Pathfinder, what kind of experience do you have doing this sort of thing? It seems like some people are giving advice like you had never gone on even a single backpacking trip, and others are telling you how to survive on your own totallly bereft of human contact for the rest of your life. If you are going to be way out on the wilderness with no contact, you should ahve a good amount of experience with smaller scale backpacking trips, and you will need experience with fishing, hunting, trapping, edible plants, etc.

Personally, I'm not that interested in a full blown survivalist experience, unless it is the stranded-on-a-tropical-island variety, preferrably the Mysterious Island of Beaturiful Women. Wilderness is great, but total solitude gets old after awhile --- it's ok for some time, but it gets old. And completely relying on catching/finding your own food also gets very old very quickly --- most people have no idea how much work it is every day.

So no survivalist trips for me; however, I do have a lot of backpacking experience, and I would like to some day do something like what freindowl was talking about --- one of the long trail treks, like the John Muir, or Pacific Crest or Appalachian trail.
dragonrider Reviewed by dragonrider on . My journey alone into the wilderness "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." ~ T. S. Eliot The plan: To journey deep into the wilderness with only as much gear as can be carried on my back, and the skills I can keep in my head. There is no time limit. I will return when I feel the need to return. I will be leaving sometime next year, after winter has ended. I have until then to prepare. Destination: Rating: 5