6 Months Alone in the Woods

[Beans]

I would think that extended isolation from other humans would begin to have a rather bizarre impact on your mental health.

Do you think???????

[BENESSE]

I would think that extended isolation from other humans would begin to have a rather bizarre impact on your mental health.

Yeah...a positive one, in my case.

[Rick]

It would make an interesting experiment for me. Having a hearing problem sort of imposes a bit of isolation on you anyway so I'd bet I could last longer than most from that perspective. But 6 months is a long time to not see a human face. Now, if I had a volleyball....

[BENESSE]

All I need is a pet, a garden and tons of books.

[postman]

I don't think I would bother trying to build a cabin, I would be more inclined to build a wiki-up with a nice stone fire hearth in the centre. Far less work and just as comfortable. In case you don't know what a wiki-up is, it's a teepee like structure covered in bark and debris with a smoke hole in the top. They can be made any diameter you like. I find that for one person a wiki about 10' around and about 12-15 feet high is more than sufficient.

[Rick]

it's a teepee like structure covered in bark and debris with a smoke hole in the top.

Except for the misplaced smoke hole you just described me.

[hunter63]

I don't think I would bother trying to build a cabin, I would be more inclined to build a wiki-up with a nice stone fire hearth in the centre. Far less work and just as comfortable. In case you don't know what a wiki-up is, it's a teepee like structure covered in bark and debris with a smoke hole in the top. They can be made any diameter you like. I find that for one person a wiki about 10' around and about 12-15 feet high is more than sufficient.

I guess I never heard of one, ya got a pic of one of yours?

[tsitenha]

I was alone once for about 9 months, was warm, comfortable, never hungry, life was great.



Then my mother gave birth to me and I have never been the same again.

[Rick]

Now that's funny I don't care who you are. God bless them little pigmy embryos down there in New Guinea.

[postman]

Don't know what you mean by misplaced smoke hole??? Smoke escapes at the top (peak)of the wiki where the poles mesh into each other. Sorry but I don't have any pictures to post at this time, but if you want to see a good example of one check out Dave Canterbury's you tube channel, he has a video tour of the one he has on his property.

[crashdive123]

Don't know what you mean by misplaced smoke hole??? Smoke escapes at the top (peak)of the wiki where the poles mesh into each other. Sorry but I don't have any pictures to post at this time, but if you want to see a good example of one check out Dave Canterbury's you tube channel, he has a video tour of the one he has on his property.

I do believe if you read his post again you will see that it is call humor.

hu·mor (hymr)
n.
1. The quality that makes something laughable or amusing; funniness: could not see the humor of the situation.
2. That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement: a writer skilled at crafting humor.
3. The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd. See Synonyms at wit1.
4. One of the four fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile, whose relative proportions were thought in ancient and medieval physiology to determine a person's disposition and general health.
5. Physiology
a. A body fluid, such as blood, lymph, or bile.
b. Aqueous humor.
c. Vitreous humor.
6. A person's characteristic disposition or temperament: a boy of sullen humor.
7. An often temporary state of mind; a mood: I'm in no humor to argue.
8.
a. A sudden, unanticipated whim. See Synonyms at mood1.
b. Capricious or peculiar behavior.
tr.v. hu·mored, hu·mor·ing, hu·mors
1. To comply with the wishes or ideas of; indulge.
2. To adapt or accommodate oneself to. See Synonyms at pamper.
Idiom:
out of humor
In a bad mood; irritable.

[kyratshooter]

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...QEwAg&dur=1669

thirty seconds on google, no problem.

Great for Arizona with 4" annual rainfall, not so good for KY this year with 70".

[Sparky93]

The Yurt Dave Canterbury has set up is pretty cool, he has a cool set of videos of it on his youtube channel.

[Rick]

Yeah, my smoke hole is a lot lower and in the rear. Firewood does nothing for it but beans get it running like a chain saw.

[hunter63]

Don't know what you mean by misplaced smoke hole??? Smoke escapes at the top (peak)of the wiki where the poles mesh into each other. Sorry but I don't have any pictures to post at this time, but if you want to see a good example of one check out Dave Canterbury's you tube channel, he has a video tour of the one he has on his property.

Anyone can do a search, and find pic's........I get nervous when some one states..."All you have to do is...."
That where the saying "Pic's or it didn't happen" comes from.

[postman]

Sorry Rick, didn't get the joke at first. Never heard it called a smoke hole before, pretty funny.

Don't mean to disapoint you hunter63 but I don't even own a digital camera, in fact I have very little use for technology other than what I need to get by on a daily basis. If I didn't need to use a computer and the internet at work I wouldn't be on here at all. Don't recall saying ..."all you have to do is".... either, you can feel free to beleive what you choose to.

[Wildthang]

I was lost in the woods when I was 10 years old for about a week. I went to colorodo with my dad to dear hunt. He took me out into the woods, and told me to hunt there. I had a backpack with some basics stuff, and even had a small tarp, food, matches, and rope along with a thin sleeping bag.
Well I hit a deer but it wasn't a clean shot, so I took off after the bood trail, and like a dummy, I didn't take a heading, or pay any attention to where I was going. Well at dark I still haven't found the deer, and I was cold and tired and lost as heck.
I built a shelter, a fire, and camped in. The snow covered my tracks after a while, so I figured back tracking would be impossible. I had been there about a week, when a black bear came into my camp attacked me. He had me on the ground, and was right at my throat, when Big Foot grabbed him and pulled him off of me. I owe my life to Big Foot!

[Sparky93]

I was lost in the woods when I was 10 years old for about a week. I went to colorodo with my dad to dear hunt. He took me out into the woods, and told me to hunt there. I had a backpack with some basics stuff, and even had a small tarp, food, matches, and rope along with a thin sleeping bag.
Well I hit a deer but it wasn't a clean shot, so I took off after the bood trail, and like a dummy, I didn't take a heading, or pay any attention to where I was going. Well at dark I still haven't found the deer, and I was cold and tired and lost as heck.
I built a shelter, a fire, and camped in. The snow covered my tracks after a while, so I figured back tracking would be impossible. I had been there about a week, when a black bear came into my camp attacked me. He had me on the ground, and was right at my throat, when Big Foot grabbed him and pulled him off of me. I owe my life to Big Foot!

See! I told y'all bigfoot is real! And none of you believed me

[crashdive123]

I was lost in the woods when I was 10 years old for about a week. I went to colorodo with my dad to dear hunt. He took me out into the woods, and told me to hunt there. I had a backpack with some basics stuff, and even had a small tarp, food, matches, and rope along with a thin sleeping bag.
Well I hit a deer but it wasn't a clean shot, so I took off after the bood trail, and like a dummy, I didn't take a heading, or pay any attention to where I was going. Well at dark I still haven't found the deer, and I was cold and tired and lost as heck.
I built a shelter, a fire, and camped in. The snow covered my tracks after a while, so I figured back tracking would be impossible. I had been there about a week, when a black bear came into my camp attacked me. He had me on the ground, and was right at my throat, when Big Foot grabbed him and pulled him off of me. I owe my life to Big Foot!

Yeah - I was skiing in Aspen and went "dear" hunting too. Bigfoot may have saved you, but was my biggest fear. Some 6 foot 5 inch tall jealous bigfoot.

[Wildthang]

Yeah - I was skiing in Aspen and went "dear" hunting too. Bigfoot may have saved you, but was my biggest fear. Some 6 foot 5 inch tall jealous bigfoot.

Big Foot is so misunderstood! He is really a good ole dude as long as you don't scare him or make him mad!