ready to live like heimo korth (Fairbanks, Tok: squatters, homes, purchase)

[stiffnecked]

Spleen, you always have a choice, exercise it, move.

[spleenificus]

stiffnecked,

You are correct- that's why I am on these forums.
Should be moving to Bethel in the beginning of next year...

[oscar1bennett]

If you want it bad enough then do it. I did in 1978 with $32.00 and 1/2 tank of gas when I hit Palmer, and it was the funnest and ungodly hardest thing I did in my life. If you do then don't stop in the Mat-Su Valley or anywhere near Anchorage because the greedy city people that have to have everything and all the conveinences of Fort Lauderdale Florida or Manhattan NY., have completely gorged theirselves on anything and every inch of land for 75 miles in all directions. They moved here to gain and prosper and gorge theirselves on anything that is worth money. When I got here in 78 you could smell Alaska in the air , FREEDOM------------ independence, God's Land everywhere you looked. You could buy and acre for $500.00 or get 5 acres free in the state lottery. If you drove down the street in a late model vehicle, people looked at you like you sure didn,t belong here. Now everybody drives $50,000 pickup trucks and goes to sun tan spas and sticks their useless noses up in the air or else they walk around like their some bad ass that no one better get in their way. The class of people you find here around the Anchorage / Mat-Valley area or worse than most big city people. What a shame, this used to be paradise for the down to earth person that wanted clean air and mountains and a fabulous place to raise kids, now theirs drugs, gangs, driveby shootings, and tatoos. What a wonderful life the new alaskans have made for us all. --------- Come, for the right reasons, to somewhere far from this area, like Cantwell, or Wrangell or McGrath and stay away from the cancer that these new alaskans have gladly nourished so they can have their riches. They are not Alaska at all, their its death.

[bortstc37]

didn't heimo korth lose one of his kids to a bear?

i wonder if the original poster wants that badly to live like him...

[mongazid]

Originally Posted by bortstc37

didn't heimo korth lose one of his kids to a bear?

i wonder if the original poster wants that badly to live like him...

nope, Drowned in a river after their canoe capsized.

[bortstc37]

ahh, yes.
still shows that it isn't always the romanticized wilderness that some imagine...

[Marty Van Diest]

Originally Posted by bortstc37

ahh, yes.
still shows that it isn't always the romanticized wilderness that some imagine...

Nope, just shows that remote Alaska is dangerous. But that's part of the allure for many people. It's still very sad when a child is lost...no matter how it happens.

[gobrien]

I read the book about Heimo Korth, and I am impressed with their independence but would dislike having the day to day struggle just for water, food and heat. Seems like there was never a break or day off from the ice chipping.

[1stimestar]

Try reading Waltz With Me, Alaska by my friend Donna Blasor-Bernhardt. They lived in a wall tent through the winter when they didn't get their cabin finished in time. This was in Tok, very cold location. It's a good non fiction story.

[gobrien]

Originally Posted by 1stimestar

Try reading Waltz With Me, Alaska by my friend Donna Blasor-Bernhardt. They lived in a wall tent through the winter when they didn't get their cabin finished in time. This was in Tok, very cold location. It's a good non fiction story.

Thanks, I saved that title. Brr, Tok is cold, that must have been difficult to stay warm. I grew up near there. I think Tok is usually colder than Delta Junction.