I am a long time viewer (started watching in late '07) I learned a lot about dry tinder when I first started watching the show. I even helped my friends start a fire.
Honestly I was just thinking the same thing yesterday while watching the show, he is the Bob Ross of survival. Honest and the 1 on 1 time with the cameras is very calming and personable.
Les is a great actor even though hes lying about being in there for 1 week. It only takes them 1 day of shooting to act out the scenes for the episode.
@@kether800surely pretending after watching multiple sunsets and sunrises. He did do 7,10,14 days episodes, even here in Canada you can’t fake survival for one day.
That's because he was the main cameraman! Especially when he was on his own in the survival environment. The editors could not spoil the show with constant feedback to spice it up for TV.
If he hasn't already done so, It'd be interesting if Les made an episode about post survival, & recovery. Parasites, pathogens etc. and the toll it takes on 1s body/mind.
I am curious how long he recovers between trips when they were in the middle of filming a season. Don’t know if he’s discussed that on the channel already. Just found the channel a few hours ago lol
Les stroud is a legend. Solo documentary camping is seriously scary as hell and takes a special human to not only accomplish it, but do so with little to no injuries and never coming anywhere near death. 95% of the population wouldn’t last 24hrs out there without getting bitten, stung, or taken out by dirty water or food.
If I could do this in my state I feel like I could stay out for a few days. But I don’t know enough about other climates or environments to do any good. I live in West Virginia and I’m an Eagle Scout so I could last a few days in West Virginia.
@@bradyteets3426 West Virginia is beautiful! I'm always surprised by the lack of biting insects, at least compared to the states below. I might've just been lucky every time I've gone though
@@silvesby you’ve been lucky. We have nasty biting fly’s and mosquitoes and other biting bugs. But I’m the person that those bugs will go past ten other people to bite me. But it is a beautiful state.
95% ? That’s what many living in the Bay Area or Los Angeles might think but it turns out there are entire states full of hunters & fishermen who’d be just fine. The reason SAR has exploded in the past decade is because far too many urban and suburbanites dawdle off into hardcore wilderness with a bottle of water and a phone. They fail to respect American wilderness for what it is: wilderness. Drug usage in the outdoors also contributes to a lot of SAR incidents. Gen X is the last generation who grew up learning to troubleshoot & problem solve in the woods because our entire childhood’s through adolescence and high school years no one had cell phones. Those who could afford a “car phone” were typically not the REI/hiking types. It was understood that if you twist an ankle, dehydrate or get lost you better have a skillset & some tools because there’s no helicopter coming
As a Georgia native, this has to be my favorite episode. I hail from the piedmont area, not as far south as this, but so much of what Les covers here is useful throughout the South, not just the swamps. With snakes, gators, and even bear, a general rule of thumb is, avoid them, they'll avoid you. Love this episode!
haha i would think some of these ideas he does are just to give him a goal that works with the story of being stranded in certain locations and also gives him something to film out there
15 yrs after watching this show and I do it myself out in the woods. Kinda keeps you sane, nice to have someone to talk to, and never disagree with you.
@@by2083 Some people just refuse to use them. My brother complains about them and every time I'll just say adblock. He'll pause and either drop it or continue to complain about them. If I press it he'll just say he doesn't use them.
I grew up about 60 miles from there in the same kind of terrain. Loved camping in the woods as a kid. In the wet season it’s all flooded. In the dry season it’s a jungle. I courted my wife with canoe trips on the Alapaha River. Once we went out and the gators were in the rut or something and we’re all over the place. My dad was a guide in the Okefenokee swamp and we went out there all the time. When I saw this episode as a kid I was just getting into survival and primitive skills. I got so excited to see him in my back yard. Even though he butchered the name Altamaha. If you’re from the south it’s pronounced like Autamahaw. Thanks for inspiring me Les!
Les, you are the true survivor program. So many times you have been hungry, cold,sleepless,etc.. You literally put your life on the line to give us a quality,well narrated show. So if your out there TY
@@luisgomez8635 you haven't seen enough of the episodes, or any of the early seasons if you think his life isn't at risk. GPS might help them locate his body though.
And this was before GoPro cameras were around and worth using his cameras were huge he can make a whole episode now carrying all his camera equipment in a fanny pack or the pockets of his cargo pants
I know what you mean. I’m in central Florida. I camp in a hammock with a tarp and/or mosquito netting over me. I refuse to sleep in the ground. No just the gators. The bugs have attitude down here. Especially the fire ants.
