Of all the TV survival dudes, Lea Stroud and Ray Mears are the best, but Les always tried to handicap himself to make things more challenging. Adding survival food to any survival kit just makes sense. Hunting for your food seems like a good option until you actually have to do it.
I know I thought I was the only one that said this I never understood why people say not to put food in your survival kits anytime I hear that I just instantly assume they've never had to forage or hunt for food
AH BACON .....best to carry it.... I see there are many feral hogs in the US but they are serious adversaries and the fishing kit and even full size axe wouldn't be enough to take one on
@@hattyfarbuckle As with other wild game animals, feral pigs are not easy to find when you need them. My son and a friend used several dogs protected by Kevlar vests to track and corner a feral pig. The dogs grabbed the animal's ears, controlling the head, and my son killed it with a knife.
ReallyBigMonkey1 a Southern USA guy I watch recommended me this channel, he does camping/hiking/gear/survival stuff and one of his favourite sayings that he attributes to his mentors is "If you find yourself in the middle of the wilderness with no gear or perhaps just a knife, at some point you messed up!"
As a Canadian, Les was my main influence into survival. I would get home from school and watch him on TV. Its been up hill from there. As "television" as he is, he led me to finding Lars and many others. I would not put Les at the top of the list for most influential survivalist, but he is influential to the topic. I still have his books and DVDs, I think I even bought his survival knives at some point. But I have learned what was for entertainment and what was for education. Thats TV.
just like bear f...n grylls what person who is lost somewhere risks legs life etc by jumping on big rocks or jumping of cliffs not knocking him cos he has past selection but he does take the piss with it methinks.
I think all of us Canadian boys from the sticks always ran home to see what adventure he got stranded in next! This B.C. island boys appreciates Survival Russia! Thanks for the great video! 👍🏼🇨🇦🔥
As a Canadian who spent his 70 years in the bush , I agree with you Lars totally. We call a can with a wire bail a tea pail. To hydrate you pack your tea pail with snow from the bottom layer do snow as it’s the densest . Melting this snow you can then make tea, coffee or dry soup from Lars pack. I would sure want a silky saw as you will need a lot of wood for just one night.
Since most of you know what a sensible survival kit is, I’ll not bore you with the details. However, here’s a method I use for when it gets really bitter cold: I purposely bought some outer clothing oversized enough to carry all of my gear inside so my body heat keeps the water from freezing. Being cold and drinking cold water at the same time really sucks even for a tough old woods runner like me. 😂
I think he said in one of his director's commentaries that in the early days of Survivorman it was the television company that decided what items he was allowed to bring, it also gave him the opportunity to show how one can live off the land (which was not always that successful). In one episode he's stuck in a car in Norway, which is another slightly funky event. His new Wild Harvest series has a lot of information in it without the usual TV drama, which is great. Keep survival real!
I actually count the Norway episode as one off the more realistic ones. At least he has some kind of equipment, as if he actually prepared for the trip :)
The UA-camr Paul Harrel makes a great video about wilderness survival and I agree with his criteria when it comes to calling it "Survival". His definition of wilderness survival is- "In the field, under adverse conditions, when you have to spend the night or multiple nights, when you did not intend to, and you are not prepared to."
why? it's a waste of money, space and weight. Instead by nut butters, coconut oil, seeds, spices and a $200, 7 cubic food chest freezer in which to put such things ($200 at wally's) ad a bunch of grain, Wheat and millet (bird seed at wally's) have 2.5x as many calories per lb as rice. Wheat lasts forever, basically. millet, a year or so. Buy some molasses, honey, Online ONLY, wally's sells a hand cranked grain mill for $45. A 50 lb block of mineral salt is $10 at tractor supply.
get your grain straight from the farmers, at harvest time, 50c per lb, in drums or bags. in a van or trailer. or buy it from the graneries at the RR siding, get it BEFORE they put the chemicals on it vs rot, bugs and mice!
i just saw the video of Real Reporter and i loved it, i was really happy when every thing is ok for your life and your village and keep it up we love ya !💪
Les stroud is a very knowledgeable person and I have followed him since the beginning. I agree he doesn’t recommend the best survival kit but I was flipping through his book he published in 2008 and it actually talks about bringing dried food. I feel like we are constantly learning about survival and our opinion on things or the gear we carry sometime change over time. Love your channel tho Lars
This video here is why I have been a subscriber of yours for years Lars. You are not afraid to speak your mind and you know what the hell you are doing. I absolutely love Les Stroud! One thing alot of survivalists do not talk about is having common sense in your kit, if you're a dum dum then no amount of food,water, saws, ferro rods or whatever can save you.
The premise of Survivorman was to be stranded in a wilderness situation without full preparation and to make due with what was on hand. I recall the episode was based on being in a plane crash.
Good to hear you have your wicked laugh back and your tail up! That folding Silky is a superb item, a good knife, cordage, ferro rod and tinder, small axe....a block of fatty bacon, a pot for boiling water/snow. Ah...Lars...I think I could survive on my journey now....my journey to Sainsbury's to buy pies and brandy. Love what you do...best wishes from England, land of the pie.
