if they choose 9 of us it wouldnt be a show. we would start on one end, and be through the jungle in half the time with out injuries. we would have a blast, but no one would watch lol.
Well, let's see if Pitdog is running around naked with a big knife and a little dog...that would get some attention
I don't know about all that ... have you ever spent any length of time in the jungle ?
Let's see ... there are lots of venomous little critters that incessantly sting and bite, dense terrain,
torrential downpours, snakes and jaguars
yeah definitely sounds like a day at the park
I did some time in the jungle highlands (Southeast Ecuador, headwaters of the Amazon). This is back in the mid 90's and I kid you not, our maps had large parts of "white" areas...these areas had never been mapped outside of local sketches (made it pretty difficult for helo pilots doing SAR missions). We did a pretty cool survival course put on by some of the Ecuadorian "Condor" Soldiers/NCOs. I did several hikes around our main camp and I distinctly remember the first one I did. As soon as we got off the main trail and headed down a very narrow (think of a game trail) trail, I remember pausing and just watching the whole undergrowth moving
We hiked down to a smaller river off the main river where a large pool and waterfall were...our secret little swimming hole! After several trips down, one day I was down there on my own and two young boys were fishing in the large pool (about 40 yards diameter); they had about a half dozen of pretty large piranha laid out on a rock! Yeah, I'd been swimming with a bunch of piranhas
Good news is they weren't the Hollywood Movie species
We were in the highlands and it was always foggy and wet. The worst thing was the ants...they were all over and if you sat long enough, you were bitten. We lived in tents (big Army tents) with wooden floors. I was surprised at how cold it could get at night. I don't have arachnophobia, but I have a strong dislike of having spiders on me (even though I did eat tarantula). We had these smaller tarantulas all over...and they would jump if you got too close...they always scared the piss out of me. The cool thing is that we had a "pet" anaconda and one of the local senior Ecuador officers gave us a baby Ocelot. He was cool, but just meowed, and crapped all over...we finally had to give him away to some locals. We visited outposts where we had some of the team guys serving as "observers" along the Ecuador and Peru border (think of a DMZ like in Korea). I was stuck at a couple (weathered in) and they were quite remote. What was so "National Geographic" like was a couple of the locations where we could temporarily land the helo's to open the doors. A couple places were right by some very primitive villages...I mean the kids and adults were only dressed in grass skirts if dressed at all. I could go on, but it was truly one of my best assignments. We did do some SHTF training (if political issues deteriorated between the two countries) which included "rucking up" and moving about 15 kicks to pre-designated pick up points...humping a ruck through a jungle, even on a narrow trail with a pack sucks...as much as I would love to do the Venezuela trip, I don't think you'd enjoy the whole "jungle experience" under those kinds of conditions.
So, if you had some WSS members chosen, I guess you'd end up with Spark, the Nazi-moderator (just kidding Spark
), telling you how far, which direction, which swamp, how fast, and how much "suck" you should be enduring...I'll pass
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