Blog Contributors
Mon, June 20, 2011 
Mike Rushton
Mike runs, maintains and contibutes to the blog. He is a partner in Tamarack Outdoors spending a large amount of his time outdoors. Mike also tests kit , composes the recommended section on the Tamarack website, together with updating our hints and tips section and creating videos for our link to YouTube.
His experience and love of the outdoors started at an early age and has been living and working outdoors all his life. He kicked off in the Scouts, then onto the Army Cadet Force, and was involved in the Celtic Survival school at the age of 12. He was a British Army sniper and physical training instructor, is a qualified Arborist with over 20 years working with trees, has worked for Lancashire County Council as a Countryside Ranger, is a Mastercraftsman drystone waller and has carried out many conservation tasks within Lancashire such as tree planting, wetland and habitat management and hedge laying. He has lived and worked with the Sami Reindeer herders of Northern Sweden and the Hadza Bushmen of Tanzania. He is an avid open boat canoeist, camper, walker, snowshoer, dogsledder and environmentalist.
Kevin Shaw Kevin has been an outdoor enthusiast all his life. Spending his early years in woods or fishing off his native North East coast he developed his love of British countryside and coastline. Cycling extended his boundaries and he enjoys cycling tours and the purpose built mountain bike centres. A dedicated skier, he has spent more than a decade skiing in Europe and Canada. He has backpacked through Central and South Africa but his real passion is still in the hills and waters of the UK on two wheels, foot or canoe. Having discovered the concept of Bushcraft relatively recently and found it pulling his experiences together Kevin is currently soaking up the joys and skills that it adds to the outdoor world.