Posted on 07/26/2023 8:18:04 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
Last summer, Rebecca Vance talked with her family about a dream she’d had: She wanted to live in a land disconnected from the world, which she viewed as chaotic and dangerous.
She told her stepsister, Trevala Jara, that she could grow and gather her own food in a remote place, that she and her teenage son could be happy and safe away from the news, the viruses, the politics of modern-day America.
“I’m going to worry about you,” Jara told her stepsister. But Vance was resolute. “I’m going to live off the land,” she replied.
Her decision proved to be fatal. On Tuesday, a coroner said that he had identified three bodies that had been found earlier this month in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains as those of Rebecca Vance, 42, her 14-year-old son and her sister, Christine Vance, 41, who, Jara said, had ventured with them out of concern for their safety, believing an extra set of hands could be useful.
The coroner’s findings came more than a week after the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office said that the bodies of the campers had been found near Gold Creek Campground, a discovery that drew national attention as officials sought to identify the victims and determine why they had apparently attempted to camp through a brutal winter.
Michael Barnes, the Gunnison County coroner, said on Tuesday that the family members were all from Colorado Springs and had lived “off the grid,” survived on canned food and sheltered in a tent before a harsh winter or malnourishment most likely led to their deaths.
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Gunnison Colorado in the winter in a tent?
The son died also so she may be eligible for a Darwin.
Gunnison gets very cold and very deep! Beautiful place but that aint how you do it.
I haven’t brought race in to the conversation, but since you have done so - Generally most black people want nothing to do with going into wilderness, forests, and such, especially at night.
If you are in the wilderness you should have brought a gun.
If you have a gun, you can open up a cartridge and dump the powder into the kindling (carefully) to help the fire start.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aCiP_G1EOwg
“”””She said she hoped that her family’s story would prompt others to think twice before choosing to live similar lifestyles off the grid.””””
They didn’t choose to live a different lifestyle or to live off the grid, to make it short, they hit a supermarket, went out into the Colorado winter, pitched a tent, and proceeded to eat the food they brought until they all died.
They didn’t adopt anything, they just went on a weekend camping trip with the imagination that things would take care of themselves once they got to the outdoors and pitched a tent.
Even in the Army.
What most people don’t understand/choose to ignore is all the back room/behind-the-scenes efforts it takes to put food on the shelves of their local supermarkets. Ditto for clothes and shoes to wear, electricity and natural gas on tap in their homes, DIY store supplies, fuel for vehicles, etc. Add to that all the service, communication, and transportation products made available routinely to rural, suburban, and urban dwellers and the scale of this largely invisible infrastructure is remarkable.
Consequently, if you are living on canned food in a tent, you are still reliant on “the grid.” The only place where they succeeded in getting “off the grid” was probably losing the ability to connect to the wireless cellphone network so they could call for rescue when the moment of crisis came.
As you pointed out, going “off the grid” requires acquiring a lot of knowledge and skill to create substitute sources and methods for all the goods and services “the grid” provides.
The only thing I would add to your post is that preparation for the coming winter usually begins the previous spring and intensifies through the spring, summer, and fall. It also may involve a multi season transition with less and less support/reliance on outside items/supplies as the “off the grid” measures take up the slack. .
In that environment, preparing/being prepared for winter is an overwhelming concern all the time. Just ask the bears; the ones that survived the previous winter.
At least they tried, we all die it is just a matter of when.
At least they tried, we all die it is just a matter of when.
When I lived in the mountains without a cabin, as a woodcutter, I could kick the snow off the previous night’s supper fire and refeed the embers to heat my pinto beans, and water for instant coffee.
We used to survival camp for fun a week or two at a time. Nothing but a knife between us. I cheated as I can start a fire with my glasses.
Now days roughing it is an RV with black and white TV.
they did live the rest of their lives off the grid...
#17 Yep, a low budget motel does have wild creatures crawling around in the rooms. Especially with the lights out : )
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I started to write “well, at least they won’t be able to keep voting for Democrats,” but that may not necessarily be true.
They also missed the part on food stores for winter, basic workmanship and survival skills.
Sounds like how a story about liberals would start, and end.
The author is a “city people”.
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