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I had a wool jacket like that with widely spaced buttons down the front. Loved the jacket. So one day, I clipped off the buttons and sewed a strip of Velcro down the front for a closure. Sure fixed the draft issue in a hurry.

Carhartt "Chore Coat". Sure it gets plenty cold here with snow like sugar, just brush it off, it won't be melting anytime soon. Layers. Flannel & wool clothing underneath. The big thing here is the wind. Somehow you need to get out of the wind. Carhartt canvas is pretty good for that...

Thank you. That all looked to be an outstanding adventure for whole families.

I'm quite fond of Ichiban Chicken noodle soup. Cooked i 3 minutes. Nothing left over. Badly in need of more broth additive and lots of fine dice green onion. Any of these "add boiling water" foods and I'm always thinking of the fuel cost if no campfire is allowed. I like to make my own egg...

Welcome. Be bold. Ask your questions. Autumn and winter were my outdoor seasons. Based on polls in Uni lectures, if one student asks a question, there's every chance that 1/2 the class would like to know the answer. As far as kit is concerned and stoves in particular, you will not find a...

"Forever Chemicals" come by that name honestly. It is not possible, yet, to filter those from any water source. All surface waters, rain and snow included, are contaminated.

My uncle raised some white turkeys. Getting on towards autumn, Thanksgiving and Christmas with a big family, these were 15-20kg birds. Amazing speed to eat a running mouse. The farm cats never had a chance.

The presence of "forever chemicals" in all wild surface waters makes them toxic when consumed over time. Basically made of chains of carbon-fluorine atom bondings, the strongest bonds in organic chemistry. They can be destroyed with extreme heat and boiling won't do anything. The chemical has...

Several different food prep peeling tools, a corn cob stripper and (what I hope to be) a large chef knife. If I can't see the knife's place beside my little cleavers, I'll make a gift out of it.

I consider baked beans to be an ingredient badly in need of help. Fine dice bacon, fine dice fried onion, garlic powder, maybe soy sauce and certainly Worcestershire or Tabasco Jalapeno. There's nothing that you can do to convince me that refried Tex/Mex beans are good to eat.

I've been drying Roma tomato halves @ 55C for 24 hours with consistent success. I pack jars and flood them with olive oil. How well do you think that this compares with canning?

Here, there's a huge market for well-worn and somewhat ripped old blue jeans. All the damage but no work at all to get there. 1.5 legs makes a nice roll for some 15 wood carving gouges.

I'm an omnivore with a particular liking for fish and shellfish. There are a few things that really make me wonder about my fellow humans: Kale. What the hell is that? Cauliflower. Ditto Raw seafood. If it's bait, cook it first, thanks. On the plus side, I've learned how to make very good...

Thank you for being my legs and thanks for the pictures. The canopy trees and the understory plants are so different from our western conifer forests in the mountains.

My expedition pack is hopelessly large, I know only that it easily holds 2 cases of wine. I used cardboard boxes to bulk out the bottom void space when packing for short trips. Quick and dirty measurement of a wine box says the pack is about 60 liters.

The brewing tends to fall into a routine after some practice. Just habits to be repeated. I made wine from 25 cases of California Zinfandel grapes. Power crusher and 2 x 45 gal primaries that I stirred with a new canoe paddle. 10 x 10 gal secondary tanks to be so "incredibly generous" at...

Welcome John, I'm west of Jasper & Mt Robson in McBride, BC. I'd pass on a 3 hr winter drive on HWY 16. You have some great river valleys and ravines to explore, a lot closer to Edm.

I had a big and cheap 8" clone of a Bowie knife. Stirred soup, pounded tent pegs, did it all. End of a hunt, took it off my belt, rested in on the roof of my Chev 4x4. By then, that knife had been around the world twice with me. Got in and drove away. The end.

The study of population sizes and growth characteristics (eg survivorship differences) has been a popular aspect of ecology for a very long time. This needs including host-parasite relationships in terms of energy transfer (interest) and much the same applies to predator-prey relationships...

Eugene Odum, amongst so many others.