ScarletFire Bushcraft

10/04/2026

No toque, no problem. Piece of h**p cord and a neck gaiter makes a sleeping cap.

09/05/2026

This might just be the most important YT vid you have ever watched in between wilderness trips.......

I'm Serious, watch it, digest it, and add it to your wilderness survival quiver of arrows.

SAR teams say the same thing every time: it wasn't bad luck. It was...

08/29/2026

You will often encounter in the outdoor space the mantra that knowledge is more important than gear.

But I think that is at best a false dilemma.

Knowledge + experience = Wisdom. Wisdom tells you to go buy a backpack, even if you, through the process of knowledge accusition have learned how to grow cotton or h**p, and weave cloth and conceive, prototype and sew your own backpack.

08/23/2026

Playing around with patch designs. Let me know your thoughts and what is your favorite.

08/03/2026

The appropriately named thimble berry. Very good taste!

And an interesting way for birch driftwood to go punky and break down into a birds nest like material.

07/28/2026

The start of something new for me. Attempting to render birch oil/tar.

07/25/2026

This last couple weeks have been intense. The wildfire smoke had me mostly holed up. But since it’s cleared I’ve been busy as the site has had lots of campers.

I’m Eating well, and so are my neighbors. Found the time to make myself a new hat band.

07/11/2026

It’s becoming that time of the year in Michigan’s UP!!!

07/04/2026

https://youtube.com/shorts/dqYV00zUi-4?is=Vxrsvjq6XEh0aIiV

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

06/24/2026

I tried to post this in response to a Leave No Trace thread. But was not allowed……

I am part of my ecosystem, not a foreign visitor to it. That’s always been my issue. My ecosystem sustains my life. While the LNT rules are not bad, the amplification of the basic tenets pretty much prohibits my existence. I go off trail to hunt. I walk around mud puddles because cellulitis is dangerous. I hunt cervids during the rut, and fish during the spawn, and collect fungi, all in violation of not disturbing wildlife during reproduction.

But if rich, urban euro’s want to police themselves go for it! But I live in my ecosystem year round.