As soon as I heard Labrador, fisherman, trapper, and indigenous roots. I knew you were the winner, Timber and dub made me doubt that a few times, but your spirits were just too high, even when you lost that food cache - resilient! Outstanding 💪🧡
@@John.Flower.Productions Actually my Great Great grandmother was Inuit, I actually got a very old picture of my Great Great Great Great grandfather who was Inuit, he was know to be a very tough man, much tougher than what we are today.
@@Biglandtrapper I would qualify as being a hard man by just about any modern standard but we have all become quite soft compared to those who came before us. That said, our ancestors would still recognize those of us who refuse to quit. We were rooting for you (from Texas) throughout the series. I said that you were going to win against all odds, no matter what.
was rooting for you since day 1 william! by far the best attitude and mindset of any contestant ive seen yet, though lets admit, growing up in labrador you were totally in your element! congratulations on a well deserved win, doing canada proud!
Congratulations William, you were amazing, you had a great attitude, always upbeat, just an all around great guy. I’m really happy that you can now change so many lives with your win. Your kids will benefit, and their kids will benefit and so on and so on.
You seemed to experience none of the emotional turmoil of isolation and disappointment that plagued the other contestants, even people like Timber, who was an excellent outdoorsman but eventually gave in to the crushing loneliness. So your mental game was very strong, not to mention your food acquisition skills and the like. The best man won. Congratulations.
Good luck Will. I have watched your RUclips channel for a long time now and know that you will do well. Looking forward to the Thursday night TV start. Be safe day to day and here wishing you a strong mind. Cheers MT
William I’m placing all bets on you buddy because you have the experience along with the knowledge of surviving in the remote environments working with what you have with at the time. Stay safe and look after yourself because you’re the person that’s mostly up to the challenge.
Great items! With the snares and fishing gear you can get good nutrition without expending too much energy or risking safety. I know folks wished you brought equipment to get big game Seemingly that would be great except it takes a lot of energy and risk to spot, stalk, hunt, and clean big game in unfamiliar territory.
Actually added the History channel to our tv package so that I could watch William on the show. I think you are the only one without a bow or a multitool. The two women are pretty serious contenders. They know the cold and they will require less calories than a bigger man. But if those gill nets get working well, it's a game changer. I hope you won. And if you didn't, I'm certain you gave it an honest go.
Brother , I have never watched Alone but I am going to watch this season, namely because you are on it and also tomorrow June 13th is my dads birthday, also he was buried 3 yrs ago tomorrow on his birthday unfortunately, I wish you the absolute best , on the show and in life , respect from Springdale NL
A couple of Siberian fire lays, in half an hour, will heat up BOTH sides of 4 head sized rock. snuff those flames with ashes or dry, loose dirt and move the stones into your little sealed, reflective, insulated, tarpe and tape tent. Have a row of pits under your raised pole-bed. Put each stone into a pit, with a 2" thick layer of ashes around it. Presto, heat inside of your tent with no fire risk, no CO risk and 1/4 as much firewood as needed to keep a fire going 24-7 . Bury some coals and charcoal in the ashes, keeping the fire 'alive' for 12+ hours, so you can easily re-heat the stones.
Finally a true expert woodsman/survivalist is doing the challenge. I believe Williams lifetime of being out alone in dangerous arctic conditions and confidently and successfully being able to navigate, harvest food, and stay warm are going to really provide him an advantage.
@@SonnyCrocket-p6h Also should have a bow, one large game animal will last for duration of time there, now he has no protection from predators and can not collect many many different animals, wish him luck, but seems he cursed himself right out the door not being prepared
even if it's pouring down rain when you launch, you can be covered in your heavy-duty, reflective 12x12 tarp and/or the XL sized reflective tyvek bivy. The shovel, the tape, the shemagh can be safely-dry wrapped in one of those 2 items, Scrape the rust off of the ferrule and back of the blade of your shovel and save it in a little tarp and tape bag. Later, you'll save charred punk wood, pine resin, etc in that bag. Get the producer's tarp staked out over some bushes or poles, so that you're out of the rain. Then you can easily fire roll an 8x2" strip of your cotton shemagh, using some of the rust as an accellerant. You can tear off 1/4" wide strip of the tape, twist it into cordage if you dont want to unravel the hammock, due to wanting to sleep up off of the wet ground.
