Essential Bushcraft Skills

[Northumbriman]

The thing with bushcraft skills is that they are all linked, if you want to concentrate on food and water supplies you have to know where to find them. That means basic navigation becomes essential, hygiene in the field or you are going to be ill and basic field first aid. Finding wild food and water can mean travelling from your base for more than a day. Especially once you are in a prolonged survival period. Look at native tribes in any undeveloped country and you see foragers and hunters leaving their villages for expeditions to locate supplies. No matter how good a house or base you have eventually you are going to have to either move to a new location/widen your gathering areas. As such skills like tracking, firelighting and camping/shelter building also become essential. Whislt I agree that surviving in the wild in winter is not something you would seek, staying alive through a hunting trip in November will require skill and knowledge. I hope to develop my bushcraft to a point where a winters hunting trip doesn't killl me.