Richard Proenneke’s Voyage North To Alaska Dick Proenneke ... How Proenneke Built His Twin Lakes Cabin Home From Scratch Today, Twin Lakes is best known for being Dick Proenneke’s private ...

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin on the shore of Twin Lakes. The first summer he scouted for the best cabin site, and cut and peeled the logs he would ...

began flying to Proenneke’s cabin to deliver his mail. He went on to become a well-known Alaskan pilot and the mayor of the Lake and Peninsula Borough. I think of Dick as a kindred spirit. I grew up ...

Dick Proenneke hard at work in Twin Lakes, Alaska. (National Parks Service photo ... he built the entire cabin by hand using only what he had available in the dense Alaskan bush.

Dick Proenneke was an American naturalist who lived alone in the high mountains of Alaska at a place called Twin Lakes. Living simply in a log cabin he constructed by hand, Proenneke made valuable ...

Dick Proenneke was an American naturalist who lived alone in the high mountains of Alaska at a place called Twin Lakes. Living simply in a log cabin he constructed by hand, Proenneke made valuable ...