Peru- Jungle Survival Trip 2012

[KuRUpTD]

Outstanding - that looks like an amazing experience !

Thanks.

 

[pilgrimuk]

Hi Reuben,

Big thanks to you, Patrick, Reza, Mike, Kyle, Percy, Aguila and all the others for all your efforts to make this such a fantastic adventure! Both Guy and myself really enjoyed it (despite a few bites from the bugs )

All the very best,

John
(UK Fire Wizard)

 

[bearthedog]

good stuff as usual. the whole jungle thing is not my thing but i do love reading about these trips. great job with the pics. you ate a sloth or was i mislead by a pic?

Wasn’t my thing either about 5 years ago. I have always been more of a mountain goat and desert rat. The jungle was just so far out of my comfort zone that I had to see it for myself. Needless to say, I felt very calm and at home there. My friend Jeff always says that the jungle either accepts you or spits you out. I think it was a good fit, but I think I like the jungles in Southeast Asia a little more.

Ya ate a sloth? How did that taste?

Poor little sucker looks like an infant on the grill!!

Oh man oh man you killed and eat a sloth. Thats is just wrong they are way too cute to eat.. Couldnt you find a monkey or a vegetarian out on a hike.. Great pics, Some of those knifes show some real use and lots of abuse. I wonder if you could get some of those kids to tag along what tricks you might learn from them. I bet some of those kids can get alot of things done with out any tools. I think alot of adults don't give enough credit to kids, They always seem to think out of the box. One of those days hope I could tag along

Sasha

This is a sore subject for some people. I think many live in a fantasy world where they would kill it only if they need to in real situation. The problem is them having the opportunity one day, but no knowledge how to prepare the animal. It can result in them tainting the meat by cutting into the gut cavity getting themselves (or others) sick. What good does that do any of them?

Best to learn it once and be done with it.

Sasha my friend, you are always welcome in my camp.

-RB

Awesome photos Reuben! Thanks for sharing the adventure.
Scott

Scott,
I saw your blade from a distance and I knew it was yours. This guy, “John” was from the UK. Good knife!

Thanks for all the pictures Reuben .Looks like it was a good trip. Man, I don't know how you can wear that long sleeve Black shirt.

Hawkeye

It has been with me since about 2005. It works for me, looks less dirty, and keeps the sun, bugs, and razor grass off my arms. It’s a Polarmax (thanks Ron Hood).

Very cool, has Kyle made it back yet ???

Not sure. I will email him latter. Last I knew he was sitting in a Marriot having a massage.

Now we know that you are a sloth eater and inca kola drinker.
Great pictures.

I do like Inca Cola. I can get it here, but it says made in Florida.

-RB

 

[Gossman Knives]

Thanks for the info Reuben. BTW, your RAT 3 looks great! Well used.
John, hope the knife served you well. It's cool to see one of my blades in action in an enviroment like that. :thumbup:
Scott

 

[pilgrimuk]

Thanks for the info Reuben. BTW, your RAT 3 looks great! Well used.
John, hope the knife served you well. It's cool to see one of my blades in action in an enviroment like that. :thumbup:
Scott

Hi Scott,

The knife was a pleasure to use, really very happy. I'll post some other pics and info on your forum; suffering from jet lag at the mo (33 hours travelling) and got to work tomorrow...:sleeping:

atvb, John

 

[Brad "the butcher"]

Rueben, is that your esee-3 or one of your guides/local instructors that had the knife posted on forums a year or two ago that I thought was well used
until this one.
Great pics

The sloth eating to me is just taking advantage of local fauna. Lots of people think racoons, squirrels and rabbits are cute but they are prime ingredients in our neck of the woods for the venerable "frontier stew" etc.
I think sloths could be like porcupines in our woods as an easily harvested animal for survival, hardest part would be spotting either of them up in a tree. As a former butcher and raised by a hunting/farming family its just a part of life.

 

[grunt soldier]

awesome pictures. a big thanks for sharing.

 

[TheGame]

I still can't believe that that guy traded the 3 back for new gear. That will be an awesome showpiece at Blade.

Thanks for the pics.

 

[Joezilla]

Agilar ain't gonna have much blade left if he keeps sharpening it with the file!

 

[Joezilla]

OK, Joe rant number 1.

In Peru, I lost sleep. I brought coffee, and at sundown, I drank it. Why? I was going snake crazy. I stayed up till three in the morning on multiple nights, looking everywhere for snakes, boas, using all the tricks of the trade. Didn't see one. I think I was just there during a dry spell, but every time I see a trip and someone holding a red-tail boa, it makes me go crazy. Rant off.

 

[bearthedog]

Thanks for the info Reuben. BTW, your RAT 3 looks great! Well used.
John, hope the knife served you well. It's cool to see one of my blades in action in an enviroment like that. :thumbup:
Scott

Rueben, is that your esee-3 or one of your guides/local instructors that had the knife posted on forums a year or two ago that I thought was well used
until this one.
Great pics

The sloth eating to me is just taking advantage of local fauna. Lots of people think racoons, squirrels and rabbits are cute but they are prime ingredients in our neck of the woods for the venerable "frontier stew" etc.
I think sloths could be like porcupines in our woods as an easily harvested animal for survival, hardest part would be spotting either of them up in a tree. As a former butcher and raised by a hunting/farming family its just a part of life.

Actually, mine is in the middle and the really used looking one belonged to Aguilar and is now property of ESEE Knives. Scott did the initial convex on mine about 5 years ago.

I still can't believe that that guy traded the 3 back for new gear. That will be an awesome showpiece at Blade.

Thanks for the pics.

He traded an ESEE 5 and new ESEE 3 for it. The rest of the deal was that Mike Perrin had to sing in public there in Tamshiyacu, which he did.

OK, Joe rant number 1.

In Peru, I lost sleep. I brought coffee, and at sundown, I drank it. Why? I was going snake crazy. I stayed up till three in the morning on multiple nights, looking everywhere for snakes, boas, using all the tricks of the trade. Didn't see one. I think I was just there during a dry spell, but every time I see a trip and someone holding a red-tail boa, it makes me go crazy. Rant off.

You know how it is there, some trips can be uneventful and others have all kinds of crazy things going on. Percy and Reza smelled the snake while we were hiking. About an hour of hunting for it later, Reza shows up with it in his hands. He handled it a lot and eventually was sick like a dog for the rest of the trip. Some say it was the snake who got him sick.

-RB