Beautiful Girl with an Axe Eating 10 Eggs with Bacon and Beans.

All very impressive, but at what point does "bush-craft" become just another form of urban architecture and sprawl?

Assuming any of this was in a real bush.

The OP clip, yeah at least that comes across as "bush-craft".

But also some of these programs on the home channels leave you wondering ... sure it's all very pretty and romantic, but is that still a "wilderness" experience?

I suppose as much as restaurants that have tons of gas-heaters in winter so you can turn the "outside" into "inside".

OK for smokers (if even allowed), but let's go sit "outside" in that sense is misleading.
The real "outside" is nothing like that.

Or some car adverts that show faux hippies going camping in the desert, and they pull out a fully modern kitchen, a shower and all kinds of modern conveniences.
I mean really?
In that case you might as well stay home and look at some nature screen-savers.

Or perhaps nowadays you should go camping in your bank-borrowed car to have these conveniences, because the kitchen in the apartment is crap in comparison (apparently the mass housing of the future won't even have one).

And then, what about all the homeless who are actually living in tents?
Nobody ever builds much nice things for them, or gives them lessons.

a reply to: Trueman
Way to go, True!. Off - grid or on, if my present metabolism were
force-fed a 10 egg and bacon skillet it'd be over, no matter how many
blisters I grew with the straight razor of hers. PS If she's Speznaz I'm toast.

I've seen this gal before on YT. She's actually got quite a few "bushcraft" type videos. She's not really bushcraft, and she's got sponsors, but she gets a lot of views.

She's also all tatted up which isn't real impressive.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Still want to go fishing with her.

a reply to: Sookiechacha

I've seen enough of these Asian dudes and dudettes digging underground hotels and pools with a stick...
Try it without the entire village behind you and you'll feel silly after a week. I'd like to see them fail in a real wood with a real soil made of clay, rocks and roots. An easy shelter that still looks like animal burrow or a a grave takes four hours to a pro like Corporal's Corner. Let us see her cutting and moving around a large bamboo like this unedited

a reply to: PapagiorgioCZ

The Romans were by far the best at it, they would dig a huge very deep and wide ditch at the end of the day in a rectangle, pile and pack the soil in the centre to create a raised platform that made it even higher when you were in the ditch.
Place sharpened wooden stakes into the inner wall, build a wall atop it out of wood or whatever they had handy and then pitch there shelters neatly atop the structure so that any would be angry locals wanting to drive out the invaders were met every night by a fortified Roman position.
Then in the morning they would completely demolish the temporary fort before marching another twenty or so miles depending on local resistance of course, fight a few battles, suppress some local tribes, burn down and salt the earth of a few enemy city states and then built another bed time fort at the end of the day.

But yes they worked as a team, every man was more than just a soldier, they were carpenters, stone mason's, tailors, tanners, builders as well.

Pretty girl. Nature. Eggs. Bacon.

I can never not be in the mood to watch this.

originally posted by: Trueman
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Still want to go fishing with her.

You just want to wiggle your bait. And I don’t blame you.