Bushcraft and Survival Thread

[pinoyapache]

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After my wood carving session during Seeds for Earth Day (April 25, 2010), I decided to have a tomahawk and knife-throwing demo to Manwel Roble. Manwel obliged to record my tomahawk throw:

YouTube - TOMAHAWK THROW

[pinoyapache]

Weekend bushcraft in Osmeña Peak with sidetrip to Kawasan River and Falls on May 21-23, 2010. Three days and two nights and six meals. Check RSVP here

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

Wished I could have joined you guys .

Next time na lang !!

[pinoyapache]

Weekend bushcraft in Osmeña Peak with sidetrip to Kawasan River and Falls on May 21-23, 2010. Three days and two nights and six meals. Check RSVP here

Ooopppsss!!!! Change of venue.

Mt. Mauyog, Balamban, Cebu on May 22-23, 2010. Two days and one night and three meals. RSVP here

[mgsmark79]

asa ta makapalit ana?

[pinoyapache]

There was a radical change of plans. Osmeña Peak did not push through. Ditto with Mt. Mauyog. We have to blend in with the peripheral activity of Camp Red which is held in Mt. Babag.

Anyway, 12 people attended the activity and pushed themselves to the limit climbing Babag. It was a brutal endurance training divided into two groups taking on two separate routes: Ernie's Trail and the Babag East Ridge Pass.

In between, we rested for 2-1/2 hours at the Roble homestead to prepare, cook and eat our lunch and a short lecture of the 4 basic knots that are useful in bushcraft: slip knot, square knot, figure of 8 and the bowline.

We regrouped at the Babag Ridge. On the return trip, 7 people took the No-Santol-Tree Trail to Kalunasan while the rest took the Babag Ridge Road to Upper Busay.

Photos here courtesy of Marlon.

[pinoyapache]

The Trailhawk a.k.a. pinoyapache with another bushcrafter gets to explore the hidden part of Metro Cebu on May 2, 2010. Thick jungle, dry tributaries that comes alive during the wet season, medicinal plants, all kinds of birds, some traps and snares, two or three good campsites and a perfect place to practice bushcraft and survival.

It's a jungle out there


The Trailhawk cocked and ready


"Monkey ears"


A bushcraft lab good for one


Thick canopy that almost shut the sun out


An almost impenetrable curtain of greens


Found a squarish stone in a dry creek


The Basin


Leaving my mark


The old trail going home

Rest of the photos here in Camp Red.

[diehard96]

Hmmm...I am thinking of doing night navigation with you guys without using flashlights. I have tried this once, alone, with only a faint quarter-moon light and with Ernie under a new moon.

cool. when? june or july lang ha kay mejo busy pa karong mga panahona

[pinoyapache]

cool. when? june or july lang ha kay mejo busy pa karong mga panahona

pwede ra siguro jer...

[pinoyapache]

Camp Red is not a mountaineering & backpacking group. Nor is it a countryside touring & outing club. Camp Red is hiking the trails with a backpack because it wants to raise the stamina level of its members and improve its resistance to heat, cold and fatigue because bushcraft & survival is our forte. We are very serious when it comes to time and training.

We are very generous of our discovered trails and share it with other people and these people bring other people, our own, without following protocol and that is not fair. Camp Red is cutting ties with Nathan and Myla effective May 29, 2010 because it has failed to practice due courtesy and respect and we will be purging as well the current members' list of our Facebook account. Ditto with our Multiply account.

Camp Red will continue to range wide and explore other remote nooks and inhospitable places just for our exclusive use. We will screen only those that we deem acceptable to our norms and practice bushcraft & survival with us in these places. We will ONLY teach and show quality skills to those who are deserving.


~ The Trailhawk