Now that's what I'm talking about ;D
Some great pics too my thinking. Puts me in a great frame of mind.

I see camp chairs were a stable of your trip?
See a couple different styles. Maybe a report on the pro's and con's of each style would be helpful in the Gear Forum?

I can tell the Lean 3 is a keeper. Hard to beat a dry-fly type rig with an even bigger eve and mesh bug screen ;)

I hope the details of your Ojibwa elder talk makes the forum? I wonder if that group ever posted a trip report of their adventure?

I got a big laugh out of the line's: "Hey, even WE don't do things the 'old way'.  I think somebody's gonna die!"

Reminds me of the time my friend and I hiked the coastal trail in Pukasaw National Park Ontario. It was the first year it opened. One wet rainy day we made camp and my friend who fancied himself a fire starter, struggled to make a decent campfire. He insisted on using too big of pieces of kindling and ended up with a smoky, smoldering fire. Hearing sounds of approaching hikers, we were surprised to see a Native trail crew heading toward us, carrying chainsaws and a ton of camping gear?

Seems they had come by boat and were headed for their homemade bush campsite, complete with SAUNA a few hundred yards down from our camp spot.

My friend has a very romanticized image of Native peoples. He "thinks" that they ALL are in touch with their wilderness heritage.

Seeing the Native crew, he hails them and asks the crew leader too show him the Ojibwa of starting fires?

The leader looked at him weird for a minute, puts his pack down and come up with a big can of BBQ type fire starter!
He squirts a generous amount on fire, it take hold and after the huge fireball tames down, the fire is burning good enough to add bigger logs.

The crew start laughing like crazy men and head off to their camp.
The rest of the night my friend just couldn't get over their lack of "primitive" skills ;D

From that moment on, whenever a my friend is asked to build a campfire, he always tells people he's going too do it the Ojibwa!
While the unknowing wait for some primitive fire skill, he produces a can of fuel, shouts OJIBWA, and pours in on ;)

I guess the old skills are valuable too know in an emergency, but convenience trumps even cultural heritage on occasion!