Date:         Sat, 3 Feb 2007 13:10:22 -0800
Reply-To:     John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: What's in YOUR Git Box/Bug-out Bag
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> There's a show on the outdoor network channel up here in Vancouver
> called "Survivor Man". He does just that. It's one of my fav shows.
> Worth checking if one can recieve it.
>

Hah! "Cheater Man", more like! He not only frequently decides he's "proved
his point" and calls for extraction early, but he curiously seems to have a
carefully NON random assortment of 2 or 3 things in his pocket that just
happen to be useful. My favorite was the desert survival one where he "just
happened" to have a couple Frito corn chips and a small bit of a sugary
power bar in his pocket (in addition to his Leatherman and flint),
simulating being a lost mountain biker. The corn chips (being oily) were
essential as fire lighters, and the power bar was coincidentally perfect
bait for catching squirrels in deadfall traps. Without either one, he'd have
been screwed. As it was he had so much trouble finding water he left early.

I'm more impressed with "Bear" Grylls on Man vs. Wild. He does a lot of
really crazy stuff, but it's a lot more instructive than the conservative
Survivor Man guy because (as Bear would say) "it's dumb of me to go looking
to fall into a crevasse, but once I find one, it'll allow me to show you how
to get out if you fall into one accidentally".