Wilderness Gathering

[andyn]

Sounds like great fun, glad i'm going but wish i could make it for the whole weekend and evenings.

Will have to stay the whole weekend next year.....

 

[Annie]

I'm afraid I'm a total newbie but very keen. Can you go just for Saturday night and Sunday ? The website just lists onew day & weekend prices.

Annie

 

[leon-1]

Annie, your best bet would be to phone Roger Harrington from Bison Bushcraft and ask him what the score would be on that

Every time that I have been before I have been for the 2 days so I couldn't comment other than say as above.

 

[jamesdevine]

Well in twelve hours time my wife and I will be winging our way to Bristol Airport so I hope to meet finally meet some of you good folks there.

Talk too soon.

James

 

[ESpy]

Come hell or high water, I'll be there tomorrow morning(ish). Doped up on NSAIDs & antibiotics, but it's so close I can't not go.

That and the fact that it'll be the third time running

 

[andyn]

just got back from the WG and must say it was rather good fun!

Was a pleasure meeting a few new faces, although it was pretty hard to tell who was who off here. But bumped into Buckshot and Stuart in the morning and had C_Claycomb pointed out.

Was a very good day and am well and truely jealous of those staying the whole weekend as the woods looked like good fun for camping in too.

Hope everyone else enjoyed the day.

p.s - The t-shirt fits fine thank you Buckshot.

 

[richardw]

Me too. My first vsist to the WG and hugely enjoyable. Spent too much money of course and went away with some Bison burgers and sausages as well.

Will definitely go for the whole weekend next year.

Richard

 

[Fenlander]

Just thought people ought to know.......

When I got home from the WG last night I found three ticks on my legs

 

[Buckshot]

p.s - The t-shirt fits fine thank you Buckshot.

phew !
Nice to meet you all as well. It was a shame I could only do the one day - family pressures... Perhaps next year...

Cheers all

Mark

 

[richardw]

A great day and big thanks to Buckshot for taking the time to show the wife and I the basics of braiding leather. He certainly instilled some enthusiasm into us to have a go.

Richard

 

[led]

I was there for the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. A friendlier bunch of people I couldn't hope to meet, and I learnt something from just about everyone I talked to.

(The only disappointment is that the BCUK T-shirts weren't available in Large for some reason!)

 

[C_Claycomb]

ditto the disappointment on lack of large shirts It was rather embarassing

I hope everyone got home in a reasonable timeframe. I was late leaving (again!) at 6:10 and it took me 4 hours to do the 140 miles home... only managed 23 miles in the first hour I really loath driving in that part of the country!

Thanks to everyone who stopped and had a chat.

Does anyone have any decent photos of the bison, raccoons and other critters on site?

 

[andyn]

Does anyone have any decent photos of the bison, raccoons and other critters on site?

I have some but am unsure of their quality as i havent looked at them yet. I get some thumbnails together and if you want any you are more than welcome to the full size shots.

I took some of the turkey and it kept running away so no idea if those came out.

 

[richardw]

I hope everyone got home in a reasonable timeframe. I was late leaving (again!) at 6:10 and it took me 4 hours to do the 140 miles home... only managed 23 miles in the first hour I really loath driving in that part of the country!

On Sturday it took my wife and I an hour to do 3 1/2 miles on the A303 thanks to a caravan that broke down on a narrow part of the single carriageway!

Two hours to get there and three and three quarters to get home!

Richard

 

[Wolfie]

Went down for the day on Saturday with the family and thoroughly enjoyed. Nice to meet up with friends again. Managed to get away without spending to much , although I have got a few ideas for the future.

One suggestion for next year however. Could knives please be banned from the childerens play area? I spent quite a bit of time there with my children and witnessed children with knives unsheathed at innapropriate times . Although the behaviour wasn't aggressive I don't think that this is an appropriate area for these tools (This should apply to adults as well as children!)

Don't get me wrong I'm not against children learning how to handle knives and was impressed that WG had organised a tutorial for the children. Whether the message had got through to all of them is another matter.

 

[Buckshot]

Went down for the day on Saturday with the family and thoroughly enjoyed. Nice to meet up with friends again. Managed to get away without spending to much , although I have got a few ideas for the future.

One suggestion for next year however. Could knives please be banned from the childerens play area? I spent quite a bit of time there with my children and witnessed children with knives unsheathed at innapropriate times . Although the behaviour wasn't aggressive I don't think that this is an appropriate area for these tools (This should apply to adults as well as children!)

Don't get me wrong I'm not against children learning how to handle knives and was impressed that WG had organised a tutorial for the children. Whether the message had got through to all of them is another matter.

Can I suggest you contact Roger at Bison with that suggestion, as it wasn't run by us these sorts of things are nothing to do with BCUK.

Cheers

Mark

 

[Wolfie]

Can I suggest you contact Roger at Bison with that suggestion, as it wasn't run by us these sorts of things are nothing to do with BCUK.

Cheers

Mark

Will do. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[leon-1]

Does anyone have any decent photos of the bison, raccoons and other critters on site?

I have a few pictures of furry characters (only the Raccoons this year) I will see if I can find any of the bison that I took on prevoius years

 

[falcon]

Just found a picture from the 2004 Wilderness Gathering of Bison grazing on the field beyond the brook. Quality's not great due to the limitations of my camera, which I didn't get round to using this year.... The picture is now in the gallery.

 

[Fenlander]

ditto the disappointment on lack of large shirts It was rather embarassing

I hope everyone got home in a reasonable timeframe. I was late leaving (again!) at 6:10 and it took me 4 hours to do the 140 miles home... only managed 23 miles in the first hour I really loath driving in that part of the country!

Thanks to everyone who stopped and had a chat.

Does anyone have any decent photos of the bison, raccoons and other critters on site?

I've just put one of my pictures in the gallery Chris