Survivorman is GONE!

[BlackBart]

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I saw that show about going off grid - I loved it! That takes a lot of guts for the whole family to move to 100+ acres of Canadian wilderness that gets cut off every winter! A modern pioneer story. At the end, I was thinking, "And then what happened?" I think they could've had a series there.

Saw part of it, couldn't watch his wife whine anymore and not lift a finger to do anything.

We had a series about two couples that lived for one full year as they would have in the 1800's. They had to build their own cabins, put in crops, hay, everything was done the 1800's way.
It was a all day chore to do the laundry and make bread.
Very, very hard life and interesting to watch.

Can't remember the name of the show but they had another one on Hudson Bay explorers routes through Northern Canada. Incredibly hard and wlderness travel.

 

[michickenwrangler]

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Island in the Great Lakes--water, water everywhere ... Hey! We CAN drink this! oooh! Wintergreen berries!

 

[Goose and Fig]

Didn't anyone see Will Farrell on Man vs Wild?

I don't get the youtube link that says Bear is a fraud- did I miss something? Did he NOT walk across the rocks? What a stupid link and waste of time.

 

[pringle]

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Well the thing was was that he right next to a highway,I mean I though he was supposed to find civiliazaition and that scene was only in the middle of the show

 

[Boyd]

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Well the thing was was that he right next to a highway,I mean I though he was supposed to find civiliazaition and that scene was only in the middle of the show

Actually, he spent most of his nights in a hotel room and commenced the next morning in his soiled clothes. When the bbc ran that story he started trying to live the "survivor man" lifestyle but........ if you are in life or death situation all the time, it gets old real quick (if I had to guess)

 

[Goose and Fig]

They have a disclaimer on at the beginning of man vs wild that he has a crew and all that jazz.

The guy has done way more extreme stuff than Les. I never said I didn't like Les- just think Bear's show has better locations, filming, scenery, variety.... More eye candy

I'm kinda sick of those rock traps they both do though.

 

[AkTomboy]

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Yep Yep!

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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I saw that episode and it was pretty good, but I think more than anything it highlighted how unfunny Bear is. Man, if he'd get a sense of humor, he'd be all that and a box of doughnuts!

A sense of humor is so, well, that's why there's a Mike Rowe fan club on here, I think.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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I saw that show about going off grid - I loved it! That takes a lot of guts for the whole family to move to 100+ acres of Canadian wilderness that gets cut off every winter! A modern pioneer story. At the end, I was thinking, "And then what happened?" I think they could've had a series there.

Saw part of it, couldn't watch his wife whine anymore and not lift a finger to do anything.

We had a series about two couples that lived for one full year as they would have in the 1800's. They had to build their own cabins, put in crops, hay, everything was done the 1800's way.
It was a all day chore to do the laundry and make bread.
Very, very hard life and interesting to watch.

Can't remember the name of the show but they had another one on Hudson Bay explorers routes through Northern Canada. Incredibly hard and wlderness travel.

Yeah, his wife wasn't too happy. If I was gonna give that a try there are at least a dozen women here on BYC I'd LOVE to try that with. They would be into it more than me and that's a good thing.

Anyhoo, I think the show you are talking about is Frontier House.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/project/index.html

PBS put this on around 10 years ago(or so) and I watched almost every bit of it. It was one of the best reality series I've ever watched, complete with all the human drama. It showed how hard it really was to make it out there. Great show. I highly recommend it.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Frontier House was a fabulous show! I also like the 1800s House they did before Frontier House. Really interesting look at period life. I wish they'd do another one. Those shows are great (even though I would be a horrible participant!).