A great snowy weekend at the Winter Camping Symposium!
We’ve just gotten back from the 19th annual Winter Camping Symposium in Minnesota! What a community that has coalesced around this awesome event. If you’ve never attended this event and are interested in winter camping, this is the place to be! Bring on winter!
Happy campers!
WOW! Our winter expeditions are all sold out for the 2018 winter season. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us, helped to generate interest and excitement, and helped us get to this point. We love sharing our passion for traditional winter camping, the past two seasons has really helped inspire confidence that we’ll be able to continue sharing our passion for years to come! Thank you!
Please contact us if you’d like to be added to a waiting list for any of our trips, or sign up for our newsletter to be the first to find out about the 2019 schedule.
Our website crashed on October 20th. Â Our all-star web guy restored it in short order, but unfortunately our most recent backup was end of August. Â That has resulted in 2 months of posts, photos and updates being lost. Â We’ll be going through the website over the coming weeks in search of errors. Â Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you find anything amiss. Â Thanks for your patience!
We have now improved our anorak hoods to endure the coldest most viscous winds. With an extended neck closure that wraps extra tight and a drawstring tie for the hood, that winter wind has nothing on us now!
Get your improved model today!
Temagami Wilderness Photo by: Goh Iromoto
The geese and cranes are flying south which means now’s your chance to catch the draft! Our early bird discount is only available for another 3 days!!
Our Missinaibi Headwaters Expedition has already sold out and the other two are not far from it either. So if you’re trying to decide whether you’re in or not, connect with us and let us help you find which trip is best for you.
See our expeditions page for details about each trip.
Buy any DIY kit and receive a freezer bag of buckskin scraps for free!
We have had the best intentions to use our leather ends but the truth is, they are accumulating faster than we have time to do fun side crafts. So we want to pass the fun on to you, our valued customers.
With any purchase of a DIY kit you will receive your complimentary bag of leather ends along with your order.  Enter the coupon code: Scraps to let us know you’re in! These ends, will be a variety of sizes, shapes, colours and hide types and will be offered only while quantities last!
Our 2018 expedition schedule is live! Â You can find all the glory details on our expeditions page, or check out our newest newsletter!
PS. Early bird sale on until September 15th, and we’re expecting another sold out season, so don’t delay!
Our 2017 explorer’s club aimed to find remote wilderness in an accessible part of the Temagami wilderness. Â We departed from a beautiful log cabin and headed into a steep-walled canyon, difficult to navigate in the winter. Â The scenery and terrain were exactly what we’d hoped for, but this trip was defined far more by the weather than the landscape. Â This has to be, surely, our warmest, wettest trip on record, with melting ice, torrential downpours, and even a winter thunderstorm rolling through mid-morning! Â Incredible attitudes, despite incredible conditions, kept spirits high and the sense of adventure alive as we completed the route!
As an extra special treat, (perhaps to compensate for the weather?) filmmakers Goh Iromoto and Courtney Boyd joined us to document the adventure. Â We’re eagerly anticipating their finished video :)
Members (alphabetical): Graham Barnard, Courtney Boyd, Roger David, Frank Dempsey, David Hyndman, Goh Iromoto, Kevin Kavanagh, Cathy Marshall, Dave Marrone, Kielyn Marrone.
Alpine hiking on the West Coast
We have a few ideas for the upcoming winter and into spring and summer of 2018, but we want to hear from you!
Please check out our latest newsletter, and then let us know what you think at info@lureofthenorth.com.
Winter schedule will be live very soon!
Natural coyote pelts are back in stock for anoraks, mittens and moccasins! 
All news, no fluff! We have only ever sent out 4 - 6 newsletters a year, and always when we have a major bit of news we want to share. You know, like one of us is going to be on a fancy TV show, or we're releasing our upcoming trip or workshop schedule. Plus we also offer the occasional newsletter-only special deal!
