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I had to move my daughter to Ottawa this weekend as she is starting up grad. school. After putting together multiple Ikea pieces in a heat wave in her small room, I managed to get a little off time and met up with DefaultUser. We went off to Gattineau park and walked the KingMountain trail. I nice little trail with different forest types and great views. We were able to identify several wild edibles and tea-plants including blueberry, rosehips, St. John's wort, wood sorrel, wild rasberry and blackberry, curly doc, strawberry (we made a tea from the leaves), yarrow and plantain.
On the way we also picked up some Balsam fir to try our hand out bowdrill. It had rained hard the night before making things a big challenging. First piece I picked was a no go, but then I went foraging for a more weathered piece and we each had success. During my foraging for the second piece, it started to rain lightly again and Default covered up our stuff but some of our tinder managed to get wet making it even more difficult. This was Default's first try at flint and steel and bowdrill. He accomplished both with ease despite the difficult conditions under which he learned. Damp, high humidity air, moist tinder and locally harvested wood.
After the heat wave, there was a big rain that cooled everything down and this brought many mushrooms to life.
One of the views from the trail over looking the valley and farmland below.
DefaultUser on bowdrill
Coal isn't smoking in the shot, but it was an ember!
Not only was his tinderbundle a bit wet, but it was also a bit small because we ended up using all my jute for an impromptu demo to some kids on flint and steel.
On the way we also picked up some Balsam fir to try our hand out bowdrill. It had rained hard the night before making things a big challenging. First piece I picked was a no go, but then I went foraging for a more weathered piece and we each had success. During my foraging for the second piece, it started to rain lightly again and Default covered up our stuff but some of our tinder managed to get wet making it even more difficult. This was Default's first try at flint and steel and bowdrill. He accomplished both with ease despite the difficult conditions under which he learned. Damp, high humidity air, moist tinder and locally harvested wood.
After the heat wave, there was a big rain that cooled everything down and this brought many mushrooms to life.
One of the views from the trail over looking the valley and farmland below.
DefaultUser on bowdrill
Coal isn't smoking in the shot, but it was an ember!
Not only was his tinderbundle a bit wet, but it was also a bit small because we ended up using all my jute for an impromptu demo to some kids on flint and steel.
