First Vikki goes ahead with a spade and shakes all the snow off and exposes the slide alders. Then Bryan comes with his chainsaw and cuts a path 20 wide and throws the branches off. This area of slide alders is about 300 feet across and you drop 40 feet in elevation.
After 3 days of real hard work...cutting and throwing off fallen dead logs, removing stumps, leveling the side hill....this is called The Second Drop...Bryan is 150 feet away and 70 feet higher than me. He is half way up the Second Drop, the rest heads up steeper to the right to the top of the hill. For the first 3 trips down and back up this Drop Bryan had to move both the skidoos. Yesterday Vikki finally had the guts to climb up the Drop on her skidoo. But going down is another thing. By the time you are at the bottom you are flying....you can't apply the brakes or your skidoo will go sideways and start to roll.
after slide alders have been exposed...still need to be cut and throw
Wolverine
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That is a lot of work for sled rides, but it sure looks like fun. Does the wolverine live in your home with you? It looks small, is it very young?
ReplyDeletegads !! that's really a nice one... 50 years in northern Wisconsin and I've only seen one for a few minutes...
ReplyDeleteHello TechnoBabe... if that Wolverine was alive it would tear our nice cabin apart...It's probably a one to 2 year old.
ReplyDeleteyes...this one has beautiful colour. Wolverine hunt in the day time....looking for sign of Ravens so they know where a kill has been made. BC has a big population of Wolverine
ReplyDeleteEven just 10 years ago it was a rare occasion to spot a wolverine in the mountains around where I live... Now there are 5-10 sightings each winter, most likely about a half dozen individuals - in a fairly small area.
ReplyDeleteHey trappers do you cut new trails every winter and leave older ones to be more productive when you go back to them? Falling trees with snow on them is cold work when it dump,s a load down your neck . Grand wolverine ,nothing like that here in scotland .Our largest predator,s are foxes then a small scottish wildcat ,mink ,wildferrets , stoat ,weasels then other than rats thats it ! take care on the trails keep safe. BRIAN :)
ReplyDeleteJust to let you know I'm here in Boston, and I look forward to your blog entries.
ReplyDeleteHi Brian....the trapper in the late 90's had skidooed down the creek into the Inklin...making snow bridges. We used the creek route 2 winters but it was far too dangerous. Water falls 20 feet.etc. This year we are making a new trail 200 feet about the creek...only have 1 1/2 km of the 7 km distance to go. We are lucky that Wolverine are not 90 lbs...with their temperament it would not be safe to be out in the bush. Bryan also told me to tell you that there are no tree plantations for 1600 km from us. Also a helicoptor could not haul one of our big trees the 100 km to the nearest road. We are in the Pacific Coast Rain forest. some cotton wood are 5 feet across the butt.
ReplyDeleteMargaret from Boston.... glad to know you are out there.
ReplyDeletefireweedroots...this wolverine is about 3 years old. While skinning it we found that it had big 3" cuts down it's nose to lips...month old wounds...probably from another wolverine or wolf. These are really festy animals.
ReplyDeleteKilling animals who aren't asking anything but to be left alone.
ReplyDeleteHello - what is your mission? What are you trying to accomplish?
lars kullberg
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Hello Lars Kullberg from Sweden. First we have to ask you a question. What do you do to feed yourself and your family and also how big has your footprint been? Once we know that we will gladly have this conversation with you. Respectfully.
ReplyDeletelars Kullberg of Sweden... Our response to you is called Why We Trap Furs..Dec 12, 2011
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