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Yesterday a couple of friends and I went out to Falcon Trails Resorts at Falcon Lake, Manitoba to scout out the trails we will be using for a Mountain bike race we are hosting this year. These are mainly Nordic ski trails but double as mountain bike trails in the summer months so we are not cutting new trails just mapping out the trails we will be using.
This was not so much a hike as a walk in the woods, about 35 km when all was said and done, and and never anything more then 5k from the chalet. No big pack loaded down with gear, just water, food, fire kit, FAK, and a knife or two. Well ok I had 4 with me but I am a knife knut
. This was the first time this year that I have really been able to get out so one of the knives I took was the first knife I made to give it a bit of a testing.
It preformed flawlessly and I have to say I am proud of it now. It chopped sliced and battoned beautifully. Even shaved arm hairs after chopping through a 2X4 on edge. I can't take all the credit for that because I sent it out to knifemaker.ca to be HT and he hit the HT dead on:thumbup:
Unfortunately I didn't bring my camera with me because I wasn't expecting to see anything special or worth photographing. Well of course thats the time you see things a bit out of the ordinary. Yesterday while coming around a corner on the trail I look up and there not 10 feet in front of me at eye level was a Pileated Woodpecker coming in for a landing on a tree. this is the first time I have seen one in person, of all times not to have a camera. He even hung out for a bit and posed for us. He would stretch his neck out and look at us, peck the tree for a bit, move and do it all over again. Then about an hour later, this big shadow floats over us, we look up expecting to see a turkey vulture, but no, it a huge Bald Eagle circling at tree top level just above us. Trees out here don't get that big and we where walking through some Jack Pines at the time so he was close enough to be able to see his feathers shifting in the wind, just a beautiful and majestic sight. We also had a group of Whiskey Jack following us around towards the end of the day. We stopped and sat on a log to talk about what trails we were going to use and have a bit of trail mix and the Jacks dropped in to grab anything we dropped. I even has one try to take my finger up into the trees. I was leaning back and the Jack grabbed my index finger and tried to fly away with it, it was sort of like a dog running out of leash.
Although this wasn't a big hike if was a fun day and taught me an important leason, always have your camera with you and fully charged, you never know what you are going to see.
This was not so much a hike as a walk in the woods, about 35 km when all was said and done, and and never anything more then 5k from the chalet. No big pack loaded down with gear, just water, food, fire kit, FAK, and a knife or two. Well ok I had 4 with me but I am a knife knut
. This was the first time this year that I have really been able to get out so one of the knives I took was the first knife I made to give it a bit of a testing.
It preformed flawlessly and I have to say I am proud of it now. It chopped sliced and battoned beautifully. Even shaved arm hairs after chopping through a 2X4 on edge. I can't take all the credit for that because I sent it out to knifemaker.ca to be HT and he hit the HT dead on:thumbup:
Unfortunately I didn't bring my camera with me because I wasn't expecting to see anything special or worth photographing. Well of course thats the time you see things a bit out of the ordinary. Yesterday while coming around a corner on the trail I look up and there not 10 feet in front of me at eye level was a Pileated Woodpecker coming in for a landing on a tree. this is the first time I have seen one in person, of all times not to have a camera. He even hung out for a bit and posed for us. He would stretch his neck out and look at us, peck the tree for a bit, move and do it all over again. Then about an hour later, this big shadow floats over us, we look up expecting to see a turkey vulture, but no, it a huge Bald Eagle circling at tree top level just above us. Trees out here don't get that big and we where walking through some Jack Pines at the time so he was close enough to be able to see his feathers shifting in the wind, just a beautiful and majestic sight. We also had a group of Whiskey Jack following us around towards the end of the day. We stopped and sat on a log to talk about what trails we were going to use and have a bit of trail mix and the Jacks dropped in to grab anything we dropped. I even has one try to take my finger up into the trees. I was leaning back and the Jack grabbed my index finger and tried to fly away with it, it was sort of like a dog running out of leash.
Although this wasn't a big hike if was a fun day and taught me an important leason, always have your camera with you and fully charged, you never know what you are going to see.