This is basically wilderness backpacking. It is sublime to hang out with likeminded folks, just focused on staying warm by a campfire, talking about your days.
Yep. I live in the Yukon (when I'm not driving around Africa) and have spent much of my life outside cell signals.
It's when I do go into a town that it slaps me in the face, and I think it would be cool to have a "refuge" in the town.
Of course the place would have no TVs either, and likely only very quiet chill music. Everything about it would be to encourage conversation with the people actually in the same room.
Seattle. I was living in Bishop, California for a while though. I've wondered if there's a market for taking engineering types on these trips, if I emphasize them as tech-free escapes. You can always go through Meetup or sign up for the trips run by REI, Sierra Club etc.
