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  • Hey Guest, Early bird pricing on the Summer Moot (29th July - 10th August) available until April 6th, we'd love you to come. PLEASE CLICK HERE to early bird price and get more information.
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    Best way of eating freeze-dried food packs

    I've just read an article in Bushcraft And Survival Skills magazine Issue 56 (May/June 2015) which compares different packaged meals, some 'wet packs' and some freeze-dried. The reviewer pretty much writes off most of the freeze-dried packs on the grounds of taste and appearance, and...
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    Survive The Tribe

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2685948/Meet-hunky-explorer-moved-worlds-remotest-tribes.html. Starts Thu 17 July on Nat Geo.
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    Personal Locator Beacons

    Has anyone here gained any real-life practical experience of using Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) and/or satellite messengers? Sailing or mountaineering? I know there are a few different devices available - looked at McMurdo, SPOT, etc. My understanding is that a PLB would rely on a...
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    Canoe trip into the UK wilderness

    Found by a colleague of mine, I thought it was so inspiring that I would share it here rather than losing it into one of the existing canoe threads ... http://www.theguardian.com/travel/video/2013/sep/10/scottish-highlands-wilds-by-canoe-video True wilderness and a great video, time to get...
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    National rat packs from around the bazaars

    Everything you wanted to know about ration packs and plenty of national stereotyping thrown in as well ... http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/18/eat-of-battle-worlds-armies-fed Come on then fellas, whose is the best?! :)
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    Outfitting my canoe by Ray Goodwin

    Great piece by Ray Goodwin http://frontierbushcraft.com/2013/09/19/outfitting-my-canoe-ray-goodwin/?doing_wp_cron=1385157728.4860060214996337890625 He's a good egg, I love the way he got his wee girl involved in rigging the boat and some tripping. Hopefully this is a useful guide or provides...
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    New member interested in attending the Bushmoot

    Hello folks, joined the forum in the hope of attending the Bushmoot (or at least a couple of days). I went to a meet at the Bison farm in Wiltshire a couple of years ago and regretted not being able to stay overnight, it looked like a nice woodland site. Also a member of Song Of The Paddle...