That helps how?
When it freezes over they can do ice fishing and no longer be limited to the shoreline. Snow also makes it easier to track prey, and the animals that don't change fur color will be easier to spot against the white. Some will also be attracted to remaining open water holes. So the cold isn't all bad. Should be an interesting season. Wonder if any of the contestants brought a white sleeping bag?
I see no need to call them dummies or question their intelligence. They made it onto the show which means they already surpassed the wast majority of applicants, and a big part of that will be due to their abilities and experience. You simply can not cast any random guy and drop them off alone in the wilderness - let alone in the arctic. Sure they do mistakes, have accidents and go about their stuff in different ways. They all try to adapt strategies based on their particular skillset, but there is enough happenstance to kill off even the best of plans - which force them out of their comfort zone and expose their weaker areas. I might do better than some at a few tasks, but I also know that most of those people would easily outlast me overall - and that is what counts. The technical survival skills need to be at a certain level, but I think the real challenge and deciding factors in the show are more at a mental level. ge 13 sounds about 10 years late.. they apparently take anyone that's female, transgender or a minority, cause they get so few such applicants, I guess? anyway, if they are your "expert instructors" God help you if you ever actually need to do this sort of thing, because they can't.
I hope Dave doesn't fall from that stand. And next time I want to see Larry win against the wind as he did against the mice
Our expectations my have been set higher for this group since thay have been there and down that.Now, I find it interesting that with river having fish, most are able to catch what they need to minimize hunger. See a bird, oh! drop it with my bow and arrow. Doing the self video, we miss the actual action, so yes boring. Yet interesting as to who is having current success, and that what works for one, does not for another.I founds Dave's commit regarding, he who does not have a fire IN the shelter is missing out, like he knows of Larry's campsite (?), or Sam's. Brett and Randy both have inside fire pits.Cod weather, freezing nights and days plus snow will turn up the intensity for the last 5 for sure.they are missing out all right, on not waking up dead from CO poisoning, or with everything on fire, including their hair, or having lung cancer or emphysema in a few years. You ca heat big rocks on gravity fed Dakota fire pits, put them under your raised wooden bed and be plenty warm enough. In fact, you can be warm enough without the rocks or the sleeping bag, if you just pile up enough debris to lie upon and put more in a mesh bag and pull it over you like a blanket.PS: I love the fall colors and scenery shown by the high cameras or drones.
they apparently take anyone that's female, transgender or a minority, cause they get so few such applicants, I guess? anyway, if they are your "expert instructors" God help you if you ever actually need to do this sort of thing, because they can't.
. We have locals who live outside on a daily basis, and who are fully capable of living off the land all year round. That is based on traditional ways of life evolved over the thousands of years that humans has been living in these areas.
They wont be arrowing any lynxes, from what I've seen of the way they walk on the show. Like cattle, clunk clunk.
Our Bushmen don't have the skills for cold weather, but they are just one group of people in the world that would laugh at these "challenges"
I've seen guys paddling a mokoro on the Zambezi river
They need a hook and 2m of fishing line to fill a boat with fish......we go out in motor boats loaded with all the newest gear and blank......
I had to google those Those mokoros are not unlike our river boats up here. I guess that makes sense - river maneuvering probably have fairly similar challenges everywhere, so design evolution gets similar too.
Over here that is one of the ways to judge people you meet outdoors. If you're out and about and meet someone walking around with little gear, half normal clothes, and maybe a simple plastic carry bag or two then chances are the person is quite comfortable outdoors and knows the region well.
They're made from one mildly hollowed out tree trunk, upright is not their preferred orientation, they leak, and they are heavier than you could imagine!I got on one in the backwater in front of the lodge where I worked, went 3-4m and very nervously came back.......constant balancing act.
This might be of interest to some.....The guys cut a few reeds, the hook and line and tied to the thick end of the reed and they rest the reed on the water - your all-natural bio-degradable fishing rod is also a float/bite indicator.They tend to have 4 or 5 "rods" resting on the side of the boat right infront of each, and I have seen big fish take the whole rig before they can grab it.
Even the fishing kit. I'd take it, but I'd take 25 BIG hooks, and use the fire, a couple of hard stones, and the modified Crunch tool to convert them into 2 hooks each, with barbs. Then I'd use the Crunch and the snare wire to convert them into 16 treblehooks and set at least half of them for mammals and birds.
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So........the guy in the burnt area got more food that the rest put together
A couple of MTs ( what appear to be Leatherman ), I believe I've seen a Wave BO and Surge.
You wont, you lack metalurgical knowledge, what you describe will simply ruin your limited number of hooks.Try it at home. Those thin hooks will just burn away and you will be left with scaled, soft wire at best, not usable for anthing.
That said, I do appreciate learning about new concepts. I'll pickup that fire roll concept Downt mentioned, and I'll actually try it at some point. Before going off anywhere far though
There's a youtube channel I subscribe to....wish I could remember the guy's name.......that is probably the best collection of alternative fire making methods I've seen.That said, on most of these shows the people that counted in friction fire regretted it....
I would only want a multitool if I knew I'd have resources to make lures, and fish that would take them.
I forge on a weekly basis. I have, with myself and another person blowing on a BBQ fire (local hardwood) gotten a piece of a broken file up to critical temp, red hot basically, but you need a few degrees more to forge, never-mind forge welding. Sure you can quench it and get it hard, but then it needs to be tempered or it would break if you look at it wrong.
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