back then, but as you know, home made parachute packs, compass with an airway chart, one MRE and a live rabbit were the flavor of the day. Plenty of smoke water in the coldest part of winter, February 1991, was readily on tap. My buddy and I were able to evade you guys with your AK-47's and made it to every checkpoint with only one incident involving a bull moose (that's its own story). I served 28 years with multiple deployments and a couple hundred real world combat missions.  I carried my kit on every mission and always remembered this valuable training. Thank you for all you did/do for us and stay ready!