In my high school days would spend a month or two surviving on a match in the Pintler and Bob Marshal
@montanajoe Been there done that... Been deep in the Bob Marshal for months... Long enough to go native... Same with the Yaak and the Bitterroot (sorta out of Victor), and the Wind River country down in WY... Been down in the Big Hole, but just a bit... The Bob Marshal, The Great Bear, and the Swan Valley were pretty much my playground.
If you're lucky you run out of food stores in 10 days, coffee and tobacco in 20... Those middlin 10 days are hard. Then you start coming into tune with the land. You can hear the Father whispering in the wind, and you never want to come down. That is where I was alive.
then the Army opened up whole new opportunities in SE Asia.
Then you came at it before me. I learned how from the likes of you. The two guys who taught me most were a pair of LRRP Rangers - They were partners in Nam, and stayed that way for many years thereafter.
To be honest ..I'll take the wife to cuddle and its no body's business what else.. 
Suits me fine.
My point being that walking the deep forest without arms is not recommended.
But happily, I now have a hilljilly gal to haul along. She's all for it. And it's a new thing for me. Never walked off with my ex a single time. So the deep woods cuddlin thing is gonna take practice, practice, practice... :)
But there's trouble in paradise. She likes a hammock, and I am a ground-dweller
