What're your favorite camp pass-times?

[Phil Box]

Another word game is to always ask questions. First person ask a question and then the second person needs to reply by also asking a question however it must be related to the original question. Third person then replies to second person by also asking a question and it needs to relate to the second question. You're out if you merely respond with an answer or statement.

So it would go something like this.

1st. What're your favourite camp pass times?
2nd. Could you elaborate on that?
3rd. Why would you want to spend time on camp doing any sort of pass times?
Etc. Etc. ad nauseum ad infinitum or until everyone has broken the roolz. Last person to not have broken the roolz is the winner.

[Bush Walker]

There are lots of initiative games designed for younger walkers which can be used use around the campfire, if your lucky enough to still be allowing a campfire in "your" Park

One of my favourites is "Celebrity Heads" . With everyone sitting in a circle around a camp fire, the name of a famous celebrity is written on a piece of plastic and held behind the chosen person's head, so they can't see it but everyone else can. The "victim" has to guess who the celebrity is by asking questions of the group.

Another 25 games can be found in the Group Development and Leadership Chapter from the Outdoor Action Program Leader's Manual written by Rick Curtis, Director, Outdoor Action Program.

[Le-Loup]

Tomahawk throwing, survival trap making, primitive shelter construction, equipment and clothing repair, writing in my journal, cooking, experimenting with tinders, looking for sign, making cordage, that sort of thing.

[flyfisher]

Hi Le-Loup, good to hear from you again.
When you say experimenting with tinders, are you using bark or do you use finely chopped wood like cedar or ? . Interesting.
FF

[Le-Loup]

Hi Le-Loup, good to hear from you again.
When you say experimenting with tinders, are you using bark or do you use finely chopped wood like cedar or ? . Interesting.
FF

Plant tinders for use with flint,steel and tinderbox. Punkwood (wildfire), bracket fungus, etc etc. Always looking for more plant tinders.

[corvus]

G'day Le- Loup,
Good to see you back and read about your camp pastimes, in your experiments with tinder have you tried "bulls wool" it is stringy bark rubbed between your hands till it becomes very fibrous you then continue to rub it with charcoal till it blackens it is then a very effective tinder also what we call down in Tassie "rabbit grass" can often be found under the base of many large trees and is more than often bone dry and an excellent fire starter (not that we can do this now ) in many places
Do you use a flint and steel ? I have the modern version and I am amazed at how much heat is generated by them I am also nostalgic reading what you and your group does, takes me back 50 years to my Scout days in Scotland when we did most of those things and really enjoyed it , I was also very lucky to befriend some Roma Gypsy kids who had a traditional Camping Ground not far from where I lived and was taught some really interesting things like how to bake a hedgehog /rabbit/wood dove/ in clay and how to "acquire" Pheasants and Wood Doves by holding a can of smoldering sulphur under them where they were roosting
Happy memories.

Written after your flint and steel reply

[Drifting]

I don't know if I'd want hedgehog in clay...

I used to be a very very novice tracker in the US, but it's all different here.

[corvus]

I don't know if I'd want hedgehog in clay...

I used to be a very very novice tracker in the US, but it's all different here.

Like all things a bit iffy when it comes to eating, it tasted a bit like "chicken" but I was not about to argue
corvus

[Liamy77]

the clay stops the fur gettin stuck in your throat!?

[Le-Loup]

G'day Le- Loup,
Good to see you back and read about your camp pastimes, in your experiments with tinder have you tried "bulls wool" it is stringy bark rubbed between your hands till it becomes very fibrous you then continue to rub it with charcoal till it blackens it is then a very effective tinder also what we call down in Tassie "rabbit grass" can often be found under the base of many large trees and is more than often bone dry and an excellent fire starter (not that we can do this now ) in many places
Do you use a flint and steel ? I have the modern version and I am amazed at how much heat is generated by them I am also nostalgic reading what you and your group does, takes me back 50 years to my Scout days in Scotland when we did most of those things and really enjoyed it , I was also very lucky to befriend some Roma Gypsy kids who had a traditional Camping Ground not far from where I lived and was taught some really interesting things like how to bake a hedgehog /rabbit/wood dove/ in clay and how to "acquire" Pheasants and Wood Doves by holding a can of smoldering sulphur under them where they were roosting
Happy memories.

