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<b>How to build a log cabin in a season which will last a lifetime or
more, using only hand tools and minimal provisions. <br>
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</a></b>SHORT VERSION YOUTUBE
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<i>There were 4 one hour videos produced on Dick Proennekes life up at
Twin Lakes. Dick Proenneke in "Alone in the Wilderness" is the
story of Dick Proenneke living in the Alaska wilderness. Dick filmed his
adventures so he could show his relatives in the lower 48 states what
life was like in Alaska, building his cabin, hunting for food and
exploring the area. Bob Swerer has taken the best footage from Dick's
films and he has created 4 videos about Dick, "Alone in the
Wilderness", "Alone in the Wilderness part 2",
"Alaska, Silence and Solitude" and "The Frozen
North". You can purchase all of them in DVD format from the
<a href="http://www.dickproenneke.com/" eudora="autourl">
www.DickProenneke.com</a> website. <br><br>
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</i><h1><b>Proenneke's
Cabin</b></h1>
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</a>Richard L. Proenneke's cabin at Upper Twin Lake stands out for the
remarkable craftsmanship that reflects his unshakable wilderness ethic.
He built the cabin using only hand tools, many of which he fashioned
himself.<br>
Richard Proenneke built his cabin during the summers of 1967 and 1968
using mostly local materials and simple hand held tools. For many of
these, he brought in steel parts and made the handles with local wood.
When tools broke, he chose to repair them, rather than to buy new
replacements. While his cabin is neither the first nor the largest ever
built in the Alaskan Bush, it does stand out for his remarkable
craftsmanship in building it, and the fact that he filmed the entire
construction process. <br><br>
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Cabin<br>
The cabin is a roughly 12-foot by 16-foot structure built of peeled,
round spruce logs, carefully saddle notched at the corners. It has a
gable roof made of spruce poles, covered by sod and moss.There are three
windows. One on the west side, 23 inches by 14 inches, is a single thin
plastic panel. The other western window, also thin plastic, is the
largest in the cabin, measuring 26-inches by 30-inches. Along the east
wall is a 26-inch by 15-inch window. The handmade Dutch door includes
beautifully worked wooden hinges and a wooden lock. A beach stone
fireplace rises from the south wall.<br>
Proenneke had originally covered his cabin and woodshed-outhouse with
moss that he obtained within 25 yards of his site. However, moss requires
a great deal of moisture to sustain itself on a roof and the relatively
dry Twin Lakes environment was not conducive to that. Over thirty years
Proenneke added more moss, dirt, and grass seed to his roof resulting in
a thin amalgamated mat of all three components.<br>
In keeping with his wilderness values, Proenneke lived in this cabin for
30 years without electricity, running water, a telephone, or other modern
conveniences.<br><br>
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Cache<br>
The log cache, or raised storage shed, is located eleven feet south of
the cabin. It is 6-feet by 4-feet, built of peeled locally harvested
spruce logs that are saddle notched. The cache sits on 9-foot poles.
Proenneke accessed the cache with a ladder he hand crafted using local
materials.<br>
Traditional Athabascan caches in the region sit on much shorter poles,
but they are typically located in busy villages where the activity of
people and dogs help to keep wildlife away. Knowing that he would be
alone in the wilderness, Proenneke chose to build his cache on taller
poles to help decrease the odds of a bear breaking in. The tin wrapped
around the poles is designed to prevent smaller rodents from climbing all
the way to the top.<br><br>
Woodshed / Outhouse<br>
Proenneke located his combined woodshed/outhouse approximately 45 feet
east of the cabin. It is made of peeled locally harvested spruce poles,
saddle notched at the south end and nailed to corner posts at the north
end. The structure is modeled along the lines of an Adirondack shelter,
with a slanting shed roof. Proenneke stored many of his tools, along with
the wood pile he never let dwindle too low, in this shed.<br>
The eastern third of the shed contains a 33-inch wide outhouse complete
with a half-moon carved through the door.<br><br>
The cabin and outbuildings were listed on the National Register of
Historic Places in 2007. The site is recognized nationally for its
stature as an excellent and well-known example of an Alaskan bush log
cabin. It is also recognized for Richard Proenneke's voice in the
preservation of wilderness in Alaska. Proenneke's interests, talents, and
circumstances made him influential in shaping and educating the public
about the wisdom of conservation of our natural world.<br><br>
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