John Davis: I'm really glad to read something from you again! And it's also nice to see that you're still your old self. With best regards from the Alps.
Good luck William ! How ever far you make it is an accomplishment . A lot of suggestions in the comments, I will only say everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face . Will be rooting for you this season.
The Siberian fire lay dries itself out as it burns from the ends of the logs, which are held up in the air by being laid over a cross log, or over a "wall" of small logs, stacked between 4 stakes. The Alternative Swedish Fire Torch dries itself out from the inside. so the only part that needs to be dry are the shavings that stuff the empty center of the 4-log bundle and the wood scrapings that let you easily ignite one ends of the shavings-core. When you bust up some charred punkwood and mix it with dry wood shavings. it catches a flint and steel spark, or a coal from a big pump drill very easily and then it will ignite the scrapings and shavings of the Swede bundle easily, too
you wont need the hot rocks until the final 2 weeks of your stay, when you're too emaciated to make metabolic heat. If you catch enough fish, or arrow a bear, you wont need the rocks at all.
ALL shoreline mud contains workable clay for making pottery. Do you know how to easily separate out the loam, sand, debris and gravel from the clay? If you've made the pick and longer shovel handles, one hour each, you can dig the required clay refining pits, one above the other on a steep hill, in half a day. You have to add mud and water to the upper hole frequently for a few days, wait a few days and then drain off the clay in solution to the lower pit. Let the clay fall out of solution, drain off the clear water, and set the refined clay out to dry. You can speed -up the drying a bit with hot rocks and some Siberian fire lays. This all gets blended in with the making of the net and the pontoon outrigger raft, the fishing, the making of the tree-blind and the bait box for bears. Once those things are done, you can make a mud kiln for making charcoal and when you have that done, make the five 1.5 gallon clay pots. You can force dry the new pottery with fire and hot rocks, too. Then you fire the pots and their lids, making a few extra, cause you're bound to break a few. While you're at it, make the 50+ pottery balls for use as 'ammo" in the slingbow.
You can split wood with the saw teeth of the custome-altered Cold Steel shovel, by making a saw kerf 2" deep across the end of the log, and then baton wooden wedges into the kerf. Split a 3" wide, 8" long dead-woo log. Shave off of the wetness before you split it. Source this wood from a dead-standing tree, no cracks, no open top or holes, no bark Dig a bit of a trench, 1" deep, to hold this log while you fire roll the bit of shemagh with the handle of your shovel. Tear off some 1/8" wide strips of tape and make a "birds nest" out of them. Make a 'cigar roll" of tape, too. The nest will ignite easily and you can then use it to ignite the roll of tape. The tape roll will burn for over a minute, igniting the dry wood shavings that you've made, and used to stuff the empty center of a 4-log Alternative Swedish fire torch (yt vid) The Swede will suffice to ignite a Siberian fire lay, when all is wet. The Siberian and Swede will burn green, wet wood, if you go at it right and once they are burning well, Rain can't put them out. The Siberian projects its heat all in one direction, twice as far as a normal fire. So the siberian can be out in the rain, while warming/drying you and clothing, which are under the tarp.
