oh my goodness you guys this is a video that i have been so excited to make for a long time now
if you are a fan of the alone show on history then you are probably hearing a little bit of a buzz
about a whole new alone season coming your way alone frozen in this video i'm going to be talking
about what makes a loan frozen different from a normal season of alone why i decided to do it
how it's different going back into a loan the second time and how it went out there so alone
frozen is another season that also happened in labrador in the same general region as season
nine but it was with past participants on a loan they took some of the strongest past participants
and i'm not just tooting my own horn here this is what it says on the history channel website
and they invited us for a second turn at a loan so different than the redemption season that they did
on season five where often they took people who had to go home early for one reason or another
and then also combine those with people who had stayed a really long time out there and put them
all out as a chance to quote redeem themselves right i loved that this one was not phrased as
a redemption season because we didn't feel like we had anything to redeem right we all had wonderful
experiences on our first round this wasn't a redemption it was a second opportunity also
it's six people rather than ten people and one of the things that i freaking love about this season
they put out an equal number of men and women for the first time in a long history they actually
gave us an equal shot at it some of the basics are still the same it is still people set out in
the wilderness on their own still with 10 gear items but the parameters were really different
it wasn't a gruel it out until there's only one person standing kind of a challenge which i really
loved the premise is that everybody could win there's a set timeline 50 days it was a shorter
timeline than the arctic hundred day challenge partly because it's a very extreme environment
not that the arctic wasn't extreme but when we get into this season we'll talk a little bit more
about what makes it so extreme frozen launched significantly later in the season when we were way
deeper into fall and nearly winter a late launch makes it way more intense right because you don't
have that window of mild weather to prepare for a long-term stay in such an extreme environment
and it also took place in a different location so same general region but season 9 took place inland
on a big river if you follow that river all the way out to the ocean and spread out along the
coast that is where the frozen location happened so even though it's not that far distant by miles
dramatically different environment when you are out on the coast exposed to those winds straight
off the atlantic ocean such that when i'm watching season nine the whole landscape looks dramatically
different but i am familiar with that landscape because we launched from the same base camp so
when you see that footage of the bonus specials where people are going home to the tents by the
lodge there i got to be in that same place so i have a good understanding of the environment that
season 9 took place in but it was really different where we are which is really interesting to see
the fact that every single person could potentially stay until those 50 days and we
could all win together and would therefore share the prize was a pretty exciting new premise it's
actually the same premise that we had on season seven the hundred day challenge but this being
launched later and with past participants makes it really different also of course it's a totally
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why i personally chose to do a loan frozen i've been asked so many times hey if they did another
redemption season would you do it would you go out on a loan again and i've always said oh my gosh
absolutely 100 i would jump at the opportunity that said i really didn't expect that opportunity
to come again so soon i thought maybe season 10 they'll start thinking about another
returners season or somewhere down the line but having it be only three years from when i did
season six in the arctic was definitely not something i was totally expecting or prepared for
still heck yeah i'm gonna do it are you kidding me so just in general the idea of another experience
like that was really appealing my time on season six was so beautiful i've always wanted to go back
out for sure but in this case being specifically in these conditions in labrador was even more
exciting for me for a variety of reasons one i freaking loved that it was equal men and women
that felt really awesome to me it's always been a little bit of a bitter point that people are
like oh woman's never one alone when there's so fewer women that have had the opportunity
right so just by the numbers it doesn't pan out as well for us women so being given
equal opportunity felt really really awesome also i loved the idea that rather than it feeling like
a competition like i have to outlast everybody i have to be better than the other people
it got to be a shared experience there was so much camaraderie i loved the pre-season launch
where we all were supporting one another i think a lot of seasons people are supportive but this
was different because we knew we could all do it together and i loved that idea another thing
is that while i loved my time on season six i mean let's be honest it is really physically
intense particularly if you've gone a really long time out there and put your body through
serious physical rigors in my case right to the very edge of not doing long term damage out there
so i'm not going to say that it wasn't sobering to think about going out again and that is why
the idea that there was a time limit was so much more appealing to me not hatch there's a
white breasted nut hatch on a tree right near here hopefully it'll fly through the screen
so having a specific time limit was really appealing to me because i knew that there was only
so much damage i could do to my body in that time the labrador challenge was really exciting to me
because i was already inland in the deep north in the northwest territories in season six and being
on the coast was a whole different thing so it was a really exciting challenge knowing that it would
be a whole different place and environment and set of survival challenges for me to be facing
also my ancestry goes back to long long ago in quebec my ancestors came over from france
