Hey everybody, I hope you’re all doing well. I realize I have been a bit negligent with my check-ins here, forgive me. Like you, I have to work and bring home the bacon in order for me to be able to create and publish The Practical Woodsman content (believe it or not, The Practical Woodsman hasn’t made me filthy rich yet. Elon Musk has not asked to be personal friends with me, and I don’t have my own rocket company to take mankind to Pluto).
My point is that real life, and the need to earn a living, takes up more of my time and attention sometimes than other times. I appreciate everybody’s understanding. And especially - especially - I appreciate your support here on this group. It means more than you’ll ever know.
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 ...
