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We do what Janna does and stamp out snow. Digging no good in deep snow!! Easy to light fire in snow as most wood for kindling and burning is dry. Rain not so good!

It sure looks like otter to me. Our otter is same as yours. Always smells like fish and shape is good too. I never smelt goose poo which smells of fish, but maybe different goose in UK eat fish? What would a goose feed on in your hill? If you are lucky and pull it apart you may see small...

Boil the resin in animal fat. Put through cloth and wring it hard till all the fat and resin comes out. Pure resin cracks and isn't flexib le enough for glue for sealing and things like canoe bark. Animal fat makes it flexible and won't crack. Enju

I read that bit by Charles Eastman with much interests and I thank you for sharing it too. Many folk brought up in towns or cities are poor observers when I've been with them in the forest or on the lakes and rivers. I noticed this too when in England I went out with two guys and a game...

Some of the pictures could be in Canada over the ground some of us hunt over.

Once Dave. Walking along a trail alongside a bank on a creek/stream. Heard a creature running at angle towards me through very low bush and calling with a high pitch note. Couldn't see it until it crossed the path a few yards ahead of me and down the bank towards the stream and out of sight...

It is a Domestic cat - sorry !±! No ear tufs ; Tail is cat not Lynx they have short bob tail, spots and strips all wrong too. Lynx much bigger than cat so you would not see top of body - have you measured hight of your camera in position?

We spend a lot of time in the forests but see this only few times - its pretty unusual - you are lucky. My mother used to tell us to not touch the stuff as she thought it was dangerous. We thought it was fun when we saw our 1st stump glowing in the dark and we rubbed it on our skin.

I understand that much of northern europe had a 'mini ice age in medieval times and perhaps the ice sheet was much further south than now. So if they were inuit and got lost at sea or drifted off on an ice sheet, they were just lost and simply looking for somewhere to land?? Shame they didn't...

I'm sure you are right Toddy, but do your trees never shed branches or fall over? I thought I saw a few down just like our forests. How do you know they won't fall? It would make even more sense to us as you have so few forests, to camp in the open where you know you will always be safe.

Another interesting subject on how you view risk. I know of no Cree indian, or white hunters/trappers up here who would carry anything to enable them to be found. Any more than you would carry something in your towns or cities to be found. When I used to do guided canoe trips with...

This puts a different view on what you guys see as acceptable risk. Camping under trees. Something we very rarely ever do even though we are surrounded by miles and miles of forest. All trees can be widow makers as you call it. As others have said, just because a tree does not have dead...

Rivers south of the treeline hold more species like northern pike, pickerel too and many whitefish, which we'll eat fresh but if we are out for larger game we don't generally stop to cook food as we would end up taking more kit and it just slows things up. In winter it is often too cold to...

yes you are right sundog but a better hunter is one who plans where and when he goes for game. :)

I've only fallen in once, swamped a couple of times but many years ago. I guess I was brought up to be in a canoe from early age, so as long as you are careful and only paddle in rapids you know you or/and your partner can handle you stay in the canoe. I guess we get better as we get older...

The further north the less species. This river like many around the tree line hold only Lake Trout. (Yes, they live in rivers!) Small ones around five pounds to around twenty pounds. Easy for anyone to catch with spinner. We sometimes net them in winter under the ice.

One of our rivers further north snakes its way through the treeline in June, snow still covers some ground. More wolves, bears, muskox,caribou and other critters live here than people. This river is too small to have a name in English. Here a couple of hundred miles maybe from nearest...

J Maybe my English isn't my 1st language and maybe I'm not as good as expressing myself like you but I can say that I have had no intention of mocking anyone regardless of what their equipment. All I hope i've said is that the people i see on the norther rivers carry more equipment than us...

J Maybe my English isn't my 1st language and maybe I'm not as good as expressing myself like you but I can say that I have had no intention of mocking anyone regardless of what their equipment. All I hope i've said is that the people i see on the norther rivers carry more equipment than us...

Most HBC stuff is expensive. None of us would buy it. Cedar canvas canoes are mostly replaced by fibreglass, by plastic canoes but these are heavier and harder to repair. MY canoe I made myself. Except for the canvas all the wood we get from the forest I'm glad you like the video.