Forest Scout From Camp

Description

We go scouting as rain settles into the bushcraft camp and find massive boulders to climb.

Tags: bushcraft,woodcraft,scout,wild,wildcamp,camping,camp,rewild,self,reliance,survival,primitive,semi,permanent,solo,group,forest,woodland,woods,outdoors,rock,climbing,hiking

Video Transcription

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so it's not in the rain so we're going to just go for a little walk Oh careful

angel it's on choose her shell on I have my shelf same one I used in Vancouver my mom bought me we're gonna check this out over here

before the rain gets too too strong it's accelerating pretty quickly so my goodness I would live in there if I was an animal that's a web would be away Wow yep long wall as walls are everywhere

I love these walls you know daddy this could be a this Corvette a good cooking stone yeah you're right it's fantastic good to know there's a lot of them here [Applause]

why do you like this woodland is really amazing beautiful in here has excellent folds ago Thames Widow bridges court not to say that a long time ago from this quote long time it's been in the pocket with uh with um so yeah so we're land really de Peixe up there that's where the ridges comes down Steven as you saw over there there's a big wall right there or Paul it gets like this

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okay we'll go near some great camping spots over here absolutely money

notice there's a lot of trees inside trees you only got a minute [Music]

ah so one day Oh maple let's go look at that rock

that's a cool looking rock over there eating that one no put the tree on it [Music]

yep

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I love the rocks in what Iowan has a lot of rocks like big chunks of rocks everywhere massive awesome laughs over here now that one I don't think they'll hold you looks like it's really balancing hit that rock man yes I think is great

yes nice nice to climb rocks like that when I was a kid I just pretend like there were cliff faces and so I used to find the way I'm about to climb anything yeah find the handles like that nice to find them another big rock over there this one now I'll leave it alone this home it's starting to rain it's probably really stressed out as it is so still the land still keeps going down down down and there's a there's a real ravine right there it drops down there's a tight path down the hill steep at the water runs down so I'm sure down is to the swampy like slippery saying earlier in guys there's even a lake over there somewhere go check out that rock over there [Music]

miss Sophy you want to come what about this tree come here I'm going to teach you about this tree real quick that's okay

gonna go down down I want you to fall so lebar going sideways to see the lines the leaves are finally tooth where does that mean get a little teeth at the edge of the leaves yeah does that hurt insects that in that's preventing them from eating them manual focus for the one okay so now scratch this tree why it's a little bit I can see green that's right it's green inside I'll cut it a tiny bit my name Joe you've done this on one of your videos mystery seats Green is saying yeah but it's a little edgy why we're doing daddy new viola edging and then right here that's the part of the tree smell oh my god that's also doesn't it it's just more like mmm smells like something familiar but I don't remember what smells like thank you fern Alex tree fern it kind of like it to be like a spearmint what you know such black birch small called black birch you can make medicine and tea out of it if you have a headache you can make a tea out of it

I find this what okay seemed good enough to me you feed her off the ground it's a lot of disturbance right here you know yeah

all down right there disturbance so the leaves are cupped and pushed that happens when there's a lot of water let's try to run downhill the Leafs get in the way now let's check out this rock over here [Music]

yeah beautiful fern oh try foil or something yeah I don't remember the name of that fern something like that I remember they had I think that try and it could be I could even be in the light in me not even know because it has like three three growths off the stem and get the leaf there yeah let's check this rock out that is awesome

yeah dude we always want the camera to TV Rock a huge rock it's sweet yeah good I thing is awesome [Music]

you can come down if you want you don't have to go all the way up if you scared or something

