"It's pledge time here on PBS."

That can only mean one thing tracking down when "Alone in the Wilderness" is going to be on.
If you have not seen this than... well you are missing out on something. "Alone in the Wilderness" give an account of what it was like for Dick Proenneke living day to in the remote Twin Lakes, Alaska. I have to say that he is one of my hero's, dear I say idol. He moved there in retiment and build everything thing he needed and live by himself for 30 years. He made his cabin and it could be one of the greatist single pices of craftsmanship of the 20th centry. The footage in the film he all shot him self on 16mm with a tripod all in his first year and his journals are used as the sript.




Needless to say Dick did not hunt wolves, moose or anything else from a airplane.
He died in 2003, after moving to calinforina in 1999 at age 82. I belive the resaon he gave for leaving Twin Lakes had something to do with the it being to long and to cold in the winter something 80 below with windchill.