/lit/ - Literature

>>14620082
Oh shit, forget that archive link, that screenshot was too early, I just found the complete thread:
>>/lit/thread/S14486351
That has everything, all the info!
>reader's digest back to basics
Awesome I'm going be looking for it, I'm always looking for recs. Thanks for checking out the toobs anon :)

>>14620556
Carrying out long held convictions!
It's been a dream of mine for a very long time. I'm glad you like the setup. I had some garden patches growing in the spring: https://youtu.be/IKHQ2cUWpOM
Wasn't a great success but I managed to harvest and pickle radishes, carrots, lettuce, arugula, kale and rainbow chard
Here's me building the cabin:
https://youtu.be/VFiAt3O1PAw

>>14621121
Right now it's about 52°f so it's warming up a bit! But the 16th and 17th of this month were the coldest I have ever experienced in the two winters that I've been here, the thermometer read 12°f but the windchill was supposedly -20° below zero which is unheard of to an ex suburbanite like me. The Weather Broadcast Station NOAA gave a frostbite warning, and I had never heard it give that kind of warning before. https://youtu.be/Bfy4nDXP8W8 Even during the snow blizzards it never gave a frostbite warning. Im glad I caught the moment it said it.
But I stayed so warm in the cabin. But that night I was probably the most nervous I have ever been.

>>14622592
You could always try and work your way into it slowly! Like on your time off, and when you have free days or vacations you could grab a tent a book and a sleeping bag and go poke around in some overgrown canyons, and spend a night or two in shady spot! Then do it for 4 days, then a week, and so on. When I lived in the suburbs I would go hike into the surrounding hills and sit there all day by myself. Then I started to dip into old ravines and follow them until I found a nice spot and I'd set camp. I found some crazy things in those days too. Then I got depressed for a few years and needed to get away from everyone so I decided to go into the desert with just a backpack and tent and try and live there. I found an abandoned mining cabin in a pinyon forest and lived in it for 4 months, had some really bad experiences but a lot of them were the best in my life. Then I wanted to build something of my own and there wasnt enough wood in the desert so I followed the highways until I found a douglas fir forest, It all happened very slowly, and if I didn't start out back then by following those ravines and just getting used to being in the woods alone and having to scrape and scrounge for money I probably would still be in the suburbs working a steady job or something. You should dip your toes in just for fun and keep doing that and see how you feel. (I'm sure it's different though if you have a wife and kids, but try it man it couldn't hurt!) And remember there isn't one correct way to do it. It was an experiment that ended up consuming me and now it's my life hahahah

>>14622593
ILY no homo