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DontTreadOnMe201/brian joined me on the first day/night of another 2-nighter late last week...some camp pics.
how i keep my knives rust free
i was in a carving mood on this trip:
on the way to the stream to fill up the water jugs we came across this one...things are sprouting but for the most part the area is still very much brown.
while waiting for the water to boil i had another go at bow drill fire with materials gathered on site (except for the hand socket which i brought from home):
it's smoking! when i ran out of gas i stop to check for coal the drill flew off somewhere but i wasn't paying attention where it went.
after a minute or two of looking, brian spots the drill in the camp fire...i got fire! does that count?
the knives i brought so brian can check them out (left to right: becker eskabar with zytel scales, battle creek knives butter finger, spyderco bushcraft, and esee lite machete):
showing off the versatility of a machete:
the feathers lit up just fine with a firesteel...no need for a cotton ball, fatwood, etc.
also brought along my week-old eskabar. i wanted to make feather sticks/one stick fire with it to break it in but that stupid stock sheath keeps dulling the blade (i'm waiting for godspeed to make me a kydex sheath) i just had to take out my frustration by batoning it through some thick wood
anyway, while i was running around carving, starting fires and making all that noise, brian was doing the jedi thing and sat quietly in the corner reading his bushcraft book.
how i keep my knives rust free
i was in a carving mood on this trip:
on the way to the stream to fill up the water jugs we came across this one...things are sprouting but for the most part the area is still very much brown.
while waiting for the water to boil i had another go at bow drill fire with materials gathered on site (except for the hand socket which i brought from home):
it's smoking! when i ran out of gas i stop to check for coal the drill flew off somewhere but i wasn't paying attention where it went.
after a minute or two of looking, brian spots the drill in the camp fire...i got fire! does that count?
the knives i brought so brian can check them out (left to right: becker eskabar with zytel scales, battle creek knives butter finger, spyderco bushcraft, and esee lite machete):
showing off the versatility of a machete:
the feathers lit up just fine with a firesteel...no need for a cotton ball, fatwood, etc.
also brought along my week-old eskabar. i wanted to make feather sticks/one stick fire with it to break it in but that stupid stock sheath keeps dulling the blade (i'm waiting for godspeed to make me a kydex sheath) i just had to take out my frustration by batoning it through some thick wood
anyway, while i was running around carving, starting fires and making all that noise, brian was doing the jedi thing and sat quietly in the corner reading his bushcraft book.
