Hello Everyone,
I'm already happy that I stumbled upon this site. You seem like a fine bunch of folks.
I've been living in the mountains of Wyoming without indoor plumbing for the last 30 years. The last 13 years have been off-grid in a log cabin that I built myself. I'm at a little over 8,000 feet in elevation so I get plenty of winter. I use a snowmachine to get back and forth to my vehicles which I park at the nearest county-plowed road, 1 1/2 miles away, for 5 months of the year. At least 3 or 4 times a year my commute to or from work would be the adventure of a lifetime for a lot of people. It's been keeping me young.
I retired, hopefully for good, last April. So now I have time for this sort of computer stuff if the solar gods allow. I have no generator backup to my two 110-watt panels and my four Trojan T-105's. My cook stove and my fridge are propane of course and I have one Aladdin lamp and an assortment of other oil lamps plus the headlamp that I'm thinking about just screwing to my head.
I was a seasonal worker in the tourism/guiding industry for over 35 years. Boom and bust twice a year. So living cheap has become second nature to me and I'm proud of it.
I used to haul my water from the fire station in town, 30 miles away, when I was working but now I've been experimenting with other types of water harvesting so I'll probably have some questions about that.
Anyway, I've been dropping in occasionally and figured it was time to join up. I'm not really a prepper and my political votes are always on behalf of the wild critters, but I have friends in every walk of life and from every political bent. I'm looking forward to checking in here and there and seeing what's going on with you all.
Happy New Year!
I'm already happy that I stumbled upon this site. You seem like a fine bunch of folks.
I've been living in the mountains of Wyoming without indoor plumbing for the last 30 years. The last 13 years have been off-grid in a log cabin that I built myself. I'm at a little over 8,000 feet in elevation so I get plenty of winter. I use a snowmachine to get back and forth to my vehicles which I park at the nearest county-plowed road, 1 1/2 miles away, for 5 months of the year. At least 3 or 4 times a year my commute to or from work would be the adventure of a lifetime for a lot of people. It's been keeping me young.
I retired, hopefully for good, last April. So now I have time for this sort of computer stuff if the solar gods allow. I have no generator backup to my two 110-watt panels and my four Trojan T-105's. My cook stove and my fridge are propane of course and I have one Aladdin lamp and an assortment of other oil lamps plus the headlamp that I'm thinking about just screwing to my head.
I was a seasonal worker in the tourism/guiding industry for over 35 years. Boom and bust twice a year. So living cheap has become second nature to me and I'm proud of it.
I used to haul my water from the fire station in town, 30 miles away, when I was working but now I've been experimenting with other types of water harvesting so I'll probably have some questions about that.
Anyway, I've been dropping in occasionally and figured it was time to join up. I'm not really a prepper and my political votes are always on behalf of the wild critters, but I have friends in every walk of life and from every political bent. I'm looking forward to checking in here and there and seeing what's going on with you all.
Happy New Year!
I thought our cabin was more than high enough at 5000 feet but yours is on a completely different scale.
