Episode 1
Labrador Canada, we meet the cast, and see them dropped off at the location they drew in a lottery. The last one standing will win $500,000. You can meet the cast here: Alone Season 9 Cast
Day 1 - Temperature: 61 F 8:47 AM
Karie sees a storm brewing and sets up a temporary shelter, which turns out to be a wise move.
Benji - 10:12 AM
We see a large body of water that looks like a river. He begins to scout the area for a camp sight. With 30 years experience using a conventional bow, he feels confident. His goal is to stay 102 days, a new record. He finds some bunch berries and harvests a few hand fulls, before he sees a squirrel. His second arrow bags a 1/2 pound squirrel with his bow. Harvesting early food is a good sign, but then the rain comes and he gets soaking wet.
1:32 PM
Jessie is along a high river bank, building a walking stick, which is a good first tool, serving as a spear. She scouts the area to find a place to set up a temporary camp. Obvious bear tracks are found near a small stream. She sets up a simple tarp shelter.
10:47 PM 48F
Jesse can hear a bear panting.
11:51 PM
The bear is an estimated 100' from her and moving closer.
Day 2 - 10:24 AM 58 F
Karie Lee has a lot of bug bites from the night, and continues to scout her area out. She sees a grouse, right out in the open, but misses with her bow. She sees him again, but moves forward to fast and spooks him. Looks like she was trying a long shot (literally).
12:17 PM
Karie Lee is stalking a grouse after missing, getting impatient and spooks him. She shoots a second shot and bags a 2 lb grouse with her bow. Harvesting early food like this is a good sign of her skills, despite several mistakes made before getting him.
2:49 PM 54 F
Juan Pablo is along the river, scouting the area and struggling to walk. He sees a fresh pile of bear scat and is hoping to bag a bear with his bow. He selects a temporary camp sight and gets started when he sees a squirrel. He goes after it clumsily it seems, making lots of noise and spooks a large animal. He finds some trash food cans and makes a stove pipe. His shelter is well above average at this point.
9:17 PM
Juan continues to work on his fire place and shelter.
Day 3 - 7:54 AM
Jacques is also located along a river. His shelter is tall and narrow like an A frame military tent, but with some solid wood poles. He finds what he believe is fresh bear scat, but it looks old to me, just still wet. Scouting around, he found a large foot trap in good working condition.
Day 4 - 7:23 AM
Igor awakes sleeping out in the open on a rock, wrapped in his tarp. He is along way from the water and hasn't had any food in 4 days. No shelter, no food and swarms of files biting him, is not a good sign for his chances of winning. His location appears to be less desirable than many of the others. He makes a Bladderrack stew, a form of sea weed.
10:47 AM
Jacques has a growling stomach laying on his red sleeping bag, when he sees a squirrel high up in a tree. He shoots and gets a 1/2 lb Squirrel with his first bow shot. He spooks a grouse near camp and is breathing heavy when he takes a shot. He believes he hit it,
11:27 AM
Jacques is looking for a grouse that he shot but flew off with his arrow in it. He finds the 2 lb grouse killed with his bow. by seeing his large RED arrow feathers.
1:31 PM
Benji put on 36 lbs to prepare for this event. Local regulations only allow fly rod or dip net for fishing. He plans to build a tenkara Japanese fishing rod which is a 400 year old method. Each participant was provide with 5 flies to use as fish bait.
2:26 PM
Benji is fly fishing and catches a 6" fish, then another , then another, for a total of 12 or about 3 lbs of fish with a fishing pole.
So far, there has been 5 pounds of food harvested with a bow, and 3 pounds with a fly fishing line for a total of 8 pounds of meat harvested.
Benji got 3 pounds of fish and a 1/2 pound squirrel for a total of 3.5 pounds, followed by Jaques who got a 1/2 pound squirrel and a 2 pound grouse, for a total of 2.5 pounds. Karie got a 2 pound grouse. This is 8 pounds total.
Episode 2
Labrador Canada, we meet the cast,
and see them dropped off at the location they drew in a lottery. The last
one standing will win $500,000. You can meet the cast here: Alone Season 9 Cast
Day 1
Adam, Tom, Terry, Teimojn were introduced
briefly
12:11 PM
We learn that Teimojin is ex-military
and an emergency room doctor as he seeks a campsite. He builds an A-Frame tent
Day 2 - 9:32 AM
Terry is watching a harbor seal,
which is a potential source of food.
Terry is a commercial fisherman in Alaska 4 months of the year, and then
backpack the remainder of the year. He soon has an A-Frame tent from his
tarp. He left his tinder bundle out in
the rain and must find more to start a fire.
3:32
PM
Terry works to start a fire using a
very potent fire rod, but as dark sets in, he still has no fire.
8:24 PM, 47 F
Terry is still struggling to build a
fire in the dark to boil some water for drinking.
Day 3 9:12 AM, 40 F
Tom is eating Bunchberries, looking
for food with his bow and 9 arrows. He shoots a ½ lb squirrel
with his bow. Which he cooks and
eats.
Day 5 - 8:43 AM
Adam is a tree house carpenter and
alpaca shearer and has sailed the ocean for 90-day trips.
10:09
Tom is building a solid lean-to with
boughs on the roof for insulation
1:58,
He is using moss for the side walls
which is a better insulator than logs.
He uses some clear plastic for a window to provide light and builds an off-the-ground
bed platform. At this point, he has
probably the best shelter and spent less than a day building it.
Day 6 - 7:07 AM, 39 F
Terry finally starts a fire and
boils some water to drink. He seems
exhausted and has no shelter but is just starting to build a minimalistic A-frame
shelter with his tarp. Now he is going
fishing, and wading out in the river.
Local regs only allow fly fishing.
He hooks a fish.
6:27 PM
Terry works his fish to the bank
before landing a 2 lb brook trout with is his fishing
pole.
Day 7 - 1:04 PM, 33F
Teimojin is building his shelter,
and A-frame and then starts digging his Dakota fire pit. A low fire pit and high bed keeps you warmer.
He has an inlet to the base of the fire for air intake, and an outlet near the middle
to exhaust smoke. He fortifies it with a
foot of river clay. He quickly has fire,
in a matter of seconds with what looks like a hex or square fire rod.
Day 8 – 1:58 PM
Tom is trying to make a streamer
from his hair and a squirrel tail for fly fishing. With the success the other have had, this is
potentially a waste of time. He hangs a
fish and has to get down in the water but catches 3
fish about 2 lbs each, 6 pounds using his fishing pole.
Day 10 – 10:23 AM 44 F
Jacques builds a pole and goes
fishing and quickly catches a 3 Lb Brook Trout with his
fishing pole. Instead of trying
to catch more while the fish were biting, he cleans the fish and begins to cook
it on a stick over the fire. He has
perhaps the second best shelter so far, behind Tom.
