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![]() After I spent a week shoveling thru the 12 foot drift ALL by myself for a week! kidding, although I did shovel snow a couple hours everyday for a week, shoveling along the side of the road, making a path and the hot sun that last week of June melted quite a bit. I shoveled for a couple hundred feet on the road through 2 and 3 foot drifts up to the 12 foot huge drift. I did not shovel the more than 100 foot long and 12 plus foot high snowdrift.
![]() But actually on Saturday July 2, 2011 neighbors came to open the road. Mainly one guy had rented a large New Holland bobcat loader for $150 for the weekend and spent 3 hours digging through the snow drift. Maybe all can see the loader in the back and the neighbors watching - the guy Randy is sitting on his $10,000 ATV which he had driven all over the drift and back and forth to their cabins. > ![]() Guy from Alberta, Canada = Dave - at our campsite on July 3rd, waiting to go fishing. Which all he wanted to do was go fishing which was ok but it did rain a few times the 4 whole days he was up there. At first he said he wanted to stay 3 weeks on my mtn place but the 4th day I guess he got tired of it and also said he was cold at night. He also came out too early since there was too much snow. The snow melt runoff made the fishing creeks and N. Platte river too high for good fishing so Dave did not get any fish. Later I will show the fish that Steve and Glen caught after mid July. The orange tent is Dave's and the hard to see light brown tent, to the left of Dave's blue car, is Steve's. I slept in the cab of my truck since it had maybe 1/4 of all that I owned in the plywood box and backseat. We had to camp here for 4 days until the snow melted more and until, mainly I, shoveled the road near my mtn place which is at least 1/3 of a mile down this road. Dave and Steve went fishing and hiking about everyday - the 4 days Dave was there in early July > ![]() Here is a pic of a cabin, one mile from my land, that was crushed by the terribly heavy snows from the winter of 2011. It was probably crushed by March or April 2011 when the deepest snowpack has accumulated. There was at least 200% above normal snowpack which means possibly 20 to 24 feet of snowpack at the height of last winter. And why there was still so awful much snow in early July 2011. ![]() Here is a small pond with a white tube going out of it which a black plastic 200 or so foot long tubing goes to the bunker. Steve made this and connected the tubing one day in late July > ![]() A small aspen tree in middle of chicken wire fence which I had to put the wire around since deer etc. eat the aspen > ![]() Large beautiful aspen near the above small aspen .... ![]() The next pics show how I re-built the tuff shed which I obtained for Free from a neighbor. This neighbor did not want to re-build this shed after its roof was damaged from the heavy snow. So with a long tow chain hooked up to this shed I pulled it for half a mile down the dirt road. It was on 2 large heavy 6 x 6 inch wood beams. That also would have made a great video but Steve and Glen were out hiking. Then I had to take it apart and carry it up the mountain about 100 feet and re-build it. Glen and Steve did help me that day for a few hours, mainly carrying the parts of this shed up the mountain. But I re-built it completely by myself in August 2011 since Glen and Steve left to travel around the western USA, leaving July 31st. > ![]() Tuff shed half built and showing propane stove / oven >> ![]() starting put roof on shed > ![]() Back of tuff shed showing two shades of green. I was fortunate to have enough green paint from the previous year and also lucky that it had not froze and got ruined. But there was not quite enough so I had to buy some gloss green paint which was only 8 ounces but still about $5 at the hardware / surplus / general store in Riverside which is next to Encampment, Wyoming. White propane tank shown also plus one other reason I made the shed a little over 2 feet off the ground was to store ladders etc. under it. This old logging road which I have built and stored lumber on is not level. The front door is higher than the back although when I finished it the floor and shed are level. ![]() Tent I slept in with camo tarps over it on left and finished tuff shed except for the roof, on right > ![]() Side of shed camo tarps etc on top. I placed a large clear plastic sheet over the top of it all, for more waterproofing and also so the snow would slide off the shed. And I saw the snow slide off this roof when it snowed a couple times in October 2011 > ![]() Tuff shed and ATV and chain. > ![]() ATV inside shed > ![]() Tuff shed mid October 2011 > ![]() A gazing stone I painted in a rare spare few moments > ![]() My dirt bike under tarps in a 4 tree shed > ![]() The container garden area showing lettuce, spinach, radishes etc. > ![]() More plants that I could forage that grow near and on my mtn land > Oregon grapes that grow in a rocky area less than 1/2 mile away and also grow near the bunker > ![]() Wild raspberries that also grow in a rocky area 1/2 mile away and I have a few growing on the bunker roof also > ![]() Radishes shown coming up in a black container that is the bottom of an old trash can There are also carrots planted here but not come up yet > ![]() Small yellow sunflower near the middle of my mtn place on the sunny hillside. > ![]() Mike walking on sunny hillside > ![]() View to the left of the above pic looking out to the east, private road winding thru forest and the Snowy Range in the distance from the sunny hillside > ![]() |
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![]() Awsome, Mike ! - True freedom!... total respect for that!
