Truly being alone

[Mortblanc]

Once again, we find there is a vast gulf between the disciplines of wilderness survival, disaster prepping, and doomsday prepping.

Disaster prepping gets used on a regular basis, due to it being done based on frequency of disasters.

Doomsday prepping is dealing with a situation that has never occurred and probably never will.

Wilderness survival skills are used as needed when an outdoor emergency occurs.

The guys that tapped out early on Alone never recognized the difference between going to the woods to practice survival skills and encountering a real survival situation where you do not pick the time, place, weather or your wildlife neighbors.

This might be taken as a wake up call to those that consider wilderness survival an extension of their doomsday prepping. The "Alone" part was only a fraction of the problems they faced. There was also the bitter cold, lack of calorie intake for days at a time and the fact that no one did much to improve their shelters.

One of my most irritating moments with the show was when one of the morons decided to build a boat when he did not even have an adequate shelter.

They were basically living under polytarps in sub freezing weather and no one did anything to improve their structures. It was as if they anticipated "going home tomorrow so why build a real shelter?" for their entire stay, which eventually lasted for over a month.