Chapter 10
With the days getting decidedly colder, Hugh and Ansel poured all their energy for the following week into stocking more wood, hunting for game, and foraging for edible vegetation. The woven baskets they’d found were excellent for collecting various plants and the mushrooms from between the roots of several pine trees—then for storing them after they’d dried in the sun.
They found rabbits, squirrels, and birds which they skinned or plucked, gutted, then stewed, or dried by draping thin strips of meat over the rim of the hanging pot, just before banking the fire for the night. They knew that would have to be an ongoing task with so few jars, but at least they were getting ahead of the game.
After some debate, they decided they could catch fish whenever they needed to, even on
