Exploring the eskers in the “Land of little sticks”

There’s no shortage of signs of foot traffic here on the “Central Esker,” as it’s known to locals in this part of northwestern Manitoba, about 100 kilometres south of the Nunavut border. Still, Brian Kotak, the resident biologist at nearby Gangler’s North Seal River Lodge, believes he and I are likely the first humans to walk this esker in years — possibly hundreds, possibly thousands…