Pbs Man Builds Cabin In Alaska

Nps photo taken by richard proenneke and donated by raymond proenneke.

Pbs man builds cabin in alaska. Dick filmed his adventures so he could show. Documentary tells the story of dick proenneke who in the late 1960s built his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the aleutian peninsula in what is now lake clark national park. The house he built for himself from scratch is now on the national register of historic places.

Proenneke hunted fished raised and gathered his own food and also had supplies flown in occasionally. Richard louis proenneke ˈ p r ɛ n ə k iː. In doing so he became an icon of survivalist grit and conservationism.

Logcabin bushcraft offgrid survival one man leaves the city life behind to build a cheap off grid log cabin and homestead in the canadian wilderness inc. Using color footage he shot himself proenneke traces how he came to this remote area selected a homestead site and built his log cabin completely by himself. It is a diary of his first few months while he build his cabin alone at twin lakes.

Dick proenneke returned the next summer to finish the cabin where he lived for over 30 years. Dick proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin on the shore of twin lakes. He spent that summer exploring the twin lakes region looking for the ideal site to build a cabin and cutting logs that he would use the next year.

In the late 70 s rich proenneke went to alaska to live in the wilderness. The first summer he scouted for the best cabin site and cut and peeled the logs he would. May 4 1916 april 20 2003 was an american self educated naturalist conservationist writer and wildlife photographer who when he was about 53 lived alone for nearly thirty years 1969 1999 in the mountains of alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near the shore of twin lakes.

Dick proenneke at his cabin in 1985. Dick proenneke retired from his diesel machanic career in 1967. He lived there from his mid fifties until his late 80 s.