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Cypress
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Lorin, Glad to have you onboard and contributing to the forum.
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Von
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mmm salty beverage my favorite....
READY SET.....................
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Neal Johns
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bajagrouper, I caught that missing Hwy. 5 also.
The explanation is simple - there is a new 4wd route from Laguna Salada east to the Vermilion Sea that somehow misses crossing the highway! We just
haven't found it yet. I saw it on TV so it has to be true! 
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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movinguy
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I think the dude on "Survivorman" uses his own camera and is actually alone in those locations (theoretically) . . .
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bajagrouper
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Hola Neal, I thought he would end his trip by stumbling into the El Dorado Ranch Estates and buying a lot, then running into the water and stepping
on a sting ray, I enjoy my c-cktails sin sal...
I hear the whales song
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Lorin
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Cypress, thanks to you and others who have welcomed me. Much of what I have been reading here has been inspiring me to get my "butt in gear" and renew
Baja travels that I have neglected for too long.
In regard to that Survivorman guy, Les Stroud. He's a Canadian, I believe, with a background in music, and yes, he does travel by himself. He sets up
cameras around his campsites or when he is walking he often carries a long stick with a camera mounted on it and pointed back at himself so he can
look into and talk into the camera.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Lorin
Cypress, thanks to you and others who have welcomed me. Much of what I have been reading here has been inspiring me to get my "butt in gear" and renew
Baja travels that I have neglected for too long.
In regard to that Survivorman guy, Les Stroud. He's a Canadian, I believe, with a background in music, and yes, he does travel by himself. He sets up
cameras around his campsites or when he is walking he often carries a long stick with a camera mounted on it and pointed back at himself so he can
look into and talk into the camera. |
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Lorin
Cypress, thanks to you and others who have welcomed me. Much of what I have been reading here has been inspiring me to get my "butt in gear" and renew
Baja travels that I have neglected for too long.
In regard to that Survivorman guy, Les Stroud. He's a Canadian, I believe, with a background in music, and yes, he does travel by himself. He sets up
cameras around his campsites or when he is walking he often carries a long stick with a camera mounted on it and pointed back at himself so he can
look into and talk into the camera. |
lorin,
He records his "journeys" with a camera on a stick? PT Barnum would have eaten you for lunch.
The survivor dude is really dumb. He should have carried food and water with him on his Baja trip, and done it during cool weather. Drinking his
pee, when he could have carried a bottle of Sparklets pure spring water. Dumb bunny. Survivor man aint too smart, and the people who watch his show
may be even less smart.
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bancoduo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mtgoat666
| Quote: | Originally posted by Lorin
Cypress, thanks to you and others who have welcomed me. Much of what I have been reading here has been inspiring me to get my "butt in gear" and renew
Baja travels that I have neglected for too long.
In regard to that Survivorman guy, Les Stroud. He's a Canadian, I believe, with a background in music, and yes, he does travel by himself. He sets up
cameras around his campsites or when he is walking he often carries a long stick with a camera mounted on it and pointed back at himself so he can
look into and talk into the camera. |
lorin,
He records his "journeys" with a camera on a stick? PT Barnum would have eaten you for lunch.
The survivor dude is really dumb. He should have carried food and water with him on his Baja trip, and done it during cool weather. Drinking his
pee, when he could have carried a bottle of Sparklets pure spring water. Dumb bunny. Survivor man aint too smart, and the people who watch his show
may be even less smart. |
Les Stroud aka Dr Tom
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Mango
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Basicly, I thought it was cool. As an old mountaineer and someone who has been trained in wilderness survival I often have a problem about Bear's
decisions.
For one.. He always seems to find some cliff that he needs to scale. This is B.S. .. walk around it, etc.. find another way.. 30 minutes spent
walking around it will save your life. A twisted ankle or splatted body does nothing for you..
Also.. I found it funny he found a wire and new looking car seat in a 50 year old truck. Did you notice that absolutely nothing else was in the
truck, ... those items were planted.
Otherwise.. it was entertaining.. though I'd spend more time finding water and civilization than I would finding skunks.. If Bear followed his own
rules.. he would too.
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Lorin
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mtgoat666
| Quote: | Originally posted by Lorin
Cypress, thanks to you and others who have welcomed me. Much of what I have been reading here has been inspiring me to get my "butt in gear" and renew
Baja travels that I have neglected for too long.
