Stuart Foster takes a trek through the Manitoba wilderness. Pale green lichen crackles and crunches beneath the soles of my boots as I stride uphill. The ridge we’re walking on is more than 375 kilometres north of Thompson, where the highway ends, and roughly the same distance west of Churchill – ‘the polar bear capital of the world’. Polar bears don’t venture this far inland, so it’s a black bear that I’m hopeful of spotting — from a suitable distance, of course — while walking in the wilderness of northern Manitoba….
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