Tundra Tiger
AH legend
RIP Robert Redford, and if there is another thread started about his passing please delete mine.
I don't know a lot about the man beyond his movies, as far as his actual life and politics. But Jeremiah Johnson was the most impactful movie I ever watched. I saw it when I was in the second grade, watching it with my grandpa (the most impactful man in my life). I resolved then and there at the age of 7 to become a mountain man. Alas, that didn't happen, but for the longest time in my life I pursued becoming a game biologist - figuring that would further my efforts to live a life that got me outside. Even that was thwarted and I have spent my professional life as an educator, first as an elementary teacher and for the second half of it as an outreach person with the USFWS. However, in my heart I never stopped chasing the spirit of Jeremiah Johnson. I have trapped most of my adult life, starting that fall after watching the movie, and I am never more at peace than when I am in true wilderness areas, camping and hunting and trying to extract some measure of a mountain man's essence that keeps me moving forward through our modern world. Maybe his portrayal in this movie affected some of you in the same way.
"His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows whereabouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none. He was looking for a Hawken gun, .50 caliber or better. He settled for a .30, but damn, it was a genuine Hawken... you couldn't go no better. Bought him a good horse, and traps, and other truck that went with being a mountain man, and said good-bye to whatever life was down there below."
I don't know a lot about the man beyond his movies, as far as his actual life and politics. But Jeremiah Johnson was the most impactful movie I ever watched. I saw it when I was in the second grade, watching it with my grandpa (the most impactful man in my life). I resolved then and there at the age of 7 to become a mountain man. Alas, that didn't happen, but for the longest time in my life I pursued becoming a game biologist - figuring that would further my efforts to live a life that got me outside. Even that was thwarted and I have spent my professional life as an educator, first as an elementary teacher and for the second half of it as an outreach person with the USFWS. However, in my heart I never stopped chasing the spirit of Jeremiah Johnson. I have trapped most of my adult life, starting that fall after watching the movie, and I am never more at peace than when I am in true wilderness areas, camping and hunting and trying to extract some measure of a mountain man's essence that keeps me moving forward through our modern world. Maybe his portrayal in this movie affected some of you in the same way.
"His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows whereabouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none. He was looking for a Hawken gun, .50 caliber or better. He settled for a .30, but damn, it was a genuine Hawken... you couldn't go no better. Bought him a good horse, and traps, and other truck that went with being a mountain man, and said good-bye to whatever life was down there below."
