What's your next challenge for yourself?

Z

zhangmaster12

Joined
Sep 14, 2007
Messages
504
On my next overnight outing, I plan to:

1) Use only the saw and my 5.5" Breeden or my (not yet here) Ontario Pilot's Survival Knife to process all my cutlery needs.

2) Built an upside-down fire

3) Build fire without use of non-natural firestarters / tinders. Ie use feathersticks.

What about you guys?
 
Make a leather sheath for my Yardhook so I can use it! Something like the one you put together. Nice work!
 
My next challenge might sound retarded to some but I'm thinking about selling a couple of my knives to support the habit. This is a huge deal to me since it would have my name on it. I just can't afford to keep dropping money into this regardless of how much I want to!

I also want to go out fatwood hunting since I live in the PN. Might not sound like a challenge to some but I'm a med-student so finding time to go play in the mountains is a huge challenge!
 
Not just survive, rough it, or tough it out, but to be comfortable next to a fire and under a tarp in any weather. No sleeping bag. That sort of thing.

Oh, and wild edibles are a bigger one now too.
 
My goals for this year..
1) get to the point where I can start all my fires witha bow and drill made on the spot..
2) successfully catch fish with a fishing kit made of all natural materials and cordage
3) master the throwing stick
4) condense my 2 night campout gear into a buttpack
5)make a sleeping mat from weaved reeds
6) sleep primarily in shelters made of natural materials (when time, and resources allow)
7) begin flint knapping
8) perhaps make my first bow out of all natural materials

its a bit ambitious on all of them..... but we'll see
 
My skill search is:

Get better at knots.

Make a fire with no "extras", just tinder, steel and knife.

REALLY figure out what stuff I've been dragging around yet don't need.

Sleep with tarp instead of tent.

Learn about wild edibles.

Make a snare and figure 4.
 
Well I have a bet for $40 with one of my best friends and my girlfriend that this summer I can't go into the woods with just a knife, firesteel, tent, sleeping bag, bug repellent, rudimentery fishing gear and my dog (I get to bring food for him) and survive 7 days. I do not get to bring any water or food (I am sure I can bring a water filter of some sort) I am sure I can probably get my other friends to bet with me too and I can get the $ amount up over $100.

I think they are insane I could live on my fat deposits alone for a month probably but hey it will ne fun to prove them wrong.
 
I slept in my snow cave I made a couple of weeks ago....now I have to make a fire using only sticks! Bow drill.
 
1) Successful Bow Drill fire.

2) Get a fish with a spear made on the spot; then clean and cook it on the spot without cookware...
 
Real men don't build fires or shelters. They eat their food raw and sleep in the crotches of trees. Tom Brown catches deer by dropping on them from trees. Start with that.
 
I'm a resident in Idaho now so I'll be fishing and hunting as much as time and budget allows, but since I already spend 99% of my freetime in the backcountry I am just going to keep on living it up. I'll climb Mount Bora this year, the tallest peak in Idaho, and also spend a few weeks in the Sawtooth and Whitecloud Wilderness Areas. I want to float the North Fork of the Payette this year, a world renowned whitewater kayaking river. If I can spend enough time on the water and find the balls to bomb the constant class 3/class 4 rapids, it should be one heck of a time.
 
Get the heck out of the city as much as I can , and spend more time in the bush and canoeing/ fishing with my son . Getting a new truck this spring so I can make it happen . :thumbup:
 
Rockywolf said:
My skill search is:

Get better at knots.
Click to expand...

I am also keen on improving my knot skills.

On my last camping trip I switched from using bungee cords with hooks to paracord with knots for securing my gear to the scooter (first 2 pics):
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=718438
There are a few half hitches and bowline knots in use there.

Sometimes I'll practise a few knots while sitting at the computer watching TV programs. I am not looking to be perfect on 101 different knots - I just want to be able to easily tie half a dozen really useful knots as required. Generally you need to learn a knot and practise it a bit, then practise it some more, then after more practise you find you can easily tie that knot whenever you want to.
 
Completing my EMT-B training and passing the National Registry exam.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top