Vital Outdoor Skills - LewRockwell

49 Outdoor Skills and Projects to Try When Camping

April 1, 2015

Planning your spring outdoor adventure?

Try these skills and projects, even if it’s in your backyard. In fact, your backyard may be the best place to start your journey to outdoor self-reliance.

Burn Stuff (Combustion)

Flint and Steel
Fire from One Stick
Bow Drill Friction Fire
Practice Making Feather Sticks (short video)

Practice in wet conditions. If it ain’t raining, you ain’t training…

Cut Stuff (Cutting Tool)

Shelter Stuff (Cover)

Four W’s – what to look for when selecting a campsite
Make Your Own Oilskin Tarp (waterproof and fireproof)
Outside the Tent
More Tarp Setups
Emergency Shelter in Under 5 Minutes

Avoid Stuff

Forage/Harvest Stuff

Mullein
Pine Resin
Wild Edibles: Trout Lily, Ostrich Fern shoots, Milkweed pods, Wood Sorrel,Purslane

Tie Knots and Stuff

Eat Stuff

Mountain Man MRE’s – pemmican, jerky, parched corn, and dried fruit
Smalls – crayfish, minnows, snakes and reptiles
Cocoa
Coconut Oil – 100’s of uses

Make Outdoor Stuff

Frog Gig
Wooden Spoons
Natural Cordage
Waterproof Fire Tinder
Take-down Bow Saw
Pine Pitch Sticks
Fixin’ Wax – good for tools and safe for skin
Char Cloth and More Char Cloth
Duct Tape Arrow Fletching
Oil Lamp – quick and easy diy candling device
Wool Hunting Shirt
Pace Beads – navigation

Wilderness Self-Reliance Stuff

Let the fun begin! Get out and stay outdoors.

Keep Doing the Stuff of Self-Reliance,

Todd

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