Alone in the Wilderness

[Mr Hawken]

Just watched alone in the wilderness with my wife. Excellent movie would love to be there in 1968. Would highly recommend to watching it

[The Cook]

Great show, loved the wooden hinges on the cabin door.

[HoytCRX32]

I own a copy and watch it every year...just a feel good type of video....makes me feel mighty inadequate though.

[gtr]

Watched on a PBS channel a few years ago as well.
Quite interesting and entertaining.

[slopeshunter]

Love watching that show. Have a book also, it’s mostly his journal writings

[wildwoods]

Never mind. I was wrong

[Selkirk]

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For those who haven't seen it ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDN_JRP8J5Q

Selkirk

[curtz]

Great movie, there is another movie called Alaska Silence & Solitude, Dick is in that movie also when he is older. The wife bought me both, sometimes you think what a simple life like that would be like.

[cschache]

Originally Posted by HoytCRX32

I own a copy and watch it every year...just a feel good type of video....makes me feel mighty inadequate though.

I too have the 2 different dvd's of Alone in the wilderness and watch them every year also. Good show for sure

[CanadianEh]

Ha..

I came here just to read the thread.. I ended up shutting the tv off and watching the whole video in my phone.

That is an inspiring life he had lived. And what he accomplished alone.

Anyone wanna go built a bush craft cabin with me?

Hah

[brslk]

Originally Posted by HoytCRX32

I own a copy and watch it every year...just a feel good type of video....makes me feel mighty inadequate though.

Hahahaha! Me too.

[Supergrit]

He was definaetely a different breed of man to do what he did at age 55. Guy had energy that wouldn’t stop nothing but muscle. To cut your own boards by hand like they came from a saw mill was amazing to watch.

[TylerThomson]

One of my all time favorites. Discovered this while in a flea bag motel pipelining a few yeas back and watch it again and again. That was one tough guy.

[fordtruckin]

A much simpler lifestyle that not many could handle. Love that story!

[leeelmer]

Just finished watching it.
All Ican say is wow.
He spent 30 years up there!
Trying to figure out how he afforded supplies?
30 years worth?
He did some amazing carpentry work with only hand tools.

[sharp_85]

Every time I watch that movie I start searching for patches of land to buy and day dream about building a cabin somewhere. Too bad I'm not anywhere near as skilled as he is!

[Selkirk]

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Alone in the Wilderness - Part II ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyvrbqLprn8

Selkirk

[buckbrush]

This used to be my dream. Until i realized that that type of "easy" life style would be very hard both physically and mentally.

Grandpa had this recorded on a VHS and we used to always watch it. I had forgotten about it for a long time. Thanks for the post.

[huntinstuff]

Definitely a different dude

30 years of that

No woman. Minor human interaction

Great ingenuity

Great problem solving brain

Very fit and super cardio

Unique individual.

[Rockman]

Love that video and the life it portrayed!

[coreya3212]

Videos are pulled off of YouTube.

[JD848]

Originally Posted by huntinstuff

Definitely a different dude

30 years of that

No woman. Minor human interaction

Great ingenuity

Great problem solving brain

Very fit and super cardio

Unique individual.

That's the way of life for a true outdoors man,your only lonely if you think your lonely,at 51 he had it with all the crap in this world and lived a life most would enjoy if they had the courage and know how to survive and build a cabin.

Plane came in with supplies and he had great skills in wood work,longest I spent was in 1982 from may to oct and seen the odd resort where I bought grub,most camps won't accept cash,just stay a day or 2 and canoed for hundreds of miles,was the best year of my life.
I knew an older diamond driller who spent 95 percent of his live in the bush.He retired an built great cabin and went there for 35 years all alone till he died at 90 years of age,i went at least 3 times a year to check on him and when he died his family called me up and gave me his rifle,nicest gift ever given to me.

When the first sat phones came out I scored him one,incase of an injury at around 80 years of age,he argued he didn't need it,but he finally took it.He had family and all ,but his heart was the bush and they all new it.

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by sharp_85

Every time I watch that movie I start searching for patches of land to buy and day dream about building a cabin somewhere. Too bad I'm not anywhere near as skilled as he is!

Haha! Same here.

IncrediGirl and I dream of the day we can carve out a piece of Alberta bush to retreat to. Someday!

[Sooner]

Love this show too, watched it on PBS many times even though I hated how they broke up the show to fund raise I still have to order these dvd's for my home collection.

I too still hope to have my dream bush property somewhere and have my own little log cabin in the back 40 that I built and made for 1.

[fishnguy]

Originally Posted by Selkirk

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For those who haven't seen it ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDN_JRP8J5Q

Selkirk

Was going to watch, but it ain't there anymore.

[coyoteman]

A walt disney fantasy and a good one.maybe one in a thousand could survive.Cabin fever is real,and can drive one insane.Takes a powerful set of negative events to drive one to such extremes.a great story to watch from the comforts of modern life,never even had a dog or two,no way. I made it 6 years alone in a cabin,but i had my best friend dogs.when there luck ran out i had to again join the human race.

[Fish along]

Watched this show a long time ago,I built a cabin in the bush years ago, small logs and a dirt floor, I didn't spend a lot of time there maybe a week or so at a time ,but it was a whole lot better than tenting it's been many years ago now fallen down for sure.It wouldn't take a whole lot of prodding to get me to build another one though lol.