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Took a week off of my busy summer schedule, (back at the kids camp) three days with my wife and an couple of friends of ours, and got rained on straight through, but thanks to the whisperlite there was always hot food. We did have to string up some secondary tarps inside the tent to keep the drips off, but it all worked out fine.
Then spent four days in the BC woods with a buddy of mine and managed a very nice large spoon (nice for me, amateur compared to some of you guys) and managed a bow drill fire. I did use a plank we had for the board, but sourced the bow, block and spindle on-site. two hours total time in perfect conditions. The key turned out to be shortening the spindle to reduce the wobble. My Ka-bar khuk, RC-3 and Izula preformed very well all week, including lashing the izula to a pole to cut down some rope left up by previous site users. Other gear included gerber hatchets which proved their worth, a vic huntsman which I learned a lot about, my ox-head ax and an assortment of coleman stoves and lanterns which added to the comfort level. I figure if you are going to drive up, might as well take a full truck and cut back from there, besides there would have been few places to do much off-site fire building, between the pine beetles and the peat-moss.
Thanks for the inspiration to try new stuff guys, and the knowledge to get started.
Then spent four days in the BC woods with a buddy of mine and managed a very nice large spoon (nice for me, amateur compared to some of you guys) and managed a bow drill fire. I did use a plank we had for the board, but sourced the bow, block and spindle on-site. two hours total time in perfect conditions. The key turned out to be shortening the spindle to reduce the wobble. My Ka-bar khuk, RC-3 and Izula preformed very well all week, including lashing the izula to a pole to cut down some rope left up by previous site users. Other gear included gerber hatchets which proved their worth, a vic huntsman which I learned a lot about, my ox-head ax and an assortment of coleman stoves and lanterns which added to the comfort level. I figure if you are going to drive up, might as well take a full truck and cut back from there, besides there would have been few places to do much off-site fire building, between the pine beetles and the peat-moss.
Thanks for the inspiration to try new stuff guys, and the knowledge to get started.