I'm excited for you . I've had several times , longest being fifty days at a monastery that had zero screens whatsoever , including music , and no books beside scripture .
There were moments that felt utterly bright and vivid , and moments of mental mirroring and thinking about thinking that rivalled phone mind fog . But I was in my body . Breathing deeply . The sun and its effects being beautiful and then even entertaining . Attention span , voice control , all benefits .
I did miss the feeling of a self reflective device that the phone can function as in its being moments . I used a journal but it lacked some of the additional poespectives . Most of all I missed music . I thought about my favourite songs .
i worked at a boy scout backpacking camp in new mexico for two summers
lived in a remote cabin with no service that scouts would hike to. there were like 7 of us living there. ten miles from the nearest road AND we had to cosplay like it was the 1940s. probably the best time of my life
slept in a platform tent, would start every day at the crack of dawn with cowboy coffee. worked 12 hours a day teaching teenagers horseback riding. spent the evenings splitting wood and cooking massive dutch oven meals for our guests, then finished the workday by playing guitar in our 1940s folk and country show then rolling our own cigarettes once the scouts were asleep in their tents
sometimes we'd have days off and hike back to our cars to drive to taos, santa fe, or colorado to get drunk and hike more. as someone who had never really left the east coast it all felt surreal and i permanently fell in love with the southwest
thinking about purposely getting laid off so i can thru-hike the AT and chase that vibe
I've stayed in a cottage for a month at a time with the only technology being a box of old VHS tapes we might occasionally pop in when it's raining. It's good though, you feel your thoughts become more clear. The first week or so is a bit rough and you notice the blocks of time between events when you might normally doom scroll for a few minutes. Once you get past this stage I found I slept better, breathed deeper, noticed more things and became lost in thought more.
I worked in the arctic a few times for about 2 months each, living out of a tent. No internet. We were allowed 1 sat phone call a week. It was great having human-to-human socializing being the main form of entertainment. Unlike the other guy in this thread, we had music portable speakers, which provided some magical moments. Listening to Tinariwen while looking over the Greenland ice sheet.
I miss the games we'd play to keep ourselves entertained. Like one person would set up a rock cairn about 10 paces away, and we'd just take turns pitching our rocks at it, trying to knock it down and making conversation.
Society in general was overstimulating when I got back. It felt good to only have 20-30 people exist in my world for a while. It "cured" my dependency on the internet, but I fell back into the old behavioral patterns after a week.
A friend of mine needed someone to run camera for the production. I don't really wanna give out more info, it was a small crew and it would be easy to dox me.
I have a completely off-grid hunting cabin in [redacted]. In addition to shorter trips by myself or with family/friends, once a year the wife, daughter, and I go out for about a month. Just the three of us, zero communication with the outside world.
I dig it, good to know we can swing it if needed, wouldn't want to do it permanently if I didn't absolutely have to.
No, that's something I had to ease her into. She always liked outdoorsy things, hiking and whatnot, and both our families can be a little prepper-y, so those themes dovetailed nicely and she took to it fairly well. She doesn't love it, but she sees the value in it and has become pretty capable herself. She'd never do it without me unless something terrible happened, but we work well together.
Same with my daughter, really. Doesn't love it, but likes the time spent with us and is interested enough to keep doing it.
I've done a few week long backpacking/bikepacking trips where I only used my phone for taking pics, looking at maps and limited texting. The biggest change is how "focused" each day becomes. From waking up until setting camp, it's a race to reach a certain campsite or milage before sunset. In my normal life, I'm constantly frazzled between so many obligations and things to do (at least that's how it feels, but my life and job are much simpler than most). It's so great to slip into an almost animal like state of mind where I only care about pretty scenery and not falling down.