to the gaspe peninsula in quebec which is the very northernmost part of quebec and it's right
across the water from labrador so while i had a really deep experience in terms of
connecting to my ancestors and the way they lived on season six labrador was literally really really
close to where my ancestry comes from and i found that really exciting and magical also
i mean come on right to be selected as one of the strongest participants from alone and be able to
go out with the other people who are the strongest makes it a really different season right that's a
much more substantial challenge than going out with people who have never had this experience
and never tested themselves before everybody i was going out with were amazing super skilled
super tenacious people all of whom i really liked and respected so that was a really really awesome
thing that also added to that camaraderie of heck yeah we've got this we can all do this
so let's talk a bit about some of the differences between going out for your first time and going
out for a second time regardless of the parameters being different just how does it feel inside
and in the body and in your decision making to have a second shot at alone
honestly it is tremendously different right it is so different when you already have some experience
to draw upon and there are ways where that's helpful and there's ways where it's hard right
there's something about it being your first time where you're naive about it right particularly
you don't understand the long-term consequences to your body when you go out the first time you just
think i'm doing okay this is no problem i can keep doing this a little longer without realizing yeah
i can but it might take me the next year plus in my case a good year and a half to two years
to actually recover from this experience physically psychologically emotionally it's
a big deal so the second time around you know that you get it fully and it's interesting that there
was a big spread of people there was greg evans who was out on season three myself from season
six three people from season seven and michelle who was from the most recent season so greg
years out fully recovered myself three years out just recovered and loving being fully recovered
having about a year to be like yeah feeling great in my body again the season seven people
may be just starting to get to that point and michelle having just gone out the prior year
really not very long to recover from such an intense experience so that was definitely a big
one right having gone through it before and having a deep body memory of what it means what it does
to you of course huge advantages to having been out there before it's not new it's not surprising
you know what to expect that said i think similar to childbirth right where you forget some of the
really hard parts and just remember all of the love and glory and all of the amazing parts
that definitely is true of alone too where you're like yeah this is going to be awesome and then you
get out there and you're like oh right this thing again this thing again good god how could i have
forgotten this part of being out so good and bad about having that experience going back out of
course there were all kinds of really great things about having more experience i had never snared
anything in my life before season six no one had ever snared successfully on a loan so i hadn't
put a lot of energy towards it this time i had all of that experience plus a lot more studying
and learning about trapping and snaring that also leads into gear choices i feel i made better gear
choices this time around than the first time because i knew what worked and what didn't as
you'll see reading the gear list when those come out this time i brought snare wire and an axe
two things that i was really handicapped by not having on season six having learned how to snare
teaching myself in the field without snare wire you better believe i was gonna bring it anytime
i went on any kind of survival trip especially alone this time around and then of course the axe
i didn't need it for the vast majority of my time on season six but when we got to freeze up and the
lake froze over and i couldn't get through that ice because i didn't have an axe that was major
i mean being able to bring in fish from the lake would have made a tremendous difference
it would have meant a lot longer i could have been out there so this time heck yeah
i brought that axe and the axe and the snare wire totally different things that i hadn't had the
first time around also for me it was really really different psychologically to have a specific
goal there were things that were great about that there were things that i didn't like as much about
that but huge difference from my first time out this is going to have been less true of course for
cali and mark and amos all of who were on season 7 where they did have a set time limit 100 days 100
days is really long though and longer than anyone had ever gone on a loan so in that way i would say
it was kind of different the 100 day challenge set limit was really different because no one
had ever gone to 100 days before whereas on our season a lot of us out there had gone 50 days or
something substantial or close to 50 days right so very different to be like hey i have done this so
i feel confident i can do this versus i could be out here until sometime next spring i don't know
it all depends on how the other folks are doing psychologically specific goals really different
it's it was a big part of why i was excited about this season and i'll be talking as the
season goes about some of the things that actually were a little bit hard about that
and then finally how did it go out there oh my gosh you guys that was totally a trick
question come on you know i'm not allowed to talk about it it hasn't even come out yet
you might be wondering hey you've been doing these season nine reviews are we going to be
hearing more about alone frozen yes of course i'm going to be doing both reviews and talking about
my backstory and some of the things that were going on they weren't seen on camera during my
time out on a loan frozen so there's going to be a lot of frozen content coming out between
reviews and my back story and then also of course talking about my gear and clothing and all of that
kind of thing so very excited to share more about alone frozen thanks so much you guys i
cannot wait for you to see alone frozen and to get to share my next alone adventure with the world