CARIBOW WILD MOUNTAIN TOURS

The love of the wilderness and being outside has always made up a big part of my life – the craving of my existence. Ever since I was a young child, a day has never gone by that I don’t think about the outdoors, o

The love of the wilderness and being outside has always made up a big part of my life – the craving of my existence. Ever since I was a young child, a day has never gone by that I don’t think about the outdoors, or I am involved with it in some way or another. I live, work, play and even sleep outside. At the age of 17, I couldn’t take the confinement of the civilized theme any more and I headed north to Northwest Territories; the following spring to the Yukon and Northern B.C. I was going to live in the bush and become a trapper. So that’s what I did for the next 9 years. In addition to the work, I met my soulmate, a seasoned trapper after whom I named my son. However, I wanted to experience and live in the wilderness by myself with my dog Oona, so I would trap on a fly-in mountain line from October to January, snowshoeing to and from the cabins that my partner and I had built together. I brought in no radio, and said to the pilot, “See you in 3 months.” I loved it. There were many challenges, but it was raw and free. After that, my partner and I would come back together and live and trap until April on his line. Other than the mountain line, we did everything together until he passed of cancer in 1989.