Oh, English, when your out grazing ...uh, I mean, trying alternate sources of primitive sustanance I wouldn't advise trying Aspen leaves.  They may be nutritious, or they may not, but they taste like... well, they taste horrible.

any one notice how many 16 year olds there are here?

theres quite alot if you go by peoples profiles.

Yeah, yucca works, I think, but having never tried it, I don't really know.
 Before I got into survival and primitive gear, etc, I had no idea how ludicrously easy it is to survive in England - so many edible plants, other resources... living in stone age Britain was probably not as precarious an existence as is often made out.
 You've never been to Europe?  That's quite interesting.  It's bigger and more interesting than it seems from your side of the Atlantic.  But then, there's more to America than New York and Disneyland, which is what most people here think of as America.
 I think I can tell you about bark-string now I have the time.  It's not difficult:  you have to cut a piece of willow, of different widths and lengths for different sizes of string and different uses.  Use the back of your knife to scrape off the outer bark (save it, though, don't just throw it away), then use your knife to cut a line through the inner bark all the way down the stick.  Then use your fingernail to lift the inner bark away from the wood, remembering to lift the entire sheet off, trying not to make holes in it or anything like that.  (The reason you need the sap flowing is so it is easy/possible to remove from the wood).  Take this sheet of bark and cut it into thin strips, as thin as you need them.  Take the outer bark and put it into a pot with some wood ash and some water, in about equal measure - put the inner bark strips into the mix and then boil vigorously for about ten or twenty minutes.  The point of this is that it strengthens the fibres - it also dyes them brown.  You can use the normal fibres anyway - they will be strong enough for most purposes.  It is sometimes nice to make decorative braids of dyed and un-dyed strands.  Braiding is the best way to use bark string.
   Also... two days to get out of the woods?!  Uh huh... it takes about eight hours to walk through the entire New Forest.  You cannot get lost here.  Home made fishing rods are easy - flexible sapling or very long root, with a slightly fire-hardened tip.  You just put the string (home made too, of course) on the end (no reel) and then sling out the hook.

well last night me and my dog took a walk in the woods we use to do this every night and day for that matter but hes getting old and it hurts him to walk that far.  he was felling a little peppey that day...

any way there is a spring in the woods where i walk we go there and get a drink all the time but this water is cold. very cold. if you hold your hand under it during high summer your hand gos num in a few secends. Well last night was around 40 degrees farenhite  not too cold but im use to the 70 of summer soo sometimes i make stupid decissons and i dunked my head under water. I do this all the time during the 70-90 degrees of summer well did it in the 40 degrees of night and i got sleepey so very sleepey and could barley get home my dog saved my life. haha.

aaa yes the slow cold death grip of hypertherma. Not fun but not too bad a way to go.....Better the starving you just fall asleep...In the last few i think hours your nervs die and you feel warm...

I'm quite certain that there is a longer thread somewhere.

dont know..

Well, I made a dart for my atlatl.  Couldn't find any saplings, but I did find a 1" by 1" by 5' 6" board in the wood pile.  Shaved it down with my knife so the front end was 1" wide and the back about 1/3" wide, still went sideways when I threw.  Added some chicken feather fletching and a couple steel nuts to the tip, threw great first throw, second throw back snapped off, third, split, fourth, broke into three or four pieces.  an hour of work down the drain.  Next time I'll find a sapling.

Well, speaking of darts, does anyone have a blowgun?  I have one of those machined, $10 shiny metal ones that I was just shooting action figures with.  Anyone make them the real way?  With what?