About

Who is the site aimed at?

Simple really – anyone who enjoys the outdoors. Whether you’re a hiker, paddler, hunter, just like to camp out now and then, would like to find out more about wild food or whatever – I hope you’ll find something of interest.

What the site aims to do

I started this site in late 2008 as a way to reach out to others who wanted to progress their skills or to just start out. Since then this site has become more and more important to me. I realise that, like me, many people are looking for a different way to enjoy their time outdoors so as part of a drive to make the content a little less random I’ve now come up with a simple mission:

  • Bringing you practical bushcraft and wilderness skills
  • Giving you self-reliance rather than reliance on more and more fancy kit
  • Giving you confidence in the outdoors
  • Promoting environmental awareness in the outdoors

Who writes all this stuff?

Everything’s written by me, Nick Gallop. I hail from the green and leafy county of Kent in England. A good while ago I sort of drifted into what we now know as bushcraft. Previously I did quite a bit of backpacking and travelling. Since then I’ve spent a good deal of my time training and refining bushcrafty stuff.

In 2008 I passed the Woodcraft School Bushcraft Leadership course. A year long course in er, bushcraft leadership that covers more than bushcraft and leadership! It provides me with a solid base of teaching and outdoor learning experience. Of course we never stop learning and I’m no exception. I usually have some sort of pet research projects going on.

My areas of special interest are:

  • Expedition skills
  • Wild food
  • Tracking (although I never put in enough dirt time to get much better at it)
  • Environmental awareness

I’m also on a continuing journey to jettison unnecessary kit for weight and environmental reasons so you’ll often find me going on about lightweight issues but hopefully stopping short of making underpants from old Fed-ex pouches or whatever.

Oh, and I’d like to find out why more expedition folks don’t use traditional skills rather than relying on modern stuff.

If you really want the low down take a look at my full warts’n'all bio.

I’m always interested in writing, expeditioning, teaching and other random professional opportunities! If you’d like to contact me about this email me or hook up on LinkedIn: