Interesting idea. It reminds me of a conversation I had with an experienced Alpine guide when I was walking in Switzerland. The conversation turned to hunting and he revealed that he had a hunting licence. I remarked that it must be difficult to get an adult ibex down to the plain after shooting it and he said it was not too bad because he had a home-made bothy hidden in the mountains and would bring the meat down from there over a period of weeks, temperatures in the bothy being below freezing and so preserving the meat. I joked that there must be a hidden population of bothy dwellers in the mountains: to my surprise, he nodded. He remarked that Switzerland still had its hermits but few people knew where they were. He firmly refused to give any more details. So, the AWOLs are there; but hidden; and it would be up to you to find or build your bothy. Sheds an interesting light on the history of the religious hermits.
