Canoeing and Camp Craft in Sweden

Fishing licenses are secured for every participant on this trip and you can make the most of this whenever the mood takes you, in fact even when you're canoeing you can be fishing! Although we cannot use a net within the lakes we explore, you will be taken through how to sew your own gill net - an incredibly effective fishing technique, made using your own had carved tools.

The reserve is teaming with wild life and we will certainly see sign of Beaver and Moose if not the creatures themselves. We will train you in some basic tracking skills and how to set a wildlife camera effectively on a trail to hopefully catch some up close and personal footage of these amazing animals.

Other craft work looks at utilising Birch bark for a variety of containers their exact design being dictated by this highly varied material. Spruce and pine roots make the natural accompaniment to birch bark craft in this Northern landscape and you will be guided through collecting, preparing and using these when the opportunity arises.

Making your own craft work tools can be a deeply satisfying process especially based in a remote wilderness camp using only those basic materials we have to hand. You will be shown how to create your very own crook knife from old files and even tea spoons. You have the chance to make an awl for your bark work using old tent pegs and how to make an improvised vice for holding these metal work projects.