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Even a stream would help as a feeding place for the lake fish to be gathered. One thing I have noticed is unlike other seasons, everyone seems to be having trouble catching fish from the lake. This seems quite unusual. There doesn't seem to be any one contestant that stands out in the crowd as I have noticed in some other seasons. Maybe that is yet to come but I don't see an actual favorite in the bunch.

Much like yourself, if I had to pick someone at this juncture it would be Nate based on his shelter and decision to find good hunting ground. He's certainly on the path to getting a deer.

What I try to keep in mind is that the show gets all of the raw footage, edits it and shows us what they want us to see and we have no idea of what all is actually going on. We get the picture they want us to see and other dimensions of these contestants may come out later in the series.

Isn't Clay the one who bagged the deer? Not good with names. If so he certainly has the advantage at this point.

In case you're interested, he has a youtube channel which was long before he appeared on Alone. Here's the link.....

https://www.youtube.com/user/ibprimitive/videos

The show has a bit of an editing tell. When a participants talk starts going heavily towards their family my girlfriend and I both go “they’re next”. Sure enough. They opened this show with Nate talking about his family…. Gone.

As long as Clay can protect his kill and can keep himself injury free he has the distinct advantage. It’s all n his head now. Can he keep his ‘family talk’ to a minimum? If so, he’ll win.

I agree about Teresa. Great shelter… to starve in.

Biko has a high BMI to fall back on. But eventually hunger will get him if he doesn’t get serious about his food plan. His shelter also has too many large openings to make it deep into the winter. If he doesn’t fix that he’ll get driven out by the cold. He seems to have a positive attitude but that’ll only take you so far.

Colter has a chance, but again food is going to come into play. He needs calories to fuel his bigger framed body. His cranberry stash wasn’t going to see him through the winter… even before the bear got to them. He needs protein and fat. He’s soon going to start realizing he’s starving to death.

You’re probably right. Rose is next.

My guess of the next three to go… maybe not in this order…
Rose
Teresa
Colter

I tend to agree with you. I do think there are factors however that help play on your mindset. If you are well fed and warm, your mind isn't dwelling on the negatives as much. It's certainly not a one size fits all approach or anything that works that way for everyone. But I de believe when your body is stressed due to hunger or cold it makes a difference in your mental state.

Well, well, well - get this: A guy, Nate, from a town just 12 miles or so from here - Wauseon Ohio - was on the show.

A local paper did an article on him.

https://www.fcnews.org/news/31688/wauseo...eyiq5yXg0m5TuOI

I pretty much agree with everything you said. The only thing that concerns me is the rationing plan Clay has for the meat. According to what was on the show last night, he plans on about two ounces a day which will only provide him with 200 calories.

It reminds me of the guy who smoked and stored all of that fish and still almost starved himself because he rationed his portions so small.

I learn a lot about that area by reading your posts. Thanks!

Alaska is something else from what I hear. My nephew in law married my oldest niece of the two nieces I have. Was deployed in Alaska by the Army and says it is beautiful and really need to bring a lot of coats up there!

Most people live in family groups, tribes, even communities even way back in history. I've never seen this show and wonder what the rules are for traveling toward civilization.

You get five miles. You’re not to seek out other contestants or such. It’s a survival show. Not a self rescue show.

Was there no new episode this week?

Yes, while her attitude is great and she is a very positive person, at some point a lack of protein will supersede all of that. The freeze will certainly hurt the fishing even though ice fishing may actually give them the ability to go out on the ice and fish in deeper water.

I still agree with you that I give Clay the edge right now.

The snow will certainly make it easy to track the game. Big game as well as small game. It's the best way to see where game travels.

Looking at the conditions of those remaining, it seems that Teresa has the least resources, food gathering and stores of body fat remaining on which to survive. To me it's hard to determine whether Teresa will be next due to being pulled because she won't be fit to continue, or whether Biko gives up his will to stay. Biko came in with a lot of bulk which helped give him the advantage from a weight perspective over Teresa coming into the show.

Deer is very lean meat but even at that, I agree with you that Clay has a huge advantage over the others. The snow makes it much easier for him to track game. It won't go much further. Next week is the season finale. So we'll soon find out how the dominoes fall.

The opportunity to kill bears is certainly been there. The problem is they aren't allowed to kill bears. They could get the fat content they need if they were allowed. With Clay I can understand. If you have a good meat supply gathered you may consider not moving around as much in order to preserve burning calories.

But it seems he is getting ready to try and gather more food resources. I love venison myself but after eating it so many days in a row, I think I would need to expand my diet as well.

The show has stated several times that the participants are not allowed to hunt bear. What I found so odd is that while they can not hunt bear, they are allowed to hunt Mountain Lions. I do know thay are not allowed outside of their designated areas. So it could be that none of their areas are within the range of the rivers or streams salmon would run in. I don't know. However it's pretty much common sense to try that if you are in an area you can do that. So I would have thought any contestant who had access to a river or steam capable of sustaining salmon would have certainly explored that option.

It would certainly be helpful if they did go over the rules and restrictions before the show began. And they really didn't clarify if it was local laws that prohibited hunting bear or just some agreement with local officials. That part was left murky at best.

It actually ended in the order I expected it to once it got down to three. I knew Teresa was down to skin and bones. Nothing left in reserve to survive on. She is one tough cookie though!

Biko had fat reserves but eventually a lack of supplying any nutrients is something your fat stores simply can't provide. But his will to continue regardless was amazing.

Clay was the better survivalist. Better survival skills all the way around. Better hunting skills and it showed. Over the course of the show you get an insight to who these people are. In the end, no matter where people are from, people are people and as you get to know who they are you can relate to them in some form or fashion. It makes it very hard not to wish them well.

But in the end I think the best contestant won and was deserving of his victory.

A season of head to head competition amongst the winners of each season seems like a great idea. My thinking is they have ten contestants every season so it may be season 11 before they would have such a challenge. Then you could have the winners of the first ten seasons. And the question of whether they would all agree to it would loom large.

Just watched the finale. Was pulling for Biko. I have buddies a lot like him. Gentle soul. Doesn’t want to play the game society has set up. Wants to live a simpler life. Not looking for money. Just the freedom is buys.
Good job by Clay. He was the better survivalist. He earned it.

I got picked to go to the training part where the pick who gets to go for season 3 but my father got sick and I turned it down.

Sounds like your time with the show got cut off before it started, but I'd still love to hear about your (albeit brief) interactions with getting on that show.