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The Bushcraft Padawan
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Are you keen to make the most of your time in The Great Outdoors?
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This channel will help you achieve that via 300+ videos covering subjects such as wild camping, navigation, mountaineering, backpacking and bushcraft.
There are hundreds of UA-cam channels "talking the talk" when it comes to the great outdoors but far fewer "walking the walk", let alone bringing over 30 years of outdoors experience and a number of national recognised qualifications - as I do!
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You won't regret it!
Then you're in the right place!
This channel will help you achieve that via 300+ videos covering subjects such as wild camping, navigation, mountaineering, backpacking and bushcraft.
There are hundreds of UA-cam channels "talking the talk" when it comes to the great outdoors but far fewer "walking the walk", let alone bringing over 30 years of outdoors experience and a number of national recognised qualifications - as I do!
If you're keen to boost your outdoor skills via my experience driven, no-nonsense, easily understood videos then hit that subscribe button, click the bell notification and leave the rest to me.
You won't regret it!
Name That Feature! #1 Technique To Improve Your Navigation.
So much of the time when navigating, we often focus on "where am I?" which invariably leads to many people (especially novices) focussing on their immediate surroundings.
In this video, I share an exercise you can undertake to significantly improve your map reading and navigation skills by casting your attention further afield...
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FJALLRAVEN Vidda Pro Pants | 3+ Years Review - ua-cam.com/video/50c2zQZKSTQ/v-deo.html
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In this video, I share an exercise you can undertake to significantly improve your map reading and navigation skills by casting your attention further afield...
☕ I have set up a 'BuyMeACoffee' page should anybody wish to support my channel / fund my hot chocolate habit. ☕ - www.buymeacoffee.com/CraigOutdoors
SUBSCRIBE to maximise your outdoor time - ua-cam.com/users/TheBushcraftPadawan
👀 WATCH NEXT 👀
My lightweight, low-bulk, overnight bushcraft kit - ua-cam.com/video/ERrbdubjSuo/v-deo.html
Mora Garberg Carbon Review | 1 Year Of Use & Counting... - ua-cam.com/video/okDvpXFKvT4/v-deo.html
FJALLRAVEN Vidda Pro Pants | 3+ Years Review - ua-cam.com/video/50c2zQZKSTQ/v-deo.html
Bushcraft in August - OHuHu stove, birch bark & flint, char wood, pancakes - ua-cam.com/video/MnERGxh4Mh0/v-deo.html
STOP CUTTING Your Maps Down - ua-cam.com/video/mhz_XS1wYmQ/v-deo.html
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Vanishing Act: Where Did I Go for 9 Months?
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Vanishing Act: Where Did I Go for 9 Months? In this 'come back' video I explain why I haven't uploaded to UA-cam for 9 months. Hopefully, most of that is behind me now and I can start the recording, editing and publishing process again, all of which I get a great deal of enjoyment from. ☕ I have set up a 'BuyMeACoffee' page should anybody wish to support my channel / fund my hot chocolate habit...
BROKEN KIT: Essential Gear for Wild Camping Repairs
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BROKEN KIT: Essential Gear for Wild Camping Repairs In this video I share the kit that I carry with me to affect temporary repairs on my equipment when I'm out in the field. It's a relatively small kit, but with some careful thought and 'MacGyver attitude' I can use it to fix the immediate problem that has been caused. Here is some of the specific kit that I carry 👇🏻 👉🏻 Niteize reusable rubber ...
Sleeping Bag Foot Section Condensation. My Genius DIY Fix
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Sleeping Bag Foot Section Condensation. My Genius DIY Fix As a tall person I often struggle with keeping the foot section of my sleeping bag dry when sleeping in a tent as my height often leads to the bottom of my sleeping bag pushing up against the inner and then outer walls resulting in it becoming damp. In this video I share how I've come up with a novel solution with the help of Alpkit.... ...
Navigation Apps. Do We Need To Rethink Our Perspective On Them?
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Navigation Apps. Do We Need To Rethink Our Perspective On Them? For decades I've been a staunch supporter of the message that if you're heading into the Great Outdoors, off the beaten track, that you should carry a physical map and compass and have the underpinning skills to use them... That opinion has changed over the past 12 months, quite dramatically! 0:00 Intro 0:59 What has changed my opi...
#1 Packing Tip for Wildcamping Adventures
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Packing Like a Pro: #1 Tip for Efficient Wildcamping Trips Packing your equipment for wild camping adventures can be a tricky balance between ensuring safety and comfort whilst trying to reduce the weight and bulk of your kit. In this video I share my own approach to tackling this challenge allowing me to be safe and relatively comfortable, without carrying my entire worldly possessions on my b...
