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I have $2,000 and want to leave society.

 
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04/02/2014 01:17 PM
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
2k? You cant even buy supplies to live with that 2k. You will need backpacks, shelter, tools to start a fire, tools for protection, basic supplies (rope, knife, water distillation tools, etc), food for a few weeks while you learn to hunt, yadayadayada

You say oh well our ancestors did it for free. Yeah, they had generations of people there to help them that already built the tools, made the land where they were living habitable, and to transfer knowledge. You dont have that benefit. You will need to do everything yourself which requires money to start.

You may think whatever fantasy you want but its the cold hard truth, you need an abundance of money to start. Watch that show naked and afraid, people with years of wilderness survival snap being just a week out alone. You have 0 chance.
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I agree that knowledge is prob the most important thing you can take with you, however someone with this guys mindset, if he really is certain, well I would say go for it even though I know it sounds like bad advice. The worse thing you face is a sense of lonelyness. It really can hit home when you see families together etc. Saying that at the very least it will be an experience you will never forget, and you will feel a remarkable sense of total freedom. I went of once in my younger years with the idea of never returning, to this day I wonder sometimes why I did. When I did get back everyone was amazed at how well I looked, healthier and stronger.
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
For at least 3 months. 19 years old. Summer is coming up and I want to disappear and deal with the repercussions come winter time, unless I decide to stay out there longer.

I have zero experience and don't want to take a gun. (May consider Henry survival rifle)

Make me a survival list pl0x.
 Quoting: Legend 18033075

WHO THE FUCK WANTS TO SURVIVE? if you can't live normally, life isn"t woth living. If youre bent on doing this, I'd take a gun big enough to end my life after finding myself in hell on earth in the wild especially if you get injured. Youre just dinner for moungain lions or bears in that case. Maybe bigfoot will take you in....ha ha
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04/02/2014 01:45 PM
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
Spending $2000 to leave society, isn't exactly leaving society is it, it is taking society with you.

You wanna leave....just go, all you need is an axe, a knife, a change of clothes and a fire lighter.

Don't do like that idiot Kerouac did, and hope to attain a spiritual experience, by livng in the wild, working in a house, being paid a wage to buy food with......all that prick did was land himself a dose of severe depression.... lmao

If you hang on to any tiny part of society you're fucked, a fish out of water, this isn't something you can 'half' do.

If you buy enough supplies to last you a month, you're just prolonging your misery, get it over with, you need to suffer, you need to be on the edge of starvation before the super consciousness activates, then you experience true spirit, your mind expands through the trees and the animals, and the solution to your problem becomes obvious.

We hear tales of idiots who have half done it, and they come back with horror stories and depression, if you do it and fail, it can be detrimental to your spiritual development, you gotta be prepared to go all the way, plough through the suffering and laugh in the face of death, in the knowledge that what you are cannot be destroyed.
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You're the kind of person I want to talk to.

I want to go in on my last steak and shrimp meal and a few sammiches while I fish/ snare/ trap something I could eat. For the next day and those to come.

What can I take to ease my way into making a fire catching prey purifying water and all while not starting a forest fire in the process?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18033075


I've got one of those fire lighter sticks, but that won't last forever, but may last long enough for you to master the stick rubbing technique.

Water purifying by boiling everytime, tabs, they taste like shit and won't last, they're for campers, but taking some for an emergency is ok, you have to find ya feet afterall.

A good knife, a fire lighter, an axe, a good iron pot, and a pure WOOL blanket.

But be prepared to get most of your nutrition from foraging, the new growth on the tips of tree branches, seeds, flowers, roots etc, pine needle tea, most weeds and plants are edible, anything new to you is tried in small quantities. Munching insects as you forage is good for protein, and easily eaten, again these survival idiots who make videos go all extreme to gross themselves and everyone out, there's no need to capture a fist full of insects and mash them into a ball, then puke your guts up trying to swallow it.... lol.

So plants are your best bet to health and survival, any meat you trap is bonus food, not main food, and you will use EVERY little part, from tiny bones for fish hooks and needles, the skin, treated and stored for future clothing repairs and replacement.
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Something I have been interested in myself, if need be..
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
I've noticed there are lot's of wanna be mountain man type people on GLP. You guys are good for a laugh. It's not exactly easy in this day and age to just drop out of society. You might try disappearing into the wilderness for awhile, but I predict in less than a month you will be crawling back to society a lot worse off than you were before you tried your little escapade. My suggestion instead of doing all that.... Stop smoking your dope, take a shower, and go get a job.
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04/02/2014 01:48 PM
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
Get yourself a lightweight backpacking gear setup.

