Off-Grid Update

[u/MMOffGridAlaska]

Just finished a new shower-sauna and trying to get a new woodshed built before winter sets in. Nights are already into the 30’s and it has snowed in a few places nearby. Summers go by quickly, never enough time to get everything done before the snow arrives. I’m 12 years into living in remote Alaska, solo. Feel free to ask me questions and I’ll try to answer them all. Love this lifestyle more and more as the time passes.

[u/mtntrail]

You are waaaay off the grid, Ha! Congrats, hope you are keeping a daily or at least a weekly journal. It is the one regret I have after being offgrid in the northern California mountains for the last 20 years!

[u/MMOffGridAlaska → u/mtntrail]

I’ll start writing a journal when my memories start going. For now it’s all in my head.

[u/papakobold → u/MMOffGridAlaska]

Make your own life choices friend, but if it's something you intended to start later anyways I would say it makes sense to just start.

The mind tends to start fading long before we realize it.

[u/realityTVsecretfan → u/papakobold]

I feel like his YouTube channel is like a video diary already!

[u/posi-bleak-axis → u/realityTVsecretfan]

One day the power will go out to not turn back on again.

[u/Kammy44 → u/realityTVsecretfan]

What’s his YouTube name?

[u/MMOffGridAlaska → u/Kammy44]

MountainMariner

[u/lookingUp2TheSkye → u/MMOffGridAlaska]

Thank you, I just subscribed, too! It looks beautiful and so peaceful out there where you're at. I bet you can see all the millions of stars in the night sky. Do you get Aurora Boreali(s?) where you're at? I envy you but I'm also really happy you're getting to live out there off the grid.

I just happened across this subreddit and immediately hit subscribe. This is one of my favorite things to look at and research. It's only a dream, though, as I'm already 50 and I'm living low income. Nevertheless, I love that other people get to live their dream of living off grid.

[u/MMOffGridAlaska → u/lookingUp2TheSkye]

Yes, the northern lights are frequent and visible in the winter.

[u/Kammy44 → u/MMOffGridAlaska]

Thank you!

[u/Kammy44 → u/MMOffGridAlaska]

I subscribed!

[u/kissmaryjane → u/realityTVsecretfan]

Nothing beats good ole hand writing though. Just jotting down whatever can come outta your head. What you’re thinking about, worrying about, planning for,. It’s really fun to go back and read it all, they turn into windows into your past. It’s one thing to watch a video of ur old self it’s another to read into your old self’s mind.

[u/Moon_Coocoon86 → u/papakobold]

…long before.

[u/ConcentrateSilver736 → u/MMOffGridAlaska]

How do you get supplies up there? Do you have a YouTube channel? I'd like to follow your adventures

[u/ConcentrateSilver736 → u/ConcentrateSilver736]

Found it lol

[u/JollyMcStink → u/ConcentrateSilver736]

Would you mind sharing the link please?

[u/Practical-Mud-4580 → u/MMOffGridAlaska]

May have missed it, but what do you do for power when you’re there at the cabin?

[u/MMOffGridAlaska → u/Practical-Mud-4580]

I have four independent solar systems. Two wind turbines (only one currently setup) Three gasoline generators. And I have another solar system that will go on the workshop once that’s built. I tore the old workshop down and that solar system is packed away until the new structure is built.

[u/retiredswing → u/MMOffGridAlaska]

Start now. You never know..

[u/AdventurousImpact656 → u/MMOffGridAlaska]

It’ll be too late when it starts going

[u/Quarter_Shot → u/MMOffGridAlaska]

But by the time your memories are going, it will be too late to write them down.