Spirit Of A Mountain Man, Award-winning short film 

Spent a few years there under similar circumstances .. most wouldn't be able to comprehend .. as I mainly sit here in my 80's waiting .. thanks for blending those memory's with those of mine and of my boys that made decent career's from those memory's .. one of them sent me this ..Thanks

Great video. Kind regards from South Africa.

There’s something to be said about, being where you belong! Most of us never realize that!

Brought a tear to my eye brother. I understand that feeling you get when in the middle of nowhere. The mountains call to me the same way. Everything disappears when i go. Thankful to live in gods country. Thank you for sharing

That was the best thing I've watched in a long time. Excellent description of the wilderness

Words can’t describe the feeling one gets as they watch this awesome video! This is what man was born to do.

Thirty years in exploring Alaska and I'm just getting warmed up for another. I'll never leave.

Many hunters enjoy the thrill of a hunt, unique scenery, beautiful animals, and tasty meat. But few, genuinely, cherish it to the point of making it their lifestyle. This film does an excellent job of conveying the passion felt by those dedicated few. Nicely done!

So very good. I’ve always believed hunting is truth ... and so is this video. As you said “follow no trails” is an excellent life creed ... and not of the cold timid souls ......

Great way of life, and not for the faint of heart. As a young boy growing up in the Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York, I had over 6 million acres as a playground. I regret never stepping foot in Alaska, but have always dreamed of it. It isn't too late, I will be looking for a service to hunt within the very near future. Great story, and thank you for preserving the rich and dignified history of hunting and trapping. Real men, real-life histories that embody the very essence of what living a real life is like. Nothing phony here!!!

Thanks for this Billy. I'm 64 years old now. When I was 31 I packed up my wife and little girl and moved to western Montana to guide hunters and pack horses. Thoroughly enjoyed it for a few years before I let life get in the way. I should have stayed with it as my wife would have supported me in that choice. I've always longed to return to those times. I wish I would have had someone to tell me what your grandpa told you at that age. This film touched me so deep down in my soul that only those few others know what I'm talking about and it would be unexplainable to anyone who would ask what I mean. Thank you so much for this. Max

you sure have good videos like watching them.your 1 of the best hunting guides out there

Billy, wonderful job on the film and the narration. Being a hunter and trapper I longed for the far away and silent places. I never did it but glad you did and do. Thanks for the video it is great...

If you ever find yourself in need of a strong back to help set up, break down and pack out meat, I'd be a good man for the job. "It is not possession of the land, but the landscape, that he enjoys; and as for that, all the wild parts of the earth are his, by a title that carries with it no obligation but that he shall not desecrate nor lay them waste." Horace kephart

I am very touched by your film Billy- Steve Lippert, Homer Alaska

What a great story. I'm to old and crippled to even think of doing something like this now. But if I was 40 years younger I might give it a try. God bless and enjoy every minute of your time in Alaska.

LIVING IN THE BUSH IN THE BIG WOODS COUNTRY OF NORTHERN WISCONSIN, I FEEL THE FEELING YOU AND YOUR GRANDAD TALK OF IN THIS FILM. IT IS TRULY WHO I AM

What an awesome video!

You're so lucky to have been able to spend any time w/ your grandpa, as mine died two months after I was born. My grandpa was a merchant marine during WW1 & WW2 and I've always felt an affinity w/ water and sailing. He lived on the island of Bermuda and I have recently discovered which neighborhood/house he lived in (gotta love the internet). I plan on visiting some relatives there next year. Never had any connection to my relatives, but have enjoyed rediscovering some of my family history. Be well and live long.

lived in the Ak wilderness 3.5 years, every thing hard, deadly, hungry and cold you've read of. worth it.

Crazy thing here in 2020. 80%+ people don't know how to do anything to survive. So glad I grew up a country boy

Thanks for keeping the mountain man in me ALIVE..god bless you.

