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seems like they have built a nice life in UP

ISHPEMING, Mich. — Winter is already hard in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Imagine going through it while living off the land, off the grid and often stranded from the weather. Imagine doing so for years and being thankful that you can.

"Imagine living in a dream you've had your whole life, literally and figuratively a dream," John Jungwirth, who along with his wife calls this isolated place home. "It's really nice to inhabit your dreams."

He and his wife, Victoria, live in a log cabin in a mountainside forest in the northern wilds of the Upper Peninsula. The nearest road is miles away. The only way to get to the cabin is to hike awhile through the woods.

They own Ishpeming Birchbark Canoes. They build traditional wood canoes at home by hand the way the Ojibwa Indians of the region did hundreds of years ago, a skill that comes easy because they live the way those tribes did back then, too.

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