6:29 PM
Jacques feels like he is doing well,
but loneliness is looming heavy on his mind.
Day 11- 10:11 AM
Adam standing in front of his nice
moss house departs to go hunting with his Bow and 9 Arrows. Arrows were previously limited to 6.
2:27 PM
Adam is hunting and sees a grouse
high in a tree, a sure way to lose an arrow. He shoots twice and misses both
times, and has lost two arrows with no grouse to show for it.
Day 12 – 10:31 AM
Jacques is looking at his stomach
fat reserves and has lost 10% of his body weight since day 1. He begins to chop wood, which is a waste of
time and energy. He should be using
large logs and burning them in half. He hears a squirrel and gets his bow to go
hunting.
12:23 PM
Jacques is stalking a squirrel,
shoots and misses, goes for another shot and kills a ½ lb
Squirrel with his bow. It makes
him sad to kill the squirrel. He cooks
and eats his squirrel, but probably should have hunted for another one, while
they were likely active.
2:54 PM
Adam is looking to make a new
fishing pole, a better one. He is using
an axe to clean up a spruce tree, and trim it down to a workable fishing pole
size. He uses the gromets from his tarp
to make fishing line guides. He may wish
he had those gromets when the wind starts blowing hard.
3:52 PM
Adam is fishing and quickly catches about 10 small fish weighing about 7 pounds total,
with his fishing rod. Good to
catch as many as possible, while they are biting as they will feed much less
when the weather gets colder.
6:04 PM
Adam is eating fish around his campfire
with a good stack of firewood in the smokey background. He is eating with a nice wooden spoon that he
apparently made.
Day 14 – 9:43 PM
Jacques is thinking about the
squirrel he shot and there is something that seems inherently wrong. He is really sad… It doesn’t look like he has
the toughness to last. His favorite times have been with family, not in the woods
alone.
Day 15 – 7:49 AM
Jacques is Tapping Out, on Day 15. He didn’t even last as long as the Naked &
Afraid 21-day contestants who don’t have a pack full of luxury, but rather only
one item and are naked. How embarrassing
this would be to me if I were in his position.
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Episode 3
9 Remain
Day 12 – 9:21 AM (three
days earlier) 37 F
Jessie has not made much progress on
her long-term shelter, but shows us what she does have. She is digging out the side of a hill and
using the sod for insulation.
1:38 PM
Igor is holding a pot of
bladderwrack sea weed, as he has been unsuccessful fishing. He has lost 19 lbs since day 1. We see him building a log shelter all day
with not much to show for it. At sun set
he sees a 2 lb grouse and got it with his saw.
6:48 PM
Igor is cooking and eating his
grouse.
Day 13
10:29
Adam is digging clay for his cabin
and harvesting some grass to make a cob mix for his fireplace which is smoking
up his tightly sealed cabin. Using a
wattle and daub construction, i.e. weave of small limbs covered with clay. He hears a grouse and tries to kill him with
a club.
11:49 AM
Adam misses his grouse. Trying to use a stick was not a smart move,
but he has been caching a few fish each day.
He continues to work on his shelter chimney. It works great at carrying
the smoke away. He has a good cabin and
some fire wood.
12:42 PM
Jessie is harvesting bunch berries
which have 17 calories per 100 grams. She has lost 15 lbs since day 1. Food has been more challenging than she expected. She sets some snare traps along fallen logs
2:04 PM
Jessie is checking her snares and already has a ½ pound squirrel.
Day 14
6:32 AM
Benji 38 F slept well but needs a
warmer shelter. So he starts on one on higher ground. He gets a tarp shelter
built that may keep him dry, but provides zero warmth. He shoots a ½ lbs
squirrel with his bow.
He
has lost 19 lbs and is happy to be here.
10:17
AM
Jessie
greets us on the Alone show for a lesson on how to build permanent shelters,
with a focus today on roofs. She is
building a high walled lean too, with minimal slope which could prove to be a
problem.
2:09
PM
Juan
Pablo has his bow and arrows and is hunting.
He shoots but misses a squirrel. He has explored up river and found
nothing, but is exploring more area around his shelter. One grouse on day for was not much to
eat. He is hoping to shoot a bear. He
sets up some alarms with cans and pans.
Day
15,
38 F
9:49
AM
Adam
is using is leatherman Multi-Tool as a vice to tie fishing flies. He goes fishing, the wind and water are calm.
He is talking about home. His parents
live on 20k per year.
12:44
PM
Jessie
is enjoying the sun. She checks her snare traps, and has a ½ lb squirrel. It’s mom is trying to call to the dead
trapped baby.
3:23
PM
Karie
Lee is at the waters edge to wash her hair in a pot of warm water. Her goal
today is to build on her shelter, which is far behind many of the others. She
has a Tee Pee / A frame like frame built in to a slight hill.
With her tarp wrapped over it, she has a
simple shelter.
6:37
PM
Karie
Lee is in her shelter with a large fire burning representing a high risk to the
tarp plastic wall.
Day
16
10:17
Adam
is shooting his bow for target practice as his aim has been a little off. His fishing spot is exhausted, so he needs to
move to another place. He found a bolete
mushroom as he hunts a bear. He is going
to walk inland for a few hours to hunt bear.
Adam kills a 2 lb grouse
with his bow and arrows.
Inside
his nice shelter, we see him cooking and eating his grouse.
2:22
PM
Benji
is fishing with a fishing pole and catches 3
fish at about 4 pounds total. He sees some
beaver activity and shoots one with his bow at 4:27 PM. The beaver flops around, and disappers.
5:19
PM
Benji
is trying to find his beaver that he shot, but is giving up for the day.
He
recovers one of his nine arrows on his way back.
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Remain
Episode 4
9 Remain
Day 17 – 6:52 AM 34F
Benji shot a beaver yesterday (13
hours ago) and is up early to find it.
He bags a 45 lb beaver with his bow, the
biggest harvest yet. This is a game changer for Benji, giving him a distinct
advantage
10:08 AM
Teimojin is adding some insulation
to his cabin, and a log platform to sleep on.
He has lost 23 lbs since day 1.
He decides to focus on snare traps and foraging. There are many ground squirrel dens around
his cabin. He decides to set some spring
pole snares.
2:28
Benji is building a smoker for his
beaver, and skinning him.
8:13
Benji is cooking his scrap meat in what
looks like a Dutch oven lid and eating it.
He says it taste like beef.
Day 18
5:24 AM
Terry is going to be honest to
us. His body is telling him things it
has never told him before. He has not
had a bowel movement for about 12 days. This can leave toxins in his colon,
which is not good.
6:27 AM
He is going out to hunt some beaver.
