Recent content by forrestdweller

i made damper during my trips to the centre of the universe (commonly called "Australia" from self-raising flour and water, using a "dutch oven" on the campfire. i forgot the title, but Clay Hayes has a video on YouTube using an earth oven and collecting wild yeast from aspen bark. i also made...

about 6weeks ago our neighbor asked me if i knew anything about the pile of leaves next to his pond -- i already had a theory but checked it out and later put a trail cam next to it. i checked the camera a few days ago: nothing on it but working... .yesterday i planned to pick it up: misfunction...

a budgie?! run!!!

wasn't there a famous case of a guy with almost the same initials (who never got found) :P

about 15min ago on my way "to the office" (=my Wi-Fi spot) i had two animals crossing the road (which runs between a river and a steep hillside) in front of me about 300m from the village. i've to (try and) find out what exactly they were, but i believe it was a species of badgers (definitely...

i found a rusty axe head an hour ago so i'll give it a try when i'm back at my shack :-) i found an old axe head an hour ago, so i'll give that a try when i'm back at my shack:-) to get back on topic: no success with soda cans myself, only parabolic mirrors from old flashlights... might be an...

i'd pay to head on an adventure with Malcolm Douglas...

let's also not forget that the participants are limited to ten items (from a list decided by the producers) and also have to follow local legal regulations (f.i. some areas didn't allow fishing hooks with barbs)...

following this thread with interest...if anyone knows of a reasonable priced trail cam without that (imho)idiotic 5-second delay between activation and recording (or a way to bypass it) i'd be happy to know... i'm placing trail cams for a neighbor, and finding large enough gaps in the dense...

last week i cobbled up a small "veshmeshok" style backpack from various scraps i had floating around -- as it was sewn by hand it kept me occupied for a few evenings... not perfect, but it's doing it's job :)

glad to see i'm not the only one carrying multiple blades :-) (although that has been around since prehistoric times, one of many examples would be "Oetzi" the ice mummy...) my current set-up consists of ●a 12" machete (i'm in central america... a small parang would work better imho, but they're...

i had my share of close calls involving widow makers since coming to central america: on one occasion a dead tree we'd told our neighbor about for over six months decided to land on the roof 4m from where i was sitting and right over my toilet... another time i just took off in time when i heard...

Mora seems to be busy releasing new knifes lately....

what's that little pouch behind the knife for? my guess the material was originally something different, but the camo pattern looks very familiar to me...

the spork or the puukko?