surviving in the mountains for one week

I had an amazing conversation on Sunday. And it will likely end up with Lindsay’s brother, Taylor, and me, in the woods, with only the essentials, to tough it out. The idea would be that we would hunt, fish or forage for our meals and shelter. We started doing a bit of planning and education right away. I mean, we don’t want to be crazzzzy or anything. But seriously, this is so exciting to me. I have wanted to do something like this since my friend, Chris and I talked about it in 2002.

The idea is that we will go to Colorado (most likely candidate) or somewhere in Appalachia and do one of two things while there. Either hike a pre-planned trail and live in the woods the duration. So we would walk 20-30 miles and make what we needed, as we went along. Option two, is that we would do some hiking, but spend our time, fishing, hunting and exploring, not worrying about a destination. So we have some figuring out to do. While we can be somewhat spontaneous on this trip – we do need to have a detail like that mapped out.

I researched way back when – and was about to hire a trainer. I think that I would just research now, and take enough amenities that if everything went to hell we would have an out. I have been thinking of it like a golf game. We take X items where we would survive if we needed to. The goal would be that we end with what we start. With some pointing system, we then would subtract (or add) with every item used. Every cheat, would cost us. Some gamification to encourage all survival but a way to not die if we needed to use it. Very basic stuff. Like take a protein bar – but we aim to hunt, fish, and forage.

There will be (2) people going so that was my first obstacle when I wanted to try this again after my 2002 opportunity was missed. I would not be able to get off 30 days from work – so it’s down to a week. That was the other thing… I can get off a couple of weeks if I plan it in advance. I am excited and going to do it… I think… We have some more coordinating and planning to make it happen. I think I have some things to research and emergency items to start thinking about plus aquiring.

What say ye? Would you do something like this? What do you think of the idea?

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