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  • Come along to the amazing Summer Moot (21st July - 2nd August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
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    Two decades evidence of Birch tapping.

    Really appreciate this thread & the attentiveness to long term data and the wellbeing of trees!
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    Shamagh

    Apparently they are restocking very soon! I've been craving one of the green and black ones. You just can't beat proper craftsmanship in a great textile.
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    Wintermoot 2025

    @Chris is that your pointy tent? It's very attractive! I love the photo of Tony and the catapult, i feel like you could put some words on that and turn it into a post-punk album cover
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    Tarp teepee

    I have a Moonlight Spire It was ~70 quid, and is fairly light (although not optimised for weight). It's a glamping tent with no central pole and very very quick to put up, in a nice brown tone. Keeps at least some rain out, altho I find things inside do have a mysterious dampness to them in thr...
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    What did you forage today?

    Very excited to find some wood Sorrel on my camp out, after being shown it at the tracking session at the Moot. Tasted incredible, the citrus was with me for ages
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    My belt kit.

    I have a belt kit on camps as well as a little rucksack; mine has a knife, my house keys, sometimes money, and a face mask for smoky fires, plus a tinder bag, a compass, tissues (my nose runs in the cold), maybe a phone, and string. In a real survival situation, I'd also put a fire kit in there...
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    A brush wot I made

    What is the fluffy stuff made of? Are the bristles hazel as well?
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    Wintermoot 2025

    Just packing & getting ready to go on the road! For the second year in a row, all my doctors have been too busy to get my prescriptions in time so I really couldn't feel less like doing a big journey into the outdoors, my soul is already filled with rain. I've got a stop-off planned half way...
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    Old Fashioned Truck Stops

    I wish i could remember where we were, but we found a magnificent - extremely gentrified - motorway service station built like a longbarrow with drystone walling, a grass roof, lots of wood inside and all the food was from local farms, complete with a fancy duck pond. Honestly, I vibed...
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    Old Fashioned Truck Stops

    Disney parks do not serve alcohol as a rule but when they opened Eurodisney they were told quite flatly that would not fly in Paris XD
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    Withdrawn Karrimor Cougar - Green w/Brown

    Not looking for a rucksack atm but I hope you find a taker, that's a really stylish design.
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    Survival situation - what would you do?

    That's a good angle to consider. I've read a fair number of disaster memoirs now, and as far as I can tell the rule is 1. If everything is going to plan, shelter in place. That's much safer, preserves resources and strength, you're easier to find. 2. If something has gone horribly wrong...
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    Survival situation - what would you do?

    That's a good angle to consider. I've read a fair number of disaster memoirs now, and as far as I can tell the rule is 1. If everything is going to plan, shelter in place. That's much safer, preserves resources and strength, you're easier to find. 2. If something has gone horribly wrong...
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    Liars or Trolls? Wrong or deliberately wrong...

    Here's a collection of some of the weirdest engagement-bait AI images that have been popping up. I find them very compelling but also they make me glad not to be on facebook any more XD (note: some of these are NSFW-ish or kind of frightening or bizzare to look at!)
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    Affordable pyramid tents?

    Just me ^_^
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    Affordable pyramid tents?

    Does anyone have a rec for a tipi or pyramid style tent that's on the cheap side? Weight no issue, it's to put up (and leave up) in the garden for a bit of fun, although decent waterproofing would be good because: Wales. I did see one in a store last year and. didn't note down the brand, like a...
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    Liars or Trolls? Wrong or deliberately wrong...

    For a while I was collecting pictures of ornaments to hang up in the kitchen with cutesy passive aggressive slogans about how much thankless housework mum was doing and how she was drinking red wine to cope. It's a whole genre of object, it's so mysterious to me and also sad. Imagine getting...
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    Rule of Three

    The three seconds thing reminded me of getting lost in the woods at the Bushmoot, I didn't think about navigating in the dark when I pitched my tent. I got lost in no time at all and then more lost without stopping to think. Sobering reminder of those 'died in the jungle two meters from the...
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    Rule of Three

    When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was about another rule of three I learned from a scuba diver - if three silly little things go wrong early on in a dive or in dive prep, don't go ahead with it. It's a superstition but I can see the wisdom in it. Like, you've misplaced a tool...
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    Ridiculous leniency

    Seems like a weird exemption to me... is an antique knuckleduster not equally dangerous