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I've been here for a long time, but haven't posted in ages. My brother actually took this photo of his hammock on a June evening last year, (I was busy cooking dinner - if you look carefully you will see a spit in the bottom left hand corner of the pic) - and for me it sums up the whole ethos of...

Just a thought, gents. If you want someone to cough up real dosh to join (I was a full member for several years before letting it lapse last winter), then you might want to have a big red button or something similar to let people subscribe their hard earned cash. It is way too complicated at...

I oiled up a few spoons today which had been laying around for some time, and thought I might post 'em up. The Birch I made last weekend in the woods, in heavy rain! I am pretty rubbish at spoons, but by gum it's a great way to pass the time by the fire. The bulbous-ended rhododendron at the top...

I'm off to a 'Stag' weekend (four days in all) soon, in a beautiful part of the Peak District, and there will be 13 guys there in all. I'll be the oldest, by a decade (my brother, the groom, is 12 years younger than me.) But there will also be a few of my cousins there. Now this little Irish...

A couple of miles from where I live there's an old RAF radar station left over from the Cold War, and on average I will sleep out there about once a week, fire up the old hobo stove and sit puffing a pipe and watch the stars. All very nice - and handy - the headland is a windy place, and I...

This is not truly a Bushcraft kind of thing, but I just felt compelled to share it here. I just had an interesting experience in my local bus station. A trio of youths (17-20), were smoking inside the station, and when the elderly janitor asked them to take it outside (there are lots of signs...

Not quite sure if this is the right place for this, but I was wondering whether any members have ever visited the valley of Thursbitch in Cheshire? After reading Alan Garner's book about the place, and even more after reading the following: http://alangarner.atspace.org/votd.html I have a...

I've read the sticky on wild camping, so I'm fairly familiar with the legal ins and outs of it. I know that there are grey areas, that much of what can be done is due to the toleration of local landowners, national parks and indulgent farmers - that's a given. This is a question on a bit of a...

A quick query - is it allowed to have hexamine in your hold luggage on board an aircraft? (I'm travelling with Easyjet.) I've carried matches and lighters in my hold pack before with no problems...

I'm after a leather dangler loop for a d-ring dangler sheath. I know kepi and rancid badger have made these in the past, but I was wondering if anyone has one knocking around they'd like to sell for a reasonable sum?? I would use paypal, cheque, or whatever the seller wants, pretty much. Cheers.

I've been looking at this from various traders http://www.militarymart.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=1749 and for around the 30 quid mark it seems like a bargain, despite the ugly sheath. Does anyone have any hands-on experience with this knife, or any recommendations? I'm...

I was inspired by Madgaz and his pic of his daypack and what he manages to cram into it - and let's face it - we all love looking into someone else's pack... Anyway, I've been spending a lot of time in the woods near my childhood home lately, basically to look in on my Mum and Dad more often...

I've lurked here for a while, but then I got hooked on the Fear in the Dark thread and the gripping story of the subterranean pistachio eater, and decided the whole community was such a bunch of right-minded blokes that I might as well pitch in. I'm over the hill, age-wise, and a much bigger...