Was gonna comment that! Lol

Actually from Nova Scotia. Thanks for the kind words.

Sleep in a hood and stay under the blanket. Also rub crushed up bog Myrtle on your hands and face. It's a legit natural repellant.

I've never been too good with popularity contests. KZfaq was easier years ago.

There was also the medieval warm period which predated the two century cold snap.

You would also have some of the wandering tradesmen who's work is something that would need a group of people, but not something that could normally be supported long term in a village, or would be support for those in a village when they got there. The various wandering tradesmen and merchants also tended to have things with Faires in areas where they could buy/sell and transport between areas and get work in areas on a regular circuit so someone making plans for it would know around when they'd pop up again to get stuff done, so you need some larger construction done, the locals might plan and start gathering materials until the masons and carpenters moved through and had the manpower to put it up since most villages wouldn't be, constantly, building new structures, but several villages and towns would work. You might also have people who would be seasonal workers much like in modern times, over the course of the planting and harvest seasons, having someone with a group of people might move from place to place and work there while not being there during the growing period when you might not need a large number to care for the orchards your family tends, but you'd need them to pick them for that week or two when the fruit is ripe for it, and possibly other people to process it before they move on to the next area on the schedule to do the same thing there. While less of a major thing, a lot of the people who were more of specialists in fancier things or merchants might have something similar to what people see as the "gypsy vardo" or similar, where it's a wagon that functions as a house that you could move along with others and set up shop with rarer goods, often bartering for local things that could be sold onward as you follow the circuit, often including stops at larger trade cities/harbors for more exotic goods, and, again, setting up festival dates that people knew to expect the wandering traders to show up to buy/sell for a short time and then move on. Foresters and some of the farmers might be the ones most likely to actually "camp" as people call it now, and the farmers were more of the shepherd or cowboy style in several areas where they'd be moving their herds around for grazing land, and the Foresters and Rangers would be patrolling the forests with the ability to set up camps. Ontop of that, you would have the random need for an emergency shelter scenario in other cases, get a nasty rainstorm or the like, and someone might hunker down and set things up with cloaks and whatever they have to try to stay warm and dry if they could find shelter if there wasn't an easy place to go within easy reach.

One wool blanket plus wool clothing and hat, 15c-60f. Double wool blanket 10c-50f. I woke up covered in light snow once which was pretty miserable so for that situation (-1c-30f) I would want about 5 heavy wool blankets. Realistically a modern sleeping bag or a good fire is needed at lower temperatures.

Depends what you are doing.

In my outlaw video series I carry the long bow. I don't always bring the bow in videos for legal reasons. I'd carry the bow or a spear but not both. I am an axe and knife guy because I prefer to fight in a phone booth. Swords don't led them self well to woodland travel in spite of RPG fantasy sources. That said, if you have a horse in a managed woodland, almost anything goes. If I were to use a sword instead of an axe and rondel, I'd prefer an type XIV sword or a falchion as they are lighter and faster to travel with and good at dealing with the threats posed by typical forester antagonists. Anything more formidable than those and archery is a better solution as armour is untenable over long periods of time and travel.

I just finished your outlaw series, very nicely done. Wouldn't a long bow be cumbersome in the woods? I should think a short bow yould be more practical?

Doesn't much matter. Short bows are more of an Asian system. English longbows were as tall as a man in order to achieve the poundage without breaking. You use what your culture invents I suppose. My bow is pretty robust and a lot like a walking stick but I keep it in a linen sock. A lot of guys kept their bow strings under their hat or helmet so the weather did not stretch them out. The idea of keeping your longbow strung up all the time is another RPG fantasy thing. That said you would string up as soon as you were hunting something two legged or four.

@@HistoricOutdoors I remember something about a Welch short bow? Perhaps for use on horseback?

Me either, but I appreciate medieval monks jamming and religious ethics where such ethics are ethical.

Not sure why you wouldn't be allowed. Although the KZfaq printing press is pretty tightly controlled so if you figure out the algorithm to grow, let me know

@@HistoricOutdoors , I guess I was thinking more along the line of helping you build your channel. If we send you the content, you could look over it and make suggestions before it gets posted on your site.

I'm always willing to do request videos. Id probably do a second channel to collate submitted video.