Originally Posted by simonkenton7
One summer my buddy Marc and I decided we wanted to be Mountain Men. We were suburban boys from Atlanta. We decided to go to the wilderness of British Columbia. We got up there to the wild regions and we flew back into the bush with a pilot named "Midnight Jim" Anderson. His house was right on the Alaska Highway and he, believe it or not, used the Alaska Highway for a runway.

After Jim flew us in to the wilderness, we rented horses from a big game guide and we were off by ourselves for several months of wilderness adventure. Of course we had a pack horse. When we were doing our own mountain man training in Atlanta we got this book and this is how we learned how to pack a horse. We even built our own panniers from plywood.

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On the drive up to BC from Atlanta we actually stopped by Joe Back's house in Wyoming and visited with him for several hours.



Man I sure would have liked to talk to Joe, but I was too late coming into Wyoming.