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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Leslie McClurg in today for Mina Kim.

Coming up on forum in his 20s, Patrick Hutchison had a good job, a steady paycheck, and

absolutely no idea what he was doing with his life. He felt trapped by a desk job, writing

marketing emails, until he saw a Craigslist ad for a tiny cabin in the woods, which was actually

more like a collapsing shack. Next thing he knew, he handed over $7,500 and found himself knee-deep in sawdust and a whole lot of YouTube tutorials.

His book Cabin chronicles the ups and downs of trying to live off the grid.

That's next up to this news.

This is Forum. I'm Leslie McClurg. I'm in today for Mina Kim. I grew up in Seattle and in high school and in college. I spent a lot of time driving up to this tiny mountain town called Index. It's this little place. It's tucked up in the woods.

It's surrounded by these stunning snowcap peaks. And there's this beautiful river running through it.

There's these sheer granite walls that rise above the banks. And at the time, I was a really avid rock climber. And so I went there for the rock. But Patrick Hutchison, he went there basically to disappear. He

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