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by foofoo55 1232 days ago
And here's Dick Proenneke's way of doing it, pre-Internet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss

[edit: originally stated he was an Army engineer, but turns out he had various hands-on jobs, one being a Navy carpenter during the second World War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke]

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I much prefer Dick Proenneke's dream of living in the wilderness.

And I'm sure Dick Proenneke, if he were doing it today, would have a bank of solar panels and satellite Internet.