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...
What a fucking dumbass.
ReplyDeleteLove all these people saying, "come on, he's just a kid."
ReplyDeleteA 32 year old kid.
All because he lied to his mom about partying.
ReplyDeleteInt and Wis are his dump stats.
Between Lochte and Phelps, there seems to be a while truckload of self-entitled chucklenuttery. Yet another reminder that being excellent at something physical (even being better than any human has ever been at that thing) has almost no bearing on whether one is a decent human being.
ReplyDeletePeople are mad down here. I am admittedly a bit mad at their disregard for local authority but mostly just sorry for the whole man-child act.
ReplyDeleteGustavo Iglesias rest assured everyone in America thinks he's a giant douche.
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