Witness the Unbelievable Sight of a Seal Colony...From the Air!
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Angel Bay, North Wales | From The Air! In this short video I take the opportunity to experiment with using my DJI Mini 3 Pro drone to tell it's own story, without having to use it solely for b-roll footage or rely on a voiceover narrative. You also get to see a birds eye view of a wonderful seal colony that regularly visits my local area. ☕ I have set up a 'BuyMeACoffee' page should anybody wis...
Discover Why Keela Has People Rethinking Goretex Waterproofing
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Keela Stratus Waterproof Jacket | Better Than Goretex? I've owned many Goretex jackets over the years, so it was something of a leap of faith for me to try out an entirely new type of material and jacket construction for my latest waterproof jacket. Did it meet the standard that I've come to expect from Goretex? Did it let me down? Did it exceed my expectations? Keela Stratus manufacturer's pag...
Ditch The Bulk: Streamline Your First Aid Kit
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Ditch The Bulk: Streamline Your First Aid Kit
First Aid Kit Pro-Tip: 1 Easy Change.
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First Aid Kit Pro-Tip: 1 Easy Change.
The Best Soft-Shell Jacket I've Ever Owned!
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The Best Soft-Shell Jacket I've Ever Owned!
Why I Stopped Using These Types of Water Bottles & What I Use Instead
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Why I Stopped Using These Types of Water Bottles & What I Use Instead
DO NOT TRUST These Navigation Techniques/Tools
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DO NOT TRUST These Navigation Techniques/Tools
7 Uses For An EMERGENCY Group Shelter You Hadn't Considered
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7 Uses For An EMERGENCY Group Shelter You Hadn't Considered
BOOST Your Outdoor Skills By Doing This ONE SIMPLE THING.
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BOOST Your Outdoor Skills By Doing This ONE SIMPLE THING.
3 Super Simple Tent Mods For A Hilleberg Soulo (or any tent!)
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3 Super Simple Tent Mods For A Hilleberg Soulo (or any tent!)
GUARANTEED Good Night's Sleep With This SUPER SIMPLE HACK
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SECRET TIP To Keep Your Feet Dry When Crossing Water Obstacles
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SECRET TIP To Keep Your Feet Dry When Crossing Water Obstacles
How To Find Where You Are On A Map - No Compass Required!
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How To Find Where You Are On A Map - No Compass Required!
5 Tips To Maximise Your Wild Camping Before You Leave Home
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NORDISK TELEMARK 2.2 LW Tent Review | Solo Wildcamp in Snowdonia
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NORDISK TELEMARK 2.2 LW Tent Review | Solo Wildcamp in Snowdonia
Why I STOPPED Leaving A Route Card At Home
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Why I STOPPED Leaving A Route Card At Home
Solo Wildcamp at Wales' Highest Lake | Navigational Decisions | Hilleberg Soulo
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Solo Wildcamp at Wales' Highest Lake | Navigational Decisions | Hilleberg Soulo
IMPROVE Your HILLEBERG SOULO With This SIMPLE MOD
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IMPROVE Your HILLEBERG SOULO With This SIMPLE MOD
5 Top Tips For Wild Camping With Kids + AMAZING BONUS TIP
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5 Top Tips For Wild Camping With Kids AMAZING BONUS TIP
Wild Camping In Snowdonia National Park | Hilleberg Soulo
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Using The OHUHU WOOD Gas Camp STOVE With Wood Pellets
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Using The OHUHU WOOD Gas Camp STOVE With Wood Pellets
welcome back
I'm a dad that used to work away from home and can completely sympathise in how you would have felt it's amazingly good news to hear that Finley is making a good recovery from those horrendous life-threatening and potentially life-changing injuries I also have knee problemsthey have been replaced now then you being unemployed you've had a lot happened your resilience is inspiring it's good to see you back well done sir and the very best for you and your family
Craig. Great to see you posting a video again. What a cracking view!
Cheers Les, I'm editing another video as we speak!
It worked. Thank you!
@@VeryUniqueSpecialNickname that's great to hear. Please consider subscribing to my channel if you'd like to see more in the future.
Great to have you back.
Very kind, thank you 🙏
Cracking advice nice video bizarrely I was where you we’re standing last Wednesday when I walked up Elidir Fawr from nant Peris I visited carnedd y filiast on route brilliant ATB
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Andrew. It's a small world! Don't forget to subscribe if you'd like to see more from my channel in the future.
Glad you’re back Bud!
