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Living "off the grid" in Alaska

People are going to find him half eaten by his dogs.
 
Sounds like an abysmally boring and pointless life. If he's happy with it, good for him.

He thought there was more to life than repairing cars so he does nothing? Sounds like he ran away from life.

He's not even self sufficient.
 
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tzrider said:
Oh, but I did. I just got something different from it than you did.
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One thing River Mike has a lot of is time. He doesn’t hunt, trap or fish, so he has even more hours than people might think. He spends a lot of it thinking about one-liners he either tells Mager or writes down for his artwork. He writes the sayings in calligraphy on polished wood. He also spends time collecting firewood. His life is simple — it’s about survival. He jokes that the hardest decisions he has to make all day are when he wakes up: where to take Matty on a walk and what to eat when they get back.
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I call that nothing.
 
jacksprat said:
.I call that nothing.
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Or, more accurately, nothing that you personally value.

Perhaps I'm reading between the lines because I actually know something about what it takes to survive above the Arctic Circle. The article doesn't cover these things, but the fact that the guy is alive testifies to the fact that he's doing them.
 
I did live in Fairbanks for 18 months. More power to this guy but yeah, I'll pass. Alaska is beautiful...Alaska winters are awful brutal though.
 
Kinda seems like he is just waiting to die in a beautiful place. Can't say that I'd prefer a hospital to that, but then again, at least the hospital is warm-ish and there are drugs.
 
jacksprat said:
If that is the extent of his existence, it is nothing to value by any reasonable standards. He is not, according to this article, pulling a Thoreau, he's just "surviving".

Merely surviving through a selfish existence is not admirable, it is nothing, IMHO.

No matter how much work he has to put in to stay warm, it is nothing.
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how is his existence in anyway selfish? he lives near zero impact, off the grid, by himself not causing harm to anyone....his existence causes less overall harm in the world than yours, and by a significant margin
 
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