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All We Need
“It’s No Use” – Zuzu’s Petals
as the northern sun finally set, he took refuge from the blackflies underneath the truck canopy. he sat on top of his sleeping bag eating cheap
North of 60
“Fiery Death” – Siskiyou
Point the truck north. No plans, no preconceptions. Gone to poke around. Gone just to see what secrets the vastness may reveal. Gone for the sake of
Break Trail
Its dark and cold and there’s a lethargy that swallows all good intentions, call it Seasonal Affective Disorder or the Post-Bird Season Blues.
The solution is simple.
Step
Stay
Two weeks into winter and I’ll already be thinking about spring. The snow melting. Long days of sunlight. Hungry pike feeding in the shallows.
Springtime will find me standing in
Skeet Skeet
“Weak!!!!!”
The taunts come from the onlookers after yet another miss that put me at a pathetic 0-for-6.
I laugh and shake my head in disbelief. Then relinquish the shotgun, take
Rivers, Not Reservoirs
The “Site C Dam” is a proposal by B.C. Hydro for a large-scale earth fill hydroelectric dam on the Peace River (The third on this particular river). The resulting reservoir would
Time Can Be Overcome
“…if we pay no attention to it, time does not exist…” – Mircea Eliade
5 days, 4 nights, 207 km by canoe. But all that really mattered was the distance because somewhere along the
Boredom Fighters
The fly rods sat idle, leaned up against a tree. Thunder rumbled in the distance, somewhere over the mountains. The rain beat down on the tarps, as we huddled
Reality Check
Bear stories.
Everyone who wanders into the hills, through the bush and along river banks has at least one good one.
But they’re best told in the glow of a campfire.
The Buzz
It’s an inevitability of life up here.
The muskeg and swamps interspersed with thick forest and hayfields create prime mosquito habitat. Add in extra standing water from a long