I haven't seen the show, but I saw one inch nylon webbing used for this. The center is laid outside the wraps, and the ends are tucked underneath. The diagram doesn't show it, but the ends are tied down near the centerpoint of the webbing.

Uncle Goo,

Okay, I see how that works. Hmmm, I think I (and by "I" I mean the DW) could sew up some sort of adjustable, compression-strap system out of webing that could wrap around the parcel.

Thanks!
-Blast

I would be far more interested in the hip strap. I would desperately prefer not to have to carry the load (70 lbs) on my shoulders for a 3 to 6 mile hike on rugged terrain! A decent hip belt would be far better. I did not see any of the packs on the show with a hip strap. Ugh.

I thought the end of the show was fairly anti-climactic. Basically they break out of the wilderness into a summer camp next to a railroad and that's it? What about a post adventure synopsis interview? I bet the gal that quit on the day before they finished the trip was pretty disappointed with herself. Their last meal was a family of squirrels. You'd have thought that the producers would have at least left them something special. Oh well, I guess suffering through 28 days of survival and then getting back to civilization is reward enough.

I would suspect, and maybe I am wrong, that there will be a final episode to discuss what they went through and get everyone together one more time. Discovery Channel is pretty good with that stuff. There is one next week for the wrap up on Deadliest Catch which was one the hour before.

I believe with the show Les Stroud did, though different format, also did a follow up show.

I was also a bit disappointed in the finale. I came to the conclusion that somehow information was passed to the players through the film crew or a producer over the course of the show.

WHY do I think this?

They did not get to set the time of their stay in shelters. So either it was a note we did not see, included with the map or someone told them they could only stay a two days or whatever.

When the bear guide showed up the first time, it was technically the first person they had seen in a couple weeks aside from the show crew. I believe that the players if they had not met the guide in their training at least knew to expect him. The second time he showed up, I don't know, the way they acted leads me to believe maybe they did not expect him again.

After following the map for as long as they did between shelters with little deviation, to suddenly stop at a railroad track seems suspicious and wait for a train seemed odd. It leads me to believe that they were counseled to stick around.

I agree that this was inconsistent. For that show their mission became to get rescued by finding civilization.

Previous episodes was all about surviving rather than being rescued. Moving from places of good, known, shelter to places of unknown resources on command isn't a good way to survive.