A Sled Maker's Journal

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of our friends and everyone visiting NTS. We hope that this finds you appreciating the season of hope and gratitude and you are all well and in good cheer...

There are folks who loath the winter months. For many it is the favorite time of year. I’ve always been grateful to live at this latitude where we get four distinct seasons that are pretty much eq...

I can remember being a youngster with my new baseball glove and diligently oiling it and packing baseball’s in it, tying it up at night to form the “pocket”. It took a while but the end result was...

I had a lesson some years ago when I read a remark made by an Alaskan Aboriginal writer. He said he found it very curious that white man will refer to the Alaskan Bush as “Wilderness”? He remarked...

Wow, if you are living in the Midwest you were also likely caught by winter arriving almost overnight! I don’t think many folks where prepared for it psychologically. Of course, everyone knows Nor...

Man this is it!!! This is the height of the year for lots of folks living in Northern Minnesota. November… the “grey month” is upon us and the season is-a-changin’ outside. There’s been a cold win...

The book Snow Walker’s Companion by Garrett and Alexandra Conover is the classic manuel for anyone interested in winter trekking and camping. The Conover’s have years of experience winter camping ...

Being in the business of building larger goods, people often ask how we ship our products. While we have regional distributors in Northern Canada who stock our products and sell to their communiti...

Back in the beginning days, I was building my first toboggan with my mentor Milton Chaboyer and he told me that he always finished his sleighs with boiled linseed oil and cedar oil stain mixture: ...