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A naive question, I'm afraid (I should really have done my own research before asking): if the experienced could suggest just one how-to-bushleather book, which would it be ? I've also been thinking of getting leathered in 2010.

... nettles are your friends.

If you're among the trees, stay away from the finer roots, which can act as fuses. Use a liner if the earth won't be damp enough after the fire has been burning for a while.

Referring to a concurrent thread, you know you're a bushcrafter when you take photographs of rigging, to show your mates.

My billy's crimped. But how about this for an eye splice in wire rope ?

Found something similar, years ago - called in the authorities (who dismantled it). It was during more Troubled times.

Your children think that wood smoke smells like Daddy. You have rather too informed an opinion on sharp things. You can watch Bear Grylls as entertainment.

Thanks. And thanks - I'll pay more attention cutting and pasting next time. It's getting quite late - I should probably go out and check on her to see if the experiment worked. There wasn't much wax left in that tea light.

Happy now ? [edit: great, now I have to re-learn how to post images]

Copy that - I'm not knocking training; just warning against unquestioning adherence (of which I'm accusing no-one, by the way). Or excusing myself as an autodidact, anyway: almost every BC technique I've picked up has been something I've read rather than seen demonstrated on a course. Using...

Too late ! That just what I did last year; for home arborism more than recreation (although all gardening is recreation). My old bouldering harness does remind me of my gender, but it's enough to get me and a pruning saw into more precarious situations than before I got a fancy tree rope...

I'm not sure if I've got it across yet, but I've been (very) pedantically looking at the theory, not the practice; armchair survivalism. To avoid further instruction into the 'how' (I sought the 'why') I will settle for my mistake being that I was reviewing the volume quasi-statically...

No argument with a raised platform. My only contention is that you're raising yourself to air that you've warmed, not from air that was already cold before you arrived on-site. To re-phrase: all else being equal, do you (this is a very fine distinction) build a higher ledge or a deeper...

That's partly my point: wasn't the cold air there already, until you arrived ? Once you're inside, what changes is that there is now some warm air which you seek, rather than some cold air which you avoid. I think. Very pedantic, I know; but it still seems to me that lowering a trench (as...

I've recently been reading another manual with a section on snow shelters, which has the standard (?) 'make a trench for the cold air' advice. This will be pedantry, but I want to make sure that I understand what's meant. Although I've made a variety of snow shelters (kids are a great excuse)...

I have the hex fly (which has decent coverage). With hindsight, I'd have gone for a catenary tarp of about the same size. It's probably worth pointing out that many people are very happy, and heavier of pocket, with alternatives to HH.

I've been down to near 0°, and there are plenty of folk that have been colder. You will need insulation at these temperatures: the advantage of an underblanket (use the Search) is that it doesn't compress.

Not too windy ?

What was the weather doing while we were away ? The snow has at least two clear ice strata; and, clearing the drive, I've been finding fossilised car tracks. But what a beautiful noise it makes as the layers yield underfoot. Pipes OK (thank fricative). No foxes, just rabbits on our turf...

Flight from Dyce delayed by 30 hours. Currently in South Britain, with the rural landscape made festive by the twinkling lights of stranded cars. Worried if the pipes'll be intact when we get back.