How Long?

[stu1979uk]

Hi all,
What is the longest time anyone here has spent in the outdoors with out returning home or ditching the night sky for a B&B? and also where.

I'll be honest, 2 nights was my effort in a weekends fishing trip at Loch Awe Scotland.

 

[Goose]

About three to four weeks. Spent most of one year in a tent, working with groups, usually went home at weekends but sometimes stayed on site.

 

[Richardpotts]

Not much more than a week I reckon - that was with the TA and cadets, so dossing under a poncho every night and getting rudely woken (or not as in one case) by people attacking the camp.

Definitely need to do some longer bushcraft expeditions...maybe we sould club together and organise some regional ones?

 

[pothunter]

21 nights in central France, packing up to come home was hard work. Took me two weeks to settle back to work and being in doors at night, used to sit out by the fire trying to imagine I was still there.

Stone chats in the morning, sheep with bells in the evening wasps all day although no one was bitten in all the time we were there.

Happy days, Pothunter.

 

[Joff]

Six months in a South American jungle! That was very hard coming back to civilisation!

 

[Kees]

a month in the Papuan jungle, sleeping in a hammock, great ,can't wait to get back coming July again for a month working with the locals, eating there traditional foods, and like Ray Mears showed last episode cooking in a pit.(pig not deer) shot with bow and arrow and butchered by myself I can tell you that was the best pig meat I ever had.

 

[Brendan]

Two months in Victoria Austrailia, picking grapes near the Murray river.
Lived on grapes,tomatoes and yabby most of the time and lost about 3 stone in weight!

 

[PJMCBear]

2 n half flipping months in the deserts of Saudi, Kuwait and Iraq. Sometime in a tent, sometime in a Landrover and sometime in a trench/firescrape. I then spent 4 months waiting to be flown home. The 4 most boring month in my life.

 

[JFW]

The longest I spent was 12 days on my own in the Loch/River Pattack area, west of Dalwhinnie, never saw another sole the whole time I was there. I took mostly dried food and supplemented this with fish and anything else I was lucky enough to catch. It was bliss, never felt lonely but did miss some luxury food items - I now know you can never take enough chocolate...

Cheers

JFW

 

[dommyracer]

probably 3 weeks camping in normandy when I was a nipper with the folks.

 

[Hoodoo]

Three weeks alone in wilderness backpacking, a couple months or more on at least two occasions living out of a backpack, combining hitchhiking, hopping freight trains, and wilderness hiking. I slept under a lot of bridges.

Many two week backpacking trips, usually alone. Many week-long canoe trips. More 3-6 day trips than I can recall.

 

[baggins]

I spent 2 months travelling around romania with a mate and a microlight, slept under the wing every night. As this was only a year after their revolution, there was hardly any electric lighting (no street lights, no light pollution), the sky was mesmerizing every night.
Also spent a month in the Aussie outback with a random group of people who met in a hostel and had a camper van. living off food from road house shops was a very "binding" experience.