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[northernbushape]

Hi everyone. Very happy to have found this forum and I look forward to learning from others here and sharing my own knowledge.

My entire life has been lived around wilderness and back country exploration. I am easily as at home in the woods as I am in the my house.

I am an experienced tracker and practitioner of bushcraft (for lack of proper title) and I love to explore and find those hidden lakes and streams back in the mountains. Most weekends I can be found in my Jeep on some remote 4x4 trail looking for a new place to camp. Even on weekdays I am usually in my back yard after work pretending I am in the woods

Thanks for making this site available.

[Adventurelover]

Welcome! What exactly is bushcraft? I have always wanted to travel to British Columbia, I bet there is so much there to explore. What animals have you seen when you were out and about?

[northernbushape]

Hi Adventurelover, Bushcraft is a loose term applied to all those little primitive skills like matchless fire-making, shelter-making, creating useful items from nothing more than what nature provides for you. If you became lost or otherwise stranded in the wilds, these are the primitive skills that will help you survive your ordeal. Bushcraft also includes finding water sources, plant usage, foraging, trapping / hunting, and pretty much any other wilderness survival skills.

BC is indeed a lot to explore! I can spend a lifetime here and never see it all.

As far as animals, I have seen pretty much everything out there from small critters like rabbits, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, porcupines etc. to medium sized - bobcats, lynx, coyotes, wolves, mountain lions, wolverines etc. and a lot of larger animals - black bear and grizzlies, moose, deer, elk, mountain sheep, goats and so forth.

There is so much wildlife here that you would have to be either very noisy or very distracted to not see something pretty much any time you leave the pavement. The most common large animal I encounter by far is black bears.

[jason]

Greetings and salutations. How are things in British Columbia? The tracking part sounds interesting. I tried in the woods when I was a kid, but never got far into it. I do not know if you get Mantracker over there (which would surprise me because I think he is from the area), but it is a show where you get to watch him track down two people in the woods before they hit a finish line. Love that show, and have learned a lot.

The area sounds great though. Looking forward to seeing you around on the site.

[northernbushape]

Hey Jason, thanks for the welcome. I have seen almost every episode of Mantracker lol. It would be a lot tougher for the contestants if he were not so limited in how he is allowed to ply his trade.

I look forward to reading the posts and getting in on some conversations.

Great site!