Posted on 05/01/2009 9:09:33 AM PDT by AreaMan
Don't know if it's actually legal, but my brother-in-law did exactly that with his late wife's ashes, in southern California.
Myself, I've always fancied living like Seldom Seen Slim, or maybe Shorty Harris.
Yet, sometimes I think it is like the much repeated aphorism "money doesn't make you happy" (or variations of it) that sounds good but is really not true.
Yes, I know money can be more dangerous than helpful, e.g. rich men - camels - eyes of needles, but only because it insulates you from reality and buys you some limited freedom therefore making some people forget their ultimate end.
I don't know if I could handle the REAL solitary kind of life like mountain men or desert wanderers but I know some people could and they thrive in that environment.
It takes all kinds. The really brave adventurers are relatively rare. Now they have this experience of taking unconditioned men and women that can pay the cost on group climbing of Everest. Huge dangers involved. Especially in “the death zone.” Particularly when the climbers are inexperienced.
Stupidity to my mind. Even the experts die there.
I know there must be something wrong with me but I'd rather perform surgery on myself than play golf.
I'm sure there is a combination of medication and therapy to cure this.
Agreed, those men were not like the modern "adrenaline junkie" with more money than sense. Many modern "adventurers" are just self-absorbed f**k-bags that would do well to not reproduce.
excellent story. The movie was good too.
According to the history books the Indian Wars ended in 1886 with the capture of Geronimo or 1890 with Wounded Knee. That is false. They settled into a low grade warfare that lasted another 50 years. In 1919 U.S. soldiers killed two members of a Yaqui raiding party. In 1936 a volunteer cavalry of 500 gathered in Douglas to hunt down remaining Apache holdouts who had kidnapped a Mexican boy. They were denied entry to Mexico because the Mexican governmant was afraid that their presence would cause the Yaquis to go on the warpath.
This guy reminded me of Chris McCandless, and sure enough, there’s a mention of both men on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild
Into the Wild (1996) by Jon Krakauer is a bestselling non-fiction book about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. It is an expansion of Krakauer’s 9,000-word article, “Death of an Innocent”, which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside.[1] Krakauer intersperses McCandless’s story with a discussion of the wilderness experiences of people such as Everett Ruess, John Muir, and John Menlove Edwards, as well as some of his own adventures.
Mr. Ruess's family said last week that because of questions raised by Utah's state archaeologist, they would seek independent retesting of remains found last year on the Navajo Indian Reservation in southern Utah. Scientists at the University of Colorado -- in a joint announcement in April with National Geographic Adventure magazine, which wrote about the discovery -- said the remains, based on forensic analysis and DNA testing, were almost certainly those of Mr. Ruess. But Utah's state archaeologist, Kevin Jones, said he thought the remains were more likely those of an American Indian because of the distinctive shape of the teeth and their pattern of wear, and because Mr. Ruess's dental records from the 1930s did not appear to match. Dr. Jones emphasized that he had not been able to examine the remains physically and that his critique, written with a physical anthropologist also at the Utah Division of State History, was based on published photographs.IOW, full of **** -- the DNA is a match with members of Ruess' family, and Ruess was murdered by Utes, which probably accounts for the lame-assed claim by this clown. I'd really love to see dental records from the 1930s regarding Ruess.
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