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Can anyone reccomend any good father and son bushcraft courses. Im on the Wales/England border in Gloucestershire. Im considering it as a Christmas gift for my lad!

Hi as many of you know im going to medicine hat in canada for two weeks and looking into it found out it was blackfoot confederacy territory. I know the confederacy was made up of 4 different tribes and i was wondering if anyone knew where i could go to find out more about them while i was...

Hi im doing a survival kit for mine and SWMBO's car due to our driving to work on dodgy roads and one of the things i wanted to incorporate are self heating ration packs. Does anyone know a good value place to get these and can reccomend any that a child would like?

When i went to Sweden this february we made a snow hole to sleep in for one of the survival nights. Basically piled up a load of snow on the first few days waited for it to settle and freeze then excavated it. Im taking my lad to Canada in january and would like to do the same (albeit on a...

Hi as a few of you know im headed to canada in january and hoping to take loads of photos the camera im borrowing takes aa batteries and im wondering what people have found are the best batteries for a digital camera in cold weather?

Hi this is my first review so be gentle I recently did an arctic survival challenge for charity and used this jumper throughout the holiday so just a quick review of it (all things expressed here are the opinion of the reviewer and not to be taken as fact etc. etc) heres it in use on the...

Hi ive found what i believe to be birch polypore and horse hoof fungus while out on my travels heres what i believe is polypore and this the hoof fungus so my question is on hte harvesting and procesing of them. I know john fenna uses polypore as an ember extender in his dragon...

Hi im going to canada (medicine hat to be specific) in January next year with SWMBO and our 6yr old. was wondering if theres any kit thats cheaper out there and any bushcrafting activities or shops out there that people think are worth a visit. Im also putting together a little survival bag/...

Being new to bushcraft and having just got the collins gem mushroom book I decided i'd take the dog for a quick walk and see what i could find while SWMBO made the tea this is my little princess when out before i had spotted what i believe to be birch polypore heres a few pics of it...

Hi i have a GF small forest axe and a cheap laplander type saw but im considering buying a small wire or chain saw to carry when im out and about, to this end i have a few questions: 1) Do people have any particular strong thoughts about them and are they useful to have? 2) how does their...

Hi im Adam from Gloucestershire (now living in the forest of dean) Most of my experience comes from running around the woods for many years when i was young. Recently did the Arctic Survival challenge for charity and had a great time with that so looking to do some more bushcraft type...