Hiking, skills, camp, new toys- Wrightwood, CA

bearthedog · Oct 6, 2011

This past Sunday I did a day hike and returned the next day (Monday) for an overnighter testing out some new toys. By toys I don’t just mean knives, but cameras too. I was with Reza who I met during a survival class in Alabama earlier this year. We both had some new cameras, knives, and misc gear needing some dirt time. It was pretty cold and windy, very windy. I’ve been in Asia the last two months and thought I had missed the best months in CA for hiking, luckily there was still some sunshine. A few pictures of the last few days!

-RB

Mt Baldy in the distance

Day hiking gear

Sheath and mods by GEEK

RAT Pack #8

The beauty of an f/2 aperture

Victorville in the distance

The road ahead

Defiant

Mt Baden-Powell

Reza just got a Canon G12 and although I had one, I sold it and went for the smaller Canon S95. Pretty much the same camera, but smaller and a little less zoom at 3.8x compared to the G12 5x zoom.

Camp

It was a windy night, but if you dress like a bank robber it helps.

The choppers!

Reza got a Tramontina 14” and kicked ass.

Shelter making

Almost there….

Done

Chris Pierce · Oct 6, 2011

wow. Great pictures.
I really like the modified ESEE knives as well.
What is the little knife in the last pics with the double choil?

mtnfolk mike · Oct 6, 2011

great stuff as always Reuben..:thumbup: i am loving that modded ESEE too..

bearthedog · Oct 6, 2011

ac1d0v3r1d3 said:
wow. Great pictures.
I really like the modified ESEE knives as well.
What is the little knife in the last pics with the double choil?

Anza Knives, made from a file.

mtnfolk mike said:
great stuff as always Reuben..:thumbup: i am loving that modded ESEE too..

Thanks, I like it too.

More MODS by GEEK
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...DS-RC-4-amp-RAT-Pack-RC-3?highlight=Geek+Mods

Mistwalker · Oct 6, 2011

Nice shots Reuben! Who makes the Woodlore looking knife?

jbob24 · Oct 6, 2011

Is that the new laser strike? Or just similar

kgd · Oct 6, 2011

very cool Reuben - love that shelter and the knives are cool. Really love that shelter!

sicily02 · Oct 6, 2011

That looks like a great time out. really dig the shelter you made.

Bryan

WILLIAM.M · Oct 6, 2011

Another set of great photos from the most traveled man I know

Keep them coming Bro

Dr.Bill

bearthedog · Oct 6, 2011

mistwalker said:
Nice shots Reuben! Who makes the Woodlore looking knife?

I will see if I can get Reza over here to tell you about it, it kicks donkey!
Mist, I am a little disappointed, I thought that of all the people here you would appreciate a good f/2 lens, but all you see is a knife. One track mind---Knife good, me like knife!

jbob24 said:
Is that the new laser strike? Or just similar

What Laser Strike?

kgd said:
very cool Reuben - love that shelter and the knives are cool. Really love that shelter!

Thanks!
We put it together in about 30 minutes, but that is while taking video, and pictures of its progress. We may have been able to put it together a little better and make it look a little nicer, but it worked. We used a few different tools to get the bows off. I used a SAK saw, and then we used another fixed blade and baton. The Tramontina did most of the work and got it done fast. It was super windy and cold, which made it a good time to practice skills.

sicily02 said:
That looks like a great time out. really dig the shelter you made.

Bryan

Thanks, it is a shelter perfect for high elevation mountains with large pine bows. In Alabama, with the Randall’s Adventure & Training team, we teach a different type of debris shelter with a basic A frame construction ribbed with sticks, bark, and whatever we can find, then, it’s covered with leaves, lots of them. It wakes a lot longer than pine bows and pine needles. It is part of a project we are working on where we may do a West Coast chapter of the Randall’s Adventure & Training course and this would be one of the shelters we teach.

Debris shelter

WILLIAM.M said:
Another set of great photos from the most traveled man I know

Keep them coming Bro

Dr.Bill

Thanks for the support man.

-RB

Mistwalker · Oct 6, 2011

bearthedog said:
I will see if I can get Reza over here to tell you about it, it kicks donkey!
Mist, I am a little disappointed, I thought that of all the people here you would appreciate a good f/2 lens, but all you see is a knife. One track mind---Knife good, me like knife!

