Watching this movie tonight (free with commercials on FandangoAtHome.com) called The Human Hibernation. It’s an exploration about what it might be like if human’s hibernated every winter out in the woods like certain animals do.
Spring comes around and people come crawling out of holes and burrows in the woods. They live spring to fall just like normal, but then late fall comes and they all return to hibernation. It’s slow, thoughtful, fascinating, poetic. The imagery and camera work is incredible. Almost every shot could be a photograph. The natural world is highlighted strongly.
It’s probably not for everybody, because there’s no real A - B story. But I find it captivating. Just gotta be willing to put your tablet or phone aside for an hour and a half to really appreciate it.
Gettin’ outta the glorious rain in the glorious backcountry with my glorious dog
I found this video interesting as it relates to conversations we have about the true nature of things, what is really important and what is not, and how little importance some things have depending on the needs of the moment.
For example, this guy and his fellow soldiers, while being shot at would just dump their blankets - the blankets were totally unimportant to the immediate goal of staying alive. This meant later suffering, but at least they were alive.
I think about this sort of thing all the time when seeing guys building elaborate, beautiful shelters in the woods. When you’re hungry and lost, or simply traveling through the wilderness, nobody is going to care about building an elaborate shelter. You’re only going to care about conserving energy and using energy for only things that are absolutely necessary in any given moment.
This means sleeping under a rock outcrop, or a fallen tree, or just trying to get through the night under your sweater and some leaves you scrounge ...
