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    You can't hunt seal unless you are an Alaska Native.
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    This is survival....you can do anything you want.......
    At least in your head.
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    Instead of ROTTW we now have another WSF first..............ROTTA.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThayHau View Post
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    I need my father to know that no matter what, in any situation, I will be okay. I will never go hungry, and I will never be without shelter, fire, and food if I absolutely need it. I need to do this for all the people that said that I couldn't, and that My Side of the Mountain was nothing more that a childrens' story that I could never aspire to.

    I know there are simpler ways to start, to build up to Arctic survival. But that's not how I work. I can't dip my toes in and say "Ehhhhhhhhhhh, mayyyyyyybe in the next ten years......?" I've had twenty years of that already, and I'm ready to just do it.
    I finally made it to the end of the post and discovered this!

    We have us a 20 year old here that can not leave without his father's permission and knowledge that said 20 year old son is fed, watered, stabled and scrubbed down as needed, insulated from hardships and probably also within cell phone range so he can call home and speak to ET. A complete entitlement mindset!

    And said person wants to prove My Side of The Mountain is reality and not fiction.

    If this person is of sound mind (?) and healthy body, which would be a requirement for this artic effort, and is 20 years old, I might suggest that he go down to the local Army recruiter and speak with them about a training regimen that will cover all these points and possibly appoint a drill Sargent that will read him a few pages of My Side Of The Mountain each night before tucking him in. When he completes his training he can volunteer for duty in some artic region and learn all the things he needs to know in order to live for a winter in a hollow tree like a freekin' Keebler elf in a blizzard.
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    Just so you know....My Side of the Mountain was a great read....but it was fiction, and happened in New York, not Northern Canada or Alaska. In case your father's reading this, if you do what you say you are going to do, then you will go hungry without shelter and fire. You will be cold and miserable. If you can't deal with that...... stay in the suburbs. You ever wonder why the Inuit and Eskimo survive on 100% meat. Not a hippie lifestyle.

    If you are serious about finding a babysitter in the artic, you won't find that person online. The only way is to go north until you find that magical person. You probably won't find anyone if you aren't going to pay them somehow. This is the real world after all. People have to make a living, and wasting their time teaching someone patience isn't going to help them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kyratshooter View Post
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    When he completes his training he can volunteer for duty in some artic region and learn all the things he needs to know in order to live for a winter in a hollow tree like a freekin' Keebler elf in a blizzard.
    Psssst....News flash.....when by the Keebler cookie factory in Grand Rapids, Michigan....as shift change......
    Those cookies are NOT made by elves......

    But in their defense the Guard shack looked like a fiberglass hollow tree....

    ROTTA..?........Run off to the artic?......
    Why not ROTF?...Run off to Fiji....?
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    Why not come up to college here and learn about living in the arctic in a more realistic way.

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    That is seriously so wrong.

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    Hahhaha, it's a thing we do...cabin fever you know.
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    Looks like it was a tad nipply at -50 LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by hunter63 View Post
    Nope....not many around Wisconsin....they get weird at the zoo when you start blasting away.....

    Walmart is getting use to it in the poultry aisle, during turkey season......

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    From the .....wait for it......grad photoshop! (I slay myself).

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    Well, the only way I would even consider living in the remote north sub arctic, is if I had an insulated cabin, endless stores of food, huge fuel tanks, huge insulated water tanks, huge generator, and the 3 things below. I think I could be happy living there then!!!!

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    Stop it, stop it....
    Now there is gonna be a stampede of 20 some-things....busting out of Momma basement and running off to the Arctic..
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    Eh, that was going to happen either way

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    Quote Originally Posted by tundrabadger View Post
    Eh, that was going to happen either way
    Yeah....True Dat...........
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    Not unless they are willing to participate in the arctic hong festival.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1stimestar View Post
    Not unless they are willing to participate in the arctic hong festival.
    No hongs allowed!!!

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