Great story, fantastic pictures, your grandfather looks the part holding that Savage 99. What you said about wolves is certainly true, I hope so much wolves are not permitted to destroy the big game in Yellowstone (and everywhere). Few people know that without hunters wildlife would soon not exist, it's not the anti-hunter, anti-outdoors man Leftist who protect wildlife, and their habitat...

Awesome video, well done. Thank you.

Man, that was truly inspiring. I am city boy like most but love being out doors. The words you used were truly spiritual in nature. I can say they were your inner self talking. Your words were perfectly aligned and spoken. Congratulations on your quest. God created it and He desires all honor and praise!!

I Love your Passion for Alaska and all it has to offer , its like you were born to do this . I do have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that you leave your family like that for so long , i understand you are making money as a guide but as a Father and Husband dont they need you there for protection , Fatherly and Husband daily support , doing Daily things as a Family , i realize there are People , Sports figures who are away from their Families too but its not months they dont see their Family

70 now ,,,love this vid ,,ran a bear hunt camp in northern ontario ,,north of the french ...best years of my life ,,,,i cant imagine going to the wilderness and having to borrow a gun lol keep well to all

Thank you for the excellent video. You have a new sub!

Awesome thank you for sharing Good Luck on the next Hunt and be safe 👍🇺🇸🦌 The Vermonter

When I graduate high school I will move to Alaska and live in the wilderness as your grandfather did, it has been my dream ever since I was a little kid to life in the wilderness as simple as possible.

WELL DONE!! Jan/I spent 27 years in the bush. Raised 2 kids & 13 grizzlies. Wouldnt trust a bear any further than I could throw a bulldozer w both hands. Very few will ever know what its like to be truly alive in the bush & you summed it up very well. Living second to second fully alive!! God Bless U!!

Well written, with great video! Very educational, and inspirational. Thank you.

Great vid...In the last 6 months I had to wrestle with moving back into civil6 due to health. At 70ish and having spent 60 years at tundra in the high Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the decision to move closer to people was not a easy one. I managed to find a house on a lake in the foot hills that had the facilities I needed. I am half blind, broken down body but still "the spirit of a mountain man". Getting used to people being around is the most difficult. When all gets to bad...the mountains are always there for a last walk. This vid describes well the driving force behind the drawing to high ground d and wilderness...for I have pinsol instead of blood, endurance for cold...and can stand my own company for a long time. I am my fathers son and live for pure freedom....I am Native!

I really liked the video! I’m in Anchorage and always look forward to exploring the country😎

Outstanding

Best video I have ever watched by far. I also have that same drive. My soul longs for th mountains and I've been bless to live in th Blueridge mountains in western NC.

I don`t have a Problem hunting for food. I will love to do it I always wanted to live in Alaska and Hunt for my food and Survive on my own will.

That was my dream the whole time growing up hunting, trapping, fishing the Northern lands o Michigan, but at the tender age of 37 years old i was stricken with a most deadly Cancer a unman being could acquire. So to that. End i have endured Three times in my life that i was stricken with that horrible illness, But finally a brave young man of 23 old donated a part of him so i could live, I thank God everyday that I was able to see my children to become good adult Human beings and now Three Beautiful Grand Children, Two Girls and One Boy who is Five Years old, My Hunting years were taken from me for a while but i am now passing my knowledge of a dying life of a Outdoorsman. He is so totally interested in everything about the Woods, Hunting, Fishing, Trapping. Your beautiful story resonated with my Grand Son and I. I hope to live the rest of my life teaching every aspect about how to be and Outdoorsman at 54 years old now i can get to like i could years back, but i do what i can to teach him that dying life in the woods or just outdoors hunting for your food and not relying on the stores to get my food and he will be the same way because he shows me how to set a snare for small game to funny thing his nobody has ever show a dead fall tap. He came to me out in the yard one day and said pap paw i want to show you my trap for a Rabbit and sure enough it was a complete trap and i didn’t have to change a thing to make it work and he is 5 five years old, he sure is a natural. Thank you for allowing me a tired fella who never got to live his dream of Alaska living on my own wits in the Bush, I envy you my friend. Be safe and God Bless you in every way.

