On these hot summer days, we’re as far as we can be from trekking through late November snow, sleeping out in the dark woods of the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve in a rainstorm, and feeling the shocking chill of plunging through ice— but that seems to have been just another day out around the bush for prospector and Camp Lochalsh owner Dave Racicot.
We just uncovered the August 1954 issue of Outdoor Life, which includes the article “Survival” by Roy E. Howard. Read the full story on our blog and follow along with a bold prospecting adventure across Wabatongushi Lake, its smaller neighbouring lakes, and the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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