Forest Skills Team

Reading Brian Hildreths ‘How to Survive’ and Roahl Dahls ‘Danny the Champion of the World’ at a young age sparked Chris’s interest in the natural environment and wilderness skills. This inspired Chris to join the Cubs and Scout Associations of which he was a member for many years. This was fuelled further by watching countless episodes of the “Bush Tucker Man” during school holidays.

Since the late 1980’s, Chris has actively sought to expand his knowledge of traditional and modern skills and techniques for living and teaching in the natural environment. To this end, Chris has gained several internationally recognised qualifications as part of his personal quest to ever increase his knowledge. This includes studying friction fire lighting under Dale Collett; perhaps one of the best in the world at the floating hand drill technique.

Having tried, tested and rediscovered numerous pieces of equipment and knowledge over the years, we now test all of the products that we sell. We only sell products that we believe in, whether they be budget friendly or wish list items. So if we sell them, you can be sure that they’ll do the job just fine.