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I thought there used to be a thread about this show, but I can't find it. Anyway, I always knew something was funny with the show Look at this:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1771093

Oooooh...Thanks Preston. Like I need another excuse to stay up until the wee hours. At least the helpful robot DVR will record it if I don't make it. I wonder what Grylls will do. Will he evade the Africanized bees in suburban Tucson? Evade both the Border Patrol and the mota-smugglers west of Nogales? Enjoy both hyperthermia and hypothermia in the same day in the Huachucas?

That was a pretty neat show. He had used some stuff to make things that I see every day while hiking in the Sky Islands that I would never have thought of using. I was very happy with that show.

But he did some very unnecessary things while he was there haha

Preston Sands wrote:Tonight's episode of Man vs. Wild: Arizona Sky Islands

What station and time is that?

It was on last night.

It will re-air on Discovery next Thursday, Feb. 24 at 8pm and 11pm on Cox/Cable, 6pm and 9pm on DirecTV/Dish Network. (Arizona time)

The second-ever "Survivorman" featured Les Stroud stranded in the Arizona desert as well. It first aired 4/13/05. It's available on DVD now, but I can't find a scheduled repeat of this episode currently planned to air (perhaps because the DVDs are out).

But it's on youtube!
part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROJ1w-gJSwg
2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m5NHNVy3RE
3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REbYz41BD5A
4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLKloPRANqQ
5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_QAgvEWi6E

I can't watch it right now because I'm at work, but what part of Arizona was the guy from survivor man in?

It's a mythical place where it freezes at night and gets to 90 in the day, what a joke

joe bartels wrote:It's a mythical place where it freezes at night and gets to 90 in the day, what a joke

It does seem like he stretches things a bit. "The sun has only been up for 15 minutes and it's already getting hot" Um, not if it was close to freezing it's not. And the shadows sure look like the sun's been up for more than 15 minutes, but don't let that stop you from telling the story... :roll:

I didn't look it over again, but I could swear that they give GPS coordinates somewhere in the episode. I was under the impression it was somewhere between Tonto Basin/Roosevelt and Pleasant Valley/Young, but I'm not positive about that.

Survivorman - "the black widow spider and rattlesnake call this place home"

Black Widow spiders inhabit most of the warmer regions of the world to a latitude of about 45 degrees N. and S. They occur throughout all four deserts of the American Southwest.

rattlesnakes inhabit... oh what's the point

Survivorman - "the peccaries will attack you in numbers in an unorganized and wild fashion"
dang it! I have to remember to be scared and stop chasing them

Both shows, Survivorman and Man vs. Wild, are jokes. If it's such a friggin' struggle to get out of (or into?) certain situations, how can the guy right next to Bear get such good shots with a heavy high-def video camera?

I loved the portion of one episode where Bear was trying to catch fish, but he didn't have the patience. He admitted it was a good thing one of his crew was able to catch a fish (so he could eat it raw)... puleeeeaase...

"Let me show you what to do if you fall into a pit of quicksand..." How about walking around it??

paulhubbard wrote: "Let me show you what to do if you fall into a pit of quicksand..." How about walking around it??

Paul, you might like some of the Bear Grylls parody videos on youtube.

The survivorman episode about AZ was overdone, and someone put an unhealthy fear into Les about javelina it would seem and nobody told him that rattlesnakes usually hibernate in the winter...but I've got to give him a break on that since he's Canadian and probably just studied a bit about the desert for a week or two before coming out here.

Most of the survivorman stuff is fairly good, though in most episodes he survives basically by building a shelter and starving for a week, eating bugs where he can.

I recorded the coordinates of the original show, which put him southwest of Young, AZ. They dropped him off somewhere between Trail 157 and Dinner Canyon and I'm pretty sure on day 4 he hiked west/northwest to get into the drainage of Spring Creek to get the water...I've been meaning to get out there one day to try to find it, but I've heard the crew comes back and cleans up the mess after the episode.

nonot wrote:the crew comes back and cleans up the mess after the episode.

Well at least they practice "leave no trace". That's a good thing.

It looked like Bear was in the Dragoons and the Chiricahuas on last week's "Sky Islands" episode. I saw some shots at the top of Chiricahua National Monument, what looked like Sheepshead (Dragoons), and what may have been Willcox Playa.

I saw one of these (I'm not sure which one) on TV in the gym with no sound. The highlight seemed to be killing a rattlesnake that was hiding under a rock. It wasn't clear what the point was, but I hope he planned to eat it.

John13np wrote:I can't watch it right now because I'm at work, but what part of Arizona was the guy from survivor man in?

It looked like the San Pedro River valley area to me when I watched it, but that was a few years ago. I'm thinging near San Manuel, out there...

Preston Sands wrote:It looked like Bear was in the Dragoons and the Chiricahuas on last week's "Sky Islands" episode. I saw some shots at the top of Chiricahua National Monument, what looked like Sheepshead (Dragoons), and what may have been Willcox Playa.

I was thinking the same; or maybe Winchesters?

I'd agree w/Chiricahuas. It looked to me like they moved the shoot around alot. One of the shots seemed to be near Mt Graham.

His idea of escaping the desert heat is to free climb and tyrolean the most dangerous way up? What a joke. The planting of the "ultralight" wreckage was funny...apparently people haul out the engine and wings but leave perfectly good wheels, eh? ;)

If you look closely, you can see the kernmantle rope (disguised by flailing bits of paracord), under-clothes harness and caribiner w/safety leash on the tyrolean and one of the free climbs.

All pretend.

@nonot

Next you're gonna tell me Cash Cab is staged!

Tough_Boots wrote:Next you're gonna tell me Cash Cab is staged!

Don't know if it's true, but I heard on the radio that the people in Cash Cab have to go through a screening process to acually "play".