I've seen a couple of episodes, and they're carrying way too much junk.

A more realistic scenario would be " a plane carrying 9 tourists makes a forced landing and the passengers hike 60 miles out".

As far as the Spot goes, it's taped over so i don't think Spot has anything to do with the show, in fact, I don't think the thing even works. Looks like a staged "press the button", and the camera crew calls the helicopter.

- as far as the boots go, they look like Mucks.