&gt; <i>Hunting for sustenance isn&#x27;t a solo activity.... You probably need a group of at least five people</i><p>That&#x27;s not even close to the truth. I can tell you&#x27;ve never hunted your own large game.<p>Quite a few of my friends go and get a bull moose solo every year... paddle down a river for a week, shoot it, skin, quarter, load into canoe and keep paddling.<p>One of them is 65, still doing it :)<p>I always just go with one friend, moose and bison each time.<p>&gt; <i>eat all of the meat before it spoils</i><p>You think 5 people will eat &gt;800lbs of meat before it spoils? Not even close.<p>Sure, McCandless didn&#x27;t do a good job smoking it, but he sure as hell tried, and he learned a lot that would have worked better next time. I guarantee you won&#x27;t meet a single person living in Yukon&#x2F;Alaska that didn&#x27;t f-up some aspect of large game hunting when they started out (me included).<p>McCandless did what all people moving North do - he threw himself in and tried to learn as fast as possible. The main difference is he didn&#x27;t give himself any margin for error, because that would have made it less interesting&#x2F;exciting.