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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
jkdrury
Sep 25, 20225 min read
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...
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jkdrury
Sep 11, 20225 min read
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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jkdrury
Aug 28, 20225 min read
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...
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jkdrury
Aug 16, 20225 min read
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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jkdrury
Aug 1, 20225 min read
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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jkdrury
Jul 18, 20224 min read
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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jkdrury
Jul 4, 20225 min read
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,...
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jkdrury
Jun 20, 20223 min read
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...
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