Your favorite Wilderness skill? (POLL)

[psy-ops]

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.

 

[Bopleo]

Taking a poop without a toilet.

 

[wintermute]

Taking a poop without a toilet.

No doubt one of the hardest skills to master. Make sure you're facing up hill!

 

[tknife]

I voted for firemaking since that's my favorite skill to practice. Though hiking/fitness is what I do most and love it.

 

[Outdoors Fanatic]

Taking a poop without a toilet.

+1! Now that's some skilled shitter.

 

[k-spar]

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.

 

[andrew7978]

I voted for firemaking since that's my favorite skill to practice. Though hiking/fitness is what I do most and love it.

I couldn't have said it better myself. I am the exact same way.

 

[savagesicslayer]

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.

 

[baldtaco-II]

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.

 

[JTR357]

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.

 

[mymindisamob]

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.

 

[mtnfolk mike]

i would also have to say firemakeing... it is such a valuble skill to have... i also really like building kits and PSK's...

 

[The Motivator]

We need more polls like this on here!!

Great idea!!!

 

[tarmix101]

I voted for firemaking since that's my favorite skill to practice. Though hiking/fitness is what I do most and love it.

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.

 

[ilbruche]

I couldn't vote. Often I'm doing several of those things on a trip and I enjoy all of them equally.

 

[JTR357]

We need more polls like this on here!!

Great idea!!!

Agreed:thumbup:definately one of the better polls

 

[Big Mike]

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.

I also collect and use native plants form the woods around my house all the time.

 

[psy-ops]

I couldn't vote. Often I'm doing several of those things on a trip and I enjoy all of them equally.

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.

 

[k-spar]

I hardly work on orientation, first aid, or food procurement.

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.

 

[texastonydobbs]

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...