Northern Dancer
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✔ Bushcraft is the use and practice of skills, acquiring and developing knowledge and understanding,
in order to survive and thrive in a natural environment. Bushcraft skills, therefore, provide
for the basic physiological necessities for human life:
food, water sourcing and purification, shelter-building, and fire craft.
✔Added to the list we now include psychological needs of confidence and inner strength.
✔ Resilience and a determination to live have become part of bushcraft skills.
All this interpreted for me means
PRIMITIVE CAMPING
I define primitive camping
as being without neighbours, electricity, running water, bathroom facilities, and,
oftentimes, cell service. You camp in a remote location and provide everything you will need for yourself.
I think that describes me.
I like the term primitive and not the term survivour because I'm not a survivour.
I do very well thank you.
Baden Powell once said, "The only people who rough it are amateurs."
Being engaged in primitive camping to me means that I am sufficiently trained to be able
to take care of myself and others if need be. It means having the right equipment
for the right application. It means knowing how to use natural resources
and at the same time respect the environment.
I've learned over the years, through example, experience, and have been taught by
knowledgeable people to get to a position that I can say I am a primitive camper.
And yes, it has taken me years to accumulate the necessary equipment. I'm now
at the stage where I recycle items and often give them away to purchase new ones to update
my inventory. This is especially true when it comes to tents and shelters. I have the finest.
Notice I said the finest and not the best. I do not believe there is such a thing as the best.
I've learned to be prudent in the use of money and always buy when things are on sale.
I've taken the bear courses, first aid instructor's course, canoe courses, cooking courses,
survival courses, hygiene, and safety courses and attended a lot of seminars in between.
I know I still have much to learn.
in order to survive and thrive in a natural environment. Bushcraft skills, therefore, provide
for the basic physiological necessities for human life:
food, water sourcing and purification, shelter-building, and fire craft.
✔Added to the list we now include psychological needs of confidence and inner strength.
✔ Resilience and a determination to live have become part of bushcraft skills.
All this interpreted for me means
PRIMITIVE CAMPING
I define primitive camping
as being without neighbours, electricity, running water, bathroom facilities, and,
oftentimes, cell service. You camp in a remote location and provide everything you will need for yourself.
I think that describes me.
I like the term primitive and not the term survivour because I'm not a survivour.
I do very well thank you.
Baden Powell once said, "The only people who rough it are amateurs."
Being engaged in primitive camping to me means that I am sufficiently trained to be able
to take care of myself and others if need be. It means having the right equipment
for the right application. It means knowing how to use natural resources
and at the same time respect the environment.
I've learned over the years, through example, experience, and have been taught by
knowledgeable people to get to a position that I can say I am a primitive camper.
And yes, it has taken me years to accumulate the necessary equipment. I'm now
at the stage where I recycle items and often give them away to purchase new ones to update
my inventory. This is especially true when it comes to tents and shelters. I have the finest.
Notice I said the finest and not the best. I do not believe there is such a thing as the best.
I've learned to be prudent in the use of money and always buy when things are on sale.
I've taken the bear courses, first aid instructor's course, canoe courses, cooking courses,
survival courses, hygiene, and safety courses and attended a lot of seminars in between.
I know I still have much to learn.