Summary

He doesn’t get much sleep, and by morning he has convinced himself that he has missed an opportunity. He decides to return to the spot of his encounter. He is pleased, though unprepared, for the footprints he finds measuring six inches in diameter. They combine to make a forty inch stride. He returns to the cabin and rereads the information he has, confirming that some wolves weigh in at up to one hundred and seventy pounds and measure up to almost nine feet from nose tip to tail tip, standing as high as forty two inches at the shoulders. The next morning, Farley finds his compass and decides to again try to make contact. He follows the wolf’s tracks through a bog and loses the trail on the other side. He stops for lunch and scans the area with his...