Surviving in the Canadian Arctic (and other places)

I cross posted this to my personal weblog but I thought I would post a version here.

Jordon posted about Survivorman and Les Stroud a couple of weeks ago and he got an email from Les Stroud Productions and an offer of some Survivorman DVDs. He accepted the offer and on Friday a signed copy of all three seasons of Survivorman came in the mail.  Of course this is what I was going to get Jordon for Christmas but there is always Les Stroud’s book, Survive! to get Jordon.

Today we are sitting back and watching a couple of episodes of Survivorman as a family.

I really understand why Jordon, Mark, and even Tiger Woods really gets into the show.   Les Stroud is pretty funny with a dry wit and you can’t help but be impressed that not only can he survive with no food and no water but he manages to do a fantastic job at filming it all.  It’s a great show to watch as a family.

What is also pretty impressive is that by changing up the scenario and location, each episode has a much different feel to it while at the same time he manages to gross me out by what he eats (the above episode has him eating raw seal meat – although so did Canada’s Governor General and later a seal’s eye ball).  The other great part of it is that not everything turns out as planned.  “A crappy igloo” that falls apart, cutting himself while having monkey’s toss things at him in Costa Rico add a lot to the show.

Mark is pretty excited to try out what he learned next summer at the lake.  He according to this post by Jordon (and confirmed several times by Mark), he plans to eat some grasshoppers this summer.  I’ll let you know how that turns out.  I have a feeling an emergency hospital trip could be in Mark’s future.