6:49 AM
A beaver is swimming around and Terry
passes on a number of possible shots
7:28 AM
Terry is till waiting for the
perfect shot, which hasn’t come yet.
8:27 AM
Teimojin is drinking water with some
boiled berries. No meat for 12 days, so he
is looking for some squirrels as he checks his snare traps. He is chopping some fire wood when he hears a
flapping sound. He sees a grouse but
didn’t bring his bow with him, which may prove to be a stupid mistake as he
returns to get his bow and finds the grouse again, and takes a shot.
9:37 AM
Teimojin shoots a 2 lb
grouse with his bow, which is his first kill. He can use the feathers to make more arrows. Back at camp, he cleans the grouse for
cooking and eating.
12:38 PM
Igor - We see some fish swimming
away, then Igor stretching by his unfinished shelter. He is further behind than most others and
has lost 25 lbs already and only has a 2’ high wall. He begins to fly fish and sees a seal feeding
off shore.
2:14 PM
No fish
2:51 PM
Tom is working on his shelter and is
actually about even with Igor, before he goes fishing. He shoots a ¼ lb Whiskey
Jack bird with his bow.
He begins fishing. He hangs a fish…
3:08 PM
Tom catches a 3 lb brook
trout with his fly fishing line.
4:23 PM
Igor found a small mussel, probably
only an ounce of food, but he is eating it with some sea weed and making a
soup.
5:31 PM
Benji is putting his scrap meat out
as a draw for bears, and sets his game cams (2 provided) to watch his gut pile.
9:14 PM
Benji needs a better seat in his
shelter to sit on.
Day 19
7:43 AM
We see a black bear at the gut pile
eating.
Later we find Igor is making some tooth paste from
charcoal and brushes his teeth with his finger.
9:53
Igor is working on a solid, heavy
cabin but not making much progress. Expending a lot of calories.
11:23
Igor is sawing some large logs for
his cabin and making some good progress. Going home and hanging out with his wife
sounds good right now. His back is
hurting.
3:29
Terry hasn’t had a bowel movement in
13 days and doesn’t feel well and goes to lay down shortly after 4:00 PM in his
nice A frame shelter. He finally has a bowel
movement and feels better.
Day 20
9:02 AM
Igor had a rough night as his body
needs food. He is going to set some
snares and go fishing. He is run down from the hard work of building his big
log shelter. He stretches and groans before
eating some sea weed for breakfast. He is going walking, hoping to find food.
2:09 PM
Igor has been walking around the
forest. He looks like he is close to
quitting.
3:21 PM
Igor is feeling the limits of his
body and wants to be sure he is not risking some permanent damage to his
body. Igor taps out on day 20.
Day 21
5:37 AM 35 F
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Terry is up early and going to hunt
beaver.
6:23 AM
The beaver is back where he was
before and Terry makes what looks like a nice shot, but the beaver disappears. We see him injured and wounded far out.
7:57 AM
Terry is about to swim out 100 yards
to get his beaver. The water is 31F as
he wades out.
8:33 AM 39 F
Terry has shot a 45 lb
beaver with his bow and recovered him by wading out in 4
feet of water. He takes it back to camp.
We have reached the Naked &
Afraid day (21), where two naked people with one tool each are expected to
survive to this point. Yet we have two well-stocked
Alone campers who could not survive this long. Abet, under colder conditions, but also with the option of taking 10 items including 5 lbs of food.
Here we see the Bow is the predominate tool for harvesting meat.
Benji and Terry look to have a good chance of winning this, followed by Tom in a distant 3rd Place.
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Episode 5
Day 21 – 41F
9:24 PM
Benji checked his gut pile and has a
black bear coming to eat them. He is
going to wait to kill the bear after it freezes so he can preserve the meat
better. Smoking it would take a ton of
work, and possibly still carry germs
Day 22
8:29 AM
Benji Starts bo build a wickup
shelter to conserve energy. It looks
much like a stationary tee Pee frame, wrapped with plastics. He had it up in no time
10:38 AM
Jesse barely has a shelter frame,
with what looks like a flat roof as she misses a grouse with her bow. Her shelter is behind all the others. She makes a sleeping platform
11:59 AM
Adam has shot a ½ lb Squirrel with his bow, hitting it right through
the eye. He shoots another ½ lb squirrel with his bow, hitting
it right in the head. He is obviously a
good shot with a bow. We see his
well-insulated shelter and some of the different food and berries he has.
2:43 PM
Juan Pablo is dipping water and
apparently drinking it directly from the stream. He is doing so because boiling water takes a
lot of energy. He says he is Mexican and
used to drinking bad water. This is
risky, but could save a lot of time and energy if it doesn’t backfire. He is
hungry, with only a few berries the last week or so. No animal droppings anywhere around him,
leaving only fishing as an option for food.
So he is going to build a dock to go out on and fish. He sees a harbor seal, which is protected by
local laws.
Day 23 – 33F
9:31 AM
Karie Lee is sitting at the opening
of a partially finished shelter
10:27
Karie is going out hunting, making a
lot of noise pushing through the brush, when she hears a squirrel. She shoots and apparently misses a squirrel
from close range. Skill with a bow is
becoming a big factor.
10:31 AM
Karie Lee is searching for her kill
but doesn’t find it. She has lost 20
pounds since day 1.
11:19 AM
Tom has a lot of islands around his
camp. He is in his nice shelter with a
good fireplace, carving sticks for making traps. We go back and see him build his shelter by
partially digging in to a hill, and building a fire place with rocks and clay.
12:04 PM
Tom is hungry and going to check his
snare traps which he does daily. The
first trap is empty, the second empty, second spring snare is triggered.
12:29 PM
Tom has caught a 2 lb rabbit in a spring snare trap. He is concerned
about the meat is bad, but at that temperature, and cooking it well, it should
be fine. He skins the rabbit to make a
rabbit stew, and really enjoys eating it.
2:17 PM
Karie Lee is singing and needs to
focus on getting food. Loud singing can
scare area game away, making it harder to get food. She is at the water
fishing, and gets a bite but it gets away.
She catches a 2 lb brook trout with a fishing
pole. She goes to cook it instead
of fishing and catching more while the fish are biting, which is probably a
mistake.
Day 24
8:16 AM - 40F
Juan Pablo is not having much luck
fishing despite his 8-foot dock, but then catches one, and pulls it nearly in
before it gets away. Then he catches
another, a 1lb fish with his fishing pole.
8:48 AM, Juan is still fishing while
they are biting and catches another
9;24, he catches his fourth one
9:39 he catches the fifth fish
10:06, Juan
catches his 6th fish, all about 1 lb each with his fishing pole or 6
lbs of fish. When he stops and cooks 3 of 6 fish right by the riverside.
