This might sound like one big, fun dreamy adventure, but that overlooks the work, planning, training and preparation required. Aidan’s only entertainment was her digital music, a Kindle, and her father’s and second-cousin’s jokes and antics, including renditions of “Guys on Ice” and other self-deprecating Wisconsin humor. For nourishment they ate fresh grayling, Ramen noodles and blueberry pancakes spiced liberally with mosquitoes. They worked long, dirty, sweaty, stinky days hauling, scraping and assembling limbed logs for the new cabin. That’s because she sealed it inside a mosquito-proof headnet. As Aidan noted in her blog,, her head was the only part of her body not stung into one contiguous welt. Their arrival coincided with the region’s worst mosquito infestation in years. A third daughter, Coleen, died at age 2 in June 1984 on the Coleen River when their canoe overturned in icy waters.Ĭampbell first took Aidan to Alaska in July 2013 to help Korth build a log cabin after the Coleen River rerouted itself and threatened the Korths’ previous cabin. He and his wife, Edna, now live alone, but they raised two daughters to adulthood in a small cabin in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Korth moved to Alaska’s frontier over 40 years ago as a teenager. “Braving It” also reintroduces readers to Korth, Campbell’s cousin and fellow Appleton native.
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