Life-Line of Trapping Cabins
“Dean Wilson’s Trapping Cabin” original acrylic painting by Gail Niebrugge, sold.
Scattered throughout the Wrangell-St. Elias, Alaska, are many rustic hand-hewn log cabins built by fur trappers to use as winter shelter while traveling by snowmachine to tend trap lines. We found this one near the end of an abandoned mining road after a rough four wheel drive over washed out gullies and stream beds. I fell in love with the hand made helicopter wind vane mounted on the roof. We made camp nearby and explored. This is the kind of research for future paintings that I relish and the reason we settled in this remote region. Seeing places where very few people have been or will ever venture. The real wilderness of Alaska.
More tomorrow,
Gail Niebrugge, Artist of Alaska
