Les Stroud calling it quits with Survivorman

Maybe he will come back once a year or something for a special. Maybe he will give us a 2 hour finale or something.

He deserves a time off after all he has done, though.
 
I see a couple of one offs at most. I reckon he'll go slightly bigger budget and do some retracing of explorers footsteps kind of thing. Maybe he'll live like they did and use the same gear or shown the modern alternatives. Either way i'll be keeping an eye out for more of his shows.
 
I think he should do at least one episode where he packs in a pile of gear and just camps out, maybe even bring the family and have someone else lug around the camera.
It would be a nice last episode.
 
I will miss his show as well.I'm a big fan of his work but I understand that the toll it has taken on him couldn't have been easy.He's too young to risk long-term injury doing a television show.I can almost guarantee he'll be back once in a while for something cool.
 
I have enjoyed the show and I even got my wife and daughter to watch the Sierra Nevada episode. Best of luck to him in the future. I too also like the sound of him retracing the steps of explorers and discussing survival techniques with the locals. Maybe Ted Nugent would be willing to do something like it, he is an avid hunter, but would he know what to do to survive?
 
storl said:
The news has been out for a few days, so I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet (or I am blind and did not see the post in searches). I am bummed after reading this, since I really enjoy Les's adventures.
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"I have not had to be rescued yet but there was one situation in Labrador where we had bad weather and we all had to be shipped out to safety," said Stroud.

That sounds like a rescue to me.
 
I will miss the show, and hope that Les will return. Les had a style of his own both with words and the program itself.
 
Gerberblades said:
"I have not had to be rescued yet but there was one situation in Labrador where we had bad weather and we all had to be shipped out to safety," said Stroud.

That sounds like a rescue to me.
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It was a rescue, but it was his film crew and producers that picked him up, not SAR. It was a mission aborted kind of thing.
 
Les is also sort of tapped out on scenarios. He likes to use a different skill in each one. I recall that he's started a fire with a bow, drill, mag bar, flint, lens, battery (a couple of different ways), an empty lighter, and a single match. He's carried sparks many different ways and used all sorts of tinder. What's left? I guess he could perhaps start rehashing, or perhaps show some of the finer points, but he's sort of presented almost all possible scenarios.

I don't think he has any interest in just doing pretend skill sessions, you know pulling out your firesteel, making it spark once, then showing a blazing fire ala Bear.

I think it would also be neat to Les in his prep a few times, letting us see him trying the skills for the first time as he's getting instructed from the local experts he uses. He did a little in the Africa show. iMaybe film a few other students trying things for the first time also. He could do that sort of thing without necessarily spending a week freezing and starving. It could be integrated into his other series.

Just as a note: he seems to be taking more obvious swipes at Bear spending his nights in the resorts or hotels. He also made a comment in the SAR show that you shouldn't run down the hill like a fool because you could easily snap an ankle.
 
nemoaz said:
Just as a note: he seems to be taking more obvious swipes at Bear spending his nights in the resorts or hotels. He also made a comment in the SAR show that you shouldn't run down the hill like a fool because you could easily snap an ankle.
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Well, how would you feel, maintaining your integrity, going cold and hungry while trying to present useful information to the public, knowing your competitor is faking it, spending the occasional warm night in a (relatively) snug bed with room service, and pretending to do the same thing?
 
I wouldn't mind seeing something new and original, so I'm staying optimistic. Stroud doesn't have to do this one show forever. I liked many of his epsodes, but not all.
 
shangchi108 said:
Well, how would you feel, maintaining your integrity, going cold and hungry while trying to present useful information to the public, knowing your competitor is faking it, spending the occasional warm night in a (relatively) snug bed with room service, and pretending to do the same thing?
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That wasn't a criticism. I believe Idiot vs. Motel should be banned from the airways and think the world of Les. If anything, I wish Les were MORE vocal. I think however, that Idiot vs. Motel must be getting better ratings. I know that early on, Les would not allow any critical comments concerning Idiot vs. Motel on Les' forum. I suspect that was network pressure.
 
Les and his Survivorman show will be missed and I will continue to watch the same episodes over and over. I'm sure his new stuff will be great too.

As for Bear vs Hotel, everytime someone watches that show God kills a kitten...g, :cool:

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Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but the two episodes I've watched from season 3 he seems more irritable than in previous seasons. The scene where he's discussing the two fish he caught was a perfect example, you could just tell he had enough. I think he's making the right choice. I hope someone equally competant takes his place.
 
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