Old school/traditional kit camp (pic heavy)

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Friday evening saw me and i camp @butlins have a cheeky over nighter up my permission.
We drove up to give us more time there so i decided to use traditional materials. taking with me the Swedish rescue bag i recently got in a trade, wool blankets and a ginourmous tarp made for me by bilmop5 of this forum.
the kit pile as you can see the rescue bag is a monster its bigger than my pack!


this is the reflector i built last time i was up the woods in march hard to believe it was snow covered and freezing not 6 weeks ago


my fellow camper pete

one mahoosive tarp set up

then it was time to disassemble the reflector and clear the area of stinging nettles

Pete processed some fire wood

whilst i got the fire going and the kettle on

a view of the woods, lots of greenery and life bursting upwards

i did some fire wood processing

after a while of staring at the fire drinking tea and generally enjoying being in the woods it was grub time, so we rearranged the fire

but before we could start cooking my in laws dropped my folks dog who had been staying with the in laws off

i gathered some jack by the hedge to add to the evening meal

we put the minted lamb kebabs on to cook

Chef pete did some interesting stuff with salami which susie the pooch found fascinating

fried the salami and added the jack by the hedge

check the kebabs looking good so far

and pete added rice to the salami and jack by the hedge

our evening meal, minted lamb kebabs with rissotto rice with salami and jack by the hedge

and very tasty it was too, Even susie thought so

A while later my sister popped in to see pete

after my sister visited it was time to settle down with the bushcraft tv

i admit we need to work on our admin but its a happy campsite

The pooch seemed to enjoy the poncho i had packed for myself

after some bushcraft tv we bedded down for the night.
around 02:00 susie started growling and pete heard cars near where we had parked so he trundled off to investigate and scared the bejeesus out of a woman police officer who was on the search for a missing person and had convinced herself there was a body in the ditch next to the car, luckily there wasn't and the dog acted as a very good warning system or we wouldn't of known anything about it.
i woke up around 7am with the dog bundled up in the rescue bag with me happy as a happy thing
susie had an investigation of the fire

Pete was still entombed in his bivi bag

So i decided to have a bit more of a snooze waking at 9am
got the kettle going once more

pete cleared away his kit

i did some of the net needle for dave bromley's build along

we cooked ourselves some breakfast-sausages!

served in a tortilla wrap

Susie enjoyed hers although she went without the tortilla


After breakfast we broke camp, extinguised the fire and headed home,
i was greeted by a nice big hug and the statement ooh you smell nice-cant complain when i reeked of woodsmoke and campfire now can i.

hope you have enjoyed the pics, one step closer to the boone challenge for me, i dont think the rescue bag will be coming, its a great bag and nice and warm but far far too heavy for carrying
 

Biker al

Member
Apr 4, 2013
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Renfrewshire
fantastic trip report guys , its always better with loads of pics , you delivered it well !

cant wait for my wild camp at the end of the month now ..

Al
 

Teepee

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jan 15, 2010
4,115
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Northamptonshire
Nice one Sam, glad you and Pete had a good one :)

Are you sure they weren't theBushcraft police looking for that shirt?
 

Albus Culter

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Jan 14, 2013
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West Yorkshire
Very nice mate. Oh those kebabs looked good. Juicy meat and scorched bits for flavour hmmmmmmm :)

Very nice pics and write up. So going to have to make the trip to come join you. I'll place my order for kebabs now ;)
 

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