Re: ALONE?
[Re: Finster]
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06/20/20 10:13 AM
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NewHouse 114 would have made a good contestant. I'm unsure why he never made the cut as his up north survival skills and ability to innovate are excellent. But the mental part of it (that gets a lot of 'em) is where he would have really shined. I have the feeling they wanted to hear people whine about how lonely they felt...
I don't know if I would have bet the farm on him winning but I would have bet something!
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: ALONE?
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06/20/20 10:28 AM
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Because they want losers not winners. There Is no drama if you pick all winners.
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Re: ALONE?
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06/20/20 10:51 AM
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NewHouse 114 would have made a good contestant. I'm unsure why he never made the cut as his up north survival skills and ability to innovate are excellent. But the mental part of it (that gets a lot of 'em) is where he would have really shined. I have the feeling they wanted to hear people whine about how lonely they felt...
I don't know if I would have bet the farm on him winning but I would have bet something! How lonely they felt. I once read about military survival training, where they dropped guys off with a rabbit. When they came back to pick them up, they still had their rabbit. They explained that some need companions more than food to get through a stressful time.
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Re: ALONE?
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06/20/20 03:41 PM
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Joe Meek the mountain man and another man walked overland from Oregon through the rockies to Missouri in the winter of 1847 with a pet dog. The two men made it but fido didn't. As the trappers said: "Meat's meat".
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: ALONE?
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06/20/20 05:12 PM
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I once read about military survival training, where they dropped guys off with a rabbit. When they came back to pick them up, they still had their rabbit. They explained that some need companions more than food to get through a stressful time.
SERE school (survival, evasion, resistance & escape). When I went you were issued either a chicken or a rabbit for the survival phase, all other food was on the candidate beyond that. No survivors as I remember, I recall my bunny wabbit tasted pretty good on day three or four.
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Re: ALONE?
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06/30/20 08:47 PM
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I started binge watching alone last week. Pretty dang good show.
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Re: ALONE?
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07/10/20 12:32 PM
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Did you guys see the size of that lake trout? It was said that they can (or have) gotten to 101 lbs. And did the dude get the yak?
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Re: ALONE?
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07/10/20 12:37 PM
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Either a better area or better contestants this go around they seem to be getting the grub easier then before.
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Re: ALONE?
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07/10/20 01:14 PM
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Roland has his act together. Didn’t really like the arrogance he was portrayed as having in the beginning but he’s my pick at this point.
Surely he got that musk ox. Any time I’ve ever seen anyone hunting those, they don’t seem to be all that smart. I could be mistaken as I have never done it myself.
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Re: ALONE?
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07/10/20 01:26 PM
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I'm betting the soy boy form Commiefornia is gone next week. He doesn't even have a shelter yet and the snow is starting to fly. He had no extra weight on him when he went in and is going to be much to dependent on finding food daily at this point. Oddly, no one really has much stocked up that I have seen. I would at least try to get as much food stored as possible as soon as possible. A stockpile of wood will also go a long way and I don't really see anyone doing that yet either. The one dude built a chair. Plenty of time for that later. I would be finding food for the winter like some insane squirrel.
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Re: ALONE?
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07/10/20 02:25 PM
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Well then I would have 20 hooks set out. You aren't going to make It on just rabbits and tree rats. I think I heard them say that the hooks they can use have to be barbless as well. Explains why so many fish get lost right at the bank.
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Re: ALONE?
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07/10/20 03:18 PM
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Did anyone else get turned off by their constant talks of how much danger they're in?? i stopped years ago because of it. Maybe they edit that out now.
They're in less danger than your average camper at a local recreation area. Watching them fumble through skills can be fun, actually most it it can! but you can't go too long without a speech about viewers not knowing what it's like, to be "this alone" to be away from family "this long" to be in danger of beats and blah blah blah. They have constant care and emergency services at the ready.
it became a constant eyeroll for me.... It's tiresome to hear people try to convince you how in danger and alone they are when they aren't....
If the'd be honest about the level of safety and comfort i'd be all on board... but they're safer than almost anyone else has EVER been in the HISTORY of humanity in the woods with oversight on these shows.
Fun contest, contestants turned me off... too much signalling, not enough real.... SJW's of the woods, crying wolf
***Note this is a non-specific post, it's not every contestant, there are plenty that i watched and thought i'd get along with them great, but the way the show is shot, you can't get just those episodes, you have to get all the others that are either ignorant to their situation, or are lying all the time.
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Re: ALONE?
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07/10/20 05:31 PM
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Love this show. Keep sending in apps, not loopy enough I guess! A tracker would be cool to see how the different contestants move around and how it gets smaller as the time goes on.
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Re: ALONE?
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07/10/20 05:36 PM
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Is there a small file On a Leatherman? If so It's barb making time. Or 2 hooks wrapped together to form a barb. I don't understand their snaring techniques no one is hanging snares on leaning poles on those squirrel midens. (SP) Or cut a bunch of sticks and fasten the snare to them and then go around sticking them along side trails and holes. Instant snare set ups.
Wouldn't it be better to have some weight hanging off the bottom of those gill nets to keep It stretched out? What happens If more then one person makes It to the 100 day mark?
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