Find of the day!!!!

Les Strouds films everything by himself right? No other cameraman/crew around? How come sometimes they show shots of him walking far away when he moves/camp to a new location. Does he come back to retrieve the camera?? Wouldn't that be a waste of time/energy?

Yep he doubles back for the camera....all the more of a bad ass in my book.

 I saw an episode where he left the camera (on the last scene) and had his crew pick it for him.


Jeremiah Johnson rocks!

Thats what I was thinking. It doesn't make sense for him to take a film of him walking away for 2 miles or so and walk back to get his camera back. Just waste of energy considering he's always scrambling for food and water.

Les Strouds films everything by himself right? No other cameraman/crew around? How come sometimes they show shots of him walking far away when he moves/camp to a new location. Does he come back to retrieve the camera?? Wouldn't that be a waste of time/energy?

Yep he doubles back for the camera....all the more of a bad ass in my book.

 I saw an episode where he left the camera (on the last scene) and had his crew pick it for him.


Jeremiah Johnson rocks!

I like gerbers for inexpensive blades. I think I just lost my spring assist daily-carry one on my vacation so I'm in the market but will probably get another Gerber (since they are cheaper than Benchmade and I can't seem to hang onto my daily carry knife for more than a few months ).

I'm in the Les Stroud camp, I loved his show. Sometimes he would take the easy road (his camp on some island with a wrecked boat) but that always got tempered by his hardships.

Jeremiah Johnson was my hero as a kid. I had my parents take me on a camping trip through Utah when I was maybe 8, and my dad bought "Outdoor Survival Skills" by Larry Dean Olsen (who was picked by Redford as the film consultant). Olsen taught a survival course through BYU. One day in camp along the Green River my dad took the book and made a bone awl from a deer bone we'd found. I clearly remember thinking he was the coolest dad in the world that day.

Les Strouds films everything by himself right? No other cameraman/crew around? How come sometimes they show shots of him walking far away when he moves/camp to a new location. Does he come back to retrieve the camera?? Wouldn't that be a waste of time/energy?

Yep he doubles back for the camera....all the more of a bad ass in my book.

 I saw an episode where he left the camera (on the last scene) and had his crew pick it for him.


Jeremiah Johnson rocks!

I like gerbers for inexpensive blades. I think I just lost my spring assist daily-carry one on my vacation so I'm in the market but will probably get another Gerber (since they are cheaper than Benchmade and I can't seem to hang onto my daily carry knife for more than a few months ).

I'm in the Les Stroud camp, I loved his show. Sometimes he would take the easy road (his camp on some island with a wrecked boat) but that always got tempered by his hardships.

Jeremiah Johnson was my hero as a kid. I had my parents take me on a camping trip through Utah when I was maybe 8, and my dad bought "Outdoor Survival Skills" by Larry Dean Olsen (who was picked by Redford as the film consultant). Olsen taught a survival course through BYU. One day in camp along the Green River my dad took the book and made a bone awl from a deer bone we'd found. I clearly remember thinking he was the coolest dad in the world that day.

Sean check out the SOG Flash 1 and Flash 2. The Flash 1 is pretty small. So you may prefer the Flash 2. Both are crazy light, assisted opening, deep carry/tip up clip and way cheap! So loosing them isn't gonna hurt. I have both and carry the 1 80% of the time but I work in an office so a bigger blade may be overkill

New Bear Grylls survival knife at Goodwill (second hand store) for $10. This was a score. Retails for $60
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Nice knife I have one one the seat strap of my cuda .Just a heads up the first production run of those knifes the tang was to short.when guys were trying to cut down trees like bear the blade would break off the handle gerber claims to have repaired the issue and I heard they were replacing the broke ones with our hassle.i wonder what bear would do If his broke make something cool like a spear

... a bigger blade may be overkill

Never!

I remember FishingJay saying he would mutter something like "Kill em all" every time he opened his knife in his office environment. I now do that too, but just in my head . Thanks for the almost daily laugh in my head, Jay.

Thanks for the recommendation Erik. I think it is down to either the SOG 2 or the similar sized gerber. From the specs the Gerber is a bit heavier and about $20 cheaper than the SOG but I haven't yet decided.