25 – 27 May 2012, I did the Ardennen Oriëntatie Tocht (AOT) (‘Ardennes orienteering race’) with my friends Rob Hofman, Jeroen Keultjes and Maarten Hanke. This was my 2nd AOT and 4th orienteering race. It was held in the woods near Lutremange in the Belgian Ardennes. The event is organized every year by the Dutch … Continue Reading
TREK REPORT Feb. 2012 I did a 5-day nordic ski trek near Tyngsjö in Sweden with my friends Rob Hofman and Jeroen Keultjes. With army skis and pulk sleds we traveled about 30 km over five frozen lakes (including Naren, Bredsjön and Milsjön) and slept on the ice in a tipi with a wood stove. … Continue Reading
27 – 29 January 2012, I did the Pooltocht orienteering race with my friends Rob Hofman and Jeroen Keultjes in the woods near Luhden, west of Hanover, in Germany. (This was the 2nd Pooltocht I participated in and my 3rd orienteering race). The event is organized every year by scouts from Enschede (the Netherlands), and … Continue Reading
TREK REPORT 25-28 nov. 2011, I did some hiking and wild camping with my buddies Rob Hofman and Jeroen Keultjes in the French Ardennes near Fumay. We wanted to practice our navigation skills (map and compass) in preparation for the Pooltocht, an annual orienteering race in Germany, organized by Dutch scouts two months later. Despite … Continue Reading
TREK REPORT 28 September to 4 October 2011 I did a solo hike in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands. In five days I walked from Lochinver in the Northwest to Loch More, covering about 50 kilometers and climbing 3 peaks close to 1000 m. I camped out every night and enjoyed many roaring … Continue Reading
TREK REPORT 6 – 14 August 2011, I went paddling in Sweden near Tyngsjö in Dalarna (about 300 km North-West of Stockholm). I did some fishing, fire making, bannock baking and other bushcraft activities. I joined Dennis and Stani of Survival School O.V.E.R.L.E.V.E.N. for a few days of their survival course and went by myself the other days. … Continue Reading
Originally posted (in Dutch) on the Dutch Bushcraft Forum on July 28, 2011 in response to a post about efficient fires to sleep next to. A fire which you can sleep next to, which burns the longest time and requires the least amount of management is – as far as I know – the Sami long log fire … Continue Reading
Originally posted (in Dutch) on the Dutch Bushcraft Forum on July 22, 2011. Last week in the Belgian Ardennes I had a discussion with a friend about the effects of wearing clothes when sleeping in a sleeping bag. She claimed that you would be warmer without wearing clothes. Her reasoning had to do with warming up … Continue Reading
Originally posted (in Dutch) on the Dutch Bushcraft Forum on May 22, 2011. For a year and a half now I have been experimenting with running in minimalist footwear (footwear without cushioning). I’m doing this mainly out of historical interest. I assume that people in the past used to walk barefoot or in very simple footwear … Continue Reading
Originally posted (in Dutch) on the Dutch Bushcraft Forum on May 15, 2011 in a thread about making moccasins. Early 2010, I made a couple snowshoeing moccasins (mukluks). I used the sewing pattern from the book Snow Walker’s Companion by Garrett and Alexandra Conover. (I can really recommend this book by the way, if you are interested … Continue Reading