Hello from Oklahoma! Fun Video! Enjoyed the talk about kids "using" your stuff. I have started carrying a folding saw and a heavy knife(Schf3n) and a folder. I don't miss carrying an ax or hatchet. Yes some freeze dried food is handy. Thanks for all U do! God Bless!
The TV guys bring stuff to last until rescue. On the Tiga you bring stuff to last until resupply because life is survival there. Great video. I watched the life in rural Russia video too it was really good and good to see Lars and the family the same life through another lense. You get what you get through anyone's view.
You are so right on everything you say. Too many people want to romanticise survival like in the movies, you'd wind up dead as a liability without the right grear and knowing how to use it and how to improvise
Les came in a period of fascination for things like survival. Maybe there should have been a disclaimer that this was for entertainment, or perhaps inspiration, in that he sort of showed what was possible.
Thanks man. Great to see you. I like your videos actually. I found your channel a long time ago. I see that I was unsubscribed, so I re-subbed you. Happy Healthy 2023!!
Lars, This was after his plane crash video. In that video he explains his videos are a....shit, im stranded, this is what's at hand, till help arrives, type videos. He's kinda in a different genre than you. Your more of a common sence/military / European/trained/ woodsman teacher. Both of you are great bushcraft teachers. I'll bet Les replys to you. He's a great guy. He might come visit even. Like a Siberian dual survival thingy....
Excellent points, Lars. 👍👍 A lot of that kit would be in your general purpose survival kit. Winter kit should be in addition to that kit. Case in point. The ax is fine, but imo, it would be in addition to a saw. Bringing food (tin of mackerel is where it starts for me) in a 72-hour scenario is WAY more important than bringing fishing/hunting equipment (again, this equipment should be in addition to). The garbage bag is almost tv personality nonsense. You see these social media guys universally recommend contractor bags as a core piece of gear. Almost none of them recommend a poncho (the thing garbage bags are a stand-in for).
Honestly I have never even heard of the guy until you mentioned him lol. You are definitely in my opinion the best at survival videos and having the experience. Reality survival on tv doesn't even touch what you do. Thanks for sharing Lars
Is it just me or is the winter where you live so far a little bit milder than usual? Past winter videos of yours seemed a hell of a lot colder 🥶 I noticed you were not wearing gloves and your exhaled breath wasn’t misting 🤔 I enjoy Les Strouds work but also agree that pre-planning and packing proper equipment will get you through most anything. Like a friend of mine once said….”There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.”
The thing with Les Stroud is its about what works for him. Different people will find that different things work best for them, though there are certain things that should work for everyone. He does seem to be a bit of a fantasist as are probably most people. He is right when he says you should put together your own survival kit, and I guess with plenty of bushcraft practice you will formulate ideas that are very practical and functional for yourself. Sometimes you find out that there is no point in having certain items, and that you can have something else that can provide multiple functions in your rucksack. When I go camping there are a lot of things that I take with me that I never end up using.
I don't speak Russian, but I've been learning the Cyrillic alphabet and I'm amazed at how much that helps. If I read it correctly, you showed packages of "super soup", a name that is clever in any language. Greetings to you and your family from the Bighorn Mountains!
Great video I agree TV just screws everything up. Did you ever figure out your coolant leak? I also recommend real reporter very well done videos and he speaks better English than I do!
Good to see you again. Here in Minnesota we are haveing a very snowy season. When we move south the are is forest-mostly so what I can pick up here is useful.
I was watching a video in the winter conditions just you're in and the guy was casually filming and talking walking around and he finds a void in some rocks that goes down into the ground he puts his camera and light in the void and looking up is a huge black bear 🤣🤣 he ran so fast I was laughing so much.
I agree that it commercial TV distorts survival and does not give good advice. I had friends who died during a cross country ski adventure because they did not bring enough cold winter gear and knew that a large winter storm was almost upon them. They made a bad decision and five people died in the snow storm and their bodies were not found until three months later.
The most important thing in a survival kit is more about sustenance. Having food along as you pointed out is often most important. Having some food also makes it easier to obtain food as well as extending any food you hunt fish or gather. Next is water. Safe, consumable water as well as the ability to collect it, store it, and carry it. Next for me is several ways to make a fire and make it a repeatable strategy. Cordage, wire, and nails I would add to that mix. Fitting nicely inside the can, pot, container, Etc. I would hopefully have reasonable knife or multi- tool. It should not take up too much space for salt, sugar, aspirin, antihistamine, Tylenol, and ibuprofen.
Good to see you still going strong. Winter was delayed somewhat her on the coast of the Bay of Fundy. Wet snow above and below freezing. Hope to get out for a good trudge. Thanks for the inspiration.
