Tag: bushcraft

  • Some of the most pleasurable meals of my life were heated over a simple stick fire.  Above (top to bottom): Olympic Peninsula beach camp, Beartooth-Absaroka Wilderness, Gallatin National Forest

  • David Cronenwett using a wedge to reduce logs to kindling during a one-day wilderness survival course in the Paradise Valley region of Montana.

  • Bush camping scene with four men from the Phillips Glass Plate Negative Collection, Powerhouse Museum.

  • “First Sunday in camp, Lady Evelyn River"  A camp site in a forest, with a tent, a man standing and another preparing a meal. Hats and boots are drying on the stumps of saplings that had been cut to support the tent. One of a set of photographs from a trip to "Gow Ganda”, May…

  • Mark at the fire on the Lakes Plateau, Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, Montana, USA.

  • Cooking with titanium in the fire.  One of my favorite camp cooking methods is a titanium 2L pot directly in the fire with a DIY aluminum lid and a simple pot gripper for adjusting and removing.  

  • Hatchet and Swede saw.

  • Herman Bohlman and William L. Finley at a campsite along a river by OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons on Flickr. “River Camp” by Herman T. Bohlman from the OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center.

  • Improvised chair from logs on Flickr. Built a chair this weekend while camping.