Randy If you get the chance you need to watch Alone in the wilderness and Alone in the wilderness 2 Dick Proenneke was a guy that retired to Alaska and lived alone for 29 years and documented a lot of it with a diary and movie camera
Now that you mentioned his name, I've heard about him some. I THINK I saw as short blurb about him once. Is he the guy that built a cabin all alone using only hand tools. I remember he carried in his wood drill bits and axe(s) without any handles on them to save packing weight and made the handles when he got there.
That is him iirc his book was called One man's wilderness
The stripes of a tiger don't wash away.
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