hermits and mountainmen

[coontail]

have yall ever run across any real  woodsy people in your travels that would be good candidates for living off the land?

[Ranger99]

a few pot-farmer / clandestine-deep woods-methlab
types. . . . .


i try to steer clear of those. . . .

[Silvertp]

Yep, Ive run across some folks that made my hair stand up.  They had blocked the logging road we were traveling then rushed our truck when we stopped.  Managed to get by and the proceeded to to follow us.  Long story short....never want to run into them again.

Silvertp

[THE_HUNTERIAM]

Saw one guy that lived in dog houses the best as I can describe them by a lake where I used to shoot and hike, had a beagle and strewn porn and Mad Dog 20/20 bottles all over the woods. He was an odd one! Whole area now under a housing development...

[BUGEYE]

we had an old hermit (Ezra Porter) in our area.  when squirrel season opened, he would be sitting on the steps of the school when we came out.  he'd have his rifle and we had brought ours to school, so me, my two older brothers and a few other boys along with "ezzy" would head for the cache creek bottoms and hunt for a couple of hours.

this was back when we still had a few freedoms.

[SHOOTALL]

I know a fellow who keeps a place  back in the woods well stocked and plenty of fire wood.

[Ranger99]

how did you find my "place"?!?!?

[The Hermit]

Ummm   what u got agin hermits?   I know one, lives alone, goes in the woods everday. built his own cabins. hunts everyday.
makes medicine in the woods. goes to town once a month. a real nice fellow. Cooks, cans, traps, smokes meat, and nobody to mess with..... so I hear.
 
 
   The Hermit

[coontail]

bugeye, ol' ezzy would be surrounded by swat teams now for sitting there wi a gun. do you have any good stories you could share about hunting with him?

[Victor3]

Ummm   what u got agin hermits?   I know one, lives alone, goes in the woods everday. built his own cabins. hunts everyday.
makes medicine in the woods. goes to town once a month. a real nice fellow. Cooks, cans, traps, smokes meat, and nobody to mess with..... so I hear.
 
 
   The Hermit

 Did he also whittle him up a wireless router from a hunk of firewood ? 

[BUGEYE]

bugeye, ol' ezzy would be surrounded by swat teams now for sitting there wi a gun. do you have any good stories you could share about hunting with him?

the only hunting we did with him was squirrels.  but in the winter when I'd luck-up and catch a coon in my traps, ezzy would give me 50cents for the whole coon.  he stretched the hide to sell and ate the coon.
he had a shack built on the frame of a farm wagon and the local farmers would move him around with a tractor so that one area wouldn't get to stinking.  he was welcome at every farm around because he would trap the fox and skunk around the barns and chicken houses..

here's the school.  to the best of my knowledge it was the last one-roomer in Ill.
I went there seven years.

[The Hermit]

Hey Victor.  No he actually has that new fangled dial up with a phone line strunge up throught the woods.     When it rains, it don't work. 28.8 k speed sucks too.
 
   The Hermit

[mtmarfield]

   Greetings!


   In the mid 70's, Dad took my step-brother & sister, my sister, and I camping for a weekend near Desert Center, CA.
A 'hermit' discovered our camp site, and introduced himself, and his German Shepherd (Their names escape me). He
seemed harmless enough to Dad (& I), so he was made to feel welcome to visit. He and his dog lived in a small concrete
house, and he got around in a dune buggy. He gave us teenagers a ride around his domain a couple of times, and
showed us the sights.
   One of those nights, my sister and I saw a mountain lion (BIG Cat!!) silhouetted against our tent; the gas lantern was
turned down very low, but we both plainly saw him from about 50 yds. I imagine that they eat the smaller species of
deer, and the wild horses that overpopulate that area, thanks to Cleveland Amory and his Wild Horse Protection Act...


           Be Well!


                         M.T.Marfield:.
                             

[SHOOTALL]

bugeye, ol' ezzy would be surrounded by swat teams now for sitting there wi a gun. do you have any good stories you could share about hunting with him?

the only hunting we did with him was squirrels.  but in the winter when I'd luck-up and catch a coon in my traps, ezzy would give me 50cents for the whole coon.  he stretched the hide to sell and ate the coon.
he had a shack built on the frame of a farm wagon and the local farmers would move him around with a tractor so that one area wouldn't get to stinking.  he was welcome at every farm around because he would trap the fox and skunk around the barns and chicken houses..

here's the school.  to the best of my knowledge it was the last one-roomer in Ill.
I went there seven years.

when I was a teenager a buddy had a guy that would give us 10 bucks for a good size coon he sold the pelt for 15 and the meat for 10. Had to leave the feet on so the buyer knew it was a coon not a house cat. We would ride around late at night picking of road killed coon or go out after a heavy rain and shoot the ones up on branches drying out.

[1911crazy]

Up in vermont in lower granville behind the bowel mill in the national forest there was a hermit from the war.  My uncles every year when they went hunting they brought him old clothes and food.  After the war he lived off the land in the national forest.  I'm sure he is long gone by now.  I never seen him but the stories still continue.