by Troy Gaylord | Nov 27, 2014 | Tips, Tricks & Skills, Videos
This is one of those tips that can change the way you do something everyday for the rest of your life! It’s a little thing, but it’s pretty cool. Here I show you how to do what you’ve been doing all your life, tying your shoes but with a spin on it...
by Troy Gaylord | Feb 6, 2011 | Tips, Tricks & Skills, Videos
Here I demonstrate how to make a spoon by carving and using a coal burning technique to make the bowl. It’s shot during an evening on location in Algonquin Provincial Park during an eight day solo trip on an island in Lac Lavielle with my dog Maddy.
by Troy Gaylord | May 17, 2009 | Tips, Tricks & Skills, Videos
This is a method I use all the time for storing thin rope which is great for tarp lines. It’s fast, easy and best of all it keeps the rope from becoming a tangled mess.
by Troy Gaylord | Mar 23, 2009 | Tips, Tricks & Skills, Videos
This is a demonstration and description of the very useful Siberian Hitch knot. I’d have to say this is the knot I tie the most. Mainly because I use it to put up my tarp. It can be tied around trees very quickly and can even be tied with mitts on, making it...
by Troy Gaylord | Jan 3, 2009 | Tips, Tricks & Skills, Videos
This is the process I go through when starting a fire with my firesteel and birch bark. In the areas I travel birch is generally easy to come by and it makes for great tinder. There are other things you can use such as mashed up dry grass, fluffed up cedar bark,...
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