Absolutely love the show but just to clarify for anyone watching there are 6 species of venomous snakes in Georgia as Les stated, but there are only 3 species of rattlesnake (Easter diamondback, timber/canebrake, and the pygmy rattlesnake) the other 3 are eastern coral, copperhead and cottonmouth/water moccasin.
I remember growing up watching this show as much as I could as a kid/young teen, thank you Les. You have shown us real survival and possibly save someone’s life one day.
@@unexpectedvixen5685 Yeah and that Spanish moss is loaded with chiggers. Best to pass it through the flame before putting it next to your body. Looks like early spring then. Shoulda come in oh maybe July LOL. He'd lose his mind.
I live down the road. You dont only have to worry about that theres also flesh eating virus plus those brain amebas too. All the film on the swamp areas is tannic acids from all the leaves and vegetation breaking down and where the term black water river is derived from.
This was a good episode to show off many survival techniques since there were a lot of classic things to survive off of like vines for rope, resin torches, vines for water, and the right sticks for a shelter
I'd love to take Les through the swamps here in Louisiana. He would absolutely love it. Thanks for posting these shows Les!!!!! He is such a genuine, honest, real, down to earth guy. It would be an honor to buy him a beer.
Les stroud is the man, not only did his show always feel like the genuine one when it was on TV but he has released them all for free on RUclips. You will have a great legacy my friend.
After 7 months of training at fort Benning Georgia I can attest to the volatility of the temperature there. Sweltering 80 degrees in the day and dropping to below freezing at night. When being forced to sleep in the water of the swamp it was no doubt some of the worst nights I've ever spent in the bush
l lived in the deep south and this was always one of my favorite episodes. Yes it can be surprisingly cold down here, that humidity seems to turn to a cold blanket in the open at night.
Thanks for putting these up Les, I already bought almost all the seasons but just rewatching these are so nostalgic. Used to watch your show when I was younger and still do all the time.
I've lived in south Georgia all my life. Swamps, rivers and creeks are very common here. I se surprised to hear a Canadian getting surprised to see beavers in a swamp because I've seen them in that environment many times here Edit: I fished in a public pond today, it was pretty "swampy" with lots of vegetation, dirty water, etc. And I saw a beaver there too, a day after making this comment.
So excited I found these on RUclips I used to watch survivor man all the time I love it my brother and nephew love going camping and practicing some basic survivor skills in a safe environment of course but was all inspired from this show
Hey Les is you ever read this I want you to know this was the first episode I ever saw of you as a teenager. I still watch you now and am so glad you are still going. Thank you so much for all your work. I was hooked ever since I saw that weir trap. It’s amazing!!!
this episode is one of the greatest episodes of any show ever - i rerember seeing it in my early 20s on tv and for some reason it always stuck with me - thank you
Love this show me and my foster dad used to watch this and I'm still watching this show think you les Stroud for doing this show and uploading it free to watch think you
Watching all these again makes me want to go backpacking so bad, but of course I’d be taking more food and water in than Mr. Stroud. Thank you, Les, for all the awesome content, been a fan ever since these used to air on television.
This was one of my favorite shows growing up! just always loved watching survivor man. Les is a legend! did all this early stuff without go pros just incredible 👍✌
I’ve spent a lifetime in the woods only been stranded a few times, they were learning a experience of how un-knowledgeable I was at survival and adapted my skill set so I’ll never be in that situation again, it only takes a bad step to force you to spend the night in the woods
Exactly!! In the first showing, I thought about how many were in that Spanish moss he was holding. Me at the screen: “dude, throw that down and get your fire started!!”
As someone who is from South Georgia I can tell you ....the bugs are absolutely ridiculous, the heat of the day is rough, and being in the swamp with minimal items is not easy at all. He did a very great job and he did alot of things that we was locals would do in the same circumstances. If you're ever stranded in an area like this you should avoid drinking from the swamp itself and the moss on the trees makes for a great fire starting material.
I was orphaned of a father at 12,and I was the eldest of 7 siblings 5 boys one girl.I had to include turtle in my catching fishes at the river to survive..today I am 66..God is real Great! I became a journalist, songwriter, agriculturist Speaker and You Tube Content Maker.Godbless!
