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...
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ReplyDeleteMayflies are a huge problem here. Thankfully we don't get many right at my house despite being a block from the river, but down by the shore, they are terrible. Bugs everywhere. They get into everything. They stink when they die (kind of smells like fish, which is why locally they are called Fish Flys). You can't ride a bike or play outside for a few weeks each year due to them.
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I lived by a lake as a kid. Once rode my bike down a hill into a swarm of them.
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Amazing! Encounter that affects terrain conditions as well.
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