New information is always to be taken into acct. regardless, I admired him, and, I was a female who did something similar at age 17.
I graduated early, moved as a caretaker, to a remote, 200 acre property on a lake in the Sierra Nevadas here. I lived alone in a tiny cabin with 2 dogs, 4 cats and a horse, my only source of transportation being 16 miles from a campground that had the only phone in the zone. This was in 1977, no cell phones then, obviously.
I grew a garden, went to the city once a month for other supplies, and drank from an underground spring with a pump that eventually crapped out and left me with no water. lol
I would ride my horse several miles down the lake every evening at sunset and the rangers would do a drive by boat check to make sure I was okay.
I dealt with rattlesnakes everywhere, ( it was a drought year and they were all around the lake edge in the rocks ), never got bitten.
I ran off wilderness campers with a rifle on horseback when they would boat in and make campfires that threatened my safety.
I was quite the little adventuress, all by myself in the middle of nowhere.
My family thought I was insane, boys were turned on beyond words, and in awe of my spirited ways.
I once came galloping down to the lake, bareback, in shorts, bikini top and moccasins and fired off my 22 rifle to get the attenton of several guys camping with a fire on my property.
I think they thought cute little me, all wild and tanned with blonde pigtails flying was an easy mark to be disregarded. heh…you should have seen how fast they scrambled into their boat when I fired my rifle. lol
Good old days, and anyone that has an adventurious spirit is my kinda person.