Not many television shows are produced with backpackers in mind. Still, there are some tv shows that can be appreciated especially by backpackers. They may even include some beneficial lessons. Here are some examples of the best.
The excellent National Geographic Specials
Specials produced by the National Geographic community are great viewing when you want to get motivated for new backpacking trips. The older ones are some of the best for this, like the thirty-year-old part where four guys built a raft and floated down the Yukon River. You can find many of these on Dvd now in communal libraries, as well as in some video rental stores. You can se newer episodes on the National Geographic Network and occasionally on Pbs.
Les Stroud's Survivorman
This television program is all about wilderness survival. You'll find it on the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, and maybe others. It's about one man against the elements. The man in this case is Les Stroud, who is put in discrete environments to survive for seven days while filming himself.
One great highlight of Survivorman is that each show has a "theme." The Canadian arctic episode, for example, has Stroud left with a broken-down snowmobile. He cannibalizes this discrete beneficial items, together with the seat cushion, which he uses for a insulating sleeping pad. The Sonoran desert part has him in the middle of a desert with a broken dirt bike, and he uses wires from this to weave a blanket of grass.
The show is creative and entertaining, but is a survival program beneficial for backpackers? I think so. There are exact techniques of survival that Stroud shows us and, more importantly, the inspiration the show provides. Survivorman lets you know that you can survive - and it gets you in the habit of mental about how to use all things colse to you. This is knowledge that not only makes the wilderness more interesting, but could also save your life someday.
I Shouldn't Be Alive
It's a pure survival story show - all true stories of citizen that have survived some of the most horrible circumstances in every type of wilderness. In one part the story is told of a merge who were stranded for nine days in the middle of winter in the Sierra Nevadas - with a baby. They literally shouldn't be alive, but they are.
This is the point of watching a show like this. It is inspiring. Watch the part where the man crashes his plane in the African desert and breaks his spine, then faces killer elephants, ants, thorns, hyenas and more. If you are ever lost in the wilderness, just recall a few of these shows and you'll know that citizen have survived worse situations than yours. You won't give up hope too easily.
The discrete "reality shows," like survivor, are mostly drama and more about political survival than wilderness experience, but there are other things for backpackers to watch on television. These include movies that get us motivated, like the "White Wolf," series. Movies like these may not be full of great acting, but they all the time put juvenile hikers in beautiful setting that make us want to get the pack out and start development plans.
One final recommendation. If you can catch it on television or rent it from the video store, watch "The Edge," with Anthony Hopkins. It is an inspirational survival story for starters. It also has some of the most beautiful scenery you'll see in a movie. You'll want to start planning a trip to the Canadian Rockies before the movie is even over. This one is my kind of backpacker television.
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