Inb4 he got eaten by a bear several days into his new life.
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i know someone who did that... buggered off into the qld bush to brew moonshine and grow ganja.
Every couple of years he'll hit me up on IRC and send deep cut psytrance bootlegs, fun times.
Yeah, cool, but IRC? I genuinely didn't know that was a thing anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke The linked person did this for a couple decades in alaska. Yearly trades with a friend who came over by seaplane and landed on the local lake. they exchanged some goods, i think Proenneke made some oils from the wilderness and the visitor brought like medicine and shoes or something. He eventually had to come back to society because he couldn't chop enough wood to keep himself warm in the winter anymore.
Richard(Dick) Filmed himself setting up and his first year or couple years. This was edited into 3 or 2 films (Alone in the wilderness). you should look for them online, they are available for free if you look in the right spots. I think there's 4 hours of edited film in total of his story.
A woman my wife works with took in a teenage boy (a relative, but I don't remember the connection) whose mother walked into the woods one day and disappeared. Her car was found, she wasn't. I think the father had passed away already, so when the mother vanished, the kid had no one else.
Poor kid lost his mother, then had to move cross country, losing all of his friends, too. A shit situation for everyone involved.
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nonplussed /nΙnΛplΚst/ The word nonplussed traditionally means surprised, confused, and unsure how to react (left at a loss for what to say or do).
TIL, if I heard this word used in a less clear context I'd assume it's like tier 3 lgbt slang or something lmao.
Plenty of homeless camps in the woods get busted each year.
"Oh no, I'll have to pretend to leave and then move 200 meters and no one will find me for 8 months."
Really, the biggest issue is not dying. That's the thinker
When the cops bust a homeless camp... they don't just let the homeless people go. Also, after they find one, they patrol the area periodically... there are common sites they crop up. Sorry, it's just not that easy to escape to unoccupied land, that is unpoliced. It's a nice dream, but it's not the reality of the world.
Also, after they find one, they patrol the area periodicallyβ¦ there are common sites they crop up. Sorry, itβs just not that easy to escape to unoccupied land, that is unpoliced.
i think you are mixing two things together. these homeless people are not adventurer types that want to get off the grid for the sake of it - they just don't have the roof over their head, but need to camp as close to civilization as possible, so they could still scavenge its scraps. they could go further, but there would be no supermarket to dumpster dive to.
I beg to differ:
ah, the Ted Kaszinski way, minus the bombing of course.
Until they came to cut the forest down...
My plan too, was supposed to have done it by now. But I have debt thanks to my parents, and them too to take care of.
But I will start saving in secret again when I can and fuck off somewhere.
One day, no one will ever see me again, and many will certainly celebrate.
But I'd like to remind those people, they contributed to make this world unlivable in the first place.
I want to leave because there is no fair way for me to exist within the system.
We laugh but this is what we should do
https://people.com/family-living-off-the-grid-died-of-malnutrition-hypothermia-autopsy-7965000
The reality in most developed nations is that people do not have the skills required anymore and even if they did the environment is not and never has been capable of supporting 8 billion apes strip foraging the wilderness. Modern farming techniques and medicine are both why the global population has exploded in the last two centuries and the loss of either will immediately devastate humanity.
Tl;Dr that shit was hard when people knew mostly what to do and you don't
Most would die within 1 month. The average is 2 weeks alone for an untrained person.
Hrm, I see this meme just prior to certain elections...
If, realistically, inspiring like 2 people worldwide to escape into the wilderness is enough to sway an election, I'll eat my shoe. There's always an upcoming election
Look, there's plenty of posts trying to suppress votes. I get that. That's not what this is. I'm certain this has nothing to do with the election. Are we only allowed to make posts that tell people to vote near an election?
Wait you can do that?
if you have to ask, the answer is no.
Well I have a bad knee and sticking my hand in the fish mouth is pretty icky
Iβm just saying my knee hurts and fishing is gross
oh. well, then you should definitely stay in the pesky civilization. sorry about the knee.
Sigh I guess Iβm stuck here
There's always the option of surreptitiously building out in the boonies. If you have safeish boonies to build out into. No landmines or such
Yeah land mines are always an issue
You can, but it is not for everyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(Krakauer_book)#Summary
He had water and the means to purify it the entire time, and there's a claim (i.e. I can't find a source) that when he attempted to cross the river on the way out that he was only a half mile from a tram that crossed it. If he'd had a map that marked the tram he could've gone to the tram. It was an eight mile hike or so to the attempted river crossing from the bus, so he was only a day or so away from civilization.
Les Stroud (Survivorman) goes into this in one his director's commentaries for Survivorman which are all up on youtube. I don't remember which one, though.
the person in that book died. hence why i said "if you have to ask, the answer is no".
- there is not a lot of places in the world where you can do that
- you need quite specific skillset, and person asking such question most definitely does not have it.
That guy in the movie/book there went into the wilds in Alaska though, the worst place to do it, excepting the coastal parts which are temperate rainforest, or were before they cut down all the trees.
It would be rough in the winter anywhere in the north us though.
i don't think the weather/temperature was his main problem (except for that part where he finally understood he fucked up, tried to go back and couldn't because of the flooded river). but the underlying problem was his lack of hunting and food processing skills.



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