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Bushwhack Jack's Tracts
Tract: /trak(t)/ a short treatise of significance
These posts are published every other Tuesday in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise
The only daily newspaper published in the Adirondack Park
The Formative Wilderness Experience         Part 1 - Winter Camping - 1968
Upon arriving at the University of Wyoming in the fall of ‘67 I started to do some camping with friends. It was what I'd experienced with...
jkdrury
Sep 25, 20225 min read
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The Formative Wilderness Experience      Part 2 - Winter Camping - 1968
It had been less than forty-eight hours since Al Hendricks, Dennis Alf, and I’d left the comfort of our dormitory at the University of...
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Sep 11, 20225 min read
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The Formative Wilderness Experience Part 3 - Survival Education
For those of you who haven’t been following along, my two college buddies, Al Hendricks and Dennis Alf, and I left the University of...
jkdrury
Aug 28, 20225 min read
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Newfoundland 1959
My mother loved Newfoundland dogs, almost as much as she loved her kids. She got her first Newfie when she was twelve, which started a...
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Aug 16, 20225 min read
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Ampersand Mountain Revisited
I have a long history with Ampersand Mountain. In 1960, at the age of eleven, I hiked it with my uncle and sisters. It was the start of a...
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Aug 1, 20225 min read
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The Ones That Didn't Get Away
It was July 1978, friends and I had just completed a thirty-day backpacking trip and were driving down Idaho State Highway 32 for a...
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Jul 18, 20224 min read
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The Tale of the Tail
​ Post-WWII was a pretty good time period in America, but there were still plenty of things to scare a kid. Alfred Hitchcock,...
jkdrury
Jul 4, 20225 min read
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Be One with the Bugs
I recently returned from a sixteen-day rafting trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon with my good wilderness travel buddy...
jkdrury
Jun 20, 20223 min read
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