Born and raised in Georgia and I’m telling you right now you have zero business to do in Our swamps! But we’re built a little different🤷🏻♂️ with what y’all call survival is just a family outing on Saturday 😂
Oh thank you this is my favorite episode I know you got a parasite from the turtle probably not your favorite episode but this was truly one of your best thank you
I gotta say I chuckled when I saw the latitude and longitude XD I just finished watching one of your director commentaries and you mentioned how in the early days of the show, the editor would add those random coordinate that wouldn’t match your location out of some kinda safety attempt lol very cool to have some extra insight on the early episodes!!
the only thing i was ever disappointed with was his fishing attempts in these shows. i still love them and probably have seen each episode 3+ times, and am still watching all of them through again right now, but i dont really see how he thought the spring with a leech and a credit card would ever catch anything on that thick line. The card is so unnatural when its sitting still like that, and if he would have just take a while to work with that spring, he could have actually made a decent hook that a fish could actually swallow. The 'hook' the way he left it would never catch a fish...it would definitely get scared away by the rope or the credit card the way it was just sitting still in the water. I feel like the only time ive seen him actually get any fish was when he had the fishing pole in alaska when he caught the handful of Arctic Char, and thats one of my favorite episodes
I love les. He is the epitome of a boss. My brother and I have spent probably hundreds of hours watching him if not more and he just cracks me up at this point at times
I know Mr. Stroud has new content every week because I subscribe to him. I just want to say I miss the one and only original Survivorman and his shows on surviving. Although there are many pretenders, there are none who come even close to showing the gritty reality of actual survival like Les Stroud does.
Well done episode. Just to note, the Eastern diamondback rattlesnake is becoming rare, if not entirely endangered, so do not kill one unless your survival absolutely depends upon doing so. This was not so true at the time of this filming, so no criticism of this great instructor. He puts Bear Grylls, and his, imo, mis-representation and often horrible survival advice to shame. I recommend Les Stroud's survival book -- it is filled with gems. If you see this post, Mr. Stroud, YOU ARE AWESOME!!!
He mentioned the damp at night. Here in the South once it gets into the low 60s to 50s you can easily get hypothermia due to the high humidity which just strips away your body heat…particularly at night. And if there is any breeze even low 70s can be dangerous at night if you are wearing minimal clothing…like you would during 80-90+ degree days. Close to large bodies of water or even along creeks/rivers is worse on days where it is hot during the day & cool/cold at night due to increased moisture & not blocking any wind. You need something like full rainwear to keep the wind off & warm layers underneath. - I’ve helped with search & rescue where we found people who went out only wearing shorts, tank tops & sandals suffering major hypothermia in late April or well into May if it rained. Or even June if they were on the creek/river and were wet when night came. It’s especially dangerous for children. But most people don’t think about temperature can be an issue when it’s 80-90+ during the day & 60-70s at night. The other factor which often makes hypothermia a major risk for those stranded along creeks/rivers or lost along lakes is the fact many people become sunburnt during the day causing them to lose heat more rapidly at night.
Hey baby wolf... Darwin has no shortage of awards to give. Always be prepared and have 2 or 3 contingency plans. Waterways and valleys are obviously cold fall-spring
@Geoff MacDonald That's true. Just seems like if a fly or beetle or anything crawls on your skin, you would immediately want to brush it off. I think it would be difficult to ignore.
As someone whose from the low country of Georgia. The swamp is a different animal. Lots of things can kill you from the gators to the bacteria. But I can tell you this, there are a lot of good fish in those swamps. I would of started fishing from day one. Shoelaces for line, and worms for bait and they can be found in the dirt everywhere.
I had to laugh when I saw this video with you in the swamp taking care of your feet staying as dry as possible doing everything the right way! Then I turned on Bear Grylls in the Florida swamp and the first thing he does is jumps right in the swamp waist deep in the water and then he climbed up a tree just to get a better look! All of the most dangerous things a person would do in a survival situation! Survivorman is #1 in my book!
Love this guy, he's honest about his abilities, his mistakes. He's like the Bob Ross of survival shows.
I am a long time viewer (started watching in late '07)
I learned a lot about dry tinder when I first started watching the show. I even helped my friends start a fire.
No mistakes, just happy little bouts of weeklong diarrhea
He rules that happy little bush all by himself
Honestly I was just thinking the same thing yesterday while watching the show, he is the Bob Ross of survival. Honest and the 1 on 1 time with the cameras is very calming and personable.
Absolutely
The most realistic survival show ever done. Les taught us all so much. Simply the best.
Les is a great actor even though hes lying about being in there for 1 week. It only takes them 1 day of shooting to act out the scenes for the episode.
@@kether800surely pretending after watching multiple sunsets and sunrises. He did do 7,10,14 days episodes, even here in Canada you can’t fake survival for one day.
