A Northern Experience: The Journals of Norman Robinson
Trapping with Hornby Page 25

very strong after a hard winter’s work with only rabbits to live on.

Anyway, Pine Lake cabin needed supplies and we had to go. Having loaded our sleighs with the supplies we had to haul and our own grub, blankets, dried fish for the dogs etc. etc, we started. The first 20 miles was over a well worn trail which made travelling [traveling] good and we did that easily on the first day. From that point, there was no trail.

Our plan was to walk to the cabin and back beating down the snow with our snowshoes as

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