I followed your adventure on the "other" forum... - great videos too! I wanted to come out for a couple of weeks, but when you're running an organic farm you are pretty tied down. How many other guys actually made it up there to that rendezvous? - Basey (Mike is another guy that DOES instead of talks, he'll be prepared...) |
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![]() Steve took all of the pics in this post, unless Glen took one or two of them.
Glen and Steve got along well together, which I am glad they did. They did hike quite a bit although it seemed like they could or should have told me where they were going most of the time. Such as when they were gone all day once and when they got back they said they had been hiking to Silver Lake 3 miles NW of my mtn place. If they had not gotten back for a day or two I would have had little idea of where they went. I could find them anywhere If I knew a general area they went to, hopefully without calling search and rescue. 110 year old cabin that I hiked to about 20 years ago. There is a 40 or so foot mine shaft under the old cabin. I placed a log across the entrance since it looked like deer or whatever couuld walk in and maybe fall in the shaft. This pic was also taken from my sunny hillside with a zoom in of the cabin > ![]() Deer that hangs around quite a bit and actually is sneaky usually staying on the national forest that borders my land on two sides. At night with a full moon or real early morning I think this deer and a few others sneak in and eat many of the flowers and other plants, especially along my two springs. ![]() Part of my main drinking water spring showing a small waterfall and small pond > ![]() A chipmunk that ran around the camp all the time and got whatever food was dropped or thrown to him. I think this is the same chipmunk that has been around for at least 2 years. > ![]() ![]() Mike on left, Steve on right in blue cap, at the main campfire site on Mike's remote mtn retreat I had to burn quite a bit of wood, mainly slash to try to clean up the place more and also burned cardboard and trash > ![]() Neighbors trout pond half a mile downhill where Steve and Glen caught some fish, with the neighbor's permission > ![]() Steve and Glen's fish they caught at the neighbor's trout pond. > ![]() Proof that Steve caught a trout. He caught at least two which were 14 inches. And while not seen in this pic, the first time I saw Steve after he had been fishing, I have rarely seen anyone so excited and one of the few times it looked like Steve really enjoyed the mountain area. He had repaired an old fishing pole I had and since we had no bait or lures I suggested using a shiny gold treble hook which he did and which he caught the trout with. > ![]() Silver Lake which is 3 miles NW of my mtn land and where Steve and Glen hiked to one day. They did not fish here though since it is possible a game warden was watching, although it is remote and except on weekends unlikely to be a game warden around. I have also hiked and driven to this lake quite a bit since 1987. There is an old mine shaft just above this lake which I looked into once but did not go into since I was by myself. Water was running out of that mine. ![]() Another view of Silver Lake > ![]() Continental Divide hiking trail sign which Glen and Steve saw which is about one mile straight west of my mtn place / BOL > ![]() Night sky pic Steve took showing the Milky Way although it is infinitely better to see in person. No street lights up there to block out the stars. Only a lot of trees, mainly sub-alpine / Balsam Firs as seen at the bottom of this pic > ![]() Here is a table Steve made one Sunday afternoon, when Glen was not up there, using whatever lumber he could find in my woodpiles. Shown on top of this table is my Coleman gasoline stove and Big Berkey drip water filter and Steve's MSR backpacking stove which he used to cook for himself > ![]() The inside of the food tent where much of the food was stored although I had about ten cardboard boxes of canned and other food in a plywood box. Food tent which was Glen's "old" blue $20 