Line drawing by Fred Hirschmann of Dick Proenneke’s Cabin at Twin Lakes, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. Illustration used by Dick for many years as his rubber stamp for letters and envelopes.
August 12, 1969:
A weasel came and the boldest I have seen. Before we discovered him he had gnawed on the tip of the velvet covered antlers. I put them on the roof of the cabin. He came to the fleshing log with five of us standing near. He went to work on a scrap at Jerrys feet. I slowly reached down and got ahold of it – picked it up weasel and all. His front legs wrapped around it and toes locked the same as a persons fingers of one hand between fingers of the other. He hung on and gnawed for a minute or more while I held him three feet above ground. When I set him scrap and all on the bench he bounded away with it. Very unusual for a weasel to be so bold or tame.
Aug. 16, 1969:
This evening everything is back to normal. Just me, my birds, the weasel and a young tree squirrel that I got close up movies of today…
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