The bear spray and airorn will almost float a man. Again – not going to lie – I didn’t expect much from Alone. Hint hint. I’ve done my best to add those where I’ve found them. if you start a cut at one edge of a liightwidht tarp, you fan tear a 1/8″ widd strip off of the 12 x12 tarp that ab ========= ppppppppppp]]]]]]]]], he doesn’t have to do that, just arrow the bear and stand ready to split his skull with the Cold steel shovel. No fancy free e-book or shiny product bribe incentive offered here! You children are hilarious. “Black bears are not predators of MAN. hay I’m 65 and could tell you why I think I could do it, and where I might not; but age is not what would stop me from signing up. 2. You obviously dont know much about quality steel or edge retention by your comment. bs, you’ve got no time to make more than a simple tarp shelter, for at least the first 3 weeks, you have to get busy trapping gulls, ducks, making netting, making treblehook snares, all sorts of work, cause the fish are going to move to deep water, the animals and birds are going to migrate or hibernate and you’re going to starve, just like all the other dummies who wasted a week or more on a “heavy duty” shelter. LOL Man-up. Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2017. Does anyone know if they are going to use different locations for other seasons yet. I’d make a bladed, serrated wooden point on the wooden spear, and fire harden it. Black bears = not predators … cougars are?? Take a modified Crunch multitool, take the fishing kit as 25 BIG fishhooks, and use the fire, 2 big rocks and the multitools, wire cutters,visegrip and file to create 50 smaller hooks, then use the tool and a bit of the snare wire to make 16 treblehooks, and use springy forked sticks as engines to set the hooks. A 10×10 chunk of the 20×20 and the 10×10 “camera” tarp are all you need in the way of a shelter, for at least the first month, probably 2 months. Now that the dust has settled with the Alone series, I’d really like to see the History Channel perform a service to all of us who have watched. When I possibly get the call to appear. Did anyone else see the hole he RIPPED! The thing to do with the tarp is make netting out of it. However, at the end of 3 weeks, if you’re not catching at least 10 lbs of fish per day on average, you might as well go home, unless you outweigh everyone else by at least 20 lbs. It really depends on how good you are with your axe doesn’t it? COOKING OIL SPOILER!!! don’t show is that there are two holes in the guard on each side I’m self sufficient enough just don’t really like snakes. http://www.history.com/shows/alone/articles/full-gear-list-and-prohibited-items. Wildlife safety crew out of camera shot, perhaps? *(The 10’s images were taken from History Channel’s Bio page for the Alone TV show). Did you notice how they turned defensive for the most part? Five pounds of emergency food. I have watched Season 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8. lmao they sites were within 2 miles at most of camping sites and even resorts and hotels! Filled the handle with paracord. Wow, color me embarrassed, I thought they were using just normal “I camp in the state park” types. I would love to get answers to all the rule questions like, like how far you can travel or what happens when you can walk to a fishing village 2 miles away……which is what three of the remaining contestants can do…. I’m not young anymore. In the rain, all these sugar coated experts could do was hunker down. bows have taken every animal that walks, Longbows used by Art Young and Howard Hill, modern recurves by Fred bear. You can find this video here. 5. For Season 3’s survival gear lists, click here. Well, so much for my chances. They allow you to take numerous items that make it very obvious that its not about Bear Grylls figuring out how to make a worm and pine needle soup with a rusty beer can and urine.. You’re funny. Now I’m not going to lie, we weren’t the first ones to find out about History Channel’s new TV show Alone. With the right mindset and Ingenuity this challenge is only as hard as you make it on yourself. I previously purchased Season Five from Amazon Prime Videos: Britt and Dave, who are featured there, returned from Season Three and I wanted to see more of what they were capable of and how they faced challenges in two different environments. it’s the axe that wastes time and energy on big wood. On May 1, 2009, the casting website for series opened, allowing prospective contestants to create user profiles and upload videos of themselves to be voted on by viewers; the applicant collecting the most votes being invited to become a contestant of the second season… If they hadn’t done weather research they should have stayed home and sold shoes. you obviously dont know anything about axes or saws. S’a fact: surviving in some places is just a lot harder than others. E-Mail Address. No fancy free e-book or shiny product bribe incentive offered here! I wouldn’t even take the sleeping bag. If you haven’t given it a shot yet, this is your cue to go look up some clips on YouTube to at the very least see if it’s your thing – chances are if you’re here regularly, it is. I thought it’d be the same tired old “get regular people on the TV show with no outdoor experience, throw them in the wilderness and watch them starve to death” routine. Boiling the crab and crustaceans in salt water could work but the broth would have a very salty. So, think cat traps. ***SPOILER ALERT // Please do not continue reading if you don’t want to know who won!