They really do go hand in handBlackie Thomas has some good videos as well. He mixes his in with black powder guns.
Interested to hear about itI just signed up for Pathfinder School's 3 day Basic Survival course this July. Excited and dreading it at the same time. I know I'm out of shape!
You should look at "Coalcracker bushcraft" on youtube. I like his info best although he does not look as attractive as Survival LillySpeaking of Pathfinder... Looking forward to taking that intro at some point. But $400 to play in the woods for 3 days isnt in the budget right now. Plus outfitting costs would probably put me close to a grand. (damn you IRS) Besides, I'm still trying to find an alternative to my 6" thick twin air mattress. Anything but that and I wake up at 5am sore, stiff and tired. All manner of backpacking sleep pads/mattresses have failed my bad back, hips and shoulders.
(Sorry, it wont let me embed the YT channels for some reason)
I really enjoy Corporals Corner.
Survival Lilly is entertaining as well. (She is easy on the eyes but I find her Austrian accent slightly offputting)
And of course Dave's channel is chock full of info. Not only bushcraft but HAM as well.
Speaking of Pathfinder... Looking forward to taking that intro at some point. But $400 to play in the woods for 3 days isnt in the budget right now. Plus outfitting costs would probably put me close to a grand. (damn you IRS) Besides, I'm still trying to find an alternative to my 6" thick twin air mattress. Anything but that and I wake up at 5am sore, stiff and tired. All manner of backpacking sleep pads/mattresses have failed my bad back, hips and shoulders.
(Sorry, it wont let me embed the YT channels for some reason)
I really enjoy Corporals Corner.
Survival Lilly is entertaining as well. (She is easy on the eyes but I find her Austrian accent slightly offputting)
And of course Dave's channel is chock full of info. Not only bushcraft but HAM as well.
I saw that too. But I believe the final night is putting your skills to work and actually cooking and staying in the shelter you build using the skills you learned. And if push came to shove, I'm sure I could lug my air mattress and cram it into the tarp shelter. Dave and the group seem to be pretty keen on accommodating special needs.I saw that Dave posted today, they built some rental cabins for students that cant sleep on the ground for whatever reason.
I scooped up a spot for Dave's "Medicinal and Edibles Foraging Class" last weekend. Amazing class, tons of fun and very eye-opening.Interested to hear about it
Class sounds fun but the hiking would wipe me out. Still healing a year out from an intense back surgery fusion on lower lumbar.I scooped up a spot for Dave's "Medicinal and Edibles Foraging Class" last weekend. Amazing class, tons of fun and very eye-opening.
But the amount of hiking convinced me I had to ask to move my survival class to Oct so I can try to drop weight and build more endurance. Thankfully, they moved me to the Oct. class.
I took their "basic" class in Nov of '14. The word basic doesn't do it justice because what you need to be able to do to survive for 72 hours isn't just basic. I remember talking with my classmates and they were a lot of experienced outdoorsman and veterans. All of us struggled and most of us came into the class with some level of knowledge and experience that made some tasks easier which helped us focus on what we had to learn. Good luck at the class and you should be proud of yourself for taking it. It's tough, but you'll learn so much it's unbelievable. To this day I put a 90 degree spine on every fixed blade I take out doors and I carry a ferro rod as part of my edc. I've told my wife that I want all our kids to take this class before before they leave our house and head off to college or whatever.I just signed up for Pathfinder School's 3 day Basic Survival course this July. Excited and dreading it at the same time. I know I'm out of shape!