Good choices. So much depends on location. On Vancouver Island I took a bivy bag to protect my sleeping bag and it totally saved me one flooded night in my first shelter. I also took pemmican and it became central to my rationing strategy. I came home with 2 and 1/6th lbs of it. I still have it.
Thank you Dave! Yes, I think your bivy was a nice choice. If going to Vancouver Island, it'd be at least on my "maybe" list. I would also consider bringing an additional tarp instead of something else. You can make a lot with tarp, and of course use it to keep stuff dry. With as much rain as you have to endure there, there's a benefit to having a dry space outside of your shelter too, like a patio. The way yours was set up was nice though. I don't know. So much to think about haha! I love that you still have that pemmican. It's pretty amazing to think about rationing such a small amount of food for so long. Thank you for stopping by to comment on my video, it means a lot to me!!
Thank you!! There is a definite advantage to seeing the show before picking items! It must have been wild to be on Season 1! But each season has it's own challenges, and of course your location once you're dropped matters too... there's only so much gear can do for you before you just have to be creative I'm sure. :) Thank you for watching Nicole, I'm flattered!!
Well thought out choices! I modified my Leatherman in the exact way you mention. Brought it as a specific tool to build the kayak. This left me without a bow. I was building one when I tapped. There are a LOT of things they don’t show...
Jose! You were a big inspiration for my "ah ha!" moment on bringing a multitool for sure! So smart! I'm so glad you stopped by and commented on this video, it means a lot! And yes, there is soooo much they don't show. I bet your bow was amazing. You're definitely one of the top "Alone craftsman" I'd say!!
Thank you Pete! Gosh, it's so great of you to stop by this video. I'd love to do season 7 but I didn't apply because my kiddo is so little. But.... maybe someday in the future. :) Thank you again!
Great video Airyca, Looks well thought out. I opted for an axe, but only after a great deal of practice by bucking an entire years worth of firewood for my home, in addition to Firewise work and my all my survival training. I also custom built it and it's mask to my specs, for that region. A Katana Boy was a reserve item, but I am SO GLAD I went with the axe though. Limbing a tree with an axe is so much faster than with a saw, and nearly every tree needed to be limbed, and limbs made up the entire walls of my structure. Axe is also sharpenable in the field once you find the right rock. In the wrong hands it will seriously injure you even worse than a typical knife wound. Mors Kochanski is the man when it comes to axe use for bushcraft and survival, especially in the North. He's got some great books and videos on the subject. I am a huge fan of the pathfinder 2 qt pot. It is a true 2qt, the nearest Zebra pot is only 1.8 qt, and that last .2 matters! I also prefer the pathfinder bail, but the lid could be more substantial and multifunctional. When they make one with a lid for a plate I'll buy it again. It's heavy duty and the side handles are also perfect. Mine is a cherished item now. I made my own knife with O1 tool steel, and a scandi grind. ANY sharp knife will cut meat effectively, that's why all knives are dangerous, but a scandi knife processes and carves wood better than any other grind. And wood is 90+% of what you'll do with your knife. 4-5" blade is great. BUT, being a carver, I wanted more blades. I brought an Old Timer Splinter pocket knife because it has 6 different shaped blades in it for making all manner of tools and things. I already spend hours at a time carving at home with crooked blades, etc. so I considered this my entertainment center as well as a useful tool. I'm happy I brought it. I'm an archer so I brought my bow. Not worth it if you're not an experienced successful bow hunter. And maybe not even then. The gilnet was clutch as we've seen. I also took the time to learn how to use, make, and repair my net. This was almost a month of effort, but well worth it and personally rewarding. I think an overlooked item I seriously considered bringing is a closed cell foam sleeping pad. Saves calories from going into the ground is a warm and comfortable surface for many other activities. It can also be used to make new insoles, fire extender, splint/cast, etc. Thanks for your videos.
@@garyminick1050 Thanks. You can see in-depth videos on my ALONE experience on the Northwest Resilience channel I put together. Check it out, good fortune.
Excellent video on this topic. It just seems as though you might want to brush up on your skills . It seems as though you definitely have the courage and want to . I hope you will keep making videos that have to do with the "alone " show. It really is interesting to listen to people talk on this subject and all the learning process that all of us even the contestants are going through.