@@Alec-jo7ic haha takes 2 minutes to change the camera angle to take another shot and they use multiple cameras with stunt dubles
Ed Stafford. Dude spent 60 days on a desert island naked. With no equipment.
That's because he was the main cameraman! Especially when he was on his own in the survival environment. The editors could not spoil the show with constant feedback to spice it up for TV.
If he hasn't already done so, It'd be interesting if Les made an episode about post survival, & recovery. Parasites, pathogens etc. and the toll it takes on 1s body/mind.
i don't think he has but i'd watch that. interesting stuff
@@EvertfromNederland he mentioned in a recent video he believes he did get a parasite from this episode that plagued his gums for 8+ months
He mentioned he got a parasite in his mouth from the turtle that lasted for over a year
he's answered that shit millions of times in interviews. Doubt he wants to say it AGAIN for the umpteenth time.
I am curious how long he recovers between trips when they were in the middle of filming a season. Don’t know if he’s discussed that on the channel already. Just found the channel a few hours ago lol
Les stroud is the GOAT of survival shows.
Les stroud is a legend. Solo documentary camping is seriously scary as hell and takes a special human to not only accomplish it, but do so with little to no injuries and never coming anywhere near death. 95% of the population wouldn’t last 24hrs out there without getting bitten, stung, or taken out by dirty water or food.
If I could do this in my state I feel like I could stay out for a few days. But I don’t know enough about other climates or environments to do any good. I live in West Virginia and I’m an Eagle Scout so I could last a few days in West Virginia.
@@bradyteets3426 West Virginia is beautiful! I'm always surprised by the lack of biting insects, at least compared to the states below. I might've just been lucky every time I've gone though
@@silvesby you’ve been lucky. We have nasty biting fly’s and mosquitoes and other biting bugs. But I’m the person that those bugs will go past ten other people to bite me.
But it is a beautiful state.
95% ? That’s what many living in the Bay Area or Los Angeles might think but it turns out there are entire states full of hunters & fishermen who’d be just fine. The reason SAR has exploded in the past decade is because far too many urban and suburbanites dawdle off into hardcore wilderness with a bottle of water and a phone. They fail to respect American wilderness for what it is: wilderness. Drug usage in the outdoors also contributes to a lot of SAR incidents. Gen X is the last generation who grew up learning to troubleshoot & problem solve in the woods because our entire childhood’s through adolescence and high school years no one had cell phones. Those who could afford a “car phone” were typically not the REI/hiking types. It was understood that if you twist an ankle, dehydrate or get lost you better have a skillset & some tools because there’s no helicopter coming
This is one of my go-to shows when I can’t find anything to watch or am sick.
I love watching how the bags under his eyes get progressively blacker and larger through each episode from day 1-7 😂
As a Georgia native, this has to be my favorite episode. I hail from the piedmont area, not as far south as this, but so much of what Les covers here is useful throughout the South, not just the swamps. With snakes, gators, and even bear, a general rule of thumb is, avoid them, they'll avoid you. Love this episode!
I have never been able to understand how Uncle Les thought that "raft" was ever going to work.
Justin Dean Lmao 😂 that was hilarious 😆..although I’ve seen this show when it first came out years ago. Gotta love Les though...he’s the Canadian OG 🤗
haha i would think some of these ideas he does are just to give him a goal that works with the story of being stranded in certain locations and also gives him something to film out there
Survival is a lot of trial and error just hopefully not life threatening errors
I think he did it for comedic effect.
@ oh yeah maybe since I think he said that when he was done with the raft, he just needed to wait for it to dry - which is nonsensical
Anyone else ever wonder if Les, when he's just out in the woods by himself, starts narrating out loud out of habit 😂
15 yrs after watching this show and I do it myself out in the woods. Kinda keeps you sane, nice to have someone to talk to, and never disagree with you.
@@koori3085 Are you sure there are never disagreements? ;)
@@jeremiahsmith8499 Well there are discussions from time to time... 😆
don't we all?
No ,Les seems to be a bit more mature
I don’t care if there was a ad every 10 seconds I would watch everyone of these again. My favorite show ever. Thank you for uploading them les
I just skip forward to where the ads are and 90 percent of the time, itll just skip them. I do it all the way to the end then restart the show
Just skip right to the end of the video then hit rewatch. Problem solved. Or download an ad blocker. Plenty of free and safe ones out there.
adbloc. = problem solved
you know you can use adblock
@@by2083 Some people just refuse to use them. My brother complains about them and every time I'll just say adblock. He'll pause and either drop it or continue to complain about them. If I press it he'll just say he doesn't use them.
