Your favorite Wilderness skill? (POLL)

Your Favorite Survival Skill?

  • Firemaking

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Shelter building

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Food procurement(traps, primitive hunting & fishing)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Primitive tool making

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • plant identification

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • cord making

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • First Aid training (more than one time)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Orientation without GPS

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Kit development Mini, PSK or BOB

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Hiking/Fitness

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    0
  • Poll closed .
psy-ops

psy-ops

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Lets do a post to see which WS is the most popular.

Most people do what they like and not what they need. I know for myself that rings especially true.
 
I voted for firemaking since that's my favorite skill to practice. Though hiking/fitness is what I do most and love it.
 
I voted first aid training because my WFR course was the best time i've ever had in a class. Now i'm planning to take another this summer.
 
I find I'm the weakest at fire making so I practice it a lot.Though I'm getting into traps and fishing as of late.
 
Shelter building. I find it's a punctuation point for a change of pace. Where and how well I can make one often determines whether a trip will suck. Without an element of genuine peril there isn't a fail element with any of the others, only a flag that something else, learning or materials, is required and a redirection. I wouldn't sit for yay many days lost or with an atrophying casualty simulation beyond my help or something to prove a point to myself, but a crappy nest creeps on you with an insistent whisper.
 
I voted for firemaking as my favorite.:)

Food procurement would be a close second.

Shelter building would be third,as it's the most challenging for me.

I also need a lot more practice,study & experience on plant identification.:o
 
I love firemaking, but voted shelter building. It is something I have done well and enjoyed since I was senior engineer on most of my childhood forts.:D
 
i would also have to say firemakeing... it is such a valuble skill to have... i also really like building kits and PSK's...:D
 
tknife said:
I voted for firemaking since that's my favorite skill to practice. Though hiking/fitness is what I do most and love it.
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Without a doubt it's fire making for me. I do a lot of "training" just to make sure I get to my destination in order to MAKE FIRE!

Keep myself in good shape, know where I'm going, plan my trip as well as gear, practice some skills when I can, and just think about the wood quite often.

All so I can light some wood on fire and be perfectly content to just stare at it for hours.:confused::D

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I couldn't vote. Often I'm doing several of those things on a trip and I enjoy all of them equally.
 
I voted firemaking, as I do enjoy it and practice several times a week. :thumbup:

That said, I Hike using my Orienteering skills most days. :cool:

I also collect and use native plants form the woods around my house all the time. :eek:
 
ilbruche said:
I couldn't vote. Often I'm doing several of those things on a trip and I enjoy all of them equally.
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You could vote multiple times.


I also put firemaking. It is going to be the top choice. Think about how many f-ing fuzzstick pics are posted on here. No other skill gets photo-ed so much.

I tend to practice in accordance to my preferences, Firemaking, hike and fitness, build shelters, Kit assembling, and plant id-ing.

I hardly work on orientation, first aid, or food procurement.
 
psy-ops said:
I hardly work on orientation, first aid, or food procurement.
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I think for first aid, in order for practicing it to be fun you really need multiple people and scenarios (preferably with fake gore!). Hard to find that outside of a classroom setting, which is unfortunate.
 
I love building kits & first aid....fire making after that ,I need to practice on the other items listed,more so traps and making cordage...
 
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