the three coveralls and the pack get stuffed with debris, their seams sewn and taped. This causes each one to be able to float a man. While still at-home, waterproof-spray these 4 items . With these pontoons tied to the 4 corners of the 8-log outrigger raft, it wont MATTER if the sub-80 lbs of logs float or not. :-) Because all you'll have left to cover your legs is the two pairs of longjohns, you'll have to make 3 pairs of pants out of the half of the 12x12 reflective tarp that you didn't need to make your sleeping-shelter. Put dry moss or grasses between each of those 5 layers and wrap your legs with the XL size reflective tyvek bivy and you''ll be ok outside down to 20F, as long as you're moving-around. By the time you need to revert the coveralls back into clothing, it'll be too cold to be out on the raft anyway. With 8 layers of clothing and 7 layers of dry debris, you'll be ok outside, moving, at 0F, no problem and you'll never see 0F.
you can save another week by not taking the cooking pot. Instead of boiling 2 qts of water at a time, 3x per day, half an hour each time, you can instead boil 5 gallons of water in a pit, lined with your tyvek bivy, in an hour, twice per week. Use a chunk of your 12x12 ft tarp to line a 6 gallon basket that you made on site. Presto you have a stored 5 gallons of water.
the ground is already almost refrigerator-cold, and if you dampen it, it'll be colder, Fold over a hunk of your tarp and tape the edges Presto, food storage bag, bury any fish or meat that you dont have time or daylight enough to cut into strips, dip in salt-brine and smoke/cure. you need HARDWOOD smoke to cure flesh foods and that sort of wood is hard to come by in the arctic. If you can refrigeratte most of your catch, it will soon be hard-frozen and wont spoil.
Congratulations William !!!!!
Season 11 Champion 🏆!!! 😊
❤from 🇨🇦
As soon as I heard Labrador, fisherman, trapper, and indigenous roots. I knew you were the winner, Timber and dub made me doubt that a few times, but your spirits were just too high, even when you lost that food cache - resilient! Outstanding 💪🧡
_indigenous roots_
No one is indigenous to North/South America.
William is married to an Eskimo, he does not claim to be one.
@@John.Flower.Productions Actually my Great Great grandmother was Inuit, I actually got a very old picture of my Great Great Great Great grandfather who was Inuit, he was know to be a very tough man, much tougher than what we are today.
@@Biglandtrapper I would qualify as being a hard man by just about any modern standard but we have all become quite soft compared to those who came before us.
That said, our ancestors would still recognize those of us who refuse to quit.
We were rooting for you (from Texas) throughout the series. I said that you were going to win against all odds, no matter what.
I knew this fella was going to win , superb attitude, well in.🏴😁👍🏻
Total legend. Loved the fishing pole for birds!
Well done man all the way from Ireland 🇮🇪. You're mental toughness and positive attitude is an inspiration plus your unreal bush skills.
Big Land Trapper You Won!!!
Congratulations ❤😊🎉
God Bless brother, well done!!!!!!!!!
was rooting for you since day 1 william! by far the best attitude and mindset of any contestant ive seen yet, though lets admit, growing up in labrador you were totally in your element! congratulations on a well deserved win, doing canada proud!
I was amazed to watch you snare spruce hens! Congrats!
Just wanted to wish you a huge congratulations for winning Alone Season 11. As a fellow Newfoundlander and Labradorian you have done us all proud.
You are going to Thrive William. You will weigh more than when you arrived. I Love your 10 Items..Perfect!
Im cheering you on!💪
Congrats again William. I’m very proud of you. You did yourself and your family well. You deserve this win.
Congratulations William! Yahoo! You were my pick to win. Wow, well done!
Congratulations William, you were amazing, you had a great attitude, always upbeat, just an all around great guy. I’m really happy that you can now change so many lives with your win. Your kids will benefit, and their kids will benefit and so on and so on.
Great comments! You are so right about William's upbeat manner and can-do determination. He sets the tone for how to live a good life 🙏🙏
all the best to you William I hope you win it. I will be cheering for you.
It's launch day, good luck out there William!
Looking forward to your next update William! Great choice of items and with a lifetime hunting and fishing you'll do great!
