Who would you like to meet?

[In Wood]

OK, here is one for you.

If you had the chance to meet anyone, living or dead and to spend one day with them to learn a skill with one to one tuition, such as fire lighting methods, foraging, leather work, wood craft, tracking, forging etc etc…

Who would you want to meet and what would you want to learn.

Language and time periods are not a problem so if Waylander wanted to go and meet one of his Norse ancestors no problem. Will Lord could be whisked back to the Stone Age. Or simply a day with Ray or Lars Falt, what would it be for you.

I have to admit I am still undecided on this as I have always wanted to meet Bruce Lee to sit and talk to him as well as train with him, but that is not exactly Bushcraft. Perhaps a Japanese master sword smith I don’t know. What’s your choice?

 

[Celt_Ginger]

I'd quite like to meet a few of the people on this forum. British Red, Wayland, Toddy, Patrick etc etc etc (To many to name them all). I bet I would learn just as much from them as from someone who is well known from TV.

 

[Shewie]

There`s so many to list but I`ll have a go ..

Bushcraft Related

Dick Proennecke - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfB6oJ55wM
Tuvia Bielski - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielski_partisans
Ray Mears & Les Hiddins


Non-Bushcraft Related

John Lennon
Marilyn Monroe
William Wallace

Not particularly original I know


Rich

 

[Tripitaka]

Johnny Cash, no question.

Yes, I know that isn't bushcraft. ;-)

 

[SOAR]

Good choice on Marilyn Monroe

For me it would probably be Lars Falt, or Jim Bridger.

 

[firecrest]

Id like Lars falt or Ray Mears. I know thats completely unoriginal. If language wasnt a problem, from the past it would be great to meet a neolithic englander and see what the land was like then, what the believed and how they did things.
Id also like to go aboard a pirate ship and see what kinds of treasures the spanish had taken from mainland central america. They took so many gold scuptures and ornaments and melted it down its tragic

 

[British Red]

Hmm interesting -

"Local" - right now Robin and Dr Spoon (does a couple count as one?) My carving is deeply crude and its something I would like to rememdy. I have twice had the joy of learning from real experts in Bushcrafty stuff (spent a "private" day with John Lord and or course the time with Mors) and time spent learning from experts is so rewarding.

Dead - John Seymour I think - my guru

Inaccesible to me - Weaver and his friend John - two "friends I haven't met in person"

"Bushcrafty guru" - Patrick would be next on my list to learn from. I would also love to hang out with Ray Mears. I loved sitting round the fire with Mors one night and we spent two hours talking about his bunker as he called it (root cellar) and gardening - so very cool. Would welcome the chance just to chat to Ray

Red

 

[Simon H]

Not very bushcrafty, but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for me.

 

[saddle_tramp]

probably some of the early 19th century mountain men, such as Jedediah Smith, John Colter or James Beckwourth

 

[Wayland]

John J Rowlands, author of Cache Lake Country and Spindrift from a house by the sea.

Fascinating guy.

 

[Bernie Garland]

Bear Grylls for me

Bernie

 

[harlequin]

For me, it would be the living legend that is Sir David Attenborough.
A man who has travelled far and wide throughout his lifetime, probably encompassing the globe. Went to places that were barely on the map (and some that weren't!) and I'm sure did his fair bit of rough camping. Bringing nature into our homes when none were looking. His legacy will be remembered by all.
Understated, subtle, humble, the epitome of an expert (Yes, I've read that other thread!)

Man, the stories he could tell!

 

[andy_pevy]

I would have loved to spend time with Jack Hargreaves.

He always fascinated me when I was younger.

Andy

 

[Mesquite]

I've met several people on but and enjoyed talking to / learning things from them there's still more to meet

But as for current personalities there are some but not all,

Les Hiddins
Lars Falt
RM
Mors Kochanski (I know I've met him but the guy is incredible with his knowledge and I'd like to spend more time with him)
Tim Severin

Past people (to name a few)

Jack Hargreaves
Gerald Durrell
Thor Heyerdahl
Jim Bridger
Davey Crockett
Geronimo

 

[addo]

Has to be Ray for me.
I would also like to train and hang out with Bruce Lee! as would many.

 

[spamel]

Bear Grylls for me

Bernie

I've met Ray Mears, so he's scrubbed off the list! Sorry buddy!

Chris Bonnington would be a great guy to sit and chat with. He was my number one hero when I was a child, if you don't count my Dad who I've met already!

Failing that, and for real bushcraft/survival skills, either Eddie McGee or Lofty. I've met Loftys' son who was in the same Squadron as me in Germany, nothing like his Dad but he was a great bloke. More interested in drinking than survival!

 

[British Red]

Chris is fascinating - and a fellow fan of Christmas Puddings (long story) . Doug Scott is pretty good value too

 

[Toddy]

I was just fourteen when my Grandmother and my Mother died within months of each other. Too old to be a child and too young to be anything else.

I would be so blessed to walk with them, as I am, adult, with them as adults.
All that knowledge, abilty, creativity, intelligence, soul deep decency and sense lost; and though they have been dead for most of my life I still ache for them.
To walk with the older Mothers, to live the roots of our country, I can't but imagine their world and the knowledge they had.

Family apart, I don't think it's the great movers and shakers that I would want to spend time with, but those who quietly enrich my world, those who widen my knowledge, my mind, give honest friendship, who help the synergy of skills and abilities and creativity to widen.

By the by, my reference to Mothers isn't being sexist, but I knew my Father and Grandfather into my adulthood and even now I live in an all male family. I simply deeply miss the Matriarchy I grew up in.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[hog]

RM
Frederick Courtney Selous
Jaques Cousteau
Jim Bowie.

 

[Tengu]

Thor Heyerdahl

Alexandria David Neel

My tinker great grandfather.

Im sorry about your mum and gran Toddy, my mother died when I was 18; I still havent got over it.