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Thanks for replying everyone, I'm very familiar with the Forest myself,camped out numerous times recently and spent loads of my childhood there staying at my grans. I may well take you up on your offer, when the weather improves, if thats ok We'll let others add to the thread and then get...

I just wondered who, or how many members are in the Bristol/Gloucester area and may be up for spending some time out over in the Forest of Dean or elsewhere local ? I didn't get out enough this year, as I was waiting for everyone else to sort themselves out and don't want to be in the same...

You'll struggle to beat the River Wye in good weather... You can easily do 3 or 4 days and the best stretch is the last day, through the Yat down to Monmouth. Pub lawns and small campsites for overnight stops. Buzzards, Peregrines, Kingfishers and Salmon along the way, with shingle beaches...

Just remove the brown woody casing, then scrape off the fury, fluffy layer until they're mostly white and eat them raw. Its that simple..

Limpets are easy survival food, - I've never been out run by one yet ! The trick is to catch them by surprise otherwise they tighten down on the rock. Cook them upside down in the embers, until they shrink in free from the shell and then rip off the little black ball containing the organs...

Thanks for that, I'll explore deeper.- Looks like a well stocked store. Although it mentions polly coatings, it does look like the sort I'm after. The loops seem to be on the better ones, rather than just the eyelets. Thanks, Forest

A couple of us have been given passes (by the wives!) for a boys weekend away in October. Following our 3 day canoe & camping trip in June we're now considering something like a peak walk and overnight camp, possibly Dartmoor or the Brecons, due to tollerance of Wild camping. Can anyone...

Whats the ideal material for a tarp/basha ? I've tried a few, but the seem too 'plasticky'. They rustle all night like a plastic bag, and don't fold up very well or small. Can you get them made of 'pure canvas' type material, like a tent, that don't have any type of 'polly' or plastic...

www.woodlandsgroup.org.uk was recently set up with this kind of idea in mind. So far, it's not got going under full steam, as it's not widely known about yet. It needs a few more 'potential buyers' before it can start to actually link people together with financial buying power. Forest

No, but I have been to Cambrian Survival in Aberystwth and they're very good. http://www.cambriansurvival.co.uk/welcome.html Forest

Registration is free to begin with until the site gets going. (prob 6 -12 months) He felt that you wouldn't pay £100 p.a. to list your requirements unless you were serious about investing. On the other hand if the £100 saved you £10-20k on a peice of woodland by sharing it, it was good value...

This is the same idea me and a freind had. He who also happens to be a web designer, so after we talked about it for a few months he knocked up a site in a couple of evenings to cater for exactly that: finding other people willing to invest a few quid without spending a wedge and having all the...

A friend of mine has set up a new website with the concept of bringing like minded people together who may have an interest in acquiring woodland, either buy buying it, or letting & hiring woodland. As explained on the home page, the idea is that people can 'pool' together to buy and manage...

So, bringing the thread back to the top.... Where else does anyone recommend canoeing? or, where has anyone else canoe'd and had a good experience? (prefereably canadian canoes - the two man open type! ) Thanks

I'm in Bristol aswell and I don't think there are too many places locally, other than perhaps the Leigh Woods, Blaize Castle areas or perhaps Dundry where I grew up as a kid, but you'd have to be careful. - Usual rules: Camp late, be discreet & leave early. I do all my camping over the bridge...

We just pulled them out of the water and put them next to the tents. - only 5mtrs from the waters edge. You could padlock them together if you wanted, by putting a chain through the seats Contact : monmouthcanoehire@hotmail.com> if you fancy it... Forest

It was absolutely superb, you could have heard a pin drop on the water. We saw Kingfishers, Buzzards, Peregrines, Kestrels, Cormorants, Herons, Deer, Trout, Salmon & Barbel, oh - & 4 million swans! Cost the four of us approx £50 each for the three days boat hire complete with all the...

Four of us canoe'd the River Wye last weekend in glorious sunshine. We spent 3 days and covered just under 40 miles, cooking by fire on the river banks lunchtimes and camping at a pubs/campsites overnight. (Boats hired from Monmouth Canoeing Centre) The stretch from Symonds Yat to Monmouth...