11:53 AM
Benji is in his shelter by the fire,
sharpening his single-sided ax, which he used every day. I’d prefer a double-sided if allowed. He starts to build a fleshing beam to tan his
beaver hide. He scrapes the hide and gets a pound or more of meat and fat. He renders the fat in to about 15,000
calories.
4:27 PM Benji sees a grouse and misses with two
arrows (9 allowed). The grouse is still
high in the tree, so he tries a third shot.
4:43 PM
Benji tries the third shot and drops
a 2 lb grouse with his bow. He begins to clean
the grouse and harvest his organs.
6:58 PM, he is in his shelter
skinning the grouse and beginning to cook it in some beaver grease. He enjoys eating it.
Day 25
12:48 PM
Adam overslept because he was up
late massaging his belly to promote a bowel movement. He is eating some berries. His stomach is
struggling with his diet. We see him making
a wooden spoon, and thinking about what he would spend his winnings on. He sounds homesick
10:12 PM
Adam thinks he has some gut
parasite, probably Giardia.
Day 26
8:58 AM
Benji has a stomach ache and does
some kind of hippy yoga-like healing process (Qigong). He lools for Yarrow for treating his stomach
ache. He has put a lot of meat in his
stomach. He is in a strong position, but this could take him out.
12:23 PM
Adam had a nice rest and going to
get some birch bark to make a tea for his stomach ache.
2:27 PM
Benji is sleeping on the beach, on
his sleeping bag and is burping a lot.
8:31 PM
Adam is drinking his birch bark tea,
which is bitter and can promote self-healing.
He is steaming his face with a hot rag.
10:17 PM
Benji has a fever and fills sick.
Day 29
2:04 AM
We hear Benji throwing up.
2:32 AM
Once again he is throwing up
3:04 AM
Again
6:13 AM
Benji hasn’t slept all night. He is
stiff and ready to tap out, after being a top contender with a great chance of
winning this. I know he will regret
tapping out because he had harvested more meat than any other contestant. He pushes the button to Tap out on day 29. 7
Remain.
7:24 AM
The boat is on its way to get
him. He was the most the likely
winner. Today he is the 3rd
quitter and the 8th place contestant, due to illness, possibly touching his food without washing his hands after handling raw meat.
Episode 6
7 Remain
Day 28 – 35 F
10:47 AM
Terry is building a box for smoking his
beaver and we see him eating the head meat off the skull. He has lost 32 lbs
since day 1. Beaver taste like pork but
a little gamey. He is slicing the meat with his multi-tool for cooking.
1:42 PM
Tom is in his well insulated shelter
making a fly for fishing before going out to find his 4 snares empty.
2:49 PM
Tinjimon
Is in his shelter and is putting a pause
on his fishing effort as the water level is going down. He is setting Paiute deadfall traps when he
hears a noise in the trees. He shoots an arrow at a grouse, but misses, but
finds his arrow and gets another shot, but misses, and likely lost his
arrow. He lost another arrow in a tree
near his camp and seeks to recover it, by climbing the tree.
4:09 PM
Teimojin recovers an arrow but thinks he shouldn’t try any
more tree shots as it looks like he has 4 of 9 arrows left.
10:29 PM
Teimojin is in his shelter around
the campfire. He is talking about being
alone before and not having an issue with it, so he thinks being alone will not
be an issue for him.
Day 29
6:36 AM
Tom is in his shelter is hunting
beaver at daylight, but talking a lot.
He watches a beaver swim near and takes his shot.
8:22 AM
Tom looks for his beaver, but only
finds his arrow.
12:17 PM
Terry is checking his smoker after
20 hours of smoking. He eats some smoked meat and drinks some broth from boiled
beaver.
Day 30
8:28 AM 36 F
Jessie is not catching any fish, and
gill nets are not permitted. She is working on her shelter which is way behind
the others, but also bigger. The roof is
nearly flat which can be a problem She has lost 30 lbs since day 1
11:09 AM
Juan Pablo is eating fish head
gelatin and is going fishing today.
11:41 AM
Juan Pablo is on his deck to fish
and finds a big crack in his fishing rod that he must fix. He isn’t catching any fish, so he goes
hunting
12:37 PM
He sees a white weasel but doesn’t
take a shot.
1:24 PM
There is a grouse in a tree near
camp. It lands, he shoots and wounds a 2
lb grouse but can’t find it.
2:04 PM
Juan Pablo is looking for his grouse
with no success. He found his bloody arrow.
2:49 PM
Teimojin is hunting and gets a 2 lb grouse on the ground. He gets another 2 lb grouse
with his bow
3:15 PM
There are a lot of grouse in his
area. He gets another 2 lb grouse with his bow. He is a good show
with a bow and that is making a difference.
Day 31
8:07 AM
Jessie is working hard on her
shelter. At the water’s edge, she sees
snow on the mountains. She has an
interesting fire pit made with smaller rocks and a good vent to bring in fresh
air.
9:37 AM
She is gathering moss and putting it
on the large roof. She is singing
loudly, likely scaring off any game nearby.
12:13 PM
Terry is admiring the beauty before
hunting along the rivers edge, but talking way too much. Sounds like he misses his mother.
1:34 PM – 38 F
Teimojin is brushing his teeth by
the rivers edge with some bleeding gums, a sign of malnutrition. He is building
a second shelter near the beach.
2:23 pm
He is cutting a big tree to build a
lean-to and begins to smoke his grouse.
Day 32
9:09 AM
Jessie is moving to her new shelter.
It’s been five days since she had any meat.
5:01 PM
Jessie is fishing with no success.
8:32 PM
Jessie is in her new shelter but
with no food. She builds a fire.
Day 33
9:49 AM – 37 F
Juan Pablo is watching a squirrel
working before hunting. He found the grouse that he lost before. So he has another 2
lb grouse with his bow. He also shoots a
1 lb weasel.
Sitting by the river he talks about his
partner and sounds sad. Being alone is getting to him.
Episode 7
7 Remain
Day 34
9:53 AM
Terry is in his shelter singing
there and around his camp which can scare off the game. We see how skinny he is. He spent over 2 hours recording a music video,
a total waste of time and energy but helps deal with being alone. Next he is trimming fat off his beaver hide
to eat, having most of his beaver over the past 10 days. He has lost 49 pounds since day one….. WOW!
He puts his beaver hide in his smoker.
12:47 PM – 32F
Jessie is peeling bark off for her
shelter to catch more water and dispense it when needed. Her low slope roof provides for better water
catchment, a potential best practice, but could be a problem if snow builds up
on it.
5:39 PM
Jessie is cooking a ½ lb squirrel which she caught in a snare.
8:49 PM
Terry is eating deep-fried beaver
fat bits, which is high in calories but increase the risk of a stroke.