The mountain is calling...and I must go!

very nice film

I’d wish i had the guts to live the way i want to live... but yet,... just like most people... i cradle to the grave... Very inspiring short film! Super!

If I ever get a chance to get out of Ohio

Wow such an awesome story thank you

Awesome video, you look like your gramps as well, keep on keeping on brother 👍

Superb message. Thank you! NEW SUB!

The northern woods of wisconsin are my home

That was awesome!

Once again Billy. Excellent content, production, editing and writing. I am lost again in wilderness.

GREAT video Billy! What you do in the middle of nowhere, away from family / friends, in the face of the elements, only a few people on this earth could do...I'm not one of them. Be safe and make sure you return back to your family each year, you owe them that! Thanks for sharing your video....well worth my time to watch.

I sit in My condo and hunt for videos like this with a loaded computer. I just watched a Trophy!

Excellent. Cheesehead props!

That was better than any multi-million dollar movie or television production. Thanks!

Good stuff Billy! Guys on the boat all want to see some of your videos, I need to get some!

"Escape to the wild place that calls you". Amen

Excellent.

I am planning to take my turn and go to the Colorado Rockies after the winter lifts. Thanks for inspiration

This, was so interesting! Thank you.

Great life. Great man. Great guide. Great hunter.....awesome Grandpa !

Thank you for sharing . To many more great success.

Excellent! From Wisconsin myself! Love your heartfelt feelings for the Wilderness! It shows so much in this film! One of my favorite authors and an inspiration is Sigurd Olsen, we all have our listening points! And yours is very beautiful!

Thank you for the story. You come from generation's of men forged from steel. Forged folded and sharpened. You are the final edged. Long gone are these qualities in the world today. I wish you and your family the very best and will pray you will help to temper a life as your grandfather did, in you.

One of the best ones I have seen .. thank you... Wish I could go but at 70 not very real take care and God bless ...

I didnt become a hunter until later in life. I've always camped and fished. I love the outdoors. I've been hunting now for 20years and wished I had started hunting at a younger age. If you're a hunter that truly loves to hunt and love the outdoors this video hits the right spot. If I could do it all over again I'd be right where you're at. Great film and the country there looks amazing. My drive for the hunt keeps getting stronger each year and this film just makes a hunter want to be there now. Keep filming, keep sharing. Thank you soooo much for the content. Keep hunting and keep the hind quarters hanging. If I could afford a guided hunt with you I'd take it in a heart beat. God Bless You and keep you safe.

If only I was 20 years younger...

That's awesome Billy. Thanks for sharing a part of your life with us. Thanks for reminding us to get back to nature, soak in what God gave us in our lives on this Earth. Thank You

Absolutely, wonderful film...well done! You've captured the essence of the hunt that resides in the soul of man...

Very FEW MEN LIKE YOU NOW A DAYS A TRUE HUNTER !

Excellent. Great story and well told. I get so tired of the fist pumping chest thumping stupidity that gets aired on so many hunting shows these days. Thank you for keeping it real Billy Molls.

Alaska the only place to really call home

shot mate, great production. We sure do have it sweet these days - especially here in New Zealand

great story

Always know where you belong it s in your blood. And enjoy ever day. Beautiful video.

Amazing video Billy,thank you .While l don't subscribe to the hunting ethic( l did when younger,so totally get where you are coming from) these days,the lessons such places teach us are still so valuable.All the best to you and yours.

Did you ever hunt a big grown brown bear up close enough to stick him with an arrow and quietly watch him amble away, knowing you could have taken him, he could have taken you, but, you came home with the memory?

What truth! Pure, simple, unadulterated truth!

