banter noun 1. the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks. A friend of mine came on a trip to the north with me last year. I told him what to bring with him and although it was the tail end of the summer, it can get quite chilly up […]
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Pro Tips #3 Volunteer for the unpopular jobs
Volunteer for the unpopular camp chores, if it’s a shit job then it might as well be you that does it. Take one for the team and do it so that they don’t have to. Volunteer to go and collect more firewood, Volunteer to pack up the tent in the […]
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Pro Tips #2 Stop your Water Bottles From Smelling Bad
You have probably noticed that when you are getting ready to go away on a trip, your water bottles smell terrible when you open them to fill them. When we get back from a trip, most of us unpack and neatly store our waterbottles on a shelf or in a […]
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Fear of the dark, fear of flying, fear of heights, fear of spiders and fear of snakes, what do they all have in common? Most of us have one or more of these common fears and there are plenty more too. We have a type of evolutionary memory that is […]
Read MoreThe Ocean is Full of Plastic
Go to any beach, anywhere in the world and you will find plastic washed up on shore. That is just what has washed up, exponentially more is out in the seafloating around. The worlds oceans are full of plastic and it is a very big problem that grows worse every […]
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The first in a series of Pro Tips gleaned by me from my lifetime of Bushcraft and Survival training, Wilderness Expeditions, Teaching and Instructing. I work with some amazing people with some amazing experience behind them and I make a point of making sure that I learn from them so […]
Read MoreEvacuating an Aircraft
While extremely unlikely, it is possible that you will have to evacuate an aircraft at some stage. I found this air crew training video quite interesting and useful in understanding how air crew are trained to deal with forced landings and how good they are likely to be at handling […]
Read MoreStupid Internet Bushcraft Stuff #3 Attempting to build a tolerance to contaminated water
Over the years, I have heard some pretty dodgy advice from people who do not know what they are talking about but this one was repeated to me recently. In countries or places where the water is not safe to drink, just mix a little bit of dirty water into […]
Read MoreWater, water, everywhere. But not a drop to drink
The average human body contains 40 Litres of water, which is roughly 57% of our total body weight. We need water more than anything else with the exception of oxygen. Water is critical to our continued survival. We need water to carry nutrients around the body to aid digestion of […]
Read MoreHygiene and it´s increased important in the field
In the field, that is, when you are living out in the woods, on an expedition or otherwise not at home with home comforts exposes us to additional problems not usually encountered at home. Good hygiene become more important than it is at home. For a start, hygiene is harder […]
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