Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474

Usually, longer pine boughs etc. leaned toward a centre point, sometimes tied with some baling twine, then snow thrown over everything. Kept as small as practical, you could be safe from a blizzard and be out of the wind. We cheated a bit; on trips, we usually also carried a Sterno can or two and a piece of plastic tarp.

I was taught how to make a Kuinzee by some of my FN friends and I made a couple over the years to demonstrate to other snowmobilers although we used more cedar or pine branches for wall and roof support.

We tried that one year, to drain the pond, covering our road into the camp. The hunt camp's "expert" had brought along some Industrial strength stuff, which he placed as far under the drier side of the dam as he could. He then ran some lamp type electrical cord, attached to an EB cap, to his truck battery and touched it off. It rained mud, sticks, rocks, logs and loon $hit for a minute or so and sent one log through the windshield of his 4X4 Blazer. After that year, I arranged to take the City's sponsored blasting course on my own time and earned my Blaster's Certificate.

It might last until you got out of sight, but not longer. Then it would be off to the Port of Montreal, into a shipping container and off on a sea voyage to it's new owner.

They kept building larger and more dams on the bush road leading into our leased moose hunt camp. So much so, we had to remove some of them and blow up the dams, to ensure the roads were kept open for firefighting. It was an on-going battle.

To add to that: Montreal Police will ticket you if you park on the street and leave your doors unlocked. If you lock the doors, the druggies, etc. will smash the windows and trash the interior looking for change.

Another example from your neighbours to the north!

Bad word in meme and I didn't notice it at first!

That cold looking iron seat............... I dunno how comfy that would be. Did they at least provide CHARMIN?

They are Teflon coated for Liberal voters.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT!

I experienced a really cold day as an Air Force Brat at RCAF Cold Lake. I think I was in grade 4, when it was decided to send a couple of buses to pick up up in the PMQ's, rather than have us walk the mile or so, from the base housing to the Aero-Medical Centre, near the flight line, where our temporary class rooms were, while they were building our school, (Biggin Hill) It was reported as minus 50, but strangely it didn't really feel like it. Dry cold I guess., We just bundled up, with a scharf over our mouths and nose etc. and watched each other for frostbite. Minus 40 for a week or two was not unusual. Kids. I guess we were tougher then, than we are now.