So I was bored last week and decided to watch the only current season of Alone on Netflix (S11). I instantly became hooked and binged the whole season. Found all 12 Seasons on Hulu. Have since watched S1 and now on S2. Don't think I can do this myself, but I love the show.

at about (8:40) The guy has a wolf or dog print and jaws and has to "feed" it blood after every kill.He just brained a squirrel and so like rolls his sleeve up to show the tat on his arm and explains as much, but is this like in memory of a lost pet, or what is going on here...?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TywLH-CzfCA

what do you guys think of my list? what is yours?

Part of a Instagram post (6 of 20) by from one of the Alone photographers Brendan George Ko, mostly behind the screens around base camp.

https://www.instagram.com/brendangeorgeko/p/DYzsuCnls7f/

He also posted some more of the contestants photos here:

https://www.instagram.com/brendangeorgeko/p/DYxH-tslq5S/

I’m UK based, and there’s only a few seasons available on Apple TV and prime (even with the extra subscriptions). For other series like traitors and survivor, there’s often a Google drive with downloadable versions. Sorry if this isn’t allowed, but I’d really appreciate being able to watch them! I hear season 7 is a must!

I’ve only watched season 11 and part of 12 (started 11 on Netflix before realizing there was already a 12, but otherwise working backwards), but a really strange connection I’ve made is people using the word “pole” and then tapping out shortly thereafter without any prior warning they were nearing their end.

Just a funny/stupid thing, but I started joking about it with my wife when someone would say it, and many of them tapped out in the same episode. Maybe a little Easter egg from the editors? I can’t imagine there’s anything psychological to it, but I find it amusing nevertheless, and I’m curious to see if it keeps popping up.

So keen for S13. Very few clues in the trailer unfortunately about the drop site. We know they are in the Richardson Mountains NT. Several contestants are on the river and several on sizeable lakes in the preview. The terrain looks reasonably flat except this one shot of mountains in the distance. There was a characteristic V dip which helped me find a likely spot on Google Earth.

Very close to S11 which was based out of Inuvik.

I suspect this time they are based out of Aklavik which is also sizeable enough to support crew with an airport. I think the contestants would be dropped by boat in this general area.

This season was very compelling and unique because it brought forth a different side of Alone.

There was a heavier emphasis on each contestents mental state as a result of the desert and the land they were on. There were beautiful moments of people speaking to the land and accepting that winning is not the main objective for them. Watching people move through their personal rites of passage in the face of an unknown land elavated this from a survivalist competition to a collective rite of passage.

Very cool.

Looking forward to next season.

Hello fellow humans. Not sure if this will peak any interest, but I got a photo of a grouse with a fun story to go along with it and thought maybe an AMA could be fun.

I am a 41 year old forestry field worker in BC currently in my 24th year of field work. I planted trees for 12 years from 2003 - 2014. Did conifer release brushing and slash burning for 11 years from 2014 - 2023, as well as 10 years in tree planting management for 10 years from 2015 - 2023. In 2022 I moved to Vancouver Island and grew tired of being away from home working in the West Kootenays for 7 months of the year, but also hate clearcuts on Vancouver Island, so last year I transitioned to block layout, which I am now in my second year wearing that hat. My work is based out of Woss 1/4 of the time and Holberg for 3/4 of the time.

Quatsino is mostly low elevation and last year I only took a 6 week break from December 8th to January 18th. Block layout (engineering is its official title) just as it sounds. We go in the bush and, well... layout blocks. Find and map all the streams (from big creeks all the way down to mud flats that flood at high water flow), sweep the area for any bear dens, Large Cultural Cedars [LCC's] (any cedar tree that could potentially be used to carve canoes or totem poles), Culturally Modified Trees [CMT's] (any cedar tree which has been used in the past by the indigenous people, big trees - each tree species has a defined size that, if bigger than, is protected. Any fish bearing streams, bear dens, or big trees require a specific buffer around them to avoid any potential damage when the block is logged.

