Nandarolondë

Working on Paleotech almost exclusively. The liberation and empowerment that come from mastering the deceptively complex skills used by Stone Age people is incredible. From hand drills, bow drills, and fire plungers to make fire, though flint knapping to make tools and weapons, to cordage making for weaving and rope...right on through hunting and survival. Amazing stuff, in a nutshell. Really working from the ground up with this stuff. It gives one a feeling of immense self-confidence. Way beyond what modern survival routines do.

It is a crying shame there is no one to go out and experimentally live with in this regard. Nowhere to hunt with these weapons.

I am still working with atlatl darts and soon will be working with Stone Age brain-tanning of skins and hides as well. My goal; a complete wardrobe of skins and furs to experiment with. Mind you, I have been doing minimalist with longhunting and rangering for some time so I think I have a fair idea what I am looking at here.

It would be pretty nifty to have a go at immersion for a couple of weeks or a month. I suspect it would be highly illuminating...and of course, quite dangerous. Still, I bet it would be worth it. Know it would be. Definitely a kill ya or cure ya evolution. ;)

Considering making some rabbit throwing sticks too. Once again, they are illegal to hunt with here, as are various bird throwing sticks. 'Cause of course, it be cruel to kill this way and the poaching/assault of low flying aircraft rate would be just horrible. Horrible. ;)

Cannot even spearfish or bowfish here. Sheesh. At least I can use a drop line. Oh, and basket traps are strictly forbidden, as are booby traps, snares, or deadfalls. Trapping in general, really. Might catch someone where they oughtn't to be, I guess. Who knows?

There are a number of things I can do..for the moment..so will do as I may. There are some downed trees from which I might get the 'rind' for experimenting with making some kinds of canoe.

Making of fire..although this one is restriced to here because of course one cannot build a fire in the wild places without a permit or at properly designated fire places. Make your population as helpless and dependent as possible, aye Captain.

One good thing about learning these paleotech skills is freeing oneself from that sort of nonsense. Perhaps not totally, but as close as one can get for now.

Anyway, after making myself a brain-tanned buckskin wardrobe with furs. Guess I'll be a target of the anti-fur crowd. Oh well.

Eledhwen