Friday, January 8, 2010

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missing a season 4. Find the routine way

They say a good start is essential in sled dogs. We did what needed to anticipate the galley and prepare to start and then when it happens, it is made same.

Life with dogs has nothing to do with science, at most, know-how improvement. And when we believe happened, good enough for any cash, there are surprises. It is the effect weekend . It is a guide, we manage the boat and when comes the weekend, it offered an outlet not only of himself. We take dogs into believing they want to override the natural enmity of the kennel. And we go on hoping to have fun and find ourselves to the discipline throughout the day. I had lived two or three times last winter, I lived with my folks this winter.

It is not always easy to trace the chain of (bad) decisions that lead to living one of those days where you end up in separate fights repeatedly, screaming in the snow, to lose patience. Initially, there is often a departure went wrong.

A departure, especially at the kennel is too full of animal energy that comes from seeking our own animal. It is a disorder of the inner compass by a sensory explosion of noise and smells of dogs that need attention, or who seek to provoke. Those who are used to calm reasoning will be destabilized by the time we live .
is the time of the encounter between the dogs and mushers apprentice, a moment of shared excitement. And the excitement is contagious ... The dogs start showing their desire to leave, sometimes try to start before the musher is installed in the hope of doubling the sled front. It is a mud pot, the lid trembles, be careful that the content does not overflow. For humans, this canine excitement mingled with the musher posturing can lead to stress.

Sometimes things do not happen as we would in the first meters. The apprentice mushers try to remember, point by point, what was said. Stories brake, deadman, the words to say to the dogs, etc.. The dogs, who are real pros, generally react properly. Generally. In the opposite case, the apprentice mushers, who care about dogs, are sorry and stress generated faded more about dogs.


The basic survival instinct of every human being is to blame others: dogs or people. As a guide, we can not close our eyes. If dogs do not react properly, is that the learner mushers have made too many mistakes, and if the apprentice mushers have made mistakes, is that the guide had not been anticipated and / or failed to explain and / or over-estimated the capacity of its people. In short, there is a justice to see him screaming his despair in the snow.

And when came the first manifestation of the law the bitch up must find a plan to end the crisis and prioritize objectives:
1. Ensure human safety
2. Preserve the health of dogs
3. Household equipment
Amid expedition, when we found in remote areas, cordiality and well-session passes immédiatemment secondary. Decisions are made, and it is better that they be good.

This week, the law of the pain in the ass maximum started with a hitch in the tangled stake-out on departure. Dogs stuck together, looking at the sled from the front, feeling the sled approaching from behind. And then the effect stack: a modified trailer that morning, bringing two friends who are not coupled together for several months. Not quite an essay, but almost. Hence the mechanical
implacable law of and the first fight twenty yards after the lines untangled.

First bad decision on my part: a robust intervention where there have been more diplomatic. Ouchka Skouta jumped on the wrong foot because it had stressed. In short, nothing personal and I reacted as if this was a manifestation of dominance. He needed that reassures him, not to hear him scream a musher in the ears.

result, new fighting hundred yards away. Context switch, the commitment is tougher this time, I fear for Skouta so I chose once again robust intervention. Can I separate the two dogs and returns Skouta a little magan at its original place alongside his brother ... it jumps over two miles away. It is oddly

a dog's head Nordic! Ca group think, always. It feels the intensity of a hybrid collective act of humans, dogs and squirrels moaners who inveigh passers from the highest branches spruce. Gandhi said Be the change you want to see in the world , I'd be energy you want to see in your dogs . And that day, the energy was wrong from the outset.

begins a race against time. Time passes and distills the bad energy, then we must stretch this time for the wrong kind of energy heads. Must register the dog in the quiet routine of the road, which is very difficult to do when one is engaged on a track to open, snow up above the knees, sweating, sweating profusely, jersey and pants soaked, dog head half buried in snow. More difficult to do even when you're like me, a musher too demanding, too impatient, grumpy when everyone (humans and dogs involved) does not work in the same direction. And the time that elapses, pushes up the pace to find an open path, a frozen lake, anything that allows dogs and humans to return to the routine way.

The path has been found before that things really get tough. The end of the runway ridges leading to Pike Lake and from there, the cross and the path of the kennel. There were subsequently other incidents and some sores, but time is elongated and eventually take its toll.

