300 Mile E-bike Survival Challenge (No Food, No Water, No Shelter, No Money) Day 1 of 5

[elkhound]

I am putting this here.Its a fun adventure Fowler is doing.It falls under a modern day forager or modern day hunter/gatherer type thing. Lets face it society will scavenge anything useful be it from modern society or natural world.This is going to be a long series and seems its going to be one episode each week for at least 5 weeks.Theres been talk about e-bikes in other threads so lets see how this heavy duty model does on this trip straight out of the box.Its an hour long but gets way better after first bit so give it a chance...pretty interesting things throughout it...especially big industrial store vs. mom and pop store.

 

[Patchouli]

Will check it out later, looks interesting

 

[sonya123]

I would approach this a different way from him. Why buy a water bottle for example when you can just find an empty soda bottle somewhere and go to a walmart bathroom or someplace and rinse it out with soap, and refill it. If I was in a city and had no food, I would go to the nearest homeless shelter that feeds people or some church that hands out food. He's not very practical in some ways .
I was homeless once in California for a little while ( we lived in the car ) and that's what we did. We did have a cookstove and camping gear however. Back then , fast food places would throw out their slightly over the timelimit food in bags, and you could just wait until they threw them out and go get it out of the dumpster right away and it was ok. Now, they lock their dumpsters I am pretty sure I read that somewhere
In the current state of things in the US it is just about impossible to starve in this country, lots of places to get food ( never mind SNAP and all that)

http://www.delish.com/food-news/a44787982/dumpster-diving-food-waste/

 

[elkhound]

 

[LadyLocust]

300 Mile E-bike Survival Challenge (No Food, No Water, No Shelter, No Money)​

Me: No thanks
It should be an entertaining watch though.

 

[elkhound]

i am going to save my comments about various things of this great adventure till the end...part 3 came out today....10-5-24

 

[Magpie]

I would approach this a different way from him. Why buy a water bottle for example when you can just find an empty soda bottle somewhere and go to a walmart bathroom or someplace and rinse it out with soap, and refill it. If I was in a city and had no food, I would go to the nearest homeless shelter that feeds people or some church that hands out food. He's not very practical in some ways .
I was homeless once in California for a little while ( we lived in the car ) and that's what we did. We did have a cookstove and camping gear however. Back then , fast food places would throw out their slightly over the timelimit food in bags, and you could just wait until they threw them out and go get it out of the dumpster right away and it was ok. Now, they lock their dumpsters I am pretty sure I read that somewhere
In the current state of things in the US it is just about impossible to starve in this country, lots of places to get food ( never mind SNAP and all that)

http://www.delish.com/food-news/a44787982/dumpster-diving-food-waste/

Theres an app over here called 'too good to go' most of the garages and supermarkets use it now they lock their bins. At the end of the day you can get a bag of leftovers for 1-5pounds depending of the contents. It works better for city people, nothing up here.

I like watching this kind of thing and picking up hints, but often wonder if this guy, or others, share their knowledge with the people who really need it, but cant afford phones to watch Youtube.

 

[randyt]

Other than the begging it's been a pretty good watch.
He does a bit of scrounging to be fair

 

[elkhound]

 

[Biggkidd]

As Elk knows I just bought an E-bike to make some trips on. Interesting to watch so far. Not the way I'd want to go about it. If there is interest here I can post about my new AWD fat tire E-bike. I've had it a week today and already ridden over 130 miles.

 

[elkhound]

As Elk knows I just bought an E-bike to make some trips on. Interesting to watch so far. Not the way I'd want to go about it. If there is interest here I can post about my new AWD fat tire E-bike. I've had it a week today and already ridden over 130 miles.

Yes please do a thread on your e-bike and mods you do to it and adventures and miles traveled.

 

[Tommyice]

Theres an app over here called 'too good to go' most of the garages and supermarkets use it now they lock their bins. At the end of the day you can get a bag of leftovers for 1-5pounds depending of the contents. It works better for city people, nothing up here.

