Lure Swag has arrived!

You’ve heard the hushed whispers, you’ve seen the closed board room doors, but the time for waiting is no longer – Lure Swag has arrived!

Snazzy winter-related digs that can be worn all year round.  We have five designs to choose from with awesome artwork from Alec McCarthy.  All items are shipped and produced by Cafepress, which makes buying easy, shipping fast, and even returns hassle-free.  Whoohoo!

This is our opportunity to play around and have a lot of fun with our ideas about winter travel and what makes it so great.  Hope you enjoy and look forward to more designs in the future!

The Designs

1. Lure of the North;
2. Winter is Coming – Awesome!
3. Winter is Coming – Time to Haul Ash!
4. Size Does Matter;
5. Winter Trekking Defined;

Calling all happy crafters! We have launched our printable .pdf booklets on our Info Hub page for absolutely free! Sharing information is something that Lure of the North strives to continue doing just as people have passed on the traditions before us and before them! So go ahead, try them out! And we are always welcome to feedback! Consider this a living document. Happy crafting!!!

With the help of Fuel Multimedia in Sudbury, Lure of the North now has a meaningful and uber cool logo!! For a description of what our logo means to us, click on the photo!

We’ve added a new video to our Youtube page from our trek to the highest point in Ontario- Ishpatina Ridge! On this trip we had our first international expedition member from the Netherlands come along with us. This was the coldest LOTN expedition on record with temperatures reaching as low as -45*C and consistently reaching -35*C throughout the trip. Check it out!

Hurry now and sign up for next weekend’s Traditional Game Bag workshop! You’ve all been asking for one- so here it is! It’s a fun weekend with lots to learn and Guys- haven’t you always wanted a murse?! Even Kie calls hers a murse because it’s that cool!

Click the photo to go directly to the info page and sign up today!

We have started a new page that is a place for information about all kinds of useful items such as our favorite recipes, natural bug deterants, gear lists and more! Check it out in the main menu bar. Or click here!

Join us in making a whole summer line of traditional gear including summer moccasins, foraging and pack baskets and a traditional game bag ! Check out our offerings in the store here!  Or view the Calendar of Events for a chronological listing.

Photo credit: Glen Schwendinger

It is with mixed emotions that we return from our final winter trip of 2013.  We’re sad to see a great winter wrap up, but we’re also still on a bit of a high from all the wonderful adventures and fantastic folks that we’ve met.  Happily, we finished up with an exploration of Killarney Park under beautiful skies, with a fun-loving group of characters.  We were reminded again why the George Lake – Carlyle Lake corridor  is one of our favourite winter weekends: creeks, lakes, a tough portage, a beautiful frozen waterfall and a perfect little beaver-pond campsite!

Check out the photos here, and thanks to Glen Schwendinger for the great campsite shot to the left.

Photo Credit: David Hartman

What a fantastic Explorer’s Club expedition we’ve had in 2013!  10 days and 100km, travelling across the historic Missinaibi Headwaters, this was our longest, most remote and most northerly group expedition to date.  Add the incredible Garrett Conover to an already stellar team we couldn’t have asked for a better experience!

Photos: Part 1; Part 2.
A CBC interview conducted via satellite phone can be heard here.