After a tour of duty in Viet Nam as a Combat Medic, I returned to a US that I didn't fit in. So I decided to go live off the land.
I was discharged from Ft Lewis Washington in 1970. I had inherited enough from my grandparents to buy 40 acres of forest land in NE Washington state. Right on the Canadian border. He are a few of the pictures I could find of the log cabin I built in the forest.
These pictures were taken in 1971-72-73.
Cut all the logs myself & peeled them. The was no electricity, 4 weel drive road 5miles to get there. I did haul in some milled lumber, but all of the logs came from the land. Built everything without a crane or any power equipment, all done with rigging & block&tackle. You can see it in the pictures. I did use a gas chain saw.
I thought I was 'Jeremiah Johnson'! lol!
Raised our own food, hogs, chickens, garden, wild game
You could buy all the private land in that county & you would only own 3%! It was 97% Colville National Forest & Colville Indian Reservation land.
You could walk from the cabin about 20 miles into Canada before you got to a road.
peace
doublejj
P.S. I'll post some comments between the pictures.
Peeling logs:
First layers of logs:
What a pair!lol!
If you look close you can see me at the lower left:
The creek about a mile behind the cabin had rainbow trout like this:
I case you thought I was a cowboy with 'all hat and no cattle'. Here's 'Rosie' our milk cow! lol!
Learned to hunt deer with a bow:
Caught this boy in the pig pen, (going after the hog feed actually), but the hogs didn't know that! 30/06!