Until Another Spring Summary and Analysis

Temperature on the last days of September is forty-eight degrees as Dick prepares to leave the wilderness. His dad needs help at home, so Dick is packing up to depart by September 25 or the next best flying day after that date. Babe agrees that Dick will appreciate the wilderness more after he experiences the "sick country again." Dick spends the next day cleaning up litter left by hunters at their campsites and surrounding Glacier Creek. He prepares his tools for storing. On September 23, it is twenty-five degrees and foggy. He watches a bull moose and cow as they enter into rutting season. Dick loads his cache full and stores his cache ladder in Spike's cabin so he is ready to leave on the next day. It is September 25 and a clear calm thirty-two degrees when Babe arrives...