bushcraft

[Mr Sam]

weve all sat in our comfy armchairs watching ray meeres fasion fire out of a few sprigs of dry wood and gone 'oh yeah i could do that'

 

and some of us have even been camping at pod with gas stoves and matches

 

 

 

 

but is anyone on here into it seriously?? i bumped into a chap this afternoon on the Soar Navigation (a navigatable part of the river soar) as i first passed him i just said hello and passed him off as an essntric walker from the town

 

on my return trip to the car we said hello properly and got chatting......nearly 2 hours later i was totally suprised what i head learnt from this total stranger and we finally got round to introducing ourselves then off on our merry way me back to running water the internet food on tap a bottle of cider and him off with just a small canvas rucksack of minimal rations small tent fire starting equipment legal blades etc

 

 

 

 

 

*insert random bushcraft picture*

 

 

 

bought myself a fire steel and going to try forging my own another evning

[Trevmk3]

always fancied having a go at doing it properly Sam, never done it though

[stevepeanut]

just become mates with a lad who I met at the local offroad park, he goes bush camping twice a month with a mate, they pretty much take a big knife and not a lot else. Make shelter, kill and eat what they can etc

 

I love camping and do it with the minimum basics as most times its just tent and a few clothes, whatever will fit on the back of my motorbike. My other mate does camping with the missus and kid, in a tent the size of a house, full size chair, widescreen TV, nintendo wii, thats not my idea of fun. My fav campsite is the national trust one at great langdale near ambleside, set in a lovely valley and theres no phone signal on the mobile. Just silence. Love it

[SmokeEm]

I can think of nothing worse than camping

 

Give me warm/cool cosy Hotel's any day

[GT_lenny]

the word bushcraft makes me snigger like a school girl - pubic topiery???

 

but seriuosly that whole ray mears thing appeals to me, kind of reminds me of going camping when i was about 15- off to the woods for the weekend with nothing more than a tin of beans and half a dozen sausages

 

walking back into the village on the sunday morning thinking the world must of changed, much like the film "stand by me"

[mk3cokebottle]

I can think of nothing worse than camping

 

Give me warm/cool cosy Hotel's any day

 

u never used to be like that mate

[Fiesta Steve]

the word bushcraft makes me snigger like a school girl - pubic topiery???

 

but seriuosly that whole ray mears thing appeals to me, kind of reminds me of going camping when i was about 15- off to the woods for the weekend with nothing more than a tin of beans and half a dozen sausages

 

walking back into the village on the sunday morning thinking the world must of changed, much like the film "stand by me"

 

..and stinking of camp fires Happy days

[Vista]

I've done a few bush trips in my time in the Navy. The most memorable of which was white water rafting down a stretch of the Tana river in Kenya. The stretch we did had never been done before and much of it proved to be too dangerous to navigate by raft (so we ended up carrying the rafts some of the way) so has probably never been done again since. We would camp overnight on the riverbank before pushing on the next day.

 

we caught an overnight train from Mombasa to Nairobi, then a five hour jungle trek into the bush in Landrovers before hitting the river, the northen most one in this pic

 

 

A few pics, I had black hair then

 

 

 

About 50% of the stretch we did was safely navigable, hard work but great fun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other 50% was like this and was a complete ball ache lugging the rafts over the rocks

 

 

Though we weren't truly slumming it on the camp sites as they were set up for us in advance.............complete with beer and BBQ's

 

[Twinkle]

hmmmm scottyou do have an uncanny resembelance to mr mears in your younge years!

[Vista]

hmmmm scottyou do have an uncanny resembelance to mr mears in your younge years!

 

Is he a good looking f***er as well then is he?

[Mr Sam]

thanks for sharing them Scott trusty avon inflateable there!!! ive been watching a few smaller ones on ebay but even old well used and patched ones fetch £150+

 

the chap i met speant 20 years in the army with the engineers so had picked up alot of his skills there

 

http://sticksblog-sticks.blogspot.com/

 

found his blog and i even got a mention

[rambo67]

You wanna do a fortnights training on Saltau (west germany) with Army rations , after 2 days you'd eat ya own granny with a sand dip ....

 

Wolfgang always made an appearance , even in the middle of a battle though ..... pomme frtite's rick mayo unt curry werst bitte ... quality

[Mr Sam]

got my fire steel off ebay at last and been trying to light my log burner with it...........and failing!!! still better to fail at home than in the bush

 

also got a hammock