“I'm not saying, let's make life harder for the sake of making it harder. I'm saying, Let's see how much we can do before we start looking for shortcuts. Let's test our limits before we surrender." A legendary figure in Idao's River of No Return Wilderness, known as the Packer, often spends weeks alone in the woods, on horseback, managing mule caravans. he has fought off a bear attack, lives only on what he can catch or find in the woods, "with the same obsessive drive to master everything in his world." He often lives in the deepcountry for 30-40 days at a time. He's qualified as a woodlands firefighter, a primitive tools expert, and a blacksmith. One of his co-workers says "I think Patrick does this because he considers it art." "It's about patience and persistence" Patrick says. and being creative without being destructive."”
