Martins Old Off Grid Log Cabin #1 Video From the Cabin

This little cabin is hidden deep in the forests of northern Minnesota. Built in the 1920's and still being inhabited during the 1950 census has now become a special place for a lot of people. Jack L. brought his bride back here in the early 1950's for their honeymoon year. He then sold it to Everett B. and his fellow farmer-deerhunters. While out exploring on skis Martin happened upon it in 1986 and was able to purchase it with some friends. Many great memories have been journaled since then.

[@timmymendenhall1275]

Just watched this episode. Filmed so long ago. Great video as always Martin. Nov. 2023

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Where it all began as a thankyou to Carol for some goodies she had given me for the trip.

[@The-H-inADHD]

That has got to be the greatset place to get away when you can. I would love to have somthing like that one day in my life. It must be wonderfull to get away like that to such a beautiful place and I can see GOD in all that is there.

[@garychynne1377]

11yrs. there's worse things to be doing than feeding the birds. thank you peace

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

I never realized how early I was using that new thing called youtube. I did that first video to thank a lady for a Christmas gift of dark chocolate turtles. Our niece put it on youtube and here we are.

[@RenaeSchmaltz]

Martin, I always enjoy your videos. It is hard to believe it was 13 years ago this one was filmed. You do not look any older.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

You are right!

[@SaykhelRachmones-um1no]

The cabin, the star of your video channel, has come a long way these past 10 years. I'm looking forward to the construction of your "guest" cabin. I really enjoy your shows. Thanks.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Compared to our first night it is luxurious.

[@jaredscabinlife2868]

Can’t believe this video was 11 years ago Martin! Your still enjoying your slice of heaven

[@hot4u1962]

Thank you for the relaxing video. You are truly a friend of nature! God Bless! I look forward to seeing your other videos🦜

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Thank you very much!

[@jksatte]

Thanks for sharing Martin. It is so peaceful and relaxing there. Everyone should at least spend some time away from the city just to regroup a little. Janice

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

The birds are Gray Jays and by offering food at ever closer distances you build their trust. Just never walk away and leave your dinner unguarded. Gray Jays are the easiest to do this with. One time we left a trail of bread crumbs to the center of the cabin floor and they came right in.

[@wclinn]

Nice pictures of the cabin Martin

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Thanks, its a classic.

[@kailyanupnorth4924]

Wow.. i always wanted to live like that

[@hannupirhonen5611]

Siperianvideoita

[@SRHurst-kj5mx]

It truly is a little piece of heaven. Thank you for posting!

[@kenlyn1999]

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[@BB02XX]

S.R. Hurst ,,, just an update to say Martin’s cabin is under investigation, Martins cabin is “supposedly” in Minnesota but if you look closely in some of his videos you will see Elf’s and the occasional glimpse of Santa Claus coming and going. We believe that Martins cabin is farther north than Minnesota. In fact, rumor has it that in one of Martin’s Deleted videos there was a sleigh parked on the cabin roof. We may actually be looking at the “Real” Santa Claus here. Consider this; > Only Santa Claus hand feeds wild birds > Only Santa Claus enjoys -30 degree weather > Only Santa Claus can appear in geographically remote areas at the same time > Only Santa Claus can walk endlessly in the woods without fear of wild animal attack > Only Santa Claus has so many pots and pans to feed all the elf’s Our investigators down here in San Diego are looking this over as the possible location for the subterranean entry into Santas Workshop. (note the recent foundation modifications made by said Mr. Martin) Updates will be forthcoming T

[@melaniehefner1098]

ForwardSlash Love your gift of “Blarney”.

[@Bahia320]

My Dream! A snow cabin!

[@mathbrown9099]

You remind me, most respectfully, of Mr. Rogers, Capt. Kangaroo, and Mr. Green Jeans. And, every so often, you so some of that Midwest humor-which really cracks me up. Light bulb in the outhouse story comes to mind.

[@pandjnixon]

I think Heaven will have all sorts of awesome cabins, just like this one !

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Cabins beyond our comprehension!!

[@pandjnixon]

1 Cor 2:9 !

[@j2q558]

Hello Martin: I'm originally from KY near the Daniel Boone National Forest and your videos of the rustic area you live in made me feel homesick. I have to mention that I respect your regard for the land and animals. After a few episodes, I began to sense that this comes from your faith. Your wife and family are very lucky to have you in their lives. Warm regards, Janice Q.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Thank you Janice, my mothers family is from around Greensburg. We have spent time there and like the area.

