A somewhat expensive and slow project that I started back in the middle of August came to a close this weekend - finally!
My studio space needed a major electrical upgrade, and that has now been taken care of - hopefully for the rest of my life. I’m really happy about this because it has been a major distraction for me for months, and just another one of those things keeping me from being able to easily produce content and all that good stuff.
In other news, I finalized some plans for a big excursion into the mountain backcountry with a couple of buddies. That adventure will be happening in just the next couple of weeks and will be a really nice opportunity for me to add to The Practical Woodsman growing list of video content. I’m excited about what I’ll be able to share with all of you.
Gettin’ outta the glorious rain in the glorious backcountry with my glorious dog
I found this video interesting as it relates to conversations we have about the true nature of things, what is really important and what is not, and how little importance some things have depending on the needs of the moment.
For example, this guy and his fellow soldiers, while being shot at would just dump their blankets - the blankets were totally unimportant to the immediate goal of staying alive. This meant later suffering, but at least they were alive.
I think about this sort of thing all the time when seeing guys building elaborate, beautiful shelters in the woods. When you’re hungry and lost, or simply traveling through the wilderness, nobody is going to care about building an elaborate shelter. You’re only going to care about conserving energy and using energy for only things that are absolutely necessary in any given moment.
This means sleeping under a rock outcrop, or a fallen tree, or just trying to get through the night under your sweater and some leaves you scrounge ...
