View from my office this morning.
Leaving camp on their way to the ocean via the Aroostook, St. john, Eel & St. Croix rivers.
New winter shelter coming together. A big cone.
Sunset swim with the river all to myself. Clean after a day filled with sweat.
Canada Warbler
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Empty field. Long term program number 37 completed. Great group, they accomplished a lot.
Putting meat in an improvised smoker. We'll eat well on our upcoming trip.
Free hand ash basket after pounding out the splints.
Two weeks stuck in camp with no truck. Daily interaction with this whiskey jack.
Carving a coal-burned spoon with a newly made crooked knife. #fulltanglifestyle #friluftsliv
Sealing a crack in a birch bowl with pitch to make it water tight. Rock boiling next. #fulltanglifestyle
Moose Tracks. Not just an ice cream flavor, also sometimes marks left by animals on the ground.
Pounding ash for pack basket splints. #fulltanglifestyle
First cast on the new, as yet to be named field school pond. Taking suggestions for the name.
Friction fire clinic: hand drill, just before lunch.
Birth of a fire. Made by friction.
Using a cabinet scraper to smooth a paddle grip.
Wet weather fire lighting on the Wilderness Bushcraft Semester.
Whiskey Jack posing, showing jis "blue Steel" signature look.
Whiskey Jack eating a breakfast of oats.
2 oven supper: 8" dutch and reflector oven sourdough under clear Aroostook skies.
Thinning a canoe paddle with a spoke shave. Finishing paddles today.
Big dutch oven dinner, served into a burned bowl. The outdoor life is a good life.