yep,i "mock" these kind of things and so does many of my buddies,if i understand what you mean by word "mock"...like we drag all the gear into woods and pretend we are in real-deal survival situation.i think its about only good way to practice making fire and shelter,just to almost "play" some situations,and imagine yourself into trouble.AND it sure is good if you really leave the matches and lighters to your home,as it forces you to make it with firesteel,when its the only method left,often.
i used to lead my squad in one pretty well known airsoft-team,and we did try to simulate real situations etc,to keep it real,so all the food we took to woods,was mre´s,all the tents were military emergeancy shelters etc,it was nice way too to learn realistic scenarios and to learn to live with only crucial gear.
in pur summer cabin i do snare and bow hunting,in our own piece of woods,and so on.i think im gettin more and more into outdoors,especially simplified"live off the land" and "do-it-yourself" all the time.its maybe cause i believe strongly that bad times are ahead and we must prepare.and secondary,ive noticed and felt,always,that my element is the woods,not the city at all.i never get stressed about bein without electricity in the forests,and no matter the distances and the weight of the backpack i have,im just happy bein there,in the trails and all the small things,like gettin to some deserted hay-shack in hard rain,makin some soup and takin a nap in cover of sleeping bag.i think its physically,and especially to me,mentally healthy way to live,as i dont need the rush,the society pressure,expectations,public allowed-sign into my forehead at all.i love to stumble into old ruins,from past,along my path´s,to see marks of travelers who have traveled the same routes centuries ago,it feels like walking at home to me.i do get some amount of smiles as al i dream about,all i talk about is takin another trip again,or making plans to jump of this modern life,and living off the land,and it aint joke to me.but i do understand the smiles though
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as i continue the outdoor-school now,im goin to be away a lot,but its ok to my girlfriends as she shares the same intrests and dreams,and we will move to lapland if i graduate in schedual and i get a job of some sort from there,and my teacher has already said he´ll help me to get one,as have already good language-skills compared to many finn´s,and cause i can cook,hunt,ski,etc already pretty damn well.but i need to have official paper sayin that.
i could easily see my self as reindeer-farmer,as those guys live hard but free life,and travel a lot.its not the guide-occupation,that i am after SO much,i just want to learn as much as i can,and get my income from livin in the wild,in job that aint destroying our nature.so you wont see me in suit ever,in telly,as leader of some hi-valued forest chopping company or what ever nonsense rip-off & rape-the-nature multinational company.
