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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada: February 2015

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada. Nicole Lischewski's Wilderness Blog. About my wilderness blog. Saturday, February 14, 2015. And then there were two. My four months of solitude ended on Thursday in a cloud of whipped up snow and rotor noise as the helicopter set down in our meadow and my partner, veggies, antibiotics for my chronic tonsillitis and (unfortunately) the flu tumbled out. I’m usually struck dumb when I meet people again for the first time in months and stand mutely with a big a g...

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada: January 2016

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada. Nicole Lischewski's Wilderness Blog. About my wilderness blog. Tuesday, January 19, 2016. Laundry challenges of the northern kind. It’s only when they’re finally dry that I feel happy about the whole procedure. I sneak little whiffs of clean-smelling clothes aroma as I put them away in the closet, avoiding thoughts of the already growing new mountain of dirty laundry. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Laundry challenges of the northern kind. Living simply in Alaska.

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada: October 2016

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada. Nicole Lischewski's Wilderness Blog. About my wilderness blog. Monday, October 31, 2016. It takes a village to raise a bear. Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter. Sunday, October 16, 2016. And have been crazy busy helping to look after 36 black bear cubs, three fawns, a cougar and lynx at Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter. While finishing up my translation of Robert McCammons "Speaks the Nightbird" in my spare time and writing a couple of newspaper columns. Skagway is a...

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada: 2014

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada. Nicole Lischewski's Wilderness Blog. About my wilderness blog. Sunday, December 21, 2014. We’re slop bucket people. Our kitchen sink drains into a bucket, circumventing the problem of frozen drains and a steady draft of frigid air in the winter. I’ve implemented the same system in the shower – my boyfriend had the idea to use a small box instead of a bucket so the tub wouldn’t sit so high. Works great! I hadn’t been able to make up my mind what to make the wa...

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada: November 2016

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada. Nicole Lischewski's Wilderness Blog. About my wilderness blog. Thursday, November 17, 2016. Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter. Monday, November 7, 2016. Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter. Thursday, November 3, 2016. A long journey for a small bear. Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A long journey for a small bear. Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter. Teaching school in remote Alaska. Living simply in Alaska. Bush Life on Great Slave Lake.

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada: November 2015

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada. Nicole Lischewski's Wilderness Blog. About my wilderness blog. Wednesday, November 4, 2015. Of barefoot shoes and suffocation hazards. I’ve been wearing homemade moccasins for the last two summers and figured barefoot shoes in all their plastic glory would be great to switch to when the going gets wet, because my moosehide moccasins turn into amorphous leather bags in rain and on wet ground. I found Vivobarefoot’s hideously coloured Trailfreak. On sale and from all...

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada: April 2015

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada. Nicole Lischewski's Wilderness Blog. About my wilderness blog. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Mis)adventures in food dehydration. Fast-forward a decade and a half:. No, it’s not out of control slime mould, it’s – yogurt! Behold my terribly unsuccessful attempt at drying it. Well, it dried alright and clung to the baking sheet with a vengeance (you’re supposed to dry it on parchment paper, but that’s not exactly easy to come by around here). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada: September 2016

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada. Nicole Lischewski's Wilderness Blog. About my wilderness blog. Friday, September 23, 2016. It meant a lot of headache and getting incomprehensible answers to probably extremely stupid questions, but as you see I did manage to move my website – yay! Goodbye for now, wilderness life . Log cabin, lake and mountains . My sweet porcupine …. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter. Teaching school in remote Alaska. Living simply in Alaska.

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada: December 2016

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Words and Images from Subarctic Canada. Nicole Lischewski's Wilderness Blog. About my wilderness blog. Thursday, December 29, 2016. NLWS: The hibernation station. Chiselling frozen bear poop off the ground in below -20° temperatures is a fine art I am only beginning to master. It’s all a matter of whacking it from the right angle, with the right force. Superglue is nothing compared to this. If some of the underweight cubs we are continuing to feed put on enough weight, they could still hibernate for a co...