Note from the President
Dear friends and fellow outdoors person;
For years I put up with many discomforts so I could try and enjoy, "the great outdoors". If one thing is special to me it's the time I have spent walking game trails, sitting by ponds watching otters or standing in meadows listening to loons play on the lakes of the American wilderness. Over the past 30 years I have picked my favorite spots and I'm sure you have yours.
However, during the earlier years of setting up poles, being afraid to touch the canvas and struggling to fight for space and warmth, I cannot say that all my experiences were very healthy or fun.
Looking back I cannot believe some of the situations I have put not only myself but others in as well. One thing is for sure there are many hunters that can relate but few that have overcome.
Believe me when I tell you that I have tried them all. Homemade poly tarp tents that
condensate & leak after the first storm, Canvas outfitter or wall tents that sweat
& “God Forgive” if you or anything else from the inside touches the canvas. How about
spending a full day setting up camp because the larger the group the more shelters
you need. How about waking up under the sagging, water-
Of course there is the commercial camper alternative, “been there done that”, & still have the scare on my back to prove it. After driving 18 hrs north another 2 hours down logging roads it was during the leveling process we noticed a leaf spring was broken. I got the scar as we tried to “Jimmy rig” the broken leaf spring, on the camper unit, just enough to get us back out of the bush to nearest service station – another day lost. Sorry commercial units are just not rugged enough.
I have also stayed with some area outfitters on a few Moose hunts. I must say I truly enjoyed their hospitality but personally I did not like the idea that we needed to get up at 4:00am to get in the trucks to drive an hour or so to our spots.
One year we rented the outpost camp rotating 4 out of the 8 of us for a week. It was a very successful hunt but not all of us can afford that method with the amount of hunting we do.
It did drive home the point that we all know to be true, to be successful we needed to be camped in the animal’s backyard.
So that is how the idea of our "cabin on wheels" was born. Designed on my kitchen
table with drafting pen & paper all my general contracting experience was put to
the test. Built and tested on a few weekends during the off-
After our first hunt trip our camp was given the nickname Camp Teddy Bear because one of the older members felt that is all that was missing, our stuffed animals.
Without any exaggeration our success rate had tripled over the next few years and the camp was the major contributing factor.
It is absolutely great to drive past the Outfitter’s lodges & cabins, past the commercial campers set up just off the main road, going miles deeper into the Back Country, down skidder trails & old cart paths to set up right next door to Bullwinkle J. Moose.
On one early November hunt we offered shelter to a small group of hunters camped nearby. The next day we hunted while they picked up camp gear and repaired their prospector’s tent.
The stories & excitement over the past years are indescribable. The year we came back to camp for lunch only to see tracks made alongside the camp or the time I was sitting quietly already on my watch as the sky lit up just before sunrise watching the silhouette of a cow moose grazing 80 yards out in the meadow.
Or, my absolute favorite story, three years ago Don & I were the last to leave camp, the others had set out to their watches in a nearby meadow & beaver pond 3 minutes away by ATV. Not us though, we were going to canoe the shores of Harland Lake where we had chosen to camp. We walked out of the camp 20 yards to the canoe. A quick flip of a coin put me in the bow with a gun and Don in the stern with a paddle. As the shore became lit with daylight we spotted the dark figure of a bull standing with its hooves in the water. Don stopped paddling and our inertia silently pushed us closer & closer. The other 8 members heard the shot and the signal shots not long after. Still vivid in my mind is my buddy’s laughter as he knelt in the canoe pointing in the direction from which we had come; we were not even out of site of the camp.
That is my favorite picture up top.
I'm sure, given the time and desire, you could create your own remote camp. But, as we all know, time and material cost money and it just doesn't make sense to reinvent the wheel. Take advantage of all my experiences put yourself & your hunting party camped right where the action is, just by following my plans.
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