Has Anyone Met A Mountain Man?

[Doc Tinker]

I'm talking about a hermit who lives off the land, in the sticks and who chases people away with a shotgun.



Tell us about your experiences with the wild people of the hills.



Doc

 

[Champane Flight]

Don't come

Don't come around my place city slicker... ... ... .

 

[Whitmore]

Sounds like half of Wyoming, we are the least populated state in the union, we have like 2. 5 per sq. mile. We also have more antilope in Wyo than people. Wyo has more registered vehicles per capita than any other.



seriously, I know quite a few hermit style backwoods kind of people but they are all nice and welcome visitors for dinner , something like rockchuck or rattle snake or I evan had sheep brains one time and they were cooked in the skull in an oven in a sheep camp, we also had lamb nuts with it , may sound bad but it was actually OK, ... ... ... ... ... . Kevin

 

[EMDDIESEL]

I have dealt with Hobos. They live off the land (Or convieience stores). But they live on trains, not mountains. I have seen them with sticks, no shotguns though.

 

[fest3er]

Hmmm. Seems I missed my calling. Is it too late to start?

Fest3er

 

[merryman]

The summer of '58 I worked in a cannery in Eugene Or. with a fellow who was about 21 years old. He was a mountain man at heart.

All he talked about was saving some money so he could go back to the high cascades. The prior two winters he had spent snowed in in the mountains and thought that was the perfect way to spend a winter. His only purpose in working was to resupply and reequip so he could go back. Don't know much about what sort of supplies he laid in but he did talk of killing deer and elk after freeze up to hold him over winter. He would go on and on about how it was up there once all the people and vehicles were gone. he was a little strange, but an o k guy and a good worker.



While trapped down in the valley to work, he spent evenings and weekends fishing , giging frogs, and other wise doing as much of the mountain man stuff as could be done in the lowlands where there were people. He came to work a couple times with tales of hair raising chases by fish and game officers.



Last weekend, I attended a "Mountain Man Rondevous", but there were only look alikes there. I did have fun shooting some muzzel loading cap and ball rifles though.

Vaughn

 

[Smoker]

Hermit style mountain??? Yeah, we have those in KY down in Clay County. Except we call them pot growers and shine makers.

 

[Deezul1]

At one time I worked in a logging camp in Alaska on an unihabited island and there was a logger there that had not been off the island in 5 years and had no intention of ever leaving. When shutdown came at first big snowfall most everybody left for the winter but he stayed and ran traplines all winter. Nice guy that just didnt like cities and lotsa people.

 

[Champane Flight]

When

When I was a kid, I lived up in the Greenhorn range. There was a old man who lived about two miles up Holts mountain. We were scared of him, until we met him after a little girl got lost near there from a campground. He was a friendly old fart, who just didn't like people to well. He helped us find the little girl and went back to his cabin. I would see him about once every six months at the general store. He passed away while I was in the military, some said he was part of the old James gang in his youth.



My father said he chased him off the mountain once as a boy. Dad used to run trap lines to make a buck or two. The old man told him at the end of a shotgun that it was his trapping territory!

Other than that run in, Dad said they would talk every once in while at the store about trapping, hunting, or fishing.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Wow as you have seen the flurry of VT posts I had over the weekend ... ... . That's where I was at the mountain man's place. Only he is a "Woodchuck who does not need society's BullSnot"

Good man Indeed but he needs to get out once in a while ..... if he remembers how that is