How Long????

WILLIAM.M

WILLIAM.M

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If you had all the supplies you needed in a Cabin--in the woods---or any other location you desire

How long could you survive without any human contact????

You're alone(no phone,internet,TV,Nothing from or about other people).

You have all the books you want.

But you're alone....TOTALLY

You have a button you can push to get picked up and brought back to your home town.

How long do you think you would be able to last before the desire for human contact over-rode your desire for piece and quiet????
 
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I dunno, I'll volunteer for the study though!

My guess, is it depends on the remoteness of the cabin, further away, less likely to leave. Closer to other people, more likely to leave.

I think for me, maybe a year.
 
That's a very good question ... I'm thinking probably 2-3 weeks for me realistically.
 
Do I get my dog? I've been snowed in up here at the cabin before, a week once. I got on just fine, but one of the things I have found living where the view takes your breath away is that it really needs to be shared with someone. I guess my answer would be as long as the rest of my life, IF my wife were not with me anymore, because she is the only one I want to share this with.
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As I've gotten older I seem to want people around more. I used to solo camp for weeks at a time without a problem (my longest was about 2 months), but now I find that after a few days I wish someone else was around.

I think realistically I could probably go a month or so now, which really ruins my backwoods survival fantasy where I'm on my own for years, all mountain man style.
 
Hmmm very interesting question. I am immersed in the world of sales-a lot of daily people contact. I think I could last a few weeks at this point. I would have to wean myself from contact before saying I could do a long stretch of time.
 
I'd like to think a year. If I had some activities to do each day then it shouldn't be too bad.

Hell if I could build my own forge and start teaching myself blacksmithing I could be away for quite some time.

Would be a lot easier if I got to take my dog.
 
max i could do is 2 weeks. i just don't think it would be possible for me to go any longer with out my daughter. i start to miss her just after a couple hours at work lol. it would be very hard
 
no Dogs(as much as I love mine---

I got to thinking about this when I read that Japans best samurai spent 4 years alone in the forest-training.Not sure if he spent all that time and saw no one.

But it does get you to think about how much one needs other people (or animals ) for companionship and sanity.

Richard Proenneke(Alone in the Wilderness) was not totally alone-had to get re-supplied by plane(Although I ADMIRE greatly what he did)

I would not want to be without my wife for more than a month-unless I had to (as If I was climbing Mt.Everest or something)

I just wanted to post a question that got you all to think ...about yourselves and the people you care about.
 
I find that the older I get the more I hate people... there are idiots everywhere. That being said I wouldn't last 2 days with out my dog.

One question... is this a place we would know well and have been there before or a totally new place to us? I think that would change my answer.

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A couple of months, probably.

If we were able to have a dog -- probably indefinitely.

All of my "mountain man" fantasies include at least two dogs.
 
Depends on when you ask me. :) As much as I hope intend to build a secluded cabin in the woods one day, I no longer desire the path in to be one-way. I may want to challenge myself to stay there over a winter as a personal challenge, but that doesn't mean that the next year I wouldn't want to chill in Miami Beach instead! The whole point of such a place would be to increase my freedom, not reduce it.

The fantasy to bail to the proverbial cabin in the woods is a very popular one. (And one I regularly indulge in! :o ) At some level it is probably fueled by a desire to escape one's relational conflicts, work hassles, and/or general frustration with society.

kage said:
As I've gotten older I seem to want people around more. I used to solo camp for weeks at a time without a problem (my longest was about 2 months), but now I find that after a few days I wish someone else was around.

I think realistically I could probably go a month or so now, which really ruins my backwoods survival fantasy where I'm on my own for years, all mountain man style.
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Kage, I'm sure you already know this, but mountain men were not totally isolated from human contact. (Of course, some of that human contact came with the chance of a skin deep hair cut!!! :D ) A better analogy might be being shipwrecked alone on an island.

I enjoyed the Indian Creek Chronicles, where Pete Fromm recounted his winter in a wall tent in the snowy Idaho mountains. Even he had periodic human contact with hunters, rangers and family.
 
I don't know, it would be a good study. Even the guy from "Alone in the Wilderness" had someone flying in from time to time to bring him supplies.

I won't lie, I'd think anything over 3 or 4 weeks and I'd start getting itchy.
 
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