Bushwalk Australia

Posted: **Fri 03 Aug, 2012 4:40 pm**

In the efforts of trying to encourage people to get out and enjoy the bush safely, I'm producing a bunch of 'How To' videos. I've popped the first one up here - I hope you like it!

Yes... this forum gets a plug in there too!

Cheers
Lotsafreshair

Posted: **Fri 03 Aug, 2012 5:17 pm**

Welcome to the forum!
Watched the video and was impressed with just how professional it was, may i suggest you create a short unique intro to your videos, just adds a personal touch and adds that x factor. As for the TP being a girly thing, I think anyone not taking some is a chop short of a barbecue.
Thats one more subscriber! Keep em coming.

Posted: **Fri 03 Aug, 2012 5:30 pm**

Thanks Matt. Glad you like... I've known a few barbies short of a chop or two... (PS: I should confess that I'm a producer in my day job!).

Posted: **Fri 03 Aug, 2012 7:38 pm**

Lotsafreshair wrote:snip (PS: I should confess that I'm a producer in my day job!).

G'day Lotsafreshair,
A producer of what :lol:

do like the videos

corvus

Posted: **Fri 03 Aug, 2012 10:04 pm**

corvus wrote:
Lotsafreshair wrote:snip (PS: I should confess that I'm a producer in my day job!).

G'day Lotsafreshair,
A producer of what do like the videos
corvus

Producer of TP by the sounds of it :lol:

Great video. I would be interested to know your baseweight though..

Posted: **Sat 04 Aug, 2012 12:16 am**

That was excellent. Looking forward to your next videos.

Posted: **Sat 04 Aug, 2012 9:31 am**

Thanks all. If you're in a club, please feel free to link to or embed to help newbies realise that it's not hard to jump from day walks to overnighters.

I'm just putting the finishing touches on the BASIC FOOD episode and have COLLECTING WATER, WATERPROOFING YOUR SLEEPING BAG and MAKING A COOKING FIRE in the can to be edited soon.

Hope you find them helpful.

Posted: **Sat 04 Aug, 2012 9:34 am**

Strider wrote:
corvus wrote:
Lotsafreshair wrote:snip (PS: I should confess that I'm a producer in my day job!).

G'day Lotsafreshair,
A producer of what do like the videos
corvus

Producer of TP by the sounds of it

Great video. I would be interested to know your baseweight though..

Check the titles throughout that refer to the individual weights of some items, plus the total weight is on the screen towards the end.

Posted: **Sat 04 Aug, 2012 10:33 am**

Hey Caro, great video. I really think you should approach AG Outdoor to package them with their mags or maybe an outdoor retailer to get them on their site. I work at MD Katoomba so if you want contact details for their marketing department I'd be happy to pass them on. Something like that would be excellent on the website. You'd have to hack it with all MDs gear though so maybe pick your favourite.

While I definitely pack differently to you and see some problems with the way you pack I can appreciate that it's a system that works for you and I think it's great that you mentioned that at the beginning.

Cool to see another bush walking woman here. Do you walk with a club at all? I'm always looking for women to do midweek walks in the mountains. I imagine you work mon-fri but if you're interested, PM me.

Posted: **Sat 04 Aug, 2012 12:24 pm**

Lotsafreshair wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwo7zyiH2Os&list=UU885b3fcSEShQdz6-v8KwLg&index=3&feature=plcp

(Dammit, can't figure out how to embed the vid here, sorry... any tips?)

Cheers
Lotsafreshair

To embed a youtube video you need to copy and paste the group of letters after the "?v=" and before the first "&" in between "youtube" tags. Using the above video for example. The whole URL is: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwo7zyiH2Os&list=UU885b3fcSEShQdz6-v8KwLg&index=3&feature=plcp". You only need to paste the "zwo7zyiH2Os" bit in between the youtube tags. See code example below:

Code: Select all: [youtube]zwo7zyiH2Os[/youtube]

The above code will give you this video:

Cheers,
Michael.

P.S. Great videos. Thanks for sharing.

Posted: **Sat 04 Aug, 2012 3:15 pm**

good video

i will send it to my g/f, hopefully it'll help with her confidence!

just one thing tho...... you packed sunglasses and you were already wearing sunglasses!!

Posted: **Sat 04 Aug, 2012 3:24 pm**

Nicely made video.
Great resource for the newbies!

Posted: **Sat 04 Aug, 2012 7:55 pm**

dannnnn wrote:...... you packed sunglasses and you were already wearing sunglasses!!

Ah, that would be my sunnies CASE that had my non-sunnies glasses in it.

I was waiting for the continuity pedants to appear. You're going to just LOVE the "Food for overnight and extended trips". It's chock full of continuity blips. Maybe your penalty should be having to work free as Continuity on the next shoot??

