The lone lake cabin is located along the eastern shore of Mystery Lake. Some supplies can be found inside the cabin which also provides good protection from the elements. Occasionally, a hunting rifle and a Frozen Corpse can be found behind it. A possible bear spawn is near here and a bear cave.
The Long Dark Trappers Cabin Map
yeah same i hate the mess and i just wish i could clean it all up and making living in it practicable camp office is good as i boast 2 doors meaning if a wold traps you one way you can go out of another and there is some deer but about 2 to 3 wolves on the lake it also is near the middle of the map so its more easier to move/explore around trappers cabins is good as their is a good spot for trapping rabbits and some deer a bear sometimes wonders in there as i have seen. wolf activity is surprisingly low in this area so it about even cap office has better beds for warmth but trappers has better beds for healing. so its up to you. i just wish we could clean stuff up like i said before. whatever you choose good luck with surviving
Actually, it would not be possible. Have any of you ever tried to chop wood with a small hatchet? I have done it for years. If you have a hatchet at home and dont live in the snow wilderness, you can test this yourself: put a solid wet log into your freezer for three days and then pull it out, and try hacking at it. Or rather dont do that because you will probably just hurt yourself... wet wood which freezes gets incredibly hard and heavy, because it is not only made of wood but also frozen water. Doesnt it feel like the hatchet takes a lot of beating each time you use it to cut wood in TLD? Why do you think that is, just a game mechanic? No, it emits the fact that you carve the wood which is frozen stiff. Always wondered why you cant just drag the whole log? Good luck trying it, that piece of wood is frozen and sticked to the ground.Truth is, hatchets are not made to carve into logs, they are intended for branches. Axe is what you need for logs.And even then, we are talking about thigh-thick logs, not a lumber you would need to build a log cabin, however small it was... you need saw for that, circular saw at best, to be able to split it. None of those things are performed with frozen wood. What will you do, build monumental fires to thaw the lumber next to them? How will you transport the lumber to your desired location? Dont tell me on a sleigh... you would need a horse or rather two at least to move a single piece of lumber. What then once its on the location where you want to build the cabin? Do you thaw it again? How will you turn it to the cabin now? Hack at it for hours upon hours to no end to cut a single piece to two bits?Even if you were using the thigh-thick pieces of logs to build this cabin of yours (which would provide very shitty temperature isolation with a wall this thin) it would be next to impossible feat to even split these pieces just with the tools you would have at hand.The only way i can feasibly see some splits done is if you used sharpened sticks hammered into the log with the back of the hatchet, which could eventually produce split logs. Either way, you would have frozen to death long before you would even get the wood to that location.
It's not uncommon to spot the beast wandering along the frozen river outside the Dam, or trotting into the clearing outside the cabin. If you're not having much luck in either of these places, try the cabin east of the Unnamed Pond where you can see trees have been rubbed by moose in the area. Hiking between the two cabins is a good way to increase your odds.
In December, native trappers complained to the local RCMP detachment in Aklavik that 'Johnson' was tampering with their traps, tripping them and hanging them on the trees. A post incident investigation by the RCMP "found an entirely different story. Evidently, Johnson had roughly told them to take off and had even pointed a gun at them, when they came-a-visiting at Johnson's cabin".[2][3]
After Johnson's death, RCMP officials realized that he had travelled over 137 km (85 mi) away from his cabin in 33 days, burning approximately 42 MJ (10,000 kcal) a day in the cold weather and hostile terrain. Seventy-five years later in 2007, forensics teams found that his tailbone was not actually symmetrical, causing his spine to curve left and right slightly. In addition, one foot was longer than the other.[citation needed]
The vast majority of mountain men worked directly for a large fur trading company. These companies employed hundreds of trappers and hunters at a time. These hunters and trappers worked for wages. The companies supplied the hired trappers with their food, equipment, and other supplies. The furs produced by these hunters belonged to the company.
"The trappers in the sketch are en repose [resting], the peculiar caps on their heads are made by themselves, to replace the felt hats, long since worn out or lost,--their fringed shirts, 'leggings,' moccasins &c., are made by the Indian women, and sewed throughout with sinew instead of thread, which they do not possess."