Fantastic video as always my Russian friend! Watching from the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island in Canada! Stay awesome, safe and blessed my friend! Cheers, Jerbs 👍🏼🇨🇦🔥
Hi Lars, your right on the money , these tv survival shows are rigged just to make so called good viewing. Anyone in winter whith only the items shown in this video, ain't going to make . I would refer to your previous videos Lars, when you showed what you take whith you in winter conditions, that's the real deal, at least you get back home in one piece. Keep doing what your best at mate, showing us the proper way to survive out there, and tell it like it is. Thanks for another interesting video, best wishe's to you and your family, stay safe, Stuart UK.
I have seen Les Stroud's TV shows and to be fair, he sets up a survival situation where you don't have much along the way of survival gear. Now if he was actually building a survival kit, I agree with you 100% Lars...being properly prepared, with the proper gear, when you out hiking on your own, IS a survival kit. I liked watching Les' TV show, because he failed damn near every time...lol. However, it does get you thinking...what would you do, if you were in that same situation? All of this aside, I like your show the best Lars. You have experience and know-how for those who are thinking about being more prepared. Thanks for sharing this knowledge with us.
Survivorman's MO was to be caught in the woods overnight or a few days at most with no preparation at all no food no water only what he has on his person where as Lars lives survival with access to whatever he needs. Huge difference and both with the greatest of survival skills..well done Lars🥰
I've been binge-watching your videos ever since I found your channel a while ago. I've watched other "survival" channels of course but yours is unique and different. Greetings and all the best from a South African in Tbilisi, Georgia. P.S: I hope to find some of that Georgian "super soup" so I can make my own buckwheat survival meal!
Yes Les's show was partially entertainment for TV viewers, but he's still more legit than Bear Grylls or any of those other fake TV survivalists that wake up in the bush with perfectly combed hair and unwrinkled clothes. Hel he almost died in Mongolia on his way to film an episode! Yes I'm Canadian so I have to take up for him lol
The damage the Television did to emergency situations is horrible. So many people think they can go into deep woods with a 200$ knife and just hunt down some wild animal and live off it for months. Thankfully the community works hard on spreading real information just like the Gun community teaches the people that "MilSpec" is not actually a word to describe a good quality item.
I will never forget the video where you slept on the ground and woke up before freezing to death. It was legitimately scary when you talked about, “you only wake up once.”
TV and UA-camrs in the “survival” theme who make videos going out into the woods and “surviving” are actually just filming themselves camping out…. I do it too, I grab an assortment of items that I’m confident will be enough to get me thru my stay with sometimes limited comfort and head out… but it’s the persons own knowledge and understanding of their environment and skills that makes it a success and not a tragedy… And there have been direct casualties of people imitating TV survival shows… Richard Code comes to mind.
As always Lars great video ! lol stroud !? i gave up on him by the second episode always appeared to be starving and waiting for rescue! hahaha cheers to all from canada!
Hi Lars, I hear what you are saying, but Les Stroud's intention on that and most of his recent series was not about what a person should pack to survive in a challenging environment but to create a scenario where someone was un-prepared for events and challenges they were thrown in to. So the idea is that he would scavenge and make do with whatever resources he found in a wrecked plane, a broken motorcycle or whatever he was in when tragedy occurred. In most episodes he would be out on his own for 5 or 7 days regardless of how tough it got. On a few occasions he got sick and had to call to be extracted as he had exhausted his resources. I think he has a separate series where he talks more about what kit should be carried when having various adventures. One of the best explorers I have seen is Lars Monsen who is Norwegian (Sami), if you haven't watched them check out his crossing of Northern Canada from West to East Coast and 'Nordkollaten' 360 (maybe my spelling is off) where he spends 360 days continually trekking and in a tent or tarp. Lars Monsen is also a competitive dog musher and has been in the Yukon Quest and Iditarod Races. Best Wishes to you and your family from me and my Family in West Canada.
I would give an arm and a leg to be in your environment for 30min. A week ago the temperature in the region where I live it was +50 and it does not get much better.
I think any survival kit without a bivy bag, a bag si ilar to a MSS and also a tarp or two is a kit to fail. Always good to have a serious fallback in super cold. Next up is food, and traps. Also good to have a gun.
another great video Lars, lots of fun! I've been seeing some videos about making a fire roll out of natural elements, no cotton no charcoal/ashes. Could you do a series on different foraged items for making the fireroll? With just a knife, it may be hard to get the two flat boards if there are no rocks around, but it seems the rodiger fire roll way to start a fire could be really usefull. Thanks Lars and all the Best to you and your Family!! Ronald
The only uses I have ever had for a small mirror in the bush (apart from inbuilt mirrors on sighting compasses) have been: shaving, applying camo and removing camo. So … not since 1996🙂. Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.
