When we stopped to hook up with buddy Floyd he had to show us his moose and caribou kill from last fall. Nice specimens both.

When I was a kid in hay river there was a vibrant fishing industry and shipping industry. Now both are severely downsized







Now about the only way to get on the water is crossing the Ft Simpson or Wrigley ferry.

I stopped off at one of my old trapline cabins. it's been 30 years and it hasn't fared so well. Someone cut the walls up for firewood years ago and the cabin collapsed






But my old table looks pretty good still considering it's been outside




However the radio is not looking so good

NWT looks like a nice place.

Just remember Ryan I took a pee in the McKenzie River at the Wrigley crossing and you're down river!

I stopped in Ft Providence to perhaps go fishing with my buddy Louis but the rain kept us off the river.



I love this shot of the ravens with Providence church in background.

Young ravens are learning to fly right now, I saw at least three dead beside the road. They smarten up fast though.

It felt good to be back in the mountains along the North Nahanni river. We went over a 100 miles deep and saw some rough and beautiful country. Even very few locals go this far back. One of the local guys Bob that was with us had just spent 3 days floating back to to civilization when his boat crapped out up on the Root River the week before. the same river I went on with them the year before.







Our first nights camp

There is a lot of the gemstone Jasper in the area and i collected a bunch






I bought a different kind of grill which worked pretty good over the coals

One of the best parts of returning to NWT is being with friends who are still living as traditional a life as is possible these days. I'm fascinated and in awe of the knowledge it would take to exist in this land without modern comforts. And I believe I'm witnessing the last of the generation who have that direct connection going back thousands of years.

Even a kid today who is being brought up in the old ways, knows that there is more out there and technology exists. When my buddy Floyd grew up with his grandparents they lived liked their people before them. Better guns and fish nets perhaps but same technology. Even still using bows.

So when Floyd sees a moose on the river..it gets his attention




And when its a young bull moose it gets his full attention




leading to a whole lot of work and great rewards to this First nation hunter

very nice Bushman ! great pictures and your right on point being one of the last generations to see people live truly from nature !

Spectacular

Thanks. We saw a lot of animal life along the way.



Lots of bears on the road right of ways



Bison bulls are alone or with other bachelors right now

The cows and calves were all grouped up together




Got to watch a lynx prowl along a creek

A couple scenes from a small isolated community Jean Marie River





I bet there's an interesting story behind this muskox

Great pics Bushman.

Yes great pictures and the story's that go with them are great to.

Glad to live in a country where this life still goes on...but for how much longer?

A big draw back home is the fishing. The nahanni was running like chocolate milk and the water was too low to access Little Doctor lake so we headed up a tributary of the mckenzie looking for pickerel / walleye. I managed to limit out and bring a meal home for my large family.

we caught a bunch of pike as well

Perfect eating size pickerel,bushman.