David,
I knew you did not watch TV, but you brought it up so now I get to ask so other people can understand.... Do you choose as part of your "wilderness" lifestyle to not watch TV or is TV reception possible from say a satellite dish. Your in a location I doubt regular reception is possible. When I lived in western OK and before satellite dishes I got one channel fuzzy, too fuzzy to watch, NBC and PBS. And that was with a 75 foot tower. As a single 22 year old, I watched lots of educational. Wore cowboy boots and would watch/listen to opera while I did hobbies or read outdoor books at night. You show photos of your lands and outbuildings and I see a electric line in background. Buck knives is a good night and snowy day hobby....now Buck forum folks can understand how Buck knives makes up a important part of your life. The last few days its been important to a lot of us with the winter weather problems. Have had several friends that lived a 'near' wilderness life in Alaska. They generally preferred a larger belt knife and a decent size folder i.e. 110/112 or near that size. I think I would do a 119 and just always have a small pack with a hatchet in it. You will need to save weight for a decent sized firearm, either on your belt or in your hands. Moose kill and injure more people in Alaska than bears do. When it gets bitterly cold the moose sort of go crazy and will attack people when they see you. A good friend had to throw his little son in a head high roadside show drift and wacked the cow moose across the nose with his two ski poles. She stopped, they looked at each other, he raised his poles and she turned an ran thru a low place in the snow mounds. He wore a .44 outside even in the yard after that. A couple more degrees colder and I will have to watch out for attack squirrels in my backyard.
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