The Fear
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What about doing it on a slightly windy night. That way you wont be straining to hear all those tiny noises?
Alternatively, join me on the dark side and take up night vision rifle shooting....trust me after a couple of decades lamping and n.v shooting being alone in the dark is as familiar as sitting on your own sofa
Alternatively, join me on the dark side and take up night vision rifle shooting....trust me after a couple of decades lamping and n.v shooting being alone in the dark is as familiar as sitting on your own sofa
Indeed. But the OP is concerned about the potential for folk stumbling across him. The radio could be listened to on headphones. It would still cut you off from your surroundings but wouldn't be heard by others. As you say, most of the concerns about camping alone are unfounded ~ but that doesn't prevent the sudden jump when you're suddenly raised from your slumber by an animal innocently investigating the bald monkey on the floor
If need be there are ways of shrouding and/or concealing the light of small fires and lanterns. The smell of a fire is hard to mask though. If I absolutely had to stop somewhre unplanned and wanted to remain untroubled by passers by then I'd forego both. Under such conditions a hike/camp stove would be a better source of cooking and short term warmth ~ but then the smell of cooking* is a give away. So cold food. From a peronal perspective I don't go away to be cold and hungry
. I aso want to enjoy the meals I have.* Boil in the bag is fine until the packet is/opened. Then you have an odour release for as long as you have the bag open.
Depending on his/her location it might be worth the OP nipping along to a Meet. At least some have space enough to tuck yourself away in a corner away from frm others but with the ability to have them as a sort of safety blanket.
Have you heard the sound of a woodpecker? Have you connected that sound with the vocal noises of The Predator .... mwhahaha ....
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Genius!
Or a rainy night ~ they tend to keep folk pinned in to their comforts.
Aye until the ghost stories around the campfire start!
So saying the sound of biscuit wrappers and snoring may drown out the noises, and to be honest who'd be.mad enough to accost an amassed amount of BCUK'ers?¿ (Did we ever decide what the collective noun for a group of bushcrafters was? )Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.
Earplugs are a must! Or the dulcet tones of the world service...the shipping forecast is audible zopiclone...
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That's got to be awhittling surely, or perhaps in this case maybe a aworrying, sorry I'll just get me coat.(Did we ever decide what the collective noun for a group of bushcrafters was?
It's happend before. Some local feral wildlife realised that a group of Guides were on site. Unfortunately their point of ingress and subsequent path took them into the midst of a bunch of hairy-armed BcUKers during a session of stropping their crafting tools
. It was a quick u-turn 
(Did we ever decide what the collective noun for a group of bushcrafters was?
Not a single term that all would agree to
'A slice' might be useful for when individuals meet up???
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Many years ago around 02:00 hrs while on a night Sea trout session i was walking to a run further upstream when i thought i heard a Child giggle. I stopped to listen for a bit..Nothing, so i started to walk and my mind started to go into overdrive as it does.
I walked another 40/50 yards and i hear it again only this time much louder, I froze on the spot, scanned the area with my flashlight for a good couple of minutes..Nothing.
Just started walking again when I caught something move out of the corner of my eye. I stopped, flashed the light, and sure enough there was a Child, Maybe around 3' in height wearing jeans and a hooded top around 30 yards away, She..when i say she, it sounded like a she to my ears..had her back to me..
I stopped, shone the flashlight on her and asked her if she was ok, stupid question really as it was 2 in the morning in the middle of Nowhere.
She said something that i could quite make out, as i started to walk closer to her she started sobbing, i could see her shoulder move up and down, then she asked if i was her daddy...what the Faaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!...
I froze to the spot. and shouted at her if she had lost her Family..Hey, i was scared out my pants at this point..i consider myself to be a Manly man, but on this evening i'm not afraid to admit that i reached for my knife and was not afraid to use it...
I asked her again if she was lost and where was her family...she again asked if i was her Daddy...I was nearly in tears at this point. she was just standing there with her back to me..
I eventually decided to walk closer to her all the time flashing my torch left to right, but making sure she didn't walk off. As i got about
2' from her she stopped sobbing and started to turn around..
I stopped, shone my flashlight on her....She had no Face...just a Bloody hole where her face should have been.....Run.....Usain Bolt would have been left so far behind you could have forgiven him for wearing spaceboots..
This never really happened i just made it up...enjoy that Night Alone in the Woods..
Jeezus h Christ man ! Every hair on my body is standing up !! No sleep for me tonight !!
Don’t let people scare you with silly stories. It’s a pretty safe bet anyone out to get you will wait until you’re asleep, chances are they’ll have either a really big knife or an axe (or both), when it happens you probably won’t even be aware of it.
DB
DB
Don't be silly DB, the 'stranger in the woods' is more likely to use a stake, so they can burn the evidence after the gruesome act!!!
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Ive had people tell me its not safe to sleep in the woods.
But some folk have watched too much horror...
...And, when you are of the Unfair Sex, theres always another female to try to get you to be afraid of things.
One place I stayed was unnerving.
it was North Rona, an island of ill repute. I had nightmares and was not the only one.
But in the summer the place is alive with twittering and screaming petrels, (one of the great sights of natre and one few have witnessed.) that is enought to set you off in your sleep.
The island is a happy place. The people died...But I dont think they wanted to leave when they could have.
But some folk have watched too much horror...
...And, when you are of the Unfair Sex, theres always another female to try to get you to be afraid of things.
One place I stayed was unnerving.
it was North Rona, an island of ill repute. I had nightmares and was not the only one.
But in the summer the place is alive with twittering and screaming petrels, (one of the great sights of natre and one few have witnessed.) that is enought to set you off in your sleep.
The island is a happy place. The people died...But I dont think they wanted to leave when they could have.
I have a mate who used to work as a forester, so anyway one day he gives me the old philosophical question regarding reality, you've probably herd it, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" bla bla bla so anyway Q.E.D. in a rather clumsy attempt to explain reality of the situation to him I said ,"if we take your chainsaw, into that wood, we both wear ear defenders, we close our eyes, and I hack your legs off with the saw, would you feel it ?" We don't do philosophy around here any more.
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Or use an extra long stake and also use it to spit roast the long pig over the long fire you didn't have time to regret
It's one of the rare occasions where that lie we've all told children "it's more afraid of you than you are of it" is true. People here stumble across a fellow bushcrafter at night, we say hello and share a brew. Your average person comes across us they think "that's a nutter sleeping in the woods, avoid at all costs" the wildlife however won't have the same trepidation, but in a country with no large predators I wouldn't worry too much. Although I curious deer running away when you roll over night frighten the bejesus out of you!
But what's to say you''d not come home to this?
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But what's to say you''d not come home to this?
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You've met my family then?
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