Wow u done what me an every man wish for . What a great adventure of life . Thank u .

Spoken like a true Mountain man

Hi Billy, Nature has always interested me from avery young age. Here on the Isle of Skye Scotland. We have Red Deer, Roe Deer, Golden Eagles, Red Foxes and Otters plus seals. To name but a few of the animals that live here. Nature never fails to fascinate me. Thanks for the very interesting videos.

That is exactly right Alaska I wish I would have, I would have never come back.

Wow....amazing and very real video...thank you for sharing!!!

This is a very well made mini film!! One quick feeling on my end: Many great wilderness folks may never have stepped foot on a mountain. 3 quarters of Canada and much of Russia is non mountainous. No shortage of great wilderness lore and legends no doubt. ..I guess the term mountain man never came around until the mid 1800s when the west started to open up. Anyone who likes watching this, I would highly recommend Happy People - A year in the Tiaga.

Wow wow that's all I can say what you do with that bear man is truly a beast...

Livin the dream!!

Fantastic Movie!

Great story.

Moving filmography. Excellent story. Love the outdoors. I'm trying to live more on purpose....the purpose is to be outdoors. What is your idea of the best all around pack gear? Kifaru, HPG, Eberlestock? Share with us. Thanks

Thanks for sharing! Greets from the Netherlands, Tonny.

Awesome video.

What can I say??? SUPURB

Great video! "The Lure of little voices" Robert Service There's a cry from out the loneliness -- oh, listen, Honey, listen! Do you hear it, do you fear it, you're a-holding of me so? You're a-sobbing in your sleep, dear, and your lashes, how they glisten -- Do you hear the Little Voices all a-begging me to go? All a-begging me to leave you. Day and night they're pleading, praying, On the North-wind, on the West-wind, from the peak and from the plain; Night and day they never leave me -- do you know what they are saying? "He was ours before you got him, and we want him once again." Yes, they're wanting me, they're haunting me, the awful lonely places; They're whining and they're whimpering as if each had a soul; They're calling from the wilderness, the vast and God-like spaces, The stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole. They miss my little camp-fires, ever brightly, bravely gleaming In the womb of desolation, where was never man before; As comradeless I sought them, lion-hearted, loving, dreaming, And they hailed me as a comrade, and they loved me evermore. And now they're all a-crying, and it's no use me denying; The spell of them is on me and I'm helpless as a child; My heart is aching, aching, but I hear them, sleeping, waking; It's the Lure of Little Voices, it's the mandate of the Wild. I'm afraid to tell you, Honey, I can take no bitter leaving; But softly in the sleep-time from your love I'll steal away. Oh, it's cruel, dearie, cruel, and it's God knows how I'm grieving; But His loneliness is calling, and He knows I must obey. Robert William Service

Really enjoyed this. Thank you

Tropical, that's where I'd go if I were a young man

Great job!

Wow! Grandpa planted a giant seed. The vast majority of us are living a rubber stamped life.

great cant say more thanks for sharing

Magnificent and truly awe inspiring video. Thank you

Great film hit me deep!

I needed this...Thank you.

You write beautifully. Wonderful vid

Wolves hunt mostly for the meek, the old, the sick, the weak, prey animals unfit to sustain and disseminate a strong gene-pool to enhance and secure the species; the human trophy hunter is after the animal of prey when it's in its prime, he takes always the strongest, the fittest, the best equipped and needed to reproduce and keep the species healthy and strong, and necessary experiences for survival past down the generations. Which predator is going to cause more harm to the balance of nature and its species, wolves or humans? The answer is simple, it does not need rocket science to be backed-up, yet for all doubtful or ignorant hunters, the scientists have proven that the reintroduction of wolves back into habitats they once have been extirpated from was of greatest success not only for the canines but for the entire eco-system, the overall environment, from the re-emergence of wetlands, rejuvenated lakes, and rivers, streams to all living flora and fauna.