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The Art of Getting Lost
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Box 106 Wildwood, GA 30757 THE COUNTRY JOURNAL READER: ACTIVE, BRIGHT, THOUGHTFUL • 61% Own chainsaws, «60% Feed birds • 38% Added insulation in the past 2 years • 86% Garden, »33% Ride bicycles • 26% Gave a speech, »85% Voted • 34% Bought a product or service from a Country Journal advertisement. // your product or service is aimed at this impressive audience, VBUY YOURSELF A BULLSEYE! Advertising Department Country Journal 205 Main Street Brattleboro, Vermont 05301 (802)257-1321 Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and he helped chart the route of the Appalachian Trail. Horace Kephart died in an automobile crash in 1931. A marker has been erected at his last campsite to memorialize "The Dean of American Campers." A peak near Clingmans Dome has been named Mount Kephart, an appropriate tribute, for Kephart did his share to put the Smokies on the map. But his most important remains are his books, and they are not monuments but legacies. As long as men and women are drawn to the wilderness, some of them will probably be reading Kephart for guidance in the art of getting lost. O Stephen Goodwin is the author of two novels and a number of articles for Country Journal. From Camping and Woodcraft When you go a-camping, make yourself as comfortable as you can. It is neither heroic nor sensible to put peas in your boots to mortify the flesh. . . . In dry weather, on ground that is not too steep or stony, give me the velvety and pliant, pussy-footed moccasin, of real moose-hide, "smoke-tanned" so it will dry soft if I do get wet. I will see more that is worth seeing in the woods than anybody who wears shoes. If your feet are too tender, at first, for moccasins, add insoles of good thick felt, or birch bark or the dried inner bark of red cedar. After a few days the feet will toughen, the tendons will learn to do their proper work without crutches, and you will be able to travel farther, faster, more noiselessly, and with less exertion, than in any kind of boots or shoes. . . . After one's feet have become accustomed to this most rational of all covering they become almost like hands, feeling their way, and avoiding obstacles as though gifted with a special sense. They can bend freely. One can climb in moccasins as in nothing else. So long as they are dry, he can cross narrow logs like a cat, and pass in safety along treacherous slopes where thick-soled shoes might bring him swiftly to grief. Moccasined feet feel the dry sticks underneath, and glide softly over the telltales without cracking them. . . . Heavy men, tender- footed from town, enjoy moccasins best in a hammock. Smudges A good smudge is raised by using cedar "cigars," made as follows: Take long strips of cedar bark and bunch them together into a fagot six or eight inches in diameter, about one strip in three being dry and the others water- soaked; bind them with strips of the inner bark of green cedar. Ignite one end at the camp-fire, and set up two or more such cigars on different sides of the camp,. . . Punky wood piled on a bed of coals is also good. The ammoniacal vapors from a smudge of dried cow-dung is particularly effective. I have elsewhere referred to smudges made of dried toadstools; these are peculiarly repellent to punkies. A toadstool as large as one's two fists will hold fire for six or eight hours. A piece of one can be carried suspended by a string around one's neck, the burning end out. If the fungus is too damp at first, it can soon be dried out by placing it before the fire. Skilugalee The best thing in a fixed camp is the stock-pot. A large covered pot or enameled pail is reserved for this and nothing else. Into it go all the clean fag-ends of game—heads, tails, wings, feet, giblets, large bones—also the left-overs of fish, flesh, and fowl, of any and all sorts of vegetables, rice, or other cereals, macaroni, stale bread, everything edible except fat. This pot is always kept hot. Its flavors are forever changing, but ever welcome. It is always ready, day or night, for the hungry varlet who missed connections or who wants a bite between meals. No cook who values his peace of mind will fail to have skilly simmering at all hours. Thirst In warm weather, one's first few days on the march will bring an inordinate thirst, which is not caused by the stomach's demand for water, but by a fever of the palate. This may be relieved somewhat by chewing a green leaf, or by carrying a smooth, non-absorbent pebble in the mouth; but a much better thirst-quencher is to suck a prune or carry a bit of raw onion in the mouth. One can go a long time without drinking if he has an onion with him; this also helps to prevent his lips from cracking in alkali dust. From a selfish standpoint, the solitary camper revels in absolute freedom. Anytime, anywhere, he can do as he pleases. There is no anxiety as to whether his mates are having a good time, no obligation of deference to their wishes. Selfish? Yes; but, per contra, when one is alone he is boring nobody, elbowing nobody, treading on nobody's toes. He is neither chiding nor giving unasked advice. Undeniably he is minding his own business—a virtue to cover a multitude of sins. Reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., from Camping and Woodcraft, by Horace Kephart. Copvright 1916, 1917 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., renewed 1944, 1945 by Laura M. Kephart. 118 I SEPTEMBER 1980
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This 11-page article titled, “The Art of Getting Lost,” is about the life and work of Horace Kephart. It was written by Stephen Goodwin in 1980 for the magazine Country Journal. The article features photographs contributed by Western Carolina University’s Hunter Library and includes an excerpt from Kephart’s book “Camping and Woodcraft.” Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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