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  1. I'm at the far other extreme. "She struggled valiantly to survive but expired at hour three on day one when it became clear there would be no cookies with morning tea."
  2. That sounds like a great format, the part of the show I liked best was learning about all this wonderful stuff. The shelter testing could be fun too, I'm imagining a three little pigs scenario with huge fans and deluges from a firefighters hose. As an audience we fall for the bait of conflict and resolution, hook, line and sinker. Maybe it could be like a Miss Universe pageant with the swimsuit, the special talent and the ball gown segments?
  3. I guess it makes sense, considering they are paid for their time there. More time should mean more pay? I like the idea of a fixed end point and some other benchmarks to determine the winner. They could earn scores for best shelter, best hearth, biggest stash of food, least weight loss etc... If the contestants didn't know what they were going to be ranked on it would encourage them to make the most of the experience, not just take the lazy way out like the trapper did.
  4. Thanks for that link cooksdelight, that was really a pleasure to watch and reflects my values entirely. I've never trapped but I do know it is harder than it looks. The pro trapper on Alone didn't bother with trying to trap. It might have been his lazy strategy but my guess is he knew it would be near hopeless without the lures that trappers use which are very specific to each animal. They use animal hormones as bait, not food, at least around here.
  5. Even if that map has errors it confirms some things I've suspected. Their territories are way too small and too homogeneous. The women got the best sites on the south side of the lake, closest to the lodge, the guys on the north sides would have fewer greens to eat. To catch an animal in a small territory like that you'd have to be very lucky to stumble across a duck on a nest, the other ones would have vacated after the first few pees in the bushes that people did. I wondered about all the trout. I bet the lakes were stocked and the poor guys not on the main lake got a raw deal. Like I said before they need to bring them to northern Canada! They could eat perch, rock bass and like all year here.
  6. I'm late to the goose stuff but I adore geese and wanted to mention that the best way to humanely be rid of them is to hire someone with specially trained border collies. they patrol while the geese are on their way through, making sure that none stay long enough to nest there. It was the slug excrement that attracted me to this thread. I deal with ALOT of honest to goodness shit every single day. It is really just bile mixed with undigested food. So could someone starving find nutrition in animal scat, providing it was really really really well rinsed? I'm thinking like deer or bunny scat porridge, or that kind of thing. Is this nuts (aside from being gross).
  7. It makes me feel extraordinarily blessed to think I have never once had to worry about too few calories, micro-nutrients, salt, vitamins or anything like that really. Where I live there is an abundance of healthy food and I know how lucky I am. What I would have given my eye teeth for though was to have been a canoe guide in Northern Canada. That must rate up there with the worlds best jobs! I wonder what the upper age limit is for a job like that? How be some of the contestants lead some "Alone Together " canoe trips where people pay to learn some of their skills and get some of the inside scoop?
  8. Hi there! Just don't do what I did and assume that the threads stop at the first ad. Until just now I thought there were only four or so threads on this board! The good news is I have ALOT of reading to do. Oops and now I've discovered that I'm breaking all the protocol about idle chatter and so forth.....Sorry!
  9. The more I consider all this the more I'm struggling with the ethics of a show like this. The very real health risks of starvation, the long term implications for fertility, the disruption of the natural territory of wild animals, not to mention the hardships on those left behind. If my partner was out there I know I wouldn't sleep well or even be able to enjoy food at home. For those with children that's a long time to hold down the fort... I've never watched reality shows because of the "freak show" carnival aspect. This one seemed to have normal people facing something I have fantasies about, what I would do if I had to make it alone in the wild, so I made an exception. However, there must be a better way for me to learn about all those awesome skills those people have without having them put their health at risk.
  10. Yeah, restricting them to a small area is the problem. In a real life survival situation people would move camp when the resources at one spot grew thin. They should drop them off in northern Canada and monitor them with GPS and a bush plane. Has anyone said how big of a territory they each got?
  11. Thanks for that synopsis Joan Z, it's great! If you guys had to pick just one of them to help you survive a wilderness experience who would you go with? I can't decide between Fowler and Meghan. I liked that Fowler identified the risk of the steep hill before he rolled down it and that he made the best of the worst site. Meghan was so great at the foraging though, something I know very little about.
  12. I get that some of you feel Carleigh was robbed but BMI stuff aside, who walked away from that ordeal looking stronger? Fowler looked to me like he could have kept going, Carleigh looked like she needed to get to a hospital. If you had to declare a winner, you could base it on that fact alone. Could someone explain the significance of the kiwi? Is it a super food for starvation? Maybe a solution to the show becoming less of a starvation fest and more a thrive fest is to pull people the minute they lose any significant weight at all? That way only people who are successfully finding an adequate amount of food will win.
  13. Some random thoughts on the women in no particular order. (I thought it was sooo funny when adoption guy said "what you people don't realize is I had to go three hours without a meal.") Carleigh will be just fine. I bet she wouldn't have wanted to have done a solo interview and might have even asked the producers to give her a bye on that. I think I saw chickens at her place. She would make an amazing farmer with her many talents, the calm energy that animals need and no need for the superficial trappings of modern life. You dodged the money bullet Carleigh, hold your head up very high, you were absolutely amazing. Callie should find someone else to run her apothecary and go into television. She is a total natural in front of the camera and she would make a brilliant spokesperson for some environmental organization. Either that or CNN or the like should snatch her up and have her do funny short documentary style segments on nature the way they have that food guy and that doctor guy. (May I just add that I am proud that I called her song lyrics, about tikki hut a and bite on the butt some weeks ago). Meghan, what a gift that experience will be to your children and particularly to your daughter. How many mothers could meet a challenge like that head on and come through so well? In the awesome role model mother competition you win hands down. Now, I don't do twitter or any of those things but if I had a chance to ask them questions I would ask... 1. How did they manage hygiene? Was it diva cups and deep toilet pits? 2. What would they change about what they took, or didn't take? 3. How much real fear did they experience, if any, and over what?
  14. Maybe they should start to combine weight loss shows with survival shows? I'm still trying to process last night. I was a reality show virgin and I've woken up feeling sullied.
  15. Funny how the three left have the really boring, stable almost zen energy that stands them in such good stead. I wouldn't last a day. I'd be buzzing around like a bee, hopping from project to project, burning myself out, second guessing everything I did. Callie and Dave both talked the zen energy talk but in reality they were both pretty frenetic. Somewhere I was reading about the names for these different kinds of energies, can they really be changed or are we born with them do you think?
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