Careena Alexis is a Force in Nature!

Bushcrafting year-round in Canada proves this YouTuber’s grit

Top Row L-R: Sorelle Amore, @SorelleAmore — Australia/Iceland; Diane Jennings, @Dianodrama — Ireland/Spain; Careena Alexis, @AlexisOutdoors — Canada; Bottom Row: Hanna Lee Duggan, @HannaLeeDuggan — United States; Isabel Paige, @Isa.paige — United States, Washington. Pics from their Instagram accounts.

Editor’s Note: Yesterday’s highlighted YouTuber was Sorelle Amore and the work she is doing to educate the world about finances and change the mindset many have about money. You can see Sorelle’s video here.

The skill of bushcrafting on Crown Land in the wilds of Canada

In Canada is a woman with grit named Careena Alexis. She has built a following of those interested in learning about roughing it in the woods of Ontario. And when I say roughing it, I mean bushcraft. Year-round. Snowbound.

Wiki defines bushcrafting as providing for the basic physiological necessities of human life. Where one gathers food (through foraging, tracking, hunting, trapping, fishing.) Bushcrafters also use water sourcing and purification, shelter-building, and firecraft. Often in her camps, the most common tools are a tarp, a fold-up wood saw, and an ax or hatchet. Oh yeah, and it has snowed or is snowing, to boot.

On some adventures, Careena builds walls with dead trees and adds a roof with uniform-sized, straight, deadwood poles she has fashioned.

Wait till you see her whip out her Agawa Canyon — BOREAL21 folding bow saw. Then she…