Brody and Chris Wilkes
Season 4Andrew “Brody” Wilkes
Age: 33
Kentwood, LA
Industrial Project Manager
At the age of six, Brody went on his first hunting trip with his father and, by eight years old, had harvested his first deer. Since then, he鈥檚 continued to hunt throughout the course of his life. Once his father stopped hunting, Brody became the sole provider of the family鈥檚 meat, for both his wife and daughter, and his parents. He also maintains a garden, yet another way he fulfills his desire to provide for his loved ones. Although self-sufficiency and a desire to supply his family members with sustenance are his main motivations, Brody also has a keen interest in primitive skills and wilderness survival.
Chris Wilkes
Age: 44
Hattiesburg, MS
Psychotherapist
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Louisiana, where he began his lifelong love of hunting, fishing, and trapping at a young age. He attended college in Mississippi, and began working in the behavioral health field. While witnessing the effects of natural disasters and developing a homeless tent camp ministry, he deepened his own understanding and interest in self-reliance, wilderness survival, and bushcraft skills. He believes his role as a therapist and his experience helping people to cope and make peace in the midst of suffering will be an invaluable asset. Chris currently practices his survival skills in the pine forest of southern Mississippi, where he lives with his wife and two children.
Here聽are聽the ten items Brody and Chris聽selected to bring on their survival journey to聽Vancouver Island:
- Bivy bag – waterproof bivy for sleeping bag
- Ax – medium-sized
- Pot – 2-quart bush pot
- Fishing line and hooks – 50 yards 30 lb. test, 100 yards 100 lb. test, 150 yards 40 lb. test
- Tarp – 12′ x 12′
- Bivy bag – waterproof bivy for sleeping bag
- Pot – 2-quart bush pot
- Tarp – 12′ x 12′
- Saw – 18″ blade
- Gillnet
