Originally Posted by
jayd
Not just me, MOST think this partner requirement inhales sharply. Especially the starting 10 miles apart bs. Ditto with having to split the prize money. 2 of the 7 teams never hooked up. 2 more have tapped out, in less than a month of real time, too.
The fastest any team has hooked up has been 8 days. The most food that they get to take is 4 lbs (total) So the camper guy gets none, the hiker gets maybe enough for 3 days. Of course, they both can carbo-load before they go, which might be good for 2 day's effort, but the hiker is going to be running on fumes for 2-4 days, in slimy, treacherous terrain.
By the time that the hiker arrives, the camp-partner danged well better have created the shelter, the water filter, the duck rafts set for ducks and gulls (baited with roasted cambium) . The fishing float-sets net to be made and set. The hammock and gillnet need to unraveled, the outer sheathing removed (from at least 3/4 of the 2000 ft of paracord) ready to start weaving the netting. A lb per day of salt can be recovered by boiling seawater all day, and you'll need it for preserving the fish and game that you'll have to harvest. If that is, you want to win on your abilities, as vs winning by being fat and lucky.
Both of them need to use their rain pants for water containers. Both sets of gaiters can be converted (via a straightened-out fishhook and the duct tape) into "dry-bags", which you badly need, for force-drying (and keeping-dry) tinder, ashes, charred punkwood, salt, etc.
The camp partner needs to have decided if they stay there or not, which will be determined by the difficulty of the shoreline terrain and the availability of fish and fowl. If there is inadequate food present, then he needs to be making the debris-stuffed tarp pontoon, and at least finding and marking the logs for making the raft, so the team and all their stuff can be readily moved up and down the coast, looking for a better location.
The hiker gets the "camera" 10x10 tarp, (which, according to the rules) can't be cut up, while the camper gets the 12x12 and does what's needed with chunks of that.
If you're not going to lose weight, (cause you're not a lardass) then you'l have to average harvesting 10 lbs per day of fish/game, per person. That means 1200 lbs has to be caught in 2 months. Only with a LOT of netting, a lot of fishhooks (mostly set for the fowl) and baiting in and arrowing some fat bears are you going to achieve that kind of food-intake (on vancouver, at that time of year.
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