Opening My Trapline Cabin, Then a Windstorm Hit

This is a week on my trapline in northern B.C., start to finish.

Getting the cabin ready.

Showing you around the main trapline cabin, the wood shed, the skinning shack and the solar setup, and getting organized for trapping season.

Out on the line.

Something crashed off through the bush before I could see it. I'm pretty sure it was a moose, maybe a cow and a calf, and the fresh tracks were right there. Then setting marten boxes, with a squirrel house right beside one of them.

The beaver dam.

This dam went up over the summer, right near the cabin, and the lake is dropping on them. When I was younger I'd have set it right away. This time I decided that beaver can come home today, and I'm not setting traps there. Maybe once it ices up I'll come back and see how they're doing.

Then the windstorm.

A big windstorm came through, and a tree came down on the water tank. It just missed the cabin and the solar panels. We spent the next day cutting and repairing, then went to check the second cabin to see if it made it.

Chapters

• 0:00 The storm

• 0:31 The trapline cabin

• 3:39 Out on the line

• 8:58 The beaver dam

• 11:05 Letting the beaver come home

• 16:49 Night at the cabin

• 19:59 The windstorm

• 22:00 Cleanup day

• 24:41 Checking the second cabin

• 28:54 What's next

The full night of cutting our way back in the storm: Cutting Our Way Back to a Remote Cabin in a BC Windstorm

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