Cabin care taking and wintering in the adirondacks

[Chickadee]

Greeting all...i am currently living in the mountains of western north carolina though i have decided to move back up north. I am hoping to find a place to possibily cabin sit this winter. Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions, pointers??..i want to spend the majority of the winter snowshoeing,ice fishing, and hunting...my partner, Miranda, and i are open to spending the winter in a wall tent with a wood stove if someone has space for us. Does anyone know of any places that a longer term stay would be legal and possible?..hoping to find a warm place this winter thats close to trails. Thanks so much....-Ryan

[chairrock]

Ryan,
Check some of the local newspapers in the area.
I know I saw an ad for a great camp looking for a caretaker couple in the Watertown Times-Union sometime during the late summer.It mignt be late in the season tho, good luck.

[Hobbitling]

redrum....redrum....redrum...

(thats from "The Shining" by the way. which you should probably not watch on those cold dark nights in your isolated cabin)

[Chickadee]

Thanks for your response chairrock, though it is hard for us to look into the local newpapers since we are not up in the adk yet .... we were hoping to make some contacts before we get up there due to the cold season....does anyone know anyone who is actively homesteading and living self-sufficiently?? thanks for your help

[Adk Keith]

...my partner, Miranda, and i are open to spending the winter in a wall tent with a wood stove if someone has space for us.

Man that's gonna get old quick after a week of below zero weather.

Seems like you're a little late to be deciding this. Homesteading takes allot of preparation to get through the winter. Food storage, wood gathering, etc. It's a romantic notion but in reality, it ain't no picnic.

Having said that,

Many of the localpapers have their classifieds on line Post Star out of Glens Falls

Good luck.

[Chickadee]

i have lived without electricity and running water for around two years or so and have spent a few winters in a tent.....down comforters are savors....if you eat meat...food is not a problem....if your near places to hunt and trap anyway...thank you for your suggestions...would love more...thanks again.....

[Skyclimber]

i have lived without electricity and running water for around two years or so and have spent a few winters in a tent.....down comforters are savors....if you eat meat...food is not a problem....if your near places to hunt and trap anyway...thank you for your suggestions...would love more...thanks again.....

Personally "Why would you want to live this way, in the 21st Century?" I'm not knocking you, I'm just curious "why?"

Not to be ignorant or anything but May I ask, "What do you do for food then, when Hunting Season is over?" Especially if you don't get any game?

[Chickadee]

thats a basic and simple reply...modernity and the 21st century as you call it..make me want to vomit...i want to live in a self sufficent, self-sustainable manner because thats the way of life thats most fulfulling to me..(and also because i believe there will be a fallout when **** hits the fan and we will be living in a thyme that resembles 1840).i want to have a close relationship and connection with the land and the food around me..to answer your food question....we can all of our deer meat, and other meat that was taken via trapping or what not...gardens and wild foraging sastify greens during the warm season and surplus is also canned throught the warm months...thus providing food throughout all seasons..other food sources can from the few animals that we would choose to live with,, chickens, ducks,-for eggs and meat and goats for milk, cheese, meet, and butter.

[Chickadee]

anyway.. we want to live close to the mountains still...and where there is land to roam and explore...anyone know folks that need a seasonal care taker for their cabin or anything..?/thanks....

[southernadkhiker]

I thought I heard about an escaped convict running around them north carolina woods......

[Chickadee]

yea i believe that person was caught....though what does that have to do with the current topic...?

[southernadkhiker]

i was jokingly implying that u were the convict, thus wanting to "escape" to the adirondacks

[trouthunter]

I understand where your coming from Chickadee, sometimes I think I was born a couple hundred years to early. I envy those with the courage to actually live like that.Adventure at its finest!

[Hobbitling]

Canadian public television did a couple of really great "historical reality shows" where they took people and had them build and live in frontier style cabins. the best one was "pioneer quest" which featured only two couples, but went on for an entire year! they start out in tents, but had to build their own homes with no modern tools. they had to actually grow and store enough food to last the winter. one guy got pneumonia and practically died (he probably would have in real pioneer times), but as soon as he was on his feet they brought him back and the show went on. They hunted for food, cared for animals, busted sod, grew crops. The only modern technology they were allowed was birth control and emergency medical care, and even then they were in the middle of manitoba, so they were pretty much on their own.
too bad the 8 CD set costs 150 dollars. There are some other PBS shows like that but this one was by far the best and most realistic. maybe if we all call PBS they'll show it again. they have some clips here:

http://www.pioneerquest.ca/

[rollins camper]

I remember watching some of those shows

They really caught my attention. I enjoyed watching them but don't know if I could survive actually living it. Do you think that the people in the show had harder times than the Pioneers did because we have grown to accustomed to modern conviences?