Forum: Lost Stories

Howdy

I was looking through some old forum posts for inspiration and I came across one that sounds interesting.
The post I saw (from 2016) said:
It involves a young man who decides to become a gold miner. He spends the first winter in a roughly built cabin, very isolated, and has a run in with a bear who breaks down the door to his cabin.
He visits a town some distance away and meets and old miner who now lives in a Nursing Home who sells him the very claim he wants to prospect. Everything improves after this.
Later the old man dies and leaves him everything, including a guide and rescue operation

It may have been an author called K Pelle? Can anyone help?

That story has only ever been on his own site, it's called "Beyond the Mirror".

K Pelle - dotB

Author info site has him listed as 'retired'

But I've seen nothing in any forum he used to frequent. Zero for years.

Anyone know whether he's still with us or has he passed like so many other great storytellers?

Thanks.