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DrCaleb DrCaleb:
If you don't normally go out camping or hunting of fishing, then a weekend in the woods may not be for you.
For NRS it's not usually about people going camping, but people going for what they think will be a walk in a park. They don't realize it's real wilderness right at Vancouver's door step, so they head out in high heels or flip flops with shorts and a t-shirt and no idea where they are going. A lot of them this year seem to have been tourists.
Yes, exactly. It's people who don't realize there are no services, no cell reception, no lights after dark that are getting lost and stranded. People who regularly go into the bush know there is no such thing as just 'a walk in the park'.
One of the re-creations on Survivorman this season was a family who went on their regular Saturday afternoon mushroom picking trip, made a mistake and got caught in the bush after dark and spent a week in the woods unprepared. They were never more than 3km from their car, but nearly died from exposure. And yet, there were all sorts of things they could have survived on, all around them.