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they dont know how to even feed themselves in the summer and fall. They'll all starve out before winter. Only Sam has enough bodyfat to last 4 months and then only if he has sense enough to do very little but lay around in his sleeping bag. They once again have not taken the right gear, cause they dont know what they are doing. ALL the REAL survival experts say "fish first". That's where the real food gains can be had, with rare exceptions, like cattails or acorns (the right time of the year). or maybe a migration that forces animals into your lap, as sometimes happens with caribou and wildebeeste. you might have an infestation of ground squirrels, that are easily smoked out into nettting,or snares, then clubbed. But normally, netfishing is where it's at, for getting back more calories than you expend getting the food.

I could see she was skin and bone on the show,( her tapout) Aint you got eyes? She was pretty skinny when the show started. They have ALWAYS been given the 20x20 and the 10x 10. Whether or not they also took the 12x12, is up to them. That's one of their 10 picks. I'd take 8 BIG treble hooks, hanging about 4ft off of the ground, baited with salted fishheads, for big cats and canines, tied to 40 lb drag logs with braided (4 strands) of the snare wire. . I'd make another 4 smaller treblehooks, hang them a foot off of the ground, for possums, skunks, porcupine/hedeghog, c****, weasels tied to a 10 lb drag log. I'd also braid some wire set the snare loop 6 ft off of the ground, horizontally oriented, held there with 3 hunks of fishline, , baited with salted cambium, for deer, sheep, goats, the bait being 1 ft above the center of the loop. Around the neck snare, tied to the same drag log, I'd use forked stakes to hold 6" snare loops, also of braided wire, horizontally,some of them vertically, as foot snares, with some bait on the ground, for hogs. I'd take the tiny 1.5" mesh, 44 sq ft gillnet, IF it could be made of braided (4 strands) nylon cordage. then I could unravel and reweave it into 400 sq ft of 4" mesh. If it has to be single strand netting, then I'd rather have the 12x12. Taking the fishing kit is already costing me the skillet.

I could see she was skin and bone on the show, her tapout. aint you got eyes? she was pretty skinny when the show started.

there's no way that they can keep you from taking stuff out of which you can make 1000+ sq ft of 2" mesh netting. You can use that netting to make seines, to catch every fish in an inlet, or stretch of creek, , or to make a baited net-weir out in a lake or the ocean. It's nothing at all to average catching 5 lbs of fish per day with that much netting. Netting can also catch snakes, turtles, crabs, crawdads, birds, mammals. When you have some fat in which to fry it, tree cambium offers starches/carbs.. On Vancouver Island, there's kelp everywhere, so juice it. It only offers 50 calories per lb, so you can't eat enough of the plant-fiber to do you any good. It will give you the ripping trots. But juicing it, with a big wooden mortar and pestle will work. Netting protects your catch from predators (a bit, at least). the sapling framed box traps are readily portable, unlike deadfalls. You can use netting to keep fish alive while you prepare the drying/smoking racks needed to preserve them, if you've caught more than you can readily eat. That's what you need to be doing, for the times when you can't gather any food.

with the weather being warm, you can just wade in the water to use a seine-net. Wait until early afternoon, baiting an inlet with fish guts and heads, Then stretch a seine across the mouth of the inlet, trapping every fish therein. Use poles, driven vertically into the mud, to help you advance the net to the shoreline, and haul in your catch. Survival fish netting works a LOT better in warm climate than in cold areas.

they now make an 11-strand paracord, x250 ft of it, equal a fair amount of 4" mesh netting. :-) Naturally, the clews of your hammock will be made of such paracord, and the strap for wrapping around the trees will be a flat band, braided out of such paracord. Fish, snakes turtles, birds, crawdads, small mammals are easily and efficiently caught in sapling framed boxtraps made of netting, guys. Such traps are highly portable, and they protect your catch from predators (at least somewhat). So netting is not just for fishing. Netting can catch rabbits, marmots, even hogs as they flee their dens from smoking debris that you've stuffed down some of those dens. stretch netting across beaver lodge entrances, and then cut into the top of the lodge and spear any beavers so caught.