I like watching this kind of thing and picking up hints, but often wonder if this guy, or others, share their knowledge with the people who really need it, but cant afford phones to watch Youtube.

To Good To Go is here too. One of the gals I work with tried it. It’s mostly bakeries and pizza places.

 

[elkhound]

 

[elkhound]

Well i put off posting in thread in hopes someone else would start a conversation. This was super cool trip,adventure and more...and i get it he was doing it for video and testing bike out and more...but could have been so much more.People know him so they will tend to help out faster than if you were just a bum off the street...i wish he had went a bit of a different route to show importance of a basic kit...but anyhow..


A basic mess kit or a billy pot and hatchet and pocket knife are just a must have unit. If he had that he could have saved so much money that he earned and begged for on corner. Just as example...high priced coffee. He could have gotten nescafee hazelnut instant coffee at walmart for under $4 with 16 packets in it.

When he was looking for food/calories he could have bought a can of campbells stews for less than $2 and box of boil in bag rice with 4 packets for $1.56.Boiled a bag of rice up took it out and heated up stew and mixed for a big meal or ate half and saved other half for later.This is one reason i always look at a food thermals as a item to have.Fix your food and then you have something warm to eat hours later with no fuss or effort...eat and go to bed.But all of this couldnt happen without at least a mess kit of little backpacking cook set.

Fishing....he hardly fished and spent much of his money on it.He could have gotten a $9 dock demon and called it good...plus he was being a fish snob...he ended up keeping a couple bluegill when he could have kept them all and had a big meal.Could have fixed fillets the way he wanted but if had a billy pot used rest for a fish stew and added in a bag of rice to the mix.

Anyhow...i dont want to be without a cook kit/mess kit and food thermos and a good solid water bottle.

One other thing...he could have gotten loaf of walmart bread from deli for a $1 and can of mackerel and made fake tuna fish sandwich...just grabbed a few free mayo packs from deli.Or several other easy options like this.

I do like the fact younger folks watch him and he encourages them to get outdoors on any level.

 

[randyt]

I thought it was great. Didn't watch it all though. It's a challenge for me to watch anything over 5 to10 minutes.
There is a lot of stuff that can be scrounged though about everywhere. Instead of thermos cooking a bean hole could be utilized. Not as quick as a thermos but another method

 

[elkhound]

Yea i am not sure about this thermos cooking i just want one to keep food warm for supper time before bed.

jogs a memory...regular large thermos..my work partner in alaska would fix a thermos of coffee right before bed and then set up coffee maker all ready for next morning. He said i do that because i hate waiting for my coffee in the morning...he would drink that thermos empty each morning while fresh pot was doing its thing....he had caffeine shakes for sure.....lol

Another guy drank espresso shot by cup full and carried bags of candy around and ate sugar non stop all day long...he was skinny as a rail too.He was wired all day too....lol

 

[elkhound]

I thought it was great. Didn't watch it all though. It's a challenge for me to watch anything over 5 to10 minutes.
There is a lot of stuff that can be scrounged though about everywhere. Instead of thermos cooking a bean hole could be utilized. Not as quick as a thermos but another method

That bike is super nice and would be great item to have for sure.Especially using from home base and if you had some solar panels to charge up extra batteries for it while you are off on daily adventure.

 

[randyt]

I've done a lot of it, mostly rice and wheat. Would mix in jerky and spices. Fill a thermos with water, pour into pan. Make a scratch at water level. Empty, put in food then pour water up to scratch line. Bring to boil.and pour into thermos. Give a good shake and lay on side. Ready by morning

 

[elkhound]

I've done a lot of it, mostly rice and wheat. Would mix in jerky and spices. Fill a thermos with water, pour into pan. Make a scratch at water level. Empty, put in food then pour water up to scratch line. Bring to boil.and pour into thermos. Give a good shake and lay on side. Ready by morning

One thing i see these ultra light backpackers doing and talking about is cold soaking food. Especially quinoa and couscous. I know when ya hungry you eat about anything and be happy for it...but man...cold everything on hiking trips...ugghhhhh !