Hardcore Thru-Hiker in Alaska

[Gravel PitParticipant]

This dude is a true badass. Guys, the Appalachian Trail is no joke, nor the CDT. He made it look easy lol. Then he decides trails are too inhibiting for him and starts hiking game trails across Alaska. LOL Truly Hard

[bladeParticipant]

He had a sat phone he would call his mum who would do his social media accounts lmfao . At around 12:00 in the clip

Thats not been adventurous . When alone like that its adjusting to not having contact is a big part . I think he is doing it more for fame than for himself . But at least he is doing what he likes . Wish him the best . Just had a niece bring her new partner around recently who is into all this adventure challenge stuff . Like alot of sports these days . There more intrested watching themselves on play back . Young people need to put down the mobile phones and skateboards and learn to do s~~~ for there inner selves and not for others .

Back in my 30’s i came across around five kids camped on a long grassed area next to a dam in the out back . They got sick of fishing so they had a competition catching and killing deadly snakes . Deadly brown snakes and other types hanging on branches everywhere. From best of memory it would of been a good days ride on a bmx bike to the nearest place or people . Pretty much if they got bit by a snake they would of been f~~~ed . They new what they were doing , they were white kids not abbos . There were snakes everywhere there at that time .

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[Gravel PitParticipant]

Total Recall is a brilliant script. As good as DUNE in some ways. But both movies, the old one and the newer one are total s~~~.

The thing that kills the original for me is the cheesy and grotesque FX. The stomache character… its just too cheesy and gross. That is why I hate the movie The Thing too. Another brilliant Sci-Fi script, RUINED with too much gore and sicking FX cheesy gooey junk.

[Gravel PitParticipant]

They would get blood all wrong in the movies. The blood they would use was orange or bright red, not all crimson and brown like it really is, in real life.

“Its funny, the colors of the real world, only seem real when you viddy them on the pictures.” (paraphrased quote from Clockwork Orange)

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

Alaska is a real test for all. My family lived and worked near Naknek, AK for several years. Remote to the point of excess. Two tiny towns connected by a single highway with nothing beyond that except the sea on both ends. King Salmon and Naknek and a highway.
The King Salmon airport had passenger service .. the luggage-baggage pickup at the main airport was a hole in the wall .. eventually your suitcase was thrown through and landed on the floor inside the little wooden building. Yes, Alaska .. can be a test.

When the old auto parts store in Naknek burned down in a huge fire .. it was all hands on deck as the fire equipment was very limited. They called King Salmon for help .. the call of last resort. What did they have to offer? .. they sent the only crash truck from that airport .. it helped by driving in and shooting foam on everything .. when you live in Alaska and there are only two towns on a road with the sea on both ends .. you use what you’ve got. Even if it’s equipment from the only airport. When the road only goes between two isolated villages .. and no further .. hundreds of miles from anywhere, anything .. it’s all you’ve got.

hav’a great day

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[Gravel PitParticipant]

That hiker is a badass. Im not sure if Blade really watched the video or knows much about thru-hiking. Not sure why he made lite of it.

It is very easy to starve or freeze to death in the woods. Also, wolves and bears will eat you. Small mistakes end up amplifying and could be fatal. And hiking is itself challenging, but to hike thousands of miles (?!), that is just hardcore bro. Throw in Kayaking and cross-country skiing.

Hmscled

Do you know anything about “fast-walkers” or unidentified persons/beings in the remote Alaskan wilderness? I met a guy from Nome Alaska at an AA meeting. He was old and kind of weird. I asked him the same question. Basically, trying not to be alarming, asking him if there were “aliens” over there. His response was hard to believe.. basically he reacted like it’s common knowledge that “they” are there.

What do you think? Do you have time spent in remote Alaska?

My view is that Interstellar travel is simply too FAR for flesh beings to traverse it. Faster than Lightspeed is a fantasy (FTL). SO the only real way to get flesh beings from one star to another is go as fast as you can go… but it still takes, say 5,000 years. And the only way to survive that journey is a “Generational Ship” or cryo-sleep.