That turtle filled him up with worms. I have only respect for Les Stroud. 💯
I grew up about 60 miles from there in the same kind of terrain. Loved camping in the woods as a kid. In the wet season it’s all flooded. In the dry season it’s a jungle.
I courted my wife with canoe trips on the Alapaha River. Once we went out and the gators were in the rut or something and we’re all over the place.
My dad was a guide in the Okefenokee swamp and we went out there all the time.
When I saw this episode as a kid I was just getting into survival and primitive skills. I got so excited to see him in my back yard.
Even though he butchered the name Altamaha.
If you’re from the south it’s pronounced like Autamahaw.
Thanks for inspiring me Les!
I think everyone should see the Okefenokee prairies and cypress, don't you?
Another reason why the south sucks
Like Tom sawyer or something.
@@robertbates6057 yep!
It can't be put into words how sick it that these are just all on RUclips for anyone to watch. Les is the goat of survival showman.
Les, you are the true survivor program. So many times you have been hungry, cold,sleepless,etc.. You literally put your life on the line to give us a quality,well narrated show.
So if your out there TY
Dude. Hes tracked by his team with GPS. First sign of something being wrong, they can find him in a snap. He's said this more than a few times.
@@luisgomez8635 still could die, they arent saving him if a gator gets him
@@luisgomez8635 you haven't seen enough of the episodes, or any of the early seasons if you think his life isn't at risk. GPS might help them locate his body though.
I think this has to be my favourite episode
At the end they had to turn back for the camera, that's how legit Les is.
And this was before GoPro cameras were around and worth using his cameras were huge he can make a whole episode now carrying all his camera equipment in a fanny pack or the pockets of his cargo pants
@Gene Cox Sasquatch exist
The Blair witch stuff he was doing really got me. He’s the original. Love this guy!
think how light his camera gear would be in 2020 and a lot clearer lol
would need like 1 or 2 handheld cameras and a tripod instead of 3 suitcases of gear lmao
@@mendax2251 3 go pros would weigh next to nothing and be more than enough, just a bunch of SD cards
Equally challenging he’s older with new gear lighter same difficulty
And a drone too
@searchingfornessie8410Such a zoomer response... "Potato"
As a Georgia boy, I got the shivers when he went fishing at night. Gators will sneak up on you.
I know what you mean. I’m in central Florida. I camp in a hammock with a tarp and/or mosquito netting over me. I refuse to sleep in the ground. No just the gators. The bugs have attitude down here. Especially the fire ants.
@@salasala5418 not sure. My wife is from southern Louisiana. Basically the swamp of America. It gets terrifying
One of the best television shows ever made. Not too many TV shows do well on RUclips’s format, but I could watch everyone of these.
Its kind of a RUclips Channel before youtube
@@kainaaguiarferreira4351 not really
great show they dont have real good shows like this on television anymore
The pioneer of survival shows. Was the first one I ever saw braving the wild
Why, oh why did he think three logs would make a good raft? 😭
Absolutely love the show but just to clarify for anyone watching there are 6 species of venomous snakes in Georgia as Les stated, but there are only 3 species of rattlesnake (Easter diamondback, timber/canebrake, and the pygmy rattlesnake) the other 3 are eastern coral, copperhead and cottonmouth/water moccasin.
I've seen that coral snake a few times while fishing down here in Georgia
It’s funny
In the intro he says poisonous snakes
It’s a common mistake
@@timgorton1933 I noticed that too lol bugged the hell out of me
@@psychotropictraveler514animals are venomous, plants are poisonous 🤪 bugs me too
I remember growing up watching this show as much as I could as a kid/young teen, thank you Les. You have shown us real survival and possibly save someone’s life one day.
"Jiggers that burrow into your skin" Proceeds to hold them in bare hand lol
@Josh I was going to say the same
@@unexpectedvixen5685 Yeah and that Spanish moss is loaded with chiggers. Best to pass it through the flame before putting it next to your body. Looks like early spring then. Shoulda come in oh maybe July LOL. He'd lose his mind.
@Stevey B yes, I expect finding a group of them just like that while focusing on survival is pretty difficult.
Robert Bates yes if he would have come a month or two later yellow biting bugs chiggers etc would have had him desperate for some wax myrtle.
Sounds like he needed a flamethrower.
"there are all these bugs on the ground that burrow into you skin" *proceeds to immediately rub mud on his faces* lmao
I live down the road. You dont only have to worry about that theres also flesh eating virus plus those brain amebas too. All the film on the swamp areas is tannic acids from all the leaves and vegetation breaking down and where the term black water river is derived from.
hes got multiple faces?
