Staying warm while camping in the winter is clearly important. Even here in Kent temperatures can get relatively low (OK, if you’re in Canada or Sweden reading this, then temperatures of -5°C might seem positively tropical, but it’s still plenty cold enough to cause problems for the unprepared); indeed, the first ever course we ran […]
I’ve previoulsy made videos showing you how to tie an Evenk knot and a taut line hitch. This time it’s the midshipman’s hitch. This is a really useful hitch, one that I use all the time; in the video it’s to tighten one of the lines on the parachute but it’s also the one that […]
I’ve written previously about building an A Frame debris shelter in this post from 2014 and it’s a good post (if I say so myself). But a debris shelter that we built 8 years ago finally gave up over the winter so Nicola and I replaced it a couple of days ago. So I thought […]
We are immensely fortunate to have so many wonderful people give their time to help us out in the woods over the winter. This is when we have the time to do a little woodland management; in previous years we’ve coppiced the hazel, as well as sweet chestnut, and opened out the main rides. This year […]
As usual we will be carrying out some Woodland Management & Camp Maintenance over the winter, in January and February 2020. In no particular order: We have ash dieback in the woods and whilst we are currently planning to leave most of them to die, fall and rot naturally, there are some close to the […]
We make woven and folded containers on our Cordage & Containers day and sometimes we have a little left over. This was the case on our last such course back in June and whilst the bark had dried out it became more than pliable enough to make a plaited bark strap after soaking for a […]
