Woodland Free Food

[Scythe13]

That's a fair point WnC. Even if it does tease me and my board :-(

But then any prepper in that place would have the same problem finding food.

As for the UL-BOB and kit, the reason I said about camping with mates was just as a safety incase the system I was trying was not good enough. They wouldn't be making fires and things like that for me. They would be the security blanket if something went wrong. Using that principle allows the kit to be tested in the outdoors, while minimising the risk to your life.

Say if we went out in the woods in winter WnC. You'd have your fire and your stuff, while I'd be using my UL kit and seeing how that fared. If it failed and I got too cold, I'd have the ability to come into the tent and have a heavy winter sleeping bag, loads of hand warmers, and hot chocolate, to stop me freezing to death. Then it's a case of see where I sent wrong, see where the kit failed, then working out where I could improve my system.

That way it's a test of the kit in the outside world, in as near to a survival situation that I'd be happy to trial with an untested kit.



In regards to winter food gathering, when AlyBear and I went into the woods camping last winter, she had a go looking for food, but was heavily concentrating on mushrooms. No question it's 100 times harder to find food in the winter! But that's even more reason to get out there and practice more! If it's hard to do, then more practice is required (as my Dad always used to tell me).