I love this show and I have no doubt you will do Great William all the best from PEI
You seemed to experience none of the emotional turmoil of isolation and disappointment that plagued the other contestants, even people like Timber, who was an excellent outdoorsman but eventually gave in to the crushing loneliness. So your mental game was very strong, not to mention your food acquisition skills and the like. The best man won. Congratulations.
Best of luck, William.
Best of luck....cheering for you from Lab City
My prayers are with you, William. You can thrive!
Best of luck, William... And all the best from Northern Finland 🇫🇮🇨🇦🇫🇮👍
Cheering you on from Maine good luck 🍀 can't wait to see the show
May God Bless and keep you Big Feller and I am 100% fer sure yer gonna WIN!🙏😇👊😎🎣
Best of luck William, God be with you my friend and greetings from from Down Under,, Tony.
Good luck William, cheering you on from southern Newfoundland.
You are a natural and a breath of fresh air. I don't watch TV but I kinda wish I did right now!
have a good time..,.,ill be cheering n praying for you.,.,.,.,Tkzz for sharing.,.,.,.,peace
Great Items !! I'll be wishing you luck from New Brunswick !
Oh my word this is so exciting. The very best of luck to you William from the west of Ireland. ATB.
good luck my friend chearing from hvgb
Good luck Will. I have watched your RUclips channel for a long time now and know that you will do well. Looking forward to the Thursday night TV start. Be safe day to day and here wishing you a strong mind. Cheers MT
Best of luck William!
You got this William
Bang on brother! You got this in the bag, I can't wait to watch you win this season!
Good luck my friend!! You will do great!!
Good job, man! By the looks of your own videos, you were right at home during that competition and you had a great chance from the start!
William I’m placing all bets on you buddy because you have the experience along with the knowledge of surviving in the remote environments working with what you have with at the time. Stay safe and look after yourself because you’re the person that’s mostly up to the challenge.
All the best , William cheering for you from the Island...
All the best buddy! Well be following along and rooting for ya all the way!
I'll be routing for you William! Good luck.
Great items! With the snares and fishing gear you can get good nutrition without expending too much energy or risking safety. I know folks wished you brought equipment to get big game Seemingly that would be great except it takes a lot of energy and risk to spot, stalk, hunt, and clean big game in unfamiliar territory.
Way to represent the Big Land sir, you definitely stood out last nite in the premier, wicked.
Good Luck Buddy!! Looking forward to this season.
Hey Bud! I’m cheering you on this season on Alone! Good luck!
Keep the faith William. You can do it!!!
Actually added the History channel to our tv package so that I could watch William on the show. I think you are the only one without a bow or a multitool. The two women are pretty serious contenders. They know the cold and they will require less calories than a bigger man. But if those gill nets get working well, it's a game changer. I hope you won. And if you didn't, I'm certain you gave it an honest go.
Not a .22 calibre William?❤
And William, man, I ve watched you for years
You don’t need luck…
Just don’t get injured.
Otherwise it’s your contest .
Brother , I have never watched Alone but I am going to watch this season, namely because you are on it and also tomorrow June 13th is my dads birthday, also he was buried 3 yrs ago tomorrow on his birthday unfortunately, I wish you the absolute best , on the show and in life , respect from Springdale NL
A couple of Siberian fire lays, in half an hour, will heat up BOTH sides of 4 head sized rock. snuff those flames with ashes or dry, loose dirt and move the stones into your little sealed, reflective, insulated, tarpe and tape tent. Have a row of pits under your raised pole-bed. Put each stone into a pit, with a 2" thick layer of ashes around it. Presto, heat inside of your tent with no fire risk, no CO risk and 1/4 as much firewood as needed to keep a fire going 24-7 . Bury some coals and charcoal in the ashes, keeping the fire 'alive' for 12+ hours, so you can easily re-heat the stones.
Good luck Billy ,cheering for you all the way. Show them how it's done buddy.
Best of luck, William!
I was rooting for you from the start!!
Good luck William. I'll be rooting for you ,I want you to win
Sum proud of you we is!
Good luck to you. You certainly have the real deal skills!
