Bushcraft is a broad church

[Chris]

I got an email today from Heinnie telling me it’s International Women’s Day, which had an image showing some British female faces in the British bushcraft scene and whom have contributed to the history of exploration/bushcraft/wilderness skills in some way. Attached for reference.

It reminded me of how pleasantly surprised I was at the Winter Moots I have attended, at the good mix of people that are interested and involved in bushcraft. Honestly, I’d kind of (subconsciously) expected it to be more of a bloke oriented community. I was wrong to have assumed that and it’s great to have a skill/interest that people from all walks of life get to enjoy without it being an issue.

In fact of all the communities I have been a part of, this one seems to have the best balance I’ve seen yet. I consider myself very fortunate to be part of such a community.

 

[British Red]

I think the world has changed a lot thankfully. A good friend of ours is an ex Formula 1 mechanic & steam engine restorer with a self built expedition Land Rover. She's awesome.

 

[Tengu]

Im fully in favour of women engineers, but I wonder if some get pressed into it these days.

 

[demographic]

The woman in the top picture (Lisa) went to college with my wife and is a properly nice person.
Its easy to imagine the people involved in this hobby are all middle aged blokes but some of the most knowledgeable members who give out information without a big ego are the women.

Toddy being a good example of that.

 

[RonW]

I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Lisa in person on a few occassions and was allowed to read her dissertation on Bushcraft. I still have that in printed form in my bookcase.
I also have Megan's "Mind of a survivor" on my bookself, which raises.... questions.