A friend of mine who works in another hotel is a moron of the highest order! He watches both this show and survivorman and since he bought the Ontario RAT-7 he now thinks he is Rambo. He knows nothing of the outdoors and goes camping at designated sheeple campsites. This was his FIRST knife that he received last month. He knows nothing about survival, obtaining water and food and shelter.
He just bought a permit to camp in the Grand Canyon. He knows nothing about deserts and does not know the real dangers out there. So he thinks that he is going to go solo camping/survival in a few weeks. I have tried to talk him out of it and he just keeps saying NO!
I asked what he tends to bring along?
A backpack he says and his knife.
What about food and water?
I'll be drinking from a stream, he said.
Are you crazy? Every stream is polluted! You need to filter it OR boil it! You need about a gallon or more a day and in a desert, what happens when your don't FIND the stream?
He has a magnesium stick and thinks that would be enough! I tried to at least direct him to Hoods Woods and told him that even in solo camping one must have a partner even if that partner is about 500 ft away from you camp in their own camp.... Just in case!
That is the problem with these shows that show no real skill just people jumping off of cliffs into frigid rivers only to drink and wear their pee and run from bears in the middle of the night (it was probably a raccoon!).
You now get these city people who go on a couple of hikes and camp in camping areas NOT in the bush, they watch these shows and their primal urge goes off and all of the sudden they think they are Rambo!
He told me that he has a book! Oh, ok, pardon me! I think you are now prepared!!! NOT!
How can people watch these shows and think that this is ok without any training. Now he won't listen to me and will probably get himself killed. People die there all the time and get lost as well. I doubt he can even read a compass!!! Moron! I know this post will not change his mind.... So goodbye my stupid friend..... It was nice knowing you!!!
