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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

Got Fat?

The human brain functions exclusively on glucose (sugar) and this is what fuels (pun intended) the misconception that sugar is one of the best energy boosting nutrients. When you need energy quickly a fast digesting,

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