Don't get too set on lumping wild camping and "bushcraft". I know that camping is fun, but there is a lot more to bush skills than that and there is a lot that you can do without pitching up for the night. In fact, I reckon that it is easier to learn some things if your mind is not wandering on to pressing issues of comfort, like, "where will I sleep, what will I eat, how will I cook it?"
There have been discussions on people camping in the New Forest, but without permission its not legal and passed threads where folk have advocated just doing it have often wound up locked/removed.
New Forest! NEW FOREST!
I was caught for speeding on Bashley Common Road on the 1st July in a police radar trap!
Hampshire Police want slow drivers? I'll give them slow driving! At the peak of the holiday season I'm going to drive around the Forest roads - particularly on the A35 - at 10MPH. I'll have the traffic queues backed up to the M3!!
Jim
If anyone is interesed in carrying out conservation work in the forest, the Epping Forest Conservation Volunteers (http://efcv.uel.ac.uk/) meet 3 Sundays a month to carry out work in the forest.
Types of work include tree felling/ hedge laying/ pond clearance etc.
Anyone interested in coming along will be made most welcome.
Cheers
Stewart
Hi All
following the threads about bushcraft in the new forest just to say that we operate a full time bushcraft school in the new forest so would love to see anyone interested in courses www.sunrisebushcraft.com hope to see you soon cheers James
New Forest! NEW FOREST!
I was caught for speeding on Bashley Common Road on the 1st July in a police radar trap!
Hampshire Police want slow drivers? I'll give them slow driving! At the peak of the holiday season I'm going to drive around the Forest roads - particularly on the A35 - at 10MPH. I'll have the traffic queues backed up to the M3!!
Jim
The new forest is just too small and too full of people. The car parks are usually crammed full of cars and people having picnics in the carpark, and there is always bags of litter around the place. Not to mention that people try to make shelters all over the place but never take them down - when I used to walk there I could count at least 20 half built or broken down ones in the first couple of miles...
Bit depressing really...