Doug Shoe Bushcraft

I’ve been watching some Doug Shoe videos on YouTube. Like his low key low cost approach. No survival ninjas defeating the elements to the tune of loud music. Here’s one video on dressing appropriately. Wish every tourist would see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaHVECBsqM0

Agree on his low, low cost ideas - a good treatment of layering and selection of versatile fabrics. He is absolutely right about military clothing - low cost and practical. I would change a bit and argue for at least some articles of bright clothing.

Doing SAR, I have spent days looking for folks dressed in subdued colors and they can be really hard to spot. Even a right handkerchief or bandanna can make a difference, but more is better, especially if you are immobile...

This is why I bought a couple of mesh signal panels in bright orange: https://postimg.cc/S2WCF5pt
Weighs almost nothing and packs small, fits in a trouser pocket.

So many folks choose camo, OD green, etc for all their outdoors gear. On the one hand I get wanting to blend into nature and not stand out. That's maybe nice emotionally and fits a certain aesthetic but it backfires when you need to be found. For every instance where training in evasion is important there are probably 200 where getting found is the goal. It can be hard enough finding someone dressed in bright clothing, and much harder still finding a lost hiker hunkered down under a camo tarp!

Dougs are like highlanders...there can be only one... :P Kidding, guy seems nice enough. That said, living in New England, I don't consider it to be a particularly inhospitable or dangerous climate/region.

Would you recommend a strobe as well?

One thing I do is carry SOME bright gear - A neon scarf and sleeping bag.

Some good ideas. If you want cheap sturdy gear, surplus is useful, but supplementing it with some blaze orange articles would be smart. I’ve seen evidence of even off season hunting in my woods, so I wear an orange t shirt when I’m back there in the summer and an orange hunters hat and sometimes a vest in the winter. I’ve been thinking of replacing my brown cloth sun hat with a brighter one.

My survival kit only has a 3 ft 1 inch wide strip of orange marking tape so I’m thinking of adding an orange trash bag or two to wrap around it.

I got religion on not buying camo or black colored knives when I lost one too many. Now I carry a cheap ($20) kabar orange dozier hunter.

Would you recommend a strobe as well?

A strobe, or almost any bright light, and a signal mirror are very good items