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| Movies, Classics to Less than Normal By request - Grab your Popcorn. New Movie forum (for those that have given up fishing this year). (No P 0rn) |
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02-19-2010, 02:03 PM
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Alone in the Wilderness
Has anyone sen this video?
I saw it a few years back on PBS, and actually bought the DVD.
Imagine a 50+ year old man/woman building a log cabin BY HAND in the Alaskan wilderness?
It is impressive to see the process, and to learn that this guy spent 30+ years living up there by himself.
Oh, and he started it in the 60's.
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02-19-2010, 02:26 PM
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Awesome Movie....I also have a copy of it.
Showed it to the troop one night and had them try and pick out the different merit badges that are in it.......
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02-19-2010, 02:54 PM
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Unreal film. On top of the incredible physical effects those winters must have had on him, the psychological impact must have been just as brutal.
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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02-19-2010, 03:04 PM
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I love watching that when it comes on PBS, that guy was hardcore.
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60 % of the time, it works every time.
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02-19-2010, 04:47 PM
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It just goes to show how mentally sound he was.
How many of us could tolerate being alone for a week, let alone for months on end?
One thing that always sticks in my mind when I watch it was when, after he had finished the fireplace, and in the middle of winter, he quotes that the cabin is a "balmy" 40 dgrees.
Now that's hardcore!
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02-19-2010, 06:18 PM
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cant find it on netflix  |
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02-19-2010, 07:22 PM
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Didn't realize you could buy it. Great film. A lesson in woodcraft and living off the land.
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02-19-2010, 09:49 PM
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Uncle Remus
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luved how he made the door and hinges, great movie
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02-19-2010, 10:28 PM
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I saw it for the first time a few months back. Absolutely amazing, what a craftsman. The door hinges and lock were amazing.
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02-19-2010, 10:43 PM
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02-20-2010, 05:48 PM
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Registered Grandpa
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bronko
Unreal film. On top of the incredible physical effects those winters must have had on him, the psychological impact must have been just as brutal.
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For sure, we are such whimps compared to the settlers and back woods men.
I have a copy of an 1854 letter from my Great Grandfather sent back home after he raised 10 kids in England, then came to Virginia after his wife died and brought a Daughter and Grandson to build a log cabin and start a farm at age 70!!!!
He describes the winter snows, depression, eating nothing but corn mash and his Grandson dying from exposure the first winter. He and his Daughter cleared 8 acres of land the first two years, no chainsaws!!, and died of exposure himself.
And we complain if we run out of hot water. |
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