Fall Camp 2011

I've got our canoe all packed up and we are heading that way to Puzzle Lake and from there. We've been here about two minutes. Ken shows me up in my own spot. Ken's showing me up. He's got two, I've got zero. Not even a bite. Good show Ken. Alright so Ken and I have decided to walk over to Bear Lake. We're on Norway Lake right now. We're going to leave the canoe and pack up our gear and pack up our fish and go over a couple contour lines that-a-way and explore around and have a bush lunch maybe do a couple challenges all right we've made it to our little destination for for our lunch spot it's really nice it's all these pines here and the ground is full with the pine needles got a good view of the lake nice little island it's sunny, it's warm, it's perfect. Fuzz stack, squalid. Alright, You got it, you got it, you got it, you got it, you got it! Just don't let go of those bundles. Let's go. Just hungry. Make fire, dammit. Waiting for him to cook my fish. It looked rotted. So I found a deer skull with some antlers attached in the same place, same lake that Ken found that good one last year. Alright, we got it all set up, and I do realize that that shouldn't be like that, but I am right up against a rock there, big rock. So I tied another line off the second tap. Should be all right. Feels like it might rain tonight and it's windy. So I put it, I'm flying low. See, I got my sleeping bag and my gear in there. Actually, we'll get in there, it's quite a bit of room. Should be nice and toasty tonight. It's about 9:30 and Ken's going to bed. Got dark about six o'clock today. So I'm gonna make myself a pot of tea and hit the hay afterwards. It was a good day today. It's the second morning and just fire started. All right, well, Ken's finishing up his fire challenge. I've decided to hike up this hill here because my feet are really cold and I need to warm them up. We just got finished eating our lunch of pike and largemouth bass, which is delicious. This is the first time I've caught a pike and actually tastes a lot better than bass. So that's where we came from. I came from climbing up there. That's the lake we came in on. There's the beaver pond and what looks to be McNeil Lake down there, but I don't know. Ton of moss here, all different types too. It's a nice area. We're not really in the north, we're more eastern Ontario, but it's got a lot of the features that the north has. It's about a eight hour drive from where me and Ken live. This is the tip of the rock that I'm standing on, so I think where me and Ken camped is an island. Because on three sides, so far I've seen our water. I haven't checked out the other side yet. Well, I've made it all the way back now. And it looks like Ken is completing his fire chain right now. We got to this new campsite. And people who were here before obviously made a little bit of a mess. Which is pretty cool to see. They made a tripod with a hook. And what else I thought was cool is they made a burned out shovel. This thing is very big. More burning than I would want to do. So here's home for the night, camp number three. Normal A-frame setup that I always go with. Ken and I just went on a wood processing marathon. We've got a big old pile there, pile there, pile there, and there's our prep over there. Ken, the machine, isn't done yet. He's got to baton that B Andrews. This is our view of the Lois Lake. This is the sunniest day we've had so far. What we have here, boys and girls, is a definition of a soft woodsman. birch bark, pine sap, and pine twigs, lit with a mora. Like that? This Mora sucks for this. I see a knife. A real knife. Take two. Soft woods and fire. A real knife does, I guess. Feels like I'm dead. This is about 30 seconds into the fire. Just goes to show you the difference between a hardwoods environment and access to pine and whatnot. Yeah, this makes a difference. Well, that was gonna be epic. I thought you had a fish. I was recording.