Here's another Whisky Fireside Chat from The Happy Camper. This time it's with Juan Pablo Quiñonez - winner of History Channel's Alone Season 9. He's definitely a humble Canadian.
Juan, you are amazing! My wife and I watched your winning season together and quickly picked you as our favourite. We also found many tears at the end, mostly because your journey was so human and we loved the story of your relationship with Jennifer. You also had us laughing out loud when you doubled down on 3 litres of water at your med check in! You are a great competitor and yet we really did not think of you in that way until that moment. Best season yet Juan and despite the formiidable competition, you are the main reason why we loved it so much. Look forward to seeing more of you in the spotlight, if that is a sacrifice you are willing to make.
I underestimated Juan at the beginning. His performance was amazing! When he went to the fast and resting I knew he was going to win. A humble fierce competitor!
Juan Pablo stands out as one of the most skilled and humble contestants on Alone. His unique approach will influence future seasons of Alone. A very well deserved win. ¡Felicidades!
Towards the end every time they cut from Karie Lee and Teimojin hunting and keeping fires going and expending a bunch of energy to Juan Pablo just sleeping in his bed or drinking water straight from the river I burst out laughing. This dude just did not give a damn, he simply decided he was going to win, I love it. Much respect to the other competitors as well they were awesome but he is simply built different.
@@SamGleesh yeah, IF you can cheat and gain an unhealthy 30+% of bodyfat before you go and IF you can get away with just laying around in your sleeping bag. Often, tho, you cannot. Often, if you dont get rescued in 2 weeks or so, you're going to have to do a LOT on your own, or you're going to die out there.
Juan is the man. I never would have picked him to win at the beginning, but he is a survival master. He stayed calm and positive the whole time and didn’t seem to ever even think about quitting. And after the show I watched a long Q&A he did where it was apparent he has deeply studied and obsessed about survival knowledge his whole life. There were a couple other great competitors on his season, but I don’t think any of them had much chance, I think Juan could have kept going a while longer
Juan Pablo did amazing !!! Also the first ever Alone contestant to go without a fire for a while was a crazy first 🥇. Season 9 of Alone was the best season yet!! So much heart & strength from everyone ❤️. Kerrie Lee was my favorite to watch too !!
When he said weird and different toward the end I'm thinking, ya those guys both fit that mold and I could tell K. C. was chuckling inside. I love J.P. even more now.
He was my second choice for the win. I originally picked Benji Hill but since he messed up with sanitation Juan was the one I felt that had the best strategy. Karie was using a similar strategy but I felt like she burned more calories and failed more getting food early on to actually win, especially against a 30 year old. Most contestants burned WAY too many calories doing those exotic builds. The Doctor would have been a good contender if he didn't let his education get in the way and just safely fasted like Juan did.
I just binged this season 9 over Thanksgiving weekend. Never would have watched these type of shows but was encouraged to by a nutritionist. This is the 3rd season I've watched in a year. JP had a poor attitude at the beginning and I felt that his low expectation was going to do him in. Come to find out they call that a wilderness survival tactic. I've used that don't get your hopes up to guard from disappointment. I am glad to see his book is titled Thrive which is the opposite. I wanted to see if he married Jennifer and got the home and community he wanted. We long for connection. Congratulations again!
You can make a tarp and tape pole tent in 3 hours, and in another 9 hours, spread out over 2 months, winterize it to the point of needing no heat source inside of it at 0F degrees. Not needing firewood saves you 2 week's worth of time and calories. So does the tent, and not needing to boil water 2 qts at a time, 3x per day, will save you almost 2 more weeks. Making the netting and raft takes just 12 days. A net gain of at least 3 weeks. and of course, 60,000 calories of fish and 200,000 calories of bear flesh. That gives you the win. You CAN win on just the fish and cambium, but you'll have lost 30+ lbs. With the bear, you can GAIN weight, a feat never achieved on the show. Bears, ready for hibernation, are 25% bodyfat and fat is the only food that lets you gain weight out there. You can't choke down enough lean meat or fish to even maintain your bodyweight.
you only need half of the 4 weeks that doing things my way saves you. Those 2 weeks are enough to make the clay refining pits, the pottery, the baked clay balls for the sling-bow, the stone-boiling pit, the 1200 sq ft of 2" mesh netting, the pontoon outrigger boat, the stake an log bait box for bears and the tree blind. Once you've arrowed the bear, rendered-down its fat, salt-brine dipped and smoke/cured the flesh and buried the food under your tent's foot-end, with boulders in the way of any critter digging it up. you'll have won this challenge. All you have to do at that point is not get hurt/sick. In another week, you can have caught an extra 100-200 lbs of fish, peeled and prepared 40 lbs of cambium, so that you have a little change of diet and some carbs for your brain to function a bit better, get better sleep, etc. A bit of fiber is necessary for your guts to work right, and cambium is mostly fiber.
none of them have known what to take or do. Make 1200 sq ft of 2" mesh netting out of the two person cotton rope hammock, $70 from Amazon, with plenty of rope left over for camp needs. make a pontoon outrigger raft out of 8 small logs, the backpack and the coveralls (stuffed with debris, the seams sewn and taped) Put each day's net production into 18" of water as a baited net weir for 6 days . Then use 5 day's netting as a seine, to force fish from 5 ft deep water into the weir. Every day, make another weir and make the seine longer. In a week, you'l have caught 200 lbs of fish, Use half of the catch to fill a stake and log bait box, used to lure a bear within 10m of your tree blind.
