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Old 11-20-2009, 04:09 PM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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Blues I'm having a vision of Gramma doing the wash like she was churning butter.
exactly!!! funny as all get out!!
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Old 11-20-2009, 10:43 PM
 
Location: The end of the road Alaska
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Hey you guys, it works! I tried pounding them on the rocks in the creek like you see in them movies but I couldn't get all the slime from the rocks off. I had a friend long time ago who rigged up an old 6-horse motor to some kind of paddle invention. His wife would lower it in her wash tub, fire up the engine and - instant washing machine.
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Old 11-20-2009, 10:52 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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I had a friend who thought pounding clothes "on and with" the rocks was the way to wash them in the wilderness... When he was done he had pretty much smashed the cloth in the clothes into hundreds of holes in them. A flock of moth's in a summer couldn't have done better!
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Old 11-21-2009, 05:41 AM
 
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I had a friend who thought pounding clothes "on and with" the rocks was the way to wash them in the wilderness... When he was done he had pretty much smashed the cloth in the clothes into hundreds of holes in them. A flock of moth's in a summer couldn't have done better!
how long did he survive in the wilderness??? hahaha
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Old 11-21-2009, 11:47 AM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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how long did he survive in the wilderness??? hahaha
About twenty years on the upper Kantishna River District... Was a supprise to a bunch of us that he made it though his first year. He moved into town (Nenana) a few years ago and bought an older cabin and has access to the more modern stuff.

He even wrote a book about his experiances about it.

Going Wild by Miles-survival story
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Old 11-21-2009, 01:15 PM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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About twenty years on the upper Kantishna River District... Was a supprise to a bunch of us that he made it though his first year. He moved into town (Nenana) a few years ago and bought an older cabin and has access to the more modern stuff.

He even wrote a book about his experiances about it.

Going Wild by Miles-survival story
great art work he does!!! enjoyed his site and bookmarked it for future!! thanks
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Old 11-21-2009, 02:58 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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great art work he does!!! enjoyed his site and bookmarked it for future!! thanks

We have a whole cast of guys just like him all over interior Alaska. Some do really well, and some are never seen again.

He had a plane drop him off in the middle of nowheres, and he did walk out a year later which supprised a lot of people.

One time a bunch of years ago, I went into his cabin and a stench almost made me puke, he had his lynx and wolf claws he does for artwork in a box with "Bugs" that eat the flesh off and produce some really rotten smells of decay.. Needless to say, he couldn't smell it since he was living there.

Other than some little minor details like that, nicest guy you could ever meet.
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