The Legend of Mick Dodge: The National Geographic Channel

My wife has gotten very interested in this program while I have been traveling lately. It reminds her of a man named Sunny who has Maori tattoos on his face put there by Maoris in New Zealand while he was there that she met while she was in Saline Valley, near Death Valley, California, years ago now. He also wore buckskin made with deer brains to cure to make them soft.

Mick Dodge live in the forest near Forks, Washington and chooses mostly not to live in houses of any kind or visit too many people. He has done this for 25 years. So, this is a very interesting fellow especially when he climbs trees and strings ropes across at 30 feet high or more from the ground and sets up his hammock to sleep there away from critters or people. He wears deerskin on his body, head and feet. So, this is a very unique fellow.

You would have to call him a mountain man and a hunter gatherer by nature and disposition. He loves his life and what he does. He only goes into town late at night when he does so he doesn't need to deal with people who wouldn't understand his life style of the last 25 years.

His life is now on the National Geographic Channel for all to see. I think it is important to see people who live like this especially if society collapses at some point and this becomes one of the few ways that people can survive still.

So, if you are a survivalist, this might be an important life to watch and to learn from.

I would say I was thinking more like a survivalist from about 1980 to 1985 when I believed for a time that our government was going to collapse. It's not that it couldn't still collapse but remember the world needs the U.S. for a variety of reasons. So, it is in the world's interests to stabilize the U.S. as well as people here in the U.S. so the whole world doesn't fly apart into complete chaos from overpopulation and starvation. Right now, about 10 million people at least starve to death every year here on earth. And many more than that die from bad water around the world, especially children.

So, understanding Mick Dodge and how he lives might be useful to all of us both in understanding ourselves better and understanding what any of us might have to do at some point in the future to just survive at all.