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Posted by kutenay on May 19, 2008 at 4:50:18 pm EDT
In reply to knives and hiking posted by redpatch5 on May 4, 2008 at 10:00:14 pm EDT

No, the "Sasquatch" is only indigenous to B.C. and especially to the West Kootenays and certain parts of the Coast Range. I used to know old Johnny B. from Nelson, B.C. who claimed to have seen one up Lemon Creek in the Slocan, but, he "might" have been mistaken.......

So, I figure that Jim is probably part "Bigfoot" and I hear they DO drink "porchclimber", as we used to call vino when I was a lad......

I started with basic 19thC gear, an old WWI rucksack, jam can with candle inside and smelly old Brit. issue ground sheet, plus a goose down summer quilt that my grandmother brought as a girl from Norway at the time of the Klondike Goldrush.

We built brush shelters and cooked with an old frying pan my Grandfather brought home from WWI....worked just fine and we caught as many fish and shot our share of game...we DID use sheath knives a LOT and I think that some of these skills are well worth preserving.

In actual wilderness areas, tho', I am totally "no trace"and have been since the '60s, as even vast B.C. is "shrinking" as people pour in and " develop" the wilderness....gawd, I hate that!

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