Recent content by synoptic

Hehe :D That's quite a cool game! Requires quite a bit of dexterity on some rescues though! Good job I'm not an SAR pilot :lmao:

Excellent, sounds like were building up the interest! Meant to go and visit the information centre this weekend but got caught up with house-selling chores :( I will get on the case asap and see if we can make this happen. Fingers crossed :)

Are we all getting a bit tame in our old age? Take a hip flask of finest gulping whisky and you can clean, ignite and be merry :lmao:

Cool! I think I'm going to go to go along at the weekend to have a bit of a recce and also see what type of volunteer work is available. Cheers.

Thanks for the advice, that sounds like a good way to approach them. If I frame the request along the lines of 'we will do volunteer work if you let us camp on your land' would people be up for it? Obviously it cuts down on what we can do bushcraft wise during the day but its all in the...

Heyyy! It's my b'day too! Have a good 'un Stew. :)

You probably already know about this (although I didn't find any threads) but you can watch episodes of Ray Mears Extreme Survival on the NTL Video on Demand service. Unbeknownst to me they have radically updated service so you can actually watch programmes and films 'on demand' and not at a...

Hi Daniel, Didn't mean to cause offence :o ! I know that Slovakia was an autonomous state when I visited but I did get the feeling that some of the officials were still hanging onto old habits! Our group was quite conspicuous and the minibus we had drew a lot of interest in the rural...

I went on a trip to Slovakia about 10 years with a bunch of climbers and cavers and I have to say it is one fantatically beautiful place. We stayed in the Stary Smokovec area which was ideal in terms of access to the High Tatras - cheap food and accomodation, good transport links (putting our...

I was considering potential sites for a BushcraftUK meet in my area and thought that Lyme Park would be an ideal location. It has some lovely woodland and diverse terrain that would make for an interesting meet location. With the resident deer it may also provide an opportunity to study tracks...

Thanks for the tips, will take a look at the links. Bent-stick - I may be up for share of a group buy if you get enough takers. Cheers.

Hehe! Yes, I do get gear fixations :lmao: Thanks for the link, will check it out.

Not to disregard the wrongs and rights of the whole situation but.... as Draven says: Now, as a past student of literature (ahem :o :o ) ) I understand how the unreliable text can cause multiple subjective interpretations of any one objective fact... :lmao: Basically, you can't draw...

Okay, Ordered my starter bushcraft knife (as discussed on other thread http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=15368 ) , made my sharpening blocks and was getting quite interested in having a bash at a sheath for it. I've read the tutorials on this site and BB which have really...

Oooohhhhhh, like that sheath very muchly :) Don't suppose you have the pattern for that do you? ;) I'll take a look at the KJ but as lovely as the Helle Eggen looks its price puts it one stage ahead of where I am I think. Thanks for the advice :D