[QUOTE=GH85Carrera;11600280]One of my buddies worked as a park ranger for two years at a remote cabin like that at Lone Wolf state park here in Oklahoma. No electricity, no running water. He did have a generator that he ran for a few hours at a time to charge the batteries for the radios. He had the same shower setup. He said one year taking a cold shower he was yelling in pain from the cold water and some campers over a mile away heard him and came to see if he was OK. He said after that at parties people often said that sounds great, a remote cabin in the woods. He explained it takes a lot of will power and sacrifice to live with no fresh food, and all the work needed to live like that. Lots of chopping wood.

We had wood stoves & a Coleman three burner. Usually the wood stove wasn't used except for heating the cabin or baking. We went in with three, five-gallon cans of white gas and usually used half in a three to four month period. It was very easy living. You got used to it & enjoyed it quickly. The 15 gal. grease drum shower had two rings on it. I'd keep ambient water up to the first ring, & a bucket of hot water made the temp just right with plenty of water. Coleman lanterns for light at night. I also used it twice at night going to check out reported injuries. We had to go in with enough canned, boxed, etc. food for the three to four month period. Sometimes the packers would drop off fresh squaw bread or a steak. Now those guys have solar panels, batteries, & all kinds of other stuff.

Is there something you are forgetting, Marv?

Random:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644281663.jpg

I don't know if you've ever read this book. A backcountry Ranger who becomes missing. Good book...

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Season-P-S-Eric-Blehm/dp/0060583010


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644295367.jpg

Actually Randy was a friend of mine. I never read the book. The last time I talked to him was on a direct radio channel from Mt. Whitney summit in 1976, when I was the Mt.Whitney ranger and he was at a station about fifteen miles north of Crabtree station. He had an old Ford pickup and I helped him replace the transmission in it one summer before we went into the back country. He apparently fell from a rock, hit his head, and submerged his face in a stream and died. I talked to one of the guys (also a friend of his) who helped do the body recovery a couple/few years later. It would have been hard if I had had to participate in that. I had to take part in a few body recoveries, but never somebody who was a friend. That guy in the picture obviously isn't him.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644328973.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644328973.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644328973.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644328973.jpg

Here is a pic from the web.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644330331.jpg

How many years were you a Ranger, Marv?

Such a remarkable part of the world. To see it as you did is fascinating.

Wow, that's really something that you knew him personally. The book is a good read, mostly about ways that search and rescue are conducted in such a large backcountry area.

The picture is of Norman Clyde, famous Sierra mountaineer...

https://www.nps.gov/seki/learn/historyculture/clyde.htm

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644332531.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644333533.jpg
Mummies for sale from street vendors in the 1920s.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644333533.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644333533.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644333533.jpg
This is the wine rations for the French Army in WW1.

That picture looks like it was taken at the Tyndall Creel R.S. probably in 1976. He later disappeared from his ranger station at Bench Lake near Arrow Peak. That area and Lake Basin were his & my favorite areas of the park. He was one of the guys who worked seasonally in the back country year after year. Lots of the rest of us would be there for a period of time and give it up and go on with life. I worked seasonally during college and teaching for eight years: Giant Forest in Sequoia in fire control and front country ranger for two summers, then in the back country for six summers. The first two back country summers I went in at 165 lbs. and came out at 140 lbs. After that I upped my calorie intake. It was normal to put in 8 to 18 mile days with thousands of feet change in elevation at 10K to 13K ft. I would have loved to continue that for decades but life takes its twists and turns. I was known as "mister clean" among the ranger division. I always was clean shaven and wrinkle free - always looked like I walked out of park headquarters. Lots of the back country guys grew beards and looked like they'd been there for years. We all flew in at the first of the season with food, clothing, supplies, and equipment for the duration. If we got any mail, they'd radio us that they were going to make a pass with the fixed wing spotter and throw it out the window.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644345404.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644345404.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644345404.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644345404.jpg

^The original church of lightweight!^

https://www.thedrive.com/news/33330/the-lightest-porsche-911-ever-is-full-of-holes
https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/m...60753408_n.jpg

https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/m...andvideos1.jpg

https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/m...11469568_n.jpg

Rappelling using the "hot seat" method, not much fun ;)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644347074.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644347074.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644347074.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1644347074.jpg