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it has been a while since i posted any of my stuff up here. does not mean i have been doing nothing, just trying to do some stuff to the standard of some of the other people on here. anyhoo, did some stuff i am kinda proud of recently and thought i would share them with you all. here is my...

my next trip out is a cycle down the west coast (of ireland) with my girlyfriend (and trusty bear of course) my foraging skills in woodland is not totally rubbish, and there is a lot of information out there regard identifying edible woodland food, and what to do with it once it is identified...

sliced up plastic shopping bags make a good substance for practicing making cordage. i cut them into hoops and twist them just like making nettle cordage. you get about a meter per small bag of 2 ply. its not the strongest, but its not that bad either. and great for those of us who like in a...

i was wondering; where would i find flint? either in the wild or to purchace? i want to get my hands on some to make more flint and steel kits, and to learn how to make blades and stuff with it. second question. what is the difference between flint and chert? i worked on an archo dig years...

Donal Carrol has started a bushcraft club in ireland. it is an above board endevour with insurance covered through MCI and land usage permissions through Coilte (although we are looking for other areas of deciduous woodland where we can get land owners permission to practice bushcraft with a...

ok, as there have been a few mentions of meets for us irish types lately i thought i would drag another "meet" thread out into the light to see how it looks. (*argh!!the light! it burns!*) as has been mentioned in this othe thread http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30946 it...

here is the link to them. http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Tenth-Wonder-Hammocks just stumbled onto them by accident. wondering if anyone has any experiance with them? i ordered one anyway. as a tester. i will let people know how it is when it arrives. the money is very reasonable. look similar to DD...

i have been out galevanting a lot lately, and have been having a great time. i thought i would share some of my favourite pics. for a more full selection of pics, and some blurb on the trips, see the blog http://irishlostboy.blogspot.com/ as you will no doubt tell, these picsw are of...

hey, i am looking for info on how to get started with how to catch fish. ideally without a full rod. with a hand line type set-up is my goal. i used a funky handline thing as a kid in NZ to catch eels for the cats, but the only reason i caught any is because the river was STUFFED with the...

i am starting a new thread for the next part of my xmas adventures, as i couldn't see an "edit" function to my last post. i hope this is ok. Well, I went home to Sligo around the 16th of December. It was some fun cycling from Sligo town to the village of Riverstown in a headwind and with...

wondering if there are any canoeists (canadian/ open boat etc.) or sea kayakers here. i myself am a whitewater/surf kayaker, but i have a load of books on sea kayaking and canoeing. i used to do reviews of gear, dvd's and books for playak, and got sent a load of books by pesda press. (great...

having been cooped up in dublin since september, i decided to do a bit of wombling about for the xmas holidays, as payment for surviving the "big city" :) i thought, if its ok with you guys, i would make a little thread about it here. recently, i was rewarded for various mess-ups by the...

hi all, i am looking for a suitable poncho, or if it cannot be found, the right fabric to make my own. now, as to what i mean by "suitable". i have a nice dpm poncho i was given years ago. it folds into its own little bag, has a load of "snaps" on it, i presume to attach a bunch of them...

hi all, stumbled across this site recently, looking for a few new recipes. my name is Tim, although i am widely known on the "interweb" as irishlostboy. i am 27 years old, a former (qualified + 3 years experiance) outdoor instructor. my favorite outdoory things are kayaking (whitewater...