Back from a brief winter hiatus Sean and Kevin are back to review the results from the last episode, building an outdoor shelter. Discussing some of the mistakes Kevin made vs the successes on Sean's shelter and what they learned over all in the process. After getting hands on building the shelters the guys look at how they can improve on this outdoor skill and be more effective on future shelters. 

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Its been a few months since we have started chronicling our our journey to improve our outdoor skills and knowledge an have covered a few different subjects in this time. Today we are looking at how things have changed or adapted for us since we started. 

As an example, looking at the benefits from having an Every Day Carry bag, and looking at the situations we have been able to use the items, or even times we could have and didn't and how that's been in retrospect.  

Also looking at how some of the things we have learned and discussed have affected our outlook overall, and seen an influence in our every day life, but also how it has turned into more things we want to learn and outdoor skills we want to improve on. 

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Your Outdoor Skills wouldn't be complete if you didn't know how to cook your food! Today Sean & Kevin look at a couple of different methods of cooking  outdoors.  

First item of discussion; if you know you plan on being out in the woods and will want to be cooking some food up, what sort of items should you have planned ahead of time to be ready.  

Then as a follow up, what happens if you find yourself in more of a survival situation with out your pre-planned cooking items with you?  This is the part Sean is most excited about in today's episode as we spend a bit of a focus talking about the Dakota Fire Pit.  Listen in on the discussion about the theory behind how they work, and how to build them, then keep an eye out for the follow up YouTube video where these theory's are put to the test.  

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What better way to put the outdoor skills you have been learning to the test than a camping trip? 

So this camping trip we did was more of a hanging out at the park and just sleeping in a tent type camping vs the out in woods testing our outdoor skills type camping trip, but it was still a lot of fun, and was great to get the kids outdoors and away from the electronic leashes. 

We look at some of the things that went well, how we could better prepare a little next time and how the overall experience went. 

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We are back to follow up on our last episode testing some of the items we discussed for trying to get a fire going. Starting off we make some char cloth, as this seems to be a great medium to use along with other tools to get a fire going.  We look at using some home made items to get a good flame going like cotton balls in vaseline,  dryer lint by itself as well as dryer lint soaked in wax, and steel wool and batteries (we didn't really make either of these at home of course, but they are not a store bought "fire starting" item).  For store bought items we use a magnifying glass, ferrous rod and magnesium as well as of course a standard bic lighter and some storm proof matches just to see how these compare to the non traditional items.  

The testing we did just goes to show how important it is to not only try and learn some of these outdoor skills, but also to put the application of them to the test. Its great to have the "book knowledge" of a variety of outdoor skills but without application or the experience to utilize them efficiently you may find yourself dead in the water.  

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