I am a mega fan of Alone too!!! My items would be a sleeping bag, pot & lid, ferro rod & striker, a knife, a multitool, a slingshot, fishing line & hooks, paracord, an axe, and soap.
Good list! It seems you get some of the difficulties in determining those last couple of items. I was so torn myself. I’d probably swap out a couple of the items I took if I had a re-do. Lol! Thanks for all your support and for being a big fan and promoter of the show! We all know of and love you!
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, it means a lot! I think your items list was awesome, but would love to know what you'd change! (I haven't caught up on your episode commentary yet if you mention it there) I am happy you guys enjoy my enthusiasm for the show! It's just a great way to showcase the awesomeness of our hobbies/lifestyles - I think a lot of folks benefit from seeing it and of course hopefully they're inspired to go play outside too!
Hello Airyca, greetings from Northern California. Thank you for sharing your gear choices for 'Alone'. You made some great gear choices. All the best to you for your good health and safety. 🤗
I Love your video! I myself am an avid fan of Alone since Season 1 and I look up to Alkan Kay as my mentor. If I were to be included in the Alone series, I would definitely bank on my cutying tools: -Leatherman Surge (I haven't had one yet, but I really dteamed of having one someday) -Condor Ktact Kukhri 2 -Folding saw Then I will trust my life on warmth... - sleeping bag (-60 degrees) -fero rod -cooking pot -frying pan - heavy duty tarp -paracord -fishing lines and different hooks. But since I'm from the Tropical Island of the Phillipines, The temperature of the arctic is definitely a very diferrent life for me. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
I know a way to give yourself another 30 days of staying power. Make a Kochanski supershelter out of the 12x12 tarp and the duct tape. create double walls by using 50 sq ft of the 20x20 tarp on the back and sides of the lean to. Have a double layer of PEVA clear shower curtain as your tarp. On the back and sides, stuff dry debris between the layers of tarp, sealing the edges with the duct tape. Then you dont need the sleeping bag, you see. Make the shelter 4x4x7 ft, with a raised wooden bed. Use the remaining 40 sq ft of reflective tarp to make a poncho, leggings, mittens, hood and booties. stuff debris between all 6 of your layers of clothing and between the poncho and the 10x10 tarp. Make an igloo as soon as you get 2 inches of snow. Pack it on a pile of boughs, in 3 layers, with a bit of water on each layer, to form a "crust". Make it 9-12" thick, Remove the boughs and you'll have an igloo. With a raised wooden bed, debris and a cold air sink, it will warm you 50F degrees by means of your trapped body heat, as well as get you out of the wind by not wasting a week on a shelter build and 3 weeks on processing firewood, you save a month of calories., wont burn down your shelter, wont choke on smoke. and dont need the axe or saw. A saw edged E tool is enough. You'll need to process 3 cords of wood in 100 days, not 30 cords. Huge difference. You'll also be a lot less likely to hurt yourself with the axe or all that lifting/dragging logs.
This year has been a really intense year for my family. I hope to do an update video soon!! I want to start making videos again it's just that life has gotten ahead of me! Thank you for checking in, we are well and I hope you and yours are too!
I love my Silky and would bring them out any time, but I wouldn’t recommend it if you are going to process huge logs. I have had my Gomboy pinched so tightly I couldn’t pull it out from the trunk I was sawing. This is the first time I witness the handle on the Silky warping and twisting badly when I tried to get it out. Gave me the feeling like it was going to break on me. In the end I had to chop my way through the trunk just to loosen up the pressure on the saw before I was able to yank it out. Not sure if a bow saw would be a better option since I don’t own one.
A valid thought! I think it's a risk i'm willing to make, but I totally understand it's a risk. Using a sawhorse or some sort of set up to prop the logs so that the saw doesn't get pinched would be a priority for me.
Captain Airyca Yup you are right. I learnt it the hard way and got my saw pinched so badly. It is a novice mistake and could have been avoided. The trunk of the fallen tree was on the ground, so instead of cutting from both sides to relief the tension and pressure I stupidly cut from the top which was why my saw got pinched.
When your Silky was pinched didn't you have some wedges that you can either make them ahead of time or buy them. They and practice with them will get you out of this kind of trouble, but don't feel alone in the issue of doing dumb stuff cause I hold the worlds record on that . Lol
Gary Minick No I don’t have wedges. I am not aware of the use with wedges until much later, like a few months ago when I saw some videos of lumberjacks at work. If only I had known then. Well, now I know.
