On Monday (August 28, 2006) I had the amazing opportunity to fly out to my lodge’s Bear Camp. It is situated at the edge of Lake Clark National Park (the least visited National Park in the US!), and is fly in only, as there are no roads for at least a hundred miles in any direction. The camp is set up with Weather Port tents, which are large canvas tents built on a platform big enough for two twin beds in each. There is a small cabin-like building that serves as a kitchen, and an electric fence surrounds all of the tents. It’s all really quite comfortable and peaceful, although cold as my propane heater turned out to not have any propane! I had to fly in on something similar to a bush plane (I was
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