What are some good Mountain Man/Forest Ranger/Wilderness Movies?
What are some good Mountain Man/Forest Ranger/Wilderness Movies?
alone in the wilderness
jeremiah johnson
last of the mohicans
deliverance
River Wild, Deliverance, and well, I'll think of some more.
except for the first post most of them have nothing to do with Mountain Men or Forest service,,
I would say:
The Mountain Men, cant remember the producer but great movie..
Sour Dough
Mountan Man, dont confuse with the above movie..Mountain Man recreates how Yosemite National Park had it's start..
Those are just a few..
Graywolf
"So what if theres a mountain, get over it!!!" - Graywolf, 2010
alone in the wilderness was a good one
I enjoyed Snow Walker immensely.
I enjoyed this movie as well. You can see the whole thing on hulu.com. http://www.hulu.com/watch/71314/the-snow-walker
Without a Paddle
Into the Wild (maybe not great, but def good)
Alive
not sure how closely these all fit the criteria, but some of my favorites are:
Jeremiah Johnson
Into the Wild
Bushwhacked
Grizzly Park
Harry and the Hendersons (does Bigfoot count as a mountain man?)
The Lord of the Rings (awesome mountain scenery)
The Great Outdoors
The Last of The Mohicans
Deliverance (sorry to keep repeating everyone above, but they're right)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Vertical Limit
Ravenous
Almost Heroes
Not a movie, but I watched "The Forest Rangers" as a kid.
Never should have gone off the air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpV4-JlwWt0&NR=1
A classic. Don't forget, an elk don't know how many legs a horse has, ya fool pilgrim!
But you might enjoy reading, "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America," by Timothy Egan.
Fascinating, true account about the founding of the US Forest Service, and one of our nation's worst forest fires.
Egan also wrote: "The Worst Hard Time." An amazing true account of those who endured the Dust Bowl.
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See ya!
Rickles McPickles
"So what if theres a mountain, get over it!!!" - Graywolf, 2010
Jeremiah Johnson for sure, and "watch yer topknot, Pilgrim!"
"It goes to show you never can tell." - Charles Edward Anderson Berry
The ones mentioned above (My first thought was Jeremiah Johnson)
Not really in your criteria, but some AT "Movies":
Lynn Weldon's "How to hike the AT" is old but a good look at how some, even Wingfoot & Warren Doyle felt a Thru should be done.
& a few years ago Backpacker put out a video where they gave a few hikers small (for the time) video cameras to use on their thru hikes. I do not remember the title, But I would bet you can Google it. PBS shows it from time to time.
There is an interview with David Brill (wrote the book "As far as the eye can see" about his 70's thru hike) & some decent At scenery & stuff.
Curse you Perry the Platypus!
Grizzly man. By the end of the movie you are rooting for the bears.
SGT Rock
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7nqxIdROsI
Know how to skin a Griz? Jeremiah Johnson is my favorite.
Alone in the Wilderness, I think, is the documentary about the guy that went to alaska and built his log cabin by hand. Everything, including tool handles. He then lived alone in his spot for 20-30 years, till he was too old to care for himself. The state made it a historical place and yet allowed him to stay in it whenever he wished.
Very cool film.
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