From the group Abandoned Places on Facebook: “ The interior of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's (1874-1922) hut in Cape Royd, Antarctica. The hut was built in 1908 and used as a base camp for one of Shackleton's attempts to be the first to reach the South Pole. He and his team spent nine months here, enduring temperatures as low as -58 F (-50 C). The hut remains as it was abandoned in 1909, preserved by the extreme cold and low humidity.
Getting knocked around by the Ol' Shawnee Appalachy River. Taken from 'Braving the Ol' Shawnee Appalachy - Pt 2, available now.
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Ol' pup's a-settin' sentry over camp like he's drawin' wages for it.
"I'm really surprised that any woodsman would be willing to go deep into the backcountry without this most important tool, which is a creature who can smell what you can't smell, hear what you can't hear, see what you can't see. Early warning system. It's just amazing.
They'll look off into the dark. You can't hear a sound. But they've heard something or they've picked up on something, and something is out there."
— The Practical Woodsman
I hate the masks and vices
Out in the halls of my inn;
I'm going back to the the meek hubbub
Of my laurel mountains.
With the poor of the earth
I want to cast my destiny:
Mountain streams are more satisfying
Than all the oceans.
Let vain men covet gold
That burns and shines in its pot:
But I, I want the eternal woods
When the sun breaks forth in them.
José Martí - Versos Sencillos, III