@@oldrabidus2230 Thank you, much appreciated 🙏
Hi Craig! It is great to hear your voice again! It's been a while! I hope life has been treating you well! All the best from California 💛
@@ewjorgy Thanks for the welcome back my friend, I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Hi Craig, Welcome back and thank you for sharing. HP🤟
@@my_handle.... It's good to be back my friend, thank you 🙏
Tested newly bought Ohuhu stove today using your twig loading tip. Worked great, thank you much, and had boiling water for 4 servings of freeze dried food in under 4 minutes. Just need more practice getting fire started: paper did not work, had no birch bark, used dripping candle instead. Will have to research small, light fire starters.
Sounds like you're off to a great start, well done 🔥👏
Good explanation, but you forgot something important. When you use the mirror compass you do it the right way with the mirror about 45°, but you forgot to align the centerline in the mirror over the center of the compass. So you can eliminated som parallax errors and augmented the accuracy of the measurement.
One night walking my dog in our local park I used the stars (Southern Cross) to orient myself and find my way home. This is in a park I walk every day. Basically I had chased the dog chasing some kangaroos and found myself in a vale or dip I hadn't ever been in before. The Southern Cross allowed me to orient myself and know which direction to head in to get to somewhere I could see my way home from. Simple but effective.
As someone who was on ce 164kg and is now at 140kg and dropping... you feel the difference when you're not carrying those extra kilos around as fat.
Thanks for sharing 👍 Love your username btw! 🤣👍
I did this two trips back and was horrified how much stuff I took but never used! All the 'just in case' stuff which on an overnighter I didn't need and didn't use.
Hi craig i use wood pellets pack well light weights and in wet weather indispenseable oncie it going the wood will soon ignite onwood pellets😂
@@laurenceleong8493Thanks for sharing your own approach Lauren, it's much appreciated. Don't forget to subscribe if you'd like to see more from my channel in the future.
I dig that time crib card. I went straight to shaven raspberry.
I'm glad you found the video useful, don't forget to subscribe if you'd like to see more from my channel in the future.
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Were you in the military?👍👍
@@TailEndCharlie-fi9gd Was it the ammo packing spacer that gave it away?
Crap
@@richardirmler435 I headed over your channel to see how it should be done. You can imagine my disappointment.
Black Labrador retriever girls are the best.
100% agree! 😍
I’m already carrying an extra 40 lbs of “kit” around by waist!
@@Em_Dee_Aitch 😂
I love these stoves. Informative and clearly explained video , which is useful for those viewers who don't have English as a first laguage.
Thanks for the feedback Neil, much appreciated 👍
Well, my Alpkit Myti mug 650 does have embossed quantity markings on side. Anyways, with pouch meals just guestimate...... add more water if required.
@@10xZ00M Yeah, the newer version of the mug does indeed have the markings, mine is a slightly older version though.
Update on the mora gar please 🙏
I like this idea for just having a small fire 🔥 near a small tent or perhaps near a stream while fishing or on a frozen lake in an ice shanty. Just to keep your hands warm.
That material is not innovative just like goretex isn't. It is just a standard 2.5 layer raincoat with a fleese Liner. Which obviously performs about the same as a gortex based solution in some cercomdtances except that sometimes but not always the gortex might be able to evacuate swead faster. On the other side you have something like a parmo which has a very different set of performance charatarisics. Where it will be both dry and breadable under nearly alll circumstances, but only if you're body is hot and the environment is cold.
Oh my how I've missed my old friend, I'm so happy to see you happy and well ❤
Also, when properly navigating out in the wilds, you should also compare feature that we see with features marked on the map. Often we can 'catch' our mistakes by seeing something in the real world and wonder if we should have seen it, and how was it indicated in the map and why hadn't we noticed. Or vice versa. It's quite common when in a car looking at a high resolution map, you pass features (e.g.lane ends) and don't see them, and then miscount where the third lane on the left actually is, and like wise you hadn't noticed a lone barn on the map but it's obvious across the fields, and by that continuous comparison you realise that you now know that you missed the lane and should turn at the next lane end.
There are two types of escape routes. Those for when you know where you are, and then those when you aren't sure where you are . For the latter case the escape routes should include a measure of ensuring that it's safe, despite the 'lost' aspects. Sometimes the escape route has to be deliberately 'long' to pick up collecting and catching features! Had a case of a colleague ending up with an 8 hour (into the night) exit after being misplaced on the Cairngorms (Moine Mhor)
Why… why… does the water need to reach the first level before utilizing, you’re repeating others - not explaining
@@coreopolis I have explained this in another 'brown bag' video. It is to give it time for any water that is on the *outside* of the bag (assuming you've used the bag to scoop the water) to run off. If you didn't allow his to happen you'd not only be collecting water that has filtered from inside the bag but also unfiltered water from outside the bag. A question for you... Why did you have to pose your question in such a snarky way?
