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Don't Miss F&S Feb. 2010 Issue
Uploaded on January 11, 2010You may never find yourself in Alaska, or even WY, MT, or ID in winter. You may never venture out of cellphone range and thus never away from the protective umbilical cord of 911. But if you want to read an excellent work on surviving in the wilderness and learn the most basic skills needed for survival in any situation, don't miss the article and side bars in the new February 2010 issue of F&S.
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I could not agree less. Sidebars were fine but the article was a complete waste of time.
What a HUGE disappointment! I was hoping for a fascinating profile of an Alaskan trapper---rich with anecdote, gee-wiz stories of his adventures in Alaska, etc. But, despite your cover story billing, what I read was the ridiculous, petty fears of the writer's "ordeal", which amounted to falling off a moving snowmobile. (We all knew he would be "rescued"---anyone could have followed his tracks.)
The problem here, as I see it, is that you sent a columnist to do a writer's job. Your back page columnist delights in first-person and exaggeration, traits that might make an acceptable column but are out of place in a (supposed) profile.
What a colossal waste of money and space to send the columnist to Alaska...and an insult to the trapper who must be offended that for all the time he gave the columnist he wasn't properly "profiled".
Point well taken, but it does illustrate the shortcomings of a pseudo-professional outdoorsman out of his comfort zone and ill prepared for the real wilderness. I agree that the real teacher was much overlooked in this teachable moment.
This was one of the best articles I've read in F&S. The History Channel should make a series on the trapper. These are last of the real wilderness people left. 99% of lower 48 hunters couldn't last one full day up there. These survival stories are always informative and anybody that thinks the side bars are a waste is probably from the city anyway. Thanks Bill Heavy your always welcome in Kansas.
I have to say that I agree with all of you on this one. Marty (the trapper featured in this article) is my brother-in-law. He and his family live an amazing lifestyle that most would scoff at, let alone even temp to try and spend one day in their shoes. They have made Reality shows about Loggers, Alaskan fisherman, why not the Alaskan Trapper? Oh, that's right... Mainstream TV is far to sensitive about animal rights and such... I'm sure PETA, which I tend to support on "some" issues, would have a freaking hay day with that one! Marty and Dominique send us DVD's that they film of themselves and their life when they are out on the trapline. "Amazing" doesn't even come close to what you see! Marty is definitely a "One of a kind" man... He is one of the elite Alaskan Smoke Jumpers, Survivor Man, Trapper, loving husband and father... You don't find that too often! I definitely think they should make a movie of Dom and Marty's life, millions would tune in!!!
F&S,
Are you guys out of your mind? The only way you could have done worse than sending Heavy out there is if you had sent Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid. Seriously, Heavy should never cover a story that requires transportation other than what is commercially available (and not rentable), he makes me laugh and I am not prepared to loose his column just yet.
Sean
I loved it! It was entertaining to hear an "outsider" admit he'd met his match and couldn't measure up to a man who has good old fashioned know how. Living in a bush community in Alaska, we get tons of tourists, hunters, sport fishermen - and OUTDOOR WRITERS. All of us locals can tell who they are by a few key details - they arrive wearing zip-off pants, tote luggage with leather trim, have tassles on their shoes and vents on the back of their shirts, and can't figure out why their cell phones don't work out here, etc. It kind of cracks me up - they can own the world's largest businesses, make million dollar deals on a daily basis, but couldn't survive a night in the wilderness. They own the world but are in awe of the bush pilots, the hunting guides, the commercial fishermen. It's fun when an article such as this shows unabashed admiration for a guy like Marty. By the way, Marty has an article in the Alaska Trapper's Association magazine this month.
It was an absolutely amazing story in addition to the excellent sidebar information. I loved Heavy's description of the raven's shadow unleashing a jolt of pure terror and the raven's post-it note; to check back in the morning to see if he had become carrion yet. My mind works like this too in the wilds, but I don't have the gift of being able to put these ideas into words like Mr. Heavy does. Thank you so much for the great article. It is a masterpiece.
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I have to say that I agree with all of you on this one. Marty (the trapper featured in this article) is my brother-in-law. He and his family live an amazing lifestyle that most would scoff at, let alone even temp to try and spend one day in their shoes. They have made Reality shows about Loggers, Alaskan fisherman, why not the Alaskan Trapper? Oh, that's right... Mainstream TV is far to sensitive about animal rights and such... I'm sure PETA, which I tend to support on "some" issues, would have a freaking hay day with that one! Marty and Dominique send us DVD's that they film of themselves and their life when they are out on the trapline. "Amazing" doesn't even come close to what you see! Marty is definitely a "One of a kind" man... He is one of the elite Alaskan Smoke Jumpers, Survivor Man, Trapper, loving husband and father... You don't find that too often! I definitely think they should make a movie of Dom and Marty's life, millions would tune in!!!
I loved it! It was entertaining to hear an "outsider" admit he'd met his match and couldn't measure up to a man who has good old fashioned know how. Living in a bush community in Alaska, we get tons of tourists, hunters, sport fishermen - and OUTDOOR WRITERS. All of us locals can tell who they are by a few key details - they arrive wearing zip-off pants, tote luggage with leather trim, have tassles on their shoes and vents on the back of their shirts, and can't figure out why their cell phones don't work out here, etc. It kind of cracks me up - they can own the world's largest businesses, make million dollar deals on a daily basis, but couldn't survive a night in the wilderness. They own the world but are in awe of the bush pilots, the hunting guides, the commercial fishermen. It's fun when an article such as this shows unabashed admiration for a guy like Marty. By the way, Marty has an article in the Alaska Trapper's Association magazine this month.
It was an absolutely amazing story in addition to the excellent sidebar information. I loved Heavy's description of the raven's shadow unleashing a jolt of pure terror and the raven's post-it note; to check back in the morning to see if he had become carrion yet. My mind works like this too in the wilds, but I don't have the gift of being able to put these ideas into words like Mr. Heavy does. Thank you so much for the great article. It is a masterpiece.
Point well taken, but it does illustrate the shortcomings of a pseudo-professional outdoorsman out of his comfort zone and ill prepared for the real wilderness. I agree that the real teacher was much overlooked in this teachable moment.
This was one of the best articles I've read in F&S. The History Channel should make a series on the trapper. These are last of the real wilderness people left. 99% of lower 48 hunters couldn't last one full day up there. These survival stories are always informative and anybody that thinks the side bars are a waste is probably from the city anyway. Thanks Bill Heavy your always welcome in Kansas.
F&S,
Are you guys out of your mind? The only way you could have done worse than sending Heavy out there is if you had sent Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid. Seriously, Heavy should never cover a story that requires transportation other than what is commercially available (and not rentable), he makes me laugh and I am not prepared to loose his column just yet.
Sean
I could not agree less. Sidebars were fine but the article was a complete waste of time.
What a HUGE disappointment! I was hoping for a fascinating profile of an Alaskan trapper---rich with anecdote, gee-wiz stories of his adventures in Alaska, etc. But, despite your cover story billing, what I read was the ridiculous, petty fears of the writer's "ordeal", which amounted to falling off a moving snowmobile. (We all knew he would be "rescued"---anyone could have followed his tracks.)
The problem here, as I see it, is that you sent a columnist to do a writer's job. Your back page columnist delights in first-person and exaggeration, traits that might make an acceptable column but are out of place in a (supposed) profile.
What a colossal waste of money and space to send the columnist to Alaska...and an insult to the trapper who must be offended that for all the time he gave the columnist he wasn't properly "profiled".
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