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Topic started on 31-3-2010 @ 01:01 AM by awake1234
Amazing what one can do with determination and resource!
This fine tale chronicles the reward of concentrated work revealing a completed dream, living in the splendor of the land!





"In 1967, Proenneke began building his cabin in Twin Lakes. He was 51 by then, says the Vancouver Sun, and the 150-square-foot one-room log house he designed would take a spring and summer to complete, for he worked alone.
He felled trees and peeled logs, harvested and hauled several acres of moss for the roof, crafted a wood-burning chimney with lake stones, built a “picture window” framing the lake view and hand-chiselled everything from door hinges to soup ladles to chairs and even his bunk bed, all of it with nothing more than basic tools and an affinity for fine craftsmanship.
Twin Lakes was Proenneke’s dream, and he would live it for the next three decades, turning to the land for inspiration and for sustenance, revelling in the splendour of the mountains and forests and lakes, growing vegetables, shooting game and gathering berries."

courtesy of Off-grid.net

Living the Dream


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reply posted on 31-3-2010 @ 02:20 PM by awake1234
the story of Dick Proennke


Alaska, Silence and Solitude

"Alaska Silence & Solitude" is the follow up to "Alone in the Wilderness", filmed about 20 years later. Bob Swerer and Bob Swerer Sr. visit Dick Proenneke at his famous cabin on Twin Lakes where wildlife is still abundant and the scenery is spectacular."

The Frozen North

"For more than 30 years a man by the name of Dick Proenneke lived alone in the Alaskan Bush. His only neighbors were the wolves and grizzly bears and his only transportation was his canoe and a good set of legs."

Richard (Dick) Proenneke's cabin 2008

"A video tour of Richard (Dick) Proenneke's cabin from our 8-29-08 visit."


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reply posted on 31-3-2010 @ 03:18 PM by thisguyrighthere
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When he did this it was on land owned by a friend of his.

If we were to do it we'd have to come up with some way to pay property taxes year after year, hiding our shelter from the authorities or paying the fines that come with chopping down the federal trees or taking the kings deer for food.

the government has made sure you cant get away with this anymore unless under the radar (being a criminal) or being so damn rich it wouldnt matter what the hell you did.


reply posted on 31-3-2010 @ 03:36 PM by drew hempel
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That's a great article -- and I bet this book is excellent:

This is great -- I can definitely relate to Proenneke's attitude towards "editors" -- the whole writing fetish is terrible.

www.amazon.com...



Some of those journals, edited by Sam Keith and published in 1973, became One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey, a fascinating insight into Proenneke’s wilderness education, in the self-tutelage of the rhythms and language of nature, including the big bear that charged the door of his cabin and seemed oblivious to the gunshots fired in the ground to scare it off.


www.amazon.com...



This book is written "by Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Richard Proenneke" - so although I read it and visualized the events within as if it had all been written by Richard Proenneke, it wasn't. Sam Keith tells us in the preface: "Using Dick Proenneke's rough journals as a guide, and knowing him as well as I did, I have tried to get into his mind and reveal the "flavor" of the man. This is my tribute to him, a celebration of his being in tune with his surroundings and what he did alone with simple tools and ingenuity in carving his masterpiece out of the beyond." I've seen the PBS presentation of "Alone in the Wilderness", which uses selections from the text of this book along with movie footage of Proenneke building his cabin and living there. Those selections are read by someone other than Proenneke, but the voice is a perfect fit to the text and image. Because the text is not exactly Proenneke's and the voice of the video isn't his either, our experience of the man is filtered though these interpreations. Sam Keith hasn't shown us any unedited examples from the "rough journals" he used to compose the book, so it's difficult to know how far this beautifully crafted language matches the character and psychology of Richard Proenneke.


Ah so Proenneke exposes how the "writer" changed the meaning of his own journal.... and so the film narrative is not even Proenneke's own words....

But wait there's a second book:

www.nps.gov...



This book, unlike One Man's Wilderness by Sam Keith, gives us Dick's own words. The editor, a friend of Proenneke's, honored his request that, if this part of his journal were ever published, his words and phrasing not be changed in any way. So what you get here is Dick's own phrasing and manner of speech - which is folksy and direct. Proenneke was disappointed that Sam Keith heavily edited his prose in One Man's Wilderness (which is obvious if you read both books) and he refused to have any more of his journals published without a promise that no editing would occur. If you are a fan of Dick Proenneke, this is the best and most authentic look at his life. It contains an introduction with a brief biography which, although short, is the only such work that we have.


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reply posted on 31-3-2010 @ 06:06 PM by Oaktree
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Looks like Geitner to me.

To the O.P. very inspirational article, thank you.
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