Sunday 30 September 2018

Grand designs

Shelters are a common sight throughout the forest, kiddies camps, youths hangouts, bush-craft experiments and then every now and again you come across a shelter where the builders have really got into their project...a woodland grand design, if you like.  And this beauty, hidden away in Burley New is a grand design indeed. Man, someone has gone to a lot of trouble with this woodland shelter. Best one I've seen in some time. Usually, the shelters are mere skeletal affairs, with a lot more covering needed to be effectual, this though is far more developed, and serviceable. I reckon you'd sleep three, plus equipment, in it comfortably. This would've taken some time to construct, it would've take quite a while to gather the materials alone, the woodland floor for some ways around the shelter has been cleared to acquire the boughs and branches, and the bark strips would have come from farther afield, the harvested conifers which lay in stacks along the enclosures tracks.  A lot of work. Nice job.

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