cool documentary

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#5872

Watched Happy People a year in the Taiga on netfix. Woodsmanship at its absolute best! Those Russian trappers are a hardy breed.Makes you relize how much the hunting “celebritys” are a bunch of cheating pansy’s.

[Etter1]

#45469

I’ve watched it a bunch of times. My favorite documentary on there so far. Their dogs are absolutely incredible.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#45670

This has been on my ‘watch’ list for way too long. I need to cue it up – thanks for the reminder.

[Charles Ek]

#46106

Smithhammer wrote: This has been on my ‘watch’ list for way too long. I need to cue it up – thanks for the reminder.

Yeah, what he said. 😉

[doug krueger]

#48895

Happy people is the best movie ever! Everyone needs to watch it!

DK:D

[David Petersen]

#49504

I love this flic too. It’s on Netflix instant watch. While not meaning to take anything away from these hardy happy folks, I have a couple of friends in bush AK, 250m north of Fairbanks and more than a hundred miles from the nearest village, who have lived a far more primitive life there for over 30 years now. No electricity until he hooked up some solar panels. No village for support, dogs rather than snow machines. Mark Richards is chair of the AK chapter of BHA. They fish with nets in summer and eat grayling 3x daily. They kill one or two moose in Sept. and eat moose 3x daily all winter. Visiting there is a cross between the ongoing excitement of survival, and insufferable food boredom. Amazing people. Not for me. I much prefer the edge.

[Etter1]

#49894

Im an insomniac and documentary freak. Ive watched soooo many of them on netflix. None of them have much to do with trad archery so I wont list them here but I can recommend a bunch that are worth watching if you pm me

[David Coulter]

#51052

I just watched Happy People with my family tonight. It made a great impression on us all. They know how to live, as evidenced by the fact that they are still alive at -50.

I just reread To Build a Fire again, too. Quite a bit more grim, but a wonderful illustration on what this beautiful world can do to you if you venture ill prepared. best, dwc

[Stephen Graf]

#58078

I have to second what Dave said. And I would add that I prefer to stay with my family the year through…

But it was interesting.

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#58491

David Petersen wrote: I love this flic too. It’s on Netflix instant watch. While not meaning to take anything away from these hardy happy folks, I have a couple of friends in bush AK, 250m north of Fairbanks and more than a hundred miles from the nearest village, who have lived a far more primitive life there for over 30 years now. No electricity until he hooked up some solar panels. No village for support, dogs rather than snow machines. Mark Richards is chair of the AK chapter of BHA. They fish with nets in summer and eat grayling 3x daily. They kill one or two moose in Sept. and eat moose 3x daily all winter. Visiting there is a cross between the ongoing excitement of survival, and insufferable food boredom. Amazing people. Not for me. I much prefer the edge.

Great documentary, indeed! But I too prefer the edge, whenever I can get it!:D

[Don Thomas]

#58788

I haven’t seen the video, but I spent a lot of time in the field with Russian trappers and Native reindeer herders back in 1990 and 1991. Toughest people I ever met, and we formed some remarkable friendships during the time I spent there. They were also likely the happiest people in what was then the USSR (actually, it no longer was by the time I left in 1991), probably because they were operating so far off the grid that they didn’t have to deal with the rest of it. I thought I knew a lot about getting along in the wilderness when I went, but I knew a lot more when I came back. Don

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