Ep 5: Bushcraft, Survival, Backpacking, Corrupted!

The Practical Woodsman

Watch me eat lots of crow, admit I'm wrong, and ask for forgiveness. I plead for your help with something I am working on and I appeal to others who share similar attitudes to me. Terminology has been corrupted - why 'bushcraft', 'survival', 'wilderness backpacking' have strayed from the ideals that they once represented. John Muir. Simon Kenton. Why short-sleeved shirts will mark you as a silly greenhorn in the woods by woodsmen. Stinging nettle. Why the Appalachian Trail is nothing for you to go bragging about to true woodsmen (and woodsladies).

Join our online community! Go to thepracticalwoodsman.locals.com. I ain't gonna lie to you - it is as dead as a forgotten graveyard there right now. But it doesn't have to be! And I'm active there.

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