OYB Bag used on TV Survival Show!

Hey, a customer let me know that Ed Wardle in his National Geographic TV series “Alone in the Wild” uses an OYB Bag!

Check it out in the pic below! Now, there’s a macho “manpurse”! : ) He’s carrying not one but TWO guns…and an OYB Bag!

It’s also shown near the start of the “Packing Up Camp” video (link below) and in use berry-picking in the final hour of the show.

The customer said he probably removed the OYB logo patch for sponsor reasons—but just maybe his bag wasn’t one of my bike-modified items. : ) I don’t mind!

I haven’t seen much of this show, but the set-up seems kinda interesting yet also a bit “off.” Ed is an adventure documentary maker. He’s climbed Everest twice doing movies. He’s not a trained survivalist, so I guess they thought to put a “game” guy onto this adventure of spending 3 months in the Yukon alone and see how he fares. He did the filming himself. But it just seems kinda weird.

What is this show really testing? Wilds people almost always have sufficient skills. Native peoples wouldn’t be fretful in Ed’s situation. I saw that Ed at one point wishes he had an expert to help him, like Survivorman (a good Canadian in this genre). But having a local Native American as a guide would’ve been just as good or even better. There was probably a tribe living off the grid not too far from where he was. But in addition to having skills, NA’s probably don’t often spend very much time alone in the wilds. Teamwork is a good thing. Why go alone? With skilled teammates you can have all the culture and conviviality possible. Sing songs, recite poetry/stories/legends, take it easy. In the real world, skills in nature don’t lead to deprivation and misery. Isn’t that what office-cubile skills lead to? : ) So thre’s some kind of twisted po-mo message going on here. Or maybe just plain oldfashioned projection.

Then there’s his position that I overheard on one segment that he didn’t want to shoot big game—except he realizes that so far north that most of the game animals ARE large. So he went without much food instead…and got weak and discouraged. He said he’d need a cabin if he was going to process big game. Actually, wouldn’t you just need a way to hoist excess meat into a tree, or a pit to bury it in after drying it (hmm, I’ve heard of this, but bears are diggers), or a little “cache” cabin to stash it in?

I also note that carrying TWO rifles seems a bit cumbersome. I think he said they were both highpower.

He limited himself to legal game-gathering only. (I suppose the Law limited him as well.) But his lack of success shows why subsistence people use other methods, mainly NETTING and SPEARING of fish. –Far better than rod’n’reel.

Oh well, I’m sure it was kind of a neat test. From the clips I saw he did a good job of solo filmmaking and craetive, observant narration. In the end, tho, Ed didn’t get enough salmon and got too weak and threw in the towel.