[GOPJ]

You can easily survive freezing temps if you have a cozy cabin and plenty of available firewood.

Cut wood takes over a year to cure - and squaw wood - the stuff you can pick up in a forest - won't keep a cabin warm for a week - especially if others are also gathering. Heating with wood - which I did years ago - requires a working chain saw, access to gasoline, and replacement parts.

It could be done - but it would take a lot more time and discipline than most think.

[GonzoGOP]

the stuff you can pick up in a forest - won't keep a cabin warm for a week - especially if others are also gathering

Comfortably warm, no, keep you from freezing probably. With a group, and survival is best done as a group activity not an individual sport. You can cut enough wood to cook a meal and keep one room above freezing.

Look at the houses from the homesteaders. One room around a fireplace, or much better a cast iron stove. A fire place is very inefficient for heating. It wasn't that they couldn't build bigger houses. It was that if you built a big house, you had to heat a big house. Get an extended family in one home and you have enough arms to cut the wood, you can optimize your food preparation, and you have enough rifles in close proximity to keep what you have.

[matt1234]

Heating with wood - which I did years ago - requires a working chain saw, access to gasoline, and replacement parts.

You can do it with hand saws. (Think of the times before the internal combustion engine.) It's just a lot of work, and you have to prestock saws and blades. A couple extra axes is also a good idea.