I came here cause goggle said that there was a thread here about the Alone Tv show? I'm a big fan of the testing of gear and abilities on the show, but so far, nobody's amounted to a hoot. I dont think that the producers will EVER let it last more than 3 months before they end it, cause it will get into their profit margins too much. So far, all anyone has done is starve. Everyone's lost 1/2-1 lb per day and some are lying thru their teeth about it, too. Everyone has won by being fat and lucky.
Everyone has greivous misconceptions about what will work. They waste their calories and time on a heavy duty shelter and then starve out before winter hits.
The only animals in evidence on Vancouver have been seals, bears, gulls, magpies and ducks. The fowl are going to migrate, and the bears will hibernate. IF they bother to get the same subsistance permit that's given to the Innuit and canadian Natives, they ARE allowed to take any animal for food, and they are allowed to do so in ways that would normally be illegal (ie, gillnetting)
Everyone seems to be hung up on the danl boone, paul bunyan, fishing with hook and line bs. It's never worked, not for 44 entrants so far. None of them have seized upon a carb source that's right in front of them. That source is kelp juice. it's not enough to really feed them, but fish and game dont offer any carbs and the lack of carbs leads to apathy, depression, just laying around. Kelp only offers 50 calories per lb, so you can't eat enough of it to do you any good. If you try, you'll just get a case of the ripping trots! But with a big wooden mortar and pestle, a coupld of hours of work will generate enough carbs to keep your brain active, so it's well worth doing.
This not knowing what to do causes them to take the wrong gear, which then means that they can't do what they need to do in order to properly feed themselves. They have no clue how many calories they need to maintain their bodyweight while being active out in the cold, wind, dampness. for 16 hours a day, while being highly stressed. Here's a clue. Top swimmers like Mike Phelps have to eat 12,000 calories per day while they are in training, and they AINT fat!
They also dont have a clue about how many calories are present in a fish or animal. Half of a fish or animal's live weight is not edible flesh. with the exception of salmon, fish and lean meat offer only 800 calories per lb, ready to eat. So a 1 lb fish (about the BIGGEST anyone has caught ) only offers 400 calories. Unless you catch several, it's not worth building a fire for eating them. One little gal went 85 days, just by knowing to do nothing but hole up in her sleeping bag. The "winners", 3 of them so far, have lasted 57, 66, 75 days. One guy managed to last 87 days, by losing 73 lbs! Had he been no bigger than the gal, she'd have beaten him by more than a month. All of his strenuous efforts just made him burn calories 3x as fast as she did.
Everyone has greivous misconceptions about what will work. They waste their calories and time on a heavy duty shelter and then starve out before winter hits.
The only animals in evidence on Vancouver have been seals, bears, gulls, magpies and ducks. The fowl are going to migrate, and the bears will hibernate. IF they bother to get the same subsistance permit that's given to the Innuit and canadian Natives, they ARE allowed to take any animal for food, and they are allowed to do so in ways that would normally be illegal (ie, gillnetting)Everyone seems to be hung up on the danl boone, paul bunyan, fishing with hook and line bs. It's never worked, not for 44 entrants so far. None of them have seized upon a carb source that's right in front of them. That source is kelp juice. it's not enough to really feed them, but fish and game dont offer any carbs and the lack of carbs leads to apathy, depression, just laying around. Kelp only offers 50 calories per lb, so you can't eat enough of it to do you any good. If you try, you'll just get a case of the ripping trots! But with a big wooden mortar and pestle, a coupld of hours of work will generate enough carbs to keep your brain active, so it's well worth doing.
This not knowing what to do causes them to take the wrong gear, which then means that they can't do what they need to do in order to properly feed themselves. They have no clue how many calories they need to maintain their bodyweight while being active out in the cold, wind, dampness. for 16 hours a day, while being highly stressed. Here's a clue. Top swimmers like Mike Phelps have to eat 12,000 calories per day while they are in training, and they AINT fat!
They also dont have a clue about how many calories are present in a fish or animal. Half of a fish or animal's live weight is not edible flesh. with the exception of salmon, fish and lean meat offer only 800 calories per lb, ready to eat. So a 1 lb fish (about the BIGGEST anyone has caught ) only offers 400 calories. Unless you catch several, it's not worth building a fire for eating them. One little gal went 85 days, just by knowing to do nothing but hole up in her sleeping bag. The "winners", 3 of them so far, have lasted 57, 66, 75 days. One guy managed to last 87 days, by losing 73 lbs! Had he been no bigger than the gal, she'd have beaten him by more than a month. All of his strenuous efforts just made him burn calories 3x as fast as she did.
