[JoeProBono]

YouTube: Alone in the Wilderness

[stompk]

chuck norris hides from dick proenekee.

Dick is a bad-ass. I’ve thought many times of going alone to alaska to do what he did, but aside from me NOT being a bad-ass, my wife and kids wouldn’t let me !

[Teflonic]

I gave Dick Proeneke’s three episodes to my Grandfather and he thinks they are the best thing since sliced bread, watches them all the time.

[snowrip]

bump for later viewing

[unkus]

Really neat. Thanks.

[redpoll]

We have the students struggling with reading and writing read his book “Into the Wilderness” and watch his videos. It is good for young men to see someone using his strong will, strength, and knowledge. Dick Proenneke builds his own home, hunts and kills his own food, and creates his own tools and belongings. It is a far more powerful and uplifting message than most of the self-esteem crap fed to these kids in popular culture and modern education, and this is especially true for young men.

Well worth the read and the look.

[Tijeras_Slim]

After 50 years he’d had enough of Jane.

[ßuddaßudd]

Good Show!

[RedMDer]

That is a great story and video. Thanks!

[stylin19a]

holy cripes...he mostly didn’t use gloves.

Thanks for turning me on to this.

[stylecouncilor]

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[stickandrudder]

I like stories about this. Enjoyed the PBS shows.
Another group of these guys in Idaho
“Last of the Mountain Men” by Peterson is the story of one of them. Amazing what you can do and get by with when you have to.

[GoldenPup]

Last year, Public TV did a full length progam on this, narrated by the fellow, himself. What an extraordinary story. He is a very accomplished craftsman and the program was well worth watching. I hope they broadcast it again this year.

[Daffynition]

Filming himself...he kinda invented *youtube*!!! What a great-great adventurer! He was from another time and place. Unlike the failed [and equally engrossing story] Into the Wild the 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer about the ill-fated demise of Christopher McCandless who attempted to tame the wilderness and basically starved to death.

Look at those wild blues!!!!

[bitterohiogunclinger]

BTTT

[Mike Darancette]

The next Spring they would find naught of me but a rag, a bone and a hank of hair.

[Axeslinger]

I begin construction on my own cabin on a chunk of land in the Virginia mtns in about 2.5 months...so self ping for later viewing...

[urtax$@work]

A real do-it-yourselfer, saw vid and was exhausted after watching all the work he did. Give that guy an axe and some trees and he will build a palace.

[MileHi]

Bought this DVD a few years ago. Mr. Proenneke was an amazing man.

[Publius Valerius]

marked for later.