BEUSCHEL: Being a mountain man vicariously  Sep 20, 2012  The
words “mountain men” conjured up a faint memory of a long-ago
western movie where the mountain man was covered with animal
skins, a beard and shaggy long hair.  The intro caught my
interest, so I began watching the program. Slowly it became
clear that the program followed the lives of three men who
literally were living off the land in three different locations:
Alaska, Montana and North Carolina. After 15 minutes into the
program, I was hooked and stayed with it for three hours.
Somewhere along the line, a few years back, I remember my son
showing me a survival TV show. It amounted to a scenario where
the survivalist was “dropped” into a location and had to survive
on his own. Meanwhile, the cameras would roll as he taught the
viewer what could be done to survive in a given situation.
Compared to what I was seeing on "Mountain Men," his adventures
were a walk in the park.  Two of the men had families that they
were also taking care of. Marty the