I must admit that for a guy who tried to stop the site carrying the name bushcraft your loyalty to him amazes me.
woodlore was a one man band till he got the tracks gig and he started off as a survival instructor what he did do right was pay attention on the lars falt courses he did which is more where bushcraft came from. if he's thinking up his own shows then he needs a new media consultant as he wasted fantastic opportunites in all those filming locations. countryfile is his best bet I reckon. I think the recent drivel is down to losing his wife so he wants to detatch from the bushcraft side and find other avenues like the one show and saturday kitchen. never seen him even thought of as anything to do with kids not even blue peter. the young woodlore courses were set up by the guys who run the company. maybe if theyd had kids it would have been different.
hey just found out BG was christened huckleberry edward joscelyne grylls - now thats a name worthy of a chief scout no wonder he prefers bear
except for his age he is probably closest to a baden powel they are likely to get. he used to sleep on the porch well into his 70's in just a few blankets all year round.
I think bg being an adventurer then he'll keep the subject going like benedict allen and bruce parry which is good, as anything on the box of that vein will help the survival bushcraft fraternity get members and participats. you lot seem to forget that anything which get folks asking how did they do that and reaching for the keyboard could increase site traffic here in the same way this site started off as a rm tribute repository. any idiotic bias statements will only prove to folks that bushcrafters are a blinkered lot so they should take their questions elsewhere. I've seen very unpleasant responses to innocent questions which only shows the forum up.
you need to open your attitudes a bit and maybe go right back to reading the very beginning of this forum so see how it has morphed and changed over the years. then go out and form your own opinions instead of just repeating someone elses.
if your not in the scouting movement then frankly who you think should be chief scout is irrelevant, someone realised that they needed to move away from retired generals and go for people the kids know. peter duncan was a first step due to his blue peter/duncan dares (not unlike bear grylls at all really with doing the commando course and surviving with lofty) and more recent going around the world with his kids which was shown on sky. next they've gone for bg as he's young, fit and vibrant with many different strings to his bow and he understands the media, if it works great and hopefully he will feed back to help change the attitude at headquarters which has become like the government of late.
the leaders are up for it and so are the kids - they are the ones who count, not the 400 still active members of a lone forum. whoever it was from here emailing the bbc were just being petty - get a life.
as to viewing figures and fan base the bear grylls forum has a million members - I wonder what they think?
and believe it or not I'm not particularly a fan but like red wine, whiskey and real ale I can understand and appreciate it.