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Win The Wilderness

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Sun, 27 Oct 24 1:49 PM | 26 view(s)
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Judy My Internet hot spot has a 50-gig/month limit that ends on the 26th of each month. I curb my internet usage, especially videos, so that by the end of the period I usually have data to spare. Yesterday I had a lot, so I watched all six episodes of the Netflix series "Win the Wilderness." We'll see if there's a second season. The premise is that six British couples compete to win an Alaskan 5 acre homestead including a beautiful 3-story home, a guest house and a huge greenhouse. The place is so isolated that it even has its own runway. The couple that spent 30 years building it have to move on, so they've opted to give it away to a deserving couple that will continue expanding on what they've done.

Now, I don't believe the "giving it away" part for a second. I'm sure the show paid Duane and Rena Ose a tidy sum, both for the homestead and for the significant role they have in the show. They are, after all, the judges who make the elimination decisions and ultimately choose the winner.

I didn't enjoy this show as much as many other "survival" shows I watch. The challenges were easy and there were no clear winners. The Oses looked at challenge results (which, at times, were even apples and oranges... one contestant was asked to rebuild a wood porch while another had to haul and stack firewood and third had to work on a well), interviewed them, listened to a review of the leadership and teamwork demonstrated, then decided who to axe. And the contestants were Brits - which meant that they were amazingly naive about many aspects of life in the wilderness. I'm usually impressed with what survival show contestants deal with and overcome. Not so this time. It was kind of fun watching the vegetarian couple butcher a bison, though!

I learned a couple of things, as I usually do when I watch wilderness shows. The best one, this time, was that by girdling a tree (cutting several circular rings through the bark at the trunk), the tree will die from the top down without falling. In two years, it can be felled at which point it will already be seasoned firewood, ready for chopping up and burning. What a great trick for avoiding the rot and rodents that usually pose a problem when wood is stacked and left lying on the ground as it dries! I figured I'd pass that on.































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