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I see on another subject (tents for dogs) you keep dogs inside too!! :) and now I learn you keep axes inside. Tell me, if you are out in the countryside there and you spend the night out where does the axe live? Some years back my hunting partner broke his axe shaft when we were on our trap...

Wow! Tents for dogs? Insect repellants for dogs? Only the English maybe. Our dogs never - always outside. Summer & winter. I don't think our dogs would like being inside anyway.

About 35 years ago we were out hunting in late winter early/spring and we came across an Inuit and his dog team travelling across the tree line in northern Canada. One of the elder hunters in our party spoke a little Inuit with him and we found out he'd travelled across the ice from West...

Only when you have thrown your compasses away and other fancy stuff will you be truly free to practice and navigate in the bush and see your environment as a resource and not a place to survive in. The wilderness is not wild. We never used a compass for finding our way. I have not met other...

My family group (and many others) we live in the bush, or what you call forest. It is for the most part a place we call home. We rarely ever visit towns or cities. We come to the settlements only for buying stuff such as things we like to eat special, clothing, equipment & to sell furs...

We used to eat lots of bannock. Ordinary flour plus baking powder + anything else for flavour such as berries/raisens etc., No need for exact proportions. No matter.

Keep it wet. Hot water makes it more flexible and easier to work. Spruce works best and you can get long lengths if you find a spruce with open ground around it where you can follow long lengths. It is stronger than most natural rope and is used for stiching up birch bark canoes and many other...

This guy is on drugs I think.

Wild rice and still collected. Much nicer than white rice. Corn used to be planted but were too far north. I'm not sure of all English names but Arrowhead, called wild potato I still collect and cook when out for longer time. Bugleweed, Milkweed, Woodbine stalks, Bulrush roots, Basswood...

[/URL][/IMG] Here we show a visitor how to make bannock - bread on a stick. Being shown by Mrs T'anishwa who has spent almost all her life living in the forest and is also an excellent cook and can shoot/trap better than many men.

The way we make bread when out in the bush or forest is to wrap dough around the end of a stick and bake it over the fire. Only takes few minutes.

I never knew there were so many folk with great experience of bears. Must be a cultural thing too. We live all the time alongside bears. Big brown and black ones. I've had only a few incidents with bears, all caused by my carelessness and all of them ended up peacefully without having to...

That bear must have been breathing on you if you shot it with that thing.

Very interesting but how relevant is it to making fire outside? You need more bits of kit and you need to keep the jute dry - and the dust!! And a couple of planks of wood.

You can use just about any axe for throwing. We do throwing when we have our annual traditional games events in summer.

All I meant is that we carry what we need on us anyways. When I helped on guiding & hunting trips for european & american folk from towns many were nervous about being in the bush maybe a hundred or so miles from anyone else. Sometimes they would talk about their survival kits, with little...

Second house built much like we build our hunting cabins for winter. Don't need as many tools, just saw, axe and a chainsaw and plenty moss for chinking gaps. We never really had glass windows and smoke goes through the roof, although many of us use stove + pipe fire. Floor of spruce/cedar...

/Well there aint no rabbits out here that live in holes like yours. But its sometimes possible to fall into hole in snow if lots of rocks. I never heard of anyone breaking ankle doing that tho and I'd guess to fracture leg that bad you'd need pretty violent accident maybe. But := When...

Head-Smashed-in-Buffalo-Jump is a well visited place in Alberta. A cliff over which many thousands of buffalo were driven in old times to kill them for food. A translation from the Blackfoot language. We have numerous places which English might find unusual, none of them on maps in english...

Dave a poster here has a good signature line on his posts which explain why things are like this. Look at his signature. Anyway I've been told that this is "way off thread" by one of our young people and that it'll "get pulled" - whatever that means. Enju!