Season 10 contestants and predictions

A sleep deprived, meandering discussion of the contestants on Alone Season 10 and my pick.
Reccomend 1.5x speed to move it along, haha. I haven’t had time to edit/reshoot this summer!
Thanks for watching!

[@thetotaldepravity]

I've lived in the tropics for the last 25 years. The jungle is so ruthless, and there are so many dangers - snakes, but mainly just bugs that will make you sick. Would be interesting to see how people survive in the jungle. I've hiked to hilltribes and spent some nights in their wooden huts (some use concrete, some don't) but they always use the outside world for goods, food, etc, and they don't live exactly in the jungle. They live on the hill some place. I wonder if the will ever be an Alone series in the tropical jungle, like, really far from society. That would be cool, but I imagine everyone would get sick fast. Have you ever tried it?

[@Timeren2010]

Some alternatives are Naked and Afraid, there are several jungle episodes, or perhaps Les Stroud's Survivorman. Not exactly the Alone concept...but jungle for sure.

[@JohnvanGurp]

Agreed about the cabins! No need for that structural strength… better off making a thick layer of air trapping boughs and debris along with the water shedding and wind blocking tarp.

[@anaiyasgarden]

I think both Canadians will do us really proud this season! I could see either of them winning to be honest. Thanks for doing this Jordan! We love your insights.

[@quantumman1910]

Aged like fine wine

[@dillydilly2196]

Just finished S10 finale today and you nailed it literally. Alan is an awesome dude with a great mindset. Made it alot better for me thinking about the kids he teaches. How much they could even benefit from him winning it made me invested in him. And Wyatt had a good backstory and reason for doing it and all his experience. And gotta love where Mikey got all his inspiration from his son and wife. You're still the GOAT with Roland and Alan close behind. Keep up the good work Jordan i love watching all your instagram posts. Much love from upstate NY 🤘

[@hobojordo]

Thanks brother! 🤝

[@ronin3377]

Wow. You called it! Great prediction and assessment of Allan.

[@lobopropredatorcontrol]

Glad to see you put this out, love hearing your perspective thank you

[@josephk.1842]

Very insightful.

[@coondogsoutdooradventures2484]

Great to hear from you! I really hope your in more specials or something!

[@BlueGorillaInTheMist]

Awesome review, thanks Jordan

[@hereforthecomments9676]

Im from Vancouver Island and its cool to see the mainland being represented! Go Allen!

[@FinehomesofNewHampshire]

Good seeing you bub!

[@hollyfabiani]

Have fun in the wilderness! Im still wondering if the weight gain is enough if one could basically hibernate the majority of the time.

[@StephenRedeemed]

Jordan you are the ALL TIME GREAT #1 of the Alone series, by far my brother. Merry Christmas to You and your Family!

[@hobojordo]

Thank you 🙌

[@StephenRedeemed]

@@hobojordoNo worries Jordan. You were a pleasure on season 6 to watch, being raised in a super small town in Northern British Columbia. I Never would have thought someone would tangle with a Wolverine with a Hatchet. Those buggers will track humans also. Until I see someone kill another Wolverine with a hand tool, or even a lower level predator on Alone. You will always hold the #1 spot. That was epic! haha.

[@hobojordo]

@@StephenRedeemed haha he made it enough of a him or me situation something had to break 😆

[@StephenRedeemed]

@@hobojordo Yeah, no doubt! It seemed like it, stealing all your fat. They are funny little creatures. The way they fumble and bumble around like without a care in the world, but I would not of wanted to be in that situation, that you were in with him. haha😂

[@Timeren2010]

Have watched all the episodes so far, my bet is on Alan, with Wyatt as the dark horse.

[@williamfurlan9176]

I'm pretty sure on Wyatt taking it but I wouldn't count Taz out.

[@evan_513]

Is it possible by season 10 that the folks who would normally watch/not miss an episode are outside\hunting\gathering\planning etc....Hopefully this is the case

[@kerriwilliams79]

I like hearing u talk . Maybe I'm weird but owell

[@eioclementi1355]

Did you see the uk version of alone? ,I know Alan in this series he lives in my area and runs local volunteer groups.

