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The wood match, icon of the Age of Flame

The wood match, icon of the Age of Flame

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TweetThe wood match is an icon of the ‘Age of Flame‘ in home and hearth and of the woodcraft tradition in outdoor recreation and wilderness survival. Not so long ago families and outdoors enthusiasts relied on wood matches for daily use for cooking, heating, lighting, hygiene and more. Today, the iconic wood match is mostly replaced by technological systems; butane lighters, piezo-ignitors, natural gas pilot light systems, and electric element ignition systems. Daily dependence on wood matches is a bygone…

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Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski. “The more you know, the less you carry.”

Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski. “The more you know, the less you carry.”

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TweetVenerable bushcraft instructor Mors Kochanski is one of the most experienced outdoor skills instructors in North America. His specialty is northern forests, the boreal, all seasons. Kochanski bridged primitive and historical methods and skills (actual skills, not just descriptions of skills) into the 21st Century and commingles these treasures with limited modern technologies and social media. Very few outdoor skills instructors have achieved Kochanski’s broad fluency in wilderness living and survival skills. Fewer still have achieved his fluency in instructional…

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