[at-l] Going solo

[saunterer@jimbullard.org (saunterer@jimbullard.org)]

At 10:53 AM 12/6/01 -0500, rhymworm@mindspring.com wrote:
>And don't be embarassed about being uneasy. ...clip...
>
>Not long before leaving on my thruhike I'd read Farly Mowat's wonderfully 
>funny book, NEVER CRY WOLF, and what stuck in my mind was the section 
>where he decided to "stake out" his territory among the wolves he was 
>studying, which he did by drinking a lot of coffee and carefully urinating 
>all around his camp to mark it off from the wolves' territory. It worked. 
>The wolves discovered and inspected his "markings," and acknowledged them.
>
>Well, on my first night alone in the woods . . .  You guessed it.
>
>Looking back, of course, it now seems really silly. I didn't tell 
>anybody--it would have gotten me a different Trail name, for sure.

You mean like "Trail Marker"?

sAunTerer