by DanMorgan76
I recently noticed a WRSA posting regarding Daniel Beard’s Book “Camp-Lore”, and an article from ivymikecafe.comregarding his recent backpacking trip into the Appalachian mountains. The author explains the trips purpose was skill building, primarily land navigation. Others in the community should be outdoors doing just what these fellows are doing; Getting intimately familiar with your AO, developing outdoors skills and working with your team. Nothing builds a functioning team like adversity and challenge. He then uses a lessons-learned format to highlight several problems that he encountered during the event. And while he gives solutions to the problems encountered, they seemed to address fixes appropriate to a civilian backpack expedition. For my readers, I would like ensure they have a firm understanding of the differences between woodcraft and camping skills that a prepper might find useful in a survival situation and similar field craft and tactical skills needed to operate in an unconventional warfare environment while conducting small unit operations. I will limit this post to cover situations he encountered during his expedition. If my readers want more detailed information regarding gear, tips and techniques, I will follow-up with more non-comms posts. While reading my post, keep in mind that when you spend a lot of years in SF you develop a high threshold to suck, so what doesn’t bother me might not be appropriate for you.
Equipment: A couple of fundamental rules.
