Comments on: Epic Camping Fail ~ Owning your mistakes ~ Solo overnight

By: Survival Lilly

Survival Lilly — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:38:58 +0000

I know exactly what you mean. I forgot so many things like, camera, microphone, sd cards, firesteels… so now I carry like 3 lighters in every pouch and like 10 extra batteries for filming lol.

By: david john Huxtable

david john Huxtable — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:38:58 +0000

i wish we had 2nd amendments here!! id love it!! id be armed up to the teeth like bladerunner!!
dont like govts telling me all i can.legally own is a swiss penknife and a peashooter
for our only self defences!!

By: david john Huxtable

david john Huxtable — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:38:58 +0000

thats good im english so id probably just get shot at every other day!!
i remember going up to a old sweet lady in nyc to ask her the way to grand central stn
as i walked up to her to ask her at midday in a business plaza
trees flowers gardens around us
she stopped dead
gave me a glare
fumbled in her hand bag
then took out a huge gun
out of her sparkly handbag
had horn rimmed glasses on
squinted hard again at me pointed her gun my way
and then says get outa my face you mffka!!
she was deaf as a post hadnt heard a word id had to say?
gun went click as hammer cocked
i took three large steps back tried explaining to her i only wanted to know the way?
she made darned sure i wasnt bulling her before she smiled laughed to herself after a passer bye saw what happened explained to her that i was no threat to her in anyway?
she said oh sorry yer an english tourist sorry for all that bye the way
you can just never be to careful
in this town!!
she asked me again what i wanted to know we had a real laugh when she told me i could put my hands back down again
now
i offered for her to try & shoot me again if it really would make her day?
:)
but after that exp i tended to hail peoples more
from a distances
i did home delivery once in los angeles ca and almost got blown away
as here in uk you just open up someones gate walk up their pathway knock on their front door
but not in LA!!
had a crack fueled mastiff let out the door on me
guns poked through cracks in the door at me
i had to leg it back down the path jumping the gate dive headfirst into open window of my car then.get rest of my body insides car away from a mastiff that had grabbed by boots n laces sticking out of car door
i had to play tug of war with this dog as owners came out the house asked me what i wanted with them.etc?
it was only a home delivery that got posted to us by mistake
so i decided to drop it off to them correct adress on our way out the city but it was in south east la i was on my way to joshua tree
and san diego
the neighbourhood wasnt great
bye the way!!
but they called n grabbed their dogs back gratefully thanked me when they realised that i was just doing them.a favors.opened up box found theyd missed the delivery
they thanked me gave me a beer etc asked me what i was doing in.la
after that i gave up going up peoples drives in usa always called firstly?

By: david john Huxtable

david john Huxtable — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:38:58 +0000

i knew i had put the pegs poles in the car
but when we got there after driving 600miles at night in foul weather finally got there couldnt see them anywhere obvious
they had slipped down side wall of the trunk behind carpet fell into a panel void of the car
wasnt my car so i didnt notice it until we got back down south again
the look of incredulity
on my mates face
my father wasnt surprised he knows me went to town adding more heaping more coals on the fire of my derisions
however i did point out to everyone that i had not forgotten them
as i had firmly claimed
just could not relocate them again at night in the teeth of gale storm and blizzard
theyd like vanished on way up
in some way
murphys law says you find them again when least needed as thats what happened to us on the day!!
how i never got lynched by wet cold tired campers is beyonds me
but i didnt forget
them

By: david john Huxtable

david john Huxtable — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:38:58 +0000

i love your boots!! nice pack too
why is there no macho gun toting man around to assist help protect you from the unmentionables
out on yer own in the woods!!?
the reason i ask is that
i wouldnt like you ever bumping into a person like me?
coming across a lone woman out in the woods!!?
it looks cold there?
what state is this in?
nice shape of ridge tent
nobody ever learns properly without ever making mistakes!
owning them improving upon your own perf is very important!
thing to be able to do
otherwise we just dont improve!
if you had a stove or cooker
you could have gone ahead
or sunlight you could have got out a magnifying lens
but we all been there
we live too fast these days our heads get over stressed we forget things in a rush
everyones living at 100mph
i like to stash things important like firelighting kit everywhere
then forget about it
so when i do forget my main kit for whatever reason
i invariably can search my pack and find something to light a fire with
on me my jacket or in spare pkts tucked away
i know the feeling
as it takes a shitloads of efforts to just get out there
you must have been really pissed off!!
i may gone to bed without a fire
but not much fun in that is there?
as a fire makes a camp in the cold
all i can say is that its very easily done
by the way
my advices to you is buy a pack of lighters matches or ferro rods stash them allover yer pack or clothing with tinder or cotton buds ready to go youll never be without it that way
its an old SAS trick i carry everything im ever likely to ever need importantly in my camo smock so even if you get seperated from yer pack youve still got stuff stashed allover you to get you fired up and on yer way
i carry mres in pkts
and cordages bandages lighting
etc compasses whistles
etc scarfs hats spare etc all on me
you can get fire or shelters up survive straight out the jkt or smock!
learn to make up more than 1 kit then stash a few extras out of the way
forget about them until you really then do need it
because of any oversight along the way it has saved me many times
doing things this way
i take spare pegs out aswell as these are often crucial if you have forgotten pegs for yer tent in some way
i have been laying flat ina blizzard in scotland hands freezing cold trying to whittle a flexible branch into tent stakes
21 of them i needed bye the way
cuz i forgot the pegs after driving over 600miles
i was sure i put them in back of car
tent was sagging for 3 days had to go out recut some pegs set rocks up to hold up tent in storms gales etc
and when i got back i found them they had slipped down behinds carpet liner of car trunk
i was soundly berated by all
for my mistake
as we almost got hypothermic cutting 21 pegs in the teeth of a blizzard but no trees anywhere in scotland much
in mid winter
on coastal campsite
exposed to fury of the atlantic
how the tent held up was more a miracle to the flexibility of the type of branch i used.
as it flexed in the winds didnt break but tent sagged a fair bit had to replace with large rocks off the beach every 2 hours
not an ideal start to a camping holiday

so

By: Mr. jdoxs

Mr. jdoxs — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:38:58 +0000

Don't feel bad, just live, and learn,..! I teach wilderness preparedness (wilderness survival, for weekend hunters), as a volunteer with the state "Hunter Safety Education" program, and (while soloing), there have been several times over the years that I have just flat out, gone brain dead forgetting important items,… I'm proud of you girl, you admit it, and own it, that's a lot more than many so called seasoned "Bushcrafters" will do,… lol

By: Tom R

Tom R — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:38:58 +0000

I thought Alaska was covered in Wolves that time of year.

By: P'tit Suisse nature

P'tit Suisse nature — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:38:58 +0000

Oh NO! let me give you my lighter ???

By: Lester Clark

Lester Clark — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:38:58 +0000

This was still a bit informing since you had two shelter haves from the services ! most people do no know about them!!

By: Dominick Cabal

Dominick Cabal — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:38:58 +0000

I once brought the sheath minus the knife out to camp one time. I left the knife on the kitchen counter after cutting open a bag of something before I left the house, duh! Now I carry a spare knife (a Mora) in the glove compartment in case I do it again. I also carry spare Bic lighters and a 6"X1/2" ferro rod in the console of my car. We're only humans, born to make mistakes. But we learn. …..