tent that he did not use after he bought his $200 MSR tent. > ![]() The blue tent shown here is the food tent > ![]() The plywood box I use to store much of my canned and other food. Although I also have two 55 sealed steel drums packed with beans, rice, wheat etc. > ![]() Two drums, one is behind the one shown, I have used these since Sept. 1999 > ![]() Many more new pics and info which I Hope to have it all done in less than a week. This long pic thread is the most difficult one I have ever made. For various reasons since it was a very difficult summer with the weather, some people and other things that happened. Well all for now. At Least I got this thread started. Hope many will like it. And be able to see what happened last summer. ANY questions or comments are welcome. |
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I think you also have a bunker / underground shelter and probably much more than I have. Especially in food production. I have quite a bit of food stored on the BOL / mtn retreat but I have to build a good greenhouse hopefully as part of the new small partially underground cabin. Here is a link to the 4 short videos that Steve and I did make. Wish we could have made many more videos but lucky we made these > http://survivalhq.net/index.php/topi...-of-my-videos/ And last summer there were more than I have had visit my mtn place since the summer of 1999 when there were maybe a dozen. But last summer there were Steve, Glen and Dave. Which I told about but will tell much more in the future posts in this thread. It will take quite a bit of time to put up the rest of at least fifty more pics. My cousin also visited me and took forty more pics which I will also post. My cousin only stayed a couple hours but at least he showed up finally. He seemed to like it but he was anxious to get down to Saratoga and stay in a fancy motel. ![]() Next summer there is already a new guy, whom I have been emailing and messaging with for about two years on this S-boards. I think he will be better than anyone so far. At least he sounds serious and truly wants to camp, work, learn and practice and live survival. Much more later. |
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![]() I was lost in a haze of daydream induced prepping. That was fun. Your post was very informative and enjoyable to read and learn from. You did well...very well.
Again, very nice post. More should be like this. |
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![]() Good Stuff Mike. Adapt and overcome adversity, I like that kind of grit. Although it seems as if "Murphy" was an unseen and unintended companion on your trip into the mountains. I pass thru Greeley often on my way to the Pawnee Grass to shoot, If you want to go shootin' sometime in spring before heading into the mountains let me know.
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![]() You are truly an amazing man, Mike. I've been following your posts about your BOL ever since I joined this forum. You are probably an inspiration and role model for more people on this board than you realize.
So.....this is a long overdue "thank you" for the time you spend to keep the board updated on your progress and the problems you deal with. (Reading between the lines of this post, I know this wasn't an easy year for you.) The life you have chosen is no walk in the park. And, I feel comfortable commenting that there are not a lot of men who could do the things you do to live there in that beautiful state.........and not give up in defeat and look for an easier way to live. |
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![]() This has proven an intresting read and a GREAT teaching moment for everyone, you included. Thanks for sharing
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![]() Aaaah yes. Life in Wyoming. Dontcha love it? Those little sunflowers will have seeds in the fall you can sprout and they are simply delicious! Wild raspberries, wild strawberries. I chuckle a little every time someone who doesn't live up here says something like "You'll starve up in the mountains! You can't garden up there!"
