Going Wild: The Alaska Off Grid Survival Series

A first-person account of living in the wilds of Alaska as a Mountain Man! The first in a series of eight books, much of it written in the wilds.Book 1 - Going WildIn 1973, I am 22 years old, and a city kid. I enlisted in the Navy and got out after the Vietnam War. I travel to interior Alaska, a ‘Cheechako’ (Greenhorn) by Alaskan standards. But I have been raised on Walt Disney and feel qualified to be a mountain man!I arranged with a pilot to drop me off in the wilds of Alaska. I do not have everything I need and have things I do not need. I learn about guns, trapping, and the loneliness of living in the vast wilderness with no other humans around.I do not see anyone for many months, then walk out of the wilds to civilization in the spring. After working odd jobs to make supply money, I return to the wilds in the fall and have a hard time my second winter. I almost die, and need to be rescued.I decide to build a houseboat so I can travel around without having to build another cabin. I have to accept summer work in Fairbanks to pay for the boat materials and work under a builder. The boat takes much longer to build than expected.I live as a street person much of the time to keep expenses down. Read more