another overnighter (pic heavy)

[m.durston]

hi all,
heres the pics to the overnighter that i took my son daniel on with my mate chris (ladypacker manson see other thread for details!)
we had fantastic weather all weekend down at the site and apart from the now expected deer barking in the middle of the night a good nights sleep was had by all.
we now think our campsite is the munjac equivalent of 'blueberry hill' with all the male deer doing their best tom jones impression to woo the ladies.
i also met the guy who lives further down the track and owns the land next to the wood, i didnt realise until i walked off but he is dave from the 80's cockney band chas n dave!
we also saw the paintball guys on saturday night as they were packing up and one of them was genuinely bemused why we would spend the night in such an eerie wood (his words).
apparently he spent one night up there right next to where the munjac dens are, and spent the entire evening cr*pping himself holding a big maglite lol
anyways heres the pics.
my son daniel under his basha, i made it from an old ipk i had lying about.

chris under his basha, he decided to leave the ladypacker at home this time lol

my setup for the weekend

our cooking arrangements, we saved the hazel posts from last time and added and old bbq grill from the paintball safezone.

breakfast bannock

chris decided do go and chop up a fallen birch, he forgot to take the cover off his gb forest axe lol

chris is losing at top trump so decides to get a tactical advantage

daniel pulling the skin off the rabbit

rabbit cooking on a hazel spit

daniel making his own pot hanger out of hazel and fastened with tree root.

all of us with our bergens on ready for home

 

[MartinK9]

Great Pictures, looks like you all had a great time.

 

[Shewie]

Great pics fella, Daniel looks like he loving it too.

Love the axe piccy

 

[Tank]

Great pics. Good to see your son getting well into it

Lol Chas and Dave!! Amazing!
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

 

[maddave]

Great photo's looks like a fine time was had by all.

 

[drewdunnrespect]

wish i was there sounds like you had an ausome time

 

[helixpteron]

That's a great outing, the expression of the little lad says it all!

 

[GordonM]

Nice! Great bringing your little man on the trip. Tell Chris the tiger stripes give "cred" to his chiseld "ladypacker manson" look!

Thanks for letting us share in the pictures.

Gordy

 

[rik_uk3]

Wonderful to see youngsters involved.

 

[dwardo]

Yup the lads face does say it all

In regards to the axe sheath you are not the first and you wont be the last
I have lost count of how many sheathes i have lost or damaged however it does improve your leather working skills

 

[BCpete]

looked great fun

 

[m.durston]

cheers for the positive comments, daniel was looking forward to it for ages.
the only problem we had was finding something that he will eat.
when i took him shopping i asked him what he would like to take and he replied "chicken pie" . i told him i wasnt going out and buying a dutch oven just so he can cook some of aunt bessies offerings over a fire. the search has been narrowed to beef n tomato pot noodle but i'm working on getting him to eat those breakfast brunch in a tin lol
he now wants to do this again so i will start to upgrade his kit the more he gets into it, so i'm going to get him a vango alpha 200 tent for christmas so he can camp in the back garden with his younger brother.

chris still hasnt repaired the axe cover as he is trying to find some decent leather to cover it lol i think it can be repaired with heavy duty cotton thread and a decent covering of araldite over the top to seal it in.

and finally yes the tiger stripes do look cool, i have a set myself for when we do our US special forces vietnam look for airsoft. the reason i wasnt in them was i didnt want the pair of us looking like tweedledum and tweedledummer