Woodland Free Food

[Scythe13]

Nice one Terry.

It's a cool place up there. Anyway mate, what are you saying? You're probably much healthier than me. No doubt your lungs suffer less polution than mine, and you're more used to carrying your kit up those hills than I am! I went up the steep slope and damn was that hard, even with my UL BOB!!!

I think it is doable to live off wild food, but I believe we became agrarian because it's less effort. Now that we are that way, it is easier to regulate our diets for optimum health. Does that make sense? I reckon (on no scientific foundation) that we were first foragers, become farmers, which then gave us more food that allowed us to better develop our diets to achieve better health. But that kind of makes sense, if you think about it. We could survive, but it wouldn't be the healthiest way to live.




Also, thanks WnC.

As you know, the kit is an ongoing thing, cutting down weight, improving quality, testing items, keeping what works and changing what doesn't.

Bivi is on my shopping list, but I'm going to check out the emergency bivis that you showed me the other day. For the price, it's worth a trial. Most of the other stuff though is also pretty good. For the waterproofs though, I'll just get my snowboarding stuff. I've got a brilliant jacket that has become part of my BOB, and it's really light. The gloves was just something I should have had and didn't. I'll get a pair from my boarding stuff, same as leggings. The rest of the kit will just be a slow adding, testing, and refining process, I think.

For the pillow though...when I put some soft items, like clothes, into the stuff sack for my camping mat, that was perfect. Which was a nice surprise. I know it's a small bit of kit, a pillow, but a good nights sleep isn't really doable without somewhere to rest the head! You can get them at PoundLand. But a padded stuff sack works too.

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Thanks guys, really appreciate the feedback!