He can't live in that first cabin year round? The snow would be over it right? Have narrow corridors in the snow?
It all has to be produced. Your basically watching days worth of footage often weeks in an hour or less. Otherwise we would see tons of walking around random stuff. Sitting on a couch, guy sitting zoned out staring at a fire at night. Etc.
Scripted. . And produced. All the shows I used to watch? All scripted. All new shows? Scripted. It's the farthest thing from reality there is. A decade ago? It was reality t.v.. Now it's how can we get ratings.
Scripted yes. But mich is actually based on their lives. Andy does have dogs and teach survival. I am sure he does everything he does on the show. But they do tell him how to do it and when. Mountain monsters...and Ax men those are some fake shows.