[@hobojordo]

Just the first ep

[@eioclementi1355]

@@hobojordo thank you 🙏🙏 I hope you don't mind me telling him you watching the show, it's really going to make his day.

[@hobojordo]

@@eioclementi1355 oh yeah I congratulated him online I really liked his vibe out there 👍

[@cafeqc3793]

Спасибо за прогноз Джордан, Алан Тента и Люк Олсен мои фавориты. Еще был интересен Ли но он быстро ушел. Интересно было бы посмотреть сезон только из победителей прошлых сезонов.

[@TheCoffeeEnthusiast]

Wyatt or Allan are also my picks. I'm currently leaning more towards Allan, out of the two of them - but thats the thing, it might be Mikey! Someone eats an improperly smoked fish, or burns their shelter down, and it can be game over.

[@3munchenman]

Pretty cool nobody was predicting Alan winning in these comments.

[@kiwigirljacks]

Gotta be honest… I was surprised by the amount of silly mistakes a lot of them made…

[@littlems.tries-to-fix-it6270]

I’m shocked at how well Mikey is doing. And surprised and disappointed at lee and Lukes performance. Like come on, seeing the mama bear and baby could have told you they were with you and keep going! That is IF that’s what you wanted it to signify! Haha

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

you need the tyvek bivy, so you can wear it as a poncho when out on the raft, tending your nets and you need it for lining your stone boiling pit for water-treatment, until you can make the five 1 gallon each baked clay pots and their lids. You need the cotton rope hammock, so that you dont need the paracord, gillnet, fishing kit or snarewire.. That's saving you 3 gear picks and providing you with a means of catching 100x as many fish as you'll catch without barbed hooks and without organic bait. Saving 3 picks this way, one with the shovel, one by not needing the cookpot and one more by not needing the ferrorod. is how you're free to take the gorp, the pemmican, the salt, the big roll of duct tape, the reflective 12x12 tarp and the rope hammock. By splitting and tapering springy green saplings, and then fire hardening them, you can have lifting snares wherever you want them. Drive 2 long stakes and lash the springpole between said stakes. Animals can't gnaw thru cordage that is holding them in midair.. So you dont need the snarewire.. In 10 days, you can make 1200 sq ft of 2" mesh netting out of the rope hammock, and have cordage left over for camp needs. So you dont need the paracord, fishing kit or gillnet. If you take the same gear that's always left people to starve, how can you expect to not starve? My way saves you a month that others waste on shelter-building, boiling 2 qts of water at a time (3x per day) and on hauling/processing firewood. This savings of time and calories means you'll have plenty of both to make the netting, and use it as baited net weirs and a seine. You also have time to make the tree blind, the bait-box for bears, the pontoon outrigger raft. and if you need it, the 1/4 mile long chum line, reaching out into the lake and baiting fish into your seine-area. The raft can be made in one day, folks. It only needs 8 small logs as a FRAMEWORK and it wont matter if the logs float or not. The 3 pairs of coveralls and the backpack, stuffed with dry debris, will each float a man. The logs weigh at most 80 lbs. So you'll have twice the flotation that you'll need. Using the coveralls as pontoons leaves you with only the longjohn pants, but in 2 hours. you can make 3 pairs of pants out of the remainder of the 12x12 tarp and the duct tape. Practice at home doing-so, using cheap sheet plastic from Lowe's. Lay out the parameter of the tent and the pants on the tarp, using permanent ink markers. After you've scored the bear and plenty of fish, you wont need the raft anymore, so the coveralls can be returned to their use as pants. The debris-stuffed backpack can be used as portable insulation inside of your tent, between your head and the door-flap.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

