Dick Proenneke in Alone in the Wilderness 

Dudes a legend

You are both right.

Henry david thoreau did it over 200 years ago

@@kimhappy4908 Visited Walden when I was on a school trip, and wondered how much has been changed by the people who now oversee it

Done way before tube.

I hope that everything went well!!!

Reminds me of my grandfathers

He is live or died..

I wonder if you went ahead. Dreaming is easy, jumping in harder. I believe that when our times comes we will regret what we didn't do, not what we did.

50 is just the beginning of life.. Not time to slow down, if anything, time to start living.

Have you watched primitive technology? You will lose yourself in a worm hole

Makes me want to build a log cabin and disappear from society

Same.

I have all of his full length movies and they are my comfort show. If I am too anxious I can pit these on and it calms me down. Dick is one of my heroes.

Can someone please tell me the genre of music that plays in the background? I want to make a playlist on it.

I'm 57 I spent from September till January in a 16x20 off grid cabin in Northern Ontario it was amazing.

You obviously didn't belong there. There ARE some people who feel most comfortable all alone.

Should have brought a cat or dog with ya.

@@Yodumeee Have you ever tried it ?

Did you keep yourself busy like he did? building all the things he did, planting, hunting fishing

Yeah... and somehow he never ran out of energy to power his camera. 🤣🤣

I went to dutch harbor for a supposed 1 season i stayed 2 years. I miss alaska alot.

​@@CrispyOkrawell i guess you're the genius considering it wasn't documented every minute every day

@@honewaatamokepumipi8135 What battery lasts 30 years, let alone hold a charge? As a photographer, I know batteries don't hold a charge for more than maybe a month or two even if they're not used. They also need to be replaced every year or two whether they're used or not (less if they're not used). He may have lived in the woods for 30 years, but he didn't stay in the woods for 30 years.

ok but you dont underestimate a man who knows how to survive

Here here

People had pride in what they did back then

use it or lose it

@Reemo Williams Hilarious!

At 56 and a former framing contractor with as much if not more carpentry experience than him, I know I couldn't do what he did. Too many surgeries from injuries have me feeling old.

Same here. I’m 39, a combat veteran, with calloused hands. But this man at 51 makes me look like a pussy.

@@donsmith3857 This should be the takeaway from these videos. Well said.

@Hammerschlägen M Fuck you both. (Not at the same time.) I'm shedding man tears.

Haaaaaaa

Jeremiah Johnson built his cabin in ten minutes. Must have had a better violin background

@@edwardgaines6561 gave

No phone...No lights....No motorcar! Not a single luxury!

I was chopping down trees with a hatchet.

Check out I think it’s called Yankee workshop it used to be on PBS , he is a master wood worker builds all sorts of cool things , and check out some of the jungle peoples builds with bamboo it is crazy

Yes, I came across it a short while ago on YT - the channel is now called the New Yankee Workshop. Your post has reminded me to revisit it - thanks. @@johnscanlon2598

Well sadly they ha e because noone crafts like this anymore.

like your dildo

No kidding definately a mans man!!!!

Like my Dad!🙏🤗😘

A true inspiration. Sheer determination. I sat in silence for some time after seeing this awesome undertaking and have relived Dick's story. God bless his memory!

@@peacesearcher4598 nice thing to say about your dad 😊

I totally agree except the narrator is not the guy on the show. he is reading his journals. the hole documentary is an hour or so. it plays on our local public access channel from time to time and I bought the DVD for about $15 (amazon I think) rather than the $300 "donation" to get "the wgvu/wgvk travel mug, the tote bag, the day planner, an alarm clock, a year subscription to cat fancy, and some other shit you don't really want but we included so we don't look like total assholes for wanting $300 damn dollars for a DVD or vhs"

drewschlosser26 Cheers for the correction, voice seemed a natural fit. :)

Richard has carpeting skills he learned over his life time. That is the reason he was able to build his cabinet. Average person like me or everyone else wouldn't know how to start out.

Read his stuff, very interesting and compelling. He continued to evolve as a man too. Became much more conscious. He saw that we live much too heavily on the land and that the great gift that we've been given of this planet and this life are basically ignored in favor of ambition. I hesitate to say much more and color Dick with my own thinking, but reading his journals and reflections is really worth while.

