No really.
All this chatting about going it alone and how to make it work.
Here's a guy who did it quite literally for 30 years in Alaska's back-country.
1968 to 1999, and only left it at the age of 82 when it was beginning to become too cold and too much work for him.
Alone in the Wilderness.
Alaska, Silence and Solitude. (20 years later)
The Frozen North.
DickProenneke.com
He's even in Wiki
AloneInTheWilderness.com
