This year we’re trying something completely different! We’re going to have someone manning the office phone and emails right through the busy winter tripping season! To that effect, we now have a new office phone number. You can best reach us at: 705-280-6809.
For product or order inquiry emails, please contact orders@lureofthenorth.com. Thanks!
If you’re like us, you’ve just realized that it’s December 22nd and Christmas is in just a few short days! We’re going to continue to plug away through the holidays to keep your orders flowing to you, but its too late now to get anything sent to you in time for “the big day”. Enter Lure Bucks Gift Certificates. They’re good for anything we sell, they never expire, and if you lose it, just send us an email with your order info and we’ll be able to look up your code for you. You’ll receive a copy by email that you can print and hand out to your favourite outdoors person on Christmas!
Check out this awesome timelapse video by The Grey Bearded Green Beret, Joshua Enyart! Josh’s channel is loaded with great bushcraft instructional and inspirational videos, gear reviews, tips, tricks and more, and we’re very proud to have some of our gear featured on it this holiday season!
After a full winter of testing, we’re ready to make available our new Speed Lash system for Toboggan Tanks and Stove Bags! This speeds up one of the less enjoyable parts of winter camping: loading toboggans, and leaves you with more time for traveling or enjoying camp life! We’ve summarized the difference in our new Toboggan Outfitting Guide, or you can watch the video below for an even better sense. These bags are available immediately at the links above.
Note: Our Classic closure system is still available for now, but if others love these Speed Lash bags as much as we do, they’ll likely be the only tank style we offer down the road, we’ll wait and get feedback from you fine folks after you’ve had a chance to test them this winter!Â
LOTN Beaver Mittens
Our awesomely warm, soft and comfortable Beaver and Buckskin mittens are now available as a DIY kit! Read more, and get them here!
We have a particularly frustrating website glitch that keeps putting products and experiences “out of stock”. Currently (as of Sept 24) all products except those listed below should be IN STOCK, if something you’re looking for is listed as “out of stock”, please contact us. We’re working to resolve the issue. Thanks!
Only the following items truly are out of stock for the time being:
We have heard the feedback now from a number of you: you want to see the ice chisels back in production!
Well as of early November we have brought in some new steel, we’ve got a bit of hardwood stock on hand, and we’re going to start producing a few trial chisels. If that goes well we’ll get all ramped up and get these guys back in production for you in time for the start of the new year and the winter trekking season!
Thanks for your patience and stay tuned!
Photo Courtesy of David C.
Free pickup available at the Ontario Winter Camping Symposium in Waterloo, Ontario on November 23rd. Whether you will be at the event, or want to make arrangements to meet us somewhere near by, we are happy to deliver your goods to Southern Ontario for you this November! Just select “local pickup” at checkout, and comment in the “order notes” section that you plan to pickup in Waterloo.
Thanks and hope to see you there!
Image courtesy of Jordan Jonas
Wow, this is awesome news for us! We are hugely excited to announce that Jordan Jonas, winner of Alone Season 6, will be joining us this winter to host a week-long, entirely field-based winter survival course!
This will be a hands-on course with a small group, so space is limited and we expect this to sell out quickly! Don’t delay, sign up here!
Our DIY Mitt kits are now better than ever thanks to our new made-in-Canada felted wool! Our warmest, softest, thickest wool yet!
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!