Day 35 – 33 F
11:29 AM
Adam is struggling to split wood (wasted
energy) and hears a grouse fly off, then hears it again. He harvests a 2
lb grouse with his bow. Then he hears another and shoots it (2 lb grouse) with his bow. Both right in his camp; lucky, yes,
but he hits both on his first shot. He
should go hunting for more while they seem to be active and around, but he doesn’t. He stops and cleans them.
2:43
PM Walking back from the water where he cleaned his grouse, Adam sees a wooden
pallet or dock. He disassembles it using the back of his axe like a hammer.
Day
36
7:29
AM
Tom
is in his shelter making a lamp using a shell to reflect light from his head
lamp.
10:24
AM
Tom
is cutting some wood logs for his shelter and working on it.
2:11
PM
Tom
said that he has eaten
1. 15 Squirrels
2. 19 Trout
3. 5 Grouse
4. 1 Rabbit
5. 1 Whiskey Jack
6.
And a lot of bunch berries.
Yet he still has lost 44 pounds.
Tom is hunting and sees a squirrel
2:34 PM
Tom shoots and
kills the ½ lb squirrel with his bow.
Then he finds a lot of bunchberries, which are high in fiber. He hears a 2 lb grouse
and shoots it with his bow. Back
at his shelter, he is roasting his squirrel over the fire with fur and all. He
has tried them 3 ways and likes this the best.
Day 37 – 31 F
9:33 AM
Karie Lee exits her open-front
shelter where she is cooking fruit leather (2-month shelf life outside) to preserve
the fruit, which may be a best practice since berries will disappear quickly with heavy snow.
Day 39
9:26 AM
Adam is building a bench to sit on
from the wood he found. Next he is
making a nice door for his shelter. I
would use an H shaped lift and drop door that lifts into slots and drops behind
a stop board.
12:43 PM
Terry sees a unique bird overhead, a
Pine Grossbeak, as he hunts along the river.
His river area is shallow and rocky as he starts to fish.
2:17 PM
Terry is tired, and hungry and sits
down before starting back to camp empty-handed.
Day 40
8:53 AM
Tom has several islands around his
river site. We find him in his shelter,
stoking his fire to life. He is very
tired and is making a bird snare. His
beaver lasted him a week. Now he goes
hunting with his bow. He finds some green
Lichen growing on a log, a source of carbs, but not tasty. His bird snare is tripped, but no bird.
11:24 AM
Teimojin is throwing up a rock while doing a magic trick. He uses a pair of underwear for a camp flag.
He is going hunting, expecting food to become scarce. He shoots at a squirrel
with 1 of the 3 arrows that he has and misses, shoots again, misses, last
arrow, shoots again and gets the ½ lb squirrel with
this bow.
2:18 PM
Teimojin is cleaning his squirrel, rather
than hunting for more while they are active. He is talking a lot about his mom… getting homesick.
Day 41
10:14 AM
Karie Lee announces her moms
birthday as we see about 4 of 9 arrows with her bow. She has obviously wasted time and energy
making her mom a dirt/grass cake. She is
getting homesick. She goes hunting for
food, still talking about her mom. She
catches a ½ lb squirrel in her snare trap.
7:28 PM
Karie Lee is in her shelter eating
her skinned, fire-roasted squirrel which has about 540 calories.
Day 42 - 34 F
8:53 AM
Terry got a message that today is a
med check day. His stomach is highly emaciated
with his rib cage protruding, and his arms are bony. He is tending his fire and boiling some
water.
10:53 AM
The Med Crew weighs Terry, checks
his Oxygen level, and examines his stomach which is painful. The med team confers
12:19 PM
Med Team is concerned about his
condition, showing dehydration, and running a fever. They are going to extract him for Medical
reasons. So a Medical Tap Out on Day 42. Now both guys who harvested a beaver are sick,
and out of the contest.
Day 42
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2:03 PM
Tom is sawing a log that is 42 years
old and hard as two sets of woodpecker lips.
He is building some time of brush shelter, in front of his tarp shelter…
possibly a smoker? Chopping a tree down
he fell and may be hurt.
In his shelter, he says his back
hurts at a pain level of 7.
Day 43
2:37 AM
Tom is hurting and can’t sleep, and maybe
his last leg.
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Day 42
9:28
AM
Karie Lee is
eating her fruit leather and observes her teeth are turning black. She is using horsetail, which is rich in
silica and can help restore tooth enamel.
She cooks it to make toothpaste, which helps a little. She is not getting any fish now and is bow
fishing with a homemade rig, targeting a muskrat. One surfaces, and she isn’t
alert and doesn’t initially see him until it is too late.
4:42 Still
nothing
6:47 Karie Lee
is back in her shelter, stoking her fire.
Thinking about her ancestors with no grocery stores.
Day 43
5:42 AM – 37 F
Tom is in his
sleeping bag and gets up after hurting his back on day 42, cutting a tree
down. He got very little sleep. He has lost 38 pounds and plans to hunt
beaver. One pound of beaver meat
contains 110 grams of protein and 660 calories. This may be his last hope of
continuing in the contest.
He is by the
water at sunrise to hunt beaver, which is a very elusive animal. He is cold, tired, sore, and possibly on his
last leg
8:32 AM, no
beaver and goes back to camp to eat lichen, which repeatedly boiling reduces
its high acid content and makes it easier to eat. He then seals leaks in his fireplace chimney
when he slips and falls.
9:38 AM
Tom has
fallen, not a hard fall under normal circumstances, but he is slow getting up
in his weakened condition. His right
knee is injured. Each contestant has an
emergency first-aid kit, and he applies a wrap to his knee. It sounds like he is ready to quit. No food,
and likely to struggle to get firewood.
With his hurt knee, Tom
taps out on day 43. He hasn’t
moved from where he crawled to wrap his knee.
He wants to stay, but his body isn’t up to it. He packs to leave. The crew helps him walk to the boat to go.
11:17 AM
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Karie Lee has
been working on a song and will sing it for us. She is going back to the river to hunt
muskrat. She sees one come up on shore, shoots, and quickly goes to catch the
injured Muskrat.
12:43 PM
Karie Lee
finished the injured muskrat with her knife.
With a close-range shot, she has killed a 2 lb Muskrat with her bow and
arrows and roasts it over the fire. It
tastes delicious as it starts snowing.
1:36 PM
Adam is making
a Halloween grouse costume, a complete waste of energy, but it likely helps the
mentality of the contestants. He is
using the wood from his pallet to improve his shelter, potentially the best one
in this competition.
2:42 PM
Jessie is
working on her large and solid shelter, but not finished; it still has a way to
go and needs a lot of moss or mud between the logs. She is belching a lot as she plans to go off
to check her rabbit traps. She has
invested a lot of time and effort in her still unfinished shelter. She finds nothing in her snare traps which we
know are a low-yield food source.