I’ve studied survival situations when I was in the army back in the 90s. I was part of Ranger school, so we covered survival from mountains , swamps and high desert. The desert was the most dangerous because of extremes. It was In Utah then later moved to Texas. They don’t have that training anymore(imagine cutting out desert when that’s were we fought). Most situations don’t require any special gear. The most important thing is common sense. The one case that really stays in my mind. A family changing bases. Driving through the high desert in Nevada during a snow storm. They made a wrong turn (before GPS) they ended up in a state park that was shutdown. They stayed in car with baby for 2 days. They didn’t have proper gear . So instead of going the way he came he chooses to go forward. He put his wife in a cave with baby. Then when he walked for ( I can’t remember how long) he goes backwards. 500 hundred feet from the car he finds the main road. Flags down snowplow. Both him and his with had frostbite lost feet . The baby was dehydrated but healthy. Common sense is the biggest thing. Proper planning driving through winter take clothes in case you breakdown. The only gear needed in modern countries is water and things to make a fire. On the east coast it’s hard to find a place someone doesn’t walk past you, just try an 🎥. Someone will pop up. Lol I believe you are 100% Hollywood teaching things wrong. I wonder if they have a motive. I’ve sat through countless survival training from boy scout to army. Same stuff but some people can make anything interesting. Ever notice that.
Hello Lars we grew up on a farm in the 195o thing were much more how to do & no one was there to help out ! you had to repare your own things ! Survival Russia is a hands on Survival with the very best ! keep up the great work LARS
On the question on how would someone end up without gear in a place like this. Les did a lot of research for each episode like location scouting, looking into cases of lost or dead hikers and stuff like that and then build a episode based on the research. Many times its a scenario of some overconfident hiker planning to do a day trip maybe one night outdoors that gets lost/can't find his way back to his car or something like that.
To be fair to everyone involved, although most stuff was staged/faked I'm willing to put myself "out there" and say that both Les Stroud and Ray Mears combined have done a million times more for the bushcraft/survival scene than Bear Grylls could have ever achieved in his deepest most vivid dreams... Lars on the other hand - he's THE man...The master!!!... WHY?!?! 🤯Because Lars was, and is, the only "survivalist" I've ever seen to not obsess over having the tinyest most lightweight survival pack possible! Lars has clearly distinguished the difference between military survival and real world survival... Yeah... I've not got an AK, spare grenade and a tobacco tin full of fish hooks and line - Instead.. I've got a Silky saw, a bag full of Chaga and a firesteel.... Less weight, million times more practical and more like what average Joe takes to the forest with! The explanation of a Silky Saw and Salted Pork Fat for winter alone is worth more than anything I saw on TV!!!
Nice, you wear a shemagh. I find shemaghs to be great in both very cold weather and very hot weather. They can be like both a scarf and a hat and mask that you can do loads of things with.
I'm so glad I do not have TV. It has ruined a lot of things, including "bushcraft" which is more of a way of life than a hobby. Great videos as always.
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Of all the TV survival dudes, Lea Stroud and Ray Mears are the best, but Les always tried to handicap himself to make things more challenging. Adding survival food to any survival kit just makes sense. Hunting for your food seems like a good option until you actually have to do it.
Amen!
I know I thought I was the only one that said this I never understood why people say not to put food in your survival kits anytime I hear that I just instantly assume they've never had to forage or hunt for food
AH BACON .....best to carry it.... I see there are many feral hogs in the US but they are serious adversaries and the fishing kit and even full size axe wouldn't be enough to take one on
@@hattyfarbuckle As with other wild game animals, feral pigs are not easy to find when you need them. My son and a friend used several dogs protected by Kevlar vests to track and corner a feral pig. The dogs grabbed the animal's ears, controlling the head, and my son killed it with a knife.
Ray mears is a legend.
Thank you so much for mentioning the video! It was great to visit you, guys. Take care and stay safe, my friend!
My pleasure. Great video you made :)
ReallyBigMonkey1 a Southern USA guy I watch recommended me this channel, he does camping/hiking/gear/survival stuff and one of his favourite sayings that he attributes to his mentors is "If you find yourself in the middle of the wilderness with no gear or perhaps just a knife, at some point you messed up!"
As a Canadian, Les was my main influence into survival. I would get home from school and watch him on TV. Its been up hill from there. As "television" as he is, he led me to finding Lars and many others. I would not put Les at the top of the list for most influential survivalist, but he is influential to the topic. I still have his books and DVDs, I think I even bought his survival knives at some point. But I have learned what was for entertainment and what was for education. Thats TV.
He kind of started the whole "one guy in the forest filming himself" kind of thing :) His camera work must have taken so much extra time.
just like bear f...n grylls what person who is lost somewhere risks legs life etc by jumping on big rocks or jumping of cliffs not knocking him cos he has past selection but he does take the piss with it methinks.
@@covidcol3505 I remember that...
I think all of us Canadian boys from the sticks always ran home to see what adventure he got stranded in next! This B.C. island boys appreciates Survival Russia! Thanks for the great video! 👍🏼🇨🇦🔥
You are my favorite survival channel, especially because you are so real - AND you are not a corporate sell out.
You’re the real deal my friend. Always good advice not made up bs situations.
