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...
snow got into my boots this morning. i was not prepared for this.
ReplyDeleteI straight up loved the fresh snow this morning, though. I guess I'm a winter baby through and through.
ReplyDeleteThere was no snowfacecat!
ReplyDeleteIt's not too late! I'll get on that now!
ReplyDeleteI loved the snow in winter and the sunshine in summer. I wasn't fond of the tornado warnings.
ReplyDeleteIt's supposed to be warm again this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteYep, we're almost back to t-shirt weather already.
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