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  \u201cWell, here we go…I\u2019m at the beginning of the greatest adventure of all. I have gone Into the Woods (not necessarily Into the Wild). As I look out my kitchen\/work table window I see the stone cairn islands of Dowdy Lake, which have gripped me since CJ and I discovered them while ice-fishing a couple years ago. Nice!\u201d  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Journal entry: Tuesday; May 8th<\/sup>, 2018; 10:10 am. In my camper, Cochise<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  For some reason, I\u2019ve kept notebooks and journals most of my adult life. I\u2019m glad I did, because my memory isn\u2019t what it used to be. I write this now, months after events, but the journal takes me back. I was able to put the trailer on the property when the snow finally allowed, later than I had planned. Note to self: Don\u2019t get hung up on plans. Just do. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   First night on the property, sitting with my\ndog, ten miles from the Village, no neighbors within ear-shot, nightfall comes\nwith a gentle wind through tall trees. The trees disappear in the dark. Quiet comes.\nQuiet stays. Then the stars. Oh, the stars! I had forgotten what they looked\nlike. How big they are. How close. I feel as though I\u2019m in heaven. Damn close.\nNow the quiet brings a settling grip. I am in heaven. Not even dead. What comes\nto mind in these unique situations first discovered but often wondered about?\nAt that moment…wild animals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Yeah. I\u2019ve heard all the stories of bears and moose and mountain lions. The Big Three of the high timber. The Rocky Mountain Trifecta. Call me Dorothy. I\u2019m with my Toto. Getting on the yellow brick road… Going to the Emerald City… Off to see the Wizard… Lions and mooses and bears! Oh My!!<\/em> Gotta love those Munchkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  The bear up here are black, not grizzly. Big\nhairy pigs that just want to eat. I\u2019m not worried about them. So long as my dog\ndoesn\u2019t want to chase one, which dogs will do. But if you don\u2019t attract them,\nthey won\u2019t come. Don\u2019t leave animal food, human food or trash outside. Ursus Major\nhas a bloodhound\u2019s sense of smell. They also have a nasty odor. They don\u2019t know\nhow to clean themselves after they evacuate their bowels. Probably don\u2019t care.\nThey\u2019re wild animals. Only on television commercials do they use toilet paper. Bears\nhave an acute olfactory sense and no regard for hygiene. So, they smell good,\nbut they stink. That\u2019s the irony of being a bear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Moose are different. They don\u2019t eat what bears do. They won\u2019t bother me here. They\u2019ll bother me if I go into their territory and get between a cow and her calves. Or a bull in rut. They\u2019ll stomp my dog \u2013 yours too \u2013 because they regard dogs as wolves. Moose don\u2019t like wolves,<\/g> or dogs. They can\u2019t tell the difference. Dumb mooses. I heard the stories when I lived in Alaska, where the old bulls are huge. Moose here are<\/g> a smaller strain (Shiras) compared to their northern cousins. But they\u2019ll still stomp you. And your little dog too! They hang in and around water. That\u2019s where they get their food. Gotta be careful when you fish the creeks meandering through willow brush. Look for sign<\/g>, make some noise, and leave the damn dog in the truck. I\u2019ll let you know how that works out…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  No, the apex predator here is the one you seldom see. I\u2019ve lived in Colorado and frolicked in her foothills and mountains, fished her streams and rivers for most of my life. I\u2019ve never seen a mountain lion in the wild. I\u2019m not complaining. But everyone up here has their big cat stories. Most involve dogs let out at night that don\u2019t come back. (This seems to be a tough place for canines). Felines of all sizes have superb night vision, and they can get from their perch to your neck without a sound, over major ground. Imagine your kitty when it was small and not fattened from canned food and domesticity. Multiply by 100. Note to self: Go inside when the sun sets. Take the damn dog.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  But first night fears are soon overcome. I\nwould continue to hear the stories: bears stepping on tent campers who\nfoolishly took food to bed, sows prying locked restaurant dumpster lids open\nand dropping their cubs inside to snack. Even a local living in a trailer who\nhad a bear that often flopped off of a branch and onto his camper-top to sleep\nin the middle of the night, taking advantage of the warm roof when the weather\ngot cold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Moose stories are just big deer stories,\nmostly involving accidentally hitting them with your vehicle. The vehicles\nusually loose that battle. Or people getting charged for getting too close,\ntrying to get the perfect photograph, or letting their dog run too far off, highballing\nback hard and barking right to their master with Bullwinkle in full pursuit.