In Search Of Tenkara, By Daniel W. Galhardo, Founder Of Tenkara USA
www.tenkarausa.com I was clinging to mossy rock with half my body under a waterfall. Fifty feet below, the torrent crashed into a small basin sending mist into the air, keeping my companions soaked. Mr. Futamura, watched …
The Bear Essentials
For some of you, spring means gobbling toms, box calls and tightly patterned shotguns. But for those of us that live west of the foothills and peaks of the Rockies spring can also mean a …
Zen, Flow And Why We Hunt
Allow me to paint a picture for you. After a twenty plus hour drive followed by a long jetboat ride into some of the most remote country in Northern BC we were exhausted. We arrived …
Fueling The Engine
In last month’s Hunters Library selection we featured an excerpt from R.M. Patterson’s enthralling account of his adventures on the Nahanni River and it’s surrounding territory. If you did not get a chance to read …
Beyond The Kill At Sheep Show
As a member of multiple hunter conservationist organizations, I like to consider myself up to date on just how much time, energy and financial resources hunters actually put back into wildlife and their habitats. For …
Backcountry Worthy Snowshoes
There are few pieces of equipment as intertwined with the history of Northern wilderness adventure and travel as the snowshoe. For centuries they have allowed humans to travel through winter conditions that would otherwise have …
The Most Versatile Mountain Camo Pattern Part Two – Alpine Environment
In the second installment of our camo comparison we shot in very wet, overcast conditions in an alpine boulder field and scree slope. Here in BC there is often some greenery present well above 5,000 …
Pemmican – The Original Energy Bar
First developed by the Aboriginal peoples of North America, pemmican was quickly adopted by the voyageurs and trappers of the 18th and 19th centuries and eventually Arctic and Antarctic explorers both past and present. In …
The Most Versatile Mountain Camo Pattern Part One – An Objective Multi-Environment Comparison
The hunting apparel industry has evolved considerably over the past few years, nowhere more so than in the mountain hunting sub-segment. Technical fabrics designed to excel in higher output hunting scenarios have been combined with …