I watch those Alaska shows and scratch my head how anyone can live in bitter cold and months of darkness in a cabin with a wood burning stove. I do admire their strength of conviction to that lifestyle but I wonder how they accept it when they are to old to do the physical chores and have to move to the town or city. It must kill their souls.
Yeah, I watched a few back when we were hooked up
A lot of those Alaskan shows are contrived
The folks are real, but the scripted scenes are sickeningly bogus
Anyway, if you wanna see the real deal, find the Natl Geo film called Braving Alaska

Those folks are as real as it gets
And I, for one, wouldn’t wanna do it
My son did it a few years before he became a commercial fisherman
Then he did the Deadliest Catch thing, under Phil Harris (before he became famous)
My life long buddy is still living up there, for 30 yrs now, but he’s in SE Alaska, where the temps are bearable
A member here, by the name of Pete, did the real thing
Cool dude
Lot'sa good posts
Heh, I’m pretty much playing at it, even though we don’t see terra firma for months on end,
we can still get to town whenever we want, as we’re just a few miles off the hwy…providing things don’t ice up too much…
But, after getting too old?
I’m gonna move to small town on the coast, frequent the local taproom,
and bore the crap outa whoever comes within earshot with hugely embellished stories