Where can I go to legally practice all aspects of Bushcraft without permission?
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You probably have too many skills and wouldn't have failed in a dramatic fashion
I don't think they were that interested in my skills at all lol. Most of the questions were about my personality... Do you argue a lot, are you a team player or a loner, what are your other interests in life etc...
I actually applied for Season 1, got a phone interview but then didn't hear anything back so I guess I'm not the sort of person they are looking for
Bad luck. But still, the national parks there may be a possibility.
You know, I kind of forgot that bit.
Well, Australia isn't all that bad a choice then. But never talk about 'bushcrafting'. It's just life in the outback.
Australia has the highest proportion of population in urban areas in the world. In other words, Crocodile Dundee is a rare character, the vast, vast majority live like a poor copy of Neighbours.
I was pretty lucky, growing up on a farm, to work with the closest thing to a Croc Dundee anyone could meet. He'd worked most of his life in the outback, made a living crocodile hunting (for skins), donkey/goat shooting and general work as a jackeroo (Aussie cowboy). He taught me how to use an adze to shape fencing, how to strain wire fences without tools and gave me an advanced course in talking Australian bull****. I already knew how to break horses. He also had the most incredibly broken body I've ever seen on a man who was still walking.
So I guess what I'm saying is that it is possible to live a life where building wooden structures from what lies to hand, eating what you can shoot *is* possible but it is a very hard road to travel.
I love the idea of living in the outback, it seems like a beautiful place, but I am terrible with heat and that would just be too much for me! I've been struggling with this British summer and it's not even that hot lol. Maybe I could adjust though...
Ideally I'm looking for a Boreal forest type area with long winters!
It is a wise person who knows their limitations. The heat is very hard to work in. I'd rather labour outside in a north English winter than an Australian summer.
Try our country Billy. Forest for thousands of miles. More forest than USA!! No roads in much of Northern Canada. Up her here in NWT you can spend weeks or months and you won't see another person. And you canoe any where you want too.
That's a massive area! Anywhere you could recommend as a rough starting point in NWT? Not looking for a specific location, just want to narrow my search down a little bit
Or is it just a case of look for a remote place with forest and lakes and I should be able to find something?
Cheers
Billy
Your problem is not choice - it is probably where you can get to by air. There's no rail service up here, nor bus. You can fly to many small airfields/villages, such as Fort Smith, Fort Chipewyan, Fort Hay, Fort Resolution, Fond du Lac, Stony Rapids. The forest is everywhere. Travelling is easy. Sort of. You can just walk or canoe into the forest and you'll not see anyone. Animals will be your only companions. We travel in fall when the snow gives good cover for dog sleds. We travelled from eastern Ontario this way before the snow melt makes travel harder earlier this year.
There's plenty of forest in Ontario too and a couple of roads and rail networks.. Travel to Timmins or Hearst (by train or Plane).
You'll need to think how you'll survive out in the forest though. Packing your food out means you won't be able to carry much or travel far. Thats why we use dog teams or canoe. City folk die up here when they get it wrong - including Brits! Look up the story of John Hornby and Hornby Point. We paddled past their graves.! No cell phone coverage then or now up here.
Your problem is not choice - it is probably where you can get to by air. There's no rail service up here, nor bus. You can fly to many small airfields/villages, such as Fort Smith, Fort Chipewyan, Fort Hay, Fort Resolution, Fond du Lac, Stony Rapids. The forest is everywhere. Travelling is easy. Sort of. You can just walk or canoe into the forest and you'll not see anyone. Animals will be your only companions. We travel in fall when the snow gives good cover for dog sleds. We travelled from eastern Ontario this way before the snow melt makes travel harder earlier this year.
There's plenty of forest in Ontario too and a couple of roads and rail networks.. Travel to Timmins or Hearst (by train or Plane).
You'll need to think how you'll survive out in the forest though. Packing your food out means you won't be able to carry much or travel far. Thats why we use dog teams or canoe. City folk die up here when they get it wrong - including Brits! Look up the story of John Hornby and Hornby Point. We paddled past their graves.! No cell phone coverage then or now up here.
I buy woods from local farmer, chop them up, build shelters, carve, practice making handles for tools and burn them in the stove in my garden. I planted a few trees in the back garden a few year ago, and soon they are ready to be cut down for use as well.
The shed, and four corners of the back garden is where I practice bushcraft now, but I too have been looking for good legal and suitable outdoor bushcraft exercise places.
The shed, and four corners of the back garden is where I practice bushcraft now, but I too have been looking for good legal and suitable outdoor bushcraft exercise places.
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Hi Billy
Just head north of the border, no private land in Scotland other than MOD property, Scotland has the Freedom to Roam Act or more accurately put the public has the right to access the wilderness, and many lochs with free fishing. Shooting would require land owner permission. There are a couple of exceptions, for instance the new bylaw banning camping on east bank of loch Lomond.
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"In Scotland the Land Reform Scotland Act 2003 comprehensively codified into Scots Law the ancient tradition of the right to universal access to the land in Scotland. The act specifically establishes a right to be on land for recreational, educational and certain other purposes and a right to cross land. The rights exist only if they are exercised responsibly, as specified in the, Scottish Outdoor Access Code. Access rights apply to any non-motorised activities, including walking, cycling, horse-riding and wild camping. They also allow access on inland water for canoeing, rowing, sailing and swimming".
Enjoy Bro.
Just head north of the border, no private land in Scotland other than MOD property, Scotland has the Freedom to Roam Act or more accurately put the public has the right to access the wilderness, and many lochs with free fishing. Shooting would require land owner permission. There are a couple of exceptions, for instance the new bylaw banning camping on east bank of loch Lomond.
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"In Scotland the Land Reform Scotland Act 2003 comprehensively codified into Scots Law the ancient tradition of the right to universal access to the land in Scotland. The act specifically establishes a right to be on land for recreational, educational and certain other purposes and a right to cross land. The rights exist only if they are exercised responsibly, as specified in the, Scottish Outdoor Access Code. Access rights apply to any non-motorised activities, including walking, cycling, horse-riding and wild camping. They also allow access on inland water for canoeing, rowing, sailing and swimming".
Enjoy Bro.
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I think the second the OP started cutting branches off trees he would have broken the "exercised responsibly" part of that act. Right to roam does not imply right to do whatever you want.
Google McBride, BC, my village. I live in "Super, Natural British Columbia." I can drop you off on the edge of nowhere (or somewhat near the middle of same) in 30 minutes from my home.
Your hammock is a grizzly bear's tortilla. Please do come prepared = we can have a 36" dump of snow overnight in early December.
Your hammock is a grizzly bear's tortilla. Please do come prepared = we can have a 36" dump of snow overnight in early December.
With the greatest of respect, (I think ) and your ( opinion ) mean nothing... Read the Code... and perhaps give Billy a bit of credit, he did say,
You guys can call the shots on your patch, I have no problem with that, but not up here, whether you like it or not, Scotland has the ancient and traditional right to roam. SAOR ALBA
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Fair enough. I also meant no disrespect. However it's still difficult to imagine anywhere where "roaming' would be construed the same as "harvesting" natural resources other than seasonal ones such as berries. I may well be wrong.
