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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.

Tail is favourite for many of us but I can't think what to compare them with for taste more meat taste than say Ostrich I'd guess :) Cougar we don't get here, and Lynx occurs in the southern parts of our land. But we don't eat him.

Tail is favourite for many of us but I can't think what to compare them with for taste more meat taste than say Ostrich I'd guess :) Cougar we don't get here, and Lynx occurs in the southern parts of our land. But we don't eat him.

I didn't think folk would be really interested in my canoeing stuff for such a journey. 1. 1st Nations? i never use it. Were just the people = Dene in Cree, sometimes Deneza if we want to emphasise it. I don't mind what you call me as an indian as long as its not rude or insulting. :) 2...

I can't remember, nor can I remember the first time in a canoe. Probably as a baby. When I was a young man I went with my cousin on long canoe trips to explore rivers and places I did not know existed and far beyond our hunting territories, maybe away for months at a time just paddling from...

Tegu. Many lives have been lost by not wearing life jackets. Mostly on fishing boats both here and in the UK - no fisherman I saw on big fishing boats in yorkshire used them either. And there are no motorbikes up here either - and only a few dirt roads. But no bother I don';t think I...

Ha Ha! & Bear no problem as long as you respect him. You all may enjoy this film by the National Film Board of Canada 'Cree hunters of the Mistassini'. 12 minutes in you'll see canoeing 14. the Axes we mostly use 16. minutes in canoeing in rapids 30 minutes in Beaver hunting. Its old and...

I liked the Yorkshire puddings I had when we stayed in yorkshire. The beef was Ok too. ...

Well lets see if I can answer some of your comments. 1. FAK If that means 1st aid then we don't bother generally. If we need things for cuts we can use what the forest provides. We have a root we mash up = I don't know English name which we use to stop bleeding. But we rarely get cut...