the only reason that he won is he was VERY fat and did nothing. So his 'training' and "experience", meant nothing at all. if such stuff WAS worth something, why did he have to add 60 lbs of fat, hmm? Why didn't he do anything constructive? Cause he knew damned well that what he knew would not suffice in the sub arctic at that time of year What EYE know, tho, WILL suffice. Dont waste 1-2 weeks on a shelter, when 1 day of making a winterized tent will suffice, (without any need of a heat source inside of it). That saves you another 2 weeks of finding, cutting, hauling and processing firewood. You can save yet another week of time and calories by not taking the cookpot. Stone-boil 5 gallons of drinking water at a time in a pit, lined with a hunk of tarp. Protect the tarp with some WASHED sand or gravel, so that the hot rocks dont burn holes in it. Make a basket on site and line it with that same hunk of tarp. Use the duct tape to make a dipper for moving the water from the pit to your bivy. until you can clean up the tarp, put it back into the basket and move the water into the basket MARK the tarp and keep track of which side was towards the boiling water, dummy! In 2 werks or so, you'll have made the five 1-gallon each baked clay pots with their close-fitting, gasketed lids, Then you no longer need to boil water in the pit. Set 4 pots around your campfire, lids on, but the gaskets removed and (washed sticks propping open the lids a bit. Add 2/3rds of the amount of water the pot will hold.. As the water heats, you can also be heating up some (washed) rocks. Put the (cleaned) hot rocks into the pots, to speed up the boiling process. You can also have a "ring' of fire around the outside of the pots. Doing this will not only speed up the boiling, but will help to prevent having the pots crack from the difference in temps from the fire and cold air. One month has often been the difference between 4th place and the winner
Nothing says you have to STAY in my design of sleeping shelter, which needs no fire inside of it, and no sleeping bag. You can be outside in your 5 layers of alpaca wool, sitting in your chair, wrapped in the tarp or the metallized tyvek bivy, enough to keep your back from hurting. You can do so the entire first month while it's still above freezing temps, and most afternoons of the next 20 days or so, too. So it's really just a month that you're stuck (mostly) in your sleeping gear and the "coffin" sort of small, heavily insulated shelter. You could easily get hurt trying to haul and process 70 days worth of fire-wood to heat your too-large shelter. Do you even know to strengthen your knees and ankles in the 2 months or more you get between knowing you're going to boot camp and your launch-date?
It was one of the greatest feats of willpower I've ever seen. Sure, it wasn't an exciting strategy but he was unbelievable. And guess what... it worked.
Do you know to take the big roll of Gorilla-tape and strips of the 12x12 tarp to wrap your knees and ankles? Do you know to make and use a couple of trekking poles? Do you even know to make a backpack out of the camera case? Are you lugging around that 30 lb case by one handle, kinking your back? Are you carrying logs over your shoulder? DUH! Make a padded strap to go over your shoulders. Do a timber hitch on the big end of two logs, so that you are carrying them on your hips, under your arms, dragging them behind you. If you know how to use the siberian fire lay, and the alternative Swedish fire torch, you dont have to buck the logs into short chunks nor split them. That saves a lot of time and calories, too.
You launch in mid September and i'll be over-with in less than 80 days. You'll never see xmas nor 0F degrees. I've seen people claim that having my "coffin" type shelter will cause back problems. It doesn't even FREEZE for a month. So you can make a Yukon chair to sit in, under just the 10x10 tarp, if your back bothers you. now and then. What I"m saying is that I can save you a month or more of staying power on this show. Having that extra 30 days would have changed the name of the winner on 7 of the 8 previous seasons. Do you realize how likely it is that you'll get emphysema from breathing smoke for 80 days?
*_F*ck yeah!! Of course it’s a Mexican who wins the competition & breaks the record this season for lasting the longest outdoors on Alone.._* *_He makes me proud to be Mexican!!_* 🇲🇽
@Kevin Hart *_Wasn’t talking about the other seasons!! Quit assuming.. Looks like you don’t know Jack squat because I wasn’t even talking about what you’re bringing up!!_* 😂 *_Always some troll being negative.. Can’t nobody be proud of their fellow countrymen!!_*
@Kevin Hart *_Thanks for proving my point!! All mad over a comment.. Not my problem!! Stay being negative.. Also NOT reading all that when I said NOTHING wrong.. You’re soooo NEGATIVE for real!!_*
@AnnaLexi don't argue with him because apparently he didn't read what you wrote. He knows it all so let's what him in the next season to see how long he last😂😂😂
@Kevin Hart I don’t mean his strategy is cheating. Can you imagine someone ,didn’t eat any protein but just drink cold water, still so energetic to build something after 8days?
@@Edgar063jiawtf are you talking about,he caught plenty of food in the beginning,just didn’t waste too much energy building shelter condos or walked 20 miles for a grouse.😂it’s a solid strategy to win a “game”🤔
@@lr8621 wtf are you talking about? I saw so many seasons Alone and there were always someone who collected plenty of food in the beginning. But I never saw a person who can stay energetic for such long time. Come on, he must sneaked some food into the competition and that’s how he can survive by just drinking water. Cheater is cheater.