you dont want a sleeping bag, cause you need something that's not effected by its getting wet. The reflective Tyvek bivy, the XL size, from 2GoSystems is what you want. Since you're not moving, you dont need the portability of a sleeping bag. Debris is everywhere and when you sandwich that debris between impermeable layers of tarp or deliberately wetted-frozen debris, the debris is much more capable of insulating/ retaining the heat inside of your shelter. You have a month before it even freezes at night, so you have plenty of time to dry out wet debris, You can dry out all of it you'll ever need, in just one day Use a pair of Siberian fire lays to heat both sides of a low 'wall" of stones. Lay the hot rocks out as a "bed" between two MORE Siberian fire lays, each projecting their one way heat at the other Siberian, from opposite sides of the bed of rocks. Lay the wet debris on the rock bed. and have another wall of rocks being heated by the first two Siberians. Use a bushy sapling to stir the drying debris now and then. When the rocks are no longer hot, swap them out for the ones you've been heating-up. Put the 10x16 tarp (that they give you) over your pile of dry debris, which should be is on a # of poles laid on the ground, so that dry air going underneath the debris. You dont want an axe or saw, cause they are wasted picks compared to the Cold Steel shovel, modified to have 8" of real deal saw teeth on one edge. You also have to flatten the curve of the shovel in that area. The shovel must be modified to be taken apart and re-assembled without tools. Then you can on-site make whatever length and configuration of handles you need.. When you dont need a warming fire, you dont need to process, haul, FIND a lot of firewood. That saves you a lot of calories and time. and the shovel saves you one gear pick.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

which burns more calories, hunting 8 hours per day, or sitting between two Siberian fire lays, inside of the work-pavilion making netting? which is more likely to feed you, 100x over, the baited net weirs, seine and raft, or a bow? 90 people have taken a bow, it's been a game changer TWICE, by pure luck. you can't shoot what aint THERE and the lakes are well proven to be full of fish. The chum line can be made in one day and is virtually guaranteed to lure fish into your seine area. Hundreds of lbs of fish, in one month, which is what you need.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

I'd love for somebody to tell me why it's not better to just make lots of netting and just have a winterized tent, made in one day? Why is it not better to use 100 lbs of fish and a stake and log box to bait in a bear to within 10m of your tree blind? When you're stuck in a 1.2 mile radius of where you're dropped off on the lake shore, the chances of your getting a big ungulate are vanishingly small. You launch in mid Sept, at 50F degrees and it doesnt even freeze for a month. Other than at Great Slave lake, nobody's seen 0F degrees or been sub 20F for more than 2- 3 weeks I've slept 8 nights/days on frozen ground with just an Army field jacket and 4 layers of cheap cotton clothing. I didn't even have a pile of debris to lay on, because all such material was wet/rotten When you have 8 layers of clothing, 7 layers of debris between the clothing layers, a raised pole bed, 3 layers of tarp, a reflective tyvek bivy, and 18" of compressed dry debris around you, WHY cant you handle 10F degrees without a heat source? You dont want a round shelter. You want an 8 ft long, triangular cross section, tent, that's 3x3 ft at the foot end and 4 ft high, 3.5 ft wide at the bottom for the head end. You want it little bigger than a coffin and you want it stuffed with dry debris. If you DO need a heat source, it's for your last 2 weeks, cause you're too emaciated to generate metabolic heat. Scoring lots of fish and bear flesh will prevent your being emaciated, and it's FAR more efficient/safe to heat 4 head-sized rocks outside of your small, sealed, reflective, insulated shelter and move those rocks into a row of pits under your raised bed, as vs having a fire inside of the shelter. You'll need MUCH less firewood doing it my way and run no risk of either burning down your shelter or giving yourself emphysema by breathing smoke You need an animal with a lot of FAT on its body and which is easily lured into your allotted 2.5 sq miles of land. Bears can detect the stench of a large pile of rotting fish from miles away. They MUST fatten up all that's possible for hibernation, so they CANNOT just ignore such a windfall. You need mulitple tries at such animals in order to have a good chance of success. A Bear is perfect for all of those parameters. 100 lbs of fish is just 30,000 calories. A 250 lb bear is 220,000 calories. You CAN of course, use just 50 lbs of whole fish and 50 lbs of fishheads and guts, having eaten the other half of the fish. You can keep adding fish to the bait box. as you catch more of them. and you dont have to stop netting fish just cause you arrowed a bear, either.

[@Jona7Fer]

I also chose Wyatt to be winner, he seems like he has grit and a lot of experience in the Canadian wilderness. My second choice is Mike, simply because he has extra weight to burn away and a huge drive to get the money for his autistic son.