[@hotwheels2511]

I GOING TO TRY TO WATCH ALL YOUR VIDEO'S A LITTLE AT A TIME MARTIN!!!

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

I see you are back at number one of the cabin videos.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

A tempting offer, my family left Kilkinney and Carlow about 1850. We spent a month touring the area but will return someday.

[@retiredyeti5555]

Have been watching various videos of your cabin/experiences over the past few months, but hadn't subscribed. Did that yesterday! Now I get to see ALL the videos! At 75, this is no longer something that I would be attempting, but nice to see another oldster living the dream of a getaway cabin in the woods! - - - - An Armchair Adventurer

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Glad to have you along Dale. When I am talking it is usually a one way conversation with you and others.

[@markholbrook3949]

I cant explain it but your cabin videos reminds me of how my Grandfather lived for many years here in New England.. Alot of old Yankee ways in those Minnesota woods!!!!! Very enjoyable watching your series Martin.. Makes me long for a winter camp in the White Mountains!! Better yet maybe some day I'll get out that way!!

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

You are right, the same woods ways are used throughout the forested areas.

[@richeyharris1408]

So Kool love the birds , love your set up I'm partial off grid in a cabin with my dog in northern Arkansas

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

So you know the joy of a cabin.

[@cockneysparrowa.k.ashewolf7663]

hi just want to say no matter how many times i watch this video i just am mesmerised by the way these birds are feeding from you,thankyou for making this video its very warming,i wish i had a little cabin like yours it looks so relaxing and peaceful.

[@CatherineSTodd]

Love your videos and cabins and birds. Binge watching right now! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[@sonnyjones2789]

Catherine S. Todd II

[@CatherineSTodd]

@@jackdotblue : Hahahahaha! Would love nothing better! But I'm in the highlands of Guatemala where it's 75 degrees year-round; & too old for the cold and snow now. If I saw your video 20 years ago, I'd definitely say YES! THANKS FOR MAKING MY DAY and HAVE A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR!

[@gary5209]

There is something very attractive about having a nice warm Little cabin off somewhere away from society. Even though a man may seem alone there, he is never really alone. He has nature and the animals to keep him company. Our way of life in America is too demanding at times. It is great to have a place to just leave it all and forget about all your problems. Dick Prenokee sure knew how to do it. See the video, "Alone in the wilderness." on KZbin .

[@NeillWylie]

Martins cabin is awesome!

[@fintanoclery2698]

My daughter loves the Gray Jays, we spend time in a cabin in Algonquin Park every year and the birds feeding from our hands are one of many highlights. Great channel.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Thanks, they sure add to my fun at the cabin.

[@ic1984ishere]

You have a beautiful cabin and beautiful property. You are living in a slice of heaven. Also love your laid back simple attitude towards life. If more people were like you the world would be a better place right now.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

It is a very special place and I enjoy how simple it can be to spend time out there.

[@crankyoleman321]

Binge watching all your videos, I don't know why it took me so long to find your channel!

[@JoeOutdoors]

Thank You for sharing! This video got you another subscriber!

[@donaldkilgorejr8864]

Great stuff your showing...loved every second of it

[@a2r7n6]

Living the dream. Thanks for sharing.

[@chrisbumgardner955]

nice video thanks i enjoyed it very much

[@kendrasmith6637]

Love watching you feed these birds. So cool !

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

They always brighten a day.

[@MrAnguscrowe]

Awsome looking cabin!

[@amycruickshank279]

this is so beautiful!! those jays are amazing :)

[@bruceaplin]

Love your videos Martin 💛

[@bonniejo5246]

I sure enjoyed this video. Very cool to see the gray jays flying right up to you like that. Going to watch your other videos.

[@dakdjonsey2398]

Martin, just found your video. Mn boy now in NM. Miss home terribly and while raised in Mpls often spent summer time in Aitkin with relatives there and in Crosby. Then deer hunted up by Cook. Your demeanor is that of what I've seen in videos of Dick Proenneke and 10 years ago, my plan was to build my own place. Age (now only 68), body and an accident handling my '78 Honda 750 during a move, made me realize I'm maybe past the point of "building a log cabin" but still think of living in northern Mn and giving it my best shot. Just subscribed and will look for your other vids. Thank you! Live long and be safe. Larry

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Thanks Larry, at least you can get a good taste of cabin life here.

[@DougPalumbo]

Beautiful! My kind of place! Just discovered your channel...great content!

