bare bones survival

[Highlander]

I wish I could find someone who could write a piece like that about the Highlands,... but sadly I doubt anyone can, I have tried a million times to make fire with sticks up here, and I doubt the experts could do it,... first of all we dont have hardwood trees up here, secondly nothing is dry enough for long enough, any wood that is dry is dead.

Shelter,... there is little to make a shelter with in the high hills, your best bet is a place that a sheep has cut into a slope, or a boulder field,... shelter can be forged in such places ,...you can find yourself miles from any trees, maybe even hundreds of miles, so shelters made from timber is not always possible

Food,.... the hills teem with wildlife, but only a fool will tell you it would be easy to feed yourself with primitive tools,... deer, are too big,.. rabbist,....strangly not many around,... try and find a ground nesting bird,... I dare you,... your best bet is fishing

I have put myself in this position a few years back I went high with very little,... I did make a shelter in a boulder field, by carrying some of the smaller ones and making walls, and digging slightly under a large rock,...I made a fire, but cheated I used a striker, and started it with cotton grass, and used the twigs from heather to mantain it

and I caught a fish, using two shoelaces and a hook I took with me,... one thing about these remote lochs, is if they have fish which they often do as they were stocked well before the clearence, they are small fish, but anyone can catch them because they have no fear instint.

Outlaws lived like this many years ago, the likes of Rob Roy when he was out stealing cattle,...or the MacDonalds after the GlenCoe Killings,... but you could never make a base, for that you need to be low down.... so you would always have to weigh up the odds,... do you go high, where you are very likely to be safe, but will struggle...or stay low where you will be more likely to find trouble.