Congratulations to you, very well deserved. :)
Well sir good luck with it, your choice of items is certainly up there 4 sure. atb bud!
Finally a true expert woodsman/survivalist is doing the challenge. I believe Williams lifetime of being out alone in dangerous arctic conditions and confidently and successfully being able to navigate, harvest food, and stay warm are going to really provide him an advantage.
if your "expert" can't even make fire (in many ways) besides a ferrorod, I have to question your definition of "expert".
@@SonnyCrocket-p6h Also should have a bow, one large game animal will last for duration of time there, now he has no protection from predators and can not collect many many different animals, wish him luck, but seems he cursed himself right out the door not being prepared
@@bcpioneer59fish is the better food source plus he can catch small game
@@SonnyCrocket-p6hhe won didn’t he.
@@bcpioneer59he was as prepared as he need to be to win.
Good luck William you got this.
Dudes mindset was just inhuman. Can’t wait to see him again in some kind of all star season
Great choice of items, good luck
You got this William !
Wishing you much luck and safety god bless
Good luck brother !! We are routining for you !! Long time you tube fan !!!
That’s awesome I don’t think you need luck, I bet you have just the right amount of skills
Waiting to watch the first episode tonight.All the best and be safe
So glad you won !!!!! I told the boss of the swamp that you won & he was so glad you won but we both knew you had what it takes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@timothysharp2660Thanks for telling me this, I respect the Boss so much.
@@Biglandtrapper Me too, both you guys are great people......
May your skills guide your way.
Good luck William from Indiana.
Go get em sir!! Go Big Land!!
Congratulations.
I'm rooting for ya Bill!
I loved your comment about coming back for champion of champions 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
even if it's pouring down rain when you launch, you can be covered in your heavy-duty, reflective 12x12 tarp and/or the XL sized reflective tyvek bivy. The shovel, the tape, the shemagh can be safely-dry wrapped in one of those 2 items, Scrape the rust off of the ferrule and back of the blade of your shovel and save it in a little tarp and tape bag. Later, you'll save charred punk wood, pine resin, etc in that bag. Get the producer's tarp staked out over some bushes or poles, so that you're out of the rain. Then you can easily fire roll an 8x2" strip of your cotton shemagh, using some of the rust as an accellerant. You can tear off 1/4" wide strip of the tape, twist it into cordage if you dont want to unravel the hammock, due to wanting to sleep up off of the wet ground.
John Davis: I'm really glad to read something from you again! And it's also nice to see that you're still your old self. With best regards from the Alps.
go get them William
Good on ya skipper.
Good luck and can’t wait to watch…
Go on William
This is amazing man!!!
Congrats. I knew you would win!!!
Great items my buddy , good luck.
If I was out there I would be very happy to have you with me William. Good luck fella! Slava Ukraini!
Best of luck William
I will be rooting for you buddy 👊
Good luck William ! How ever far you make it is an accomplishment . A lot of suggestions in the comments, I will only say everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face . Will be rooting for you this season.
The Siberian fire lay dries itself out as it burns from the ends of the logs, which are held up in the air by being laid over a cross log, or over a "wall" of small logs, stacked between 4 stakes. The Alternative Swedish Fire Torch dries itself out from the inside. so the only part that needs to be dry are the shavings that stuff the empty center of the 4-log bundle and the wood scrapings that let you easily ignite one ends of the shavings-core. When you bust up some charred punkwood and mix it with dry wood shavings. it catches a flint and steel spark, or a coal from a big pump drill very easily and then it will ignite the scrapings and shavings of the Swede bundle easily, too
Big Land Trapper I’m pulling for you!!!
William can you take me Brook Trout Fishing next year.
Good luck Will...
" I don't like goin hungry" - proceeds to feed all the animals around for the first half of the season ... lol jk congrats on the win!!