since they now allow 80m of paracord, instead of just 20m, and since it's springtime/Mongolia, I'd swap out the 12x12 tarp in favor of the paracord, if I could not get in with the paracord hammock and/or the braided nylon gillnet. Not that much rain that time of the year, easier to make netting out of hte paracord than cutting up tarps to get the cordage. If and when I made it to winter, I'd dig a smalle hole in the ground, cover the peaked roofing logs with woven grass mats,, thatch, or sod, the 10x10 tarp, and more grass mats, sod, etc. Rig a pole/debris grass mat door and call it good. By then, should have some brain-tanned large game hides, too.

put even 10% of that structure effort into making a pontoon outrigger raft, and you'll be way ahead. Put another 20% of it into weaving netting and you'll be the first contestant to lose no weight on the Alone show. In Mongolia, you're probably talkng small rivers and creeks. So a couple of seines will get you a lot of fish. Put one seine across the body of water at some natural stricture/sandbar. go upstreame 100m or so, and using poles stuck down in the mud, move the second seine down to the first one. youll catch almost every fish in that stretch of water. Repeat as needed. in different parts of the stream, in different streams. You'll need to average catching 20 lbs of fish per day. Only half of a fish or animal's live weight is edible flesh, and fish only offer 800 calories per lb (ready to eat). So you'll need to be eating 3-5 lbs per day, depending upon your weight, level of activity and how cold it is. The other 5-7 lbs per day, you need to be preserving.

building structures is a mistake. It's a huge waste of time and calories, or at least, it is in the late fall. Mongolia appears to be set in the late spring, cause all the grass is very green. In the late fall, you have to grab all the food possible, very swiftly, or you'll starve out before you need any sort of heavy duty structure. You can easily just pile debris upon a small tarp shelter, and give it a lot of insulative value. You can take enough of the right kind of clothing to never be cold on Vancouver Island shoreline., cause it rarely even freezes there. So why bother with a structure, hmm? The only one with a structure who's WON was Fowler and he won by having 50 lbs more fat that Carleigh had. Almost everything he did was a complete waste of time and calories. He should have made a pontoon raft and used it to find a beach that didn't have steep hills. Shouldn't have made the shelter, where he did, cause he had to lug big wood over 100m to it. I'd have just put up a tarp shelter where the wood was. Why do all that work?

when in training and they aint fat, either! They aint scared, sleeping in a tarp shelter, , subject to cold, wind, rain, etc. So all those who "think" that you only need 2000 calories per day on the Alone show, you're very wrong. You'd lose a lb of bodyweight a day if that's all you managed to eat. Sam lost 80 lbs in 55 days, cause he foraged almost nothing. Fowler lost 73 lbs in 87 days. A lb of fat is 3500 calories, but you lose a bit of muscle, too. So that's over 3/4 lb of bodyweight per day, in spite of catching 60 fish and he claims that they were almost 1 lb each. Food is a HUGE issue on this show and so far, nobody has done anything like enough to adequately feed themselves. Need a lot of netting.

dave had only enough fish for maybe 2 days of proper eating. a dozen little fillets is nothing. A good sized man can easily need 4000 calories per day out in the cold, damp and wind. Fish, ready to eat, offer just 800 calories per lbs. Only 1/4 of a live crab's weight is edible flesh and that flesh offers only 400 calories per POUND. So you need to catch 40 lbs of crabs per day. Anyone who "thinks' that you can average that much, every day, without a boat and at least 20 traps, and a LOT of bait, is nuts.

Carleigh already took herself out, by getting a hook in the back of her dominant hand.