-RB

Oh, sorry bro, that's not true at all. I must have spent a good twenty or thirty minutes checking out the detail in that shot of the moss alone and how you also caught the spider web, and then another half hour staring out through the views in the shots below that, and I even debating on writing and asking you for full sized files so could check them out on a much large monitor. Those shots are all simply stunning! But then again your shots usually are. And I too loved the shelter shots! The problem was I had had a really long complicated day, I had been up way too long (since 4 the morning before), and I had a few pints of 1554 at the end of the day to unwind. I got lost at the end thinking about how the diverse and different the two areas each of us has been exploring lately, and yet at the same time somewhat similar. And then I noted the irony of a similar knife in each, as you might have noticed in my last thread. Being so worn out I simply understated all of my thoughts. But...going through the thread again just now I got to live them all again and then some while wide awake

Beautiful photos bro, I always look forward to your threads!!

bearthedog · Oct 6, 2011

mistwalker said:
Oh, sorry bro, that's not true at all. I must have spent a good twenty or thirty minutes checking out the detail in that shot of the moss alone and how you also caught the spider web, and then another half hour staring out through the views in the shots below that, and I even debating on writing and asking you for full sized files so could check them out on a much large monitor. Those shots are all simply stunning! But then again your shots usually are. And I too loved the shelter shots! The problem was I had had a really long complicated day, I had been up way too long (since 4 the morning before), and I had a few pints of 1554 at the end of the day to unwind. I got lost at the end thinking about how the diverse and different the two areas each of us has been exploring lately, and yet at the same time somewhat similar. And then I noted the irony of a similar knife in each, as you might have noticed in my last thread. Being so worn out I simply understated all of my thoughts. But...going through the thread again just now I got to live them all again and then some while wide awake Beautiful photos bro, I always look forward to your threads!!

Thanks Mist. I was just joking with you no need to explain.
Did you get my email from a few days ago? Keep shooting man, I enjoy your work amigo!

-RB

Mistwalker · Oct 6, 2011

bearthedog said:
Thanks Mist. I was just joking with you no need to explain.
Did you get my email from a few days ago? Keep shooting man, I enjoy your work amigo!

-RB

I know bro, but looking through the thread again and then re-reading my reply was almost embarrassing lol. You were right to say something

Yeah, I just read it, that had me lmao!

Thanks man, the feeling is mutual. May we never run out of images to capture, and always have something to capture them with!!

bearthedog · Oct 6, 2011

mistwalker said:
I know bro, but looking through the thread again and then re-reading my reply was almost embarrassing lol. You were right to say something

Yeah, I just read it, that had me lmao!

Thanks man, the feeling is mutual. May we never run out of images to capture, and always have something to capture them with!!

No problem man, let it out. This the AA for woods bums like us.

-RB

blindripper23 · Oct 6, 2011

mistwalker said:
Nice shots Reuben! Who makes the Woodlore looking knife?

Hey Mistwalker,
That knife is an A. Wright and Son bushcraft knife. They are made in Sheffield England.I can't tell you enough how much I love this knife. I thought it was a clone of the Woodlore but cheaper. Come to find out it is totally different. My brother has the woodlore and I like this knife much better. Has and edge like you wouldn't believe.

Mistwalker · Oct 6, 2011

bearthedog said:
No problem man, let it out. This the AA for woods bums like us.

-RB

Yep, it's been very therapeutic for me

bearthedog · Oct 6, 2011

blindripper23 said:
Hey Mistwalker,
That knife is an A. Wright and Son bushcraft knife. They are made in Sheffield England.I can't tell you enough how much I love this knife. I thought it was a clone of the Woodlore but cheaper. Come to find out it is totally different. My brother has the woodlore and I like this knife much better. Has and edge like you wouldn't believe.

Hey Reza, thanks. I keep forgetting who you said made that knife, but I like it. Rosewood is nice!

-RB

TheGame · Oct 6, 2011

Great pics, thanks for sharing. Looks like some nice country to be enjoying.

Mistwalker · Oct 6, 2011

blindripper23 said:
Hey Mistwalker,
That knife is an A. Wright and Son bushcraft knife. They are made in Sheffield England.I can't tell you enough how much I love this knife. I thought it was a clone of the Woodlore but cheaper. Come to find out it is totally different. My brother has the woodlore and I like this knife much better. Has and edge like you wouldn't believe.

Thanks for the reply man. It's interesting, just looking at the pics I thought it was a clone too. I've yet to have a chance to handle an actual Woodlore but bought the last one I picked up because of the similar design but having a 4mm blade is more up my alley. It is also made in England by a man named Mick Spain. I had some concerns about how I would like that grind on a thicker steel after trying one in 3/16 and finding some tasks hard to accomplish but the thinner steel and higher grind on this one is working out very well for me. Funny how things can look so similar and feel so differently in use isn't it?

pitdog · Oct 6, 2011

Awesome pics, thanks for sharing them !