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Have you heard about the Ebay boycott this week?
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Heavens no--say it ain't true. What's up with that?
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i have met a few folks who have done it, some of them liked it and some didn't. it was always a different experience for each folk. most of them saved up and bought as much stuff as they could to use while they were isolated |
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Last edited by karibear; 02-18-2008 at 01:38 AM. Reason: clarification |
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![]() In the Book Alaska's Wolf Man, there is an account by Frank Glaser about a miner he knew near Black Rapids. According to Frank, he didn't hear about the miner for a few days, so he decided to cross the river and find out how he was doing. He found him dead on his bed, which a note explaining what had happened to him. The miner had fallen and broken his back, but managed to make it to the shelter of his cabin. Soon he ran out of food that he piled by the bed, and there he died. Then a guy I know in North Pole was checking on his cabin by Good Pasture (near Delta) during the winter, he fell off his cabin's porch and landed on his back, breaking it. He was wearing warm clothing, and had a cell phone in his pocked. He was lucky enough to have telephone service where he was, and called the medics. They got him out of there on a stretcher, and loaded him on a helicopter. If he could not have reached the medics on his telephone, more than likely his family and friend would have found him dead a few days later. The romance of living alone in the wilderness is alluring, and quite a lot of people die pursuing their dream. |
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gosh, Ray, those are some crazy stories!
![]() I think it must be a man thing... you never seem to hear of a woman going totally solo like that. hey, who was that guy who moved out to a bus with 50lbs of rice and some hunting gear... I've heard about it, but don't know the details. Aside from him beind dead now, of course. ETA: oh, according to Wiki lore, his name was Chris McCandless. Might have died of starvation, or poisoning from the seeds of Eskimo potatoes. hmm. Last edited by coffeehound; 02-18-2008 at 09:39 PM. |
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