Alfred Miller titled this drawing "free trappers in trouble." Their trouble was that they were starving when Miller's caravan found them along the trail. Mountain men lived most of the year cut off from all contacts with the east. Except for short periods at the summer rendezvous, they lived a primitive way of life. They had to adapt to the environment in which they found themselves. They faced dangers of all sorts and had to rely on one another to avoid, or deal with, these dangers.
In 1825, William Ashley struck upon the idea of a yearly rendezvous to exchange goods for furs. For the next 20 years or so, the rendezvous largely replaced the trading posts as centers for these exchanges. Even so, several forts, such as Fort Laramie, survived. They continued to provide needed services and goods for many trappers. By the 1840s, Fort Laramie was a major stop for emigrants along the Oregon Trail. By this time, many former trappers served a scouts and wagon masters for the emigrant trains traveling to Oregon and California.
We were allowed to camp in the trappers cabins with wood stoves, picnic shelters with wood stoves, at any established small campsite, or at any group camp for our late September trip. All campsites had outhouses, a fire ring, and bear lockers. Most had built up sand/gravel level tent pads. On our trip we spent the first 3 nights at trappers cabins shared with other folks, night four in the tent at a small campsite by ourselves, and night 5 with the tent set up inside a picnic shelter with other folks. There were 4 radio phone stations set up along the way if you got into serious trouble. The park had power boats stationed at the upper and lower end of each lake to shuttle out emergencies and there were several helipads located along the way. At the farthest away point in the park, they indicated their response time to a radio phone call should be about 4 hours. The park ranger asked to see an axe before they allowed us in the park. Those with a hatchet had to rent another hatchet to be able to use one as a wedge. Being able to build a fire in any conditions at that time of year was critical. Wood lots were scattered along the way marked with a post and a red W, and I quickly learned to carry a couple seasoned pieces of wood along in the canoe at all times - enough to get a fire started and begin drying out the wet or punky wood that was the usual in the lots. Most wood had been cut into 12" to 14" long billets and split in half or quarters. Toward the end of the day we would load up enough wood in the canoe to hold us for the evening and next morning - even if it meant portaging it.
Left our motel in Quesnel about 6:40 AM and arrived at Bowron Lake Outfitters about 8:15 to check in for our previously arranged rentals of a kayak, kayak portage cart, a canoe portage cart. The outfitter shuttled our rental stuff to the weigh in area at the Park HQ about 10 AM after orientation. We got weighed in and issued a boat ID tag which stated what gear could be in the boat on the portages. This could be checked by trail rangers and if in violation you would be subject to fine. The limit is 60 lbs of gear in the boat and the rest goes on your back. We headed down the 1.5 mile portage to Kibbee Lake at 10:30AM. Using a portage cart was a different experience with its own challenges - especially holding back on the down hills. The portages were graveled paths about 3 to 4 feet wide. I took the Minnesota 3 on this trip and there were a few spots on the portages where I had trouble getting the long canoe through. Once I had a tip over - but overall my cart with 4"x16" tires was well behaved once I found the right balance point. We wore bear bells on the portages because this is grizzly country, but the canoe paddles and other gear rattling in the cart are louder noise than the bells. Paddled across Kibbee and had lunch before we did the 1.2 mile portage (long uphill grade) into Indianpoint Lake. Drizzle and light rain the whole day. Decided to stay at the trappers cabin in Indianpoint Lake for the night at mile 8. Shared the cabin with a mother / daughter tandem from Seattle. Slept on a bench off the floor. Periods of heavy rain that night. Got up twice during the night to stoke the wood stove.
Started about 8:45AM into lifting fog and some drizzle. Took 1 mile portage into Isaac Lake, longest lake on the circuit at 23.6 miles long. The paddle down Isaac, was amazing mountain scenery with vistas that would open up as you paddle by the draws and avalanche paths. The avalanche paths were lined with aspens that were gold in peak fall color. Lots of glacial melt water cascading down in waterfalls. The snow line was about 1000 feet above us. The lake color was intense dark blue. Had a morning break about 11AM, then we paddled until 1:30 and had a late lunch at another trapper cabin at mile 21. Decided to camp there for the night with the same two folks we stayed with the night before. Set up the dry fly for an outdoor cooking area. Slept on the cabin floor. The cabin mice were restless that night. 2ff7e9595c
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