Well, made it out yet again (yay!).
Earlier in the week there was cold weather AND snow
but, once again, a blast of warm air came on through, melting it all.
But hey, its still winter, so what the hell, lets load up all the gear, get my dad to come out this time around, and head for the woods! :thumbup:
This time, when we got out there it was 12 degrees centigrade
this has been one weird February for south-western Ontario.
Here, you see my dad and brother walking ahead, with my brother in the lead:
Some of the cutting implements; the Zero Tolerance 0102, a Ka-Bar/Maserin folding dagger, and the all-important DEskabar (the folding dagger saw no use this day):
Theres my father, standing past the fire and holding the saw my brother got him for Christmas; if I recall correctly, he was taking a breather from sawing at this point:
Axe and walking stick:
A shot of the shelter frame, and my brother seeing how easy it is for one person to put up a large tarp; turns out to be pretty damn easy with reusable zip-ties. We discussed improvements to be made on subsequent outings, but for this time, other things were planned. It did make for a nice place to sit in shade though. 
Bringing more wood for the fire:
With a walking stick, I can support myself to bend and chop things, like this log:
I used the ZT to cut down a small tree, which I sawed into sections for all the days projects. Some sections can be seen here:
Oh crap, someones batoning a knife! Were all gonna die!!!
Hey look, its a spatula!
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Working on a fork (progress shots):
You may have noticed the stone axe head in the second picture
a friend of mine found it, then traded it to me. I traded it to another friend, whose archeologist friend dated it at somewhere around 1000 years old (I forget the exact age range
its damned old, though). I figured it needed to live up to its intended purpose again after a millennia
so, lets make a handle!
On a wood run, I found a vast area to the east of our site that hasnt been touched by anyone! Tons (literally) of deadwood; standing deadwood, leaning deadwood, fallen over trees of deadwood
a true goldmine of easily accessible wood. 
My brother stirring rice in the first pot that came to a boil
note the spatula that is being used.
Im blowing on the coals to burn a bigger hole for the axe-head; the trowel keeps the heat from burning my lips as much:
Charring, cutting, and jamming the axe head in there:
The fork I made (still not done), as well as the fork my brother made. The axe head is fitting in there pretty well now:
My father sits past the fire, lurking in the darkness:
You know what would go good with this rice? A pound of shrimp!
Lookin good, and the forks work! First rice and shrimp batch being eaten:
My brother is stirring up the second, far more shrimpy batch of food (shrimp overload
but in a good way):
After 1000 years, it lives again! Lets go chop down a tree:
It worked, but a sharp steel axe does better than a dull stone one (shocking!). Why not pose with both of them though, eh?
Tarp is packed up, and we are heading out. My father was having stomach hassles that cut the trip a tad short (he got the full woods experience
lots of looking for exciting new trees to do a bear imitation with. Does a bear ____ in the woods?). Before heading out though, we got the obligatory shot of most of the sharp things we brought along. You can see the Imperial USA lock-back beside his Voyager XL
who says you can only like one type of knife, right? Then we packed things up the rest of the way and left:
Before we were fully packed, I took a quick picture of the wooden dagger my dad had been whittling, alongside the Ka-Bar folding one
thats the only use it got all day:
On the way out, we were just about out of the woods
when dad got bathroom attacked yet again. While he ran off for a suitable tree, I got this cool picture of the moon, along with a star:
The temperature sure dropped throughout the day; you likely noticed the mud in pictures along the way...well, on the way out the ground was 100% frozen. Hard as a rock.
Once back at home, I took pictures of all the things I made this month on outdoors excursions, along with the knife that made them all. I noticed a natural hole near the butt end of the fork, so I bored the other side, and put some gutted paracord through to make a hanging loop:
So, if nothing else, I made a fork, a spoon, a spatula, a bowl, and resurrected an ancient stone axe. :thumbup:
And, I found the old EDC shelter I made, plus spent quality time with family and friends which, in the final analysis, is what its all about; adventure and people who are cool to be around. 