I guess that i'm made of different material than most, cause I've been alone for many months at a time and it never bothered me a bit. When I can be making a clear $3000 per DAY, I'd eat UP being alone! :-) If you can be the first one to lose no weight on this show, you'll make another million $ in the next few years on endorsments of products, teaching classes, writing books and making vids. You can probably write a book about your preps and your performance, in addition to a 'how to". book Jose was starving, same as all the others. He was too embarrassed to admit it, since he runs a "survival school". So he staged his boat incident.

check this out. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chief+aj's+slingbow

The sleeves and pantlegs of the rainsuit are waterproof CONTAINERS, not just clothing. You can cut up a chunk of tarp and make a poncho and chaps in an hour or so, given a needle made out of a fishhook, (ie, multitool utility) and the duct tape. A leak here and there in such covering means nothing. You'll get wet inside of the rainsuit (sweating) anyway. But making a waterproof, long term container, in the field, is a beech to achieve. So when such containers are just given to you, make use of them. :-) You dont want to tie up an entire tarp by making a boat out of it, and you dont want to risk having it sink when you tear the tarp on some unseen snag, either. Likewise, you want a pontoon raft, not a boat, cause a rogue wave, can't swamp your raft, nor can it spring a leak if it's all logs. If you are using just a few logs and some dry debris-filled pontoons, you will not sink just because one pontoon takes on water. You set it up so as to prevent that. You provide PLENTY of extra flotation. With this set-up, it doesn't matter if your logs float really well or not, and you dont need lots of logs, nor do they need to be large diameter timber. A slingbow does the same job as a bow, but is a lot handier to keep always at hand, and to use from inside your tiny sleeping shelter, too. It can use baked clay balls (rocks don't fly straight, so dont waste your time) Once you remove the tines from the 4 fishing arrows, you'll have 4 blunt arrows. Made of wood, they'll float, so you can shoot them at swimming ducks, loons, swans, or at gulls on the shore. You dont want feathers on the arrows, cause they are worthless when wet. So get slip on rubber vanes as fletching, so you can swap the vanes onto a field made shaft if you break one of your originals.

they left carleigh and dave in till they were starving, so why not Nicole?

can't RISK the tarps being flimsy. Anyone watching her on Alone, when she tapped out, could see that Nicole was starved out. The tarps, some of them at least, have been blue, and that means the lightweight cheap ones. As cold and windy as it gets in Mongolia can't be risking a tarp being torn away in a storm. It never gets really cold on Vancouver's shores, so it was not as big a risk there. btw, thank you for your thoughtful reply.