Thanks buddy!
gday eh
Been watching you for years. You and your family are true survivalists. Your knowledge is gold. Thank you.
I appreciate that!
As a Canadian who spent his 70 years in the bush , I agree with you Lars totally. We call a can with a wire bail a tea pail. To hydrate you pack your tea pail with snow from the bottom layer do snow as it’s the densest . Melting this snow you can then make tea, coffee or dry soup from Lars pack. I would sure want a silky saw as you will need a lot of wood for just one night.
I would listen to you over anyone for winter survival. You are the expert. Always happy and it shows in your videos. Thank you sir!
Thanks 👍 I don't see myself as an expert at all, but I know what cold weather is :)
@@SurvivalRussia ^this!
Since most of you know what a sensible survival kit is, I’ll not bore you with the details. However, here’s a method I use for when it gets really bitter cold: I purposely bought some outer clothing oversized enough to carry all of my gear inside so my body heat keeps the water from freezing. Being cold and drinking cold water at the same time really sucks even for a tough old woods runner like me. 😂
I think he said in one of his director's commentaries that in the early days of Survivorman it was the television company that decided what items he was allowed to bring, it also gave him the opportunity to show how one can live off the land (which was not always that successful). In one episode he's stuck in a car in Norway, which is another slightly funky event.
His new Wild Harvest series has a lot of information in it without the usual TV drama, which is great. Keep survival real!
I actually count the Norway episode as one off the more realistic ones. At least he has some kind of equipment, as if he actually prepared for the trip :)
@@SurvivalRussia if only he had more than a snack worth of food!
The UA-camr Paul Harrel makes a great video about wilderness survival and I agree with his criteria when it comes to calling it "Survival". His definition of wilderness survival is-
"In the field, under adverse conditions, when you have to spend the night or multiple nights, when you did not intend to, and you are not prepared to."
Canned food will be the top to buy item of 2023! I have regular intel up on YT. Keep prepping guys 👍 🙏 ✝️
why? it's a waste of money, space and weight. Instead by nut butters, coconut oil, seeds, spices and a $200, 7 cubic food chest freezer in which to put such things ($200 at wally's) ad a bunch of grain, Wheat and millet (bird seed at wally's) have 2.5x as many calories per lb as rice. Wheat lasts forever, basically. millet, a year or so. Buy some molasses, honey, Online ONLY, wally's sells a hand cranked grain mill for $45. A 50 lb block of mineral salt is $10 at tractor supply.
get your grain straight from the farmers, at harvest time, 50c per lb, in drums or bags. in a van or trailer. or buy it from the graneries at the RR siding, get it BEFORE they put the chemicals on it vs rot, bugs and mice!
Fantastic Video Lars !!! Your exactly right
Why would anyone want to survive when they can prepare and Thrive!!!
Thank you , Lars .
🐺
You are very welcome. Thank you too LC.
i just saw the video of Real Reporter and i loved it, i was really happy when every thing is ok for your life and your village and keep it up we love ya !💪
Les stroud is a very knowledgeable person and I have followed him since the beginning. I agree he doesn’t recommend the best survival kit but I was flipping through his book he published in 2008 and it actually talks about bringing dried food. I feel like we are constantly learning about survival and our opinion on things or the gear we carry sometime change over time. Love your channel tho Lars
Very beautiful video 👍. Hello good evening 👋
Best Channel on UA-cam..!
This video here is why I have been a subscriber of yours for years Lars. You are not afraid to speak your mind and you know what the hell you are doing. I absolutely love Les Stroud! One thing alot of survivalists do not talk about is having common sense in your kit, if you're a dum dum then no amount of food,water, saws, ferro rods or whatever can save you.
I have much respect for Les Stroud. What he have done is by no means easy.
@@SurvivalRussia His willingness to set out for 7 or 10 days with basically a snack worth of food and no water is incredible to me.
@@mikafoxx2717 I agree on that, especially when it seem like he generally have a hard time hunting/fishing.
I have a winter survival plan too. Sit next to the wood stove, go out to wood pile and bring in wood. The end
Good plan. It works.
The premise of Survivorman was to be stranded in a wilderness situation without full preparation and to make due with what was on hand. I recall the episode was based on being in a plane crash.
I love your comedy style. I absolutely love the honesty of this channel. One of my favorite shows.
Good to hear you have your wicked laugh back and your tail up! That folding Silky is a superb item, a good knife, cordage, ferro rod and tinder, small axe....a block of fatty bacon, a pot for boiling water/snow. Ah...Lars...I think I could survive on my journey now....my journey to Sainsbury's to buy pies and brandy. Love what you do...best wishes from England, land of the pie.
Love the video.
Stroud’s show was entertainment, what was intriguing was how he would get out of the situation he was in.
You do a great job. I have been watching you for a long while, and where you are living is no joke. Keep up the good work. 👍
Lars, good to see you out and about. Stay warm.
There is nothing better than a new Survival Russia video, especially as I'm making a new video.
