there's a good chance that you've found out in the field that your bungee cord in your tent poles has perished and it doesn't stretch any more. well in this video i'll show you how to fix and make do in the field and renew when you get home. happy days.
this is a POEM, a fantasy story about an ex British soldier who is sick of life the way things have gone and does what most people wouldn't do,. drop everything in life except what's on his back in a rucksack/Bergen and the clothes he's wearing and escape on foot to a better life vir the pyrenees mountains, simple as that, yet most people wouldn't have the guts to try.
"breakaway survival school" which also had a club was named partly to do with breaking away from so called normal life and having a change.
the poem has some wise quotes running through it as well as the story of escape and evasion elements to it and also has a beautiful romantic ending with a message about evolving in life.
my poem was also on display in Stroud museum to commemorate 100 years after ww1 ended..
in 2018 as part of a letter rack display showing correspondence between a soldier and his mother of that time, by LISA WOODWARD MEDCALF.
#poem #poetry #longdistancehiking #wildcampingadventures #mountainadventures #fantasy #art #artistic #pyrenees #wildcamping #sassurvival #soldiering #oldsoldier #escapeandevasion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYyIrn9jZRc
the cure for a stinging nettle sting is sitting there in the nettle. just a simple little first aid stuff from nature. good for hikers, hunters and bushcrafters.
#bushcraftskills #wildplants #wildenesssurvivalskills
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEDDzbQqa4M
in the 1980s things changed and more people in the UK went on foreign holidays, hair got shorter and the old hiking and wild camping thing died off a bit. the word bushcraft wasn't invented, there was no internet and online shopping and basically you couldn't get bushcraft gear/survival gear. the company survival aids came along but their shops weren't anywhere to be found. I got a job and started to go to night clubs but still did the outdoor thing but most people didn't have the hills/mountains at their door step. so this video is just an insight to what I and other friends around me did to get some gear and stuff together. there's probably hundreds of other improvised and daft thing that happened, like the local scouts used a section of a sheeps backbone as a woggle. anyway, the great outdoor subject these days has made a return and there's more kit out there than you can shake a stick at.
#bushcraftskills #bushcraftgear #outdoorgear #outdoorskills
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOKINIZu348
these 2 methods are with a watch, and the other with a stick in the ground. it's very simple to do and can be used to back up your map reading on a macro level, driving in a strange place, on the move hiking or in a survival situation without a compass.
#outdoorskills #wildenesssurvivalskills #sassurvivalskills #navigationsuncompass #sunnavigation #bushcraftskills #outdooradventures
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlTGe4TPb50
what i think is the best way to the Lancaster bomber crash site in the Brecon beacons which includes the grid reference to the parking location.
2 bits of music was played and created by me, 2018.
#mountainadventures #outdooradventures #hillwalkingadventures /adventuressouthwales
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bJT2LJ3HWI
the way I've shown in this video is for when it can be a bit chilly and if I go into the hills/mountains I don't take a large knife. but I have included it to show the possibilities, like the extra warm clothing. also I haven't used a waterproof bag for the gear in the main compartment except for the sleeping bag, therefore the rucksack can't be used for a flotation aid if in the unlikely event that you have to cross a river with water over your head. but you could use a bivvi bag on the outside if you had to.
#bushcraftskills #bushcraftgear #backpack #knapsack #haversack
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14uDazaILno
watch to see what went wrong with the stove. only used it a few times to test and play around with it so i thought i'd do a review in it out in the field and in the garage to see if the flame rides up in the breeze. i didn't get that far though.
#alcoholstove #campingstove #hobostove #accidents
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a70sqT1M428
in this video I'm walking up the skirrid fawr in S wales and out of interest I'm testing the braemar SV L27 ventile smock by hilltrek to see how waterproof these jackets can be. i have melted 1 layer of wax into the material to help it's water repellent qualities because i have been out in the british wet snow with a ventile smock and it was very wet on the inside, hence the waxing. the result was a first for me with this jacket as it is to you.
#hilltrek #ventile #rain #southwales #bushcrafting
#skirridfawr #hillwalking outdooradventures
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENYJ_ORy9Uk
a look at the SRK cold steel just to see it's specifics and how it performs in the field, the feather stick was a bit awkward but the wood was twisty and gnarly and it has been raining the day before so getting the feather sticks to light was difficult but got a flame in the end.
#survivalknives #combatknives #knifereviews #sassurvival #survivalskills #survivalgear #bushcraftgear
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4HJkhRMGow