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Luckily we don't have upper, middle or lower class women or men here. If you need to travel in bush or tundra women and men carry the gear. Plenty of our women can carry more than I've seen european men carry - and for longer.

My father used to make and use packs for dogs to carry when he went hunting on his own. Some dogs can carry plenty of stuff once they get used to it.

Ha Ha, non of my dogs ever seen a town.

Which 'natives' are you referring to?? Are you not a native of your country?

There isn't too much difference between what our women can/could carry when I was a young man and we travelled more and owned less. Now we own more but carry less... . My mother carried all the domestic stuff when we moved camps. Tents, bedding, clothing, food, pots/pans and the like. All...

Perhaps get out in the forests more. I don't know what soft shells are but jackets and the like will soon get holes in if you use them. ;-) Sitting in ftont of your fire is also a good way of making more holes, especially if your partner likes putting fresh wood on during the evening!.

caribou sinew is still used here for thread to make leather gloves and sometimes old ways hunting jacket for winter. The women normally make it and I've seen different methods. One way to make the threads thinner is to use your teeth to shred it finer and also chew it to make it softer or...

I don't understand with all the stuff you have in the Uk why you'd want to start a fire with something you can eat. If you need a fire you are likely needing to eat? Why burn what food you have?. With a little practice you can always find some dry wood/bark or grass or other wild stuffs to...

Ha Ha, we have no books or classes on tracking. Smell can tell you individual animals. If you have game around you it is sometimes possible to smell individual animals with practice. regular hunters can just walk along a track and with experience tell how many animals - or people - have...

Never seen anyone need to do that. Take long time to follow game that way.

My English friend has just told me those are a Robin's eggs/nest - not the same as our North American Robin but the bird you put on christmas cards. I just told him they was picture of bird nest here and knew he'd be able to tell me what it was.

I notice there is no mention from your friend of smell when tracking. Do you not use smell?

So tell me what difference that makes in terms of tracking skills?

My friend from North Yorkshire is a hedgelayer and makes stone walls too. I watched him work and had a small go too. He's handy with axes and the other cutting tools he uses. Pretty good with chainsaw too, Not sure he'd build a cabin too good =-but he's handy around camp with anything sharp...

Many small animals do this when they are gathering soft material for their winter shelters underground. This ball often happens when they are walking backwards and pulling the material with their front feet as they go.

Tansi I don't know what all this modular this and thermo that stuff is but I've used fur many times. But not too often now. Reindeer is our Caribou - the great wanderer, Atihk, has good fur to keep him warm but it is far too short fur to make good cover to keep you warm in winter. Too much...

Tansi I hear you guys have had some winter weather. My friend in England thought you might like to know our weather. Well its been below freezing since october /november (about minus ten degrees C) . and right now its around -30c below freezing and a little windy. Its will be like this...

Your work Toddy is fine stuff. Not many folk up here can do that any more. Mostly we use spruce roots and for cordage rawhide/sinew when we need too - most of the older men - which includes me can make rawhide rope but I'd struggle to make any bowl/bag from spruce roots, although in my youth I...

I am glad some of you enjoy the stars. Our winter nights are long and there is no light pollution at all. From all the places we travel, hunt or canoe there are no artificial lights at all. When I was little my grandfather used to tell us stories about the stars and how they came into being...

I was wondering just like Janne, what do you use this knife for? Most time knifes and axes get bit of rust when wet, and knives & cutting tools get chipped when working. Thats what happens when you use tools. But they still work just as good without worrying too much.