re: alone tv show, what 10 Items ?

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You'd have to cheat and bring char cloth, or you'd freeze the first night there.

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You think?

Nah, wouldn't be my first time making a fire in the rain.

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sure, dude. if you get to cheat, like I said

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Ah, so I must cheat because you say so?

It's 2 weeks and I've lived in that environment most of my life.

I have some ability in the woods. I think I would be ok.

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You go in mid to late October, and the rain can go on for days and nights

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This year October/November was amazing weather wise with lots of

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nice, warm sunny, still weather. 

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I've lived in the NW most of my life. I understand the local weather more than anyone here besides maybe Roger. I also understand the local food sources and where to get it.

this thread has the miraculous distinction of being both very informative and very odd

Every last one of them has "thought" they could do it, but every last one of them has just starved, despite having 10x the gear you claim you can do it with. :-) Btw, flint and steel is not on the list of allowed gear. If you knew as much as you claim, you'd take a tarp instead of the pot, and you'd take saw, with the back of it sharpened to a knife edge, instead of just a knife. You dont get to pick your sport. You are dumped off wherever the lottery says you get dumped and you have to stay in about a 5 square mile area. Without a tarp to serve as a rain catch and shelter, and a way to easily cut big wood, you can be in real trouble the first day, actually. You can always stone-boil in a hole in the ground, lined with the tarp, lining the tarp with gravel/sand to protect it from the hot stones. Millions of people live in the NW, so that's obviously no qualification at all. Having to scratch together a primitive shelter, with everything drenched, slimy, while you suffer in cold wind and rain (most likely), with just knife to try to cut poles that are strong enough to need all the crud you'll need atop of it to shed that rain, is going to take you days, dude.

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what food sources?

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I figured you knew.

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Juicing the kelp and netting the fish are the only ways to get the 3000 calories per day

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I guess you don't know.

might as well show a supermarket. You wont be finding any grain fields on the shores of Vancouver Island. Everyone "thinks" that they are Robin Hood, Danl Boone, Paul Bunyan, and Ernest Hemingway, until they're really out in it. Then they run home crying. People dont even know how many calories they need per day, or how many calories a lb of any given food offers (and that's IF you dont burn it, or let it spoil). Dummies like Ted Baird eat rotten fish, and are worthless for the remaining month of the challenge. Jim had to try to feed both of them.

Only 1/4 of a crab's live weight is edible flesh and that flesh, ready to eat, offers only 400 calories per lb, So you'd have to catch 30 lbs of crabs, ever day. :-) Not gonna happen.

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you wouldn't last 2 weeks on Vancouver Island with just flint and steel,knife and pot, in the late fall when they drop you off. Nobody could. They have weeks in a row of constant rain, and it's COLD, windy, etc. VI gets 140+ inches of rain each year, with more of it in the fall/winter, of course. So figure on 20" of rain per month while you're there. Your primitive shelter will have to hold up 500+ lbs of wet debris. :-) You'll be soaked thru for days while you try to build such a shelter, and hypothermia and/or pneumonia will soon down you.

Lots of vids about what they've faced.

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You dont want to be chopping in wet, cold, windy, steep, boulders, slimy conditions, folks. 2 people have cut themselves badly on this show and had to be evacced. Two more have hurt themselves badly by falling. If you know what you're doing, you dont need that much firewood and you dont need a cabin. You only need a doubled-tarp shelter on Vancouver, cause it rarely freezes. A cabin wont suffice in Mongolia, cause you wont have the stored food needed to give you energy to gather enough firewood to keep it heated. You need to be in a dugout shelter, with a foot thick layer of compacted dry grass around and above you, and 2 ft of it packed under you. Given warm clothing and a sleeping bag, you wont need a fire. you can take at least 5 gallons of water in the dugout with you, in the rainsuit. It wont freeze because of the insulation and your body heat. Your mouse-trap bucket becomes your waste bucket. Dry your wastes with dirt, of course. Emerge once a week, to melt ice/snow for drinking water, and to dispose of wastes. Before the first hard freeze, dig a 1 ft deep, 2x2 ft hole, line it with a tarp, so that you can stone boil in it, to melt the ice for drinking water.

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Seems you have all the internet knowledge available but are missing one thing, the simple fact that mankind survived for tens of thousands of years without any of the stuff you are going on about and simple stone tools.

In order to survive you absolutely must have one thing, a working brain, the rest are luxuries and labor saving devices.

i"m not missing anything, dude. Mankind had HELP, didn't get dropped off in the fall, in horrible environments. They developed where life was EASY, and within groups and billions of them perished as they learned what to do. there's just ONE of you, have you noticed that? So, when you screw up, you've lost it ALL, regardless of somebody winning and the species continuing. Early man had several times our level of strengh, endurance, immunological resistance.