[@lcook0825]

Love your videos. I just went back to the first one a d catching up to where i started watching.

[@ra777wow]

Thats a nice place to be.Nice cabin and hope to see you on another video sometime.

[@bassiclogic]

Thank you so much for the authentic videos!

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Thanks for enjoying them. The cabin is so great I do not need to hype anything, just film what is happening around me.

[@timmcguire1169]

Very nice! I'm envious. One day I would love to live like that full time.

[@SightNSoundBand]

Great video...thank you! :)

[@vmoregon]

Amazing!! Glad to see you enjoying life!

[@pipeheadOR]

Excellent set of videos. 8mile trek wow. Take care and enjoy that little piece of solitude.

[@airic554]

dude. the bird on the chair lol. looks like paradise. lucky man

[@madjimchlo]

My new addiction!

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

I will try to keep you supplied.

[@staceykelly5343]

Hi mr. Martin. Hope all is good with you and your family .god bless you from Aurora Minnesota.

[@mknezic74]

Thanks for sharing!

[@CTrane88]

Awesome. Glad I found this!

[@patrickcronin3660]

Thanks for the videos. I'm trying to find a little place like that myself.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Hope you find one, they are really special.

[@SnowinSummer37]

Beautiful!!!

[@icymellymel4483]

I love your disappearing location. It's a beautiful place.

[@darci12u]

Loved your videos, may have been post years ago,but to me they're brand new,thanks for sharing, I live in Louisiana, that snow and low temperature are so wonderful to see.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Thanks, even I enjoy looking at them after the years have gone by.

[@frizzlefrap]

so peaceful and beautiful .... even if it is cold as hell lookin

[@dianemurphy2840]

Just found you and I'm enjoying the videos so much. I'm also a believer. I'm retired and watch when I need a relaxing break. Thank you.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Thanks and happy to hear what the videos do for others.

[@Meecheable]

Just love this video - The perfect life!

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Just the way it is during my visits there.

[@crankyoleman321]

Thank you for this web site Martin, I really enjoy watching this, I'm jealous of your heavenly spot?! Suffered a stroke 2 years ago can't get to the woods like I use too so your channel takes me there thank you.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

I am sure happy to be able to get you out into the great outdoors. A couple stayed at the cabin for a week and she fed them everything from orange halves to oatmeal. When she left they were banging on my window for all that nice food.

[@therazz07]

Thats pretty awesome!

[@rogererickson8564]

I have fed "grey jays" many cheetos. We always called them Whiskey Jacks or camp robbers. The cabin I used to go to is in Western Ontario. Closest town Atikokan. I am 72 now and live in central Mexico out of financial necessity. I vicariously visit the cabin in Ontario by watching your vides.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

My goal is to keep you and many others happy with more cabin visits.

[@actanonverba91]

Camp robbers.. Seems familiar

[@ncacia8]

The Rockies were once so magnificent and beautiful....

[@gruntqueen]

You Tube recommended this episode today. I've been a subscriber but haven't gone back ten years to the first episode until now. You haven't really changed that much in a decade. Testament to your fitness I guess.

[@matevv1]

Martin, good job buddy !

[@Mikesorrento3344]

I can't imagine doing anything better than this!

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Yes, it is a great place to spend some enjoyable time. Thanks

[@PineMartyn]

Martin, I see we have something in common besides our names - a fondness for feeding whiskeyjacks. Very sweet. -Martin

[@HedgehogOutdoors]

Those birds are awesome! Beautiful cabin, I just subscribed.

[@flyifri]

Very nice video with the birds feeding from hand. Thank you for sharing. Oh and by the way, nice shirt..

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

My great-niece would not recognize me if I was not wearing plaid. The thick wool ones make enjoying that country a lot easier.

[@bjf2008]

looks like a good time brother,,,peaceful id say

[@dagmarkidwell5212]

Lov the birds

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Always extra nice having them around.

[@victoriaclark4792]

I love it!

[@GeezerDust]

Love it!

[@charlene5461]

I am a dinosaur in the world of technology. I purchased my 1st cell phone in 2009,😄 I watched my first youtube video 2 or 3 years ago, when I switched from a flip phone. Amazed at ALL the videos out there! Martins Cabin was my 1st subscription. Enjoy your cabin visit and tell Vonnie hello!

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Will do.

[@kegtimothy123]

thats awsome id love to have a place like that

[@hotwheels2511]

THANKS!!!

