Our recent trip to northern Quebec was fantastic. We had amazing weather, good company, great food, and more than enough laughter for our 8-days in the bush. I had the good fortune to have Ben McNutt, Lisa Fenton, Matt Upson and Steven Hanton from Woodsmoke, a bushcraft and wilderness survival school in the UK, on [...]
February 2009
My friend and fellow bushcraft instructor David Cronenwett has a great new blog called A View From Aerie Mountain: Natural History, Bushcraft, Outdoor Survival, Grizzly Bears, Human Ecology, Montana And More. David is an experienced instructor of outdoor living and has some keen insights into both outdoor life and people. His post titled Personas Among [...]
In the morning I’m heading north with a small group to Oujé-Bougoumou, Quebec, for 8 days of snowshoeing and winter living with my friend David Bosum. I’m bringing a group with me to experience the Cree way of life and hospitality. I’ve taken several trips with David over the past decade, and all have been [...]
In addition to being the base for our programs, our Bushcraft And Sustainability Field School is also where we experiment with different technologies in order to achieve a simple, comfortable, rural life. It’s a demonstration site, but not in the sense that we create alternative ways of doing things and then revert back to the [...]