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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: Dirt] #6530182
05/02/19 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Dirt
Plenty of Alaska has cover. Problem is smoke rises and planes can see it. Back a few years ago, I would drive by one of the local hermit's place, and if smoke was coming out of his chimney, I knew he was still alive. I never stopped to talk or check on him. I respected his privacy. I checked on him all winter long in my own way.

Nice of you to keep track of him yet respect him.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6530184
05/02/19 03:28 PM
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Same here. I know of more than one long time thieves that made a habit of stealing from the same places over & over. Winter sort of makes it more difficult because of the snow showing tracks.. But Dirt is right. Plenty of cover and lots of privacy.

I also recall one thief getting caught by the use of IR technology in a helicopter.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6530185
05/02/19 03:28 PM
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I don't think you have to hide to be a hermit.
Anyone can be a hermit,I know a few.
If I wanted to be a hermit,I could go out to one of my remote cabins on a trapline and live there.I would rarely if ever see anyone if I didn't seek them out.
You have to have some kind of mental problem to want to avoid human contact for years on end.

Last edited by Boco; 05/02/19 03:30 PM.

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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6530216
05/02/19 04:27 PM
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This here quote "there are still a few places in the u p of Michigan that a person could get away from people if they really wanted to but I found most want to build a road to there place an if you build a road they will come" one time I was talking with Casey from F&T and he mentioned the same thing - how there's places up there still where one could truly disappear, not too mention some places that only the native people knew about.

but sadly yes, all it takes is one road... then the multipuls will follow..................


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6530248
05/02/19 05:28 PM
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A thief breaking into camps / cottages / cabins for as long as the guy in Maine must have been extremely cautious or extremely lucky. Especially breaking into many places in the same area and sometimes the same place more than once. When I read the article, I could not believe that someone did not catch him - literally. Booby traps and set-guns are highly illegal but people can get creative to protect their belongings.

Being a hermit is not so bad. I have always been a loner and prefer very limited company. This internet can get too social.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: Yes sir] #6530421
05/02/19 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Yes sir
I'll tell you a little story about when me and the boys visited Nebraska on Vacation. The boys were probably in about 3rd and 5th grade. We were headed to the Black Hills for vacation and me wanting to see the Sandhills of Nebraska we headed west on I-80 and then North at Cody. We were going to stay the night at a lake up by Valentine. As I'm kind of cheap and simple and it being just me and my boys we were just camping out of the stock trailer. Any way we turned off the Highway on to a single lane blacktop road in the middle of nowhere to get to the lake we were staying at. Now at this turn off there was an old post with the names of about six ranches and the miles to each one of them which me being a cowboy really peeked my interest.Now my boys had never seen a single lane blacktop rode, nor had I for that matter, and it took me a lot of talking to convince my boys we weren't headed down someone's driveway. We only saw two people in probably 20 or so miles of that road. One was a cowboy with a dog box on the back for coyote dogs and another was a rancher out in the hay field putting up hay. That rancher was on a tractor at least 300 hundred yards out in the field. He waved real big at us when we passed and he was so far away I stuck my arm out the window so he could see me and waved back. Now my youngest looked at me kind of strange asked "dad did you know him”? I answered no I didn't, so his next question was why did he wave at us then? I said son they are just happy to see another human being in these parts I guess. Told my boys I was moving up there when they were grown.

I like to wave big in Virginia.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6530426
05/02/19 09:49 PM
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Turkey, Was curious as why you ask the question but say you will never leave Missouri. I too originated in your state of Missouri. Was born in Moberly and lived the first 36 years of my life around there except for a few months in Arizona about 1972. I moved to extreme south western South Dakota in the early 90's, eventually ending up in the southern Black Hills after about a year on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation. I have no desire to leave here, my wife and I consider this as home.
Occasionally we return to visit Mo. for a funeral or reunion. Once and a while some friend or family member ask me if I have any regrets about moving to South Dakota. My answer is always "yes" and my regret is that I didn't move sooner!


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6530445
05/02/19 10:19 PM
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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: Boco] #6530516
05/02/19 11:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Boco
You have to have some kind of mental problem to want to avoid human contact for years on end.


I had a friend when we were just kids comment to the effect he had never met anyone he really liked. At the time I thought it was a terribly arrogant thing to say. In retrospect, I think it was profound.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6530517
05/02/19 11:53 PM
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That was just a nice way of telling you he didn't like you,lol.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: Boco] #6530520
05/02/19 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Boco
That was just a nice way of telling you he didn't like you,lol.


My mom didn't either, that prepared me for the blow.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6530627
05/03/19 08:23 AM
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I am not particularly fond of people as a whole. Thats why I live the way I do. That little spot we found in Tennessee is about right. No direct neighbors. Our little patch is 40 acres and an arm full of no trespassing signs should go a long way. Fist time I ever went to Tennessee was to look at that property to buy it. So there are no connections with anyone there. I plan to keep it that way. I don't think there is a need to go to places like Alaska to be able to keep to yourself. I pretty much manage to do that even here in a tourist place by staying just a mile away from the marina. Everyone knows that when I am home on my boat not to bother me. I only interact with people during working hours.


Let's go Brandon

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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6530643
05/03/19 08:48 AM
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I'm sure ever state would have areas that you could live as a hermit. In Montana you could hide for the rest of your life and live as a hermit in every part of the state. Land is for sale every where and put up a small shack and there you got it. Fish, hunt and trap and just live life.

I might add that there are 100's of very small towns to disappear in.

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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: trapr] #6530672
05/03/19 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by trapr
There are places in Idaho that fit the bill for what you want. Stanley basin and surrounding area, or whitebird/Lucile/Riggans.

Used to be a book "The hermits of Idaho". Quite a few living in cut outs and caves. Shunning all human contact.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6531067
05/03/19 09:07 PM
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Yall wouldn't make very good hermits if you don't know how to have fire w/out smoke.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: waggler] #6531120
05/03/19 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by waggler



What is the hunting and trapping like on the islands


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6531127
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Lots of fur seals apparently,unfortunately no market.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6531133
05/03/19 10:32 PM
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I could never be a hermit. I enjoy my privacy and time alone but being a typical human I also enjoy social interaction much like here on this website.

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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: coonwild] #6531136
05/03/19 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by coonwild




What is the hunting and trapping like on the islands

There’s game behind every tree.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6531142
05/03/19 10:41 PM
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Fur seals are in the Pribilofs. Not much for furbearers as most islands have eradicated the invasive foxes. Adak and Amlia have caribou. Unimak has bears and wolves and not sure what else. Lots of sea ducks. I believe Waggler hunts out there sometimes. Not a nice place in the winter but amazing on a nice summer day. Maybe MJM will chime in. He spent time there.

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