Canada Lynx Tracking Trip in Ontario – January 19-24th 2025

Where:  Elk Lake, Ontario

Our Daily Practice:

Join us just north of Temagami on this educational and experiential trip into the north woods.  We will focus our scouting and tracking on finding sign, tracks and trails of the Canada Lynx.   With that said, we cannot guarantee what we will find, although many lynx have been spotted in the area we will be in the past.  There will be ample time to track and learn about many of the other animals that call this area home including wolves, moose, deer, marten, fisher, otter, flying squirrels, spruce grouse, snowshoe hare and many more.  We will spend our days on the land  travelling by snowshoe.  Wandering through the forests, swamps and bogs and across the frozen lakes of the Canadian Shield.  If you have tracked with us before, you know that these trips are about much more than just animal tracks.  We will spend time learning about the ecology and natural history of the area and learn to read the stories of the land from many different perspectives.

Evenings will be spent  researching and learning about what we saw in the field each day using our extensive library of field guides and books.  As well as sharing meals, laughter & building relationships while relaxing in the warm cabin.

Join us this winter as we practice the ancient skill of tracking and connecting to the land.

Details

Who:
Open to people of all experience levels (18 years old or accompanied with an adult if younger).

Cost:
$800 for the week – includes all guiding and accommodation (participants will be in charge of their own meals.  We will share potluck style dinners as a group).

We have a BIPOC scholarship available for those interested as well as for people who are on a fixed income and the price of this experience is a barrier.   Please reach out to inquire about these opportunities.  

Accomodation:
We have rented a couple cabins for our group to use and share.   There is a full kitchen in each cabin and all the amenities needed for a comfortable stay after full days in the field on snowshoes.

Contact us at earthtracks@gmail.com or call 519 217 4921 for more info

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What some of our past tracking participants have to say:

“What an outstanding experience!  The lynx is such an iconic animal.  Being in a region where one can actually track them and learn about their behaviour – and their relationship to snowshoe hare – is humbling. 

As if that weren’t enough, following the tracks and sign of a variety of species – including wolf, fisher, otter, fox, grouse, snowshoe hare, flying squirrel etc – was amazing. Thank you Alexis.”

Renato Bernardo – 2023 Lynx Tracking Trip Participant

“Alexis is exactly the kind of person I like having in the field with me – supportive, knowledgeable, and extremely competent.  Finding the right place to go and track lynx is challenging, but he really nailed it this year!  I thoroughly enjoyed my time tracking with Earth Tracks this week”

Allanah Vokes – 2023 Lynx Tracking Trip Participant

“I thought I understood tracking concepts, until I was fully introduced to the language of the forest”

2023 Algonquin Tracking participant

“If you want to plug in and connect to the energy & movement on the land and within, Earth Tracks will raise your awareness and the hair on your neck”

Winter Tracking Participant

“Earth Tracks offers the education I never got in elementary/high school, etc… It brings you back to the land, back to self, back to one’s own unique nature”

2023 Algonquin Tracking Participant

“I would definitely recommend this experience to anyone interested in nature.   The community here is one of a kind.   The things that you learn being with this group of people, you can’t get anywhere else”

2023 Algonquin Tracking Participant

“What a Gift it was to share time in the winter woods with such a passionate, inquisitive and knowledgeable folks” 

2023 Winter Tracking Participant

Lynx Photos taken by Deborah L MacEwen