Nice Mountainman. Very nice. Thanks for sharing. |
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And about an easier way to live is that actually I think camping, working and Living on my BOL / survival retreat is easier than any city job I have ever had. I have always felt like I am not free, almost a slave to society and the world system when living in a city with a regular job that I had to go to day after day, year after year. The wilderness and my mtn place which is barely one mile south of a pure true wilderness is the opposite of cities in everyway, good or bad. While working and Living on my BOL is not physically easy, a day on my beautiful mtn retreat is better than an hour in any city. Working on the BOL is much harder physically than any other jobs I have had from being on a clean up crew at a slaughterhouse to being a security guard to a few other things, even working 12 hour shifts at an Anheuser-Busch can factory. This was a very hard year since there were not too many things that went right. Especially getting the truck stuck in the muck / mud. And I still would like to know if I was overcharged by that winch truck driver who pulled 2 of the pickup trucks out of the mud which took him about ten minutes with me helping him put the chains on. He was not the one who got muddy. I mean $500 to simply winch out 2 trucks? He did not have to tow my truck simply winch it out. But he knew I had no other choice especially with his state patrol friend. They said if I did not have this winch truck driver winch it out they would call the sheriff which would cost me even more... The weather also was terrible especially in June and July. Much rain and terrible lightning storms also. I saw lightning that hit a tree less than a quarter mile away. It sounded like an explosion. Glad I was sitting in my truck. In the bunker would have been even safer but I usually only go into the bunker / storm shelter when it is cold and snowy. Much much more I will post later. |
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![]() For me life just makes sense up there. Away from all the weird crap human culture has concocted. Its life the way God made it. Not easy by a long shot but simple and pure.
Its a shame the way they extorted you into paying to have your truck pulled out. Away from the cities folks are usually more inclined to lend a hand just to help out. But when it comes to people theres always some lookin to capitalize. |
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And I agree many in the country have been helpful but quite a few really are not too friendly. Such as even at neighbor's who own cabins, they are friendly if I go and meet them or happen to meet them on the private road but they really just want to be left alone. Which I sure understand that. But Encampment is possibly a typical small town. I would not want to live there permanently for small towns can be full of nosy people and some who won't trust unless you were born there. And also in Wyoming there has been many business people who look at Colorado license plates as a money machine. They want and need Colorado and other out of state tourists to keep their motels etc. etc. going but I will always think that they took advantage of me. And why I plan to not do anymore business in Encampment. Although the grocery store, which was expensive closed as well as all the restaurants in Encampment. Riverside a town with 59 residents has the business such as 2 bars and a store but Encampment with a population of 450 is drying up. well all for now. I am usually not on the net during the day with my dialup. And why I had to go to the library for several days to make this pic thread. I will post many more pics later, even over the next week or so. |
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![]() I can tell this is going to be really really good, only read about 1/4 of it so far. Marked for later.
OK finally got an opportunity to catch up on what you have posted. Really great, I can't wait till you finish it off. I myself may have been more secretive with allot of my "location" notes that you added but I have a feeling that even if you gave someone GPS coordinates that they would still never find it. -wink- Or a way to get to it. I guess if you had learned anything (if I was in your shoes) then it would be you need a winch hu? LOL Seriously though, I think after its all done (if your looking for suggestions) a good comprehensive lessons learned, things you could have done differently post would be appreciated. To tell you the truth Mike, I would have loved to accompanied you on this fantastic journey. Looks like allot of work, but at the same time a ton of fun. I look forward to reading more. |
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But, you see what happens when more individuals are added to the mix. For some reason you became a slave to one of your guests. Will you re-consider this idea next year? |
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![]() Another super post!
Even if $250 for yanking a truck out was a fair price, I would think since he was already there, doing the second for 1/2 price would have been appropriate. How much would rigging and a good winch cost you? They might pay for themselves in the future. Thank you very much for posting this thread...as always! ![]() |
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![]() Great post Mike I'm sure the rest of it will be great reading. I love the tuff shed and hope it lasts the next winter comming up. That was super great of you to allow people to come up and see you and experience first hand what roughing it means. I look forward to future posts.
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![]() Thanks for taking the time to post so many pictures and write so much, this is the type of article I joined this forum to read.
The journey sounds like one of our 'adventures' in the Land Rover. We are thinking of having some Wwoofers this summer http://www.WWOOF.org but it is pot luck who you get however much you correspond by email. We love having people to stay and help, even family, but it is lovely when they go out for the day or finally go home!!!! Your videos are great as well. |
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![]() Mike, your ongoing lessons are inspiration to quite a few of us. I'll be looking forward to hearing more of your adventures.
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![]() I always enjoy reading about your adventures. Even when they're not so adventurous.
![]() Not only do I live somewhat vicariously through you, your writing style is so honest it's a joy to read. Thanks for sharing! Az |
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