I pick a heavy duty, 12x12 tarp, with triple-sewn tieoffs, not just grommets. Take the Cold Steel shovel, modified to have a saw edge. The Signal Multitool, for its sharpener, ferrorod and added file blade (so that I can sharpen the saw) Take the duct tape, the snare wire, a 2 person hammock, preferably made out of paracord, and certainly with paracord clews and rigging, a gillnet, preferably a braided nylon one, one of Chief Aj's slingbows. They get 9 arrows this year, so I'd take 5 of them with 4-tined fishing heads. a ration of salt, (preserve food and as bait) a ration of mixed pemmican and gorp (for use as bait) I'd put myself into ketosis before I went, so I'd not have to go thru the depression and bad judgement (of that process) while I was in need of top-performance. They are not on an ocean, so the salt is an issue. There's a lake or river in the background, so fish are going to be the main food source (again). Each tine of the fishing arrowheads can become 2 fishhooks in a very few minutes. The paracord can be peeled for fishline. The 20x20 tarp and a "solid" hammock can be cut/torn into 1/8" wide strips for making netting. Used as seines or baited net-weirs, the fact that fish can see it doesn't matter. You can stone boil in a chunk of tarp, or cook, directly on the coals, and make containers out of bark, wood, or even make pottery. They are apparently being dropped off much earlier in the year, so the cold wont be a factor for months yet. You can dig a seep well and make a water filter out of the tape and a chunk of tarp, so you dont need to boil drinking water. All this means that the cookpot is a wasted pick. you really need about 20 picks, with some steel traps, an autorifle, cable snares, cookpot, metal canteen added, along with a LOT of food. :-) Dont take what you can make on-site (or do-wtihout) springloaded "speedhooks" about triple your chance of scoring with a floatset. But they are not allowed for the alone show. So make your own, using springy forked sticks as "engines" to set the hook. Hooks can catch and drown birds, too, so think about how you'd do that. If there's a navigable body of water, you need to make a pontoon outrigger raft, so that you can easily search for useful flotsam and service your crawdad traps, fish trap, nets, etc. This will take a maximum of 2 days, using the gear that they give you. Waterproof spray one set of clothing. The pants of the rainsuit can be stuffed with debris, and taped, to make a pontoon. Ditto the backpack and the camera-case, a chunk of tarp, the life preserver, the bear spray, the airhorn. The sleeves of the rainsuit jacket can be tied and taped to carry and hold 2 gallons of water, folks. So you do not have to camp all that close to the water source. Bugs are often horrendous in such areas in warm weather. The firewood might well all be a long distance from water, so you want to carry the gallon of water that you need per day, not the 100 or more lbs of firewood that you might need per day. Keep your shelter portable, so that you can move it to where the squaw wood is, not cut and haul big wood to where your "permanent" shelter is. Make the raised bed portable, too. Dont build it on stakes you've driven into the ground. Given some cordage loops and stick-toggles set ups, stakes left the same, you can take down or put up the 10x10 in 5 minutes. Should be done each morn and evening, anyway, in case of storms. So you can convert it from being your work-awning during the day into being your very low sleeping shelter each night. To erect the 7 ft tall poles, cut 3 ft long stakes. Drive them a foot into the ground and then lash your poles to the stakes. When you've got plenty of tarp, and some netting, you can easily make a wooden debris bed under a small tarp shelter. Pile debris on the bed, and stuff a net bag with debris to pull over you. Put hot rocks under the bed. Pile debris and branches all over the sleeping shelter if it gets really cold. You'll be fine. You can also creat the "cannon" Siberian fire lay, which will project heat into your shelter for many hours. If you flatten the saw side of the shovel a bit, you can cut a kerf 2" deep. Cut such all the way around an 8" tree or log and you can break it with your bodyweight. There is no need to be cutting big wood for this show. They are all going to starve-out long before winter hits, from the look of the green grass. If they'd started them in late fall in Mongolia, they'd all be frozen solid within a month. Carleigh STILL hadnt figured out that you dont need a big saw to reach high limbs. All you have to do is lash a small saw to a long pole. But if you need to do fine work with one hand, how can you do that with a big saw, hmm? The 10x10 tarp is supposedly reserved for protecting the camera, so you can't cut it up or make it a 'permanent" part of any watercraft, shelter, etc. But you can rig loops and sticks to make it feasible to swiftly set up or take down that tarp. So you use it as your sleeping shelter at night, and put it up over 7 ft tall poles during the day, to serve as your work awning, with the Dakota firepits in it. Lean big flat rocks over the exit holes of the firepits, so that they are getting hot and radiating heat towards you. Dig long, low-angled entrance holes to the pits, so that you dont have to cut wood to length. Just feed the ends into the flames now and then. This means that you'll only need about 1/4 as much heating-wood and effort.

if you've had brains enough to bring the Signal multitool,, for its ferrorod and blade sharpener, modified to have a file blade instead of a bit driver, you can just bite off the eye of the hook, force it on thru in the direction it was headed, and pull it out. But why grab a fish like that? Never lift a fish out of the water if you need to eat it. Often times you'll lose it if you try, cause it's not well-hooked . So just drag it out onto the shore and then bash it with something. They most certainly ARE allowed to take a multitool. Fowler took one for Season 3 and anyone who took a knife and ferrorod instead of a Signal is quite ignorant. Ditto if they took an axe and saw instead of a Cold Steel shovel, modified to have a saw edge. They will have wasted 2 picks.

People lie a lot. Nicole was skin and bones. She left cause she was starving, same reason they all leave, unless they leaven in less than a week. :-) It looks like they got dropped in late spring or early summer, since the grass is so green. So that changes things if so, they'll all starve out long before the winter comes. It's not going to rain much there, and they are given a 20x20 tarp and 10x10 tarp, same as the previous seasons, so they dont feel the need of the 12x12. I'd take one, tho, (instead of the sleeping bag cause you can bet that the ones furnished are very flimsy. The traditional stuff (and tactics) have always failed, so they'd better try something else.