4:02 PM
Teimojin
shot a 1/2 lb squirrel with his bow and dispatched it with a club. He hears a grouse and goes to look for
it. He sees it, shoots it, and kills a 2 lb grouse with his bow. He finds that he can get closer by looking
away as you approach the game.
4:27 PM
Juan Pablo is
at the river to fish. He can see fish
activity far from shore as fish move to deeper water in cold weather. He will extend his fishing pier (dock)
further out into the water and quickly has it done.
4:59 PM
He is fishing
and quickly catches a small fish with his line, then another and another, weighing
about 3 pounds. His investment of time
to extend his pier seems to have paid off.
Getting access to deep water fishing in cold weather may be a Best Practice to
keep in mind for our Lesson Learned post.
6:34 PM
Juan Pablo is
cooking his fish but doesn’t feel like eating right now.
8:12 PM
He still
hasn’t eaten. Starvation has killed his
appetite, and he doesn’t want to throw up.
He should eat a small amount over time, another Lesson Learned.
Day 44
9:23 AM
Adam continues
his Halloween skit and gives his trick-or-treat visitor (himself) berries. He recognizes this makes him look insane.
11:48 AM
Karie Lee has
a Halloween costume. This is likely some
foolish requirement or rule from the show.
7:17 PM
Teimojin is in
his smokey shelter as he talks about some unknown holiday or festival, again
probably some stupid show requirement or recommendation. We can see tears
running down his face.
9:32 PM
I’m guessing
Jessie will now show us her foolish activity as we see her talking about cookies
without milk in her shelter before throwing up in her fire.
9:52 PM
Jessie is sick
to her stomach, throwing up substantial volumes on or by her fire. She isn’t eating; she will try another pot
full of water after eating some Charcoal.
10:21 PM
She is eating
charcoal to absorb excess stomach acid.
A Lesson Learned from this might be
to consider including some charcoal in your diet as a Best Practice when
you are not eating. She should also start sipping small amounts of water when her stomach settles.
10:41 PM
Jessie feels
better after eating charcoal. She seems
determined.
Day 45
8:26 AM
Adam has been
feeling extremely homesick, like never before, and may be getting close to
quitting. He is heading out to see what
he can find to eat. He finds another
river with beaver and possibly fish, but it appears shallow. This resource could be a massive help for
him. His exploring may have been
lacking. A Lesson
Learned may be to explore the area in an organized way.
Adam sees his
first rabbit (hare) and shoots his bow.
3:43 PM
Adam has killed a 2 lb rabbit with his bow.
6:58 PM
Adam is
cooking (boiling) and eating his rabbit (hare) and squirrel. Boiling retains all the nutrients.
8:03 PM
Adam is eating
his first snowshoe hare and finds it to be delicious. His new river area is a long hike but has
proven fruitful.
8:46 PM
Jessie is in
her shelter, her stomach upset again, like acid reflux. She is going to eat the charcoal again.
10:17 PM
She throws up four
times again in large volumes and is likely to become dehydrated. She probably needs to try a smaller volume of water more
frequently; a good Lesson Learned.
11:48 PM
She is in bed
feeling bad after throwing up and pledging not to tap out.
Day 46
3:43 PM
Jessie failed
to confirm her regular medical check this morning, and the boat is on its way
as the safety crew was immediately dispatched.
They find her in her cabin in bed. They question her about throwing up 9
or 10 times and begin to examine her.
She is likely a medical tap-out on Day 46. The med team talks and approaches her. Her stomach lining is inflamed, and she
cannot care for herself, so Jessie is being medically extracted (Tap out) Day 46.
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The Bow & Arrows is the clear leader in harvesting meat, with a fishing line in a distant second place. Snare production may increase when the snow falls and trails can be clearly seen.
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Day 47
-
35F
9:24
AM
Karie Lee signs a song a friend wrote, which I’m not sure
helps or hurts with the loneliness. She
is hiking to the river behind her camp sight.
She misses a tree top squirrel and her arrow bounces back, then she
misses again and loses her arrow, but searches and finds it. She sings as she hunts, which is not a good
idea for obvious reasons. She harvests
no meat on this hunt.
Day 48
8:42 AM
Adam didn’t sleep well and is still in bed. He is really hungry and not likely to last
much longer. We see the water edge
freezing. Dressing, he goes hunting on a
windy day (40 mph). Wind spooks game and
they don’t move much. He hunts every day
for 3-5 hours, with the best results following the river and finding
grouse. Grouse move into denser, more
mature forests to stay warm in the winter. Adam has lost 61 pounds. He had an arrow fall
out of his quiver and begins to backtrack to try and find it. Traveling through the dense brush is exhausting
He should be looking for game trails to
travel on. He stops to rest. Looking for
a lost arrow, he is unlikely to see any game, and his legs are tired. He started with 9 arrows and has 4 left. None of the candidates have seen any big game. He is back at camp with ½ a grouse left from
his last kill.
12:13 PM – 23 F
Juan Pablo didn’t sleep much with the noisy wind and plans
to make some ear plugs from a tee shirt to help him sleep. He is going to hang his sleeping bag so the
feathers don’t clump up and work to improve his bed to make it more comfortable. We see increasing freezing of the river. Ice Fishing may soon become an option.
2:42 PM – 23 F
Teimojin goes for water.
His creek is frozen over, but he can break it with his pan. He has been
trained in arctic survival. Food is the most critical factor. He is focusing on squirrels which seem to be
the most abundant food supply. The wind is limited at his site. He has lost 44 pounds since day 1. He has two squirrels run right by him. He
shoots and misses. He is tired and sits down to rest. His speech is blurred as he talks. It looks as if he has about 6 of 9 arrows
left.
8:22 PM, he is in his shelter, missing his girlfriend. Missing family is one of the signs that he is
near tapping out. It is snowing as he
goes to sleep.
Day 49
11:14 AM – 22 F
Karie Lee admires the beautiful morning before going off to
check her trap line and may set up more.
Setting snare traps after the snow is a good idea as you can easily see
the animal trails. She is going to focus
more on trapping food, which has been a low yield method with only 2% of the
total, but the odds improve with the snow. Her thumbs are split from the cold
weather.
6:41 PM
Karie Lee is back in her shelter after setting 5 more traps
but harvesting no meat. She has been
unable to hit squirrels with her bow, which is the top tool for harvesting meat
with 74% of the total. She is talking
about her failures, as she gets closer to tapping out.
