Posts tagged wildlife
DVD and Book Reviews
Jan 7th
When British adventurer Ed Wardle fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition by being left to fend for himself for three months in wilds of Yukon, the resultant TV show on the UK’s channel 4 and National Geographic channels (backed by Twitter and live blogs) proved something of a fiasco. Wardle cracked up, nearly starved, and was brought home after 50 days… Some, however, get on better with the Canadian wilderness. We review a couple of examples…
Northern Wilderness
The latest exploits of the remarkable Ray Mears
The book of survivalist Ray Mears’s journey through Canada’s vast northern landscapes tells the story of the fur trade, More >
Rocky Road
Dec 22nd
Stan Abbott determines the bare necessities of walking in the wild Rockies…
Stan surveys the magnificent view from Skoki Lodge
Canadians have a tip about how to distinguish grizzly bear droppings from those of the less aggressive black bear – the grizzly’s are the ones with bells in.
Bear bells are supposed to be worn by humans hiking in grizzly country, the idea being that a grizzly hearing the bells will make itself scarce, because it would rather avoid an encounter with people than eat them.
Parks Canada publishes Bears and People, a helpful little guide for backpackers, which makes the casual understatement that More >
