Year-around Roughing It. In Duluth, Minnesota?
For more than three years, fourteen-year-old Isaac Ortman hasn’t slept in his bed. This Minnesota teenager has camped out continuously (“weathered”?) in blizzards, thunderstorms, and minus 38-degree nights.
Why? “It’s just fun!” His bed varies from a packed snow quinzhee to a hammock.
This summer, Isaac will attend a Boy Scout jamboree in West Virginia and also visit Washington, D.C. While there, he says he hopes President Joe Biden will invite him to sleep on the lawn of the White House.
Sources: World Magazine, February 25, 2023, “Sleeping Streak,” page 25; “Minnesota Boy Has Slept Outside For More Than 1,000 Nights, No Matter The Weather,” Jan Wesner Childs, Weather Channel News, February 09, 2023 (retrieved April 25, 2023).
