Goals as a woodsman?

[TheNative]

What goals do people have and challenges they wish to fulfil as a woodsman? These could be anything from travel to kit building to skill improvement..

-I myself want to travel to many different environments to test and improve my bushcraft and survival knowledge so I would be more able to cope in foreign countries if I were in danger in the wilderness and had to fend for myself for an extended period of time.

-I also want to greatly improve my primitive skills, plant ID and tracking because this is the area of bushcraft that I mainly focus on and I feel I have a greater connection with the earth when I put these into practise.

 

[Bumbler]

Thats simply to spend more time out of the house. I have no particular goals other than make sure I have fun while out there.

 

[Scopey]

Improve my tracking, get to a jungle and arctic environment, fire by friction..

 

[dwardo]

For me its working with every type of Native and introduced species of wood using various methods and various products created, mostly bows.
Not sure its a Goal as such more an interest that will probably one day take me in a different direction.
All the other stuff just helps makes your time in the woods easier and more enjoyable.

 

[swright81076]

For me it would be to improve my tree and fauna id, then pass on everything I've learned to my kids.

touched by nature

 

[Man of Tanith]

1 get a comfortable level of all round d knowledge.
2 get my reliance on kit down-gettin there with this un honing down amount of stuff everytime
3 teach Jake all he knows (not necessarily all I know)
4 relax unwind and enjoy my natural environment.

5 drink a lot of tea

 

[Niels]

Find my own food, fire and shelter and enjoy myself

 

[Tiley]

Get better at plant identification and learn their taxonomic names. Trees I can do but the huge range of other, lowly plants - including their uses, where appropriate - still remains something of a mystery. I know some but not nearly enough...

Also, I'd like to try and improve my identification of fungi, again learning their taxonomic names, to make the process of fungi foraging that bit safer.

 

[Elen Sentier]

Improve my skills so I need less and less kit when I'm out. And have a patch of woodland nearby where I can practice

 

[robin wood]

make some good bows, make a birch bark canoe both on my list.