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Planning your spring outdoor adventure?
Try these skills and projects, even if it’s in your backyard [2]. In fact, your backyard may be the best place to start your journey to outdoor self-reliance.
Burn Stuff (Combustion)
- Flint and Steel [3]
- Fire from One Stick [4]
- Bow Drill Friction Fire [5]
- Practice Making Feather Sticks [6] (short video)
Practice in wet conditions. If it ain’t raining, you ain’t training…
Cut Stuff (Cutting Tool)
- Ax Safety and Firewood Processing [7]
- 4 Basic Ax Skills [8]
- Splitting Long Logs with an Ax [9]
- Axes and Kids [10]
Shelter Stuff (Cover)
- Four W’s [11] – what to look for when selecting a campsite
- Make Your Own Oilskin Tarp [12] (waterproof and fireproof)
- Outside the Tent [13]
- More Tarp Setups [14]
- Emergency Shelter in Under 5 Minutes [15]
Avoid Stuff
- Poisonous Plants [16]
- Ticks [17]
- Stings [18]
Forage/Harvest Stuff
- Mullein [19]
- Pine Resin [20]
- Wild Edibles: Trout Lily [21], Ostrich Fern shoots [22], Milkweed pods [23], Wood Sorrel [24], Purslane [25]
Tie Knots and Stuff
- Square Lashing [26]
- Tripod Lashing [27]
Eat Stuff
[28]
- Mountain Man MRE’s [29] – pemmican, jerky, parched corn, and dried fruit
- Smalls [30] – crayfish, minnows, snakes and reptiles
- Cocoa [31]
- Coconut Oil [32] – 100’s of uses
Make Outdoor Stuff
[33]
- Frog Gig [34]
- Wooden Spoons [35]
- Natural Cordage [36]
- Waterproof Fire Tinder [37]
- Take-down Bow Saw [38]
- Pine Pitch Sticks [39]
- Fixin’ Wax [40] – good for tools and safe for skin
- Char Cloth [41] and More Char Cloth [42]
- Duct Tape Arrow Fletching [43]
- Oil Lamp [44] – quick and easy diy candling device
- Wool Hunting Shirt [45]
- Pace Beads [46] – navigation
Wilderness Self-Reliance Stuff
[47]
- Stay Found [48]
- 5 Lessons from Pathfinder School [49]
- Creative Self-Aid Skills [50]
Let the fun begin! Get out and stay outdoors.
Keep Doing the Stuff of Self-Reliance,
Todd
P.S. – You can also keep up with the Stuff we’re Doing on Twitter [51], Pinterest [52], Google + [53], YouTube [54] and our Facebook page [55]… and over at the Doing the Stuff Network [56] on Pinterest [57], Google + [58], and Facebook [59].