Itch like crazy, but super hot water feels like a thousand years of relief.... Never scratch, just heat. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Thank you Mr. Stroud for releasing all this content for free!! You are much appreciated.🤘🤘🤘
After years of watching Les I'm confident I will be better prepared in a given situation than I would be without his knowledge and influence
This was a good episode to show off many survival techniques since there were a lot of classic things to survive off of like vines for rope, resin torches, vines for water, and the right sticks for a shelter
Verlisify I didn’t know you were into this stuff lol
Les is the OG of survival shows. I used to watch him on OLN when I was a teenager, so stoked he’s uploaded a bunch of episodes to YT!
Les Hiddins is the OG survivalist. He was doing his thing when Mr Stroud was still in nappies. But I still admire him for doing what he does
the water is actually safe to drink in parts of the swamp
Yes. Like food poisoning
Still can’t believe this man went torch fishin in the swamp 😂😂😂 Les is wild. Ain’t no way. DON’T EAT THE TURTLE
If I recall correctly, that turtle ended up giving him some kind of parasite all in his mouth and gums.
I'd love to take Les through the swamps here in Louisiana. He would absolutely love it.
Thanks for posting these shows Les!!!!! He is such a genuine, honest, real, down to earth guy. It would be an honor to buy him a beer.
He's the real deal, isn't he?
I'm from Louisiana, I was thinking the same thing!
Hell yeah Louisiana represent, I grew up in the swamps down here, this all feels familiar
I live 3 miles from these swamps. They are no joke! Fantastic episode! Learned some things about my own back yard!
I like how he gives advice to use mud as a repellant on night 1 and is completely clean faced on day 2.
Les stroud is the man, not only did his show always feel like the genuine one when it was on TV but he has released them all for free on RUclips. You will have a great legacy my friend.
After 7 months of training at fort Benning Georgia I can attest to the volatility of the temperature there. Sweltering 80 degrees in the day and dropping to below freezing at night. When being forced to sleep in the water of the swamp it was no doubt some of the worst nights I've ever spent in the bush
Watched this mans show at 13 now I'm 22 and still watching as if I never seen it before
I have the first 3 seasons of this show on DVD...I've watched those episodes an embarrassing amount of times.
l lived in the deep south and this was always one of my favorite episodes. Yes it can be surprisingly cold down here, that humidity seems to turn to a cold blanket in the open at night.
Thanks for putting these up Les, I already bought almost all the seasons but just rewatching these are so nostalgic. Used to watch your show when I was younger and still do all the time.
Survivor Man was a great show when it was on TV
I actually live in this area! Its so cool to see Les trying to survive in the place i call home.
are you saying you’re.... SHREK???
Brunswick here. I'm trying to figure out exactly where hewas
I've lived in south Georgia all my life. Swamps, rivers and creeks are very common here. I se surprised to hear a Canadian getting surprised to see beavers in a swamp because I've seen them in that environment many times here
Edit: I fished in a public pond today, it was pretty "swampy" with lots of vegetation, dirty water, etc. And I saw a beaver there too, a day after making this comment.
Savannah here. I wonder if he would have preferred late-summer? Downpours everyday, extreme heat, and humidity you and have wade through.
@@josephjeverymantrue. Summer is unbearable
This is my all time favorite episode! I loved this show as a kid!
I like Les because he actually survives out in the elements with barely any resources.
So excited I found these on RUclips I used to watch survivor man all the time I love it my brother and nephew love going camping and practicing some basic survivor skills in a safe environment of course but was all inspired from this show
Same! I used to watch these all the time years and years ago when they were all on netflix. Nice to be able to watch them here on RUclips now
Les Stroud makes surviving seem possible for me if I get lost somewhere bad with little gear
Frog legs taste like a perfect 50/50 combination of fish and chicken.
Been watching les since high school on cable TV am now 32 and still watching
I’m currently sleeping in a tent in my backyard, and yet I feel like I know exactly how he feels
Love how he made a raft but more or less walked the whole way lol
Best TV survivalist of all time. You’re the real deal!
Les early episodes really made an impression on me years back! I been hooked on Survivorman ever since!
Hey Les is you ever read this I want you to know this was the first episode I ever saw of you as a teenager. I still watch you now and am so glad you are still going. Thank you so much for all your work. I was hooked ever since I saw that weir trap. It’s amazing!!!
this episode is one of the greatest episodes of any show ever - i rerember seeing it in my early 20s on tv and for some reason it always stuck with me - thank you
Love this show me and my foster dad used to watch this and I'm still watching this show think you les Stroud for doing this show and uploading it free to watch think you
the swamps are beautiful but so creepy! 7 days alone there is terrifying!!! Awesome episode Les!!!