@@CaptainAiryca yes but when you have just felled a tree and its on the ground it takes a keen eye to see where the pressure points are going to work for you or against you.
Love these videos with you giving your take on the Alone Series. I remember last year when you had Bushcraft Dave on dissecting the series. Excellent job Captain!! Thanks for sharing and we’ll catch ya on the next adventure. ATB Mike
make a 7 ft talk work pavilion using the 10x10 tarp that they give you. Then you can use the one way projected heat of 1-4 Siberian fire lays and be able to work under the pavilion in the rain, if need be. Do NOT leave that tarp there when you're not in need of it, or the wind will have it (or tear it to pieces). Spread-out that tarp over your ashes pit and the charred ends of the fire lay and your accumulated firewood. Once it's cold enough that rain is no longer a threat, you can winterize the tarp-shelter by adding logs, dirt and debris to the outside of it. You'll be gone before it hits 0F, so there's no need of a fire inside of the shelter, and that saves you 2 weeks of calories wasted on hauling and processing firewood, and a week on shelter building. You can also save a week of calories by boiling 3 gallons of water at once, every 3 days., not 2 qts at a time, twice per day. 30 days more staying power would have changed the name of the winner in every one of 8 normal seasons.
Woniya's idea of making an oversized sweater out of cordage is brilliant, so the producers, scumbags that they ARE, will doubtless make it against the rules. Take one of Chief Aj's slingbows, with 3 piece take down arrows. Have 6 of those arrows feature flu-flu fletching and Zwickey judohead blunts Use the modified Crunch mulittool to cut the cross-wires off of the blunts and make fishooks out of them. Take the Cold Steel shovel, modified to have 8" of real-deal saw teeth. Take the rations of pemmican and trail mix. Take the 3 lbs of salt and the 2GoSystems Trefecta XL bivy. Take the big roll of Gorilla tape and the reflective 12x12 tarp. If you haven't caught SOME fish, crabs, small game, maybe a beaver or porcupine by day 15, you probably never will. If you hustle, almost everything (productive) that you will do there will be done by day ten. So then you hole up in your debris stuffed tarp shelter (made in half a day out of half of the 12x12.
Why not just bring a Bowie knife it's thick like an ax so it can be buttoned and it's thin enough to do a lot of Bushcraft stuff so it's an Axe and a knife in one or like a machete how are you have a knife and the chopper
It just depends on the environment and your woods style. A machete in the jungle is an automatic YES. But these northern climates that they keep choosing for the show? An axe is mighty handy. But Vancouver Island? I'd just take a saw. It's all so hard to choose!
Fun! I like your choices🙂 I think another thing to consider is they are stationary. So you could bring heavier stuff👍🏻 I would pretty much take everything you picked. I would make the pot bigger. I might take bank line over Paracord. I would take the katana boy because I think with the longer saw it would be less effort? Are they not allowed food rations anymore? I would definitely take that. I might take my hatchet over a knife or axe. Maybe a tomahawk so you could remove the head to clean game easy. I have a crkt chogan and it works really well. Wow the more you think about it the harder and more confusing it gets 😂 Anyway great choices and I would definitely love to see you on that show😀😀😀
Yeah, a lot of my gear is small and compact. The pot size for the show is limited though, or else I"d bring a huge one! I think a lot of the contestants have brought and really liked using the katana boy. I'd want to pick their brains before making my final choice if possible! Interesting thoughts on the tomohawk, I hadn't thought of that! and YES the more I think the more I'm like AAAAAAHH
I would only bring my BK9 which would grant me the loyalty of all the forrest creatures and they would take care of the rest. Who knows, maybe I'd even be able to finally find that mysterious doughnut shop and claim my free apple fritter.
@@CaptainAiryca Well it's a mystical doughnut shop so the fritters are somehow zero carbs and zero sugar. If anybody could find the place they'd be more popular than Voodoo Doughnuts.
Great Video, thanks! Very thought provoking! I like you emphasis on tool-safety. One thing I would also consider is tool sturdyness & maintenance. I like the silky, but they break if you are not carefull (e.g. hungry & tired). Why bring a knife, when you have a blade on the multitool. For bigger cutting tasks you can also use the axe. Btw: One 11th item everyone brings is time ... so don't hurry, don't bring fast & fragile, bring sturdy and repairable!