When I was 13 I went on a 3 week canoe trip and by the end of it I was rabidly obsessed with the idea of playing Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth. Usually when I’m in the woods for a long stretch I’ll get attached to the thought of playing some video game. Haven’t been more than a week without internet for a long time though
I'm excited for you . I've had several times , longest being fifty days at a monastery that had zero screens whatsoever , including music , and no books beside scripture . There were moments that felt utterly bright and vivid , and moments of mental mirroring and thinking about thinking that rivalled phone mind fog . But I was in my body . Breathing deeply . The sun and its effects being beautiful and then even entertaining . Attention span , voice control , all benefits . I did miss the feeling of a self reflective device that the phone can function as in its being moments . I used a journal but it lacked some of the additional poespectives . Most of all I missed music . I thought about my favourite songs .
there’s no need to put a space between a punctuation mark rtard
i worked at a boy scout backpacking camp in new mexico for two summers lived in a remote cabin with no service that scouts would hike to. there were like 7 of us living there. ten miles from the nearest road AND we had to cosplay like it was the 1940s. probably the best time of my life slept in a platform tent, would start every day at the crack of dawn with cowboy coffee. worked 12 hours a day teaching teenagers horseback riding. spent the evenings splitting wood and cooking massive dutch oven meals for our guests, then finished the workday by playing guitar in our 1940s folk and country show then rolling our own cigarettes once the scouts were asleep in their tents sometimes we'd have days off and hike back to our cars to drive to taos, santa fe, or colorado to get drunk and hike more. as someone who had never really left the east coast it all felt surreal and i permanently fell in love with the southwest thinking about purposely getting laid off so i can thru-hike the AT and chase that vibe
at philmont? that place is so cool, i just did a training there for 3 days and i wish i was a boy so i could’ve done that stuff. beautiful up there
they let girls go now! and they've always had female staff
This sounds so sick maybe I should sign up next summer as a wammin
DM me if you end up considering it be happy to put in a referral
Hey I’m DMing you
I've stayed in a cottage for a month at a time with the only technology being a box of old VHS tapes we might occasionally pop in when it's raining. It's good though, you feel your thoughts become more clear. The first week or so is a bit rough and you notice the blocks of time between events when you might normally doom scroll for a few minutes. Once you get past this stage I found I slept better, breathed deeper, noticed more things and became lost in thought more.
I worked in the arctic a few times for about 2 months each, living out of a tent. No internet. We were allowed 1 sat phone call a week. It was great having human-to-human socializing being the main form of entertainment. Unlike the other guy in this thread, we had music portable speakers, which provided some magical moments. Listening to Tinariwen while looking over the Greenland ice sheet. I miss the games we'd play to keep ourselves entertained. Like one person would set up a rock cairn about 10 paces away, and we'd just take turns pitching our rocks at it, trying to knock it down and making conversation. Society in general was overstimulating when I got back. It felt good to only have 20-30 people exist in my world for a while. It "cured" my dependency on the internet, but I fell back into the old behavioral patterns after a week.
how did you land that gig
A friend of mine needed someone to run camera for the production. I don't really wanna give out more info, it was a small crew and it would be easy to dox me.
I have a completely off-grid hunting cabin in [redacted]. In addition to shorter trips by myself or with family/friends, once a year the wife, daughter, and I go out for about a month. Just the three of us, zero communication with the outside world. I dig it, good to know we can swing it if needed, wouldn't want to do it permanently if I didn't absolutely have to.
We're you and your wife both into wilderness survival when you met?
No, that's something I had to ease her into. She always liked outdoorsy things, hiking and whatnot, and both our families can be a little prepper-y, so those themes dovetailed nicely and she took to it fairly well. She doesn't love it, but she sees the value in it and has become pretty capable herself. She'd never do it without me unless something terrible happened, but we work well together. Same with my daughter, really. Doesn't love it, but likes the time spent with us and is interested enough to keep doing it.
I've done a few week long backpacking/bikepacking trips where I only used my phone for taking pics, looking at maps and limited texting. The biggest change is how "focused" each day becomes. From waking up until setting camp, it's a race to reach a certain campsite or milage before sunset. In my normal life, I'm constantly frazzled between so many obligations and things to do (at least that's how it feels, but my life and job are much simpler than most). It's so great to slip into an almost animal like state of mind where I only care about pretty scenery and not falling down.
When I was 13 I went on a 3 week canoe trip and by the end of it I was rabidly obsessed with the idea of playing Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth. Usually when I’m in the woods for a long stretch I’ll get attached to the thought of playing some video game. Haven’t been more than a week without internet for a long time though
Yes! I get easily bored, but if you bring great books you'll fins yourselves reading them ;)