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...
Sever's?
ReplyDeleteNope, the Brooklyn Park/Champlin one.
ReplyDeleteToo bad! There's a killer combine down at Sever's with great loot if you can defeat it.
ReplyDeleteWatch out for that disorienting mist. Oh yeah and don't get separated, or the dopplegangers will get you.
ReplyDeleteOur issue was giving the halfling the map and him getting us more lost than we've ever been in a corn maze.
ReplyDeleteThe nice thing about corn is that you can make your own secret doors.
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