Sure had a way with words ...

No Doubt !

+Dr. Kevin Smith How long does the DVD go for? Your not wrong one of my favorite videos on RU-vid. Gave me and a mate inspiration to build our own little hunt over here in Australia.

You are very welcome ! It is comments like yours that let us know it was all a very worthwhile thing to do, take Dicks footage and at his request turn it into something that other folks would enjoy watching, something most could never do, only dream about. I guess watching Dick Proenneke living his life up at Twin Lakes is probably the next best thing to doing it yourself. I know Dick would appreciate very much knowing how many folks like yourself are enjoying his footage. Thank you for your kind words.

I watched this in grade ten in woodshop once and I haven't gone a month without it, if I call the number at the end can I still get a copy?

@@calebschieck5052 I got mine from Amazon.

@@swererjralone my grandfather loved his VHS copy but it broke, that was the only reason he kept the VHS player, he's pitched it, now he only has a dvd player, is there any chance you could ship a replacement for him? His 85th birthday is coming up and I'd love to surprise him

Flynn Farralone I also aw this on PBS.

While you point is valid it, sadly, no longer applies. As an American, you are only allowed to be a moron who operates within the narrow boundaries of what's legal. Going out in the woods, building yourself a cabin, hunting, fishing and gathering for survival breaks so many fucking laws these days that going out like that for a year would likely land your ass for much longer in a state / fed penitentiary. Hell, there isn't much of nature remains where you'd be allowed to even stay overnight, unless it's some lame campground packed with Walmartians. Coke to Russia, bro, despite the popular propaganda, we're actually living up to much more freedom than US residents could only dream of in the past 25 or so years.

Poruchik Rzhevskiy Sad =(

It is indeed.

At least by watching this type of video, it allows a person to store some vital information. There could come a time when you could fall back on some even basic tasks that you learned by viewing. Of course, nothing takes the place of actual experience. I kind of knew how to connect the logs by making notches, but I would not have thought of using river stones for the foundation and flooring. And just as mentioned in another persons reply, I would like to have a dog with me.

Jim Walker. That is correct!

Agreed

Hey Mike, you know what was crazy though? he never appeared to be lonely. He said something about always having something to do and keeping his mind occupied. I bought the DVD and have probably seen it 50 times.

I saw this on pbs too, but I think there's a LOT more than an hour of footage. I might be mistaken because memories are faulty, but for some reason I remember this show as an all evening thing when I stumbled upon it on PBS pledge drive time.

@@tigmite1 , I saw it on PBS too. They'd show about 15 minutes of the video and then pledge for half an hour. That would explain why it lasted the whole evening.

@@jimsteele7108 Thank you tree feller :). I guess it's my wishful thinking. I wonder if there's more though. I sure hope so.

This guy would use Bob Ross as a toilet brush.

how long is the full doc...???

thx a lot

@@Musikministeren , I think it's a full hour.

Thx

Exquisite share Gary, enjoyed it. Would love to see something similar from PNG.

Nice video.

brings up an interesting question which is harder to survive in Alaska or Papua New Guinea? i know papua is one of the least explored places on the planet currently and oddly still experiences snowfall in its higher regions

Kalkas53 It depends if you are on the Alaskan coast or past the mountain chain. two completely different climatic conditions. Better odds on the coast.

Could they survive in a city?

See the full video and you'll see it and a lot more. These two videos, Alone In The Wilderness 1 & 2 are a very cut down version to give you a taste of it.

Beautiful work.

Wood love to be able to do that some day

Rick L would like to but who as the time? I have 15 acres in PA

ain't that the truth, course if things continue the way there going we all might be doing it some time soon *crossing fingers

ra wige everyone. everyone has the time.

you reached inside my brain with that one, he look's like the kinda man that would give a bear a hard time! sure enough I met someone like him, he lived outside of Anchorage off a highway that followed Cooks inlet i was out of calif. traveled with bands, you meet some interesting people along the way, this guy grew up in Alaska, a home builder, he wanted to show me a log cabin he was building, me, city boy, thinking along the lines of Abe Lincoln. we walked a few miles in the forest, i start to notice these trees going horizontal, closer we got the higher it was! three stories high! all framed, he was working on the inside, i asked how he got the logs up that high, he just left one huge tree in the center and attached pulleys, a friend helped him with the upper floors! --- ya think!! he had a classic name, Ike Turner.