Well thought out choices. My list would look similar to yours. I want to be an axe person because if you have the skills a proper axe can fill multiple roles; however, I do not yet have those skills. Therefore, I would select the medium sized Silky saw you discussed. I would pair that with a knife. I have owned several Bark River knives and any one would be an acceptable choice, but lately I’ve been using my BK62 a lot. The BK16 has a great handle and I have a Jack Pine Special from Lucas Forge that is a wonderful all round knife (similar to the Grohmann Canadian Belt Knife, but a bit larger) again with an excellent handle. For a pot I would pick something like the Zebra pot due to it’s durability. Although Self Reliance Outfitters has a 1.8L pot that might work. I have become a big believer in multitools in the last few years (I see them on the belts of a few Rangers in National Forest near where I live); however, my choice would be the Victorinox Spirit X because it is very well made and the tools can all be accessed without opening the pliers which I find a real plus. Although the original Leatherman Wave would be a good choice. 👍 Good video, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
What happened to the beer and bacon? Great list! Mine would be almost similar but I would probably change the saw for a bow and arrows (just to have that 1 in 100 chance of shooting something) and the axe/knife for a hatchet (only because I am more comfortable with it). Im a big fan of the show as well!
Good choices. So much depends on location. On Vancouver Island I took a bivy bag to protect my sleeping bag and it totally saved me one flooded night in my first shelter. I also took pemmican and it became central to my rationing strategy. I came home with 2 and 1/6th lbs of it. I still have it.
Thank you Dave! Yes, I think your bivy was a nice choice. If going to Vancouver Island, it'd be at least on my "maybe" list. I would also consider bringing an additional tarp instead of something else. You can make a lot with tarp, and of course use it to keep stuff dry. With as much rain as you have to endure there, there's a benefit to having a dry space outside of your shelter too, like a patio. The way yours was set up was nice though. I don't know. So much to think about haha! I love that you still have that pemmican. It's pretty amazing to think about rationing such a small amount of food for so long. Thank you for stopping by to comment on my video, it means a lot to me!!
Nice job!!! Loved seeing how your watching the show guided your choices :-) - Nicole from Seasons 2 & 5. I agree on the large saw!
Thank you!! There is a definite advantage to seeing the show before picking items! It must have been wild to be on Season 1! But each season has it's own challenges, and of course your location once you're dropped matters too... there's only so much gear can do for you before you just have to be creative I'm sure. :) Thank you for watching Nicole, I'm flattered!!
Great List. Loved the Bark River Aurora, my brother gifted me one about a decade ago and it's wonderful.
Great video, thank you for sharing.
You made some great choices. All the best to you, stay healthy. 🤗
Love the hairstyle. Looks good on you. Great video.
Thank you!
Well thought out choices! I modified my Leatherman in the exact way you mention. Brought it as a specific tool to build the kayak. This left me without a bow. I was building one when I tapped. There are a LOT of things they don’t show...
Jose! You were a big inspiration for my "ah ha!" moment on bringing a multitool for sure! So smart! I'm so glad you stopped by and commented on this video, it means a lot! And yes, there is soooo much they don't show. I bet your bow was amazing. You're definitely one of the top "Alone craftsman" I'd say!!
I feel like the showrunner's deliberately under show cased you. Probably not enough drama. More educational.
Great choices and video, well thought out! Would love to see you on Alone S7
Thank you Pete! Gosh, it's so great of you to stop by this video. I'd love to do season 7 but I didn't apply because my kiddo is so little. But.... maybe someday in the future. :) Thank you again!
Great video Airyca, Looks well thought out. I opted for an axe, but only after a great deal of practice by bucking an entire years worth of firewood for my home, in addition to Firewise work and my all my survival training. I also custom built it and it's mask to my specs, for that region. A Katana Boy was a reserve item, but I am SO GLAD I went with the axe though. Limbing a tree with an axe is so much faster than with a saw, and nearly every tree needed to be limbed, and limbs made up the entire walls of my structure. Axe is also sharpenable in the field once you find the right rock. In the wrong hands it will seriously injure you even worse than a typical knife wound. Mors Kochanski is the man when it comes to axe use for bushcraft and survival, especially in the North. He's got some great books and videos on the subject.
