How real is History Channel survival show Alone?

Out of all the reality TV shows you might find, survival competitions are truly the most extreme ones you would find in this genre. While it’s undeniable that the thrilling aspects of those shows is how competitive they can be, what really keeps people watching week after week is their fondness for the contestants and their expectation of achieving their goals.

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[SonnyCrocket-ph]

there's debris everywhere and if you know anything, you can dry out all of the debris that you need (for insulation) in one day.and then KEEP it dry with the 10x16 tarp that the produers give to everyone. You will launch at 50F degrees and it wont even freeze for a month. So you dont need the debris (as insulation) right-away anyway. All you need is the multiple layers of clothing that you get to take and the reflective tyvek bivy, maybe some hot rocks in your spare socks, in the foot box of the bivy, to get thru the first month of this challenge.

You dont need more of a shelter than just the tarp and tape tent for that time period and you dont need a sleeping bag. The reflective tyvek bivy, XL size, is several times more useful than the sleeping bag, cause it's unaffected by its getting-wet. so you can wear it as a rain poncho, use it as a rain-canopy, and line the stone-boiling pit with it. After it freezes, you can always devote the few hours needed to add the external pole frame, the 6" thick layer of dry debris-insulation to the outside of the tent and cover the debris with the producer's tarp. this suffices until at least day 60, without any need of a heat source inside of the tent.

when it' starts being even colder, remove the tarp from the debris/covering of the tent. Cover the loose dry debris with a 2' thick layer of WET debris, just at dusk. Let this debris freeze. Repeat for 2 more nights, for a 6" thick total layer of frozen debris on top of the loose debris. Because it's too cold for rain to be a threat, this layer of frozen debris suffices.

Fold the 10x16 ft tarp in half, making a 10x8ft "bag". Stuff it with a 6" thick layer of dry debris. and fold it in half again. You'll lose some size to the stuffing/thickness, but youlll end up with a 4 by 8 ft sleeping bag, after you've tied the edges to secure the debris inside of your "bag". Use some pebbles, or whittled buttons of wood from one side of the tarp and slip knots from the other side, so you can tie the edges of the tarp shut, without puncturing the tarp. The Producers wont allow you to cut up, puncture or tape anything to their tarps.

remove enough of the dry debris stuffings inside of your tent to let you move the debris-bag to your raised pole-bed. Replace as much of the tent-stuffings as possible. and youll be sleeping ok at 0F, without any heat-source. being needed, at 0F. You'll never see 0F, cause youll starve out before it gets that cold (ie, mid December)

[coondogsoutdooradventures]

Dave McIntyre is now a director of missions . He formerly being a missionary. FYI

[williammeek]

I watched til the end. Love this series. Following three of the contestants YouTube channels.

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

if your assigned part of the lake has few or no fish, there's a way to FIX that. get 400m of string, made from the cotton rope hammock /Every 20m along this 'chum-line' attach a wooden float and a little tarp and tape bag, with maggots, grubs, insect, rotted wood, moldy ground, fish parts, etc, in the bag. Poke a few little holes in the bags, so that the "goody" drips out a bit at a time. Use the pontoon outrigger raft (made in one day) to take one end of the chumline out into the lake and and anchor it out there. The scent/taste of the baits will bring in minnows and big fish will come for the minnows.

[themarekch]

G'day from Australia 🇦🇺. Great information and video. It was nice to hear.

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

people are quite ignorant about how many calories per day you need to eat if you spend long, hard days outside of your shelter. If you stay "holed-up", you'll need 3000 calories per day, as a big man, to lose no body weight. If you're out in the cold, wind, dampness all day, moving a lot, you'll need 4000-5000 calories per day. That will mean that you lose 1.3 lbs of bodyweight per day instead of "only" .80 lb per day. That "extra' 1/2 lb of weight lost per day means a lot by the end of 80 days, guys! Sitting under the pavilion, weaving netting, with the two Siberian fire lays projecting their one way heat from both sides of you, you wont be using up nearly as many calories and the fish that the 1200 sq ft of netting will catch for you, mixed with cambium, will make a huge difference in how long you can stay. That diet wont be pleasant and you cant choke down enough of it to stop your weight loss, but it WILL cut those losses in HALF. This buys you time and gives you the bait necessary to arrow a bear.

[philipanderson]

It is the most honest reality show on record. But.... there are issues. All though survivors film it all they have no part in editing. They have done an amazing job at keeping them safe. 8:10

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

each weir needs to be at most 200 sq ft of netting. It's not feasible to move more than 600 sq ft of seine by yourself, in cold water. You can make 1400 sq ft of 2" mesh netting out of the two person cotton rope hammock. 400 sq ft of that netting can be used as gillnets, and that gillnet can be 4" mesh, so you can have 800 sq ft of gillnet, plus the seine usually set as a gillnet.. You can make at least 100 sq ft of 2" mesh netting per day, or twice that much 4" mesh, so you''ll soon be catching a LOT of fish, Use 50 lbs of whole fish and 50 lbs of heads/guts (fat boiled out of them) as bait for a bear. Set up this bait in a stake and log box, so that only a bear can tear it open. create this bait-box 10m from your tree blind, 20 ft up. Fish and cambium can't keep you from losing body weight. Eat as much of it as you can and you can cut your loss of weight in half. Eating bear fat and meat CAN not only prevent weight loss, it can help you GAIN weight, replacing the 15+ lbs that you lost before you could arrow a bear.

