Last week I ordered a guide book from the "Moon Travel Handbooks" series, the Wyoming Handbook by Don Pitcher. It arrived today
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It's very thick, almost 700 pages (
, I thought 300) and therefore naturally very detailed.
While skimming through it for the first time, the headline "Beaver Fever" in the general outdoor security section caught my eye. Next article was "Hypothermia". Here's an excerpt from Hypothermia:
"....the dangers of exposure to cold, wet and windy conditions.....
Put on rain gear before it starts raining....set up camp, keep active or snuggle with a friend in a down bag to generate warmth.
If someone in your party begins to show signs of hypothermia ....get the victim out of the wind, strip off his clothes, and put him in a dry sleeping bag on an insulating pad. Skin-to-skin contact is the best way to warm a hypothermic person and that means you'll also need to strip and climb in the sleeping bag. If you weren't friends before, this should heat up the relationship!" It was big enough, warm enough and in a little while ...
Annie Proulx is also (briefly) mentioned in the handbook, although not for her Wyoming Stories respectively BBM, but for Postcards and The Shipping News (the first edition of the WY handbook was published in 1991, years before Wyoming stories).