all have been lackadaisical in their prep for this show. The definition of insanity is "doing the same things over and over again, while expecting the results to somehow be different. The contestants have all taken the same gear, done the same things, with the same result, starvation! An intelligent person would, you'd think, after 3 years, have figured out that something different needs to be done.

I hope that they dont continue the 2 person aspect, cause it inhales sharply. If they continue to go to Vancouver They need to make a big wooden mortar and pestle, and use it to juice the kelp. Fish, game, seafood offer no carbs. They are not supposed to harm living trees, so that rules out stripping cambium. The lack of carbs manifests itself with their depression, apathy and poor decision making. In a couple of hours, they can juice enough kelp to be about 400 calories to the good (as vs what they burned getting that quart of juice)

If you win this by smarts and skills (as vs being fat and lucky) it will clear you another 1/4 mill $ over the next 2-3 years, in endorsements, classes that you teach, sales of books and videos, on top of the 1/4 mill that you clear for the win. It must be nice to be able to just blow off retirement type money, cause you sprained your ankle a bit!

As far as bear threat goes, if they were really scared, why not bring a hammock, make a ladder and spend their first night 15 ft up in a big tree? The next day, find a suitable tree and make a sleeping platform up in it. If you know to have the hammock be a 2-person model, made out of paracord, you can unravel it, access the 7 inner strands and weave enough netting to feed yourself fairly well. The fishheads and guts will make a big enough pile to bait in a bear, which you can then arrow from a tree platform/blind. They give you a trail cam, which will tell you the best times to be up in that blind. Set up the shot to be less than 10m and there will be almost no risk involved, as long as your broadhead is really sharp.

Use the duct tape and a chunk of tarp to wrap up the camera gear vs the moisture. Tape the seams of the hard Pelican camera cases, and use them as pontoons for an outrigger log raft. This lets you service your many (netting and sapling framed) crab traps, your gillnets, etc, and it will let you move down the coast if your drop off point is really lacking in resources. the paracord will let you make an anchor, out of big rocks, or a 'sea anchor" out of your spare clothing. Those 2 items really help remove the risks associated with rip tides and rogue waves. Tie everything to the raft, including yourself, and have a cutting instrument ready, so that you can cut yourself loose if need be.


By choosing to take something that can make netting, you can do so as you sit in your sleeping bag, under your tarp awning. If you've caught enough fish to create a bear bait before you're done weaving all the netting (ie, you've also taken a gillnet made out of paracord) you can do the weaving as you sit in your tree blind.

You'll need to previously have boiled-off seawater every day, for a couple of weeks, in order to have recovered enough salt to reliably preserve that fatty bear meat.