Posted: **Sat 04 Aug, 2012 9:39 pm**

Lotsafreshair wrote:......Maybe your penalty should be having to work free as Continuity on the next shoot??

Standard conflict resolution for a video producer :wink:

Posted: **Sat 04 Aug, 2012 10:32 pm**

stepbystep wrote:
Lotsafreshair wrote:......Maybe your penalty should be having to work free as Continuity on the next shoot??

Standard conflict resolution for a video producer

Takes one to know one.

Posted: **Sun 05 Aug, 2012 10:47 am**

Thanks for the vid Lotsa. You manner is so welcoming, a pleasant change from some of the vids floating around on YouTube.

If you're targeting these videos to newbies, may I suggest condensing information into groups so as to make them easier to recall. I've written a bit of the theory below if you're interested, which I would have put in spoiler tags as I don't want to go OT too much, but I don't know if we've got them on this site?

An example from this vid might be breaking your pack down into, sleeping, clothing, safety and food; or weight distribution, access to safety gear, first in last out; or other various incarnations.

The idea behind this is that people can only store 7 items of information (give or take 2) in their short term memory, attention must be paid to these items to 'encode' them, so they can then be recalled at a later date. Too many items and we just forget things, so techniques need to be used to aid in the recall of long lists. For me this was standing in a store going 'there was something else I needed to get...' (even with a list! :shock:

)

Breaking the multiple items into (semantic) groups is a technique referred to as 'chunking'. So 20 items say, becomes 4. So I may not remember that I need a sleeping bag, a mat, a liner, and ear plugs, along with 16 other items, but I may recall the category of 'sleeping gear'. Once I recall 'sleeping gear' I can work through the specific items in this category.

I hope that helps, your work is excellent, keep it up. And click that subscribe button people!

Posted: **Sun 05 Aug, 2012 7:38 pm**

Hated the Americaisms in the dialogue but I'm an old fashioned type of bloke so that's my problem...otherwise pretty good.

Posted: **Sun 05 Aug, 2012 8:23 pm**

Thanks that was great lots of good little tips.

Posted: **Mon 06 Aug, 2012 10:37 am**

Wolfix wrote:
Cool to see another bush walking woman here. Do you walk with a club at all? I'm always looking for women to do midweek walks in the mountains. I imagine you work mon-fri but if you're interested, PM me.

Thanks for the encouraging words. Yep, I'm a member of a couple of clubs in Sydney and try to get out with them as often as poss. I travel for work quite a bit, so I'm not always around, but generally have good flexibility with days/hours. You made some good ideas BTW!

Posted: **Wed 08 Aug, 2012 6:37 pm**

Wolfix wrote:Cool to see another bush walking woman here.

There are heaps of us. We just don't all feel the need to wave it about.

Posted: **Thu 09 Aug, 2012 5:48 pm**

north-north-west wrote:
Wolfix wrote:Cool to see another bush walking woman here.

There are heaps of us. We just don't all feel the need to wave it about.

Now where's a LIKE button when you need one?

Posted: **Thu 09 Aug, 2012 10:40 pm**

Lotsafreshair wrote:
north-north-west wrote:
Wolfix wrote:Cool to see another bush walking woman here.

There are heaps of us. We just don't all feel the need to wave it about.

Now where's a LIKE button when you need one?

: LIKE.jpg (30.48 KiB) Viewed 8347 times

Posted: **Tue 14 Aug, 2012 7:21 pm**

I think that's overdoing it. NO-ONE has ever liked me THAT much.

Posted: **Wed 15 Aug, 2012 2:12 pm**

north-north-west wrote:I think that's overdoing it. NO-ONE has ever liked me THAT much.

Well then, here's a BIGGER "Like" just for you NNW :wink:

: Bigger LIKE.jpg (50.67 KiB) Viewed 8237 times

Posted: **Fri 31 Aug, 2012 7:25 pm**

Yay! Sisterhood!

Posted: **Sat 01 Sep, 2012 11:11 am**

As a person that gets tired of packing to go away so often, it would have been easy to skip the video.....I'm glad I didn't.
Great polished production that would no doubt help lots of people getting into it.

The Pursuit is an awesome durable pack too, and all I need to do now is find out how you managed to get away with such a seemingly tiny food amount! I would have been sucking on a button after the first couple of hours!

Posted: **Mon 03 Sep, 2012 8:08 am**

Hi Darren,
Glad you liked it. Maybe check out the latest video on Basic Food at my blog www.lotsafreshair.com for a few answers to that food conundrum!

Posted: **Mon 03 Sep, 2012 9:52 am**

Great videos - thanks for making them!

I'm linking and sending to our scout troop, maybe they'll listen to *you*.

Posted: **Mon 03 Sep, 2012 12:49 pm**

Great Video's thanks they help , heaps

Swampy

Bushwalk Australia

Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos

Re: Bushwalking 'How To' Videos