02-27-2009, 03:07 PM | #1 |
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02-27-2009, 03:16 PM | #2 |
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Isn't it hard enough to survive in this world as it is? I mean hunting and gathering with scarce resources that I have know is pretty damn tough...Challenging to get the insurance paid, the rent covered, lights on, gas in the tank, food in the bellies. Existence is hard work whether you employ technology or not...
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02-27-2009, 03:17 PM | #3 |
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I've been reading a book that had characters in it that lived in the forest.
More and more I've thought about the concept and what it would be like to actually go and do it. I'm not saying I want to but I would consider doing it for a specific length of time. I think it'd be interesting. |
02-27-2009, 03:19 PM | #4 |
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more so that hes doing it up in michigan, theres some prety harsh weather up there.
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02-27-2009, 03:19 PM | #5 |
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There was this thing BMEzine was talking about doing a few years back... Going in on a huge plot in the Canadian wilderness, living off the land... Drop In, Tune Out. Some of the creature comforts would be available... generators and the like, but it sounds something like what this guy in MI did.
I'm in the process of simplifying my life somewhat... getting rid of a ton of shit on the 'well, I'd like to start using it again' or 'maybe I'll use it again' list... Nothing like what's illustrated in this story, but trying to simplify things either way. |
02-27-2009, 03:23 PM | #6 |
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02-27-2009, 03:24 PM | #7 | |
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Not so fun. Hunger: Overrated Worrying about freezing to death in your sleep: Bottom of the bucketlist Having no immediate access to a doctor? Sucks at first but when you get really sick and that whole hallucination and euphoria starts kicking in...not so bad. The cool part is the lack of human contact: It's always fun to watch social creatures such as humans degrade and sink into psychosis after a few years of no contact. That's unless you bring a dog or something. |
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02-27-2009, 03:25 PM | #8 |
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02-27-2009, 03:31 PM | #9 |
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02-27-2009, 03:38 PM | #10 |
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It sounds great to me. I have never done it to the scale that the guy in MI has but when I was younger me and my buddies read the book "hatchet" and thought it sounded cool, so about 10 years ago me and three buddies decided to try it. We took two weeks of the summer and went out to the woods. (a buddies uncle owned 200 plus acres down south) We took in nothing but out guns, hunting knives, some pots and pans, and a few packages of beef jerkey, one book of matches and of course our hatchets. We built our own shelter and stuff, honestly it was truely one of the greatest times of my life. We had a few rough nights when it rained like HELL, and ended up rebuilding our shelter like 10 times just to make it better. Looking back I wish we would have brough a camera or two just to document it a bit better, and I would have brought some vegetables, we had meat from hunting but vegetables are scarce when you don't have time to grow them. We found some wild ones but still wish we would have had more.
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