Mountain Wind Family; Building The Cabin

45 minute complete video at:
http://vimeo.com/9058610
There are many chapters and sub chapters to this on YouTube. You can find them related to this one or by searching for Mountain Wind Family

1989 in the Wilderness of NE Washington Mountains....Mountain Wind Family lived for 5 years in the harshest of conditions yet in all the glory of nature..from the book Coyote; A Guide to Wilderness Living "

AVAILABLE LAND The laws of supply and demand are man made. Murphys Laws are a
joke. If you have in mind what you want, then you should have no trouble finding that piece of property. There are legions of magazines that advertise land from brokers, tree farms, private parties and the like.

There is no end to the land available. This is not to say that land
will always be available. Perhaps the population will continue to
explode and folks will move to the country whether they have a choice
or not. Perhaps we will find a way to handle the masses in the city,
But for now....land is there. Cheap land. Expensive land. Mail order
land. You want it. You'll find it. All it takes its motivation and a
spattering of luck. Let me tell you the short/long story of our move to Washington
State. In 1967, Cleveland Ohio, we were good friends with the
Shuttleworths who had just started Mother Earth News out of a small
house in North Madison Ohio. They had a dream. They shared their
dream and we bought into the philosophy but we were too young and
naive to understand. Many others were not, or felt that they were
not. Some got real lucky but the times were so very different. We tried over the period of a few years to find our dream of self sufficient living in the country. We didn't succeed for a variety of reasons, but one was NOT that there was no land for us. So we shelved our dream in a place that even we forgot.

....real estate company in Washington... property at199.50 a month. A few years later on, after moving to the Mendocino Coast in
another search for "real life", we re-established the dream of finding self sufficiency. and it took another few years to fall upon it, after being deluded into thinking that the Spirit of the land movement was dead. We tried being semi-yuppies without success, after opening and closing a computer store on the Coast. We bought into a modular home in Woodland California with 1/10 acre of very sun dried ground. At 800 dollars per month mortgage and after months of finding just the right eatery and espresso houses, we gave up in bankruptcy. As quick as a shot in a child's arm we found a real estate company in Washington that was selling remote parcels of property for no money down and 199.50 a month. Being without any other catalyst to take us up the ladder we felt no remorse at leaving the city to try something new! And we have so far succeeded in doing what we set out to do.

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[kchedville]

Bob, I dont care what anyone here has said, I think you did a terrific Job. I own my Land, I own the Barn that I built to live in, and I have very few Bills to pay....Land tax is a bit high thou....But that the Governments fault.....Good Job BOB....

[eqshannon]

Thank you sir! As I look back on what we did...I am amazed myself. so many people think about doing such as we did...but then they have a few bucks...we had next to none... We learned as we went..and every kid of ours that was raised there graduated from college, some with honors...Many of them attribute what they are now to what they learn with Jane and I back then!

God Bless

Bob

[longfootbuddy]

i have an urge to go live a simple cabin living, hunting farming type life , where i can be left alone to my own laws and not have other people forcing theyr bs on me, but i like living in modern convenience in communities, however , there could be a world order meltdown due to a natural disaster, war, plague, aliens//all kinds of crazy things can happen, and next thing you know, im living the simple life

[briangunn21]

Love these kind of videos. What is the music?

[karatedavid]

Do you live near Republic, WA?

[mycomama]

what's up with the can that just says: BEER?

Is it a stash can?

[assym2006]

you are living my dream ;)

great vid

thank you

[leebog31]

Can you give me a ruff estimate of how much it cost to build a cabin like yours?

[schlumbucket]

Damn, that small. :)

[RockyMissouri]

We've been living in an A frame for 26 years!

[yappertrap]

this is how you do it....inspiring thank you!!