In February we're running another snowshoeing and winter living trip with native Cree guides David and Anna Bosum from the village of Ouje-Bougoumou in northern Quebec. We'll snowshoe around their ancestral homeland, enjoy the beautiful boreal forest setting, and learn a variety of bushcraft skills and techniques from people who live them every day. It's beautiful and wild country, about 470 miles north of Montreal.

David and Anna run a small cultural tourism business showing and teaching people their traditional subsistence skills. They're the last generation of Cree to be born in the bush, and the last generation of native subsistence hunters in this part of the world. The younger generations have not adopted the traditional lilfeways, and as such David and Anna's generation will be the last to carry this knowledge. On the trip you'll hear many stories of their people and have an amazing immersion experience into living off the land from people who have spent their lives doing it. This isn't an instructional course, but a chance to travel with, watch, and participate with people who are living the bush life.

"During your journey, you will learn about our special relationship with the land. Living close to this land, we tend to think of it as a living entity - something that can be hurt if we don't treat it well. So we take what we need from it and leave the rest to grow and flourish for our grandchildren. A visit to one of our camps offers an intimate window to our way of life where you will be introduced to traditional skills, practices, past times, medicines and stories."

The trip is limited to 9 participants.

Check out our video from the 2007 summer trip:

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