Hello from Oklahoma! Fun Video! Enjoyed the talk about kids "using" your stuff. I have started carrying a folding saw and a heavy knife(Schf3n) and a folder. I don't miss carrying an ax or hatchet. Yes some freeze dried food is handy. Thanks for all U do!
God Bless!
The TV guys bring stuff to last until rescue. On the Tiga you bring stuff to last until resupply because life is survival there. Great video. I watched the life in rural Russia video too it was really good and good to see Lars and the family the same life through another lense. You get what you get through anyone's view.
You are so right on everything you say. Too many people want to romanticise survival like in the movies, you'd wind up dead as a liability without the right grear and knowing how to use it and how to improvise
Les came in a period of fascination for things like survival. Maybe there should have been a disclaimer that this was for entertainment, or perhaps inspiration, in that he sort of showed what was possible.
Lars , great to visit again , thanks for sharing , God bless brother !
You’re absolutely correct! The greatest survival tool you have is between your ears! Stay safe ! Keep up the good work!👍
Thanks 👍
Great points! The entire youtube "survival" community is full of commercial, fake garbage.
Thanks man. Great to see you. I like your videos actually. I found your channel a long time ago. I see that I was unsubscribed, so I re-subbed you. Happy Healthy 2023!!
Lars, This was after his plane crash video. In that video he explains his videos are a....shit, im stranded, this is what's at hand, till help arrives, type videos. He's kinda in a different genre than you. Your more of a common sence/military / European/trained/ woodsman teacher. Both of you are great bushcraft teachers. I'll bet Les replys to you. He's a great guy. He might come visit even. Like a Siberian dual survival thingy....
Survival food should always be a considered part of any survival kit no matter what the environment and weather conditions.
It sure is good to see you Lars.
Much love from Alabama!
Excellent points, Lars. 👍👍
A lot of that kit would be in your general purpose survival kit. Winter kit should be in addition to that kit. Case in point. The ax is fine, but imo, it would be in addition to a saw. Bringing food (tin of mackerel is where it starts for me) in a 72-hour scenario is WAY more important than bringing fishing/hunting equipment (again, this equipment should be in addition to). The garbage bag is almost tv personality nonsense. You see these social media guys universally recommend contractor bags as a core piece of gear. Almost none of them recommend a poncho (the thing garbage bags are a stand-in for).
Another great video!
Thank you Sir
Honestly I have never even heard of the guy until you mentioned him lol. You are definitely in my opinion the best at survival videos and having the experience. Reality survival on tv doesn't even touch what you do. Thanks for sharing Lars
One of the best bushcraft channels on youtube by a long margin.
Is it just me or is the winter where you live so far a little bit milder than usual? Past winter videos of yours seemed a hell of a lot colder 🥶 I noticed you were not wearing gloves and your exhaled breath wasn’t misting 🤔 I enjoy Les Strouds work but also agree that pre-planning and packing proper equipment will get you through most anything. Like a friend of mine once said….”There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.”
The thing with Les Stroud is its about what works for him. Different people will find that different things work best for them, though there are certain things that should work for everyone. He does seem to be a bit of a fantasist as are probably most people. He is right when he says you should put together your own survival kit, and I guess with plenty of bushcraft practice you will formulate ideas that are very practical and functional for yourself. Sometimes you find out that there is no point in having certain items, and that you can have something else that can provide multiple functions in your rucksack. When I go camping there are a lot of things that I take with me that I never end up using.
Good advice Lars
Great points Lars. Always a difference between what you do to survive and what you do for the cameras.
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Happy new year my man. great little video as always
I don't speak Russian, but I've been learning the Cyrillic alphabet and I'm amazed at how much that helps. If I read it correctly, you showed packages of "super soup", a name that is clever in any language. Greetings to you and your family from the Bighorn Mountains!
Great video I agree TV just screws everything up. Did you ever figure out your coolant leak? I also recommend real reporter very well done videos and he speaks better English than I do!
Good to see you again. Here in Minnesota we are haveing a very snowy season. When we move south the are is forest-mostly so what I can pick up here is useful.
I was watching a video in the winter conditions just you're in and the guy was casually filming and talking walking around and he finds a void in some rocks that goes down into the ground he puts his camera and light in the void and looking up is a huge black bear 🤣🤣 he ran so fast I was laughing so much.
Calories in the cold are essential! As is hydration. Another great video Lars!
Thank´s for nice videos. I bought a Bereg Russian tent after I saw you test it in one of your videos. It´s the best tent in the world I think!
Canadian here, I like your channel.👍👍🍺
Thanks 👍
Thank You For Your Videos!! Hello From Ohio, USA!!
I agree that it commercial TV distorts survival and does not give good advice. I had friends who died during a cross country ski adventure because they did not bring enough cold winter gear and knew that a large winter storm was almost upon them. They made a bad decision and five people died in the snow storm and their bodies were not found until three months later.
