Take the Condor variant of the E tool. There's a saw edge on this tool, , and a trick involved that I aint gonna reveal. Take the Crunch multi-tool, take the "optional" 12x12ft tarp, so that you can cut it up and make 1300+ sq ft of 2" mesh netting out of it. Making netting and using it properly is the key to winning this show without being fat and lucky, which has been how everyone else has won it. Take a slingbow, with 6 of the 4-tined fishing arrows, cause each tine can swiftly become 2 fishing hooks. Take the fishing kit as 8 BIG treblehooks, which can be baited and hung for catching wolves. Take a 2 person hammock, the snarewire, the 3 lb block of salt, and the 5 qt skillet with lid (Amazon). For cordage, you have plaited paracord tree straps and paracord clews from the hammock, of course. and the big roll of duct tape. With the exception of the tarp, nobody so far has had sense enough to take any of the above, altho a few have taken inferior types of multi-tool.
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The fishing season is very short, so you can't waste it on building a winter shelter. You have to catch 600 lbs of fish in a month or so, so that you can feed yourself properly for 2-3 months, if you add in some cambium, tubers, etc. You can construct an adequately warm dugout shelter, stuffed with grass, in just 3 days, which wont require a fire to keep you warm in winter. They started them quite early this year, so that they all starve out before it gets really cold. They are going to be completely unable to heat their shelters with firewood, cause they wont have the energy to do so, since they failed to catch even 10% as much fish as they needed.
You are allowed to take 3 pairs of socks, 2 sets of longjohns, 2 sets of clothes, a pair of gloves, a pair of mittens, a beanie, a hoodie, a sweater. If you stuff dry grass between those layers, you'll be plenty warm enough at night given that you put 2-3" of dry grass on the 10x10 "camera tarp" and roll up in it. That is, such will be the case until it's time to create the dugout shelter and just hole up in it. You wont have to be in the 4x4x8 ft dugout more than a month, at worst, before your last opponent has starved out. It's unlikely that any of the current group will make it past the first hard freeze, since they are all starving and have been all along.
You can also use the Siberian fire-lay to "project" heat under the 20x20 tarp shelter. All the previous tactics/gear assume that the producers wont LET you cut up their big tarp. They can't tell you what you can do with your 12x12, tho. Netting will always outproduce hook and line fishing by at least a factor of 10 to 1. Netting is the key, but nobody but Dave M, winner of season 2, has had enough sense to make enough netting to do them any real good, and HE didn't know to take stuff to make the netting out of. He got lucky and found some flotsam rope, and still took a month to figure it out, while he starved.
You can also use the Siberian fire-lay to "project" heat under the 20x20 tarp shelter. All the previous tactics/gear assume that the producers wont LET you cut up their big tarp. They can't tell you what you can do with your 12x12, tho. Netting will always outproduce hook and line fishing by at least a factor of 10 to 1. Netting is the key, but nobody but Dave M, winner of season 2, has had enough sense to make enough netting to do them any real good, and HE didn't know to take stuff to make the netting out of. He got lucky and found some flotsam rope, and still took a month to figure it out, while he starved.
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Why would you waste an entire day making a dipnet out of cordage, when you can make one in an hour, out of vines, shoots, roots, and line it with a hunk of the hammock material? A similarly made container that can be used to trap and drown mice can hold your wastes when you're in the dugout. Simply dry the wastes with dirt. It's not going to be freezing temps inside that shelter, given all the insulation, and your body heat. Mice aint worth much trouble to acquire them, but they carry diseases, eat your stored food, and make noise at night. A hole in the ground, 1x2x2 ft can be used to melt snow and ice, if you line said hole with a hunk of the hammock. That will speed things up for you when you have to boil water to take into the dugout, using the skillet and lid. With 2 fires going and you between them, you can tolerate being out in the Monogolian cold for the half day that this chore will take. The commercial fisherman's rainsuit is your water-storage container while you are in the dugout. It will hold 7 gallons. So you can stay holed up for a week at a time, assuming that you can control your mind, of course.
