Survivorman/Man vs. Wild.

[rphillips1986]

I prefer Survivorman. He earned major brownie points with me in one eppisode when he said that because this is a TV show, with the cameras and the knowlage he will be rescued, he can't portray a lot of the phycological and emotional effects of the situations he is trying to immitate. He also has a real background in survival, having written books and taught classes prior to the show.

[jrock24]

My 6 y/o boy seen the commercial for Les' new show and got all excited. We made plans to watch it together this weekend when it plays.

[erunkiswldrnssurvival]

my daughter is too young to be interested, but i am going to watch it also.

[patriot]

i heard that bear had a stunt person do all of the survival stuff while he sat in a warm hotel room.

[endurance]

I'm still not a Bear fan, but you have to give the guy at least partial credit on this one:

TV Show Helps Utah Boy Survive Night Solo In Woods

(AP) When he realized he'd been separated from his family on a weekend hike in a northern Utah forest, 9-year-old Grayson Wynne's thoughts turned to television.

Grayson watches "Man vs. Wild" on the Discovery Channel every week with his brothers and his dad. On the show, host and adventurer Bear Grylls strands himself in the wilderness and then shows viewers how to survive the sticky situations.

That's where Grayson says he learned to leave clues behind to help searchers find him.

On Saturday, when he was scared and alone in the Ashley National Forest, Grayson started tearing up his yellow rain slicker, despite the intermittent downpours, and tying pieces to trees.

"I just used my hands," said Grayson, who was found safe Sunday after spending 18 hours lost in the forest. "I don't know how many times I tore the thing but quite a lot."

Grayson was among a party of about 15 family members that left Saturday from the Spirit Lake trailhead in Daggett County. The group stopped to tighten a saddle on a horse at some point, said Grayson's dad, Kynan Wynne. But Grayson didn't realize it and went ahead of the pack before diverting onto a smaller trail in the thick forest.

Although Kynan Wynne was concerned for his son's safety, he was also confident in the boy's resilience.

"Somewhere he got the idea that for multiple reasons, not just for people to find you, but to retrace your steps if you have to, to leave a trail," Kynan Wynne said.

Grayson created a small shelter overnight under a fallen tree. The next day, he decided to follow a creek in hopes of finding help.

"I (thought I) might find the lake, that there might be somebody at the lake," he said.

Grayson, who will start fourth grade in the fall, also left a couple of clues for searchers that he didn't mean to.

He dropped a granola bar wrapper about 300 yards off the main trail. Searchers also found a small footprint and a backpack about 400 yards from the wrapper.

"I was just being pretty stupid that I dropped the backpack," Grayson said. "I was just panicking too much."

When Grayson heard a helicopter overhead, he ran into a meadow and waved the last piece of his jacket. But two searchers on horseback saw him first.

"It was such a good feeling that I was going to be all right," said Grayson, who got back to normal Monday by playing in a Little League double-header.

When he was reunited with his father, Grayson's first words were "Happy Father's Day."

The Daggett County sheriff's office credited the searchers, volunteers and Grayson's common sense for the positive outcome.

"The thing that he recognized from the show, regardless of the circumstances you're in, you are capable of surviving," Kynan Wynne said.

I think that last line says it all. Just knowing you can endure great hardship makes a big difference in your likelihood of survival. That's why I love the book The Long Walk.

[Sarge47]

I've posted this in it's own thread. Let's just hope the kid didn't try to drink his own urine!

[Grant H]

Bear Grylls= Survivorman Lite.

[Sarge47]

Bear Grylls= Survivorman Lite.

Grant, methinks you're gonna fit in quite well here!

[Tundrascout]

I lost all interest in survivorman when he shot an episode on surviving an avalanche. The avalanche experts were trying to explain something to him and he cut them off on camera and began explaining the same thing to the camera - pretty much repeating them verbatim. Pretty rude in person I am sure.

I'm not a big fan of Will Ferrel, but the episode he was on with Bear was highly entertaining.

To me, both shows are entertainment with some ideas tossed in on survival tactics, but each situation warrants a re-evaluation of what is needed. (if you were just attacked by a bear, bleeding profusely despite your aid kit and probably going to die if you dont get attention quickly, it might make more sense to slide down the side of a mountain with a stick then to try to walk down.)

[sgtdraino]

I lost all interest in survivorman when he shot an episode on surviving an avalanche. The avalanche experts were trying to explain something to him and he cut them off on camera and began explaining the same thing to the camera - pretty much repeating them verbatim. Pretty rude in person I am sure.

??? I thought I'd seen every episode, and this doesn't ring any bells at all with me. Anybody else remember such a thing?

[tonester]

??? I thought I'd seen every episode, and this doesn't ring any bells at all with me. Anybody else remember such a thing?

yah will ferrel did a special with bear, it was called men vs wild. i think it was to promote ferrels new movie land of the lost. they just showed it again tonight.

[Jiujitman]

It is always funny to me that Bear just happens to find a Moose head laying in the snow, a dead camel for food and shelter, a dead sheep for food and shelter, there was something else dead he found but I forgot...Is this just a coincidence? Think not.

On another note, les did a show not too far from where I live. It was a show about swamp survival in the Altamaha river/swamps. He actually built a turtle trap, ate the turtle, killed a rattlesnake, ate the snake and then built a raft and paddled to safety. Finding your way out of those swamps in the Altamahe or Satilla can be SCARY (he was blindfolded when they dropped him off)! I got lost on the river one night with nothing but a paddle and a canoe-talk about scary!!

[KenB]

Every time I see that jack *** Bear I hope that Wild wins.

[rwc1969]

His new episode was on last night. "He?" "caught?" a Caribou and apparently gutted it without rupturing the ponch. Amazing! He then proceeded to drag it thru knee deep snow just to eventually dump it in the river. what a waste!

I saw the real Survivorman had a show on Cartoon network, but it may have been cancelled. Would sure like to see more real survival shows on air.

[Ken]

It is always funny to me that Bear just happens to find a Moose head laying in the snow, a dead camel for food and shelter, a dead sheep for food and shelter, there was something else dead he found but I forgot...

Here ya' go, Bear! Food and shelter........

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[Rick]

Oh, look! My ban button is sitting under my chair. Oh, oh. Looks like the legs are about to give out under the strain!

[2dumb2kwit]

Oh, look! My ban button is sitting under my chair. Oh, oh. Looks like the legs are about to give out under the strain!

Yeah! Ban him! You don't have to take his abuse!

[Rick]

You know....game kinda has the taste of what it has been eating, so one of these should taste kinda like......Twinkies!

Even if you delete it, I can still read it. Now...who did you want banned?

[2dumb2kwit]

Even if you delete it, I can still read it. Now...who did you want banned?

Just because YOU can read it, doesn't mean that you can't play along! (Sheeez......how many lobsters did Ken send this guy?)

[Ken]

Even if you delete it, I can still read it. Now...who did you want banned?

Rick, 2dumb just e-mailed this picture that he claims is you sitting on your chair. That's not you, is it?

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