The most important thing in a survival kit is more about sustenance. Having food along as you pointed out is often most important. Having some food also makes it easier to obtain food as well as extending any food you hunt fish or gather. Next is water. Safe, consumable water as well as the ability to collect it, store it, and carry it. Next for me is several ways to make a fire and make it a repeatable strategy. Cordage, wire, and nails I would add to that mix. Fitting nicely inside the can, pot, container, Etc. I would hopefully have reasonable knife or multi- tool. It should not take up too much space for salt, sugar, aspirin, antihistamine, Tylenol, and ibuprofen.
Good to see you still going strong. Winter was delayed somewhat her on the coast of the Bay of Fundy. Wet snow above and below freezing. Hope to get out for a good trudge. Thanks for the inspiration.
Winter was delayed here as well.
Thanks for your insightful video! Keep it up!
Fantastic video as always my Russian friend! Watching from the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island in Canada! Stay awesome, safe and blessed my friend! Cheers, Jerbs 👍🏼🇨🇦🔥
Hi Lars, your right on the money , these tv survival shows are rigged just to make so called good viewing. Anyone in winter whith only the items shown in this video, ain't going to make . I would refer to your previous videos Lars, when you showed what you take whith you in winter conditions, that's the real deal, at least you get back home in one piece. Keep doing what your best at mate, showing us the proper way to survive out there, and tell it like it is. Thanks for another interesting video, best wishe's to you and your family, stay safe, Stuart UK.
Brilliant absolutely brilliant
I have seen Les Stroud's TV shows and to be fair, he sets up a survival situation where you don't have much along the way of survival gear. Now if he was actually building a survival kit, I agree with you 100% Lars...being properly prepared, with the proper gear, when you out hiking on your own, IS a survival kit.
I liked watching Les' TV show, because he failed damn near every time...lol. However, it does get you thinking...what would you do, if you were in that same situation?
All of this aside, I like your show the best Lars. You have experience and know-how for those who are thinking about being more prepared. Thanks for sharing this knowledge with us.
At -43 I’d consider being indoors as survival situation!
Hey - I’ve met Les in person, with my children at his book signing and can tell you he’s a stand up guy. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
I never said he wasn't :)
Survivorman's MO was to be caught in the woods overnight or a few days at most with no preparation at all no food no water only what he has on his person where as Lars lives survival with access to whatever he needs. Huge difference and both with the greatest of survival skills..well done Lars🥰
I've been binge-watching your videos ever since I found your channel a while ago. I've watched other "survival" channels of course but yours is unique and different. Greetings and all the best from a South African in Tbilisi, Georgia. P.S: I hope to find some of that Georgian "super soup" so I can make my own buckwheat survival meal!
Awesome! Thank you!
Great vid Lars very down to earth. What band of chest bag are you wearing.
What's the brand of your chest rig? great video by the way keep it up sir. Thank you.
@@tjellis1479 thank you so much brother.
When I watch a video of Lars from the woods, I always look forward to Bigfoot walking in the background among the trees.
Yes Les's show was partially entertainment for TV viewers, but he's still more legit than Bear Grylls or any of those other fake TV survivalists that wake up in the bush with perfectly combed hair and unwrinkled clothes. Hel he almost died in Mongolia on his way to film an episode! Yes I'm Canadian so I have to take up for him lol
The damage the Television did to emergency situations is horrible.
So many people think they can go into deep woods with a 200$ knife and just hunt down some wild animal and live off it for months.
Thankfully the community works hard on spreading real information just like the Gun community teaches the people that "MilSpec" is not actually a word to describe a good quality item.
I will never forget the video where you slept on the ground and woke up before freezing to death. It was legitimately scary when you talked about, “you only wake up once.”
It was a bit rough :)
Excellent!
TV and UA-camrs in the “survival” theme who make videos going out into the woods and “surviving” are actually just filming themselves camping out…. I do it too, I grab an assortment of items that I’m confident will be enough to get me thru my stay with sometimes limited comfort and head out… but it’s the persons own knowledge and understanding of their environment and skills that makes it a success and not a tragedy…
And there have been direct casualties of people imitating TV survival shows…
Richard Code comes to mind.
Importent❗Tack, Lars❗
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As always Lars great video ! lol stroud !? i gave up on him by the second episode always appeared to be starving and waiting for rescue! hahaha cheers to all from canada!
Hi Lars, I hear what you are saying, but Les Stroud's intention on that and most of his recent series was not about what a person should pack to survive in a challenging environment but to create a scenario where someone was un-prepared for events and challenges they were thrown in to. So the idea is that he would scavenge and make do with whatever resources he found in a wrecked plane, a broken motorcycle or whatever he was in when tragedy occurred. In most episodes he would be out on his own for 5 or 7 days regardless of how tough it got. On a few occasions he got sick and had to call to be extracted as he had exhausted his resources. I think he has a separate series where he talks more about what kit should be carried when having various adventures. One of the best explorers I have seen is Lars Monsen who is Norwegian (Sami), if you haven't watched them check out his crossing of Northern Canada from West to East Coast and 'Nordkollaten' 360 (maybe my spelling is off) where he spends 360 days continually trekking and in a tent or tarp. Lars Monsen is also a competitive dog musher and has been in the Yukon Quest and Iditarod Races. Best Wishes to you and your family from me and my Family in West Canada.