Lastly, we layout the roads and block boundary. Essentially, if you strip away all the technical noise, my job really comes down to: I spend 8 hours a day bushwacking in the forest in some of the hardest bush to travel in. Season 4, when they had the pairs, I can say that considering all they had was a compass bearing and therefor HAD to straight line it, they did a very good job with the editing to represent how shitty the bush is travel.

I am not a survivalist, but I do have pretty good knowledge of which plants are edible and how to prepare them.

As for the photo of the grouse: Once they announced the release date for the new season, it happens to be a night where I will be at home so my wife said that we should get a proper nibble platter, cause who doesnt eat all the food while criticizing the contestants while they starve. But this time I suggested we make a delicious meal using ingredients that are available to the contestants. Cook up a delicious grouse and some trout with a wild greens and berry salad. Well I shit you not. Literally the next day I guess I went close to a grouse nest cause this grouse started following me. Grouse will try to draw potential predators away from their nest to save their eggs/young, but normally only for a very short distance. Well, she followed me for 2 hours and we ended up over 300M away from her nest before she left. The next day I went by her again and this time she stuck with me for 3 hours and didnt turn around until we were 700M away. At this point I decided to name her Bonnie and I figure she was either a sign to say I should have a grouse... or I should leave the grouse alone... not sure which.

Ok, thats all for now. If anyone has any questions about the nature of working and bushwacking in the bush around Quatsino, or anything really... I will do my best to answer.

The History Channel has a quiz you can take. It's stupid. I can't wait for the new season on June 17th!

I've watched a few seasons and really like the show, but in the few I've watched it always seems to come down to one contestant getting a big game kill and then you just know they're going to win. It takes a lot of the suspense out of the final few episodes.

Are there any seasons where multiple contestants get a big game kill or no one does, and the deciding factors ends up being shelter quality, fishing ability or some other factor other than one contestant have 10x the amount of food.

Alot of contests quit from isolation, overthinking, or getting shack wacky. Let's say a wind up radio was an option, and contestants could get a couple of channels. You hear human voices, some music as a distraction just standard radio but guaranteed at least 2 channels

How much difference do you think it would make and would you choose it?

Bonus if you've been on the show, do you think you would have taken it as an option your first go around, would you take it knowing what you know now?

Aaron Barnard (40), British Columbia, Canada. Tradesman.

Dave Booth (54), Alaska, USA. Retired School Principal.

Nero Buys (40), New South Wales, Australia. Outdoor Advocate and Educator.

Jaclyn “Jacks” Genega (40) New York, USA. Wilderness Skills Educator.

Will (Panikġruaq) Longley (37) Alaska, USA. Stay-at-Home Father.

Žiga Ogorelec (35) Kočevje, Slovenia. Biologist.

Clementino Pedrosa (41) Lisbon, Portugal. Army Sergeant.

Andrew Price (51) Wales, United Kingdom. Wilderness Skills Educator.

Poldi Waldmann-Moloney (24) Hoktika, New Zealand. Whitewater Kayaking Instructor.

David Young (31) Washington, USA. Project Manager.

Note that there are no contestant intros or gear videos yet and the gear list has not been updated (as of 22 May).

Contestants are from the US (x4), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovenia, and UK.

Starts Wednesday, June 17, and has been shot in the Richardson Mountains of Canada’s Northwest Territories (inside the Arctic Circle), about 65 miles west of Inuvik (season 11)

springy ones and move them to where the snare or jungle whip is needed.  A vertical jungle whip can drive a small wooden rectangle of bladed, barbed, serrated, fire-hardened stakes thru a critter and pin it to the ground. Wire the rectangle to a small drag log, 20 lbs or so, so the critter THINKS it's escaping, as it bleeds out. Same with the treblhooks. You dont want it to tear out the hooks and go down a hole to die. You want to EAT it. But even if the predator does escape, it wont be stealing any more of YOUR food.