So glad I found these episodes on here, I missed watching Les in this series, a real treat to see these again
Watching all these again makes me want to go backpacking so bad, but of course I’d be taking more food and water in than Mr. Stroud. Thank you, Les, for all the awesome content, been a fan ever since these used to air on television.
This was one of my favorite shows growing up! just always loved watching survivor man. Les is a legend! did all this early stuff without go pros just incredible 👍✌
I’ve spent a lifetime in the woods only been stranded a few times, they were learning a experience of how un-knowledgeable I was at survival and adapted my skill set so I’ll never be in that situation again, it only takes a bad step to force you to spend the night in the woods
LOVE this episode I grew up on the altamaha River in hazlehurst Georgia. I watched this episode several times Love les love his adventures
Red bugs love living in that Spanish moss / they are tiny skin burrowing Insects that itch like crazy
Exactly!! In the first showing, I thought about how many were in that Spanish moss he was holding.
Me at the screen: “dude, throw that down and get your fire started!!”
Yeah that's common sense no? Spanish moss full of itch
Not always
As someone who is from South Georgia I can tell you ....the bugs are absolutely ridiculous, the heat of the day is rough, and being in the swamp with minimal items is not easy at all. He did a very great job and he did alot of things that we was locals would do in the same circumstances. If you're ever stranded in an area like this you should avoid drinking from the swamp itself and the moss on the trees makes for a great fire starting material.
Redbugs
Yeah, I cringed when he went for the moss. That stuff is chigger city.
@@whiskyngeets very true lol
I was orphaned of a father at 12,and I was the eldest of 7 siblings 5 boys one girl.I had to include turtle in my catching fishes at the river to survive..today I am 66..God is real Great! I became a journalist, songwriter, agriculturist Speaker and You Tube Content Maker.Godbless!
Ft. Benning, Georgia was one of the only places I felt like I was getting hypothermia in the summer. 95 in the day and raining 60 at night.
I’ve been hooked on these videos for years, Les is a great instructor and narrator, a genuine pleasure to watch. Thanks for bringing these to us!
Born and raised in Georgia and I’m telling you right now you have zero business to do in Our swamps! But we’re built a little different🤷🏻♂️ with what y’all call survival is just a family outing on Saturday 😂
Oh thank you this is my favorite episode I know you got a parasite from the turtle probably not your favorite episode but this was truly one of your best thank you
People in the south eat a lot of turtles. Im not sure why he said he wouldnt recommend it except for survival. Just needs to be cooked through.
@@buckin8969 Pretty much any food you get from the wild You should cook it pretty good He could have got the virus from anywhere he was in a swamp
@@buckin8969 plus Les doesnt even know for sure if the turtle caused it. its just his best guess.
Every time I see one of these shows makes me grateful to be home.
i thought les was gonna pull a randy marsh and say "i am so startled"
I watched you on TV as a kid and you have no idea how grateful I am to see these on youtube for free :)
I gotta say I chuckled when I saw the latitude and longitude XD I just finished watching one of your director commentaries and you mentioned how in the early days of the show, the editor would add those random coordinate that wouldn’t match your location out of some kinda safety attempt lol very cool to have some extra insight on the early episodes!!
Another thing about using Spanish moss for beddding is that is good to wake itching with chiggers.
I am genuinely shocked that he thought 3 logs would work for a raft hahahaha
Typical response. I'm genuinely shocked that you think you can do better at anything Les does. Yet you will never even prove it, just a narcissist
42:10 my man put the moss back on the tree lol. what a gentleman.
the only thing i was ever disappointed with was his fishing attempts in these shows. i still love them and probably have seen each episode 3+ times, and am still watching all of them through again right now, but i dont really see how he thought the spring with a leech and a credit card would ever catch anything on that thick line. The card is so unnatural when its sitting still like that, and if he would have just take a while to work with that spring, he could have actually made a decent hook that a fish could actually swallow. The 'hook' the way he left it would never catch a fish...it would definitely get scared away by the rope or the credit card the way it was just sitting still in the water. I feel like the only time ive seen him actually get any fish was when he had the fishing pole in alaska when he caught the handful of Arctic Char, and thats one of my favorite episodes
he speared a fish in costa rica 😉
For season 1, this is my favourite episode. You also catch quite a bit of food in this one.
