A Wildlife Investment
I honed my trail maintenance skills as a young man on a DEC Trail crew team in the Adirondack high peaks. There I learned a wide variety of valuable skills and techniques, everything from axemanship, to two-man blowdown clearing bowsaw skills, crafting freshly felled cedar trees into water bars, ladders and stringer bridges. I even studied the mystic art of building bases for trailside privies.
One thing that I never gave much thought to back then, as we braved blackfly blitzkriegs, dragging evergreen mountains of hand cut logs, branches and brush clear of mile after mile of winding high peaks trails, was the value resident non-hiking boot clad denizens found in the tangled mass branches we discarded as refuse.
Getting Rid of the Box
An Adirondack Outlaw Survivor Approach To Living Life Forward
We’ve all heard the phrase “Think outside the box.” It’s all too frequently offered as a euphemism for innovative thinking or creative problem solving. It’s even been used by many “experts” as a foundation philosophy for a long list of bestselling books.
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