Recent content by Stuart Danger

Thanks for the advice! I was actually starting to worry about my sharpening technique, as I could never get my Mora knives sharp. I perserved and spent an extra two or three mins sharpening and stropping and I can now shave my arm with them! Woowee! I'm going to try again with my crook knife...

Kepis, that sounds great. I am home in Oxford over summer but I will be back at uni in Chichester after. I'll PM you when I am home! Paulm, i will drom down to 280 and see what happens...

Hey guys I am having real trouble sharpening my spoon knife, it is a right handed ben orford and when I received it it was razor sharp and lovely to use. Now, only 3 weeks after it is dull and I can run my thumb up and down the cutting blade no problem, it doesn't bite into my nail either. I...

Thanks for all the answers guys! I did think of the bambo skewers but they are too thin, we will be cooking bannock on the end and I can imagine them snapping. I will also be driving them into the surrounding dirt so they cook, this will keep children away from the fire as they are not allowed...

Hi guys I am a L3 forest schools leader and I have a outdoor learning day coming up soon. I have 28 children one day and 28 children the next day, I am planning on doing a variety of things with them including fire building, natural necklace making and shelter building. I am in need of 28-30...

I know what you mean, my only experience of taking pictures of animals is in the zoo!!! I would love to get out and take some wild photos, but I'd much rather go walking / mountaineering and take some landscape photos instead! You have some really nice photos, I like the one with the swans...

What camera are you using? Really nice photos!

I have a 70-300mm Nikon that I got off ebay, for about £80. Very good lense but after snapping a few and uploading them I found that focusing to be off, which is something not apparent when looking at a tiny 2" screen. So now when I take pics I auto focus, snap, auto focus, snap, auto focus...

Excellent read, I really enjoyed it. Made me wish I had done a few more solo trips when my dog was around!

Wow, looks like a good weekend away. I really like the tarp hammock set up, I have been thinking of getting myself a set up similar. Do you just sleep in there with a sleeping bag? I know you are off the ground but do you use any sort of roll matt to protect your underside from getting chilly?

The second trip that we did, was late last year. It was brilliant! On the same stretch of river there is a clearing in the woods and is used by lots of people for camping, but when we went to visit on a residential to check out an abseil point we saw how much rubbish and crap there was there. So...

Nope, we justified that by saying that there were 6 of us in 3 canoes, the river stretch is familiar to us and very simple. As for being out in the sea: there was no surf at all that weekend and we made it a priority that we stuck close to the beach at all times. We also had a friend come out...

Hey I originaly posted this in the transport thread, I thought it might be more use in here! I thought I'd share a few trips that I have done in the past: I am at the University of Chichetser, studying Adventure Education (http://chi.ac.uk/aded/index.cfm) we have a done a few residential...

Wow... a kit list it was over 2 years ago now... but... We took three canadian canoes, two paddles per canoe plus a spare, also a set of canoe poles. We borrowed a tarp from Alpkit, which was brilliant, really thin made from cordura and big enough for all of us. In each barrell we divided...

Day Two We all woke up at about 6am, it wasn't too bad. There was a little bit of cloud cover and it wasn't cold. We got up, got dressed and started to pack our stuff away, ate some very good warm porridge with raisins and chocolate. We were going to need plenty of energy for the day! Once...