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Canadian guides and woodsmen are amazingly
resourceful and self-reliant people. They have to be. A lightning strike started this fire. It was spreading. So the guides simply dropped off the guests and put it out with portable pumps, buckets and hand tools. |
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By the time the Forestry Service got there to
inspect the area, the guides had it under control. Might as well get a picture
with the helicopter. For the most part, these Canadian woodsmen can build or maintain anything - cabins, boats, whatever it takes to keep things running. |
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For example, there is a new project, so they just
make their own lumber. There's no builder's warehouse just around the corner up
there. Where does the power come from? They have their own generator - a big one. |
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Just cut - some pretty nice looking 2 X 4s. Oh, and how do they power the planes, boats and generator all summer? With fuel brought up on sleds over the frozen lakes in the winter. |
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