***. Good use of utilizing his resources! If you’re not in it to win it, you dont belong on this show. Damn I collect that stuff and never knew it was edible (after multiple blanches) in a pinch. Any one who can eat a banana slug, and look for more is a winner in my book. Its the Bob Dylan “Bringing it all Back Home” Model……………. I wanted him to stay at least until his fire burned out. A bear’s fat and meat would give you the win., even if you’re 70 lbs lighter than the biggest man, IF you know how to preserve that meat and fat. this show is never going to be allowed to go 4 months, and probably not more than 3 months, because it would cut into the producer’s profit margins. As winter draws nearer, and fish stop biting, the participants turn to land game to survive the season. Take a modified Crunch multitool, one of chief Aj’s slingbows, with most of your arrows featuring flu flu fletching and 4-tined fishing arrowheads, cause you can convert each tine into 2 fishhooks. a That being said I guarantee producers told them they weren’t allowed to kill the bears. The last thing you need is to smell like something a bruin or cat wants to eat. I would like to think I still have a chance. It beats cartoons and teenage drama shows hands down and even teaches some actual life skills. An ENORMOUS thank you goes out to @BIZONTE who helped me track down so damn many of these articles + YouTube videos. Cannot thank you enough! Do you have your own website or facebook page? If you’re scared of bears, why not make a ladder, takes 2 hours, and spend the first night 15 ft up in a tree, in the hammock? :p, 63, I’ll go with you for the same reason, Curious…why are we punching holes in the show? YOu have a flare and batteries with which to start the first fire. I considered applying when this started. David C. Andersen/The Truth About Knives says, Just want to chip in with info. I’d arrow one without a thought. It’s the starvation that leads to the apathy, depression, weakness and bad decistions. ), was announced as the season 25 Bachelor in June 2020. If i get accepted, I don’t want to get dropped in the Amazon. **Extra tarp? A $15 Old Hickory will serve just fine, as Green River blades did for a century and stone knives did for millennia. History did not provide the items to them, only the list to pick from. And why do so many Americans fear wolves? For folks not familiar with those waters, the salmon do not run year round but the crab are pretty much abundant all the time. The hunter Jim Shockey told me he saw one of the Alone folk on the shore about 200 yds to the right of his boat as he was scouting for black bear. They want nothing to do with somebody whom they KNOW will make it last 4-5 months and make everybody else look like the campfire girls that they ARE. Applications were available online (as in previous seasons) and filming occurred in the fall of 2005. Truth be told, there seem to be so many survivalist TV shows these days that we’re finding it a bit hard to keep up. Oilcloth-and-wool sleeping bag, metal bear canister (12″x9″) multi-tool (with built in sharpener and ferro rod) paracord hammock and paracord gillnet (unravel and make into many x as much netting) 5 lbs of chocolate, the fishline and 25 TREBLEhooks, the 12×12 (clear plastic) optional tarp (if they wont give me the 20×20, as indicated in the current gear list.) My favourite, the what I think is a Julia Child impression while de-sliming a snail: “First we sauté the slug in a brown gravy. the sharpening stone was a stupid waste. If I were anywhere close to their age group I would not bother with an axe, myself. “TRAINED SURVIVAL EXPERTS” my @$$! God I would love to laugh my ass off at you all failing miserably. If him going 200 yards off shore would have gotten him something that would have made his time more bearable then thats what he should have done. they have to lug around 30 lbs of video gear and film EVERYTHING that they do, or they are kicked off of the show. Exactly right on ! and the terrain is so horrific that only by making a pontoon outrigger raft can they feasibly move all their stuff. Shelter, fire, water source, food – surround the site with kinetic energy traps, use everything available, keep building out to a minimum of 3 layers of obstacles, reinforce the shelter, build a shelter for fuel, think of it as if you were there for good with no means of nor need for communication with the outside. For example, the above question about Lucas and his possibly “washed ashore” 12″ non – stick that appeared last week. they tend to go home first. It would be my family, They would not like the idea especially my wife. Chris went over the items he brought along with him in this article here. 5 lbs of beans will last. at least he harvests fire wood in the rain Don’t let this bother you because we will simply add more wine!”