We spend a lot of time and energy to avoid having to live one of those days too stressful leaving marks on the bodies and minds. And which requires above all a good slagging the Cereal Monogamist, both physical and moral point. When we ended up living one of those days, you know why it has reason to be overly prescriptive and sometimes grumpy at times of departures. Like the vast majority of them do not experience major hiccups, we go for a cranky pessimist - it is always milder than going to an incompetent.

second lesson, physical coercion, even when necessary, is never a solution. Sometimes you bang your fist to preserve the health of dogs fighting, but when you are led to such ends is that it has failed in its role as an educator of dogs. The calm brought by force is of short duration. Forty seconds or two minutes of quiet that gives us the blow should be immediately put to use otherwise the bad energy will continue to creep into their heads, threatening animals and even humans.

time mushers brutal and vicious dogs are gone. The era Leisure and adventure activities are peaceful relations. And we still have to pacify these relationships. It is the job of humans. As mushers, behavioral science and our experience helps us, it must also be able to reform itself. Be more patient, more understanding, grow calm inside. Most would agree that some guys are going to earn their crust in the woods do not necessarily have natural dispositions in these areas. Personally, I started practicing meditation, but again I must find the routine way.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

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3. Call the Collet

Kohl. Call. Col. Whatever, he can neither read nor write. Call is my lead dog, I am told by Gilles and with whom I guide Aventuraid.

Two years since we work together. At first I had associated with his brother Kiff. They formed with Keffi Kawa and a team of four brothers, driving efficient, energetic, but dropped me Kiff. The work on the sled head was too demanding, too stressful. And neither he, nor call, not taking their responsibilities. So after a few weeks of depression, Kiff has finally found his place behind Call and became my lead dog.
Keffi and was found associated with Kameroun. Four northern bastards, four wonderful dogs who mashk associated with, the baby of the year, a team formed in 2010 incredibly colorful and enthusiastic.


To Call, the wood is Viet Nam. An important commitment, stressful, demanding, but also a world where he is irreplaceable. He drives the sled after him the whole caravan of mushers and dogs involved in the area. It is he who sets the pace, he will find ways. More than any other, it reigns over my mood. I owe my happiness, I owe him my troubles. So to call the return to life at the kennel is synonymous with rest, but also of normality. At the beginning of winter 2010, it surprises me to lag behind when going home. When he feels that is engaged on the way back, it looks for alternatives. Another path open to us, he tried. I do not know whether he will keep that spirit throughout the winter, but I see him so combative.

Last week we left the camp trapper, David Lake, to get to the Hut of Trout Lake trail through the ridges. The day was beautiful. I, European immigration, I guided a family of Quebecers themselves immigrants New Brinswick and waiting for a fresh start to the antipodes. The weather was not cold, sunny, perfect for embarking on this demanding track.
We have only the first part of the track, the second has not yet been opened. Shortly after leaving the lake Phiran, we mark a trail trap to win the lake trout. In the middle of the road that Call has set foot on a snare hare lying on the road. The owner of the collar typically installed away from the road, this one came under the leg of my dog. Panic, both for the dog to me. I held the line stroke with one hand, the leg of another dog, so I had to be assisted by Maude, eldest daughter of the family, to clinch the crown. More fear than harm, in the end.

All this reminded me of another story told Gilles, about Belle, a bitch that I knew when I arrived in Aventuraid. A fearful dog and a little painful. Regularly, he sometimes knitting big knot in the line of respect by wanting to fight with her neighbors in front or behind. That day, Gilles was sent walking. She watched, detached, the group sled, ferreting right, left. And then she disappeared. Gilles was in vain to call, without success. The dog was still missing.
the days passed, with no trace of the bitch, until a neighbor trapper called to say he had trapped a strange wolf. Fearful, the dog was lying down when she felt the collar will tighten around his neck. Then she no longer moved. The trapper, who knew the wolves did not let abused. He recognized the dog and its owner tried.

These two stories show that trapping and sled are not necessarily compatible, and these two activities are not necessarily incompatible either. And if I would have good reason to be against the door, I also understand his interest and pleasure associated with this activity.
In our trappers are still numerous, a part of our territory is located in the same trap Indian reservation. The hatch, called sequestration in Europe, remains an art, in the sense that the success of the activity involves experience and knowledge of wildlife. It is also a means of environmental control of species. New Zealand National Parks officers frequently trappent foxes and weasels that threaten populations of kiwis, Wekas of Kakas and all species threatened by the invasion of predators hair from Europe or America.

However, the trap can earn the title of art, it has to be practiced with any ethical restraint required. Household endangered species, regularly visit the lines to spare the prey a long agony, to protect other land users, those with two legs and those, like Call on all fours. And then he is also the question of the equipment used. Some collars, bearing retainers, can target their prey and to save others. Call would have liked him also that the neck is fitted with a stopper, perhaps he would have been less painful. Fortunately, such accidents are still rare. Trappers who use our trail, and those we frequent the trail, generally well anticipate these situations. We are after all not so many wood, every grain of dust in the great boreal forest, and to each other and know the necessity of coexistence.

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2. The territory

I work on Nitassinan .
It is generally said that Canadians have little history and a lot of geography. It's actually the opposite. In Canada, as Quebec, there is no shortage of stories or genealogy. Indian legends, stories of colonization, family stories, baffles steeples. However, there is a more approximate idea of public land that extends north. Intertwining paths of wood, animal feeling, portages, rivers, canoe, trail or trails of trappers Snowmobile or dog sled. Many lakes have forgotten their names, others have two or three, some have never been and never will.

