Bushcraft is an emotive topic and one that, eventually, seems to turn into an argument about what counts as real bushcraft and what’s just camping.
To some, if you’re out in the woods with anything more than a knife and loincloth, you’re glamping. Others would say a loincloth is for wimps, and why use a knife when you’ve got teeth?
So when does bushcraft become camping? Is it as simple as semantics would suggest? Is it even that important? Could it simply be that many people see terms like bushcraft and survival skills as the same thing? Isn’t it true that we actually just want to get away from it all? Get back to basics? Back out into nature? [..read more..]