I am a huge fan of the pathfinder 2 qt pot. It is a true 2qt, the nearest Zebra pot is only 1.8 qt, and that last .2 matters! I also prefer the pathfinder bail, but the lid could be more substantial and multifunctional. When they make one with a lid for a plate I'll buy it again. It's heavy duty and the side handles are also perfect. Mine is a cherished item now.
I made my own knife with O1 tool steel, and a scandi grind. ANY sharp knife will cut meat effectively, that's why all knives are dangerous, but a scandi knife processes and carves wood better than any other grind. And wood is 90+% of what you'll do with your knife. 4-5" blade is great.
BUT, being a carver, I wanted more blades. I brought an Old Timer Splinter pocket knife because it has 6 different shaped blades in it for making all manner of tools and things. I already spend hours at a time carving at home with crooked blades, etc. so I considered this my entertainment center as well as a useful tool. I'm happy I brought it.
I'm an archer so I brought my bow. Not worth it if you're not an experienced successful bow hunter. And maybe not even then.
The gilnet was clutch as we've seen. I also took the time to learn how to use, make, and repair my net. This was almost a month of effort, but well worth it and personally rewarding.
I think an overlooked item I seriously considered bringing is a closed cell foam sleeping pad. Saves calories from going into the ground is a warm and comfortable surface for many other activities. It can also be used to make new insoles, fire extender, splint/cast, etc.
Thanks for your videos.
Great post sir !
@@garyminick1050 Thanks. You can see in-depth videos on my ALONE experience on the Northwest Resilience channel I put together. Check it out, good fortune.
Nice List there would bring Paracord instat of the Axe.Greetings from Austria
Excellent video on this topic. It just seems as though you might want to brush up on your skills . It seems as though you definitely have the courage and want to . I hope you will keep making videos that have to do with the "alone " show. It really is interesting to listen to people talk on this subject and all the learning process that all of us even the contestants are going through.
I am a mega fan of Alone too!!! My items would be a sleeping bag, pot & lid, ferro rod & striker, a knife, a multitool, a slingshot, fishing line & hooks, paracord, an axe, and soap.
Soap! You and Brooke & Dave Whipple think alike!
Good list! It seems you get some of the difficulties in determining those last couple of items. I was so torn myself. I’d probably swap out a couple of the items I took if I had a re-do. Lol! Thanks for all your support and for being a big fan and promoter of the show! We all know of and love you!
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, it means a lot! I think your items list was awesome, but would love to know what you'd change! (I haven't caught up on your episode commentary yet if you mention it there) I am happy you guys enjoy my enthusiasm for the show! It's just a great way to showcase the awesomeness of our hobbies/lifestyles - I think a lot of folks benefit from seeing it and of course hopefully they're inspired to go play outside too!
Captain Airyca I made a few comments about it on my “my story” video!!
Hello Airyca, greetings from Northern California. Thank you for sharing your gear choices for 'Alone'.
You made some great gear choices.
All the best to you for your good health and safety. 🤗
I Love your video! I myself am an avid fan of Alone since Season 1 and I look up to Alkan Kay as my mentor. If I were to be included in the Alone series, I would definitely bank on my cutying tools:
-Leatherman Surge (I haven't had one yet, but I really dteamed of having one someday)
-Condor Ktact Kukhri 2
-Folding saw
Then I will trust my life on warmth...
- sleeping bag (-60 degrees)
-fero rod
-cooking pot
-frying pan
- heavy duty tarp
-paracord
-fishing lines and different hooks.
But since I'm from the Tropical Island of the Phillipines, The temperature of the arctic is definitely a very diferrent life for me. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
I know a way to give yourself another 30 days of staying power. Make a Kochanski supershelter out of the 12x12 tarp and the duct tape. create double walls by using 50 sq ft of the 20x20 tarp on the back and sides of the lean to. Have a double layer of PEVA clear shower curtain as your tarp. On the back and sides, stuff dry debris between the layers of tarp, sealing the edges with the duct tape. Then you dont need the sleeping bag, you see. Make the shelter 4x4x7 ft, with a raised wooden bed. Use the remaining 40 sq ft of reflective tarp to make a poncho, leggings, mittens, hood and booties. stuff debris between all 6 of your layers of clothing and between the poncho and the 10x10 tarp.