[@funkyflights]

Dude COOL CABIN!! I want a get away cabin as well....

[@interestingspagetti]

How cool!

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

It sure is interesting to sit there and have the birds come in.

[@jimsteele7108]

I love it...

[@donnavaughn5393]

Thanks you

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Welcome

[@joannak4640]

8 miles 😯!!! Holy cow ❤️

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Road conditions were such that I could not get any closer until a snowplow came through.

[@johngerson7335]

Thanks so much for posting these videos. I kinda got on a binge-watch after watching some vids on Dick Proenneke and noticing yours in the side-bar. I have a feeling that you and he would've gotten along very well. Thanks again for sharing.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

John, Dick was really something why his story still goes on. I am only fiddling around the woods compared to what he accomplished.

[@johngerson7335]

+TheNorthwoodsman1 I understand, and your humbleness is admirable, but the nature of your 'fiddling around in the woods' seems to be born of the same spirit as Dick's in my opinion. I started watching your vids with the series where you raised the cabin and put a rock foundation under it. I'm only 56 years old and I have to admit that I wouldn't have been equal to tackling that task by myself, nor do I know many fellows my age who would have been. Not whining, those are just the facts! Hats off to you sir, and thanks for your kind reply.

[@bobchauncey63]

I have read all of Dick Proenneke's books and seen his videos...really enjoy those as well as your's Martin.

[@MickScarborough]

how serene

[@Jimbocephus]

Your photos and your cabin are amazing, although the owl you photographed is actually a boreal owl! It is much rarer than the saw-whet owl, and you were lucky to see one!

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

You are right on the Boreal Owl. It took me a few years to realize my mistake. It came in to a Saw-Whet tape I was playing during a Christmas BIrd Count. We got that record put right.

[@joes.1168]

Nice.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Thanks, it is a very special place.

[@pexto8003]

Gray jays, old timers call them Gorbys, or camp birds. Thanks for sharing.

[@dr.figvideos3303]

Heaven.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Thanks, I sure agree with you.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Yeah, I am pretty enthralled by it too. It was probably built in the 1930's as an outbuilding for the original cabin that rottted away for lack of a metal roof. The jays are still friendly and the wolves abundant.

[@brianheuschkel3391]

Awesome

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

I never tire of it, always more to enjoy.

[@dbrewerbrewer]

nice!

[@1994abbygirl]

My dream house!!

[@jcanivan]

Great video. Love the way you feed the birds. Don't you get cold?

[@schnittteisen]

this looks amazing. do the logs need any oil coating or some sort of it?

[@greenfield1944]

I'm like you Martin, I love a cabin in the thick woods. I had one 3 miles in but after enjoying it for 20 years the loggers put a road in and ruined it.

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

Dale, that is a shame. In my area no new roads are allowed. They may make a winter road but with the wet terrain it soon reverts back.

[@Patphoto44]

I enjoyed watching this. It looks like a cozy place to spend a little time in winter. Maybe I didn't catch this correctly, but I thought you said you had to ski in from Durango, so for a minute I thought you were in CO. They have Camp Robbers there too! But no wolves so far as I know...

[@TheNorthwoodsman1]

I drive a Durango and skied in from that which was parked 8 miles away until they plowed the road allowing me to get 5 miles closer. It is a great place to be snowed in.

[@Patphoto44]

Ah! Thanks for the explanation. :-) I love winter and being snowed in -- but I'm not in quite as remote a location. I also enjoyed your grouse videos. This year, I've had a ruffed grouse tracking my every move from May 31 thru mid-October. Audubon figures it's a young male who was setting up his territory and I just happen to live in it -- much to his dismay. I've seen him less recently, but also haven't been outside as much. When I last saw him, he had a limp and didn't stick around long. Perhaps he has more important matters on his mind.

[@challis65]

Lovely. Who on earth gave that 'dislike'?

[@RyanHannaMusic]

fantastic! if you ever want to swap homes for a month that would be just fine! 10 miles from belfast, 70 miles from fermanagh, one of the most picturesque places in northern ireland!

[@beaucabane]

did you build the cabin yourself ? love your cabin, thanks for sharing.

[@Zensumi2]

I WANT A CABIN LIKE THAT...:-)

[@lonwlf68]

Great cabin Martin,and in such a beautiful spot! I am thinking of building one of my own someday (used to help build cabins for a living),and intend to live in it full time...society has worn me down! LOL!

[@snakemast66]

So lucky!