Dugout Dick Dead...survival real life

Guy didn't seem like a sociopath to me. From what I read he was smarter than about 85% of Americans.

If he'd have been a sociopath I'm pretty sure the people either wouldn't be renting his rooms, or would go missing after they did.

I bet he could have taught a person tons.
 
Sociopath is a way of describing someone without a conscience. This fells sounds like he knew what he wanted out of life and then went out to get it. I hope my life ends on such a clear note.
 
Great story, thanks for the link. I rafted the Salmon River in 1975, we stopped at Sylvan Hart's but he told the guy we sent ahead he wasn't accepting visitors so I never got to see him.
 
tenkara said:
Sociopath is a way of describing someone without a conscience. This fells sounds like he knew what he wanted out of life and then went out to get it. I hope my life ends on such a clear note.
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Yeah, not a sociopath but probably an anti-social or schizotypal personality to be sure. But who the heck cares? I bet he was a great guy to know once he warmed up to you.

I hope heaven has some stark and rugged caves overlooking a lonely stretch of river. :thumbup:
 
especially : a person affected with antisocial personality Merriam-Webster.

Not a shot at the guy, folks. :)
 
Very interesting fellow. Glad that he was able to return to his cave to die but for the life of me can't understand sending his remains to Indiana. Thanks for posting the link.
Jim
 
He seems to have died a very, very rich and blessed man. Things like this always remind me to ask myself "How do I measure success?"
 
roughedges said:
Yeah, not a sociopath but probably an anti-social or schizotypal personality to be sure. But who the heck cares? I bet he was a great guy to know once he warmed up to you.

I hope heaven has some stark and rugged caves overlooking a lonely stretch of river. :thumbup:
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That river is LONELY, if you haven't floated it I highly recommend it-there simply aren't any places in the continental US more remote than the Snake and Salmon rivers here in Idaho. It's pretty much impossible to access that area on foot.
 
He was blessed. He got to live in a place where he could live his life on his terms.

Idaho is one of the very few places left where folks can do that.
 
I don't know why some people have to call this guy names and assume he had mental problems just because he lived without modern technologies. Honestly, the way he lived his life is more how we should live our lives compared to most people. For example, think about all the people in this country who are entirely dependent on the government for everything. Now THAT is crazy. Or how about people who do nothing but watch TV? That's not living! This guy was competely self-sufficient. He just wanted to live his life and be free... there is nothing wrong with that.
 
Kismet said:
especially : a person affected with antisocial personality Merriam-Webster.

Not a shot at the guy, folks. :)
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Of course, most self-reliant people, and damn near everyone here is a sociopath by that definition.

Sounds like a newspeak definition added to further corral people under the moniker of "normal" by trying to avoid such a label.
 
The romance of living like that and the simplicity attract me but I know there would be a lot of work to just survive and I do like some of my modern comforts.

Good to know he went the way he wanted to.
 
Awesome life! thanks for posting... We should all be so lucky.

I wonder what kind of knife he carried?

Jason
 
Kismet said:
especially : a person affected with antisocial personality Merriam-Webster.

Not a shot at the guy, folks. :)
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You're confusing antisocial personality with just wanting to be left the hell alone. Common misconception if you've not had very many psychology classes.
Antisocial personality is a way for psychologists to describe those who don't have an emotional response to things that "normal" people have emotional responses to.

Antisocial personality usually describes people like murderers, pathological liars, thieves, etc...

From what the article describes, this guy wasn't antisocial. He just didn't want to fool with the rat race.
 
There are a hundred towns scattered across the mountains of 40 or so people. There's a mobile generator downtown with a big flood lamp that gets fired up every friday to watch the BSU football game at the bar, and the rest of the week people spend living off of woodburning stoves or small gas tanks. The populace of the town spends most of the year ranching, moving cows from point A to point B so they don't get shredded by wolves, scorched to death or frozen to death. It's a loner's kind of lifestyle but no different than the way our country was founded-it was the settlers on the frontier, the farming families, the miners, the trappers and explorers, that spent their lives alone seeing their closest neighbors maybe once a month that founded this country. You can call them whatever the hell you want, psyopaths, criminals, loners, antisocial, whatever, but the fact of the matter is the most advanced society on earth was built upon the shoulders of people like this (quite possibly to their dismay).
 
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