moving to the alaskan wilderness

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by Marty Van Diest

So if it's a female it's a refreshing post but if it's a male he is off the wall.

Actually, this is just another troll trying to bait the Alaskans again.

Somebody trying a McCandles?

[Marty Van Diest]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Yes it does, but how else are we to prevent our igloos from melting?

Good Point !

[LadyAuke]

If we don't scare him away, he'll come up here and eat all our wascally wabbits.

[starlite9]

Wow, -30!

Hasn't been that warm in weeks... Um, months!

[Frostnip]

Originally Posted by drewdunnrespect

okay hiya gang my namew is drew and i am new to this forum and i am looking tomove the alaskan wilderness and am wanting to build myself a life out of the beyond. Now please note i am a bushhcrafter and am used to living out doors in all weathers and am fasinated by logabins and have built one on a scout camp i help run and really want to build another one and then live there buy hunting, growing my own food, and chopping logs for heat and what not but i currently live in the uk with rents and am 24 and well i love the idea of having a gun to go hunting with and currently own a air rifle that i would hunt bunny rabbit s with if i had land to do so on.

and i am also brewing my oen beer and make my own wine and am starting to get in to preserving food and canning and what not and well i now want to in get to wilderness living big style which is not really possible in the uk any advice

drew

I can't help but think you've been watching too much Ray Mears or whatever. Spending time camping out in the UK wouldn't prepare you for the reality of life on the ground in the remote parts of the interior of Alaska (I assume you are talking interior, since your previous post here referenced it).

If you're serious about this - and you can actually get through immigration - I strongly suggest spending a year or more in a populated, established interior community, acclimatizing and learning from the people who are familiar with the skillsets you would need to meet your goal. Functioning in an subarctic environment without ready access to significant infrastructure is not something you learn from a book, the internet, or from outings in the pastoral British countryside.

You also need to consider the magnitude of the cost of such an endeavor.

[MaggieZ]

I have had that dream of moving to Alaska since forever and seeing the pictures here on Citydata is making me want to come out there even more, living off the grid with a bunch of sled dogs and not having any dealings with humans for months on end...it sounds like paradise but reality is different and I have no plans on ever trying to live out there. The cold alone would kill me.