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Lots of us old-timers over here used to drink water from creeks - and eventually got a bit of a shock on finding some dead animal lying in the water upstream.. We almost never became sick because of the dilution effect of the creek, and because our bodies and gut bacteria killed the stuff in the...

Microbes are small but plentiful. Taking a taste of water is the same as knowing that supermarket chicken holds vast amounts of bacteria but insisting on licking some to check it out. My grand-daughter loved to go under waterfalls on the beach and swim in creeks but I was always careful to...

Let's just watch the show first so we can bring our experience to it, then do all the behind the scenes stuff. I've brought to this thread what I could, and I'm up for any criticism

I must have missed stuff. Could you point me to the show and time, please? I saw no evidence of fire.

Almost 40 days and the last 4 are still in! Having given that much away, well this is one of the best shows so far!

After watching the special, I'm still confused because the guys who had already dropped out were surprised that Brant had drunk water without boiling it. Since Joe was the only one shown with a fire (before he lost his ferro rod), I wonder how they purified their water? And if they'd had fires...

Thanks for the explanation, Dave! Just about all of my axe collecting (to see how various shapes worked) has been centred on axes made by large scale production. I've always been curious about the demise of smaller companies in Canada - or as most often happened, their takeover and move to be...

Dave, what are the practical benefits of the ES factory making axes by that method, rather than making the whole axe head out of one type of steel? I'm still trying to figure that one out!

There is an episode just out called "After The Rescue" with comments by those who finished early.. Just watching it.

One thing is for sure - you'll have the first axe head made by that method in a long time! There are still people like Lee Reeves - oops I guess he's retired - making iron axe heads with inserted steel bits so that they are authentic replicas of early axes made when steel was expensive. I...

I'm really interested in what you learn from this project. The ES factory video was a real find because I would never have believed that axes were being produced that way to the mid 20th century to be price competitive with axes produced by die forging on an industrial scale.

By starting sometime in late October, all of plentiful salmon were denied them, and frankly there simply isn't a lot else around. While they are near logged off areas and regrowth, deer there will have been hunted, and so tough to get with a bow. Bears aren't hunted much any more due to...

The relevant point, IMO, is that when Ray does actually work for the BBC, a publicly funded organisation, which fronts him, he makes a profit from the free advertising. That's true, but it is pretty obvious to us all. The same would certainly go for the "River Cottage" shows, which I also...

What an awful thing. I love seeing them here.

I think that you are being a bit hard on them. Their failure is really based on the fact that they couldn't get a fire going to keep critters at distance and boil water. And it is difficult to get a fire started in the extreme dampness of that place. No matter how they tried, if they drank...

Thanks! The reason that I'm so interested in recipes is that I've been on a salt reduced diet for years, so anything canned or packaged is generally too salty for me now, except in small quantities. I can well remember years ago when going to eat with colleagues that we always had to eat...

I absolutely have to get your recipe for vegetarian haggis if you have one! Finally I might have an advantage on my vegetarian grand-daughter, if veggie haggis really is possible. It's been very difficult to surprise her in the past...

I'm a fan of Ray Mears' shows, but it must take some swallowing for him to get through some. I looked at the trailer of the upcoming show with him making camp in a pleasant spot. I can remember days when I did that in Britain, camp fire and all - but I'm guessing that things are not so easy now...

I've never heard of any problems due to hormones, but I don't know. One thing that does occur to me is that if you raise and wave your arms to shoo off the deer, that might cause problems. There was a young researcher studying moose who would initiate a charge by bull moose in rut, by raising...

The trouble with equipment in places like where we live is that the place is harder on the stuff than we would ever dream of being. Bushnell still have a major repair centre in Vancouver, and before buying any optics, it's well worth checking what "local" repair centres the other brands have and...