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Old 01-06-2011, 03:51 PM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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Hi Metlakatla,

The Kelly School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington assigned a groupof 8 MBA grad students to research what I do and offer and they determined that was the most given response in answering why they went to other, shorter and less comprehensive log building programs. Taking that time out to go and getting to see a part of the country they've never seen and may never see again was apart of their decision. As an experienced instructor - I hear that I and to me I would have thought that the comprehensive content being taught would have been the greatest determining factor. Not to say it isn't for some - but most, it was going somehwere like SE Alaska or Thorne Bay would provide.
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Old 01-06-2011, 03:52 PM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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I've been doing this for over 25 years and I still can't get over how he makes those door hinges!
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Old 01-06-2011, 03:57 PM
 
Location: Way upstate NY - Where the snow flys
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Those hinges are something else. I like the remarks about how he would build a door complete with hinges and install it before breakfast. that for me would be an all day job and I would use my saw mill to cut the boards unlike his hand sawn.
I was born 100 years too late.
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Old 01-06-2011, 04:04 PM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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Ferry is around $45 one way (without a vehicle). Flights are around $125 one way. A consideration would be that flights are often not available due to weather conditions.
from where Met?? Anchorage?? geeez if it's that cheap I might be something more of us are interested in taking for a course!!
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Old 01-06-2011, 04:07 PM
 
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Those hinges are something else. I like the remarks about how he would build a door complete with hinges and install it before breakfast. that for me would be an all day job and I would use my saw mill to cut the boards unlike his hand sawn.
I'd spend half a day just looking for my tools!
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Old 01-06-2011, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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I have leaned towards accepting Proeneke's comments like that as his dry sense of humor. Building that whole cabin in ten days - even my wife took apoke at me over that one! Ha!
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Old 01-06-2011, 04:52 PM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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Exactly! Great stuff all in all though. He didn't take a camera with him for no reason!

Have you seen the second film? "Silence and Solitude". Same sources.
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Old 01-06-2011, 04:53 PM
 
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from where Met?? Anchorage?? geeez if it's that cheap I might be something more of us are interested in taking for a course!!
Not at all, sorry. Those prices are to fly or ferry over from Ketchikan.
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Old 01-06-2011, 05:05 PM
 
Location: Way upstate NY - Where the snow flys
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No, I haven't seen Silence and Solitude or the other Bob Swerer production of Richard Proeneke, The Frozen North, but I will get both soon.
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Old 01-06-2011, 07:55 PM
 
Location: In my own world
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I think "Alone in the Wilderness" is my favorite documentary ever. I have never once not watched it when I came upon it on PBS. Sadly, they don't show it anymore.
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