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Snowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness Dweller

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Chris Czajkowski chose to build her life and small ecotourism business at the shore of a high-altitude lake near the southern tip of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. This can be a formidable landscape of lake-dotted alpine plateaus abutting the glacier-swathed backbone of the central Coast Range.

Snowshoes and Spotted Dick describes Czajkowski’s experiences as she builds her fourth cabin in the wilderness with hand tools, two chainsaws, an Alaskan Mill and a few helpful friends. Certainly one of her helpers is Nick Berwain, a quiet but literary young German who corresponds with Czajkowski long after his return home.

In these fascinating letters to Berwain, Czajkowski details her frequently solitary life: how she breaks trails by snowshoe with her two pack dogs, encounters grizzly bears, builds a custom stone oven and learns use it to bake bread -and spotted dick, a traditional English steamed pudding. The letters also chronicle Czajkowski’s challenges and triumphs as she tries to finish her cabin. Food and building supplies should be flown in and Czajkowski should hike more than 30 kilometres to the nearest road to lead guiding trips and to attend craft fairs and book promotions to supplement her source of revenue.

Lyrically written, Snowshoes and Spotted Dick provides a close have a look at a simpler way of living that most of us only dream about, one that cleaves to nature with beauty, resilience and independence.

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