Earthling

Actually though I was taught the old school stuff both as a scout and by my grandfathers and uncles, dad. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> and I am an expert axeman. Used to split ALL of the wood for Boy Scout camp <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> AND I can acurately throw a knife and stick it with my choice of number of spins before it hits. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

The Boy Scouts get unfairly trashed by people jealous because they weren't scouts and didn't get to dig in Indian mounds like my troop did. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
Most Boy Scouts didn't have a license to carry a knife much less an axe. The number of them that showed up for anything like "woods craft" was a small percentage. There is probably more "damage" done pruning parks than by boyu scouts. One mans damage is anothers improvement. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

There are still people in this day and age and YES in this group who live in areas where this is reasonable behavior. Now Inpolar lives in the Taiga where there are few trees, and fewer people. It matters little if she chops down two trees and starts a bonfire between them and leaves it burning when she leaves. Likewise some of our Scandinavian friends have very non-american-pc camping habits. The Europeans think we are trashing <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> the mountains because we don't have yellow posts to stay between like the trails in the Alps. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> On the AT PC <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />is very much different than on the PCT. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Inpolars husband is a poacher, I'm sure that means something very different than what someone outside the area and culture thinks of.

I think the LNT is anAmerican value. I'm not condeming it, I'm just saying it is a kind of extreme backlash to the blaze a trail ideas of those who were in continuous deep wilderness, and blazing and axemanship were important.

Jim YMMV <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />