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Hi guys -
A good friend of mine and me explored the little park I told you about in the Gathering "date thread".
It was sunny and around 38f here today, so we took some JK's, some fire starting materials, water and teabags and set out to explore the park.
A view of the largest lake.
I discovered what an excellent chopper my JK Gambler's Bowie is when I cut some smaller saplings down and chopped some wood
Spring is near - the Trillium was up in places. The plants that were up were small, as compared to my JK Small Simple Scandi -
If you can find one of these, you will always have an emergency whistle. I'll show that to the folks at the gathering, unless you already know about that.
Something had been gnawing on a deer bone:
Deer had been drinking at this location
Found a possum skull - decided that is where we would have a fire and make some tea.
I had my JK Gathering goodies, the starters that Zenful made, the tinder kit that jds1 put together for attendee's of last fall's gathering, and my mini survival kit from my truck:
A little peek of color is nice to see:
Jake found a nice piece of rotten log to use as the bowl for our fire and then proceeded to make tinder using the JK Kephart. He liked that knife.
Jake use the JK Scanduckie and JK Firesteel (more gifts from John at previous gatherings).
The SSS is very handy, and handsome as well!
We had fire in about 4 minutes after Jacob prepared the tinder
We heated up our water after making some green-sticks to lay across the fire
Here is a view from a shelter, showing the lake down the hill, and the grill.
Just down the road a piece is a small local short-line railroad's yard, and some antique locomotives that are still in use'
We finished the day back at my house with a Bourbon County Stout.
best regards-
mqqn
A good friend of mine and me explored the little park I told you about in the Gathering "date thread".
It was sunny and around 38f here today, so we took some JK's, some fire starting materials, water and teabags and set out to explore the park.
A view of the largest lake.
I discovered what an excellent chopper my JK Gambler's Bowie is when I cut some smaller saplings down and chopped some wood
Spring is near - the Trillium was up in places. The plants that were up were small, as compared to my JK Small Simple Scandi -
If you can find one of these, you will always have an emergency whistle. I'll show that to the folks at the gathering, unless you already know about that.
Something had been gnawing on a deer bone:
Deer had been drinking at this location
Found a possum skull - decided that is where we would have a fire and make some tea.
I had my JK Gathering goodies, the starters that Zenful made, the tinder kit that jds1 put together for attendee's of last fall's gathering, and my mini survival kit from my truck:
A little peek of color is nice to see:
Jake found a nice piece of rotten log to use as the bowl for our fire and then proceeded to make tinder using the JK Kephart. He liked that knife.
Jake use the JK Scanduckie and JK Firesteel (more gifts from John at previous gatherings).
The SSS is very handy, and handsome as well!
We had fire in about 4 minutes after Jacob prepared the tinder
We heated up our water after making some green-sticks to lay across the fire
Here is a view from a shelter, showing the lake down the hill, and the grill.
Just down the road a piece is a small local short-line railroad's yard, and some antique locomotives that are still in use'
We finished the day back at my house with a Bourbon County Stout.
best regards-
mqqn
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