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I personally have a dream one day to have an off-grid cabin. Certainly a huge amount of effort was made to bring on all those materials by backpack.
A remarkable story of a modern-day homesteader
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I was raised in Southern Calif and think of the Ventana Wilderness as chaparral scrubland. I bet that guy's valley was dry as dust in recent years and I know there have been many fires in that area.
But I can understand the appeal. Alaska has many such cabins in the wilderness, given the lousy weather. Some can be reserved ahead of time for reasonable rents (it's one of those reserve it the minute it comes available things). But Wrangell St. Elias NP (where my avatar comes from) is a 13 million acre NP with numerous free, no-reservation fly-in cabins. I've backpacked there before but the weather can be atrocious. I definitely plan to go back to WRST some day and get a bush flight into one of those remote cabins. If you go outside the hunting season/boundaries and away from fishing lakes, the cabins are not heavily used. And despite the no reservation situation, the bush pilots know which ones are occupied.
Not sure about living long-term in such a place. I would need lots of books. And maybe a satellite internet connection. I can do without technology for the length of a backpacking trip. Not so sure about much longer than that.
But I can understand the appeal. Alaska has many such cabins in the wilderness, given the lousy weather. Some can be reserved ahead of time for reasonable rents (it's one of those reserve it the minute it comes available things). But Wrangell St. Elias NP (where my avatar comes from) is a 13 million acre NP with numerous free, no-reservation fly-in cabins. I've backpacked there before but the weather can be atrocious. I definitely plan to go back to WRST some day and get a bush flight into one of those remote cabins. If you go outside the hunting season/boundaries and away from fishing lakes, the cabins are not heavily used. And despite the no reservation situation, the bush pilots know which ones are occupied.
Not sure about living long-term in such a place. I would need lots of books. And maybe a satellite internet connection. I can do without technology for the length of a backpacking trip. Not so sure about much longer than that.
Re: A remarkable story of a modern-day homesteader
Cool story, amazing they could finish walls and roof within a year using mostly on-site materials and their tools. The house and overall setting looks nice. I like the idea of spending time in a small secluded cabin like this, but like drm said, one thing is staying for a time, quite another is living there long-term.
As a school kid, I used to spend summers in my grandparents' log house on their farm - not quite as rustic or remote, but not too modern by any means - no indoor toilets, running water, tv, obviously no phone and internet, washer/drier; don't remember if we even had a fridge (would only need it for 2 months in the summer, and even then northern nights were cold); we had wood stove for heating/cooking. Water was carried from spring; several tons of potatoes, beets and carrots stored under ground for winter; we always had fresh meat and milk. As a child, it was great times: lots of animals, fishing, swimming, hikes to forest for mushrooms, berries, and tree climbing. We were constantly building or improving something, taking care of animals probably 4 am to 7-8pm, with nice long break in the middle of the day. We had several acres of vegetables and mostly grew our own food, and also grew strawberries for sale. As an adult, I think it would be nice to live in this setting for a year or two (possibly longer with a good home-based job); but if it was a cabin just stuffed with food & nothing to do I would get pretty tired of it in a month.
As a school kid, I used to spend summers in my grandparents' log house on their farm - not quite as rustic or remote, but not too modern by any means - no indoor toilets, running water, tv, obviously no phone and internet, washer/drier; don't remember if we even had a fridge (would only need it for 2 months in the summer, and even then northern nights were cold); we had wood stove for heating/cooking. Water was carried from spring; several tons of potatoes, beets and carrots stored under ground for winter; we always had fresh meat and milk. As a child, it was great times: lots of animals, fishing, swimming, hikes to forest for mushrooms, berries, and tree climbing. We were constantly building or improving something, taking care of animals probably 4 am to 7-8pm, with nice long break in the middle of the day. We had several acres of vegetables and mostly grew our own food, and also grew strawberries for sale. As an adult, I think it would be nice to live in this setting for a year or two (possibly longer with a good home-based job); but if it was a cabin just stuffed with food & nothing to do I would get pretty tired of it in a month.