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

it takes half an hour to boil 2 qts of water, if you've let your fire die-down. This includes waiting for the cup to cool off enough to let you drink from it. You have to do this 3x per day. That's 10.5 hours per week. Well, if you stoneboil 5 gallons of water in a pit, twice a week, that takes 1.5 hours. .make a basket on-site, line it with a hunk of tarp, and store your boiiled water in this basket. Save 9 hours per week, PLUS the time needed to gather and process all of that firewood, and do this for 11 weeks. 75 hours, lets say. You dont burn as many calories while sitting around waiting for water to boil in a little pot s you do hauling and processing wood, but you burn SOME and you can't leave the area as you do this, either. so there's another weeks time and calories just thrown away by taking the cookpot.

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

nobody's even known to bring a slingbow and 3-piece take-down arrows, so that they can always have their projectile weapon on their person. ALL shoreline mud has workable clay in it and it's easy to refine-out that clay from the other materials in that mud. Then you make the five 1-gallon each baked clay pots, their close-fitting, gasketed lids and the 100 clay balls you can use in the slingbow. No more lost or damaged arrows shot at small game or birds, no hours or calories wasted looking for arrows. Rocks dont fly straight enough for anything but shooting small fish in shallow water, almost straight down in front of you, swimming away from you.

[bluesky]

No appliances allowed. Oh no, no tv or oven?

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

on average, they all waste at LEAST 1 week on a shelter, a week on boiling water and 2 weeks on hauling and processing firewood. A month has often been the difference between 4th place and the winner. So, lose your way or win my way. Take your pick

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

they launch in mid sept, at 50F degrees, Water cools off more slowly than are. So you can probably set the net weirs by wading in the water, if you've got a fire, hot rocks, dry debris, the reflective tyvek bivy and dry clothing on shore nearby. This saves you one day needed to make the pontoon outrigger raft. You will of course need it later, but having the seine and weirs feeding you a day earlier is likely to mean a lot to you!

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

since you can easily keep the fire alive all night, it's a mistake to "think" you need to start fires "from scratch" all of the time. The ferrorod is thus a wasted gear-pick. You can use fire rolling, flint and steel, fire saw, big pump drill. all are easier than bow drill, especially the fire-rolling of a strip of your shemagh. for the first fire roll, use rust from your shovel as an accellerant. after you have one fire, you can use charred punkwood and/or ashes as accellrants.

[StarStoneWolf]

Theres so many of them here... I don't even need to scroll.


Playing a game right now where I find Kevin Hart comments. So far its been really easy

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

1 day will make your tarp and tape pole tent, the stone boiling pit and the basket that you'll line with a hunk of tarp and use to store your 5 gallons of boiled water. 1 day will make your pontoon outrigger raft. You dont need food for your first 2 days, due to your normal life Then the cambium mixed with gorp and pemmican will give you 2000 calories per day for a week. and you can go one more day on nothing. So that's 10 days You can be making over 120 sq ft of 2" mesh netting per day out of the cotton rope hammock, for 8 days, Each day's net production should go into the water as a baited net weir.

After you've got say, 500 sq ft of netting on top of two weirs, you can make a seine out of the 500 sq ft and use it to force fish from 4 ft deep water into the 18" deep water where the weirs are., So, before you're starving, you'll be catching plenty of fish to eat. Fish and cambium cannot stop your weight loss, but they can slow it down drastically and keep you going as you wait to arrow a bear from your tree blind, fish heads and guts and some whole fish can pile up enough to FORCE bears to come to the bait.

Bears MUST "fatten up" all that they can before hibernating, so they wont be just ignoring a 100 lb pile of whole fish and fish parts. Only half of an animal's live weight is edible flesh If you eat 6 lbs of live weight fish per day (1800 calories) half of it goes inside of the stake and log bait-box for bears. In 2 weeks, you'll certainly have 40 lbs of fish parts and 60 more lbs of whole fish to put into the bait box.

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

there's a way to gain 30 days more, for anyone, than what they are capable of without my training. When you know to make a 3.5x.3.5 x 8 ft tarp and tape tent in 3 hours, that suffices for the first month and down to nearly freezing temps. This saves 1-3 weeks, depending upon how ignorant you were with the shelter you would otherwise have wasted time and calories upon.

At such temps, you need "winterize" the tent down to 20F, which takes about 4 hours, This involves adding an external pole frame, covering the tent with a 6" thick layer of dry debris and covering the debris with the 10x16 ft tarp that the producers give each contestant.

