Blog: Cold Splinters

David Bird Thomson was living in Denver at the end of the 70s when he decided to hop on his mule, buy some flour and head to the mountains, in search of a plot of a land to build his cabin. Sound familiar ? Thomson's account of his quest, In The Shining Mountains , is more tongue-in-cheek than Proenneke (his "mule" was his car and the "trail" was I-70) but the sentiment hits closer to home than One Man's Wilderness [...]

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