In regard to that Survivorman guy, Les Stroud. He's a Canadian, I believe, with a background in music, and yes, he does travel by himself. He sets up
cameras around his campsites or when he is walking he often carries a long stick with a camera mounted on it and pointed back at himself so he can
look into and talk into the camera. |
lorin,
He records his "journeys" with a camera on a stick? PT Barnum would have eaten you for lunch.
The survivor dude is really dumb. He should have carried food and water with him on his Baja trip, and done it during cool weather. Drinking his
pee, when he could have carried a bottle of Sparklets pure spring water. Dumb bunny. Survivor man aint too smart, and the people who watch his show
may be even less smart. |
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Lorin
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mtgoat666
I may watch the show and I may not be too smart. but I think you're having trouble following the train of thought in the thread. Survivorman (Les
Stroud, who travels alone) is not the guy who drank his urine. Survivorman is a different show. Bear Grylls is the guy who was crossing Baja and
drank his urine on the show Man vs Wild. He travels with a camera crew.
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vgabndo
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Neither one of those guys is really on the up and up as far as I have researched it, but Da Bear just delights in running full tilt down talus and
scree slopes, climbing cliffs when he doesn't need to, and all manner of things that a normal person wouldn't think of doing to reduce their chance of
survival if lost in the woods.
I liked Les' float in the Carrib and landing on the Belizian Island. In '91 I hired a guy to strand me on an empty island like that for 8 days.
(Ranguana Cay) I had a great time.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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BajaNuts
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besides the Hollywood factor, both of these "survivor-ist" TV show try to demonstrate extreme measures any normal person can do to survive in whatever
situation they might be in.
Yea...climbing and jumping off the cliffs etc....may be over done for the tv factor, but the basics of eating a grub or ants may save the life of
someone who wanders off the trail or breaks down out the boonies.............or how about digging down for water and then using charcoal and grass to
filter the water so you don't get the s#!)s from contaminated water?
sound like it could POSSIBLY happen to anyone in this
community.............................................................................................................................................
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Take it for what it is and try to get a little education from the shows
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Sharksbaja
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Earth to Nomads!!!....Earth to Nomads!!!
Hello!!!!!!
It's called a production crew if you didn't know. They help "make" movies that people might believe.
Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad thing to promote survival.
Remember though that, save being impaled by a stingray. all goes to plan, normally. Yep, right down to guzzling urine.
Now, I see some entertainment value for sure. They incorporate lots of nasty predicaments. Lots of logical remedies.
But give me a break, a guy who understands coping and dealing with the harsh elements like a bonafide survivalist doesn't run across the desert dunes
without water at 12 noon.
Rather they would "make" their own water during the day and travel at night. Remember he has a "survival pack" to make fire yo cook snake..
I find the hyped premise is overstated and also potentially dangerous to heed or otherwise emulate this jerk.
It's all sensationalism and geared to get dumbchits to think you could survive behaving like he does.
Don't believe it, it's all Hollywood.
These films are made by pros. If you feel good about watching them it's probably because they have done a good job producingf them.
One more thing. Anybody so tuned in as this dork is supposed to be would most certainly carry an epi-pen or equivalent to prevent aniphylactic shock
from bee stings like he's allergic to.
I'd guess a bet that he DID have to take a antidote.
I sure am glad Vagabundo see the reality!
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
Nomads\' Sunsets
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TMW
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Scorpimon
I did catch last nights season 3 opening episode and of course there is a supporting crew, and disclaimers run on the screen stating they are
available in case of emergencies. Bear is from the British Special Forces and is one tough and knowledgable dude concerning survival techniques.
They can't fake alot of the live stuff he eats on the show and in this episode if they faked his face swelling up from the bee sting they did a good
job. Anything shown on TV needs to be viewed with your own subjective filters. I personally don't think I am that gullible, but my vote is that he
did indeed drink his own urine. There was an episode of surviorman once where he peed into a bottle and brought it up and drank it without a stoppage
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With todays computer editing systems you can make anything into anything. The graphics can be manipulated and morphed into looking like a smooth
transistion. Don't believe what you always see on TV, it may or may not be what it appears.
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Garry
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TV Sat 10PM
Hola, My tv guide says it will show again at 10pm Sat. here in Sacramento Ca.
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Cypress
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So the guy drinks pee and runs uphill in the desert during the middle of the day. 
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bajagrouper
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He also jumps giant boulders like a billy goat and walks the salt flats at high noon, Que hombre
I hear the whales song
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bacquito
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I too have heard of people bathing and drinking their urine. It, I believe, is practiced in Mexico and other Latin American countries.
bacquito
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