I will vouch for the thickness of the bush! Dad’s place in Pubnico, we would trek into one of the woodlots and the world would disappear. The smoke from Quebec fires is hitting all of eastern Ontario all the way to Toronto and here in Niagara area.
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Yeah, people look at NS on the map and think its small so how could you get lost?
Sparsely populated outside the cities and thick as hell bush. You can be standing 5 feet away from someone and not see them. It can take you hours to just cover a mike or two on foot. I love it!
On my survival course outside winnipeg everyone else was miserable and could barely keep themselves alive, I was right at home in the woods. When the instructors finally found me they didn’t want to leave my bivvy. I had a nice big fire, shelter, cooking A frame, drying racks, chairs, lab tea in the boil, etc. They sat around and we talked for a couple hours before they had to go check on the other students. Chuck me in the woods and I’ll be fine.
But get lost here and someone might find your foot in a coyote gnawed sneaker a couple years later. No joke, that happens pretty much once every year. Sometimes after the spring melt, sometimes someone just runs across it in the woods. NS woods are no joke. Lots of hungry critters out there…people like to hike the woods roads, get turned around and then…never seen again.
News is saying the smoke is supposed to get worse in the next couple days for ontario and states south of them. So get used to wearing your n95 masks again, keep the windows shut, heat pumps on and get yourself a great big air purifier…