Make an igloo as soon as you get 2 inches of snow. Pack it on a pile of boughs, in 3 layers, with a bit of water on each layer, to form a "crust". Make it 9-12" thick, Remove the boughs and you'll have an igloo. With a raised wooden bed, debris and a cold air sink, it will warm you 50F degrees by means of your trapped body heat, as well as get you out of the wind
by not wasting a week on a shelter build and 3 weeks on processing firewood, you save a month of calories., wont burn down your shelter, wont choke on smoke. and dont need the axe or saw. A saw edged E tool is enough. You'll need to process 3 cords of wood in 100 days, not 30 cords. Huge difference. You'll also be a lot less likely to hurt yourself with the axe or all that lifting/dragging logs.
Hi Captain 👋. Where have you been? Missing your videos. Hope you’re coming back soon. 🌸
This year has been a really intense year for my family. I hope to do an update video soon!! I want to start making videos again it's just that life has gotten ahead of me! Thank you for checking in, we are well and I hope you and yours are too!
I love my Silky and would bring them out any time, but I wouldn’t recommend it if you are going to process huge logs. I have had my Gomboy pinched so tightly I couldn’t pull it out from the trunk I was sawing. This is the first time I witness the handle on the Silky warping and twisting badly when I tried to get it out. Gave me the feeling like it was going to break on me. In the end I had to chop my way through the trunk just to loosen up the pressure on the saw before I was able to yank it out. Not sure if a bow saw would be a better option since I don’t own one.
A valid thought! I think it's a risk i'm willing to make, but I totally understand it's a risk. Using a sawhorse or some sort of set up to prop the logs so that the saw doesn't get pinched would be a priority for me.
Captain Airyca Yup you are right. I learnt it the hard way and got my saw pinched so badly. It is a novice mistake and could have been avoided. The trunk of the fallen tree was on the ground, so instead of cutting from both sides to relief the tension and pressure I stupidly cut from the top which was why my saw got pinched.
When your Silky was pinched didn't you have some wedges that you can either make them ahead of time or buy them. They and practice with them will get you out of this kind of trouble, but don't feel alone in the issue of doing dumb stuff cause I hold the worlds record on that . Lol
Gary Minick No I don’t have wedges. I am not aware of the use with wedges until much later, like a few months ago when I saw some videos of lumberjacks at work. If only I had known then. Well, now I know.
@@CaptainAiryca yes but when you have just felled a tree and its on the ground it takes a keen eye to see where the pressure points are going to work for you or against you.
Love these videos with you giving your take on the Alone Series. I remember last year when you had Bushcraft Dave on dissecting the series. Excellent job Captain!! Thanks for sharing and we’ll catch ya on the next adventure. ATB Mike
Oh yay I'm glad you enjoy them! I enjoy having this minor obsession haha! It's fun and fuels me to keep improving myself too.
Enjoyed the list. If you guys are ever in Central Oregon give me a shout. I am in Prineville.
make a 7 ft talk work pavilion using the 10x10 tarp that they give you. Then you can use the one way projected heat of 1-4 Siberian fire lays and be able to work under the pavilion in the rain, if need be. Do NOT leave that tarp there when you're not in need of it, or the wind will have it (or tear it to pieces). Spread-out that tarp over your ashes pit and the charred ends of the fire lay and your accumulated firewood. Once it's cold enough that rain is no longer a threat, you can winterize the tarp-shelter by adding logs, dirt and debris to the outside of it. You'll be gone before it hits 0F, so there's no need of a fire inside of the shelter, and that saves you 2 weeks of calories wasted on hauling and processing firewood, and a week on shelter building. You can also save a week of calories by boiling 3 gallons of water at once, every 3 days., not 2 qts at a time, twice per day. 30 days more staying power would have changed the name of the winner in every one of 8 normal seasons.
Woniya's idea of making an oversized sweater out of cordage is brilliant, so the producers, scumbags that they ARE, will doubtless make it against the rules. Take one of Chief Aj's slingbows, with 3 piece take down arrows. Have 6 of those arrows feature flu-flu fletching and Zwickey judohead blunts Use the modified Crunch mulittool to cut the cross-wires off of the blunts and make fishooks out of them. Take the Cold Steel shovel, modified to have 8" of real-deal saw teeth. Take the rations of pemmican and trail mix. Take the 3 lbs of salt and the 2GoSystems Trefecta XL bivy. Take the big roll of Gorilla tape and the reflective 12x12 tarp. If you haven't caught SOME fish, crabs, small game, maybe a beaver or porcupine by day 15, you probably never will. If you hustle, almost everything (productive) that you will do there will be done by day ten. So then you hole up in your debris stuffed tarp shelter (made in half a day out of half of the 12x12.
