whats your favorite survivorman episode?

Picking one would be way too hard, so here are my three favorite moments from the show:

1) Getting the needle and thread from the agave plant in the Sonoran Desert episode
2) Les making the payute deadfall, figure four trap and snare and actually catching something with them
3) Boiling water in a plastic bottle in the African Plains episode

Of course these are just off the top of my head, so I will probably come up with other ones later today.
 
Sonaron Desert

But then I am biased because it applies to my area, I just want to know where he found the years round creek with water:eek:
 
Agave needle and thread is one of the better "hey, neat" moments.

"Finding" the rattlesnake in the Georgia swamp wins for most entertaining Stroud moment.

Lecturing against drinking urine. :D
 
The one that was filmed on Baffin Island near Greenland.

My Dad was stationed at Baffin Island Air Station in the 50's helping build the D.E.W. line, I still have some old pic's of my dad hunting Polar Bear taken there.
 
There's a lot of good eps, but my fav is the plane crash ep from last season.

From this season, it's the Labrador episode.

Keep'm coming Les!
 
I'm a big fan of the plane crash episode where he snares the snowshoe hare, and the altamaha basin (swamp) episode bith form last season
 
I like most of them generally but it made me laugh when he pees around his camp area to ward off bears. Dont know if it works or not but he did look funny.
 
The Last Confederate said:
The one that was filmed on Baffin Island near Greenland.

My Dad was stationed at Baffin Island Air Station in the 50's helping build the D.E.W. line, I still have some old pic's of my dad hunting Polar Bear taken there.
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Cool! I'm Canadian (Newfoundlander) my father worked with you "yanks" (lol) on Baffin island back in the 50s as well. Unfortunately he wasn't/isn't much for taking pics.
 
tholiver said:
Cool! I'm Canadian (Newfoundlander) my father worked with you "yanks" (lol) on Baffin island back in the 50s as well. Unfortunately he wasn't/isn't much for taking pics.
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Small world! Mine was, I still have his Argus 35mm camera that he used up there. I have several boxes of slides from Baffin Island, a few years ago I had prints made of some of the pictures, including the Polar Bear ones.

This shot was always one of my favorites.
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+1 for the plane crash. But I liked it because he said the hell with faking an injury. I thought it was great. All his dedication to that show and he gave up on pulling it off. Some might see it as bad, I see it as a true depiction of how hard it is.
 
YMMV, but I am of the opinion that the title of Les's show should be renamed to "Starving-man" for I think the only thing he does consistently on these shows is starve for 7 days, which never really impressed me all that much.

mike
 
My favorite, was probably his pilot episode that originally aired on Discovery Canada before he was called Survivorman. That one convinced me to always carry a firesteel or some other pyro tool all the time.

http://www.exn.ca/OneWeek/

My little brush fame is when a few of us invited him to a forum and he started knocking around the idea of his current show. Out of it, the Utah and Georgia swamp episodes were created.
 
The Last Confederate said:
Small world! Mine was, I still have his Argus 35mm camera that he used up there. I have several boxes of slides from Baffin Island, a few years ago I had prints made of some of the pictures, including the Polar Bear ones.

This shot was always one of my favorites.
Dad-1-FRONT.jpg
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Cool pic! My fathers name is Patrick Oliver, you never know they might have known each other!
Unlike my father i'm a stickler for recording things photographically and tend to drag my old slr or digital camera with me everywhere, lol.

You should get the slides scanned and put on cd/dvd. A lot of decent photography stores offer bulk scanning services.Personally i know around here its not too expensive. Scan them once then house the originals in archival quality storage units to ensure they last. Scanning is a great way of making memories more easily accessible for the whole family and future generations.
:)
 
Saunterer said:
My favorite, was probably his pilot episode that originally aired on Discovery Canada before he was called Survivorman. That one convinced me to always carry a firesteel or some other pyro tool all the time.

http://www.exn.ca/OneWeek/

My little brush fame is when a few of us invited him to a forum and he started knocking around the idea of his current show. Out of it, the Utah and Georgia swamp episodes were created.
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Yeah i remember that 7 part one. Hmmm is that included in the season 1 dvd set?
So you've met Les Stroud? that is kinda cool!
(Edit) The 7 episodes are watchable at the site you linked above, thanks!
 
I have two favorites. The Boreal forest episode and the Alaska episode .I tend to migrate towards tose type of terrains. Much like the Upper Penninsula Of Michigan.
 
Swamp episode as it applied best for me... However I'm from South Louisiana.




To be perfectly honest IMO the Man Vs Wild swamp episode was better though. I learned more.
 
let's see....

Probably was the one where he was fishing for Salmon in the swamp, next to the glacier, while avoiding Grizzlies, and almost stepped on a Cobra. :eek:
Remember? it was the one where he had run out of water and was licking the air to get the moisture out of it.

The one where he ripped his Big toenail off , using the pliers from his Leatherman, and fashioned it into a fish hook.
You know, the episode where he was on the snowmobile, being towed by a pack of wolves and fell into the icy lake but grabbed some pirhanas to eat so he wouldn't starve.
It was the same one where he was in the Sonoran desert, stole some kids dirt bike, dismantled it and made a radio transmitter to call in his GPS location to the Civil Air Patrol, in Labrador. :thumbup:

yeah, that one. ;)
 
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