We left Texas for Wyoming over 35 years ago. Best thing we ever did.

QuoteOriginally posted by Montanawidower:
Even mountain men these days carry cell phones .      

Hahaha, now that's funny!

Yep, been there a few times for a week or so trip. It's in my sole and thoughts. But the older I get the less I care for cold. So I will need two places. My dream is to have a place there for spring, summer and fall and a place in a warmer climate for the winter.

I think I am going upstairs and letting the old lady know she needs to get a third job.

I think what you're feeling is part of the reason I picked up trad in the first place.

Kingsnake

It sounds like a great idea as long as you don't think about it too much. Give some thought to "living off the land" in the western mountains during Nov., Dec., Jan., Feb. and March. Living can get pretty skinny pretty quick. I lived in Billings MT. in 1973&74 and back-packed extensively and hunted Bighorn Sheep in the o.t.c. permit areas in the Absaroka/Beartooth Wilderness Area northeast of Yellowstone Park. I treasure memories of the incredibly rugged and beautiful wilderness, the solitude and the challenge of the hunt. I will also shamelessly admit that after as long as nine days living out of a backpack, getting to my parked 4 w.d. truck, starting that gasoline engine, driving down that dirt then gravel and lastly that paved road to home was pretty nice. And that first hot meal at home was tied with the hot shower for just plain wonderful.

Yep!!!

Absolutely, and one day, I will. My wife asks me almost daily "is it time yet?".

Only about every waking minute of everyday.

check out the old movie= alone in the wilderness.
i have felt this way ever since i read the book "my side of the mountain"wen i was twelve or thirteen.
didnt have the greatest childhood- and finally ran away from home at about 15- went and lived in the mountains far far from my parents home.
never went back there again. after my time in the mountains- i eventually moved in with my grandparents until i was old enough to go to the army.
i still yearn after the back country. and i often wonder what i would do if, God forbid, i lost everything- probably head out- right now i love my wife and my kids way to much- so i make the compromise.

not to heavy an answer i hope- but yup i think about the mountains everyday!!!
thats why we moved here- it was a good compromise- isolated island life style, 9 month hunting season- awesome fishimg and gunkholing all year round.- its a good compromise!!

Leave me your address so I can come and visit Dendy!  

I often I wish I could move up to the mountains. More now that I'm in college. Being in an apartment all week drives me crazy. Nothing in town interests me. I'm home where I can hunt, shoot, and be in the timber as often as I can. I guess I'm not your "normal" college kid. Maybe someday.

I guess there are times I feel like what you are describing, however I am very content and happy with life.

The day after I retire I'm doing just that!!

yup for 42 years now.......

Yea, until I have to drag a deer out of the mountains!

 

Everyday

I got to live the in best mountains of the east in Pisgah NF.  Moved back to Texas after getting laid off while the wife was pregnant.  We want to move back so bad.

It's all relative, I live in a town nestled in the Rocky Mountains, and own a cabin on a nice chunk of remote land that I dream daily about moving to.  But I work and I work alot, I often think I should move to the city and make a better living so that I could vacation at the cabin during hunting season and have a better quantity/quality of hunting.

oz

Once a year for about a week in Colorado. Gives me my fix.

I did 25 years ago. A little ways from them now but having just as much fun hunting!

Only on days that end in "Y"!!!