Three other uses: 1. You are visiting an area with no bathroom and you really have to go. Insta- shelter and a small shovel or sealable container. We carry an old plastic Folgers coffee can. Right now only used in our van for emergencies, but this bag brings new alternatives. 2. You are out hiking and want shelter from the elements to make yourself a cup of tea. 3. You are neurodivergent and at a public gathering and are feeling way too stimulated and need an instant privacy room.
Good on Findlay for doing the independant set up on your own. Good skills to have. And must have felt like a satisfying accomplishment. 😊👍
I'll pass your kind words on to Finlay, thank you.
In addition, when one looks at the map, 'it' should also be telling you the the 'opposites', such as the 'if you reach the big roundabout you've gone too far' style information. The map should also be used to tell you the those 'collecting features' you don't want, such as reaching a cliff line, or a sudden steeping, or slope falling away to the left [or right]. That 'opposites' part is really useful if you think you are sort of lost, when really you are just slightly misplaced, but are looking for a safe route out given what you know, and the safe collecting features that you can find. (Wind direction is another useful feature if 'lost', as it helps orient you - it rarely shifts 180 degrees in just a fey meters, rather you've just walked in a circle - Crinkle Crags in mist!).
I've got another video on my channel that talks about 'catching features' in some detail.
I was wondering why people don't put the sleeping mat under the tent floor. If you have one of these shelters you can wrap it up in that. An advantage of having the mattress under the tent's floor is that it it helps stop puncturing the floor. If the floor fails it keeps it up off the ground and there is less likelihood of water getting in. Just a thought.
I used this same technique. Once the excess is brushed off, within a month or two the powder is barely noticeable.
@@royurick thanks for sharing your own experience with this Roy, much appreciated. Please consider subscribing if you'd like to see more from my channel in the future.
occlude, perhaps obstruct, but not obscure.
So far I've watched about 6 or 7 of the videos you've done in this series. Thank you! These are extremely valuable! Cheers
That's very kind of you to say. Thanks for the feedback.
20 minues for 1 split second where we can only see half way inside at the air vents on he inner bottom... Does ash block the bottom? would inner air holes be better on the side top & bottom?
Ash does not block the bottom, it falls away under the stove, in fact, the stove is so efficient that there is very little ash residue in comparison to a typical open fire. I couldn't comment on whether there is a better position for the air holes.
I know that it’s been a while, but could you do a video on practicing or brushing up on some Bushcrafting while at a desk job please ?
The instructions on my silicone seam sealer said to apply talc and yours is the only video I've seen where someone has actually done it. I'm guessing it eventually looks better?
Thanks Craig. Great video. Explanation for the tang at the butt of the knife. This is so you can make fire with one hand, if you have one arm injured you can still make fire. If the knife is placed at the rear of your knee joint and then kneel down, the knife is held firmly with the butt poking out for you to strike against with your good arm.
I have been putting my Kymit half pad inside my sleeping bag. It stays put, but it’s a bit of a trick to get in position as where you want it head and shoulders wise. I also use a silk liner that I slip into then slip into my bag. It has a pillow case build in, so a sweater folded up works great as a pillow.
Since then have you had any issues with the leather sheath? I'm thinking of upgrading the plastic sheath for a leather one but i recently watched a video about it and his had developed a hole at the bottom where the tip was poking through, which doesn't sound like great news to me. Unless he just got a lemon or has abused it in some way?
Love mine. Got the stainless and carbon and both seem as capable as each other imo. I don't see any need to spend more on a bushcraft knife either. All you'll be paying for is 'pretty' or 'i like to waste my money on impractical luxuries'. It's a tool. And i like the fact you don't have to be all precious with it.
I cut a piece of cordage the desired length of the wood and keep it attached to the stove.
Plot twist, Tryfan is actually a sculpture from an ancient civilization.
Burnt out after just a few uses, so probably look for a better quality
Wtf spawned into ur mouth that u just started chewing there 😂 (17:20)
You talk to much pal
I'm always looking for ways to improve my videos so I headed over to your channel to see how it should be done. You can imagine my disappointment...
Man, I wish I watched this before trying to cook dinner last night. I'll be trying this again in a couple weeks when I get another free evening in the woods. Thanks for keeping me from throwing my stove into the trash 😂