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We moved to hammocks 2 years ago and haven't gone back to a tent except for hot tenting in winter. One of the first things we noticed when we first tested them in June in Manitoba was that the mosquitoes didn't seem to find their way in. We got the Hennessy Hammocks, mine the bottom entry and my...

I recently ordered it and it's as good as I remembered!

In the eastern arctic our programs generally run from late February till mid September. Earlier than February and the daylight hours aren't long enough to get much production. By mid September the weather really starts to crap out with snow and fog. It doesn't help that we are right next to...

Hey, I love your style of enjoying winter! Gotta love wool and tradition.

We spend a lot of time doing geophysical surveys over the snow. We look for differences in magnetic field over the ground that would indicate differences in rock type. Diamonds are carried up to the surface in kimberlite "pipes". Once you find a few pipes in an area you can often get a good idea...

The dish is mounted on the roof at the back of the outhouse. You may have to do a bit of digging to get inside in the morning if the wind has been blowing.

All it takes is a 24 inch satellite dish mounted on the outhouse. The funny thing is that whereas most dishes face sort of upwards, here it has to face downward to catch the satellite on the horizon.

Move to where the water is more frozen to look for minerals. On Baffin Island now exploring for diamonds. Doing a magnetic survey near Repulse Bay, NU. Sunrise Camp near Pangnirtung, NU The kitchen at Sunrise Camp. The temperature for the last week hasn't been warmer than -42C but...

We hope to get back to WCPP this year. We're looking at 2 other possibilities depending on my work contracts. The Soper River on Baffin Island if it turns out that I get some work there again that involves a fly-out break in late July/ early Aug. If so, I'll get my wife to fly up instead of me...

When I hear about people batoning wood, it makes me think of the Small Tool Tradition of the arctic Dorset people. Their micro blades were typically around an inch long and made of chert, quartz, etc. These tools were used for butchering animals, cutting and shaping bone, wood and ivory and...

Pacey Lake, MB

YC, the Oxhead is made by Itlis in Germany and is the standard in the mineral exploration industry for line cutting and claim staking. It has a thin profile blade which makes it perfect for blazing trees and squaring up trees to use as claim posts but it isn't the best as a camp axe for...

Hi LF. We really enjoyed Woodland Caribou and plan to head back there often. We went through Red Lake and put in at Leano. Then it was Bunny, Lunch, Jake, Mexican Hat, south through several lakes to Paull, Upper Kilburn, Kilburn and back to Leano 6 days later. We took our royalex Bob Special and...

Hello from Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba. Came across this site a few weeks ago and have learned a ton already! I bought my first 14 foot fibreglass canoe when I was 12 after working the summer at my uncle's raspberry farm in BC. My wife and I paddle the local creeks and rivers in...