Hello and welcome RobtJoki. I read your thread and found it to be a very enjoyable read. In a way I envy your past. I would have loved to meet individuals like Yellow Pig, Fiddlin Red and Two Feathers.
I started shooting front stuffers long before the Jeremiah Johnson movie came out and often wish I was born a century earlier. I don't go to any of those rendezvous but enjoy spending a couple days in the woods imagining how it must have been like before all this "moderazation"