Just finished reading the account in the subject line and wonder if the author or his paddling companion are still alive. He'd be 71 this year, and was 35 when he and John Blunt paddled the 600 miles from the east end of Lake Athabasca to the NE, then NW through an interconnecting system of lakes and rivers, eventually coming down the Snowdrift River and returning to "civilization" at the community of Snowdrift at the east end of the Great Slave Lake. The book (long out of print, I am sure, copyright 1975) is a classic tale of a wilderness canoeing trek in the traditional style, complete with gratuitous poaching of game to survive, food deprivation, and endless wind and wave (not to mention interminable bugs!). Browning was a SoCal boy, and the greenhorn. Blunt was a geologist by training, and was familiar with this region of Canada from a prospecting stint in 1962, the summer previous to their adventure, I believe. Anybody familiar with their story? -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Dec 17 1999 - 09:48:09 PST
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