you're not on a sea shore, so salt makes an excellent bait, helps the taste of your food, and helps preserve meat/fish in warm weather. A salted fishhead, hung 4-5 ft high to encourage gulping, tied to a drag log, will probably suffice to catch a lot of meat. The 40 hooks that can be made out of 5 of the fishing arrows will let you make 6 treblehooks for coons, possums, weasels and the like, too. Braid 4 strands of the snarewire into something that will keep a deer tied to a drag log. Then the critter's trail is easily followed and the animal will be exhausted before it fully tests the strength of your wire/cordage.
tape is a fire extender, it can be cordage. It repairs tarps, clothing, footwear. It helps make containers for water, food, or to keep dry your firemaking materials., or pontoons for the badly needed outrigger raft. you only need to start a very few fires from scratch, if you know to bed your coals and have a hunk of hammock over the coals (vs rain) Here's how to start the first fire, having used iodine to heavily rust the outside of your shovel, while still at home.
you are allowed to take a pair of gaiters. The tape converts them into a dry bag. Once you have your first fire, you can create stuff that lets you easily start other fires with any hard, sharp-edged rock and any carbon steel tool. But that stuff has to be kept dry. Mongolia gets only 10% as much rain as Vancouver Island, so such fire starts are a lot more feasible in Asia. You gather pine resin (gashing trees to get them making some) have shredded, dry bark, grass, fungus, saw-hatched, charred wood, ashes, etc, which let you get fire going much more easily. Then you dont have to waste a pick on such a single-purpose item as a ferrorod.
you are allowed to take a pair of gaiters. The tape converts them into a dry bag. Once you have your first fire, you can create stuff that lets you easily start other fires with any hard, sharp-edged rock and any carbon steel tool. But that stuff has to be kept dry. Mongolia gets only 10% as much rain as Vancouver Island, so such fire starts are a lot more feasible in Asia. You gather pine resin (gashing trees to get them making some) have shredded, dry bark, grass, fungus, saw-hatched, charred wood, ashes, etc, which let you get fire going much more easily. Then you dont have to waste a pick on such a single-purpose item as a ferrorod.
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You are given or allowed to take many things that float, or can be made to float. You can make a pontoon outrigger raft in a day. Then it wont matter whether or not the local wood will float. A craft lets you forage the water and both sides of a river, etc. The backpack, the camera case, one set of clothes (waterproofed before you go) stuffed with dry grass and sealed with the tape, will float very well. So will pontoons made of chunks of your tarp, of course. So will the airhorn, the life preserver, the bear spray.
the "old timey" gear and tactics have always failed on this show. EVERYONE has averaged losing 1/2 lb of bodyweight per day. So what have you got to lose by trying as of yet not-thought-of gear and tactics, hmm? If you aint by far fatter than all the other contestants, this is what you must do.
Fowler took an entire day to make a wooden water bottle, which held a pint of water. When you could fold the wrist of the rainsuit jacket, tie it off at the armpit, and be able to carry/store a gallon of water, taking just a couple of minutes. 
Why take a week to make a fishing dock, when in a day, you can make a pontoon outrigger raft? You can fish from the raft and use it to move your stuff to a better spot, where you dont have to climb a steep hill every day, and use the raft to tend your crab and fish traps, nets, etc?
Why take a week to make a fishing dock, when in a day, you can make a pontoon outrigger raft? You can fish from the raft and use it to move your stuff to a better spot, where you dont have to climb a steep hill every day, and use the raft to tend your crab and fish traps, nets, etc?why take a month to make an above ground shelter, which then requires a fire to be warm enough, when, in 3 days, you can make dugout, stuffed with debris (dried with hot stones if need be) and then you dont need a fire? Do you realize how many calories you waste cutting and hauling wood? It wasn't cold enough to require this in Patagonia (while season 3 folks were there), but it will be in Mongolia. If you keep your shelter mobile, you can just move it to where there's still squaw wood. Cutting big wood and hauling it 100m, as Fowler did, is a huge waste of time and calories. He weighed 220 lbs and a gal who weighed more like 140 lbs almost beat him, cause she knew not to be wasting calories as he did. He lost 73 lbs of fat and muscle in 87 days. So was he "thriving"? No, he was not even coming close to surviving. He was starving and had he been the same size as her, she'd have beaten him in a month or so! So all he did, while interesting, was a mistake.
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Maybe you should go on the show then.
You talk the talk, but I highly doubt you’d be able to walk the walk.
You talk the talk, but I highly doubt you’d be able to walk the walk.
