My acoustic medley: Castles in the Air, Spell of Ambition, Can You Feel the Love Tonight? Calliope
Common folk often refer to these as “wild strawberries” which is incorrect. These are specifically “mock strawberries”. The reason this matters is because there is indeed another strawberry called “wild strawberry” that is sweeter and more pleasant than even store-bought strawberries. The “mock” strawberries have very little sweetness or flavor, though they are edible.
This kind of stuff right here is where you’re most likely to pick up tick mites when moving through the woods. Grasses are the worst. I avoid them at all cost. In fact, if I was hiking through here, I’d walk up into the woods on the left and avoid those grass weeds altogether.
Tick mites, as we call ‘em around here, are teeny tiny little ticks that are about the size of the tip of a pin, so small they look like little dots. They will absolutely cover your feet and legs by the hundreds, or even thousands. They bite and cling on - which you will not even feel until later when you get into camp and start itching. Even after scraping them off your feet, the bites will drive a man (or woman) absolutely mad for a good week after.
This sort of environment strikes me as the apex of survival difficulty. Forget Everest or the Moon, this is the sort of environment right here that seems to me to require the greatest amount of grit and skill.
Photo credit: Benjamin Hardman
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