One man’s wilderness (15 page)

Dick and transportation beached on the lower lake. Getting the kinks out from the paddling and losing himself in the panorama
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Felling and peeling the white spruce cabin logs
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Bedding the side foundation logs in the beach gravel cabin site. Soon the cabin will be born
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These simple hand tools will challenge anyone’s self-reliance
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Notice how the notches fit snugly over the tops of the logs below them, as if fused
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Dick thumps a gouge chisel with a spruce chunk mallet to fashion a perfect notch
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He uses a sharp axe to even the picture window base
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