Nice! I never had the opportunity for Boy Scouts. I couldn't tell you if we even had a troop or not. All I know is that I grew up in the woods and my father never saw a point in me learning from them what he could teach me. IDK if he was right or wrong in that logic, but that was his logic nonetheless.
One mistake I've seen many times over the years is people backpacking or even just hiking, will go off trail, thinking they can make a shortcut, without giving any thought to where their next water source is. Dehydration becomes a serious problem in a very short time. "Let me show you how to make a water filter out of a plastic bottle, some moss, some gravel and some grizzly scat. Oh wait, you can't find any water? Sorry for your luck......" Enjoyed your video today!
The absurd and gimmicky arts and crafts videos used to be all over RUclips, until people realized they were completely impractical and started to make fun of it. Unfortunately that genre has infiltrated the Bushcraft space, and people don't yet know any better than to believe it. It's good someone like you is calling it out. Instead of carrying tinder or learning how to process natural materials with their knife, people will lie to themselves and think that they can just scrape up their lighter or something. It's a goofy cop out.
Yes! I am on the carrying tinder side of things. I would do more natural tinder processing, but our winters are typically way too wet for that in the moment.
The more you know the less you carry came from Canadian Survival instructor Mors Kochanski. He taught this properly, but some idiots took it as going to the Canadian Boreal Forest unprepared. Some people just took what he taught out of context.
I only remembered that it was Mors Kochanski AFTER I made the video. I had one of those, "That was a dumb comment" moments. I almost did a retake on that section over it.
I was a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout and I still live by the motto, “A scout is always prepared!”
Nice! I never had the opportunity for Boy Scouts. I couldn't tell you if we even had a troop or not. All I know is that I grew up in the woods and my father never saw a point in me learning from them what he could teach me. IDK if he was right or wrong in that logic, but that was his logic nonetheless.
@@BitterrootBackwoodsit’s best to learn from your father if he already has the knowledge. You were blessed!
One mistake I've seen many times over the years is people backpacking or even just hiking, will go off trail, thinking they can make a shortcut, without giving any thought to where their next water source is. Dehydration becomes a serious problem in a very short time. "Let me show you how to make a water filter out of a plastic bottle, some moss, some gravel and some grizzly scat. Oh wait, you can't find any water? Sorry for your luck......"
Enjoyed your video today!
Yeah. I don't recommend shortcuts. Even if a person knows an area well, it can still mess them up. Ask me how I know. 😂
@@BitterrootBackwoods Same here. I've learned some really tough lessons in that department.
The absurd and gimmicky arts and crafts videos used to be all over RUclips, until people realized they were completely impractical and started to make fun of it. Unfortunately that genre has infiltrated the Bushcraft space, and people don't yet know any better than to believe it. It's good someone like you is calling it out.
Instead of carrying tinder or learning how to process natural materials with their knife, people will lie to themselves and think that they can just scrape up their lighter or something. It's a goofy cop out.
Yes! I am on the carrying tinder side of things. I would do more natural tinder processing, but our winters are typically way too wet for that in the moment.
The more you know the less you carry came from Canadian Survival instructor Mors Kochanski. He taught this properly, but some idiots took it as going to the Canadian Boreal Forest unprepared. Some people just took what he taught out of context.
I only remembered that it was Mors Kochanski AFTER I made the video. I had one of those, "That was a dumb comment" moments. I almost did a retake on that section over it.
@@BitterrootBackwoodsno problem! I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my videos.