Cabin Fever: solitude and self-reliance in Alaska

Using peeled spruce logs, Dick Proenneke built his Alaska cabin with hand tools only.EVERY TIME I THINK OF the remote wilderness, I think of people. This is not the contradiction it seems. As a child, I grew up marching around some of the most isolated terrain of Alaska. But almost always, I was out there fishing for king salmon, hunting for caribou, or hiking up a shale-covered mountain with my father or mother or grandmother or a family friend as close as any family.