I kinda like Les, but there is a problem that you should not try a lot. Do not eat a lot of snow. I have seen Les eat snow and you can get really bad sores in your mouth!!! You can get blisters in side your mouth, and that does not sound pleasant! Bear Grylls says that eating snow can also lower your core body temp. dangerously low. It is better to melt it on something like a bottle than eat it. So, do not eat snow!!!

I think you are missing the whole point of Survivorman: SURVIVAL. If you have no means of starting a fire and no bottle or can, it's just a tad tough to melt the snow. If snow is all you have, you eat the snow. Better survival with a sore mouth than death from dehydration wtih water all around you in crystal form.

You do what you HAVE TO DO to survive.

just don't eat the yellow snow...

that's where the huskies go

or the pink/red snow!

As Les showed on the episode with the horses, if the snow has a "pink (or red) blush" it's going to make you very sick. Brush off that layer and use the white snow underneath, if that's all that's available.

He also said it's okay to eat snow as long as you are moving and not just laying or sitting around.

yeah there was this guy who life was saved watching Survivorman he ate snow because thats all he had to keep him hydrated and only when he kept moving.

and les said himself that he has not had problems with it as long as he kept moving

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Summer7:
I kinda like Les, but there is a problem that you should not try a lot. Do not eat a lot of snow. I have seen Les eat snow and you can get really bad sores in your mouth!!!

Who cares about sores in your mouth when you are actually trying not to freaking die?

I've heard this before as well. When I went camping and backpacking out in Colorado they told us that.

I don't know why -- but I'm sure Les wouldn't say it without reason.

Maybe it's an open debate in the survivoralist community??

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but I'm sure Les wouldn't say it without reason.

He did have good reason as was explained earlier in this thread....

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I think you are missing the whole point of Survivorman: SURVIVAL. If you have no means of starting a fire and no bottle or can, it's just a tad tough to melt the snow. If snow is all you have, you eat the snow. Better survival with a sore mouth than death from dehydration wtih water all around you in crystal form.

You do what you HAVE TO DO to survive.

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He also said it's okay to eat snow as long as you are moving and not just laying or sitting around.

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to keep him hydrated and only when he kept moving.

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and les said himself that he has not had problems with it as long as he kept moving

If its all you have, you gotta do what you gotta do...or die.

Also as long as you are moving, you'll keep you core temp up and be safe(r) from hypothermia.

If you don't eat the snow, what are you to do? Someone, whom I won't sully my keyboard by typing, said to put the snow in a container, open your clothes (looseing warmth) and put the container next to the skin (more lost warmth) to melt. Then to drink, open clothes to the cold to get the melted snow out to drink.
I can see where they are concerned with eating snow to cause core heat loss.