newfoundland woodsman
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I got up late this morning and decided id have a walk in the woods and have some breakfast, so i packed my backpack up, grabbed my snowshoes and got going!
You can see the road where i got on the trail. I didnt go in far, perhaps a kilometer by the time i stopped. lots of ups and downs tho!
The area where i stopped to have a fire had all the necessary materials right at hand. White birch for tinder and a large dead white spruce for everything else. kindling up to 3 inch thick branches.
I used birch bark shavings and a firesteel to get it going.
Here is a closeup showing the insect damage to the white spruce. lots of these big trees are getting killed in this area, its a beetle.
Ive been lurking here for a while and been seeing discussions about snowshoes and the binding types. Here are my shoes, which i bought off a local man who builds them in his shed. They are made from a rim of spring steel covered in self vulcanizing tape and then bound with nylon twine. They are very sturdy and the bear paw design is great for manoeuvring in amongst the bush. The binding in particular might be interesting to some of you. its made from a single, thick piece of inner tube and makes putting them on and taking them off a breeze.
Obligatory axe shots!
Getting the kettle on to boil.
Next comes the cast iron pan and the bacon
After this point i got much too involved to take more photos. I finished cooking the bacon and then fried some cubed, parboiled spuds in the bacon fat along with a small onion and some salt and pepper. Great meal in the woods on a nice saturday morning!
cheers!
You can see the road where i got on the trail. I didnt go in far, perhaps a kilometer by the time i stopped. lots of ups and downs tho!
The area where i stopped to have a fire had all the necessary materials right at hand. White birch for tinder and a large dead white spruce for everything else. kindling up to 3 inch thick branches.
I used birch bark shavings and a firesteel to get it going.
Here is a closeup showing the insect damage to the white spruce. lots of these big trees are getting killed in this area, its a beetle.
Ive been lurking here for a while and been seeing discussions about snowshoes and the binding types. Here are my shoes, which i bought off a local man who builds them in his shed. They are made from a rim of spring steel covered in self vulcanizing tape and then bound with nylon twine. They are very sturdy and the bear paw design is great for manoeuvring in amongst the bush. The binding in particular might be interesting to some of you. its made from a single, thick piece of inner tube and makes putting them on and taking them off a breeze.
Obligatory axe shots!
Getting the kettle on to boil.
Next comes the cast iron pan and the bacon
After this point i got much too involved to take more photos. I finished cooking the bacon and then fried some cubed, parboiled spuds in the bacon fat along with a small onion and some salt and pepper. Great meal in the woods on a nice saturday morning!
cheers!
