so you wannabe a survivalist

[sky otter]

well this would come under off topic , i think


Mountain man invades remote cabins, tasting occasional luxury
For more than five years, survivalist has been scaring Utah homeowners

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46427869/ns/us_news-life/

By BRIAN SKOLOFF, PAUL FOY

updated 2/17/2012 9:50:08 AM ET 2012-02-17T14:50:08
Print Font: +-SALT LAKE CITY — He's eluded authorities for more than five years, a mountain man who roams the wilderness of southern Utah, breaking into remote cabins in winter, living in luxury off hot food, alcohol and coffee before stealing provisions and vanishing into the woods.

Investigators have clawed for clues, scouring cabins for fingerprints that match no one and chasing reports of brief encounters only to come up short, always a step behind the mysterious recluse.

They've found abandoned camps, dozens of guns, high-end outdoor gear stolen from the homes and trash strewn around the forest floor.

But the man authorities say is armed and dangerous and responsible for more than two dozen burglaries has continued to outrun the law across a swath of mountains not far from Zion National Park. He's roamed across 1,000 square miles of rugged wilderness where snow can pile 10 feet deep in winter.

And while there have been no violent confrontations, detectives say he's a time bomb. Lately he has been leaving the cabins in disarray and riddled with bullets after defacing religious objects, and a recent note left behind in one cabin warned, "Get off my mountain."

"You wouldn't want to come across that guy," said Iron County Det. Jody Edwards, who has been working the case since 2007.

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The FBI recently discounted the theory that the man was their fugitive after authorities got the first pictures of him from a motion-triggered surveillance camera outside a cabin showing a sandy-haired man in camouflage on snowshoes, a rifle slung over his shoulder. The photos were captured sometime in December.

"We believe that is not Jason Derek Brown," FBI special agent Manuel Johnson told The Associated Press.

However, Edwards isn't so quick to rule out the possibility, given the close resemblance to Brown, who was raised Mormon and is a highly educated, well-traveled avid outdoorsman.

So while detectives believe they are getting close, buoyed by the recent photos, the shadowy survivalist remains an enigma. No missing person report appears to fit, and fingerprints lifted from cabins have yielded no match.

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"He's scaring the daylights out of cabin owners. Now everyone's packing guns," said Jud Hendrickson, a 62-year-old mortgage adviser from nearby St. George who keeps a trailer in the area.



AP
This undated photo provided by the Iron County Sheriff's Office shows a remote camp littered with supplies and trash in the southern Utah wildness near Zion National Park. Authorities believe the camp was left behind by a suspect in more than two dozen burglaries of mountain cabins over an area of roughly 1,000 square miles for the past five years. In November 2010, Bruce Stucki, another cabin owner, said a burglar broke into his cabin through a narrow window, pried open a gun case with a crowbar and laid out the weapons but took none. At a nearby cabin, the man reportedly took only the grips from gun handles.

"He could stand in the trees and pop you off and no one would know who killed you," Stucki said.

Some cabins he has left tidy and clean, while others he has practically destroyed, even defecating in one in a pan on the floor

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Stocked with guns
Edwards said two camps found a few years ago were stocked with 19 guns. One of the camps also had a copy of Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," a book about a young man who died after wandering into the Alaskan wilderness to live alone off the land.

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To cabin owners in southern Utah, he remains a spooky and menacing figure.

"We feel like we're being subject to terrorism by this guy," Hendrickson said. "My wife says flat-out she's not going back to our trailer until they catch him."

[Somamech]

O Shoot!   

"We feel like we're being subject to terrorism by this guy," Hendrickson said. "My wife says flat-out she's not going back to our trailer until they catch him."

I got a funny PDF saved tonight from a SPAWAR Tender Contract which talks of "Another War" 

The War is.... Bolded in RED ofc

CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY FULL TEXT
C-310 GIDEP PROGRAM (JAN 2004)
(a) The contractor shall participate in the Government-Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP) under the latest
revision of GIDEP Requirements Guide, NAVSEA S0300-BU-GYD-010. GIDEP is an invaluable tool in the
government's war against inefficiency, and is limited to participating activities. GIDEP will retain and provide data
and/or reports provided in compliance with this contract on a privileged basis. Compliance with the provisions of
this clause shall not relieve the contractor from complying with other provisions of the contract.
(b) The contractor may insert paragraph (a) of this clause in any subcontract hereunder exceeding $500,000. When
so inserted, the word "contractor" shall be changed to "subcontractor."
GIDEP materials, software and information are available without charge from:
GIDEP Operations Center
PO Box 8000
Corona, CA 91718-8000
Phone: (909) 273-4677 or DSN 933-4677
FAX: (909) 273-5200
Internet: http://www.gidep.org
(End of clause)

SOURCE:

https://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil/command/02/acq/navbusopor.nsf/0/206740894E2ABAC8862576A3007EFAE5/$FILE/N00039-10-R-0031.pdf