\nThe best thing to do then is find the biggest tree available and keep it\nbetween you and the animal, start thinking about your next dog, maybe keep that\none closer at hand, with a loud metal bell tied tight to its collar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  And the mountain lion stories…oh, the\nmountain lion stories. Mostly just about seeing tracks, inside your own\nfootprints when you come full circle on a hunt or hike, seldom seeing the\nactual animal, sometimes seeing their claw marks on tree trunks, or the hind\nquarter of a mule deer twenty feet up in a tree, wedged in the crotch of a\nbranch and tendering while the cougar is who knows where…  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  First night turns to second, third…first week. Fears melt as experience brings courage. Courage to overcome. Overcome your fears. Face them down and chase them away. Boo! Be gone!<\/em> But… they never go away. Not completely. Probably a good thing. No need to feel as though you\u2019re ever really safe. But I feel safer here than I did in Tweakerland. And I realize that it\u2019s time to go to work. Lots to do to make a home in the woods. I need to clear the trees, branches and deadfall that surround my camper pad and take away the cover for a big cat to hide. Just in case they get curious, as cats are known to do, and I forget not to go out at night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  I have the gear to deal with timber: chainsaw\nand axe, hatchet and pruning shears, and a utility trailer to haul it all to\nthe slash depot on the way to the Village. I love chainsaws, having bought my\nfirst one in Alaska 30 some years ago to make firewood for our cabin woodstove,\nthe only source of heat where temperatures hit 40 below. I love wood heat, too.\nThe way it smells. The sounds of kindling crackling and the bigger logs taking\nflame. Getting the fire in that Earth stove banked and setting the intake air\nvents and damper tuned to make that burner hum. Nothing like the heat off a\nthrobbing woodstove when it\u2019s caught its wind. My wife and I could strip down to\nour underwear in the middle of winter, me beating a conga drum and her dancing\nlike Isadora Duncan. Moose watching from a distance. Listening for wolves…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Work also meant digging a hole big enough for a septic tank that could handle the effluent from my camper, so I wouldn\u2019t have to pull the trailer to the dumping station, and back it down my driveway. I needed help doing that the first time, and I don\u2019t want to imagine what would have happened if my son wasn\u2019t guiding me, talking to me on the two-way radio so I didn\u2019t drop it into the trees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digging a hole in the mountains is not an easy thing. It\u2019s hard work, because it\u2019s hard rock. The dirt goes just so far on the surface, the decomposed remains of vegetation are only the mantle of the granite underneath. You have to break it up and scoop it out. I have that gear too: pickaxe and rock bar, and all kinds of shovels. I don\u2019t like this work. It\u2019s hard on my back, which is now sending messages at 5G speed. I have to keep ignoring those messages as my sewage tanks fill. No romantic notions about sewer tanks, just the harsh actuality that their space is finite. But that\u2019s life in a camper…the reality of the Rubber Tramp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   My most important chore is also the one I\nlook forward to most: building a storage\/work shed. I can put up a 120 square\nfoot structure without having to pull a building permit from the county. No\ninspection necessary. No government yahoo coming onto my property telling me\nI\u2019ve used the wrong dimension lumber for rafters, an insufficient roof pitch, improper\nfasteners on the hurricane clips, unsatisfactory headers over doors and\nwindows. Not code compliant. Gonna have to red tag it. Everything is wrong to\nthem. That\u2019s what makes them right. I don\u2019t need government inspectors here.\nWho does? That\u2019s one of the reasons we live in the woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0 I have the gear to build a shed (you gotta love gear): the saws, sawhorses, hammers, slammers and measuring tools. The Ace store in the Village has the fasteners, roof edging and other hardware I\u2019d need. I also have a buddy in Cheyenne with a nail gun, bigger trailer and stronger back. But my back is beginning to fail, just thinking about that project, as I finish the septic tank – in the nick of time. I\u2019ve built plenty of sheds. Even framed a few houses, including my own. But I was younger then, and that was before I tore up my lower lumbar (L4) on a construction job when I was in my late 20s. Note to self: Tall, skinny guys are not built for heavy construction labor.<\/em> The orthopedic surgeon informed me of that when I was flat on my back in the emergency room. He was right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  I had to hire a local handyman to build my\nshed. I had to pay someone else to do something I used to get paid to do.\nSomething I truly enjoyed doing. Something you could look at when the day\u2019s\nwork was finished, and see something that wasn\u2019t there when you started. But\nthose days are gone. The times, they are a changing.\nDylan was right, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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