Jordan Jonas: recommendation

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…What was the plan? Well, I thought I would just catch a bunch of fish because I’m on a really good fishing lake. I catch a whole bunch of fish and let them rot for a little while and then just drag them all through the woods into a big pile and then hunt a bear on that big fish pile. That was the plan, and I thought… But when I got there for one, I had a hard time catching fish off the bat, they didn’t come like I was hoping. And then for two, it had burned prior, so there were no berries. And so, there were very few berries, which meant there weren’t grouse, there weren’t bear. They had all gone to other places where the berries were. And so, what I had grown accustomed to relying on in Siberia wasn’t there. So in Russia, which was a similar environment, it was just grouse and berries and fish, and grouse and berries and fish. And then occasionally, you get a moose or something. But I had to reassess, which was part of me being grumpy at the start like, “This place sucks.” And then, once I reassessed, and right away, I saw that there were moose tracks and such. So. I just started to plan for that. I moved my camp into an area that was as removed as I could be from where all the action is, where the tracks were, so that I wasn’t disturbing animal patterns. I made sure the wind, the predominant wind was blowing out my scent to sea or to the water. And then really, to be honest, if you want to actually survive somewhere is different than Alone, but you do have to be active and you’re not going to live… You’re not going to be sustainable by starving it out. You have to unlock the key that is sustainability. And I think there’s a lot of areas that still have that potential, but you have to figure out what it is. It’s usually going to be a combination of fishing, trapping, and then hunting. And then, once you have the fishing and trapping will get you until you have some success hunting. And then, that’ll buy you three or four months of time to continue, and to keep hunting again. And you just have to roll off of that. But it depends on where you are, what opportunities are there. Okay, so that’s the process. Fishing and trapping until you’re successful hunting. And then the successful hunt buys you some more time.…

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