Me too.
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Happy 1st Sci-Fi Film, "A Trip to the Moon" (1902)! 🇫🇷🚀🌕
What are you reading?
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Do you know there is a website/forum called “Trap Lines North” (https://traplinesnorth.proboards.com/)
Although it doesn’t get much activity these days, it’s got a lot of great information and pictures about the book and familys.
I help moderate it, keep out those pesky Middle East trappers selling timeshares.
I have been to Nakina a few times, always looking for things from the book.
"Paid to live in the woods."
I went to forestry school at the U of Washington in the early 70s. It was the best school of its kind in the world then. We were required to spend a quarter in the woods We played horse shoes at night with the best professors around. We had our own College of Forest Resources.
The most gun ho forester I ever met lived in a hooch with me and 2 other guys. Dave was an ex Marine from Castle Rock, WA. He went to work with a timber company out on the Olympic Peninsula near Forks, WA which gets 100 inches of rain and grows some huge forests. He told the story at our 48 year reunion at Pack Forest near Mt Rainier in 2022. "One day after 3 years of working in the field, the rain was going down the back of my neck. I looked out at the Olympic Range in the fog and decided to do something else." He got an MBA and built a very successful real estate development company.
Now the University has a Dept of Environmental Sciences and Forest Management. They now longer have an undergrad degree in forestry. I grew up at the right time. born in 1950.
I went to forestry school at the U of Washington in the early 70s. It was the best school of its kind in the world then. We were required to spend a quarter in the woods We played horse shoes at night with the best professors around. We had our own College of Forest Resources.
The most gun ho forester I ever met lived in a hooch with me and 2 other guys. Dave was an ex Marine from Castle Rock, WA. He went to work with a timber company out on the Olympic Peninsula near Forks, WA which gets 100 inches of rain and grows some huge forests. He told the story at our 48 year reunion at Pack Forest near Mt Rainier in 2022. "One day after 3 years of working in the field, the rain was going down the back of my neck. I looked out at the Olympic Range in the fog and decided to do something else." He got an MBA and built a very successful real estate development company.
Now the University has a Dept of Environmental Sciences and Forest Management. They now longer have an undergrad degree in forestry. I grew up at the right time. born in 1950.
Re-reading a short story collection titled Garden In The Wind by Gabrielle Roy. English translation by Allan Brown.
The first story is A Tramp At The Door. There's an excellent short movie version if you can find it.
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The first story is A Tramp At The Door. There's an excellent short movie version if you can find it.
Allan Kroeker - Tramp At The Door - Directed by Allan Kroeker
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I just spent a really pleasant hour talking to @sweeper at his place, after driving down to pick up some books he had offered up. He showed me around his workshop, pointed out some cool projects he'd got going, and we talked everything from butternut trees to Swift Prospectors. A heckuva nice guy to spend some time with. Thank you sweeper!
If I hadn't had a dog stuck in the house all day two hours away, I'm sure we could have talked another hour!
If I hadn't had a dog stuck in the house all day two hours away, I'm sure we could have talked another hour!
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Mina Benson Hubbard, A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador. New York: McClure (1908).
This classic of canoe literature has probably received mention previously in this thread. Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. became lost and died in 1903 while exploring a route across Labrador. In 1905 his wife set out to successfully complete the expedition.
Mrs. Hubbard shows great admiration for the teamwork and wilderness skills of her native guides. She marvels at the beauty and complexity of the sub-arctic environment. From time to time she shows the reader brief glimpses of her grief at the loss of her husband. She writes with an elegant style, and shows a perspective much different from similar travel accounts by male authors.
Read it online with a free account from archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924028906069/mode/1up
This classic of canoe literature has probably received mention previously in this thread. Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. became lost and died in 1903 while exploring a route across Labrador. In 1905 his wife set out to successfully complete the expedition.
Mrs. Hubbard shows great admiration for the teamwork and wilderness skills of her native guides. She marvels at the beauty and complexity of the sub-arctic environment. From time to time she shows the reader brief glimpses of her grief at the loss of her husband. She writes with an elegant style, and shows a perspective much different from similar travel accounts by male authors.
Read it online with a free account from archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924028906069/mode/1up
I just finished up Adam Shoalts most recent book "Where the Falcon Flies" and really enjoyed it. He is an explorer in residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society who spies a peregrine falcon near his home on the north shore of Lake Erie and decides to do an epic 3400 km journey North to the Arctic Circle on the migration path of the peregrine. He paddles along Lake Erie, down the Niagara, portage around the Falls, then down Ontario and onward. It's a fantastic armchair adventure but, if I were to attempt that same journey, can't imagine I would make it more than a few hundred paddle strokes. Quite a read!
Have you had an opportunity to read "Great Heart" about the ill-fated expedition? https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/great...yP0aAsEuEALw_wcB#idiq=3175504&edition=2312140
Thanks for the tip!
Mr. Hubbard's journal is an appendix to his wife's book. I couldn't read the whole thing. I stopped when he was in the early stages of starvation due to lack of fat and carbs in his diet.
Mr. Hubbard's journal is an appendix to his wife's book. I couldn't read the whole thing. I stopped when he was in the early stages of starvation due to lack of fat and carbs in his diet.
Found an interesting book in the boxes @sweeper gave me called How to Read Water, by Tristan Gooley. I picked it up to flip through with low expectations, thinking - I can already run rivers - but it's a far more interesting and in-depth book. It looks at how water behaves in all aspects, from droplets on a table top to ocean currents, from sublimating dew to using puddles for tracking animals. A pleasant surprise.
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