From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
I'm having the same problem ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm old, so I remember being astounded by a 20MB hard drive.
ReplyDeleteThat seems lazy. Surely there are ways to compress the art before rendering the pdf.
ReplyDeleteI am excite this is out.
ReplyDeleteYeah, even the massive Shadowrun 5th edition book is 44MB. And that's with full color art and layout throughout. DCC was the biggest pdf I had before at 88MB. And I thought that was ridonkulous.
ReplyDeleteGlad I've got a hardcopy on the way too.
The hardcopy is more useful to me, personally, but I understand lots of people prefer digital.
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