It's a self imposed challenge, he's decided he can come back to town for information, just not to buy actual food or supplies, and that qualifies as "living off the land" (To be fair, he is succeeding at living without spending money, which he doesn't have, only a library card)
And the sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, has his little sister Alice become even more of a mountain person than he is She moves out from the house to live in a tree nearby herself when she gets to be his age, and then she disappears
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The sequel is about adult Sam having to go hunt down Alice because she ran away a lot farther than he did, to the actual wilderness (the other side of the mountain)
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Yeah. The author was a woman, so she may have realized some of it and decided to reboot a little bit.
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