Well – I was glad to be finished with Trapping. It is a cruel business, although the animals do not suffer nearly as much as one would think. A broken limb goes numb immediately & freezes very quickly and once frozen – there is no pain as I know from having been frozen many times.
It is now January 1920 and the Peace River was frozen over, making us look forward to fairly good travelling on the hard river snow, packed solid by the wind.
Another inducement to start immediately was the fact that a number of Indians were going to a dance 50 miles down the River, which meant that a trail would be broken, that far, anyway.