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you made the job awesome la-da-da bunch of refuse over here you refuse it's like trash look from animals clothes a little cave inside this rock and something's been eating its food in here and it just leaves the shelves in there when the morning's done one show exactly take lunch house if something's easy in there it's probably a squirrel yeah climbs up and hides in there this is so cool man I love rocks like this so full of character and interesting then you are yeah yeah what a sweet rock [Applause]

yeah they're just entrusting to camp next to and can't beside yeah you can this isn't a good spot but you can play with that your back and the fire in front and all the heat will bounce off the stone I do that I did that amounts a couple years ago one second hunt if a rock that was like one second no Gary's not gonna look the rock like this big or like that big actually like that that's a great one for that so you lay down right there for your fire right next to it fire right here you lay down right there all the heat bounces and stops behind you did that from the mountains a couple years ago take a wrong about fire I had stolen that my dad super hot it's great way asleep I don't know just something about these stones you know some kind of power there subscripe some resilience some character some beauty some strength art something the bottom yep I just climbed up to I was trying to get down when you we're trying to get up go down there no I want to go up okay I will always face up this way keep you keep your hands on things right from the Kratz

how you guys doing you like like doing this stuff exploring the woods scouting recalling now searching exploring [Applause]

thousands and thousands and hundreds and thousands and then to thousands dad look at that rock over there Oh in that one yeah some good ones over there I'll buy like this one the best adds a little bit of everything yep exactly it's pretty awesome all right so let's jump down I'll show you that cave in the other side and let's go chat some breakfast yeah how's that so yeah I can't since I can't pick me up don't mess with it put your stick in there leave it along nice though right it's okay no I just don't want to mess with it

that's like there it's like this space it's like there's a little secret place actually you look in the corner there where in the corner down here take a little fall maybe back here chipmunk or something major yes sir yeah maybe that's a chipmunk I don't know the specifics of it but but they eat they crack shelves differently so there's a way to track by knowing how shells are cracked sometimes they're just us a little circle is broken off of the end sometimes it's as a waiter to know I don't know all the ways I have some tracking books that described it and show it and all that stuff but I haven't memorized them all and all that never-ending adventure I don't learn everything all right want some breakfast okay let's go this just a coin what's attached to another a coke and then um you know and then the other a coin cell there's another hole right there yep pretty cool huh

could be from the tannins as well the tannins in the bark and you can make dice and stuff out of it coloring so sometimes I have this too anyways who wants breakfast all right let's go

how do we get back which way point it's where we going [Music]

yeah this way nope we're not that way is downhill that's the opposite where we have to go exactly the second way you pointed up over there that's what we have to go see that clearing you see a clearing to the trees all right off we go

want some wintergreen yeah okay [Music]

berries that berries yet I don't see any berries here yeah I know I love the berries to stuff smells so good can I smell all right that's a first snack of breakfast right come on little more doctor dream see this stuff is real light green it's not that it's this it's darker green this is one degree that's the best leaf I take the second best I wasn't looking for that I was looking for of the berries that was the best way is it subsided yep that's the best second best is that way it was a couple second dose do you remember the uwah would you say I just spit that out you don't like it I want it you don't want it okay is that what you strong for you change your mind okay so you might remember this tree grouping we find of us all the pine branches to walk past that it's the first rocks we saw we got all excited about is that log what

that's why help over here I can see the parachute see the parachute there it is Jen to your left keep going to your left no I can only see a black parachute yeah parachutes yeah that's the campus Garry's parachute all right cuz it's soaking wet

raining all right back to camp we go to the left there alone back to the camp we've go done to the left up down over the hills of leaves there's a pretty terrible rhyme doesn't say snow over to Mike knows no snow filming our YouTube show awesome alright alright come on that's awesome

alright alright

fabric gets darker when it gets wet [Music]

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About the Author

NativeSurvival

NativeSurvival

Mitch is a Wilderness Living Skills Instructor, he has been featured on The History Channel's program "ALONE" and written articles for Outdoor Magazines; he owns and operates The Native Survival School which provides woodland living and survival classes, as well as offering quality outdoor gear he's designed. Defintely, he is a master at bushcraft's techniques.

You can find all his videos on his YouTube channel.

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