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I find it very embarrassing and it makes me a little angry that white folk think that tribal societies, especially hunting and nomadic ones, such as existing all over Canada lived in the kind of scruffy houses I've seen in books about the stone age. Our people and others would have built...

Hey guys You are canoeing in Canada in summer. Not in England. I've never seen even an anglo up here use neoprene socks. And we certainly don't. I don't know how cold the water is on the river you paddle on but the choice most visitors do here is wear something on their feet like runners...

But if you have very thin shirt mozzies will bite through it no problem. Same if you wear sandals on feet. Socks no problem either if thin. They can get through any gap in your clothing. And if you sweat your shirt will stick to skin and mozzies will love that. If you sweat deet may not...

Survival Kit? For us it is our rifle, big hunting knife and Axe. Our forest provides the rest. But many people can manage with just the axe and forest. The forest is not our enemy or somewhere we survive. It is our home and store.

Northern rivers are normally cold all year. But most of Yukon / Teslin river is flat I think so no chance of falling in maybe unless you don't canoe much at home. Ordinary clothes are fine. Same type you wear for walking in British summer. Most europeans we get up here find mosquitos and...

These things I've never seen before. What do you brits use them for? Do they have hunting/bushcraft use or something or are they just for walking if you are not well or maybe injured?

Knowing what animals live in your forests and can't find track or don't know what the track & spoor is, or the animal signs, one way we learned was to sit out on a still night with back to moon and resting yourself on tree. Don't smoke, drink or talk. Animals will walk right past you and if...

We don't go bold Sunndog like anglos. Some wear moustaches and thin chin hair but we can't grow facial bush like you.

Ineteresting. But..... I'm not sure who Sally was and why we've not read this before. Please don't think that all native americans had long hair in the 1970's. Many - and I was one one who had it cut short. People didn;'t like indians with long hair. It was discouraged . Most USA indians...

Thank you Swallow bird. But the uk i noticed had much water and no deserts when I visited so I wondered where you might need to carry such little water as you can carry in one of those things. As for the tampon thing then I think if you cannot find tinder in the woods and forests of your...

I guess tampon and durex and useful aids in your towns and cities eh? Not much good in the forest I think if you come here.

Mr Pic FRom where I'm sitting in the northern forest I'd say you are good. The otter track is one day old maybe little more if it was wet before and have started to change. The big bird Heron he went next and the pheasant which is smaller went last his prints are very clear. If the heron...

Any one ever used one of those in the UK/Europe for real?

An ex US army guy left one with us once. "as a gift". They may be OK for cutting a stick if you've been foolish enough to have forgot a real saw or axe, but then I think you'd have forgotten the wire saw too. And how do you sharpen them? Just more junk in my simple view.

http://www.algonquinpark.on.ca/visit/general_park_info/algonquin-park-weather.php or https://weatherspark.com/averages/27608/Algonquin-Park-Ontario-Canada

There's a big museum that has lots of first nation stuff in, including a couple of birch bark canoes. I also remember it had Sitting Bulls skin coat/jacket which he gave to the officer who was in charge of him when he came to Canada to escape the Americans after Little Big Horn fight...

I don't really know Dave, I've only been that way twice. The most east we normally travel is the missinaibi River. Most of the Ontario Parks have websites that have that sort of information in them though.

When were in the bush tracking game we do not look for every footprint as the animal is likely moving quicker than us if we bothered every footprint. |So we look for clues to which may be the easiest way the deer, moose, wolf or whatever were after may go. |Then we move to where we think it is...

If you go to Kawartha you pass the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough. Google it. Its a feast of native birchbark canoes, dug outs, innuit kayaks and so on. Some of the birchbarks are made by well known first nations folk now dead, such as Cesar (Cree first nation) whose birch bark canoe...

You won't need gun to deter bears. They sleep in winter time. Hibernation you call it I think. Wolves?? I said in earlier post you won't see any wolves - too many trees in our forests!. Hear them yes, they live in the forest. but they won't bother you. Brother wolf is brother because he's...