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Alone again.
Marc St Louis:
--- Quote from: HedgeHunter on July 24, 2020, 06:54:41 am ---Watched last nite. Pappy got me into it.
Barring injury theres no question who will win. Fuel, field skills and being ati year Yuker (winter over in AK).
Show is like i imagined: highly produced, big budget, with ships, UAVs, RFDI track tags ( Sat based). So its basically entertainment like survivor without deceit, lies, distortion and the failings of the human condition.
Dugouts were and are great shelters. We used em, 1800’s line riders lived all winter in them. Still early up there. No ice on lake, dont need snowshoes yet. Prolly early october. Saw A minus 30 down bag, in 17 degree weather youd sweat out in that.
You can see most these folks except one can not separate the fact they volunteered for survival . Cant keep the will to live in their frontal lobe . Dwelling on what left, what they did to themselves. Some over come this some curl up and die.
Read the book about the The Ship Endurance trapped in Antarctic ice in 1914-17. How the men made it after such a time. Prolly the greatest feats or survival in human history.
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When you have that comfy blanket of a sat phone to call for help then it's for sure you are not going to go all in, the lure of a big payday is only going to take you so far
GlisGlis:
--- Quote ---Watched last nite. Pappy got me into it.
Barring injury theres no question who will win. Fuel, field skills and being ati year Yuker (winter over in AK).
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Rien ne va plus. Too late to place your bet (lol) (lol) (lol) (lol) (lol)
HH~:
Carried a Sat ph in Afg my second to last deployment. Dont help much when yer blowed up or batteries go dead.
I learned long ago hunting men in the jungle. Never trust anything that takes a battery or goes to sleep. Trip wired claymores and trip flares do neither.
Also, a very good plan usually never survives first enemy contact. Which here is Shelter, water, food, fire.
There is no second place in Survival! You just do or dont.
H
bjrogg:
What Marc said. Nothing like life or death situation to really motivate you.
I think Roland is doing really well. He’s done a lot of things to help himself get that way and also had a bit of luck. If he doesn’t have bad luck he might just make it. The way he’s going now you might not get him to leave.
It can all change in a blink of an eye. Someone else can get lucky to. Wouldn’t count anyone out yet. Some are going to need a lot of luck though.
Bjrogg
GlisGlis:
the box food cache looks pretty sturdy (enough for a wolverine )
Bears are going to hibernate.
if he can defend the food for a few days he should be ok
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