Tag: Shelter building
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My Yukon River Trip (as a teenager) & Northern Ontario Guiding Experience Taught Me How & What Bushcraft/Self Reliance Is (-part3/3)
From the Yukon and Alaska to Northern Ontario. Where I believe was the only other time in my life where I needed any kind of survival real life skills, was when I was a fishing guide at a fly-in fishing resort called Slippery Winds Wilderness Lodge in 2016. As a guide at the lodge it […]
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My Yukon River Trip (as a teenager) & Northern Ontario Guiding Experience Taught Me How, & What Bushcraft/Self Reliance Is (-part2/3)
So Joe Glynn and I got into his Row boat. Which we named River Bottom, (and for good reason) this boat looked like it was about to sink. It had only been a couple days since Brian Dickenson and I had arrived in Dawson, so I decided to go back to the spot Brian and […]
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My Yukon River Trip (as a teenager) & Northern Ontario Guiding Experience Taught Me How & What Bushcraft/Self Reliance Is (-part1/3)
Have you ever been faced with a situation where you needed to have the skills to survive? I have. Bushcraft, Self Reliance, and it’s meanings. Bushcraft is the use and practice of skills, thereby acquiring and developing knowledge and understanding, in order to survive and thrive in a natural environment. Being able to rely on […]
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Winter Camping, Night Out, Solo
I’m going to start off this story by sayingI finally did something I’ve been meaning to do for a very long time, A solo. winter, camp out in the woods. I have been an avid outdoorsmen for a very long time. I love camping. and in recent years my partner Erin and I have been […]
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Early season camping
During each spring if you decide that a camping trip is in your list of activities to explore? And your new to the experience, Then there are a few things I believe to be important points to take into consideration when planning your voyage. First off let’s explore the reasons to go camping? There are […]
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Base Camps. What Are They? & Why Make Them
– First If your just getting into outdoors activities and wilderness adventure? Then you may have heard the term Base Camp! Well what exactly is a base camp? Simple and yet a fair enough question. A Base Camp is an area you choose in the bush that you can choose to store some extra gear […]
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Knives, Types & their Uses In The Field.
Hello folks, so today’s topic is, what is a knife meant for and different methods it can vs should be used for, in survival, bushcraft, camping, or just having some fun in the bush? Well I’ll probably get a bit of flack from some people after publishing my own opinions about what knives are for […]
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Perspective Of What Work Is!
Work Last night I got a phone call from a good friend of mine He called me to point fun of me at this video I recently posted about having lunch with my partner and son out in the woods. Lol His comment was… it sure looked like a lot of “work” I had endured […]
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Winter lunch in the woods
Hi folks, we’re at it again. I’m heading out to an area to start scouting out where to put an outdoor base camp near to an area I am planning to do some hunting next spring and hopefully next fall as well. My goal will be to find a spot I feel may be a […]
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