Re: Excerpt: The Log Cabin: An Adventure - Chapt. 4

On 3 Dec 2003 01:33:08 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Len McDougall,
Outdoor Writer) wrote:

>> Gee Len,
>> 
>> What did ol Daniel Boone do? Leave his food outside.  Please answer if you
>> have the guts?
>
>Okay, young fella, I've got you figured out now.  You're about 16
>years old, you live in a city, and you've doubtless never camped
>beyond the boundaries of a state-run campground, if at all.
>  I'll try just once more to explain the situation I excerpted from my
>book, and I'll use simple language:  I spent 15 months alone there in
>the wilderness

So where exactly was this *wilderness*? Within driving distance of
Petosky?


> building a log cabin with only an axe and hand saw,
>digging a freshwater well 10' deep with a shovel, and essentially
>living the life of a 19th century homesteader - in fact, that was the
>point of this exercise.  I wasn't camping in the backyard, I was
>homesteading in a wilderness.

Where exactly was this wilderness? Within driving distance of Petosky?

Please give YOUR definition of *wilderness*, and where that might be,
within an easy driving distance of Petosky.

Appears to me that you are a transplanted Lowper, and will always
have the *attitude* of a Lowper. You know what that is, don't you.

An Old Yooper


>  There was no place to put my food cache
>until the cabin was built, which is precisely why I took that heavy
>polyethylene drum.  There was no option, for me or for our forebears
>who lived such an existence, except to lay claim to the territory I'd
>occupied, and to defend it if need be against marauding animals whose
>raids on my food supply might well have serious consequences for me in
>the coming winter.  A camper can afford to live in fear of marauding
>bears; a homesteader has to deal with them outright, and he cannot
>back off.
>   Maybe I should've excerpted the rest of the story, as it seems your
>sophomoric sensibilities have been affronted.  I didn't kill the bear.
> I would have, and I was prepared to, but apparently I do know enough
>about bears.
>   Now, I've had enough of your trolling, so if you want to know more,
>read The Log Cabin:  You might also try typing my name into any search
>engine and reading what others have to say.  I've got another book to
>finish writing.
>
>Len McDougall, author of the books: The Log Cabin: An Adventure in
>Individualism, Self-Reliance, and Cabin Building, The Complete
>Tracker, The Field & Stream Wilderness Survival Handbook, The Snowshoe
>Handbook, Practical Outdoor Projects, The Outdoors Almanac, Made for
>the Outdoors, Practical Outdoor Survival   
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