If you get Discovery channel check this show out, the first episode was last week. It is on Tuesday nights and looks like it may be very interesting. Perhaps, just perhaps it might be on of the better of the survival "reality" shows. It is designed and ran by a bushpilot/survival expert and they are watched, but not tampered with unless it is to save them.
There are 4 groups and they are pretty interesting, to say the least. Each group was dropped off last week, given a map and compass and had to travel to a predetermined camp where they will spend 3 months. Each camp has a small amount of food, a wood stove, cook gear, fishing gear, and a rifle by the sounds of it. The group will have to make their furniture/acouterments it sounds like. They WILL have to hunt and fish to subside, the food given is only emergency short term stuff. Each camp looks to be a one room afair at best.
1. Is a married couple, the wife is an adventure racer, they had the longest trek to their abandoned trappers cabin. It took them all day and until the next day to traverse the 10 mile overland hike to the abandoned trapper cabin. This couple has possiblities, in part because of her racing/outdoors experience.
2. Second married couple, they had to kayak through a glacier bay 6 miles to their wall tent camp. It took them until the next day also. This group might do well, he KNOWS that he has a LOT of work to do gathering food, and learning, and has a healthy respect for wildlife.
3. A father and his 2 daughters. They had a 4 mile hike to a cabin. This group is going to implode quickly. The girls are eating the food like it is endless, the father is helpless for fishing so far, he cut his line with a big salmon on the hook, thinking it got caught on a drag. They are going stir crazy and screaming at each other already, the one daughter was going nuts over how the direction the toes of her fathers boots were pointed when stored under a card table.
4. 3 techies from California I think it was. 2 men one woman. They had a 4 mile hike, straight and easy and it took them almost two complete days to make the trip, then they cut across a march area instead of skirting it for safety justbecause they could see the cabin. The first thing upon entering the cabin was, where is the bathroom.
The previews showed one group hunting with a rifle, so it will be interesting I think.
There are 4 groups and they are pretty interesting, to say the least. Each group was dropped off last week, given a map and compass and had to travel to a predetermined camp where they will spend 3 months. Each camp has a small amount of food, a wood stove, cook gear, fishing gear, and a rifle by the sounds of it. The group will have to make their furniture/acouterments it sounds like. They WILL have to hunt and fish to subside, the food given is only emergency short term stuff. Each camp looks to be a one room afair at best.
1. Is a married couple, the wife is an adventure racer, they had the longest trek to their abandoned trappers cabin. It took them all day and until the next day to traverse the 10 mile overland hike to the abandoned trapper cabin. This couple has possiblities, in part because of her racing/outdoors experience.
2. Second married couple, they had to kayak through a glacier bay 6 miles to their wall tent camp. It took them until the next day also. This group might do well, he KNOWS that he has a LOT of work to do gathering food, and learning, and has a healthy respect for wildlife.
3. A father and his 2 daughters. They had a 4 mile hike to a cabin. This group is going to implode quickly. The girls are eating the food like it is endless, the father is helpless for fishing so far, he cut his line with a big salmon on the hook, thinking it got caught on a drag. They are going stir crazy and screaming at each other already, the one daughter was going nuts over how the direction the toes of her fathers boots were pointed when stored under a card table.
4. 3 techies from California I think it was. 2 men one woman. They had a 4 mile hike, straight and easy and it took them almost two complete days to make the trip, then they cut across a march area instead of skirting it for safety justbecause they could see the cabin. The first thing upon entering the cabin was, where is the bathroom.
The previews showed one group hunting with a rifle, so it will be interesting I think.
I think #2 is going to do well. Can these be watched online?
. "MMMMM Peanut Butter"...:shakehead
