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1st you have to find a glass lens. Then you have to wait till the sun rise. And a little bit up north you may be waiting most of the winter for that.

Caribou hide makes good warm mat to sleep on. Environmentally friendly & Biodegradable too.

Brits are good too. It was an Englishman & his wife who invited us over to stay at his house in North Yorkshire. Fine company most folk. For me its nice meeting people from different backgrounds with many jobs you can't do or get up here because there's no demand and not enough people...

Those who guide folk from the south or europe talk to people like here by phone or email,although mostly my partners daughter does most of that for us. 1st chance we hafe to meet is them is when we take them on the river in the bush (our forests we call bush in English), our only worry is...

I was asking a question Martin, because I wondered what he might need such equipment for in UK. I'm sorry if you felt I was trying to upset him - was just askin questions and not making assumptions about him travel to other countries. It might also please you to know we have such things...

I have small question. I thought UK was small with no where far from people? Anyone ever needed to use fish hook & line? or lost for many days in your country? What is a scalpel for? Is it for cutting meat? Why not use the knife for that?

I think of the most scary things you Brits do - and one of you has said it already - is to camp in the trees. We always try to avoid this because many branches fall off in storms and bad weather. Seems odd we have so much forest and avoid it. You have almost nothing and seek it out.

If they are anything like the ones our army guys had many years ago I'd think they pretty good at soaking up plenty of your English rain in winter. Maybe thats why we always wore leather?

Many years ago when I hunted/travelled alone my greatest joy was to sit next to the fire at night and look at the stars and pick out the planets as they moved around the big sky. We had many stories about stars and the night sky was like a book. Un like the UK where I don't think there's...

That looks like a mighty fine knife you've got. If you went into the hardware store at Stoney Rapids, Assin'skowtiniwak, and complained to the owner about such things on the knife they sold you, they'd laugh at you. Its a knife ? A knife gets used, gets used for tin opening, cutting ten...

Does it matter what its called? Why don't you just test it outside? Is it below freezing in UK ?

I understand that the furthest you can go from a road in Britain is about ten or twelve miles so you may no be surprised that many of us Cree here in Canada travel a hundred or more miles from our main home/cabin. We often travel several nights stop away from our village some times more. When...

Interesting. I'm afraid we don't wear any fancy gear either. But are you saying all the Norwegian people you were with got cold?

We often have winter temperatures down to -30c and sometimes -40c depending on where we winter. We generally don't have fancy equipment or specially bought clothing. Only advice I can offer is make sure you have nice big overmittens - even with wet/cold hands you will keep warm and gloves...

Traditionally Cree and all other 1st nations people stopped drinking milk as soon as they were no longer drinking their mothers milk. Many of us won't drink it even now. When we worked with europeans they have a lot of trouble with milk on trips. I remember one pair bring many cartons of...

Innuit and Cree walking together on the trail. Innuit sees what he says is dog poo. "Look! Its dog!|". No says the Cree - it looks like brother Wolf poo to me. Innu picks some up and breaks it between his fingers examining it closey. "No It looks like dog - here''s fish scales and too...

Moose jacket is sure hard to beat in winter. Mice like them too if you aren't careful with them in summer.

In summer when we're maybe fishing and want to spend the night out we just take a blanket or jacket, and means to make a fire. For bed we just cut fir or cedar boughs to keep us from the ground . For food we eat some of the lake trout we catch cooked in fire.. Maybe our summers are a little...

Ok I see you can't have open fire. No need for pan with open fire. We make dough, then wrap the dough round the end of a stick and cook over the fire. Guess unless you have big gas fire that won't work though!!....

We never use caribou hides directly on the floor of our winter camps. We always use cedar or fir boughs with plenty of soft needles/ leaves, all carefully laid out in one direction. Why? You are insulated from ground and nothing then touches wet ground. But we then put Caribou hide on this...