Yeah, I noticed they didn't have one. But I wouldn't dare!Biddlesby said:Perhaps we should collate a definition to put up on wikipedia.org?
Yeah, I noticed they didn't have one. But I wouldn't dare!Biddlesby said:Perhaps we should collate a definition to put up on wikipedia.org?
Doc said:Bushcraft is living comfortably in, and making full appreciation of, the outdoors using old skills and the sustainable use of natural resources. It is using knowledge instead of kit. Know more, carry less. It is not roughing it, it is smoothing it.
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Well put Doc.Doc said:Survival is short term, 'somehow-stay-alive-by-any- means-necessary-until-you-get out-of-this-dreadful place'.
Bushcraft is living comfortably in, and making full appreciation of, the outdoors using old skills and the sustainable use of natural resources. It is using knowledge instead of kit. Know more, carry less. It is not roughing it, it is smoothing it.
Put it another way, the San bushmen on Ray's program: are they just 'surviving'? I'd say they are living!
There are large areas of bushcraft that could scarcely be called 'survival'. For example:
Making rustic furniture/spoons from wood. Probably not the first thing taught to RAF aircrew on their survival course.
Tracking of non-quarry animals.
Techniques for wildlife observation.
Sorry, I'm rambling. But I think it's an important distinction.
I didn't know we were arguing? I thought we was philosophizingGary said:Anyway as has been said before this is an arguement which has been done to death many times over the years. And again as we seem to do so often these days we are arguing over a name - whats in a name?
Hoodoo said:One might say he "appropriated" the term and popularized it through his books and the telly. Historically, bushcraft was not something you usually learned by attending a school. It was something you picked up from spending lots of time in the outdoors. The Mears approach has been a big influence in changing that and has brought a lot of folks to the wild outdoors that might never have considered it before.
Eeeeyeah, perhaps my levity was a little misunderstood there?Gary said:Sheryl - I USE THE WORD ADVISEDLY read debate instead of argue!!.
It would appear so. How strange.Grasshopper said:...It's something of an emotive subject over here!