Dustin LindenSmith

From Dick Proenneke's website:

http://www.dickproenneke.com/alone_in_the_wilderness.html

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin on the shore of Twin Lakes. The first summer he scouted for the best cabin site, and cut and peeled the logs he would need for his cabin. Dick Proenneke returned the next summer to finish the cabin where he lived for over 30 years. Dick filmed his adventures, and Bob Swerer later turned the film into a video so we can all watch this amazing man build his cabin by hand.

Every year, PBS plays this video during their pledge drive, and I recorded it this year and watched it. It is nothing short of amazing. Have any of you seen it? I can't tell you how moving it is to watch his preparations for living alone in the far north like he did. An expert builder, woodsman, hunter and survivalist, he built himself the most amazing cabin with his own hands and then lived there alone until 1998! It's really an amazing story.

Other interesting bits of history are here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke
http://www.nps.gov/lacl/historyculture/proennekes-cabin.htm
http://www.nps.gov/lacl/planyourvisit/upload/ProennekeCabinSite.pdf

And I found the location of the cabin on Google Maps, but you can't zoom in enough to actually see it:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=60°38′59″N 153°48′38″W