Roland Welker – Alone Cast

Year 7

Age: 47

Hometown: Crimson Devil, AK

Job: Hunting Guideline

Listed here you have 1 of these men and women each outdoor enthusiast secretly longs to be. Roland may well even go on to say, in the midst of a spellbinding tale of the Much North: “I have finished every little thing I ever required and almost nothing I don’t sense like.” His legions of expeditions and achievements bear out these kinds of bold converse.

Roland will come from a reckless boyhood in the challenging-scrabble mountains of Shiloh, Pennsylvania—a stronghold of Appalachia and hillbilly culture. He shunned athletics and all other types of large university restraint to grasp all the Keystone Point out experienced to supply, which includes hunting, fishing, trapping and bushcraft.

Upon selecting that relocating fulltime into the darkest recesses of Southwestern Bush Alaska was in purchase, the village of Pink Satan on the forgotten banking institutions of the Kuskokwim River turned his headquarters for journey. Listed here, he seamlessly fell into an existence of an all-year subsistence hunter/trapper, filling in any gaps of the off-year with likelihood of placer gold mining. Ultimately, he arrived at old-timer status in the winter of 2011 when he concluded an overland significant-products delivery to his statements through the 100-mile winter path between Pink Satan and Taylor Mountain—a prolonged-unused and maybe the lengthiest and most perilous of the trails the North has to offer.

Roland Welker and his lifestyle emulate and have develop into a living connection again into times of the outdated.

His purpose in signing up for On your own Year 7 is to conquer this problem, as nicely as introducing yet another feather in his hat total of plumes. He is hoping to dedicate the acquire to his recently departed mom, Mona Welker.

Here are the 10 objects Roland selected to provide on his survival journey to the Arctic:

1. Ferro rod

2. Gill internet

3. Pot

4. Trapping wire

5. Ax

6. Noticed

7. Multitool

8. Belt knife

9. Bow and arrows

10. Sleeping bag