[@JuliaJulia007]

I'm caught up on episodes and still pulling for Allan. He's holding onto his weight and has a great attitude so far. The 2 most often reason contestants get pulled or tap. Thanks for your insight 🙂

[@Stoney_AKA_James]

Jordon, I appreciate your assessment, but man you need to catch up on the episodes prior to your commenting, half of the contestants have tapped out!

[@hobojordo]

Haha well it’s probably better for those that are also behind on the episodes (or next year when it goes on Netflix)

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

you''re only going to be there 11 weeks and probably not even 10 weeks. it's not going to be that cold, cause it wont even be 1 December. It wont even freeze for the first month and it wont fail to thaw out in the afternoons for the second month. Google for a monthly temperature chart for these areas and you'll see that i"m correct. So dont waste 1-3 weeks on a shelter that you wont be around to need., cause doing so will starve you out. The tarp and tape pole tent can be created in 3 hours. Ditto the raised pole-bed, covered with bough ends or debris. one day of shelter building, not 1-3 WEEKS. 1 day of firewood gathering (1 hour at a time, for a week) not 2 hours per day, every day, for 50 days or more. 1 hour, twice per week, stone boiling 5 gallons of water at a time, storing the boiled water in a tarp-lined basket, not 2 qts at a time, 3x per day.

[@mishner6029]

Ha, I saw that reddit post. I thought the same, glad to see the response.

[@alanbierhoff6831]

I’m only watching because I always have. It’s not the show it used to be. The producers and editors have ruined it for me. The contestants aren’t the quality that they were and there’s just too much contrived drama. They could easily rename the show “Survivor and Afraid” Alan and Wyatt are all that’s keeping me watching this season and I’m not even Canadian lol

[@littlems.tries-to-fix-it6270]

After the first episode I bet my kids 100$ each mikey wouldn’t win. Now I’m wishing I didn’t have 7 kids… lol jk only have 2 😂

[@hobojordo]

Haha not a bad guess! I’m still thinking Wyatt but 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@littlems.tries-to-fix-it6270]

@@hobojordo yes, I think Wyatt has the upper hand. As long as he doesn’t hurt himself crazy and keeps water handy to put out a fire… The 1st episode Mikey was complaining of being tired on his walk, he even got lost! lol and also complaining that his back was hurting … I couldn’t help but laugh at him being wimpy! Mikey loosing seemed like a safe bet at the time lol Guess he’s been through enough to handle being uncomfortable and that’s why he is doing so well.

[@davidwinkler1926]

I really enjoy you Jordan, but you are a bit late. 5 of these people have already tapped.

[@hobojordo]

Haha yeah I’m definitely behind ;)

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

For the first month, the only shelter you need is the pole-tent, made from half of your reflective 12x12 tent and some of the duct tape. Use the 10x16 tarp that they give as covering for a "work pavilion' for the first month. Then you'll need that tarp to cover the 6" thick layer of dry debris that you add to the external frame you've added to the tent. Once it's too cold for rain to be a threat, you can use three layers of 2" thick, wetted debris on the dry debris, letting each layer freeze overnight before adding the next layer. The tarp gets folded in half, stuffed with a 6" thick layer of dry debris, folded in half again ad the edges tied. Put the reflective bivy inside of this 'debris bag". Remove enough of the loose debris inside of the tent to let you move this bag onto the bed. Return as much of the dry debris as possible into the tent. You want to be cocooned inside of your tent as much as possible, conserving your calories. When you have to work in the rain, you can use the work pavilion, with a couple of Siberian fire lays projecting their one way heat at you from opposing sides. The Siberian can burn green, wet wood, if need be and can't be extinguished by rain. Ditto the alternative Swedish fire torch, several of which are used to ignite the Siberian when all is wet. YT has vids on both of these fire lays. When it's too cold for rain to be an issue, you no longer need the tarp/pavilion, so you're then freed-up to convert the tarp into a sleeping bag. When you need the winterization layers on the tent, you should have already scored the 150+ lbs of fish and the bear. If you havent, it better happen soon, cause the bears will go into hibernation.