Originally Posted By Bee-man
...I'm sure that going solo is much more dangerous than doing something like this within a group, so am I being unrealistic? Is this a really bad idea?...


Q1: No
Q2: No

How green are you? Have you ever camped? Do you go hiking in the wilderness now? If you have done that stuff, then you are really not that far from reaching your goal already.

There really aren't that many "skills" to learn. You just need to get comfortable doing this kind of thing.