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  • BushMoot: Come along to the amazing Summer Moot 31st July - 5th August (extended Moot : 27th July - 8th August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
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    Am I carrying too much gear.

    For shorter trips, hikes etc. i take a 35 liter rucksack with the same stuff in it except the bulky sleepingbag. I take only the bivaque sack from the sleeping bag ,again poncho and bungies and four tent stakes. With the poncho i ll take a " wooby " wich also enables me to sleep sitting up...
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    Am I carrying too much gear.

    This list is for weekends. For longer trips a would pack on a different way, and choose different items. As you can imagine from the list, this is for stealth camping wich is not allowed in my country. However,the dutch MOD ( ministery of defence) made some locations in the woods wich are...
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    Am I carrying too much gear.

    I use the same 80 liter Dutch backpack, made by Awry ,in the main compartiment only the dutch sleepingbag inside its bivybag ,no drybag. In one side pocket; ,messtins ,and spoon, knife and bahco saw. Lifestraw waterfilter. Firesteel, lighter, headlamp, hexi cooker ,small notebook and pencilstump...
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    Forthcoming catapult ban?

    Living abroad it just exact the same here ,works the same way .
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    Forthcoming catapult ban?

    Hay forks and torches banned to ????
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    Forthcoming catapult ban?

    hay forks and torches ??
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    Forthcoming catapult ban?

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    Forthcoming catapult ban?

    made them as a youngster from a forked branche, two elastic seals from a weck pot en a piece of leather, they where pretty accurate........
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    Forthcoming catapult ban?

    My government bans everything from catapults to fatbikes wich terrorrise the streets ,but they lack police to enforce these bans, so whats the point ? Missing in these times is commen sence ,decency en responcebality.
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    Love cooking. Stuck for what to make...

    i am not people.
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    Love cooking. Stuck for what to make...

    qua patet orbis
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    Love cooking. Stuck for what to make...

    we went ashore............................
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    Love cooking. Stuck for what to make...

    1667 at Chatham Dutch Marines, we have the stern of the Royal Charles in Amsterdam .
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    Love cooking. Stuck for what to make...

    People from Holland who escaped in small boats to England to help the Britisch to fight the german army ,many got killed , know your history......................