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Survival Skillset

Lesson 8 of 15

Bogs, peat hags, forestry and old mines

35 min

On the map the moor is a blank of pale brown with a few blue dots. The direct line to the road is 4 km on a bearing, and it looks like an hour. Three hours later you have been knee-deep twice, you have climbed in and out of a hundred peat channels, your bearing has wandered, and you are soaked to the thighs and tired in a way that…

In this lesson

  • Bogs, mires and quaking ground
  • Recognising it
  • Getting past it
  • Common mistakes
  • Peat hags and groughs
  • How
  • Getting out of a bog or quicksand
  • Freeing yourself
  • Freeing someone else
  • Forestry hazards: harvesting sites, brash and windblow
  • The hazards and what to do
  • Old mine workings, shafts and adits

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