I appreciate everybody’s patience these past couple of months as I’ve been experimenting with different adjustments to The Practical Woodsman. For example, you’ve seen me introduce a new logo, and then you’ve seen various adjustments made to that logo.
Another new change I wanted to let all of you know - especially my Locals friends - is that I’m doing away with “Podcasts” and “Exclusives” and combining them into simply The Practical Woodsman Show. I think this will simplify things for everybody a lot.
Things were different back when I was offering an audio-version only of The Practical Woodsman and uploading to the podcast platforms. It made sense then for me to split up the two different show types of Podcasts and Exclusives, because I could save certain things for video and other things for discussions only. Now that I’m not doing any shows that are meant to be listened to only, there’s no longer any reason to continue splitting up my shows that way.
Along with this change, please know that I have changed the numbering system for my videos. All the videos that used to be “Podcasts” and “Exclusives” are now numbered in sequence together and simply called “Episodes”. So moving forward you’ll simply see The Practical Woodsman (Show) Ep. 122, Ep 123, Ep 124, and so forth. I’ve already gone back in time and made all of these changes, as well as update every single one of the thumbnail images of these videos.
I really think I’m nearing the end of any updates for this year - and hopefully for several years to come. I appreciate y’all being along for the ride!
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 ...
