OutdoorBlogging » Ray Mears http://www.outdoorblogging.com posting on and from the great outdoors Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:38:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Ray Mears shows the proper way to start a fire with the Swedish Firesteel http://www.outdoorblogging.com/ray-mears-shows-the-proper-way-to-start-a-fire-with-the-swedish-firesteel/ http://www.outdoorblogging.com/ray-mears-shows-the-proper-way-to-start-a-fire-with-the-swedish-firesteel/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:00:14 +0000 braddock http://www.outdoorblogging.com/?p=134 Okay, Ray has much more experience with the Swedish Firesteel than I…and it shows.  What takes me about ten strikes he does in one.

He’s using birch bark for tinder instead of dryer lint too.  It would probably be a little hard to find dryer lint if you tipped your canoe in a freezing river somewhere in the Canadian wilderness.

This is just a little embarrassing; I’m going to practice my technique right now.

[See post to watch Flash video] ]]> http://www.outdoorblogging.com/ray-mears-shows-the-proper-way-to-start-a-fire-with-the-swedish-firesteel/feed/ 0 Ray Mears has a crawfish boil in the Amazon jungle http://www.outdoorblogging.com/ray-mears-has-a-crawfish-boil-in-the-amazon-jungle/ http://www.outdoorblogging.com/ray-mears-has-a-crawfish-boil-in-the-amazon-jungle/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:22:57 +0000 braddock http://www.outdoorblogging.com/?p=49 This time Ray Mears uses bamboo to start a fire and make a cook pot to boil some crawfish in the Amazon jungle.

[See post to watch Flash video] ]]> http://www.outdoorblogging.com/ray-mears-has-a-crawfish-boil-in-the-amazon-jungle/feed/ 0 Ray Mears shows how to sharpen your knife properly http://www.outdoorblogging.com/ray-mears-shows-how-to-sharpen-your-knife-properly/ http://www.outdoorblogging.com/ray-mears-shows-how-to-sharpen-your-knife-properly/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:00:37 +0000 braddock http://www.outdoorblogging.com/?p=36 I first heard of Ray Mears in the mid 1990′s.  I had a friend in college who was from the UK and had some VHS tapes of Ray doing survival “how to” videos for the BBC.   This bit shows Ray sharpening a knife properly; quickly in the bush and back at camp with Japanese sharpening stones.

Ray really got me into the idea of survival and self-reliance.  Back then I envisioned myself trekking all over the woods of the world, surviving off the grid and off the land the way Ray does.  It didn’t work out like that.

Lately I’ve been thinking alot more about Ray’s methods and I’m dying to try more of them out on the trail.  I plan on showing more Ray Mears clips in the future too.

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