What's your main outdoor activity?

[xylaria]

I am a puzzled, I don't think the bird/nature watching really describes what I do. The natural crafts I do, but not as much as plant and fungi eating, which is not on the list. I don't hunt or fish because like Jodie I am a townie and hunting is country skill which I have never had the opportunity to learn But I would dearly love to learn.

As a forager I always feel the don't walk on grass type of nature-watcher, don't understand how nature works. I hate bird reserves because i cant look at the plants. If the plants weren't there the birds wouldn't be either. I suppose it is the same as townies not understanding the various types of hunting and the effect it has on the balance. IMHO the best way of understanding an ecosystem is to be part of it.

 

[Matt Weir]

I am a puzzled, I don't think the bird/nature watching really describes what I do. The natural crafts I do, but not as much as plant and fungi eating, which is not on the list. I don't hunt or fish because like Jodie I am a townie and hunting is country skill which I have never had the opportunity to learn But I would dearly love to learn.

As a forager I always feel the don't walk on grass type of nature-watcher, don't understand how nature works. I hate bird reserves because i cant look at the plants. If the plants weren't there the birds wouldn't be either. I suppose it is the same as townies not understanding the various types of hunting and the effect it has on the balance. IMHO the best way of understanding an ecosystem is to be part of it.

Ah, good point - the poll needs a foraging option.

 

[Womble]

well i go camping...then do the rest of those things while im there. lol

Same with me - it all comes from the initial act of going camping. However, there's nothing I like more (in bushcrafty terms..) than a nice calm afternoon walk in my local woods.

 

[gunnix]

Sleeping and making fire... most sleeping

 

[dwardo]

Sleeping and making fire... most sleeping

lol our kids the same the minute he gets his hammock up and tarp over you can see him edge ever nearer to the hammock then before you know if you hear snoring

Oh an this can be at 10 am

 

[David B]

Canoeing

Well that is, I use the canoe as a vehicle to allow me to indulge, in all the other options in areas that are dificult to access by other means.

I have recentley completed a trip from Rannoch moor to Perth, 5 days self contained and although some of the route passed through populated areas, it was as close to natural wilderness as you can get in britain.

 

[Nightwalker]

It said what you do most so I voted for kayaking. I do love to camp out also. Would like to get an open cannoe sometime in the future.

 

[Goose]

Sleeping and making fire... most sleeping

:notworthy

 

[JonnyP]

I am a puzzled, I don't think the bird/nature watching really describes what I do. The natural crafts I do, but not as much as plant and fungi eating, which is not on the list. I don't hunt or fish because like Jodie I am a townie and hunting is country skill which I have never had the opportunity to learn But I would dearly love to learn.

As a forager I always feel the don't walk on grass type of nature-watcher, don't understand how nature works. I hate bird reserves because i cant look at the plants. If the plants weren't there the birds wouldn't be either. I suppose it is the same as townies not understanding the various types of hunting and the effect it has on the balance. IMHO the best way of understanding an ecosystem is to be part of it.

I do voluntary work at a nature reserve. Its great, I get a whole wet meadow to myself, and in return, all they want is a list of all the plants that grow there....

 

[anthonyyy]

...

Shame that bloody duck ruined the pic.

 

[EdS]

gin and tonic.

The cider around the fire pit.

May be I should elave the garden more.

 

[Sickboy]

Voted camping as it's the thing i do most on the list, but could be any of them really, although flying kites isn't on there and i do this most lunch times, if i can sneak off work for long enough that is (though it's been a few week's due to a never ending circle of injurys, must be getting old )

 

[KAE1]

Hmmm...fieldsports still up front, I guess John Craven and Bill Oddie haven't voted yet.
Enjoying the comments

 

[Jodie]

KAE1 - I like Countryfile and grey squirrels. Sorry about that

Wayland - your photography is really lovely.

 

[twisted firestarter]

why firestarting of course

 

[KAE1]

KAE1 - I like Countryfile and grey squirrels. Sorry about that

Wayland - your photography is really lovely.

Maybe i'm being too harsh, but the show never used to get into the nitty gritty of country life or nature. You like grey squirrels....which recipe do you use?


PS. never trust anyone in a red berghaus

 

[xylaria]

Hmmm...fieldsports still up front, I guess John Craven and Bill Oddie haven't voted yet.
Enjoying the comments

I haven't voted yet because there isn't category for me vote for. I pick and eat wild plants and try different ways of cooking them.

The bits bushcraft we learn are dictated by the enviroment we find ourselves in. I live in town and can do my foraging taking the kids the school. It is just a simple skill that can be done anywhere by anyone who took the time to learn it. I have lived in central london and dread to think how much lead etc I have eaten through foraging.

Jodie :You_Rock_ You might say you are a armchair bushcrafter but you are really good at it. The heads up and links you post are ace.

 

[oldsoldier]

Geocaching was missing, but, its mostly hiking anyway

 

[EdS]

wild foods I guess - what my grandfather and mother taught me. And the gran on the other side taught me / used me to get under the fencing at Catterick Garrison and liberate the "wild" fruit.


And sitting, chilling and watching the world go by.

 

[EdS]

PS. never trust anyone in a red berghaus

Not sure about that - my offical Fell Rescue team jacket is a red Berghaus