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    learning...

    learning...
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    Storing equipment

    Why not inflatable matts? We have a few of these! Cheers
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    Fun afternoon

    Loving the wands! what wood did you use?
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    Storing equipment

    think ill go with the biggest version of of these i can get, got a lot of stuff!
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    Storing equipment

    Hi all, so the times come to move all our camping stuff, ruck sacks etc out of the house as all our gear takes up to much room. I'll need to put it in the shed but being in Scotland it's cold and damp so how do I keep the gear from going moldy etc? Was thinking off putting one of the garden...
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    Identifying apps

    Does anyone use or recommend any good tree, plant etc apps for their phone? I've tried a few but to be honest the pictures etc never seem to match with the trees and I fell it just depends when the picture was took etc!
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    Austrian Army Trousers

    Dunno where your based but there is (was) a great army surplus store in Lanark, worth giving them a ring
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    Make a stick!

    Hi, I'm in sunny coatbridge, not far from Glasgow!
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    Make a stick!

    it will likely be a fresh-ish piece of birch that i will use, shall i just keep the bark on, carve/ burn etc and varnish it? it will most likely be kept indoors or the shed?
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    Bushcraft podcasts

    i listen to loads of podcasts, and Pauls is the only bushcraft one i listen too.
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    What wood for beginners carving?

    make sure your knives are sharp, i mean really sharp! to be honest ive really struggled to get my knives sharp enough to carve properly.
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    Make a stick!

    yeah, i was delighted when she said it out the blue, my friend didn't believe me and when asked she said a "stick"! i only have just over 3 weeks so dont know if that will be long enough to dry?
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    "No knife" bushcrafty activities ideas please

    teach them ho to use them properly and they will be safe. there knifes, teach them to see them as tools and not weapons!
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    Make a stick!

    great! thank you! you should i strip the bark or not, can i varnish the bark etc do you think? the attraction of the birch is the bark though! thanks very much for the "protective tree" info, me, the girls and my better half will love that! there's some great ideas but i just want something...
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    Make a stick!

    Hi all, looking for advice on how to make a stick! Yup, a stick. My little girl actually wants a stick for her her 6th birthday! When we are out in the woods she always gets a big stick and gets really upset wen they are not allowed or too big for the car and isn't allowed to take them home...
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    Fear of the dark

    love being out in the dark, just need to remember that WE are the scary things out in the woods at night. loved this thread and got my thinking of night walks we would the the kids on at camp the last few years in my job as a youth worker. the whole point of the walk, in the dark, was to show...
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    loch leven fife

    why can't you camp? as far as i know the only place you can't camp in Scotland is the east side of Loch lomond, which has a bye law!
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    Book for tree/plant identification

    i have been looking for something similar but no luck, got a few books but they just tell you the basics. years ago as we where doing a walk during a Navigation the "quest" leader pulled out a small book and started to look at the wild flowers around him, there was an audible groan from...
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    Top 5 bushcraft skills

    good post and good point! basically i think what im asking is what do you want to be able to do when your out in the woods and are proud of?
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    our self built roundhouse is really starting to take shape.

    iv'e found that most of the time (work) it's just best not to ask and no-one will care, start asking questions and the health and safety freaks all start worrying..