Dave Conroy a trapper in the Canadian wilderness and decides to go trapping alone, but he faces an unexpected enemy. Dave Conroy is a character from the book A Mountain Journey by Howard O’Hagan. After a trip of trapping Dave Conroy wants to get back to the cabin where his friend is staying but he has to traverse through the Canadian bush to get back. Although Dave is an experienced trapper, he has some unfortunate qualities, like his eagerness to get back, his impulsive decisions which inhibited his survival, and his overall carelessness. In the beginning of the story when Dave Conroy first sets off on his trip, instead of setting up camp he continues on his journey which also displays his ambition. One of Dave Conroy’s biggest mistakes was when he kept avoiding setting up camp, “he should have made a fire when he fell through the ice”(95). His eagerness to get back made him think he could make it back in time. Dave Conroy is a muscular person. Dave Conroy is likely fit, as a person would need to be fit to survive in the wilderness alone, when he was skiing “his legs moving back and forth beneath him seemed tireless.”