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Mors Kochanski (November 10, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was a Canadian bushcraft and wilderness survival instructor, naturalist, and author.He acquired an international following and instructed for both military and civilians in Canada, the US, the UK and Sweden.
He is the author of A Guide to Canadian Wilderness Survival, [4] published by Liard Books [5] in 2017. Zawalsky guided his first backpacking group in the Rocky Mountains in 1981. In 1989, as part of a small six-person group in three canoes, he completed a 92-day 3,600 km canoe expedition between Rocky Mountain House, Alberta and Thunder Bay ...
Lynx Vilden is a British primitive survival expert known for her wilderness survival skills. [1] Vilden was born in London, England. [2] She moved to the United States at the age of 21. In the US, she changed her name to Lynx Vilden. [3] [4]
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Purpose-built shelters such as tents are commonly used in the wilderness. Tents can also be improvised from a large tarp or blanket. Indigenous shelters include a snow cave or bark lean-to. Natural shelters include caves, the space underneath a tree, or within thickets. [1] Knot-tying is an important bushcraft skill.
Environmental education programs are held during the fall, winter and spring, with students studying wilderness survival, plant and tree identification, basic hiking skills, animal tracking, the night sky, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing. Master builder of wood-and-canvas canoes Joe Seliga lived in Ely and was an instructor at the camp ...
The Backwoodsman, an American independent, bi-monthly print and digital magazine, is dedicated to the preservation of Old Frontier Living, with articles, information and how-to projects that explore primitive hunting and fishing, tools and weapons lore, wilderness survival and many other topics associated with this unique period of North American history.
The first issue of Backpacker appeared in the spring of 1973. The first editor's note written by William Kemsley, the founding editor, explains that it took three years to put together the first issue of Backpacker, and that the founding editors worried that America in the early 1970s did not contain a backpacking community large enough to support a magazine.