what would a person need if he was going to live in the mountains for a year??

Question

with no outter contact. Bighorn mountains central wyoming aprox 8000 to 9500 ft on the east face. deer elk turkeys grouse fish year round for the most part

Answer 1

It depends on whether you're going to carry in an entire year's supply of food, or plan to start with nothing and live on whatever meat you can hunt? Likely Wyoming has similar hunting regulations as California and you probably won't be able to legally take more than one deer and elk in season, which wouldn't be enough to live on for an entire year if preserved properly. As for gear, you'd want to take as much as possible for survival and comfort. I don't know if it's even legal to camp in the wilderness in one spot for that long, but I'd want a large outfitter tent with wood stove. You're going to need a way to keep the bears and other animals out of your food supply, either by burying it, or putting it up on an unclimbable stand. (I've seen both methods done by Alaskan homesteaders.) But there's really no excuse for staying at that elevation in the winter. You'd spend the entire time shoveling snow and struggling to keep your tent up, with death threatening with every storm. Alaskan homesteaders build cabins before the winter.

You're gonna need a Remington M700 Mountain rifle in .300 WinMag with a Leupold adjustable scope probably 10x-40X. That'll take care of all them elks and deers and bears. With that rifle you won't need a woman. http://www.remington.com/products/firearms/centerfire_rifles/model_700/model_700_mountain_LSS.asp

Answer 2

Some of these replies sound like they are from suburbia. Doing that is not too hard to stay alive if you know the area and have a definite plan for what you are doing(whether being supplied or living off the land etc.). The only way to get an answer to your question is to start by taking small trips, then larger and make a list of what works and what doesn't, and become the expert on the subject yourself. Also you then find out which way gives you the most enjoyment, whether you want to really rough it, or live more easily. The basics for me would be a 22 rimfire with a few thousand rounds a 30-06 various loads and a 12ga with no 6, 4, shot and a small size buckshot. Fishing equipment, including any fish or freshwater crustacean traps that might be applicable. Some basic gardening tools, about two dozen different sorts of seeds, old style that can actually reproduce new generations, not the genetically engineered crap that finishes after one or two or produces seedless crops :) And a lot of prior practice in tilling and planting-you can even do that in your backyard. Tinned and sealed food as well( at least enough of this for emergenices anyway) Some first aid supplies, do a couple of paid courses in first aid(or even para medic level) , and see if you can get a doctor or someone to give you some broad spectrum anti biotics, worming tablets(whatver parasites or funguses you might get there)with long expiry dates, water purification tablets etc. Good radio and training in case of an emergency. Shelter-that's a big subject ranging from living arrangements to climate, clothing, water tanks, to fuel supplies(wood, batteries, gas lamps whatever) all part of your preferences which you will have to work out youself. Lastly a lot of books to read and a journal and other hobbies or things you like to do or would be prepared to learn. Skinning, tanning your kills,treating leather, drying fruit, making traps/hunting bows ,knitting sweaters, spinning wool, whatever floats your boat.Maybe making a boat too! Be aware being alone can get boring after you have done your work for the day without people to talk to. People alone for great lengths of time do change. Some fence menders I knew would end up talking to themselves after a couple months on big cattle properties. Nothing permanent but it would take them a while when they got back home to get out of the habit, and to get used to people once again :)

Answer 3

Cabin or tent? Horse pack in or hike?
You will have plenty of large game and a good variety of protien, assuming you know how to take it, prepare it and store it. You'll have to pack in a pretty large amount of staples (corn meal, flour, sugar, etc. etc.) if you don't plan on doing this as a primitive living experiance.
You'll have to know how to identify all edible plants and know how to use them, as you can not survive off just game. You will get protien poisening, scurvy or other nasty nutritinal deficiences.
You''ll need very versitle clothing, the weather there can be harsh and changes rapidly. Wool, lot's of wool!
Anything you have with you needs to be repairable, and you should have the means to repair it. All items you have should also serve as many uses as possible.
If your gun breaks, what is your back up for procuring food? If your fishing rod breaks what is your back up? If a bear comes into your camp ,cleans out all your food and destroys your shelter, what is your back up?
Things like pemmican can be stored at various cache spots and will last indefinatly, but if you don't know how to make or store it......what's your emergency food reserve going to look like?
First aid....you will have to be your own doctor. Plant lore will help with upset stomach and minor cuts and bruises, but what if you cut off your toe while making a hunting bow or chopping wood?

You could do a bare bones survival type of experiance, but if you are not intamatly aware of how every thing in that environment lives and breaths you'll have a short uncomfortable stay, or worse.

The biggest thing(s) you need to live in the mountains unassisted for a year is very serious outdoors survival training, extensive winter and inclement weather camping experiance, an uncanny knack to forsee any possible calamitous happenings and have a plan for them.

Study in great detail how the indigenous people of that area lived and thrived prior to modern conveniance! This could be one of the best things you could do to prep for that kind of trip.

Also you would need a direction or purpose! Set some alternative agenda for being there, other than just to live. It will help keep you focused and occupied in the mind while you are otherwise busy doing mundane tasks like drying berries and pounding elk jerky to make pemmican. If not, you would get a bit nuts from the isolation.

If you don't know what you're doing, I'd start with a couple of extended, minimal gear hiking trips in the range, just to get the feel of being exposed, hungry tired wet and humbled...then if and when you plan to undertake the year long deal you might have a very realistic map of your limitations or strengths.

Answer 4

Let me put it this way. If you don’t know what to bring and have to ask here on answers you will most likely die up there. No joke!
Have you had survivalist training?
Have you lived in sub-zero temperatures for months at a time?
Have you built snow caves and dug them out of 15 feet of snow?
Do you know how to build your own snow shoes?
Do you have the stable mind to handle extreme isolation for months at a time?
Have you ever fell through the ice into water and was able to build a fire and change into warm clothes in 10 minutes? Because that all you got at 45 below.
Well I have and it’s not easy!
A friend of mine had to eat one of his sled dogs to stay alive in a remote area here in Alaska.
And lastly do you have a good life insurance policy?
No joke! You are sure to get yourself killed unless you have a GREAT deal of wilderness survival skills.
I AM a survivalist and there is no way in hell I would take a green horn like you into a situation like you described in the winter.

Start off by doing your home work about wilderness survival. Spend some summers practicing these skills. And even a seasoned outdoors man like myself would NEVER travel alone across mountains in the winter. Its just fool hardy!

Here is a good school to learn from;
http://www.trackerschool.com/
Please be careful!

Answer 5

Doing it right takes quite a bit of planning. Several items are needed. Guns, ammo, subzero gear( sleeping bag, clothes, boots, raingear etc etc) chainsaw, axe, sledgehammer, compass, at least 2 sharp durable knives. I suggest k-bar. Horses are a plus and a dog. I could get by with that.

Answer 6

Bring along a book...like, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

Answer 7

if you have to ask on yahoo! chances are you shouldn't be out of the house for 15 minutes

Answer 8

A sharp mind is more important than a sharp knife!!

Answer 9

A real survivalist would only need a knife.

Answer 10

fishing line hooks, MRE,s [military food] good sleeping bag, hatchet, flint [for fire starting] a gun, lots of ammo, 2 knifes, compass, warm cloths, small tent, water,