Alone in the Wilderness

I finally got around to watching the documentary that my uncles Curt and Larry, and friend Jeff, all recommended to watch.

"This documentary tells the story of Dick Proenneke who, in the late 1960s, built his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now Lake Clark National Park.

Using color footage he shot himself, Proenneke traces how he came to this remote area, selected a homestead site and built his log cabin completely by himself.

The documentary covers his first year in-country, showing his day-to-day activities and the passing of the seasons as he sought to scratch out a living alone in the wilderness."

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437806/

The documentary is about an hour long and apparently has been shown on PBS.   The documentary is very interesting.  This guy had an amazing talent.  He made wooden handles for his tools then built a cabin that allowed him to live through an Alaskan winter.

He was in his early 50s when he built the cabin and lived there until he was 83 years old.