Once it drops below about 20F degrees, you'll need considerably more insulation. It'll be too cold for net fishing from the pontoon outrigger raft. So youll remove the debris-stuffed coveralls and backpack from the raft and return them to their normal purpose. The pack can become your debris-stuffed pillow. The 3 coveralls will go on top of the 5 layers of clothing that you'll already be wearing, with dry, soft debris between each clothing-layer.

Remove the tarp from the outside of the shelter and covering the dry debris with a 2" thick layer of DAMP debris, at dusk. Let this layer freeze overnight. You can manage this in 2 hours. Repeat 2x, for a total of 6" thickness of wet (frozen) debris, on top of the 6" thick layer of dry debris.


Also, you need to fold the 10x16ft tarp in half, creating a 10x 8 ft tarp. Stuff this assembly with a 6" thick layer of dry debris, and fold it in half again, the result will be a 9x 3 ft ensemble, The size loss is due to the thickness of the stuffed "sleeping bag". Put the reflective tyvek bivy inside of this "bag', and stuff dry debris around the bivy, inside of the bag. Remove enough of the dry debris inside of your tent to let you move this bag into the tent and put it on the raised pole-bed. Replace as much of the debris-stuffing inside of the tent as you can. Then you'll be Ok at temps down to 0F, and you'll never see such temps.

Because you know how to stay warm with insulation and by keeping your shelter SMALL, you dont need much in the way of firewood So that saves you another 2 weeks of time and calories that you'd otherwise have wasted upon finding, cutting, hauling and processing all of the wood necessary for a warming fire. You also dont risk dying of CO poisoning as you sleep, nor of burning-down your shelter, like a dummy. :-)

As insurance vs being cold after you're too emaciated to make metabolic heat, you can have a row of 4 pits under your raised bed. Use a pair of Siberian fire lays to heat both sides of 4 head-sized rocks for about half an hour. Smother the flames with ashes or dry, loose dirt. Bury some coals and charcoal in your ashes-pit, so that you can use them to ignite one of your alternative Swedish fire torches. The torches will re-ignite the Siberians when you need to again heat-up the stones.

Use the long handle that you've made for the modified Cold Steel shovel to sled each stone into the tend and put it into one of the pits Surround each stone with a 2" thick layer of wood ashes. The ashes will slow down the rate at which the stones cool off. This means that the stone will warm the reflecttve tarp-tent by 20F degrees for 4-5 hours. Repeat this rock-heating as need be. It will be necessary for at most 2 weeks and you'll use only about 1/4 as much firewood as you would have had to provide in order to keep a warming fire going 24-7.

For the other 2 months of your stay, you wont need a heat source in your tent. None at all, because you'll be warm enough inside of your layers of clothing and the tent. So youll have saved 2 weeks of effort and time that you'd have wasted on firewood.

for the first month, while rain is still an issue and you have to get things done, rain or no rain, use the 10x16 ft tarp as a membrane over a pole frame, forming a pavilion. Never leave the flimsy tarp on this frame when you wont be right there. If you do that, the wind will have it in a minute flat! Rig the tarp with loops and 'Marlin spike' hitches (short sticks) for fast assembly and take-down. This setup will let you have 1-2 Siberian fire lays warming you as you work in the pavilion.

In the first month or so, you'll have done almost everything (productive) that youll do in your entire stay, with the exception of the final winterization step on the tent, and the hot stone trick (IF you need it. If you've used the raft and the 1200 sq ft of netting intelligently, youll have caught enough fish and (mixed with cambium) youll have enough bodyfat to not need the heat source inside of the tent.

If your 100 lbs of whole fish and fish guts/heads have baited a bear into the log and stake box, youll have arrowed it from your tree blind, 10m away. The 200, 000+ calories of fat, meat, marrow, brains and blood that the bear will provide you will see to it that you end up the season having lost no body weight at all. That will make you the "go-to" guy for survival info, bet your life on that

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

the 30 days of time /calories that I save you is 30 days of unhealthy fat that you dont have to add to your bodyweight. prior to the show. That might save your life, your marriage, etc. The time saved on not making a cabin, hauling firewood, etc, is much better spent on making the pontoon outrigger raft and the 1200 sq ft of 2" mesh netting possible from the two person cotton rope hammock. and then youll be able to average catching over 10 lbs of fish per day. You can't choke down that much fish and cambium, so you'll be able to use the surplus as bear-bait, along with the heads and guts that you dont eat, of course.

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

use baited net weirs, in 18" of water and 2-3x per day, use a seine to force fish from 5 ft deep water into the weirs. When the seine is not being used, set it out as a baited gillnet. This lets you relax in your warm shelter, conserving calories, while your nets 'fish" for you.

[SonnyCrocket-ph]

there's no way for anyone to know if you baited-in a bear or just stumbled upon it, no way to know how much netting you made, what the mesh size was, or how you used it. Sheesh.