Sorry if someone has already mentioned this or I've missed it in your list, but if youre taking sharp shiny things have you got a sutable first aid kit?
First time out kit list
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How about a camera then you can show us your trip out. Always like to see what people are doing.
Do you have a radio on our phone. If so use that but better to listen to nature and tune in.
Do you have a radio on our phone. If so use that but better to listen to nature and tune in.
Scots_Charles_River
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
It's dark at 4ish so what you going to do from 4pm till 8am ?
Carve a spoon ? You say you don't read so that's a lot of time to kill on yer todd !
Also, maybe take a wee candle or five, I use a UCO candle, gives a bit of heat int he tent and you can read by it. They last 8 hrs each.
Make sure you take plenty warm clothes/layers. After dark you may not be moving much and without a fire you will get cold, if damp, cold quickly.
I always take lots of kit even till May. My idea is when I'm sitting outside and not active then I want to be cosy and still feel happy with the knowledge I have warm clothes still in the rucksac.
Have fun
Carve a spoon ? You say you don't read so that's a lot of time to kill on yer todd !
Also, maybe take a wee candle or five, I use a UCO candle, gives a bit of heat int he tent and you can read by it. They last 8 hrs each.
Make sure you take plenty warm clothes/layers. After dark you may not be moving much and without a fire you will get cold, if damp, cold quickly.
I always take lots of kit even till May. My idea is when I'm sitting outside and not active then I want to be cosy and still feel happy with the knowledge I have warm clothes still in the rucksac.
Have fun
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Thanks for the suggestion, its in the list at the top.
Need to add a pair of tweezers tho for the inevitable splinters
Here you go = Argos wind up shower radio £5.66
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...500002901&langId=-1&searchTerms=WIND+UP+RADIO
might get one me self lol
Thats a good use for the compact camera the misses got me for christmas.
I really enjoy just mooching about the place doing almost nothing and listening to my surroundings.
Enviroment wise its open land with a tree/forest border.
Have access to fresh drinking water by walking back to the camp site. Im off the beaten track within the site. Taking it kinda easy on my first lone camp out.
Have access to fresh drinking water by walking back to the camp site. Im off the beaten track within the site. Taking it kinda easy on my first lone camp out.
Yup, Not allowed to cut wood down but can take fallen stuff.
Everytime i have a camp fire it ends up being massive :O How can i keep it compact?
Have you seen the thread on Hobo stoves. Have a look and if you do want fire it's one way of containing it.
... Everytime i have a camp fire it ends up being massive :O How can i keep it compact?
don't put so much wood on
Never seems to work for me.
I use the small contact lens solution bottles that the wife throws out for liquid soap and washing up liquid. They hold about 30ml (the larger ones hold about 120ml, I use them for meths). Refilled the soap one last week for the first time in a year or two, and I camp out a LOT. So I guess I don't use a lot of soap when I'm camping.
Can't remember the last time I refilled the washing-up liquid bottle.Anyhow, what I wanted to say was that more people seem to be suggesting more things you should take than things you could leave behind. But if you weigh twice what shaggystu does and carry sacks of coal around for a living, I think you'll manage.
Just a thought but why not have a go at the 15 item items or less competition. Then tell us all about your trip?
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