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Hi folks, I need a good number of hill days before going for my ML training. I'm based at Dounans Centre, Aberfoyle, Trossachs, and I'm looking for people to go and practice some skills with. I have no transport and I'm finding it difficult to get places! I'm a volunteer at the centre after...

Does anyone have any knowledge of natural tinder that works well with a firesteel? I'm sick of using tissue paper, and I really need something I can find lying around in case myself or my kit get wet through. I do canoeing/bushcraft so this is even more important.

Hi folks, Just wondered who else enjoys combining their bushcraft stuff/wilderness travel etc. with amateur radio (HF QRP (low power)). I've been into radio stuff for a while and usually combine the two, I find they compliment one and other well. I use a tiny radio transceiver called a...

The term bushcraft to some might mean the ideal of self sufficiency, making full use of what the land has to offer, but to others a mounting kit list of everything but the kitchen sink, and probably more, is an absolute necessity when venturing out into the woods. I have read some claims of...

My recent purchase of a brand new hammock from ebay prompted me to explore a brand new area of bushcraft (for myself at least), and find a whole range of new possibilities for myself that had previously lain undiscovered. The main advantage I immediately saw was to be liberated from the need to...

I have been very fortunate to live in a place which is so near the countryside, I live in a place in southwest Scotland which is surrounded by ample mixed Woodland of varying age and nature. I have had access to this area since I was six years old, but it is only now that I realise the true...