Season 13 Trailer released this morning with a confirmed release date of 17 June!

I know, I know. I hated season 4 at the time too but I liked it a lot more when rewatching years later.

It would be better if they just started them together though. That hike was nuts. I think half of the teams tapped before they even met up!

Being able to split tasks allows them to accomplish so much more.

IDK - what do you guys think?

I’m based in the UK and have the history TV add-on for Apple TV which has seasons 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. I also got the history subscription on Prime TV which has season 10, and the earlier seasons. I can’t find 7 anywhere. There’s also a load of spinoffs. I’m a little confused! I’m currently watching the seasons in reverse order 😂

Normally the trailers would be out 2-3 weeks ago. So I used my AI pal to speculate. Please no one give me crap about using AI - it was just a fun exercise. This is what it came up with:

1) Strategic release / scheduling decision — 50%
Deliberate decision to optimise:
release timing
advertising revenue
streaming/distribution strategy
audience competition
international franchise coordination
Fits the highly organised silence and lack of any marketing rollout.

2) Production / logistics / location complication — 30%
Possible issues involving:
weather
wildfires
permits
extraction logistics
environmental restrictions
remote filming disruption
More plausible because Alone productions are unusually difficult and tightly controlled.

3) Serious safety / legal issue — 20%
Possible:
major injury
severe evacuation
insurance issue
legal/safety review
contestant-related complication
Still lower probability than the others, but not remotely dismissible given the risk level of the show.

Thoughts?

lean meat or fish offer only 600 calories per lb. If it's cold, and all you do is hole up in your shelter, you'll still need to consume 3000 calories per day. If you put in hard, long days out in the cold wind, you can easily need to eat 5000 calories per day, or you'll lose weight and KEEP losing it. you can't choke down 5 lbs of lean meat or fish per day., when you have no spices, sauces, FAT to help you do so. The Innuit knew that they HAD to stay on the seas shores, where they could catch whales, narwhales, walrus and seals. animals with lots of fat. It's too cold for plants to amount to a hoot as a food source up there.

Nobody's ever going to maintain their body weight on the Alone show unless they make a lot of netting, catch 100+ lbs of fish in the first 2 weeks they are there, and use most of it to bait in a bear, before they hibernate. Arrow it from a tree blind 15+ feet up, 10m from the stake and log bait box. Create a box that ONLY a bear can access and keep puttinng fish into it. You need to pretty much live in that tree-blind as you make more netting, until you can score a bear. A bear, fat for hibernation is 25% bodyfat. So a 200 lb bear is 50 lbs of fat, at 3500 calories per lb 175,000 calories. There's also 50 lbs of meat, 600 calories per lb, 30,000 calories. The brain
blood, marrrow have a bit of fat in them, maybe another 20,000 calories. Fat for the winter, a 200 lb bear is a small one. 200,000 calories is enough to lose no weight for over 60 days, That is easily the win. Add some fish and some cambium and you'll be at 80 days with no weight loss.

They only let you take one of any species bigger than a rabbit, but if you had to do this for real, away from the sea coasts, you'd flat have to take several bears, or you ain't getting thru the winter.

I don’t know much about South Africa and the type of animals there but we saw small critters roaming around at night - why did no one set traps?

Do we think it was a skill issue? It seemed there were many protected large animals, could it have been the same for smaller creatures?

I found this season disappointing from the hunting standpoint.

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I'm getting a bit fatigued by the winter out-starvation off, where most of the episodes are the contestants telling the camera how shitty it is, how cold they are, how hungry they are, and how much they miss their families. It's obviously a terrible thing to go through, and those guys/dolls are absolute warriors, but I feel like seeing them somewhere like a jungle, or tropical island where we see some more actual survival techniques would be cool.

Still love it and will watch whatever they do, but switching it up would be cool, and curious to hear why they don't.