Haha, he's such an amateur at times, love the reaiistic, honest coverage of his adventures!
Haha, yer mum's no amateur, love her raunchy, wild coverage of our adventures!
@@SwampDweller67 lol
I forgot how awesome this guy is. Love watching some Les S!
I love les. He is the epitome of a boss. My brother and I have spent probably hundreds of hours watching him if not more and he just cracks me up at this point at times
Thanks for doing the dirty south. Great show
He's a AWESOME HUMAN BEING!!
How do you know?
Satan was an angel.
I was stationed not far from here and we were not allowed to sleep on the ground while in the field. But Les does.
I know Mr. Stroud has new content every week because I subscribe to him. I just want to say I miss the one and only original Survivorman and his shows on surviving. Although there are many pretenders, there are none who come even close to showing the gritty reality of actual survival like Les Stroud does.
i thought it would stay warm XD welcome to Ga Les
Iggy Ave weather in Georgia is never predictable
Long way from Brunswick even if he's only 10-20 miles by the crow! 🤣
When you cut a thick vine for water also cut it off about 3-4 ft up too. It'll relieve pressure and you'll get the water much faster.
His Blair Witch reenactment!! 😂😂😂
Well done episode. Just to note, the Eastern diamondback rattlesnake is becoming rare, if not entirely endangered, so do not kill one unless your survival absolutely depends upon doing so. This was not so true at the time of this filming, so no criticism of this great instructor. He puts Bear Grylls, and his, imo, mis-representation and often horrible survival advice to shame. I recommend Les Stroud's survival book -- it is filled with gems. If you see this post, Mr. Stroud, YOU ARE AWESOME!!!
i love this one
He mentioned the damp at night. Here in the South once it gets into the low 60s to 50s you can easily get hypothermia due to the high humidity which just strips away your body heat…particularly at night. And if there is any breeze even low 70s can be dangerous at night if you are wearing minimal clothing…like you would during 80-90+ degree days. Close to large bodies of water or even along creeks/rivers is worse on days where it is hot during the day & cool/cold at night due to increased moisture & not blocking any wind. You need something like full rainwear to keep the wind off & warm layers underneath.
- I’ve helped with search & rescue where we found people who went out only wearing shorts, tank tops & sandals suffering major hypothermia in late April or well into May if it rained. Or even June if they were on the creek/river and were wet when night came. It’s especially dangerous for children. But most people don’t think about temperature can be an issue when it’s 80-90+ during the day & 60-70s at night. The other factor which often makes hypothermia a major risk for those stranded along creeks/rivers or lost along lakes is the fact many people become sunburnt during the day causing them to lose heat more rapidly at night.
Hey baby wolf... Darwin has no shortage of awards to give. Always be prepared and have 2 or 3 contingency plans. Waterways and valleys are obviously cold fall-spring
@@danielgardener1024 No joke.
All the other survival dudes stay in a hotel and film during the day
Crocs, snakes and southern comfort people
I love les! But he’s wearing cotton socks. Cmon man. We all know wool is the way to go
Turtles would simply walk out the land side of that trap, no?🤣🤣🤣
No it rarely leaves water and it dit not know it was in a trap so it just chilled there
@@SmolPP694 I am willing to accept this explanation as I have never tried to trap one myself.
Thanks for the comment.😁
Les Stroud- Survival expert, amazing person and inventor of the hook opener that all youtubers, including myself, use now
I never understood how Les was bothered by mosquitoes here, but in the Amazon he's constantly enveloped by bugs and doesn't seem bothered until day 5.
@Geoff MacDonald That's true. Just seems like if a fly or beetle or anything crawls on your skin, you would immediately want to brush it off. I think it would be difficult to ignore.
Those mosquitoes are the size of house flies!
As someone whose from the low country of Georgia. The swamp is a different animal. Lots of things can kill you from the gators to the bacteria. But I can tell you this, there are a lot of good fish in those swamps. I would of started fishing from day one. Shoelaces for line, and worms for bait and they can be found in the dirt everywhere.
What did you think about your experience in the Altamaha River? Jesup Ga is my Home Town and We Love that Swamp!
I had to laugh when I saw this video with you in the swamp taking care of your feet staying as dry as possible doing everything the right way! Then I turned on Bear Grylls in the Florida swamp and the first thing he does is jumps right in the swamp waist deep in the water and then he climbed up a tree just to get a better look! All of the most dangerous things a person would do in a survival situation! Survivorman is #1 in my book!
les is definitely the superior survivalist if you want to live listen to les