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| On the beach - spruce trees on sand dunes |
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| Close up of sand eroding, exposing the spruce trees roots |
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| gathering spruce roots |
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| Keep roots wet until you are ready to strip the bark off |
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| Use fire to warm up the spruce root bark until it steams |
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| Use stick or knee to scrape off warm bark from spruce root |
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| When bark cools, re-warm in fire to continue stripping off bark |
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| A day's hard work, cleaning spruce roots |
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| Bite end of spruce root to begin splitting it |
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| Separate split - the root should split naturally with little guidance |