Last I checked, Gen Ships are too large to miss, we’d see one in orbit, they’d be too hard to hide or keep secret. And Cryo-sleep for the lengths of time needed to even come from a nearby star is way too long… no being could survive that hibernation… When you freeze people, they die.

I call Bulls~~~ on Nome alaska but maybe Blade has something to say on that.

Maybe a Generational Ship IS EASY TO HIDE in the arctic or ocean… and maybe cryo-sleep and/or achieving really long life spans is attainable… maybe they can get here but it takes a s~~~load of time…

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

Hiking in Alaska is dangerous. You might get trampled by a moose or ripped up by a grizzly bear. And I’d hate to deal with swarms of mosquitoes. How the hell does this guy pay for these adventures?

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[Gravel PitParticipant]

FunInTheSun wrote:

pay for these adventures?

they say, it basically costs about $1500 a month to be out on a trail. And you have to plan well, like someone you know must ship restocking supplies to places you will end up… There aint no REI outfitter every 200 miles lol.

Some are flat broke. Some are well funded, like they make $60-$80K in the real world and are in-between jobs so they can just take a year or six months and uh… HIKE THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE! lol crazy ass people!

I could do it. But after about two weeks and a few hundred miles of wilderness and silence and sore body… you start to ask yourself. “why the fcuk am I out here?”

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

Gravel Pit wrote:

Do you have time spent in remote Alaska?

My brother spent time in really remote Alaska, he was missionary pilot and also ran a remote AM/FM radio station .. and visited some really remote fly in places like Egegik .. he saw some interesting things in places like that … population 100. I personally believe anything is possible. I was young and lived mainly in town.

[Gravel PitParticipant]

This guy is a thru-hiker. I watched his trekking. He starts out in New Mexico and heads North. Its actually really cool. He hikes the Continental Divide Trail beginning in New Mexico

I also read the book called A Walk in the Woods.

its an interesting, informative and catchy book following the trek of some guys trying to hike the Appalachian Trail. Normally it takes six months. The guy in the OP did it in half the time! 2500 miles lol

[bladeParticipant]

F~~~ that . I wouldn’t last a minute in Alaska. F~~~ that snow cold s~~~ .

I was more pointing at the younger generation adventures to older guy adventures . I see it in young surfers today . Its all about how they look on a go pro .

F~~~ that ice s~~~ i would look like an epiletic .

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[Gravel PitParticipant]

Those weirdos they film on TV, as supposedly living in the woods of Alaska… they may as well be aliens, I don’t claim them as being part of my species. LMAO … and I love Republicans but you and I both know, Sarah Palin is not 100% human. Shes a hybrid..

[Gravel PitParticipant]

I thought you love the ice, the Penguin picture from the zoo is your avatar.

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

I also hate the cold, I’m counting days until warmer weather and watching videos about warm places
.. but I’m stuck here in upper midwest this winter so I did oil-change on snowblower today .. how I spent my Christmas.

[bladeParticipant]

Eco tourism. The people will come and f~~~ it up . Thats another thing .

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[Dark KenshiParticipant 2132]

Alaska is a test, a good one. But, not the hardest in the world.
To that, I would say that The South pole is a better one, as it has NOTHING around, besides polar bears, seals and SOME fish. No trees, no fruits, no nothing, just ice and a few animals, and the closest thing is across an ocean.

Same as the Southern American forests. Have you guys seen Amazon forest? Anything and everything are trying to kill you there, from poisonous plants to tiny animals that can kill you on a few hours. And that, despite a s~~~ ton of mosquitoes, that can carry diseases as varied as Malaria or flesh-eating parasites. Also, the most southern of the forests in South America are REALLY barren, full of food, but also ridden with deadly animals and plants, and during the winter time, it can freeze you to death, as they go easily from 15°c during the day to 1°c during the night.

The southern forests and the Amazon are a good test, but not the HARDEST. Same as Alaska, I think.

"Young was I once, I walked alone, and bewildered seemed in the way; then I found me another and rich I thought me, for man is the joy of man." Odin, Hàvamàl, stanza 47.

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