re: Alone season 3: Patagonia Season thread

Really enjoyed this season, it seemed like overall the contestants were extremely knowledgeable.

Feel terrible for Carleigh but she looked rough.

Wish we could have seen a little bit more hunting (or really any).

Hippie girl was probably the most impresssive contestant overall. Honestly she will probably land some type of job/tv gig from her appearance on the show.

shows how little you know, then. Every last one of them has lost at least 1/2 lb per day, and many of lost 2x that much. So a heavy duty shelter is a complete waste of time and calories. You'll starve out long before you need such a shelter. Far smarter to focus that effort on feeding yourself properly. That means stripping off at least half a lb of tree cambium per day as well as catching 10 lbs per day (average,now, every day) of fish and game. An animal or fish's live weight is twice as much as the edible flesh it offers you. Fish and game offer at most 800 calories per lb (ready to eat) A big man, active in the cold, wet and win, can easily need 5000 calories per day. In training, in cool water 5 hours per day, Mike Phelps had to eat 12,000 calories per day and he was RIPPED, not fat. fish and game offer no carbs and your brain needs carbs, hence the need to strip cambium, even tho it's a slight caloric loss to do so.

a large shelter it is a stupid waste of calories and time. They all starve out long before winter really hits. The only reason season 3 lasted a month longer is that they were on a lake instead of that horrific seacoast, and they started a month earlier in the season.

what they should do is cut up that 20x20 tarp (just given to them) into 4 10x10's. One should become a 3.5 ft high A-frame sleeping shelter. another should be half of the awning in front of the sleeping shelter. The other half of it should be formed by the "camera" 10x10 that they are given. Use one of the 10x10's to make containers, water filter, pontoon raft (via the duct tape). the last one should be used to shelter your firewood (and its drying rack.

fowler won only cause he had 100 lbs of blubber to lose. That's it. He wasted an entire month on that stupid shelter. He tells you he caught 60 odd fish. so what? what matters is how much edible flesh they offered. That could be 60 ozs, which isn;t even one day's food when you're active in cold, wet, windy conditions.

the shelters are stupid wastes of time. Nobody has caught more fish in a day than they need to EAT in a day. They save some, because they're not eating what they need to be eating, Every last contestant has averaged losing at LEAST half a lb per day. Season 3 contestants were allowed to start a month earlier in the year, which is why they lasted a month longer. there was more fish-activity, and there were more edible plants. Nobody (yet) has impressed me a lick, cause they didn't even know to take a paracord hammock, break it down to individual strands, weave netting out of it and make fish traps out of the netting. None has had sense enough to use all of their fishhooks to take gulls, ducks, loons, swans, or geese. None have even take 24 of their hooks as treble hooks and that can make a HUGE difference.

fish only provide 800 calories per lb of (ready to eat flesh. his 34 filets would have been at most 3 day's proper food. Dumbass couldn't even string his bow, he was so weak. Duh, dont you think you should check that little item, daily, if you're starving yourself? why not have a tree platform to shoot from?

you'd need to eat at least 6 lbs of fish per day, and if you're really active, it might be as much ast 8 lbs per day. So dave would have gone thru his little stockpile in a couple of days. None of them were peeling cambium. your brain needs carbs, and fish and gave offer ZERO carbs. If you dont get the carbs, you can't think properly.

millions of soldiers thru the years have shared a little pup tent, ya know? How long would it take you to toss a 10x10 over a ridgeline and stake it out? once you have the stakes (takes 10 minutes to cut and shape them) erecting the tarp shelter should not take more than 10 minutes,and if you have enough sense to have brought a paracord hammock or paracord gillnet, you can be up off of the cold, wet ground in 10 minutes or less, with the shelter around/over you.

you dont want a non-portable shelter for this show. you can easily need to move it, to avoid a problem, or take advantage of a temporary resource, etc. You want a raised bed, once it gets cold, so that you can put heated rocks under it. A small shelter is much easier to surround with brush, debris and dirt, in order to 'winterize" it, too. you dont need to do so for your awning, where you work and where the fire should be