Massiv mördarjakt i Kanadas vildmarker (båda två hittade avlidna 2019-08-07)

“I have a wife and two young kids,” said Clint Sawchuk, a Manitoba Hydro employee who also runs a wilderness tour business. “I actually put a loaded 12 gauge next to my bed.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/world/canada/teen-murderers-manhunt-manitoba.html

Clint Sawchuk, the owner and operator of Nelson River Adventures, a tour company in the area, said the teenagers are up against dense bush, temperature swings, waist-high swamp water, moss, bugs, and animals, such as black bears and wolves.

“It’s tough going up here,” he said. “If they don’t have bug jackets, once that sun goes down the bugs are out like crazy, enough to drive you insane.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/rcmp-believe-two-suspects-in-b-c-murders-are-still-near-gillam-man-1.4522953

"I said from the start, the only way you're going to get out of Gillam is walking the railway line or travel by water," he said.

Mr Sawchuk downplayed the chances of McLeod and Schmegelsky being attacked by wild animals while hiding out in bushland, particularly if they were heading west away from Hudson Bay.
"They are going the wrong way for polar bears and grizzlies," he said.

"If they were heading to the east coast they would have been screwed."

"There are plenty of other dangers and obstacles.
"There's swamp and heavy bush," he said.
"You can walk through it, but it is slow going and you can be up to your knees in swamp and we just had rain so the mosquitoes are out in full force and the sandflies are still out."

There is the prospect McLeod and Schmegelsky could get lost, die and never be found.

Gillam locals want closure so they can get back to their normal lives.
"I think everyone is hoping they don't get lost and die out there," Sawchuk said.

"They want to make sure they find these little bastards.
"Otherwise everyone is still going to be scared and left wondering what is going on."
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6300255/canada-on-edge-as-fugitives-elude-police/

The river by this point is so wide, you can’t tell where it ends and where the Hudson Bay begins.

“Do you see that?” says Dené. “Do you see those flashes of white? They look like whitecaps, except they last a little too long to be whitecaps.”

Yes, I do.

“Those are belugas.”

Belugas!

There are dozens of them, everywhere, all around. They don’t have dorsal fins so you see a flash of white in the front of the boat, then to the side. And then another. And then another. And another. And another. It’s unreal.
http://www.bcrobyn.com/2013/11/york-factory-manitoba/

Fox Lake residents Billy and Tamara Beardy noticed the billowing black smoke while out berry picking nearby. The region is prone to forest fires, so they went to see whether they should call a conservation officer.
But it was the burning vehicle, which had been pushed into the ditch. For nearly an hour, the couple sat there in their truck, doors unlocked. Billy guesses it had been burning for no more than 15 minutes. Tamara says that when they went back to the vehicle a day later, responders had flipped it over. Sardine cans, propane bottles, forks, orange peels, pork chops, money, tools and keys littered the road."

"The region is vast and unforgiving. Northeast of Gillam lies Hudson Bay, and at this time of year polar bears are known to wander off the melting ice. There are also black bears, wolves and wolverines (touching down in York Landing, officers had to chase bears off the runway). The flies and mosquitoes are just as ferocious as the earthbound predators. Swampy muskeg makes travelling on foot difficult without sinking or getting trapped and wet. And trapper’s shacks offer hiding spots. Billy Beardy doesn’t believe it’s possible for two people to survive this long in the woods without knowing the region. “Unless you have a big sack of food,” he says. “Half the water around here will give you the beaver fever.”

"Clint Sawchuk, the owner of Nelson River Adventures in Gillam, agrees, but notes the self-same conditions make searching difficult. “They could be 10 feet off the road and you wouldn’t see them,” he says. “It’s all low-lying trees, not high timber. It’s all spruce trees and small brush. If they wanted to hide, they could easily hide.” Sawchuk admits he’s been sleeping with a gun. But if they’re out there, he says, “they ain’t enjoying their stay.”
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/a-mysterious-sighting-in-the-manitoba-manhunt%E2%80%94and-then-the-trail-goes-cold/ar-AAF586k