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Following on from a previous post with the same title and some of you asked me if I would do the same. This would be a reasonable estimate of what myself and my partner would carry on a 16 day canoe trip to a hunting cabin and back on the Winagaiskikimi River which we do normally after...

Lucky us 1st nations are immune to the effects of most biting insects. So to are most folk who live up here for a while. Your body will get used to it and stop your itching after living outside for a while. Meanwhile...........try the 50/50 mix of tar and fat.

It makes no difference if you wear came clothing for hunting. Animals I've been told don't see colour anyhows. We rarely use came for hunting. In some places its darn right dangerous to wear came if you hunt cos there are folk whose skills at recognising what they are shooting at means folk...

I guess those Apaches who used the desert as their home would have known the location of every water hole, spring, or root/plant containing water or whatever, in much the same way as my English friend said australian aborigines did in his trips with them. Like us they'd know what and how to...

1st nations people don't live in hostile environments. Only in European culture was the west ever wild.

Janne Maybe your instructors were cruel or just enjoyed watching you guys suffer? None of our folk have problems with mosquitos and I'd not know any 1st nation people who live up here who get an itch after bite. It seems to be that the longer you are exposed to mosquito bites the less...

I was answering the first post. I don't think I was criticising what you took. Please do not criticise my comments which were meant for someone else. In our society it is not polite to answer for someone else because you may not represent his views unless you are hunting partners. However I...

So much equipment? Colchester in the UK maybe? Others have said what they've thought best but I aint trying to change your mind but just give you some thoughts from what we might take on a similar short hunting trip of that time:- Letherman Wave. = I don't know what this is. Head Torch...

Ha HA. We call those thread worms or sometimes 'sewing worms' but I've never seen one in a tree.

An axe will endure years of abuse but you are right and should always put it where you'll see it. My English friend is a hedge layer (?) and I saw he has hi-viz tape around some of his tools.

Just shy of Two handwidths length blade - maybe 7". Good all round for many jobs, killing game/gutting animals to cutting string/wood/poles/canvas & cutting food.

After long consideration of what passes for a day pack or survival kit in these parts I decided that my 'day pack' (a small pack on the sledge in winter) consists of:- One axe which gets used for lots of things on trap line setting One big knife for other things. Extra glove/mitt if gets cold...

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.