Bear Grylls in Alabama

“> from the Discovery Channel website:> > > Man vs. Wild > Alabama > TV-PG, CC > > Bear Grylls is deep in the back-woods of Alabama where he tackles freezing white-waters, comes face to face with a vicious wild boar, braves a raging forest fire, and gets trapped without light deep in the heart of an enormous limestone cave.


PULLEEEZE....that's a COMMON Trip Report from Sipsey Dayhikers down here!”

“LOL!

"Say mate, now that the camera is off, could you flip on the genny, crack open a John Henry and cook up some of those fresh boar steaks?"”

“Bear is a joke.”

“Yep, sounds like several of my trips....only I don't have a camera crew or tourist wandering into the frame.”

“Bear is more american than american are. LOL”

“With a last name like that I figure he must be of WELSH extraction.”

“He's ok. It's better than watching another re-run of Deadliest Catch.

There's a bit of a battle between him and a guy called Ray Mears in the UK.”

“Ray Mears is a primitive skills expert, he teaches skills for long term survival, while Bear teaches what you can do until you reach the nearest road...(Which usually isn't to far distant).”

“Deadliest Crotch v. Ice Road Fvckers.”

“oh you bear haters... he is only demonstrating techniques. it's a fun show, esp watching him eat things i wouldn't step on. go bear!”

“It's on Discovery now...he's in Little River Canyon.

8PM Wed Night.....”

“I turn on the TV and Dish at 8:08 and all I see is Bear's bare a$$. ST, you owe me.”

“LOL...I think a TT Bear Grylls reenactment hike is in order...wadda ya say we recreate the show and send it to Bear with a title like "How Alabamians REALLY survive in Alabama!"”

“Then again, if we do, we'll have to haul the empties and the coolers back to the truck.....”

“Getting eaten by alligators in NE AL is a constant source of fear in my life. Please.

The scenery of the lower part of Little River was nice. It's much prettier and more rugged upstream.

Jumping in that falls......right. I'm sure that wasn't scouted at all.

What was the whole point of going in the cave? Was he illustrating what not to do? The climb out was pretty neat though.

He wanders through a prescribed burn?

I liked seeing local terrain on TV and to illustrate that there are some nice things here, but that was an hour of comedy. I do wonder how much time is supposed to have passed. He has pork chops for supper and the next morning he eats a cricket, gets out of the cave and eats deer crap? Uhhhh, how about cooking some more of that boar. You've been playing up how the temps were below freezing....that meat wasn't bad yet.
last edited: 8/20/09 6:04:19 AM”

“That a$$hole is a damn cave vandal. I hope any real caver that helped make this show is thrown out of the NSS.”