David Leitch

Technology Teacher

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

Our Inuinnaqtun Translation app - Echo of the North -could be up and running by the end of the month!
https://t.co/SrOwqoG3HZ

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

@jenniferlmoroz @DeadPine57 Miss you guys too!

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

160 km trip while towing a cabin across the arctic tundra. Beautiful trip, and it went off without a problem thanks to the amazing skills and multi-generational knowledge in the crew. Great job boys!

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

@DeadPine57 It has been incredible. Keeps getting better too. Bring a crew up here- hunting, fishing, trapping.

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

@DeadPine57 Once you switch to measuring in Feet instead of Inches, it is a whole new game.

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

Nearly 8 feet of ice to get through up in the arctic. Clear as glass though. You can see all the way through the ice as you are drilling.

[Tim Reeves @TurboTimmy57]

Our boy Coltan Phillips came in to show our @DeadPine57 crew how to clean, gut, and fillet salmon today. Made possible by the generous donation of sockeye from @pamelaspooner77 and our @SD57Indigenous dept. We're grateful for you support! 🙏
@SD57PG @Stephymarie33 @dptstrojans

[AlliLeitchTeach @TeachAlli]

Fortunate to live and teach in such a magical place. Ulu has incredible people, culture and traditions. Online learning, home packages and unstable internet - HKE has incredible teachers. We miss learning from our kiddos. #Jan17 @bushcraft_tech

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

@TeachAlli and I got to spend time with a local woman, learning to work with locally harvested sealskin. She was using her grandmother's Ulu, worn down from decades of sharpening and making her family clothing. Amazing. Ulukhaktok: "the place where Ulu material is collected"

[AlliLeitchTeach @TeachAlli]

Three months teaching awesome students in Ulu. Hot chocolate on top of the world. -45 recess in the dark. Full 24 hour darkness. What an Arctic ride. @bushcraft_tech

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

Amazing afternoon taking the students sliding in the dark, under the stars, at -39°c. At one point one of the kids pointed up - we were under the Aqhalingian (Northern Lights). I thought it was amazing, they thought it was just a regular Wednesday afternoon. @TeachAlli

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

@TurboTimmy57 @DeadPine57 @Stephymarie33 @SD57PG @SD57Indigenous @leekarpenko The trip looks amazing. Can't beat that as a classroom. Well done Dead Pine crew!

[Tim Reeves @TurboTimmy57]

Final prep today. Gear check, loaded canoes, practiced hanging food. The DeadPine Program is off on our first overnight trip tomorrow! Stay tuned. @Stephymarie33 @DeadPine57 @SD57PG

[AlliLeitchTeach @TeachAlli]

It's been two wonderful weeks with our students in Ulu! The culture and community are amazing. It snowed! The yearly barge came in and this was our view last night. @bushcraft_tech

[Dead Pine Collective @DeadPine57]

BC Trappers mag posted a story about our program @dptstrojans written by @MarrenKatie & put RW on the cover. She is roasting a squirrel we trapped.
BC Trappers Association sent me 10 copies of the magazine so each student in the mag will get one. @Stephymarie33 @pamelaspooner77

[AlliLeitchTeach @TeachAlli]

Well, it's been a week since we moved to Ulu! The landscape and town are beautiful. The community is so welcoming and friendly. We are setting up our classrooms, and exploring! We touched the Arctic Ocean. The kids are excited for school. We are too!! @bushcraft_tech

[AlliLeitchTeach @TeachAlli]

Well that’s a wrap P.G. Leitchs teaching in Ulukhaktok, NWT. Wish us luck!! @bushcraft_tech

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

The river is becoming a regular destination for our science class lessons. The picture says it all. KKS Tactical and @SD57Indigenous hooked us up with the fishing gear.

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

@DeadPine57 @dptstrojans @Stephymarie33 @SD57PG @pamelaspooner77 @suzannedallman What a great picture!

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

@dptstrojans @DeadPine57

[David Leitch @bushcraft_tech]

HAWK program had the most incredible experience thanks to the PG Rod and Gun Club, and Cassy and Dave from KKS Tactical who volunteered their entire day, firearms, ammunition and expertise. So proud, but not surprised, of the level of maturity and respect the students showed.