Conditioning his body to withstand hypothermia? I didn't know such a thing was possible.
Awesome.
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I kinda like him too, but the last ep. where he's using foam as a floating device on his canoe, is just plain stupid!
What is artificially sponges made of? Yes foam! Sponges sucks water as a... well.. sponge, and he should have used styrofoam instead. This was ridiculous and stupid.
- and for my part, I would've made some outriggers on the canoe instead, some you could attach in a hurry when the weather goes tuff on the lake - much safer and much more reliable.
Closed-cell foam will not absorb water, and since his little system seemed to have worked, that's probably what he used.
My own issues were: he used so little of it, it can't have affected the buoyancy that much. And a dry bag that size full of water would only weigh about 16 pounds, hardly enough to counter a 160-lb. man climbing in on the other side.
I guess we have to appreciate these programs for their entertainment value, not for their technical/realistic accuracies.
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Have to agree - he's a pretty resourceful dude in a very tough environment. Adaptability is amazing, although I agree with whoever poster that his foam/sponge solution to the canoe was odd.
shareI just wonder if he takes as many chances when the camera is not around. It seems like he wouldn't last for years before he got in big trouble from doing things like swimming across a freezing river naked except for a big heavy backpack. Or possibly spraining an ankle in the middle of nowhere. I assume there is no communication to get help when he's out alone and no one is expecting him back at a given time.
shareYou have to know that he would not be taking all of those high risk chances he takes trying to get things done if there was not a crew standing nearby. If anything went catastrophic for him, or any of these people on these survival shows, the technical crew is always just out of camera range to lend assistance.
shareI've really only watched Glenn in Season 7 but I do enjoy his living a more "pure" Alaskan wilderness lifestyle without even using dogs or snowmobiles or any machinery or gas powered devices.
Life is too short, so thanks for the "ignore" function.