I know this feeling. My father worked in the maintenance department of a very large production factory. He died at 73 and at his funeral, I met a lot of his old coworkers for the first time. Old, leather-skinned, slightly hunched, soft-spoken, but with vise-like handshakes. They could fix anything that breaks. They had good stories and honest faces. In the office where I work, you're lucky to meet a guy who changes his own oil.

yeah i hear that, this man is old school, they grew up in a time period where you didn't get on the phone and call up a repair man, you were him! -- and now days people have to learn how to be resourceful or you better make a lot of money, this kind of confidence never hurts anyone.

It's not me you have to convince, it's yourself! as a rule, theory sound good on paper, in daily practice within the physical world the flaw becomes obvious. I believe,if your confident enough of a person your capable to do and over come anything, I would like to add to this topic and open it up. But at the moment, I just don't have the time. possibly I will pick this up a later time. until then, Yeah, go knock yourself out!

***** Well, of course not. I'm a field geologist, so I spend 80% of my time outside. However, most of the office staff of my company are amazed at the fact that I do my own home repairs, change my own oil, fabricate jigs to make tasks easier, and know how to fell a tree with an axe. None of these are intrinsically impressive skills; these guys just have low expectations for working with their hands.

Hear, hear.👍

there a number of groups offering "Workshops" here on You Tube search for workshops? some for cob, others for Earthships, and Log cabin, take a summer off and learn !

Dennis Miles Well i live in Sweden, it would be better to have a friend to teach me.

you got a pretty great lesson in this video.

MrHestichs, I am in Tampa Bay region of Florida USA but I was taught by my Father who renovated houses about 60 years ago. When I was Young.(From age 6 to age 24.) In almost every region individuals build cabins, log houses, and other structures. Buy a book (I have read dozens) and hire a builder (Pay him to be a Friend and tracher) to build a small cabin with the agreement that you may help.Then add onto it yourself the next year. Do all you can yourself and hire others to do what you can not, and watch and learn. You have to invest your time to learn. and sometimes you save some money depending upon how much you actually do. The last house I built I was the designer, and the general contractor and It cost only half as much to build because that is what the general contractor's profit is. Half the total cost ! But I learned the basics of masonry, bricklaying, plastering, carpentry, plumbing, electrical wiring and roofing from my Father.

haha just go out into the wild and your instincts will kick in!

He never did. Except in the very end of his life.

Don't blame him.

@Jackercol There are many reasons to hate the urban Hell. It's ironic, I moved out to a place that's very remote and now I need to have a gun.

It did leave quite often to visit family. Also he didn’t live in all that much isolation. He regularly had visitors and had regular shipments of food flown in. He also never spent the winters there for the first several years.

Right

A dog might become a hindrance. It needs to be fed for doing nothing.

apparently you have never had a pet. a dog would be a companion, someone to talk to,to keep you warm,to alert you to danger.

terry pratt I had dogs, and horses besides rabbits, mice, Ginea hens, dwarf hens, etc. My last dog was a beautiful Siberian which I miss so much, but like I said, perhaps Mr. Proenneke had a different idea regarding dogs and animals in general.

thanks. As someone who has never been married My animals are always at my side. take care

Many people don't like dogs.

I wish I didn't get this

He has birds as friends. They would land on his hand when he feeds them.

lol...sounds like a bird brain comment.

Now that was a cheep shot.

badlandskid and a good peace ass?

a dog dog is a female pit. help me one time..ill always think of that dog.

this guy is a beast

yep, fan of your channel !

Ya I figured that all out. I am in no shape to build one like that.

It would have saved him a lot of time if he had had a chain saw and a quad in those days.

rick hctep He cut down all those logs a year before he built the cabin, sure it would've made cutting the logs to the right length easier, but he would still have to chisel them to fit. So, a chainsaw really only makes cutting a tree down easier and a man of his stature and skill has no need for a chainsaw.

You can do that with a chainsaw, ECH. The right model you can also take off the blade and fit an auger. I think it would somewhat defeat the purpose, though.

