Chris you and Linnea should write an ebook for surviving in the wilderness. People love nature and hiking etc but I am not sure how educated they are on survival. Just a thought. Great video!
Wow...electrical sys looks impressive!! Replace stove for med sz wood stove in that kitchen space?? Linea is smart, resourceful, beautiful, etc = fantastic partner!! 😊 Your drooling over her cooking cracks me up 🤣 🤣 good job!!
If you're expecting a snowstorm throw a tarp over your solar panels!!! When the snow stops, just pull the tarp off! So much easier than fussing to scrape off the panels.
I imagine the water ritual is the most intensive each day. It's great to see you 2 in a groove. Got to say, seeing the excitement over the bread has been my favorite thing. It really demonstrates how important the little things are that bring joy and cultivate gratitude living this way.
I am so inspired by both of you! Been following this journey and so impressed by the optimism and ingenuity of both of you! You guys are living my dream! Knitting cooking wood burning stove and the dogs close by🤗 Good luck to both of you! Sending happy thoughts and good wishes!!
Merino wool long undies and long sleeve shirts are fabulous. I had them for walking too college and all about campus. It's a must. A good set of Carhartt's would be sweet for big chilly weather. Just a thought.
What's up Chris? Hope the storms going across the states haven't hit y'all too hard. Sounds like everything has been going pretty well. I would love to see you and Linnea do a cooking segment. It's fun to see people get creative with what they have to work with. Love y'all!💙💙💙🐾💙🐾❄⛄
Great video Chris. You are truly living off the grid. I think you have a realistic goal, living off grid for 3 months. I wish you two the best. Where do you you store your perishables? I like your shower set up. Do you just let your gray water drain on the ground? This was an enjoyable video. Thanks for sharing.
Just curious about showers and gray water in general. What is the size of the holding tank, and maybe more importantly - is it somehow not getting frozen over? With the temperatures, I imagine that showers are all indoors - maybe to a plastic tub that gets carried out to the snow somewhere. Really enjoying this off-grid challenge/adventure!
Wow, Chris, what an interesting episode. I so admire all the ways you two have figured out how to survive off-grid in the winter. This will definitely help those of us who hope to follow in your footsteps. Best of luck to you, Linea, and the pups.
So cool! And impressive. Amazing to see how comfortable life can actually be with some work, preparation, and creativity! When you talked of heating your water for washing, it brought back memories of doing the same for the Sunday bath, except we had no fancy shower, just a big tub. My parents were hippies so for the first part of my life, I grew up on a small farm with a log cabin, chickens, a couple of goats, some geese, some pigs, and a big garden, but no electricity and no plumbing, just some kerosene lamps and a wood stove. Luckily, we had a well with a pump for water, and it was on the west coast so winters weren't that bad. We were off-grid but not self-reliant : we had winter vegetables stored and goats milk, eggs and some ham curing and occasionally we'd eat one of the egg producers, but we'd go to town every week in the '62 Beetle for the rest. However, even with that, our life was nowhere as nice as yours, especially since we had no toilet -- just a very cold and dark outhouse where the monsters lived at night.
This is so amazing u guys r doing this . Please stay safe and warm n happy. U 2 R a Great Couple can't wait for podcast. Thanks for sharing your lives with us.
Thanks for the run down on the crucial items! Isn't it amazing to find out what you thought would work, but doesn't? Ya don't know until you get there (sometimes). Thanks again & looking forward to the next one :D
hey missed this when you posted...I have a hand operated log splitter from harbor freight...its just a 10 ton bottle jack on the splitter sled. You don't have to charge the Makita as much (love my saw too) but you have to burn more calories...but in about 30 min you could split enough for a day or two.
@@theoffgridskoolie Getting there while I was in the hospital from it I got covid which played havok with my immune system spent both Thanksgiving and Christmas up at IU in Indy after being Life flighted from Evansville since docs here could not figure out what was going on. Now just getting to the point where I can go back to work and kinda restart my plans to move out of the city. Want to do a cabin but prob not in Indiana still working that one out. Thanks to the last few months everything's kinda back at square one but I will get there in time.
Thanks for all the info about what you need. How is your solar connected in series or parallel? If you where to connect them in parallel you might get more power out. But the trees is also not helping much :) hope your still doing well, and have enough for the rest of the mission.
