Well Preserved

Today is the longest shortest post we’ve written. Your comments during the hunting posts have been astounding – many are blob posts in their own right.  Comments are so often missed by most as they read an article and move on (which I understand) and some of the best content here is written by others.  [...]

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I’ve posted for 10 days on our hunt – today`s post will take us over 15,000 words.  It`s been quite the journey – both the one I experienced in the bush and the one I went through as I chronicled the adventure here. As explained before the posts went live, they are published exactly one-week [...]

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It was an early departure this morning.  We woke up around 7:00AM, packed the truck quickly and then cleaned around the camp before hitting the road by 9:00AM.  I was back in Toronto just after noon. I have hunted for 15 years or so now.  I have been to the cabin many other times than [...]

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Friday (possibly last day of the moose hunt) Morning came fast again.  It felt like it was only a few hours between suddenly cooking 2 pounds of bacon and needing to gear up and rush into the cold.  Of course these things feel worse than they actually are – we actually had about 4.5 hours [...]

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Thursday, October 21 Things were getting tense today.  We`re all getting along but 3 hunters have had to leave yesterday and 11 of us are left with one moose to show for our efforts.  It`s not that we won`t be happy with one but the months of work that goes into a single week and [...]

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Wednesday, October, 20 I woke up excited this morning.  Sleepy but definitely excited.  Mostly sleepy – but there was some excitement in there. The watchers were going back to the same area they sat yesterday morning – but the doggers are swinging around to different starting point.  And that starting point has me excited… We [...]

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Tuesday Morning, Oct 19. 7:45AM We started today with a blustery 5 kilometer drive on the ATVs.  The only light for miles came from the headlights of our vehicles.  I am huddled on a skidder trail (a skidder is a piece of specialized logging equipment that is similar to a snow plow for a forest [...]

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Monday Morning (Oct 18) 7:00AM Cold and barely light.  Alarm went off at 5.30.  We`re sitting still untill the doggers start moving at 9:00am.  I`ll be in the same spot past 11 or so this morning when we are planning to meet for a bush lunch. 7.40AM Watch beside me just called for a moose.  [...]

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Sunday is, in some ways, the longest day of the week. There`s a lot of time to kill and you can`t hunt.  You also don`t want to party too hard as tomorrow morning will come every earlier than yesterday or today.  There`s a bit of an excited tension weaving it`s way through camp and we`ll [...]

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Morning came way too fast – and she arrived with a lot of chaos. To explain the eruption that started my day I’ll need to rewind to the last moments of the previous evening. After finishing my journal entry I closed my book, secured it with the magnetic clasp that bound it and sealed it [...]

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