Save up more money until late winter / early spring next year.

Hike the Appalachian Trail (Takes about 6 months), and find yourself.
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Found a 4 pound backpacking tent on amazon. Already have a north face hiking backpack
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I don't want a tent. Ever heard of a multi-use poncho?
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04/02/2014 01:51 PM
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
your going to have a bad time...
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04/02/2014 01:51 PM
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
BTDT

Get a tent, small cooking kit/stove like Coleman, MSR.
Bags of barley, lentils, rice. And some beef jerky to boil with them. Water filter like Katadyn or Sawyer.
Sleeping bag and a tarp or 2. Lots of cordage.

Lots of places to camp for free for 14 days at a time. National Forests let you camp pretty much wherever you want.
You have a car? I did it with a touring bicycle.

Don't try to live all Bear Gryllis and mountain man and shit.

Take the best from todays tech and see what you can do.

It CAN be done. And amazingly cheaply.
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Sleeping bag does have it's pros and cons. Hopefully one sleeps in a secure location. If not, can you get out of that bag quick enough, if need be?
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
For at least 3 months. 19 years old. Summer is coming up and I want to disappear and deal with the repercussions come winter time, unless I decide to stay out there longer.

I have zero experience and don't want to take a gun. (May consider Henry survival rifle)

Make me a survival list pl0x.
 Quoting: Legend 18033075

WHO THE FUCK WANTS TO SURVIVE? if you can't live normally, life isn"t woth living. If youre bent on doing this, I'd take a gun big enough to end my life after finding myself in hell on earth in the wild especially if you get injured. Youre just dinner for moungain lions or bears in that case. Maybe bigfoot will take you in....ha ha
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omg
This is very strange.

Fear much?
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04/02/2014 02:28 PM
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
BTDT

Get a tent, small cooking kit/stove like Coleman, MSR.
Bags of barley, lentils, rice. And some beef jerky to boil with them. Water filter like Katadyn or Sawyer.
Sleeping bag and a tarp or 2. Lots of cordage.

Lots of places to camp for free for 14 days at a time. National Forests let you camp pretty much wherever you want.
You have a car? I did it with a touring bicycle.

Don't try to live all Bear Gryllis and mountain man and shit.

Take the best from todays tech and see what you can do.

It CAN be done. And amazingly cheaply.
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Sleeping bag does have it's pros and cons. Hopefully one sleeps in a secure location. If not, can you get out of that bag quick enough, if need be?
 Quoting: Sanctus Mandatum


Quick enough for what?
I must say I never camped in big bear country. Only reason I can see to exit a bag quickly.
But even then, if you got a big horribilis seriously interested in you, you probably are in a world of hurt anyway.
Might want to consider sleeping with some serious weaponage.

I honestly have close to a year total camping experience.
Actually living outside.
In all that time I've never once felt the urge to abandon my sleeping bag in a hurry.

A good monster snorkel will get you far. :P

Now I DID get the heebeejeebees so bad one time in southern Arizona that I spent the night curled up in the back of a '65 VW beetle.
Found evidence the next morning that something big had passed through. Probably a mountain lion.

But all these fears are 99.9% unfounded.
Boogie men and Satchmos.

If wilderness was that scarey and dangerous we'd have died out a million years ago.

And a poster above mentioned people noticing how much better and stronger he looked after a parley with the big unknown.
I experienced the same thing.
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04/02/2014 02:35 PM
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
It's a forward escape.

There is no going back.
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04/02/2014 03:12 PM
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
get a smartphone,

usefull tool to get up to date and take pictures
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make sure its one you can fit in your ass

if need be
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04/02/2014 08:15 PM
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
I'd like to add, with an attitude like yours that says advice is "gay ass," you may not be mentally or emotionally ready to handle this adventure. Open your mind and heart before you leave society, or you will end up more hurt than before you even left.
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I was referring to the "gay ass adventure pass" that people have to use if they even want to park anywhere on the mountain it's so dumb you can't even go up there and enjoy the view without short short volunteers chewing you out.
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04/02/2014 08:28 PM
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Re: I have $2,000 and want to leave society.
Alright the only thing that has scared me is the thought of waking up to a bear eating my guts or a mountain lion chewing on my lips.

I'll keep my eating area atleast 50 yards from my camp sight.

I may also be taking a telescope with me and a solar charger for my cell phone. But I'll keep it off for most of the time.





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