Day 50
9:24 AM
We see a river about half frozen as Teimojin plans to set
traps using gut from his kills, near the river for birds. He wants to have as many food harvesting
strategies as he can. He is eating every
day, but not enough. He seems feeble
trying to use a bow drill and keeps dropping the tools. He uses a perch trap
for birds, which I’ve never seen used.
11:41 AM – 19 F
Adam won’t be wasting any time eating breakfast today as he
has none. The river has about 20% ice at his location. He is steadily losing weight. No new bear sign anywhere. He sees a grouse, shoots, and kills a 2 lb grouse with his bow. With some success, he should take a different
route back and look for more grouse, but we see him at the river cleaning his
grouse. We see the river here mostly
frozen, but lightly.
We learn that 6
former Alone contestants will return on a winter show called Alone Frozen.
12:21 PM – 24 F
Juan Pablo is in his sleeping bag. He is wearing new wool socks today as a treat
to himself. He first goes for water from
the river. The river looks still with
ice covering most of it. But his pier still extends into open water that he
could fish in. It appears that he drinks the water direct from the river. He is considering hunkering down, recognizing
he only needs to stay one day longer than the other contestants, much like you
don’t have to out run the bear, just out run the other person.
Day 51
12:19 PM
Karie Lee shows us that the river is frozen over although
we have some icy flow right in the middle.
She will hunt and trap today, using her fishing pole as a walking stick
now.
Note that fishing has harvested 23% of the total meat,
second only behind the bow at 74%. Karie Lee has 4% of the total meat harvested
2:14 PM
Checking her trap line, which was recently expanded after
the first snow, Kerie Lee has harvested a ½ lb squirrel
with a snare trap. It is frozen, obviously caught the
previous day.
5:57 pm
Totally dark outside,
Kerrie Lee is in her shelter eating the legs of her squirrel and singing.
Day 52
7:43 AM
Teimojin is building snare
traps for squirrels. Since he has not
been traping, he may have an abundant supply.
He knows his hunting grounds and has them divided into sectors. We hear a crow cawing. Wild animals recognize this as a warning.
8:51 AM
Teimojin sees that his
bird trap is triggered, but no bird. We
see that about 80% of the river is frozen to a limited degree. He resets his bird trap as we see snow
building up on the river ice. Another
part of the river is only about 30% frozen.
He throws sizeable rocks out on the ice and they don’t break through. The wind pick up and he heads home
1:52 PM
We see an aerial view of
the river 90% frozen. Adam is taking his
shirt off and looks scary thin with some loose skin. He doesn’t know what to do. He is losing a pound a day. No one on this show has ever thrived on small
game, so he is going bear hunting.
Walking uphill is exhausting. He is weak and not likely to last much
longer. Finding nothing, he states he has reached a critical juncture and he is
going to have to call it. No one is seeing any bear signs, as they are usually shy
and move away from humans where possible.
3:52 PM
Back at camp Adam sees a
spruce grouse within easy shooting range, but doesn’t bother trying to shoot
it. He has given up. Adam Taps out on Day 52. Listening to their rational for taping out is
depressing, and this time is no exception.
Only 2.5 lbs of meat harvested this week from the 4 contestants.
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Day 53
8:36
AM – 27F
Teimojin is checking his snare traps and has a live ½ Lb squirrel that is struggling to escape. He finished him with a club.
Karie Lee is making a snow
angel and getting her clothes wet. The river is mostly frozen with some flow in
the center. Here shelter still has no
front on it. She wants to build a cob oven.
She wraps a pile of wood with clay
11:53 AM
Karie Lee is adding a wood
chimney to her cob oven, and covering it with clay, before starting it. As the wood chimney burns out, the opening
allows the smoke to escape, but the oven collapses.
Day 54
9:27 AM - 28F
Juan Pablo is in his
shelter and dressed fully in his sleeping bag for warmth, attempting a form of
hibernation. He gets up and reinforces
his shelter to support snow build up, which can be 60 inches in a day.
11:49 AM
Teimojin is inside his
shelter looking for places to insulate it further. He goes outside to get some spruce boughs to
stop the wind blowing into his shelter.
He has lost 49 pounds since day 1. Pulling on some boughs, one snaps and
he falls.
1:28 PM
Teimojin is not injured
from his fall.
2:06 PM
Teimojin is taking a break,
and drinking some water. He has a lot of
reindeer moss, cranberries and ½ of a grouse that he is saving.
Day 55
9:21 AM – 22 F
Karie Lee heard an animal
outside last night. She shows some of the fruit leather she made. She goes hunting and to check her snare
traps. Snow makes it easy to see tracks
to know where to set traps.
12:17 PM
Her traps are covered with
snow with no food. Here traps are marked
with ribbon, but she is struggling to find them in the snow.
6:34 PM
Karie Lee is back in her
shelter, with no food harvested today.
She expects it to get really cold.
Day 56
9:24 AM – 22 F
Juan Pablo is in his
sleeping bag experiencing 43 MPH winds.
It is not a good day to be out, but he needs water and goes to the river
which is covered with snow.
11:54 AM
Karie Lee is in her
shelter but must go pee. We see snow covered every where.
1:43 PM
Teimojin has a walking
stick he is using. He thinks he hears grouse flapping and goes hunting.
Day 57
10:14 AM – 19 F
Juan Pablo is in his
sleeping bag, experiencing 51 MPH wind gusts.
He has been in his sleeping bag a lot lately.
12:33 PM
Teimojin is in his
sleeping bag with the strong winds blowing. This seems to be a common activity now.
1:42 PM
Karie Lee is spending the
day gathering firewood, mostly small sticks.
Snow is everywhere, it is windy and cold. So windy, her camera blew
over.
Day 58
7:36 AM
Teimojin is in his
shelter. He is really cold and hungry,
boiling Reindeer moss to eat which must be boiled several times to get rid of
acid. It doesn’t have much nutritional value. He pours water on his shelter to
form ice insulation. Going to get water
is exhausting.
1:01 PM
Juan Pablo is getting
water and stepping through the ice. That
is why you want waterproof shoes. The
wind is unexpected for him. He needs to
hydrate. He has been drinking untreated
water for 10 years & doesn’t burn a fire unless he needs to cook. He is the
first person in Alone history to not maintain a fire, saving a lot of calories.
He is trying to do the 20% of the work
that will give 80% of the benefit.
Day 59
8:44 AM – 24 F
Juan Pablo is getting
water from the frozen river by chopping a whole with his axe. Clear ice has no
air and id denser and safer to walk on.
4” thick is considered to walk on.
10:03 AM
Juan Pablo is planning to
walk out on the ice but hasn’t eaten in 9 days.
He is making an ice chisel.
11:18 AM
Karie Lee found that her
pants got frozen shut. She goes for tree sap and sees a squirrel on the ground
and shots at it with her bow.
