Living Secluded, Alone and Totally Isolated (Fairbanks, Kenai: real estate, for sale, hospital)

[Barkingowl]

Have you heard about the Ebay boycott this week?

[Metlakatla]

Heavens no--say it ain't true. What's up with that?

[siamiam]

Originally Posted by CometVoyager

I have read about some who choose to live totally isolated from any human contact for no less than 9 months out of the 12 month year.

Has anyone met anyone who has done this?

Has anyone tried this? Would appreciate your feedback on how you stored food and over all adaptation.

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

[karibear]

Originally Posted by CometVoyager

I have read about some who choose to live totally isolated from any human contact for no less than 9 months out of the 12 month year.

Has anyone met anyone who has done this?

Has anyone tried this? Would appreciate your feedback on how you stored food and over all adaptation.

I used to know a guy who had a homestead on the Kenai Pen who did that. He'd go to the nearest cannery and work long enough to make cash for whatever he needed the rest of the year [usually property tax, nails, chainsaw gas] then go hide out again. I worked in the same canneries for a couple of summers. Very weird person, but it had nothing to do with his lifestyle.

[Sciamedia]

Originally Posted by CometVoyager

I have read about some who choose to live totally isolated from any human contact for no less than 9 months out of the 12 month year.

Has anyone met anyone who has done this?

Has anyone tried this? Would appreciate your feedback on how you stored food and over all adaptation.

Never tried it but always wondered how cool it would be to be devoid of utilities and any outside contact for a long spell!

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Anyway, to get back to the OP's questions:

Metlakatla's guide to living in seclusion for a few months while your hair grows out:


1. The most important thing to have during this time is the internet TV isn't necessary at all. In fact, television is to be avoided because a lot of the people on it tend to have good hair.

2. The second most important thing -- and I hate to say it because I dislike using them--is a telephone. But that existence of that telephone has to depend on whether or not the closest liquor store has a cool clerk; the sort of clerk to whom you can explain that you really cannot be seen in public and would they mind terribly leaving a bottle of blueberry vodka on the step around back and you'll leave the cash under the porch...

3. Hair clips in order to put your hair up so as not to experience too much almost-mullet induced angst.

4. A solidly solvent Pay-Pal account. E-Bay can do wonders for a woman in seclusion.

5. Friends who don't mind the occasional drop off of a care package.

6. A fairly decent supply of weed and a good pipe in working order. It's best to stock up on this before you get a haircut in the event that it goes wrong and you can't leave your cabin for awhile.

7. Lot of black tea.

Pot and an ebay account... sounds like a dangerous combination...

[CometVoyager]

Originally Posted by karibear

I used to know a guy who had a homestead on the Kenai Pen who did that. He'd go to the nearest cannery and work long enough to make cash for whatever he needed the rest of the year [usually property tax, nails, chainsaw gas] then go hide out again. I worked in the same canneries for a couple of summers. Very weird person, but it had nothing to do with his lifestyle.

Thanks for your post, as some of the posts so far in response to my question were kind of bizarre. Have you heard of any National Park Land that is available for year round camping out? I was looking into doing the igloo thing or just building something before it gets cold. Once saw a great PBS on this guy who did that for many years. I can not recall his name.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by Sciamedia

Never tried it but always wondered how cool it would be to be devoid of utilities and any outside contact for a long spell!

Sounds good, unless you break a leg or something, and have to walk out

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.

[CometVoyager]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

Sounds good, unless you break a leg or something, and have to walk out

The romance of living alone in the wilderness is alluring, and quite a lot of people die pursuing their dream.

Actually sounds better to me than dying in a sterile hospital. One with the Earth & Nature! Does sound more peaceful!

[coffeehound]

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.