This territory, called the Innu Nitassinan . It stretched from the southern Lake Piekogami the treeline, the Ashapmushuan Labrador territory Naskapi. It is a big part of the Canadian Shield that covers it.


a northern land, old threadbare by massive glaciers, carved by great rivers, covered with spruce, aspen, birch and jack pine. Those who have never lived on the Nitassinan feel that one must fear the winter, spring and in fact its clouds of black flies are sometimes more intimidating.


The Innu have learned to live, like the Cree, Attikameks and all other Algonquian tribes. They went up north for the winter hunt and trap, and came home to live the summer near the mouths rivers.

When, like me, there is outdoor guide in the boreal forest, you get used to equip themselves to meet any emergency. The material is sturdy, light, cheap and they usually impress our people with excellent equipment, often quite expensive and not always well suited to this environment. However, I do not feel proud of how I cope with my ax in the forest, saw my tape and my gray. I often think of those who were returning Nitassinan wood in the fall with something other than the ones they were wearing. Some skins, knife beaver-tooth and a stone-working skin.
For these people, neither winter nor summer, were a threat, the forest was their home, both homes, groceries and hardware. The Innu have created a culture here that is a true model of adaptation and collaboration with its environment, a culture diametrically opposed to ours which has so often need to clear up before moving.

My summer range, are the rivers. In summer, the forest is not always welcoming.
Sometimes in old growth forest, spruce and pine are sufficiently spaced so that we will feel welcome in other places, dirty wood make almost impenetrable forest. And then the land is interspersed with rivers, lakes, ravines, where the trunks of windfalls lying form green walls. Who wants to travel in the forest in this season, walking paths are the best routes. And then on the water, black flies and mosquitoes leaving the traveler to travel in peace. My
paths, this is the Mistassini River with boulders, the Samaaqua the Ouesimesca and sometimes even Mistassibi River to big waves. With the River Rats, the Mycosis, rivers and Butterfly Gervais they form the watershed of the Mistassini that drains into Lake Saint-Jean.

My territory of winter it is between Mistassini River Rats, mainly in free territory. The concept of free territory is unknown in Europe. These are lands that belong to someone of their own, everyone collectively. You can take a concession, but not buy the land itself. For a guide to outdoor activities, is the ability to draw, within the reasonable resources needed: dead wood for heating, water from lakes and rivers, fish at .


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1. Wood-burning


125 years of the death of Louis Riel day.

And yesterday northwest infinite and French who refused cadastre English.

The Métis lived in the old Northwest Territories, the afterlife of Upper Canada. Of French and Indian mixed as the British have been there when they took possession of the country. They were called the Den Burn, faces brown and dirty, blackened in the sun, tanned by the cold. They spoke Métchif, French and Aboriginal languages intermingled. They were buffalo hunters, outfitters, trappers, farmers sometimes they lived according to customs inherited from both wood and people of the clergy.

When the British wanted to repeal the cadastral rules inherited from the former regime and their mark on the territory, steal the best land, those of the Red River, Manitoba, revolted. They chased the surveyors and the Crown has made them the war.
After an initial defeat, Métis retreated still further west. Qu'Appelle, Assiniboine, Saskatchewan - the latter in 1904 give his name to a new Province. And even in the West, the settlers came. The English first with their register. The French with their language and their church, the very one who had condemned the first revolt. Once again the Wood Burns wanted to talk about the powder against the army. And 125 years ago, history was folded and Louis Riel hanged.

Today nothing has changed. Those cadastre, the extent, dams, mines, forest conquerors are still there. In Quebec, they speak more English, but French. Tomorrow they may speak Chinese or Hindi. But whatever the language they understand. For them land is a resource. They do not see that protect the tops of spruce, on the shores of lakes, there is a land that is also a living place for humans and animals involved.

We, we chose the forest, but the city comes to us. She sends us his surveyors, to measure the flow of our falls, assess the potential of forests, digging holes in the earth to extract some minerals. The city promised us jobs but keeps to the southern high-value jobs. For those in the north, sweat and seasonal unemployment.

This blog is to discuss the forest and my job as a guide to the outdoors. Those who pose a finger on the map does not know that under the green card hiding families, businesses, a rich fauna. They do not always understand that under the plain green of the topography is in fact hides a monochrome green as it is a spruce, pine trees, a forest of aspen, a former bog or larch. They see only the forest roads, they do not know the "walking paths", nor do know that winter in the boreal forest, everything becomes way. The snow and ice cover kalmias and alder brush and what was becoming way.

Image: Ouasiemisca River, under the Quick Serres, a December 1, 2009, photo by Jerome and Wi-Wi.