Thank you very much. My point was quite simple in regards to said episode. He obviously packed a survival kit, but deliberately packed it poorly.
I would give an arm and a leg to be in your environment for 30min. A week ago the temperature in the region where I live it was +50 and it does not get much better.
Man that's hot!
Ahh looking a bit more rested !
I think any survival kit without a bivy bag, a bag si ilar to a MSS and also a tarp or two is a kit to fail. Always good to have a serious fallback in super cold. Next up is food, and traps. Also good to have a gun.
another great video Lars, lots of fun! I've been seeing some videos about making a fire roll out of natural elements, no cotton no charcoal/ashes. Could you do a series on different foraged items for making the fireroll? With just a knife, it may be hard to get the two flat boards if there are no rocks around, but it seems the rodiger fire roll way to start a fire could be really usefull. Thanks Lars and all the Best to you and your Family!! Ronald
The only uses I have ever had for a small mirror in the bush (apart from inbuilt mirrors on sighting compasses) have been: shaving, applying camo and removing camo. So … not since 1996🙂. Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.
I’ve studied survival situations when I was in the army back in the 90s. I was part of Ranger school, so we covered survival from mountains , swamps and high desert. The desert was the most dangerous because of extremes. It was In Utah then later moved to Texas. They don’t have that training anymore(imagine cutting out desert when that’s were we fought).
Most situations don’t require any special gear. The most important thing is common sense. The one case that really stays in my mind. A family changing bases. Driving through the high desert in Nevada during a snow storm. They made a wrong turn (before GPS) they ended up in a state park that was shutdown. They stayed in car with baby for 2 days. They didn’t have proper gear . So instead of going the way he came he chooses to go forward. He put his wife in a cave with baby. Then when he walked for ( I can’t remember how long) he goes backwards. 500 hundred feet from the car he finds the main road. Flags down snowplow. Both him and his with had frostbite lost feet . The baby was dehydrated but healthy.
Common sense is the biggest thing. Proper planning driving through winter take clothes in case you breakdown. The only gear needed in modern countries is water and things to make a fire.
On the east coast it’s hard to find a place someone doesn’t walk past you, just try an 🎥. Someone will pop up. Lol
I believe you are 100% Hollywood teaching things wrong. I wonder if they have a motive. I’ve sat through countless survival training from boy scout to army. Same stuff but some people can make anything interesting. Ever notice that.
truthfully lars ol"boy ive learned 99 percent of my winter survival from you brother. you are the real deal dude your techniques work 100 percent
Thank you. They should work :)
Great video!
Hello Lars we grew up on a farm in the 195o thing were much more how to do & no one was there to help out ! you had to repare your own things ! Survival Russia is a hands on Survival with the very best ! keep up the great work LARS
Thank you very much!
On the question on how would someone end up without gear in a place like this. Les did a lot of research for each episode like location scouting, looking into cases of lost or dead hikers and stuff like that and then build a episode based on the research. Many times its a scenario of some overconfident hiker planning to do a day trip maybe one night outdoors that gets lost/can't find his way back to his car or something like that.
To be fair to everyone involved, although most stuff was staged/faked I'm willing to put myself "out there" and say that both Les Stroud and Ray Mears combined have done a million times more for the bushcraft/survival scene than Bear Grylls could have ever achieved in his deepest most vivid dreams... Lars on the other hand - he's THE man...The master!!!... WHY?!?! 🤯Because Lars was, and is, the only "survivalist" I've ever seen to not obsess over having the tinyest most lightweight survival pack possible! Lars has clearly distinguished the difference between military survival and real world survival... Yeah... I've not got an AK, spare grenade and a tobacco tin full of fish hooks and line - Instead.. I've got a Silky saw, a bag full of Chaga and a firesteel.... Less weight, million times more practical and more like what average Joe takes to the forest with! The explanation of a Silky Saw and Salted Pork Fat for winter alone is worth more than anything I saw on TV!!!
Thank you very much Mike!
Love your show
That: "Fuchsschwanz" came clean
Nice, you wear a shemagh. I find shemaghs to be great in both very cold weather and very hot weather. They can be like both a scarf and a hat and mask that you can do loads of things with.
The mad man actually starts the video laughing in the face of death.
Les is for real. He has street (or wilderness) credibility!
I'm so glad I do not have TV. It has ruined a lot of things, including "bushcraft" which is more of a way of life than a hobby. Great videos as always.
As a Canadian, Les Stroud is one of our best straight faced comedians :) man he cracks me up with his jokes beginning to end.
That whistle would probably only serve to attract the attention of bears, wolves and maybe an elk lol
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