Basic kit for a 1 night stay?

[FGYT]

If it's an overnight, low impact camp this is the kit I usually take.

your very good at the far away thoughtfull look into the distance

ATB
Duncan

 

[led]

Goose/anyone,

For the other end of the line as a lashing to a tree would you recommend a clove hitch? Or is there a better technique?

Matt.

Try the tautline hitch so you can adjust it.

 

[Matt Weir]

Ahh,

Thanks led.

I definately need to bone up on knots so I'm sat here at work putting knots into CAT5 ethernet cables

Edit: CAT5 is no good for tying a tautline hitch (too slippy) so I'm off to find some rope

Edit: Nipped out at lunch and bought some paracord. I have cut a small length and have been practicing the bowline and tautline hitch over and over all afternoon and am pleased to say I'm getting pretty profficient

I think I'll be having a crack at putting the tarp up in the garden when I get home

Matt.

 

[Goose]

I usually use the falconers knot/hitch to fasten the first end of my tarp to the tree and a variation of it on the other end that allows me to pull it tight, but will undo with a good tug on the standing end. On my hammock I take a turn round a tree usually, depends on size of tree, and a slip knot to tie it back to itself. It is a lot easier to show than explain! I will dig out my hammock and camera later today or tomorrow.

 

[Matt Weir]

Thanks Goose,

That'd be great.

Matt.

 

[Goose]

Here is a link for tying the falconers hitch http://www.themodernapprentice.com/knot.htm
Thanks to LED for the link.
I use that on one end of the tarp line then on the other to keep it tight I take the rope around the tree then take it back the the other way, it pulls the line even tighter and if there is enough cordage I go back around again. Then i finish this with a slip knot usually similar to the falconers.

My hammock is the mosquito hammock and I use basically the method described on here to tie it up, not had chance to get my kit out today. http://www.mosquitohammock.com/hammockknots.html
If it is too far between the trees, or the trees are too wide, I tie a loop through the hammock so I have one longer line out and tie on using the falconers knot.

 

[Matt Weir]

As a side note I want to apologise to Dunk for the thread hijack. Could one of the mods please move the posts regarding knots for tarps. Probably best to stick them in rigging a tarp if possible.

Thanks,

Matt.

 

[Andy B]

Well seeing as this is a bushcraft website and not a camping website. I would say nothing and see if you cam improvise everything you need.

 

[gregorach]

Oooh, a smart-alec reply on a thread over a year old. Very good! Bonus points for trying to dictate what you think the forum should be about.

I'm sure we're all in awe of your purity. Do enlighten us, oh master...

 

[Andy B]

lol sorry couldnt resist,

 

[rik_uk3]

Well seeing as this is a bushcraft website and not a camping website. I would say nothing and see if you cam improvise everything you need.

Bushcraft is camping the minute you setup for the night. While some find it trendy to proclaim 'I'm a bushcrafter' I still think of all of us here as a bunch of happy campers who like to keep some old traditions and camping methods alive and well

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/camping

 

[Allie]

Bushcraft is camping the minute you setup for the night. While some find it trendy to proclaim 'I'm a bushcrafter' I still think of all of us here as a bunch of happy campers who like to keep some old traditions and camping methods alive and well

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/camping

I think it's a bit more than that though, considering you can practise bushcraft without camping. Yes, there's camping involved, and in that aspect I'd agree with you, but then there's wild food/medicine/leatherwork/woodwork etc etc that doesn't really have much to do with camping..

Of course that's taking your post out of context, without much relevance to this (very old) thread

May I also ask why the revival of this thread?

 

[rik_uk3]

I think it's a bit more than that though, considering you can practise bushcraft without camping. Yes, there's camping involved, and in that aspect I'd agree with you, but then there's wild food/medicine/leatherwork/woodwork etc etc that doesn't really have much to do with camping..

Of course that's taking your post out of context, without much relevance to this (very old) thread

May I also ask why the revival of this thread?

When I was a boy scout some 40 years ago, we used tarps, made leanto shelters, lit fires, learned first aid, we were just scouts not bushcrafters The leatherwork etc you mention goes back to what I said about keeping old skills going, these often fit in well with camping.

 

[Allie]

When I was a boy scout some 40 years ago, we used tarps, made leanto shelters, lit fires, learned first aid, we were just scouts not bushcrafters The leatherwork etc you mention goes back to what I said about keeping old skills going, these often fit in well with camping.

But you wouldn't call scouts just campers would you?