Re: Best place to become a hermit?
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05/02/19 03:24 PM
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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.
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
[Re: TurkeyTime]
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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.
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Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
[Re: TurkeyTime]
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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..................
Respect, Big George + Loki the Dog..... East Derby, CT CTA [life member], NTA, FTA, FBU Connecticut Republican Party
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
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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?
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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?
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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!
Western SD Fur Harvesters, SDTA, NTA, FTA and life member of NRA. Cancer survivor (7 years) and still fighting it.
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
[Re: Boco]
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05/02/19 11:51 PM
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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.
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
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That was just a nice way of telling you he didn't like you,lol.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
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05/02/19 11:55 PM
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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.
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
[Re: TurkeyTime]
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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?
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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?
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05/03/19 09:44 AM
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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.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
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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?
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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?
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05/03/19 10:34 PM
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What is the hunting and trapping like on the islands
There’s game behind every tree.
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