If you could teach a person just one thing about bushcraft, not in philosophical sense because we've touched on stuff like that before, but practically speaking, just one thing, what would it be?
One skill and one skill only...
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how to keep trying! :roll:
there is no one subject i would want to specialise in, i feel they all sort of merge into one :?:
there is no one subject i would want to specialise in, i feel they all sort of merge into one :?:
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A solid knowledge base.
Unless of course, you are speaking of one skill. Then that would have to be fire.
Unless of course, you are speaking of one skill. Then that would have to be fire.
The one new skill i have is tracking. This i would hate to lose. All small boys can light a fire and I never grew up.
Improvisation.... how to improvise stuff out of what you are carrying and natural resources around us.....
Ed
What I would teach another person?
That would be the 3 rules of survival, the 4 priorities and then a few tips like: remember to make an insulating bed and make the roof on your shelter steep, etc. That would be if the time was limited.
But if we had a couple' days, it would probably be firecraft. :roll:
That would be the 3 rules of survival, the 4 priorities and then a few tips like: remember to make an insulating bed and make the roof on your shelter steep, etc. That would be if the time was limited.
But if we had a couple' days, it would probably be firecraft. :roll:
Paganwolf
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
its obvious ! one part whisky to one part ginger wine :rolmao: :biggthump HHmmmmm seriously tough one that, how to sharpen a knife properly while finding water and lighting a fire and putting your shelter up :?: can i have that as one thing Kim :?: 
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Graham Snowdon
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I'm a newbie here but I reckon
Sustainability.. Covers not just you and your family and friends but the environment you are sustaining yourself family and friends from. Covers all really, can't sustain yourself with a blunt knife or a leaking shelter or unfiltered water and you'll soon not be able to sustain yourself and family if the environment that sustains you isn't sustained.
Have I lost everyone??
Sustainability.. Covers not just you and your family and friends but the environment you are sustaining yourself family and friends from. Covers all really, can't sustain yourself with a blunt knife or a leaking shelter or unfiltered water and you'll soon not be able to sustain yourself and family if the environment that sustains you isn't sustained.
Have I lost everyone??
Endurance is essential. I think you learn this by just getting out and doing. Year round. However, I think some people are inherently better at enduring hardships than others. Part biology and part how you were raised.
Sometimes having fun can be hard work. A lot of it is psychological. I've seen people whine endlessly about having to work "hard" but then turn around and spend big bucks at a health spa to run on a treadmill.
Sometimes having fun can be hard work. A lot of it is psychological. I've seen people whine endlessly about having to work "hard" but then turn around and spend big bucks at a health spa to run on a treadmill.
just about bushcraft alone?
that is a really sneaky question Kim
personally i find it hard to separate lessons learned in bushcraft and lessons learned in life
i heard a lot of "words of wisdom" as a youngster and mostly they went in one ear and out the other
the one that is most important to me is
"try to learn one new thing every day"
i guess it is philosophy but it reminds me to keep my eyes and ears open and my mind active and questioning
oh and it reminds me i dont know it all yet either
Tant
that is a really sneaky question Kim
personally i find it hard to separate lessons learned in bushcraft and lessons learned in life
i heard a lot of "words of wisdom" as a youngster and mostly they went in one ear and out the other
the one that is most important to me is
"try to learn one new thing every day"
i guess it is philosophy but it reminds me to keep my eyes and ears open and my mind active and questioning
oh and it reminds me i dont know it all yet either
Tant
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Graham Snowdon
Guest
That's an excellent philosophy.
I've a friend who always tries to go a different way home from work each day just to find out new things. Traffic never bothers him because he never has to go the same route.
I've a friend who always tries to go a different way home from work each day just to find out new things. Traffic never bothers him because he never has to go the same route.
To be aware, be mindful of what is around you. It allows you to pick out the most convenient resourses in your immediates surroundings. Fire making would be the immediate skill though.
just a thought
just a thought
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Graham Snowdon
Guest
Tantalus said:
At my age, my philosophy has become "try to remember what you learned yesterday." :rolmao:
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Lycanthrope
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I hear that..
Not much else though these days old ears not what they were, not much hair left either.... :yikes:
Not much else though these days old ears not what they were, not much hair left either.... :yikes:
Paganwolf said:how to sharpen a knife properly while finding water and lighting a fire and putting your shelter up :?: can i have that as one thing Kim :?:
No you can't, that's cheating.