Why not just bring a Bowie knife it's thick like an ax so it can be buttoned and it's thin enough to do a lot of Bushcraft stuff so it's an Axe and a knife in one or like a machete how are you have a knife and the chopper
It just depends on the environment and your woods style. A machete in the jungle is an automatic YES. But these northern climates that they keep choosing for the show? An axe is mighty handy. But Vancouver Island? I'd just take a saw. It's all so hard to choose!
Fun! I like your choices🙂 I think another thing to consider is they are stationary. So you could bring heavier stuff👍🏻 I would pretty much take everything you picked. I would make the pot bigger. I might take bank line over Paracord. I would take the katana boy because I think with the longer saw it would be less effort? Are they not allowed food rations anymore? I would definitely take that. I might take my hatchet over a knife or axe. Maybe a tomahawk so you could remove the head to clean game easy. I have a crkt chogan and it works really well. Wow the more you think about it the harder and more confusing it gets 😂 Anyway great choices and I would definitely love to see you on that show😀😀😀
Yeah, a lot of my gear is small and compact. The pot size for the show is limited though, or else I"d bring a huge one! I think a lot of the contestants have brought and really liked using the katana boy. I'd want to pick their brains before making my final choice if possible! Interesting thoughts on the tomohawk, I hadn't thought of that! and YES the more I think the more I'm like AAAAAAHH
I would only bring my BK9 which would grant me the loyalty of all the forrest creatures and they would take care of the rest. Who knows, maybe I'd even be able to finally find that mysterious doughnut shop and claim my free apple fritter.
Solid plan. 😂 Dang low carb diet, I'm gonna dream about apple fritters tonight lol!!!
@@CaptainAiryca Well it's a mystical doughnut shop so the fritters are somehow zero carbs and zero sugar. If anybody could find the place they'd be more popular than Voodoo Doughnuts.
Ax , multi tool and the pot . work on your bow and arrow skills . great vid good choices. Enjoy you're future endeavors...
Great Video, thanks! Very thought provoking! I like you emphasis on tool-safety.
One thing I would also consider is tool sturdyness & maintenance.
I like the silky, but they break if you are not carefull (e.g. hungry & tired).
Why bring a knife, when you have a blade on the multitool. For bigger cutting tasks you can also use the axe.
Btw: One 11th item everyone brings is time ... so don't hurry, don't bring fast & fragile, bring sturdy and repairable!
Well thought out choices. My list would look similar to yours.
I want to be an axe person because if you have the skills a proper axe can fill multiple roles; however, I do not yet have those skills. Therefore, I would select the medium sized Silky saw you discussed.
I would pair that with a knife. I have owned several Bark River knives and any one would be an acceptable choice, but lately I’ve been using my BK62 a lot. The BK16 has a great handle and I have a Jack Pine Special from Lucas Forge that is a wonderful all round knife (similar to the Grohmann Canadian Belt Knife, but a bit larger) again with an excellent handle.
For a pot I would pick something like the Zebra pot due to it’s durability. Although Self Reliance Outfitters has a 1.8L pot that might work.
I have become a big believer in multitools in the last few years (I see them on the belts of a few Rangers in National Forest near where I live); however, my choice would be the Victorinox Spirit X because it is very well made and the tools can all be accessed without opening the pliers which I find a real plus. Although the original Leatherman Wave would be a good choice.
👍 Good video, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
What happened to the beer and bacon? Great list! Mine would be almost similar but I would probably change the saw for a bow and arrows (just to have that 1 in 100 chance of shooting something) and the axe/knife for a hatchet (only because I am more comfortable with it). Im a big fan of the show as well!
Haha! I'm glad you remember that joke lol! And yes, if you have bow skills, it makes sense to bring it.
It's from a list? Shit. There goes my idea of calling a camper van one item.
Lol you'd have to speak to the producers on that one!
Hatchet or Machete
I don't think Machetes are allowed, or else Dave might have brought one on season 2 I bet! What else would you bring?