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Updated: May 12, 2025
The camp of Two Cabins, he was also to learn, had been made the previous fall by a dozen men who arrived in half as many poling-boats loaded with provisions. Here they had found the blind trapper, on the site of Two Cabins, and about his cabin they had built their own. Later arrivals, mushing up the ice with dog teams, had tripled the population.
There won't be any horses, it will be a fool's errand, and mushing through those feet of soft snow is a job they won't undertake." "But the river will freeze soon." "Yes. Even this cataract freezes, but it likely won't be safe to cross for some weeks maybe clear into January or February. That depends on the weather.
You can't see him fighting his way through mountains, mushing ahead on the winter trail, breaking road for his worn-out huskies, alone day after day, with just poor Dave strapped to the sled." She put her hands to her ears. "Please, please don't say any more," she begged. "I know all about it." "Even about the wolves?"
Now he fancied himself again a schoolboy, now a ranger in Arizona, now mushing on the snow trails of Alaska. At times he would imagine that he was defending his mine against attacking strikers, or that he was combing the Rincons for horse thieves. Out of his turbid past flared for an instant dramatic moments of comedy or tragedy.
She need make no other appeal. She took his hand, and they started mushing over the drifts. The moose that stands at bay against the wolf pack, the ferocious little ermine in the grasp of the climbing marten never made a harder, more valiant fight than these two waged on the way to the cabin. There was no mercy for them in the biting cold.
'You poor tired little doggie, you can stop right here an' rest if you want to; I don't care if they do get ahead of us," and Danny finished his remarks in the high falsetto and mincing inflection he attributed to the youthful members of a sex that in his opinion, as well as in George's, has no right to engage in the masculine occupation of Dog Mushing.
An opportunity to get on in plain English, to make some money? It's really simple to get up the Peace and through the mountains and on down to southeastern Alaska or somewhere in northern B.C. It merely means some hard mushing. And neither of us is very soft. You've begun to cut your eyeteeth on the wilderness. I can see that."
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