Saturday, February 27, 2010

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8. The first trace


In winter everything is way.

Still, for those traveling by dogsled, the path already traced the path and to do the same. If the first is fast, the second is slow and uncertain. Open a path can be a work harass the work of former mushers earlier era bomber. After this

week the Nitassinan received a thick layer of heavy snow and malleable, it took us reopen the paths one by one. For us, the snowfall, the promise of sweat and rage passenger, was an opportunity to rediscover the old ways. The roads to be done.

Call has worked hard to help us, dogs, my people and me, we go to the camp of Trapper. This path, which in cold weather requires only a short time, then seemed to stretch continuously.

I installed a line of six dogs, Chinook left alone at the bar, preceded and mashk Khufu -the latter being in requalification training-of Kameroun and Keffi , and of course Call ahead.
Some mushers chose to team with big powerful dogs, capable of digging trenches in the snow while pulling the sled, it's not my case. I chose the top Call, and with it the tone of a dog lighter, more complete. And if I really enjoy to see this energy to work on open road, much snow, we must adapt.

Adaptation means detaching the guide dog and remote make it the first trace to swallow up the others. Call as it is not combined, it did not feel the urge or the other tangled in her legs tug line. An exercise that begins to control, exercise, especially, who begins to please him.

When talking about dogs physiological adaptation to living in the North, is often mentioned their physical or their frugality. There is also the hair, not only for its insulating role. Call and
Khufu have a very poor quality hair. In this heavy wet snow in late winter, they make large balls of snow that will stick around their legs and lestent.

Periodically, the pace slowed and Call sets off for the snowball as big as the head of a puppy. And often I have to approach me for help, nothing beats a push to accelerate the binding process.
Once freed from its shackles, the dog sets off for galot leading others with him. Still, this work is exhausting and it happened to call to get discouraged. We have seen once or twice, turn around, cross coupling, to settle in the bar, the place left vacant near Chinook. He settled there in the attitude of the working dog even though it is not arnaché!

So I'm amused and asked him to start giving him a front ! which is both reassuring and dynamic. And the dog off again until the next ice legs ...

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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7. Matches


For an uninitiated eye, the boreal forest is the infinite green canopy that extends to 58 ° parallel. Following is the Arctic, rocks, moss and lichen.

dint of spending time in the woods, his eyes sharpened. One notices first mega layouts forest, forests where hardwoods dominate one side, where they reign supreme conifers other.
Then, other arrangements, more subtle, as it distinguishes the coniferous needles, their trunks. The presence of larch and fir balsam tells us wetlands under the snow, the pine limit of a bog.
And then there are the dead trees as well. Because ecosystems have a history, dead trees tell us about past changes. Here is a shot of windfalls brought down a cover of spruce, where they are Mercator who flooded gully.

Following the short of water that has regained its bed, we found a roadblock abandoned. And upstream, perhaps, a new dam. The old site will be frequented by moose, again by the geese. So many

Matches . In the forest, I often think of this poem by Baudelaire.

Man passes there through forests of symbols
Who watch him with familiar glances.

is a familiar idea in Nitassinan , rarer in Europe, where humans have shaped territory with its measurement. A territory made by him and for him, countries groves, fields and forests. There were forests been manufactured to meet a need for profitability. They are clean, clear, often monospecific.

Here we still find some of these arrangements that are still viable biotic communities. On Nitassinan , we know that the chaos of dead trees piled up is a promise of future life. Eating insects, flickers, foxes, bears. A whole world will feast corpses mossy spruce and pine and fill the compost humming, singing and growling.

Like long echoes that mingle from afar

(...)

fragrances, colors and sounds respond.

The hunter in search of game learn to play these matches. He learns to see trampled on blueberries bear the imprint on the wave of a lake reflects the plants that will feed the moose in the flight of crows the presence of a corpse abandoned by wolves .

These ideas already familiar to the hunter-gatherers of the Paleo-America are found the secret of poets, painters and scientists of the 19th century. The Henckel, Courbet, Baudelaire, Gravelle, Muir, new hunter-gatherers who harvested while in full triumph of modernity harvest was talking about aesthetics Aldo Leopold.

They knew before the others see as chaos and barbarism of plant and animal lives, layout and language to decipher.
This language is no longer a foreign language for those living in the forest, although most of us still do that stammer. I do not personally know anyone who is able to survive in a sustainable forest as it did a century ago still people Nitassinan .
is that although animal itself, the human West has forgotten his mother tongue. There are those who appropriates the through long meditations by a solid ecology and others who learn to free itself, at least temporarily, softness and comfort of civilization to feel the wild vagaries of life.

There are perfumes fresh as children's flesh,
Sweet as oboes, green like prairies,
- And others, corrupt, rich and triumphant, Having the

expand into infinity,
Like amber, musk, benzoin and incense, Which sing
transport of the mind and senses.

In these, the intoxication of plant and animal scents!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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Handsome "Self Titled" (1997 - Sony)

Composed of ex-Helmet guitarist Peter Mengede, ex-guitarist Tom Capone Quicksand, Pete Hines Cro-Mags drummer, bassist Eddie Nappi and vocalist Jeremy Chatelain, known as being the bassist of Jets To Brazil then Helmet. Handsome is the "supergroup" of the late 90s, a sort of "dream team" hardcore assembled at this upscale and unique self-titled album.

Produced in 1997 in Seattle by veteran Terry Date, "Handsome" is a must-have album for anyone interested in the 90's because it is emblematic of rock fever and frank the collar of the time, while that from flirting with hardcore and metal was nevertheless full of melodic claims. To be classified in the same family as Far, Handsome, is precise, powerful, groovy, very focused on the big riffs and breaks well and felt it sounds mostly always excellently, "popis" some say ...

Handsome run extensively to promote this album throughout 1997. In 1998, Tom Capone quit the group and will be briefly replaced by Donni Campion of Electric Love Hogs. Handsome eventually disbanding in 1998 without being able to deliver a second album with Sony.

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