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| My home for 2 days |
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| There is a rising problem with teenagers buying a bargain tent and then leaving it in place when they are done. Good if you need a shelter in a hurry |
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| Beech coming in to leaf and an opertunity for a bit of food. |
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| The small leaves are the ones to eat. |
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| Typical forestry plantation of Sitka Spruce |
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| A wind broken Spruce. |
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| A place where water gathers is often indicated by wet loving species like golden Saxifrage (edible) A good place for a gypsy well |
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| Hairy bitter cress. Tastes like normal cress and can be quite powerfull |
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| A nice stream coming of the mountain. I still boiled my water though. |
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| Tent pole bag left behind!! |
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| Wool twine left behind |
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| Can left behind. A cooking pot |
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| Camp fire and grill left behind. Crazy. Why can't the lazy bastards just take it home again. |
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| Spruce new rowth is excellent for tea or to eat straight of the tree. Takes resinous though. I think you can taste the Vit C which they are high in. |
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| Protein or a little friend for the night. |
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| My Leuku, which was an outstanding tool and very usefull indeed. |
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| Feathersticks for the fire. |
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| 3 good feathersticks produce alot of heat and will release alot of energy, worth practising. |
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| A bit of split willow and kindling on top of the feathersticks and the fire was established in under a minute! |
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| The cutting tools I brought. |
2 comments:
Too many young people have never been taught responsibility.
Aint that the truth Gorges?, some of the woods i use are a total mess of beer cans, bottles and fire scars, although the Estate office does organise litter picking trips a couple of times a year to clear up the mess, although it normally only takes a couple of weeks or so for it to all reappear again.
Part of the problem is people shouting down at the youth when they see them and alienating them, what i and the Estate workers do is interact (well try to) with them and have a chat and try to show them the error of their ways, it's all about education, which is where i hopefully step in :-), the Esate did a similar thing with the mountaion bikers, they were ripping up sensative areas, so the estate gave them a section of the wods to use and where they could build ramps and jumps and have fun without harming ecologically sensative areas or being deemed to be a hazard to walkers, it solved the problem more or less overnight
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