. At 71 and in good shape would be a good draw. He carried this practically al the time. Mitch (or any of the others) eating in the shelter – bad move in the long run. A boys axe, or full size Ax, and a multi Tool can go along way. This is entertainment, nothing more nothing less. Loops (as opposed to grommets) increase the usable area of a tarp, and would permit it to be pitched without cordage if necessary (by using stakes and forked sticks). I KNOW I could do better. Black bear dropping often have berries in them while grizzly droppings have little bells in them and smell like bearspray.. ; ). For rules & to see a full list of the items that could’ve been chosen for Alone, keep reading. PLJ…….. Especially with a boys axe like the Granfors Bruk forest axe most contestant take is perfect, you can slice meat, skin deer, wolverines, musk ox, moose etc. Depending on the terrain; I would skip the Axe and get additional emergency rations. ***And for those of you who are interested – we actually got the chance to do an interview with Sam Larson & Alan Kay – the two final contestants of season 1 of Alone. Every item they choose should be made with this thought in mind….”how many different ways can i use this”, a tarp can be your cover for your shelter and your sail and your boat and your anything else you can possibly conjure up. 1. Here’s how you get in touch for Alone: “Email aloneshowcasting@gmail.com with your name, age, contact information, location, and a brief description about your survival expertise.”. 10. Pemmican is the best bet, but I’d take no food at all. **It states only 6 took tarps but seems to me all had them and some had Two!. Season 2. If it goes bad you just leave like everyone but the winners did. Also gotta juice the kelp, cause you gotta have a carb source. What Shockey probably saw was the one day a week when the teams perform medical checkups, swap video and batteries with each contestant. I guess I will just stick to watching and passing judgement on the experts. Look forward to more posts from there! I hear ya. Ten survival "experts" attempt to survive alone. they have a 5 mile square in which they are stuck. A noose of it on the end of a pole could be used for catching grouse. However, you CAN still take 25 BIG fishhooks, use fire, 2 hard stones and the Crunch tool to convert each big hook into 2 smaller hooks, with barbs. The fifth season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing on the ABC network in the United States and on A in Canada in January 2009, and concluded with a two-hour season finale on May 13, 2009. yep, anyone who’s waf, with 5 lbs of pemmican, can last 2 weeks with one arm behind them and both eyes shut, on a place as wet as Vancouver Island. I wonder if that was provided for. I became interested in ALONE through the YouTube videos of Joe Robinet and Zack Fowler (the winner on Season Three.) Parachord Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2016. You are so close my friend.Shelter,like your new home,water ,fire and food source.I’m 67 years on this earth I’ve spent most of it in the wilderness.What I have learned is necessity is the mother of invention along with being able to cope with your surrondings.Bear cougars,food source.God did not put me here to be a vegetarian.This is the time to go caveman.not be de-balled 21 century yuppie male. OR! Rick bruh, if you really need someone else to help you figure out how to “sign up” (yeah, like you’re signing up to bring mac n cheese to the company pot luck) then I’m pretty sure you dont have the mental skills required for this show. 2000+ sq ft of 1.5″ mesh can be made that way. Beside him. Building dead falls or pits is a serious waste of energy. they now tell you what kind of arrowheads you can use. Which is significantly safer and less prone to having a bear wake you up. 60# bow would send an arrow in and out of a brown bear. I’m enjoying both the show and thinking about what I would take: 1. It can’t overturn like a boat, can’t get swamped, can be made in a day. Season 7 of Alone airs Thursdays on the History Channel; one season is also available on Netflix. You can fire-roll a chunk of your bandanna, using rust from the outside of your E-tool as an accellerant. Salt is a great addition, makes perfect sense as your next meal will not be guaranteed so having a way to preserve food and ration subsequently is smart.