Good luck buddy!
you wont need the hot rocks until the final 2 weeks of your stay, when you're too emaciated to make metabolic heat. If you catch enough fish, or arrow a bear, you wont need the rocks at all.
Good luck!
ALL shoreline mud contains workable clay for making pottery. Do you know how to easily separate out the loam, sand, debris and gravel from the clay? If you've made the pick and longer shovel handles, one hour each, you can dig the required clay refining pits, one above the other on a steep hill, in half a day. You have to add mud and water to the upper hole frequently for a few days, wait a few days and then drain off the clay in solution to the lower pit. Let the clay fall out of solution, drain off the clear water, and set the refined clay out to dry. You can speed -up the drying a bit with hot rocks and some Siberian fire lays. This all gets blended in with the making of the net and the pontoon outrigger raft, the fishing, the making of the tree-blind and the bait box for bears. Once those things are done, you can make a mud kiln for making charcoal and when you have that done, make the five 1.5 gallon clay pots. You can force dry the new pottery with fire and hot rocks, too. Then you fire the pots and their lids, making a few extra, cause you're bound to break a few. While you're at it, make the 50+ pottery balls for use as 'ammo" in the slingbow.
You can split wood with the saw teeth of the custome-altered Cold Steel shovel, by making a saw kerf 2" deep across the end of the log, and then baton wooden wedges into the kerf. Split a 3" wide, 8" long dead-woo log. Shave off of the wetness before you split it. Source this wood from a dead-standing tree, no cracks, no open top or holes, no bark Dig a bit of a trench, 1" deep, to hold this log while you fire roll the bit of shemagh with the handle of your shovel. Tear off some 1/8" wide strips of tape and make a "birds nest" out of them. Make a 'cigar roll" of tape, too. The nest will ignite easily and you can then use it to ignite the roll of tape. The tape roll will burn for over a minute, igniting the dry wood shavings that you've made, and used to stuff the empty center of a 4-log Alternative Swedish fire torch (yt vid) The Swede will suffice to ignite a Siberian fire lay, when all is wet. The Siberian and Swede will burn green, wet wood, if you go at it right and once they are burning well, Rain can't put them out. The Siberian projects its heat all in one direction, twice as far as a normal fire. So the siberian can be out in the rain, while warming/drying you and clothing, which are under the tarp.
the three coveralls and the pack get stuffed with debris, their seams sewn and taped. This causes each one to be able to float a man. While still at-home, waterproof-spray these 4 items . With these pontoons tied to the 4 corners of the 8-log outrigger raft, it wont MATTER if the sub-80 lbs of logs float or not. :-)
Because all you'll have left to cover your legs is the two pairs of longjohns, you'll have to make 3 pairs of pants out of the half of the 12x12 reflective tarp that you didn't need to make your sleeping-shelter. Put dry moss or grasses between each of those 5 layers and wrap your legs with the XL size reflective tyvek bivy and you''ll be ok outside down to 20F, as long as you're moving-around. By the time you need to revert the coveralls back into clothing, it'll be too cold to be out on the raft anyway. With 8 layers of clothing and 7 layers of dry debris, you'll be ok outside, moving, at 0F, no problem and you'll never see 0F.
you can save another week by not taking the cooking pot. Instead of boiling 2 qts of water at a time, 3x per day, half an hour each time, you can instead boil 5 gallons of water in a pit, lined with your tyvek bivy, in an hour, twice per week. Use a chunk of your 12x12 ft tarp to line a 6 gallon basket that you made on site. Presto you have a stored 5 gallons of water.
Good for you man.
the ground is already almost refrigerator-cold, and if you dampen it, it'll be colder, Fold over a hunk of your tarp and tape the edges Presto, food storage bag, bury any fish or meat that you dont have time or daylight enough to cut into strips, dip in salt-brine and smoke/cure. you need HARDWOOD smoke to cure flesh foods and that sort of wood is hard to come by in the arctic. If you can refrigeratte most of your catch, it will soon be hard-frozen and wont spoil.