Cellus KH yeah but he would have to carry it all out there, because he hiked to that location.

Yes, as a norwegian, i understand you, we like to be alone in our cabins. In the wild.

"Illinumati" "u hav no swag"

kebab mix Yes, we get germs from other people, so if you live alone you only have the germs of who is living with you. Vaccine's kill, genocide. Georgia Guidestones. We do not get sick from the weather, that is the silliest thing ever made up.

@@Shankabottomus Then you have no idea of what the wild offers because you think it's all here in the civikized city you live in. There is less disease were he was than were you are. And he probably also knew what plants were good for "ailments' that you would die from. No sir you are uneducated in what it takes to survive. Know the land, know the trees and plants, know the animals and bugs. If you Know you will thrive.

I love when idiots try to romanticize the era of human history that resulted in average lifespans in the 40's and an infant mortality rate around 50%. The audacity to call another "uneducated" when believing their own bullshit is priceless as well.

+Jobey Lundrigan How often do you get supplies? Can they get there by road or only by air? Saw your vid of hockey, I guess it's you on the rink?

There is a airport here. And I was in BC for that hockey game. There is no hockey rink here.

+John Conner no, it's actually really fun! In the winter, we build a huge ice rink. By the Arctic Ocean

+John Connor lol

+Jobey Lundrigan Do you have electricity, tv and internet?

+Sadie Mae When youre on the verge of death thats when you value life.

Well you wouldn't because there isn't anyone there to give you viruses

+Sadie Mae I understand that you mean emergencies, but when Charles Lindburg was dying he was living on the island Maui, his people told him to go to stateside new york where they could get help.His reply was " I would rather live 1 month in Maui than live 1 year in New York," and I know exactly what he meant.

+Greenfinch13 - Minecraft Riiiiiiight, because we only need medical attention when we get a virus.

+Greenfinch13 - Minecraft You're right, he wouldn't be around anyone to give him a virus. I guess the only disease he could have got was vd from sexing a deer.

It is a nice design

I was an Army Ranger and I feel like a kid watching this. He was always a mans man in my eyes watching this as a kid. Great honest hard work. Can’t top it.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Roger Rogers Did you come up with that all by yourself?

Radical Skeptic Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Roger Rogers In times when Logic is diminished, wisdom becomes unattainable and neither passion or reason can be brought to bear; Sarcasm may be the only weapon left.... "Genius, pure genius." Wile E. Coyote

Jerry, Back in the 60's all the top notch movie cameras were wind-upThat's what Dick used, always dependable !

And memory cards. Though a lot of this looks like it's shot on his flip phone?

Not all cameras take/took batteries.

Video camera's do. What kind of video cam's or film camera's dont? Old school still film cameras still need batteries.

Ahh really? Thats very impressive. I didnt know about that, if true. Cheers my bad.

Times change, why slag on the men of today? Real men are responsible for their families and themselves, there's no stereotypical check list required.

Funny adjectives. I get your point but for some it's just style. There are some tough young men today just dont like k like it. Skinny Jean's lol

If you can wear skinny jeans, it's because you're not a soft glutton, aka a fat fuck.

@@tigmite1 Very few under 25 years old can even change a flat tire. And define responsible. If you mean saddled with an unreasonable mortgage and the payment on that new car smell while stuck in the rat race to hopefully retire at 65 then,yeah...keep your "responsible". Cheers!

Shay McQuaid i’m a 15 year old female. i know how to change the oil in a car, some basic mechanics, etc.; how to grow my own flowers and foods like green beans, tomatoes, okra, and zucchini squash; how to cook just about anything; how to mow the lawn; do my laundry; use power tools. i often go backpacking and have been on a few solo trips- i know how to start a fire and set up camp along with basic survival skills. this being said, i only know how to do these things because my dad and mom taught me how growing up. most people can’t simply because nobody ever taught them how- it’s not their fault. it’s just how society has changed. i live in a recently suburbanized area in the south, so that is simply still the culture around here for some people (while most of my friends were never taught these things).don’t harp on people that were simply never taught or were never in a situation where, say, changing a tire was necessary- heck, i don’t even know how to change a tire...