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December 11, 2015 at 07:27PM

December 12, 2015 By Dave Freeman

It rained all day yesterday and and into the night. We awoke to see a dusting of snow on the ground. The ice is too weak to hold our weight now, so we spent the day in camp. Our supply of cut, split wood was getting low, so we spent some time sawing a few logs. Then I split the wood while Amy made bannock for lunch.
We spent most of the day “at home” in our tent, writing in our journals. The temperature is supposed to hover around freezing for a few days so it will probably be Monday or Tuesday before the ice is safe for us to venture out onto again.

I found myself ruminating over the following quote by Sigurd Olson today. “Some places should be preserved from development or exploitation for they satisfy a human need for solace, belonging and perspective. In the end we turn to nature in a frenzied chaotic world, there to find silence, oneness, wholeness, spiritual release,” – Sigurd Olson
The world seems so much more frenzied and chaotic than it was in 1977 when Sigurd Olson shared these words at a public hearing in Ely about the formation of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
It seems to me Wilderness is now even more precious than it was when the Wilderness Act was passed in 1964. #wildernessyear #savetheBWCA #Wilderness #boundarywaters @seekoutside #getoutstayout #instagood

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