Survivorman-Baffin Island

I much prefer a "cheapy type" knife shown being used successfully rather than Bear Grylls using his $500 knife. You never know when you might find yourself in a survival situation and possibly won't have that expensive safe queen on your person.
 
Unsub said:
Baffin is going to be an important place soon. Global warming has made the northwest passage passable 8 months of the year and much cheaper and faster than the Panama canal.
However it would be a horrible place to have a oil spill with all that untouched nature.
Control of that passage is going to be a big deal.
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Not to mention the slew of natural resources, gold, very pure iron, diamonds, oil, there's a mother load there. A bit more global warming will be needed to make mining it more feasible though.
 
I know some o the mines around where I live (Northern Saskatchewan) only run in the winter when the ice roads are open and the water is frozen. The Cameco mine(Uranium)
has had flooding problems so the last few winters have been spent trying to fix the dams and dig out the ice. I have not been as far north as the tundra but the canadian shield area
is amazing. Lots of rocks and lakes because the glaciers stripped away all the soil so there are cool stunted pines a 100+ years old that look like bonsias. It has a real japanese garden look with all the rocks little trees and running water and the wildlife is incredible We just had an inquest because a tourist was eaten by wolves, and ravens and eagles regularly take those yappy little dogs. The ravens are cool and super smart. I saw a HUGE one in the back of a truck tossing out groceries until it found stuff it liked.
 
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Unsub said:
The ravens are cool and super smart.
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For several years I was pals with a raven. He used to sit in the top of a dead Tamarack in my back yard and beg for scraps of food. Sometimes he used to tag along when I walked the dog. He was a lot of fun to have around.
 
After he hung the fish up to dry, I thought he was really asking for a Polar Bear to visit him. And what would he have done if one or more came in to see what smelled so good? Shoot it/them? He stated that he was wary and keeping an eye out for them, but then he would do unnecessary (IMO) things like this and take a chance. Maybe somebody told him that there are no polar bears around??? :confused: Why would he do what he did?
 
Unsub said:
It has a real japanese garden look with all the rocks little trees and running water and the wildlife is incredible We just had an inquest because a tourist was eaten by wolves, and ravens and eagles regularly take those yappy little dogs. The ravens are cool and super smart. I saw a HUGE one in the back of a truck tossing out groceries until it found stuff it liked.
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Hey Unsub, do you have any links, by any chance? I save all the critter-attack info.

Doc
 
on_the_edge said:
After he hung the fish up to dry, I thought he was really asking for a Polar Bear to visit him. And what would he have done if one or more came in to see what smelled so good? Shoot it/them? He stated that he was wary and keeping an eye out for them, but then he would do unnecessary (IMO) things like this and take a chance. Maybe somebody told him that there are no polar bears around??? :confused: Why would he do what he did?
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Les likes to be dramatic!:D

I'm sure his support crew was looking out for him. This being a TV show, things aren't always what they seem.
 
Varg Lobos said:
I'm sure his support crew was looking out for him. This being a TV show, things aren't always what they seem.
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Sometimes they are, Les is left alone once he's in place.

He does carry a Sat. phone, but that wouldn't exactly help him in the immediate.
 
coyotebc said:
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=b7ce5200-166b-4eb3-b9c8-f3e77d532874

There you go doc
Unsub if this is the wrong one let us know
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Thanks coyotebc, but I don't think it is the right one.
The one you posted happened a couple of years ago, unsub suggested his was recent.

And TF, I keep records of all wild critter attacks, especially wolf attacks. Up to a few years ago, the powers that be, maintained that there had never been an attack by healthy wolves on a human being, on this continent, ever. Kind of like how a lot of places deny there are any cougars, sightings to the contrary.

I don't know if you noticed or not, but I'm a bit anal. If I post something, generally I can back it up with the facts. Keeping records makes this easier.

Hope this makes sense and doesn't make me look like a complete nut job:rolleyes: Then again................:o

Doc
 
KuRUpTD said:
Just double checked and he was there before

It was the Arctic episode in season 1 episode 5
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Your right... goes to show what happens when I am decaffinated... :/
I always thought that he shot that inland, not on the island for premit/weather reasons, but I stand corrected.
 
Varg Lobos said:
I'm sure his support crew was looking out for him. This being a TV show, things aren't always what they seem.
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Maybe or maybe not he was being followed by a jaguar in the amazon jungle. (in a dense forest like that, there's no warning)
But I'm certain he had someone to watch out for polar bears in the Baffin Island episode, and I think he also had someone to watch out for lions in his savannah episode. I'm certain because if I were him, I would have insisted on some protection. It's a tv show after all and nothing to die over.
 
I have been DVR'ing his episodes for a while. I love that show. Baffin Island one was great I thought.

It might sound dumb but I didn't realize the kinds of stuff you can eat if you need to. He was trying to catch Seagulls with whale blubber and some fishing hooks and I thought "what......you can eat seagulls?". It's just weird but I guess in a survival situation you could eat a lot of stuff.
 
Foilist said:
Although we all "oooh and ahhh" over high end knives, it's actually cool that he uses ordinary or even cheap ones at times and makes them work.
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99.99% of soldiers and outdoorsmen use "ordinary or even cheap" knives with no problems whatsoever.
 
I don't recomend seagulls for chow. They pick up the taste of what they eat so along the coast maybe they taste like fish. Inland where I live they taste like garbage and will get ya sick, and I have a strong stomach.
 
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