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    Cumbrian Postal Routes

    Just seen a local news piece about old cumbria postal routes. These were the routes postal workers walked to deliver post and newspapers. They linked often remote parts of Cumbria often by 15 mile routes every day. The news was about a guy who wrote a book about them after hearing about l'al...
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    kit. three decades of changes

    May late 70s. so long ago i walked around the Yorkshire dales doing a gold D of E exped. Carrying an external frame rucksack with a shared cotton inner and fly vango force 10 with a Peter Storm orange neoprene waterproof in a 2nd hand pair of Hawkins boots my brother loaned me. Wooly jumper with...
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    Difference Between Bushcraft Knife Skills and Whittling

    There is a tradition of knife skills within bushcraft that overlaps much with, but also differs in some ways from traditional whittling. I wonder what others opinions are about this. Also, does anyone know about the history and origins of this specifically bushcraft-style knife use? Thank you