They should have been advised to watch all 37 episodes of Grizzly Adams.
IN truth, they should have spent their spare time camping and using some very good survival books to learn tricks.
The ‘mummified bodies’ update.......................
Oops
Well - they didn’t die of Covid, now did they?
That’s one way to get off and stay off the grid.
I saw their pics.
Fat slobs, low IQ looks, and no training.
Nature is unforgiving.
How not to prep ping
Look that there intranet says we can live off the land for free and eat tree bark.
Let’s go 🤪
In youtube’s defense, they have saved me thousands in car repairs over the years.
“The trio set out without much preparation aside from watching YouTube videos on how to survive..”
Nothing says off the grid like being on YouTube.
They used technology and electricity to prepare to go off grid.
Did they drive to their chosen campground? Or get a ride?
There’s a reason why people invented civilization: because survival off the land is hard! It’s much easier when the duties are split up and one person makes the tractors and another person tills the fields.
Wondering how many people who have gone “off grid” opted to stay “off grid” when they needed medical care.
“Watching youtube”
The seems to be the sum of all knowledge to millennials.
It is pathetic how often I see references to some online video as the basis for what some gen-z “knows”
Should have watched Jeremiah Johnson. Might not have prepared them, but would have told them what they wanted to do was very hard and potentially lethal.
In western Colorado in a tent! Even the guys up in the “mountains” by our ranch here in SE Oklahoma are smart enough to tow an old van or a school bus up there to live in….
They should have tried living in a tent in their back yard through the winter, to see what it was like before trying it out in the wilderness.
Your average American could not live without Wi-Fi, let alone no grid connection.
As someone who is not a skilled survivalist..I know how to do some stuff. But i could possibly survive a month ...possibly several months alone in the wilderness. But that is only during optimal weather. In the N.E that would sometime between June to August/Sept. Plenty of wilds to be had. And that doesn’t includes the option of bailing out if thing get to unpredictable.. So, it isn’t really surviving is it?
As someone who is not a skilled survivalist..I know how to do some stuff. But i could possibly survive a month ...possibly several months alone in the wilderness. But that is only during optimal weather. In the N.E that would sometime between June to August/Sept. Plenty of wilds to be had. BUT that INCLUDES the option of bailing out if thing get to unpredictable.. So, it isn’t really surviving is it?
There are *some* youtube videos that are really good at teaching various survival techniques. But watching them is not enough, you actually have to do the work, test the techniques, develop the muscle memory, and find what works for you.
There are also a lot of youtube videos that pretend to be teaching survival techniques, when really it’s a load of bull.
The fact that they were still in a tent tells me they watched the wrong ones.