1:24 PM
Karie Lee bags a ½ lb squirrel with her bow. She is back at her shelter
eating her fresh kill. The trees are
covered in snow.
Day 60
9:19 AM
Juan Pablo is clipping his
toenails. Taking care of your feet is
important. He piles snow on his shelter for insulation.
4:03 PM
It is nearly dark as Juan
Pablo seeks to fill any cracks in his shelter. He doesn’t burn a fire unless he
needs to cook.
Day 61
8:53 AM – 23 F
Teimojin chipped his tooth
chewing on a bone.
10:47 AM
Teimojin is out to check
snares and hunt. Seeing no tracks in the
snow is not a good sign. Heavy snowfall
covers them quickly. He is short of
breath and must rest, as he pushes his limit. He almost fell and didn’t find
any game in his traps. He returns to his
bear hang where he was saving some grouse. Back in his shelter, he is eating
the grouse and reindeer moss or about 450 calories.
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Remain, two strategies A) find food or B) do nothing, save calories & tough
it out.
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Day 62
8:43
AM – 14 F
Teimojin
is out on the coldest day yet after the area received 12 inches of snow overnight. He is going to get some firewood. He has lost
54 lbs since day 1, despite having a 2 qt pot of food the night before. He gets an arm load of sticks and is
exhausted and going to take a break.
12:47
PM
Karie
Lee is playing in the snow, wasting precious calories but likely helping her
mental health. She has lost 49 pounds
since day 1. Going to check her trap lines, she sees a squirrel.
2:07
PM
Karie
Lee shoots her bow at a squirrel and misses.
3:16
PM
Juan
Pablo is once again in his sleeping bag, with the door to his shelter open and
with no fire burning. Ice cycles are breaking
off the trees and knocking holes in his tarp roof. He may need some boughs to avoid this. He sews
a patch on a hole, and did a good job using his wire as a needle.
Day 63
8:01
AM – 17 F
Teimojin
is going out to get some water. His cold
weather survival training should give him an edge at this point. He is exhausted after walking to get water, and
after sleeping well last night. He is
looking forward to hugging his mom at the airport. How much is enough? He is close to quitting. He has another idea to try.
10:14
AM
Teimojin
takes his tarp and some paracord and packs his stuff to walk out on his
own. Teimojin is tapping out on Day 63. Now we must
listen to his rationalization for quitting.
Not that we could do better, but we are disappointed to see him leave,
knowing his is so close to winning.
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9:47
AM – 15 F
Juan
Pablo is going for water and seems to have good agility. He has not had a fire in his shelter for 62
days since he built it. He builds a fire in his small fireplace. It smokes up
his place and makes him sick.
Day 65
9:08
AM
Juan
Pablo used paint cans for his chimney and it stinks really bad, so he is going
to redo his stove chimney.
10:21
AM
He
removes some of the can’s and replaces them.
1:41
PM
Juan
uses some clay to rebuild his stove
6:19
PM
His repaired
stove is ready to use. He was missing
his family and friends, but is determined and his strategy looks good. His stove is working now and has a very small
fire in it.
Day 66
8:47 AM
Karie Lee, a tough
semi-finalist at the age of 57, is eating fruit leather, but knows she can’t
eat much or she gets a stomach ache. The
fruit leather provides a good energy surge.
She struggles to pull her bow back for hunting and heads back to camp. She is having a hard time.
10:17 AM
She is talking about a
friend with cancer to who she is dedicating her adventure on Alone. This is keeping her going.
Day 67
8:24 AM
Juan Pablo is going to
grab the camera as he sees a polar bear.
Now he is not sure it was real as he doesn’t see it now that he has his
camera
9:13: AM
Karie Lee is gathering
wood to make snow skis, I suspect she means now shoes. This is a good idea as it will save a lot of calories
when walking through the snow.
9:58 AM
Juan Pablo is getting
water from a hole in the ice, but not ice fishing.
Day 68
2:17 PM – 25 F
Karie Lee is not thinking
about tapping out, but was.
7:48 PM
Juan Pablo has a back ache
when he realizes his fire has died out.
He chops some wood dangerously and could hurt his hand.
Day 69
11:31 AM
Karie Lee is tired today
which has 7 hours of daylight at this time of year. She might make some tea and go back to bed.
3:12 PM
Juan Pablo is in his
shelter using foul language that has to be bleeped out.
Day 70
1:41 PM
Karie Lee is sitting in
her shelter taking today moment by moment.
4:13 PM
Juan Pablo is sitting on
his bench he made by the river.
Day 71
7:26 AM (dark)
Karie Lee is tossing and
turning all night in her sleeping bag.
Not enough fat to cushion her joints.
Day 72
12:13 AM
Juan Pablo is recording at
an odd time, why? Go to bed.
1:12 PM
Karie Lee is in her
shelter trying to stay warm in her sleeping bag
3:49 PM
Juan Pablo is in his
sleeping bag staring, not even blinking.
Day 73
10:24 AM
Juan Pablo is in his
shelter, with the door open as usual. He
hasn’t been eating. So he is going for a
walk, in hopes of being mentally much better.
He wants to walk on the ice.
Unless he can go ice fishing and has poles that will support him if he
falls, this is an unnecessary risk. He
is very emotional, starving, and alone, he keeps thinking he is so thankful for
Jennifer his girlfriend, and he is going to propose.
Day 74
9:02 AM
Karie Lee is in her
shelter having trouble getting out after six inches of new snow fell overnight. Here spirits are good, her body is tired and
she is light-headed. She is about to
tap, crying as she enjoys the beauty of the area. She leaves the camera and returns with a
sign: Do your dream, her one picture or
photo that she gets to bring. She is broken… no, she is not done today, but is
close.
Day 75
8:42 AM – 14 F
Karie Lee is sitting in
her shelter with the door open, craving healthy food, holding the tap-out radio. She shows us that she can’t pull her bowstring
back, so she can’t get any food. She is
crying again. Karie Lee Taps out on Day 75 after nearly becoming
the first woman to win this event. She
sees the helicopter coming and they are filming her telling her rationale for
quitting, after being SO close. At 57,
she is one tough woman. With a few less
mistakes, she could have been the winner.
Day 78
10:13 AM
1 Remain
Juan Pablo, the $500,000
winner says his body is asking for a full day off recovery, doing nothing. He hears an alarm going off for a Med Check
in one hour when he is dehydrated, so he starts to drink water and starts a
fire to heat more water so he can drink it fast so he can drink more water.
The medics question him as
we see his girlfriend approaching.
12:47 PM
She walks up to him and grabs
his shoulder and hugs him. He shows her his shelter. We see the river covered with snow near his
bench but flowing rapidly in others. We see them flying off in the helicopter.
Juan Pablo’s unique strategy
paid off for the $500,000 win!
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