Alone in the Wilderness

[Pat K]

I just got done watching Alone in the Wilderness an hour long doc. about Richard Proenneke . You want to talk about self- sufficiency, this guy at the age of 53 goes off into the Alaska wilds in 1968 and with hand power tools, alot of wich he makes. Builds a cabin, outhouse, catch room furniture etc. He then lives there for 30 or so years deciding in his 80's that the 50 deg below  zero winters are becoming to much!!!

[Tom Sawyer]

Getting yourself mentally prepared for NH winters?

[AlanM]

Pat, one word: SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pat K]

Very funny, keep it up, IM gonna have alot of empty beer bottles to throw at PorcFest. 


In the movie the guy says it below zero today, buts it's a toasty 40 deg. in my cabin!! Holy crap talk about hard core!!

I think he would have been much better off with a wood stove flown in instead of the fire place he hand built out of river rock. He would of thought of that as cheating though, he already felt bad about using tar paper and plastic on the roof under the  moss he had up there.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I just got done watching Alone in the Wilderness an hour long doc. about Richard Proenneke . You want to talk about self- sufficiency, this guy at the age of 53 goes off into the Alaska wilds in 1968 and with hand power tools, alot of wich he makes. Builds a cabin, outhouse, catch room furniture etc. He then lives there for 30 or so years deciding in his 80's that the 50 deg below  zero winters are becoming to much!!!

I have that on tape......somewhere.

[aries]

Sounds like last winter.

[KBCraig]

I've seen it. It's a great documentary, about a helluva man.

Personally, I like beer and the companionship of the "gentler sex" too much to follow his example, but it was inspiring.

Kevin

[Kat Kanning]

We watched that a couple months ago...very interesting.

[Lex]

I've seen it. It's a great documentary, about a helluva man.

Personally, I like beer and the companionship of the "gentler sex" too much to follow his example, but it was inspiring.

You can make your own beer and bring a significant other.

[fourthgeek]

You're not a real outdoorsman unless you make your own significant other. Otherwise you're cheating.

Like, a wooden blow-up doll.

[Lex]

You're not a real outdoorsman unless you make your own significant other.

Incest doesn't make you a real outdoorsman!   

[Pat K]

You're not a real outdoorsman unless you make your own significant other. Otherwise you're cheating.

Like, a wooden blow-up doll.

You need to be very careful of splinters !

[Kat Kanning]

I knew a guy that made hand crafted wooden dildos.  He made them for rape victims.

[Pat K]

I work with some wooden dildos, their called bosses here though.

[Tom Sawyer]

Man I check in on these threads and read the strangest things...