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Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:00:19 +0100

all year round we continue to go on trips to the wild regardless of the weather confronting us, or terrain for that matter, and to be honest i think all of our favorite trips have all been under severe weather warnings, from severe cold to severely hot not forgetting the torrential rain or serious gales. the least fun i think is easy to say the wet.. though that's not too say we haven't had great times in the wet stuff. such times include disasters like waking up in my hammock with just under half a foot of water in with me puddling on my bivi bag and pooling off down to my back.
in field bag repairs due to straps giving up under the pace of abuse we throw them through. other things that immediately come to mind are a very early trip with a canvas tarp badly in need of re treating for its water repelling attributes. which led me to spend a night rolling around on a survival bag and foam ground mats to get up every hour to re attach and re stake down my tarp and re arrange bedding from the storm hitting us, after a few hours i had given up trying to keep any form of established shelter, my light failing me due to the wet i made the decision to move my tarp into a wrap around job to keep the rain off as it wasn't up to spec' luckily the storm stopped not long after dawn and i emerged from my canvas wrap to get a brew on the go and see about improving my lot for another does of the storms.

though this was in the first 20 trips i'd been on since switching to a tarp over a tent, and well we definitely learn't a lot about them and how severe weather is best prepared for also the disadvantage of having the wind change directions till it finds the perfect one to up root your pegs and whip down your shelter, in the daylight afterwards i saw why the tarp had keept a constant desire to drop down on me was due to the tree's breaking and branches snapping to add a "wind branch arm of doom" that would be the culprit for whipping into my canvas and forcing it to the ground. but a awesome trip none the less and possibley more on that later but anyways... RR

"R.R"

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:20:17 +0100

Skilled in practical capability of an array of techniques for use when and where it counts,

specializations including such area's as
self reliance, backwoods men skills, bush craft, off grid living, survival skills, primative living. tracking, escape and evasion, co ordination as a team. navigation, frontiersmen ship along with numerous others,

constantly relearning the forgotten pioneering skills of the past and discovering more to use as we go along.

from going on trips with very little gear to going tool heavy or none at all, the ability to take all that is thrown at us or in our way makes us comfortable as we are in any situation.

a-common-mans-tale

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"R.R"