Written after your flint and steel reply

Hi corvus. The spark from a real flint & steel is not the same as from a ferocium rod, as you probably know, so I have used stringybark as a kindling, but not a tinder. It is I belive mentioned in my book. The grass the same, excellent kindling.
I would imagine that smouldering sulphur would work very well, it would choke a mule! Poachers in my neck of the woods used spikes like knitting needles on the end of long poles, and simply stabbed the roosting birds.
Regards.

[Le-Loup]

the clay stops the fur gettin stuck in your throat!?

Believe me, with hedgehog, fur is the least of your worries!!!

[corvus]

When you bake things in clay the fur(spines) and feathers come off when you remove the clay/mud as I remember
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[Liamy77]

When you bake things in clay the fur(spines) and feathers come off when you remove the clay/mud as I remember
c

....no wonder it was "gritty"......

[Funky_Bunch]

im in the cigar club too, with a glass of port or a scotch. dont mind playing sudoku, practicing tracking (via a game, player one has a sleeping bag placed over head. player 2 walks a 3 minute trail around the area and returns. player one gets taken to the start and begings to track as player 2 follows losing 1 point for every wrong lead from 10 down. then swap the player with the highest score wins. its great for improving tracking skills) sleeping rates highly, but not as high as the 3 course nightly meal. (btw you never want to pick up my pack)

[ILUVSWTAS]

This was fun!!

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[Liamy77]

lol... just got me daydreamin......

"i'm not gettin it"
... but you threw it down there!"
"well you coulda caught it!" and so on....

[ollster]

Yeah, you can see I'm totally into it.

[flyfisher]

hippies and their frisbees.

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[doogs]

ah profesionals. I find the blue frisbees too hard as it blends into the sky. To top it off two of your party are wearing blue, great tactics. Jeez you must be notch players. I thought in the third photo you where giving each other a high 5 until I looked closely.

[ILUVSWTAS]

&%#@&@ hippies and their frisbees.

Haha yeh yeh, I've heard about your past times, Singalongs..... comboya my lord comboya.......

[Nuts]

&%#@&@ hippies and their frisbees.

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I thought an alien craft was landing and the one with the gut ( ) was getting ready to be first in line for the probing


(gee they arent throwing it far in the third pic are they )

[ILUVSWTAS]

Lol, they are both trying to catch my throw actually. I am skillful enough to throw it then be ready to take the photo. Amazing huh!

[Lizzy]

Obviously not lightweighters or they'd have one of these.... would probably fly a bit further too

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[Liamy77]

Obviously not lightweighters or they'd have one of these.... would probably fly a bit further too

Hmmmm.....
nah i reckon i could throw the frisbee a bit further off the mountain than i could throw the yuppie lookin guy....

but i think every girl should have one for fun i guess.... - the disk of course!

[ollster]

nah i reckon i could throw the frisbee a bit further off the mountain than i could throw the yuppie lookin guy....

but i think every girl should have one for fun i guess.... - the disk of course!

LOL. He's a bit skinny to be a walker, isn't he...

[Liamy77]

reminds me ........

a crocodile goes into a menswear shop n says:
"i wanna buy a t-shirt with a idiot on the pocket"


not that the fella looks that bad... just in one of those moods

[doogs]

I lke to do a bit if manscaping, put on my cravate and then sing along to ABBAs greatest hits! Oops think I just misunderstood the meaning of "camp pass-time"

[ollster]

I lke to do a bit if manscaping, put on my cravate and then sing along to ABBAs greatest hits! Oops think I just misunderstood the meaning of "camp pass-time"

LOL. Post of the week.

[Liamy77]

I lke to do a bit if manscaping, put on my cravate and then sing along to ABBAs greatest hits! Oops think I just misunderstood the meaning of "camp pass-time"

broadway here we go?