Jungle Survival Trip 2011

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Iquitos, Peru

Gearing up and heading out

Trekking through the rainforest

Skills

Jungle Tools

 

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…and the people

This was a paid shoot

The beauty

 

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The boys

 

[tknife]

Amazing pics. The jungle looks beautiful and scary as hell at the same time! And it looks like Jeff ditched those ESEE knives for a chainsaw

 

[TheGame]

Thanks for all of the pics! Although.. I wouldn't classify a spider as beauty

 

[KuRUpTD]

Great pics Reuben - that must have been a blast !

 

[Shotgun]

I smell an expensive camera.

Dig that orange knife. Is that Scrapyard?

 

[JV3]

awesome pics! reminds me of summer vacations in the province when i was a kid. no toilet paper was rough for an 8 yr old.

 

[zyhano]

that's nice, thanks for sharing!
what kind of survival trip was it? with some friends or organised?

 

[KiljoyKutlery]

WOW, looks awesome! How did the Cold Steel Barong and the the TOPS power eagle do? I want one of each of those, and would love to hear the feedback on them!!! What a great place to test your skills and tools / gear!
Thanks for sharing with us!!!

 

[bearthedog]

Amazing pics. The jungle looks beautiful and scary as hell at the same time! And it looks like Jeff ditched those ESEE knives for a chainsaw

Got to use what works. ESEE knives are just recycled cans with an edge!

Great pics Reuben - that must have been a blast !

It was the best time ever with good friends.

[/QUOTE]Dig that orange knife. Is that Scrapyard?[/QUOTE]
It was my smaller point and shoot Canon G10. It took a full dunk in chest deep murky jungle swamp and was out for the count. A day later it started to work slowly and eventually came back to life. I lost almost 2 whole days of photos. Canon rules!
Some kind of Scrapyard knife one of the students had.

that's nice, thanks for sharing!
what kind of survival trip was it? with some friends or organised?

Both, it was an organized survival class with the Randall's Adventure and Training group. They just happen to be good friends.

WOW, looks awesome! How did the Cold Steel Barong and the TOPS power eagle do? I want one of each of those, and would love to hear the feedback on them!!! What a great place to test your skills and tools / gear!
Thanks for sharing with us!!!

There will be a full review of the TOPS Power Eagle in SWAT magazine, but let me tell you...it rules. In the jungles of Asia they use shorter heavier knives about 12" in blade length. In Latin America they go, longer and thinner.
Cold Steel Barong kicked ass. I have always like the Filipino style Bolo’s and Barong's, which is why I was so interested in the TOPS Power Eagle. Both were used everyday and used by all. The lines between, my blade or your blade blurs when out in these type of camps. People just grab whatever is there and that means your personal blade can sometimes go missing for hours while someone else is making camp or dinner.

-RB

 

[sicily02]

The pics are just stunning. I will never see that place in person. Thanks for posting the pics.

Bryan

 

[mtwarden]

looks like a great trip and some awesome pics! I'm saving my pennies as we speak (looks like I better save for a waterproof camera as well)

 

[averageiowaguy]

Great pics Rueben. The orange knife was mine. It is a Scrapyard Scrapivore. I will eventually get around to reviewing it. I took the factory edge and redid it to about 18 degrees. Its a great little necker to support a machete but I prefer the ESEE 3 in that role.

 

[j williams]

Great photos as usual Ruben.....Looks awesome. Im totally gonna do that class someday. Hopefully you will be in attendance when I do. :thumbup:

 

[tonym]

Rueben those pics areamazing brother!

Thanks for sharing them.

 

[jcl-MD]

Thanks for the Great Pics!!!!

 

[bearthedog]

Thanks guys. I love to share anything bush related with the good people here!

-RB

 

[bladerique]

Great stuff. Thanks.

What kind of spider is this?

 

[facablade]

where can I buy one of these plastic cards?