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Just watched the Spring one. Really enjoyed it 0- just like up here too in the fall/autumn

When I was much, much younger I spent a few surprise nights out in winter. The simple way worked for us. Build fire, sit round fire, talking, smoking or whatever and wishing you were more sensible. Come tiredness, we simply slept as we do now on cedar to insulate us from the ground and dozed...

I like that boat. Like RobsonValley says there are dug outs on the west coast. But not here in central/northern Canada as trees to small, and our canoes need to be light to carry around obstructions/big rapids. I think you may have trouble portaging with that fella.!!

Someone suggested you may like to watch this video of a group of us (but not from our area), camping trip for moose hunt before winter. A few things this film shows is the way we - and our family hunt and live in the bush. 1. Cutting,splitting meat for smoke/air drying. 2. We generally...

I have just gotten Nehiyawak, the oldest speaker in our winter village to look at these and he's never seen them up here, nor used them nor heard any other groups ever use these methods of keeping warm. We both thought either method would take too much effort and too long to make although we...

The frames here are made from any straight strong wood with no faults or knots - one of the reasons we make ours from one piece of timber split into two to get our frame. Hard to get in northern NWT!!! To the south maybe white ash or white birch are used. They must be made from very strong...

I didn't think you got much snow enough in the uk to be bothered making snowshoes. How often can you use them in the south of uk, say London? The further south you go in our land the less the snowshoe gets used because not always long enough winter with snow to make it worthwhile making them...

Some folk might just be curious how you keep a hanky or tissue sterile befor you use.

Our snowshoes vary in design according to the kind of snow and places you use them. I don't know what kind of conditions you may be walking in. Snowshoes (Asamettik) ffor open ground then our snowshoes are pointed fronts, longish and thin. We make ours to the hight of our eyes from the...

Generally I use nothing but except sometimes the scent gland or a squeeze from the bladder of female.

Its minus 15 degs up here and its been snow for 6 weeks or thereabouts.

Hey Wadji Englishman!!. Maybe you like to go look in a geography book or map. Last time I did I was living in Canada. McBride is in BC and the Duck is also from Canada and my grandaughter tells me Grand Cayman is long, long way south in the Caribbean I think. America is different country -...

Smoke dried lake-trout, dried moose crushed with berries. Grouse and other birds we catch on the way.

The doctors I've know up here tell us that washing wound with soap and water is good for wounds and that remidies such as oils and stuff from pharmacy can sometimes delay healing. Most of my family group or hunting partners don't generally don't bother with anything if we get small wounds or...

I have sat and called beaver over by imitating their calls. There scent gland, or urine works too - but I don't think it will be looked at too kindly in the UK if you kill one 1st. I guess beaver is an aquired taste for some. But the pelt is excellent, waterproof and warm.

The taste & texture depends on how long its been in the stomach and what the animal has been eating. Can't think of anything you might have eaten which I can compare with. I've never tasted Saurkraut but I guess it could be similiar. I saw that same moss the Caribou up north eat in...

Innuit, you call inland innuit were starving to death in the 1950s. My grandmother can remember coming across their tents with dead bodies inside way further north in Canada. This land we call the barren lands. Regarding vitamins. Up here we have few wild greens. There are lakes where we...

That would be interesting experience. Many years ago more Americans came our way and sometimes joined us for hunting trips. But often they were unfit, and badly equiped (too much fancy outdoor clothes). But now I see this forum I wonder how some would manage with no hammocks and tarps up...

I don't know how far I can shoot animal, but hitting a large animal at that range is quite easy. But hitting it in the right place is not. Bush, trees and so on all get in the way. Then you have to aim for the heart, or head for some animals. And the heart is not always easy to hit or aim...

Mobile hunting tribes, such as our people didn't use pots. We used the animal to cook with. We removed the stomach, put the meat, fat & water in that and put hot stones in with split sticks. The stomach was supported by a tripod of sticks close to but not over the fire. Sometimes the meat...