Bushcraft & Wilderness Skills On The Web

Links to interesting bushcraft and wilderness skills articles from around the web.

Cesars Bark Canoe

Making A Birch Bark Canoe – César’s Bark Canoe

This documentary shows how a canoe is built the old way. César Newashish, an Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve north of Montreal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum.

The Cree Hunters Of Mistassini

Here’s a really interesting film from the National Film Board of Canada’s archives. It follows three families on their trip to the winter hunting ground. This was filmed in 1974 but, save for a bit of plastic here and there, could be any time in the past couple of hundred years. I’d love to know [...]

Living The High Life, Hillbilly Style

I came across this great video a while back and just had to share it. Brilliant. The boys also feature on a great film about setting trot-lines.

Something For The Weekend – Les Stroud’s Best Ever Wilderness Story

I’ve been spending far too much time sitting in front of a screen this week. Every cloud has a silver lining though as I found this. Everyone does it wrong now and then.