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Hi mate! Welcome! What was your most recent trip!? And for anyone else reading … what was your spookiest moment during a solo expedition?

Lunch today was a simple affair and enjoyed by us both!!

Bump! Still for sale “helle Nordlys” £120 for the item, £10 postage via PayPal please Factory edge still intact. Very good condition Message me if you need more information thanks

TRC polheim… for EDC. Big enough to do most of my tasks and small enough to not be a hinderance. Tough enough for a beating and edge retention is fabulous. You don’t sharpen magnacut often, just a quick strop does the trick. It’s replaced many of my other more traditional and better looking...

My daughter is 3, she enjoys collecting leaves, matching to trees, setting wildlife cameras with me along with collecting sticks for the fire where we cook on the skillet. End result with food is a win Her cousins are 7, they have just received their own scout knives where I’m teaching safe...

I’m very lucky working as a squirrel ranger, seeing reds often, and of course removing greys. It’s not uncommon to see tawnys in the yews, badgers at night on the camera and more recently… I’ve been lucky to work with englands first pine marten in decades…

Having arrived at a chosen and known location I would take a look at the sky, smell the air and if all is pleasant, cook up some food. As the water starts to boil I’ll set up a tarp, hang the hammock and I’m ruffle the sleeping bag Food eaten, dishes clean, I’ll stoke up a small fire while...

Thank you all for your well thought replies and opinions on the question. I’m beginning to think my quest will never end. I have a “gentleman’s” folder I carry most days, hardly know it’s there and it’s my box opener, pocket fidget tool… There’s the middle knife which is currently the...

Hi all, I’ve been bushcrafting / wood wandering for quite a while now, and I’ve found myself on an endless quest to find the one knife that does it all for me. Where has it led? In the early days, I wasn’t too bothered, carrying any old folder that caught my eye—usually a Buck, Opinel, or...

It’s what I was taught many years ago, (in Ireland )I do agree though. Big pot on a fire I wouldn’t stop a rolling boil to be on the safe side but nine time out of ten I’m using a gas canister. Stream water i usually bring to a good rolling boil and have done it. Lucky to live in a place with...

I’ve always been taught that for true safe drinking water, it aught to be filtered then boiled for 15 minutes. It’s a lengthy process for not all that much when you consider how little we carry with us for a day or two out. Not much comes for free that’s worth it. This includes sipping from a...

Bump. Reduced to £220 with £10 p+p Age verification via Royal Mail Thanks

Thanks!! Lots of wisdom on here it’s great

Camp… trusty collected Scot’s pine fat wood and fire steel. While i usually have a lighter in the EDC bag, feels wrong to light the fire any other way when adventuring At home usually fire lighters, although some times I enjoy making a feather stick or two. Usually when the fire lighters have...

Thank you, I've been in the shadows for some time!