Sure, Les carries his own gear and all, but Bear's show is much more interesting and makes for better tv. It's exciting. "So you'd never want to do this, but I'm going to just to show you how you'd do it if you had to." vs "I'm sitting here carrying camera gear back and forth across this barren landscape. Oh yeah, fire making time soon." Either way, if any one of us get's in a life or death wilderness situation, remembering a fraction of what you saw on the show would help loads.