Yes, I can't help but be fascinated by the show. Typical with such things, they tend to pick a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing. Despite their inexperience, and the more knowledgable ones quitting they are doing surprisingly well.

They've made some feeble attempts (handlines) at fishing but those have largely been ineffective. With all the streams around, I'm wishing they would make fishing spears and construct some stone weirs in the streams to guide the fish to a spot to spear them and to create eddys where some fish will rest to get out of the strong current. I think they'd get more fish and expend fewer calories in getting them if they did something like that. Once the weir was constructed, they might be able to spear a significant amount of protein and fat rich salmon.

As it is now, they have a calorie deficit in what is expended to acquire the food they do have.

I can't help but admire the determination and teamwork in the remaining six people. The bad attitudes of the two somewhat experienced people who quit was somewhat of a liability. They might be better off without them in the long run.


Tom A.