1 00:00:18,689 --> 00:00:20,379 I'm not tapping out. 2 00:00:20,482 --> 00:00:21,551 I'd rather die. 3 00:00:26,931 --> 00:00:29,172 Here goes nothing. 4 00:00:29,172 --> 00:00:30,620 Whoa. 5 00:00:30,724 --> 00:00:31,620 Yes! 6 00:00:31,724 --> 00:00:32,758 . 7 00:00:35,551 --> 00:00:37,689 This is the harshest location possible. 8 00:00:37,793 --> 00:00:39,827 We're 125 miles in the Arctic Circle. 9 00:00:39,931 --> 00:00:41,241 Ahh! 10 00:00:41,241 --> 00:00:42,448 Never had an environment make me 11 00:00:42,448 --> 00:00:43,724 feel like a complete amateur before. 12 00:00:43,827 --> 00:00:45,862 Everything is against us out here. 13 00:00:45,862 --> 00:00:48,448 Mother Nature went and bitch-slapped me. 14 00:00:48,448 --> 00:00:51,034 It looks like got grizzlies and wolves as my neighbors. 15 00:00:51,034 --> 00:00:52,413 Holy crap. 16 00:00:52,413 --> 00:00:53,758 They're just hunting the shoreline. 17 00:00:53,862 --> 00:00:55,551 Mother Nature is about to dim the lights on us. 18 00:00:55,655 --> 00:00:57,137 We're heading into total darkness. 19 00:00:57,241 --> 00:00:58,758 Hey, bear. 20 00:00:58,862 --> 00:01:02,448 The cold and the dark is going to sap people's souls. 21 00:01:02,551 --> 00:01:05,241 Really makes you wonder if it's worth it. 22 00:01:05,344 --> 00:01:06,413 There is no camera crew. 23 00:01:06,413 --> 00:01:07,758 There's no support system. 24 00:01:07,758 --> 00:01:09,413 I'm completely alone. 25 00:01:09,413 --> 00:01:10,448 Yes! 26 00:01:10,448 --> 00:01:11,689 People go in one way-- 27 00:01:11,793 --> 00:01:13,206 Stop bleeding. 28 00:01:13,206 --> 00:01:14,655 and they come out entirely different. 29 00:01:14,655 --> 00:01:16,068 Ahh! 30 00:01:16,068 --> 00:01:17,103 This is the most difficult survival 31 00:01:17,206 --> 00:01:18,103 challenge in the world. 32 00:01:18,206 --> 00:01:19,689 Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! 33 00:01:19,689 --> 00:01:22,344 $500,000, that's completely life-changing money. 34 00:01:22,448 --> 00:01:23,758 It's beautiful. 35 00:01:23,862 --> 00:01:24,896 Whoever can thrive the longest. 36 00:01:24,896 --> 00:01:26,793 Stay out here, ought to be afraid of me. 37 00:01:26,896 --> 00:01:29,793 Whoever can push through it wins. 38 00:01:29,896 --> 00:01:31,379 I hope I made the right choice coming out here. 39 00:01:45,793 --> 00:01:49,310 Sounds like I can hear wolves howling. 40 00:01:49,413 --> 00:01:52,000 That is definitely wolves. 41 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,724 Damn it. 42 00:01:53,827 --> 00:01:56,344 I never really trusted wolves that much. 43 00:01:56,448 --> 00:01:59,103 They are killers. 44 00:01:59,206 --> 00:02:00,862 My energy level is really low. 45 00:02:00,862 --> 00:02:02,931 I need every little calorie I can get. 46 00:02:02,931 --> 00:02:04,448 Whoo-hoo, another one. 47 00:02:04,551 --> 00:02:07,862 Got these two with a stick, shockwaves, you know? 48 00:02:07,965 --> 00:02:09,620 I think my nose is bleeding. 49 00:02:09,620 --> 00:02:11,689 I wonder if has something to do with my berry diet. 50 00:02:11,793 --> 00:02:13,517 Everything at ate looked pretty familiar. 51 00:02:13,517 --> 00:02:15,620 Stop bleeding. 52 00:02:15,620 --> 00:02:16,758 I just heard something move. 53 00:02:19,793 --> 00:02:21,344 Hey, bear. 54 00:02:21,448 --> 00:02:23,275 Every step is difficult. 55 00:02:23,275 --> 00:02:25,275 You can't see 5 feet into the thicket. 56 00:02:25,275 --> 00:02:28,310 You wouldn't know if a grizzly was 10 feet away from you. 57 00:02:32,620 --> 00:02:33,931 Arrow in the leg. 58 00:02:33,931 --> 00:02:35,103 It slipped out of my quiver. 59 00:02:35,103 --> 00:02:36,275 And just stepped right into it. 60 00:02:36,275 --> 00:02:37,827 Ohh. 61 00:02:37,931 --> 00:02:40,551 The realization that my chance of winning this is over 62 00:02:40,551 --> 00:02:43,758 is absolutely devastating. 63 00:03:02,827 --> 00:03:05,862 I told myself I wasn't gonna cry. 64 00:03:05,862 --> 00:03:09,103 Oh man, but what an overwhelming-- 65 00:03:09,103 --> 00:03:11,310 wow, wow. 66 00:03:11,310 --> 00:03:14,965 Oh, my God. 67 00:03:14,965 --> 00:03:16,206 I'm here. 68 00:03:16,206 --> 00:03:18,517 I'm finally here. 69 00:03:20,793 --> 00:03:22,551 This is crazy. 70 00:03:22,551 --> 00:03:24,517 This is amazing. 71 00:03:24,620 --> 00:03:30,206 Day one, minute one, I've got a long, long road ahead. 72 00:03:33,034 --> 00:03:34,482 Oh, wow. 73 00:03:34,482 --> 00:03:36,448 I'm so excited. 74 00:03:36,448 --> 00:03:37,862 This is the real deal. 75 00:03:41,896 --> 00:03:44,896 I am now truly alone. 76 00:03:44,896 --> 00:03:46,379 Wish I could just spend more time 77 00:03:46,482 --> 00:03:47,517 just living in this moment. 78 00:03:47,517 --> 00:03:50,724 But, you know, there's work to be done. 79 00:04:00,379 --> 00:04:04,724 All right, so there goes my ride. 80 00:04:04,724 --> 00:04:08,965 And I won't see them boys for a while. 81 00:04:08,965 --> 00:04:12,068 But this is exactly what I've been waiting for. 82 00:04:16,103 --> 00:04:19,724 Firstly, I'm gonna get my safety kit going. 83 00:04:19,724 --> 00:04:22,379 I hope I don't have to use any of this stuff, 84 00:04:22,379 --> 00:04:23,931 because that would mean that a grizzly bear is 85 00:04:23,931 --> 00:04:25,655 up in my business. 86 00:04:25,758 --> 00:04:29,034 But I'm gonna have it with me all the time just in case. 87 00:04:29,034 --> 00:04:30,448 Because more than winning, I promised I'd 88 00:04:30,448 --> 00:04:32,206 bring myself home to my wife. 89 00:04:33,655 --> 00:04:35,103 My legal name is Timothy. 90 00:04:35,206 --> 00:04:38,137 But I just never liked the sound of it. 91 00:04:38,241 --> 00:04:41,103 When I got my first paying job, it was cutting timber. 92 00:04:41,103 --> 00:04:43,310 And then some people started to call me Timber, 93 00:04:43,310 --> 00:04:46,482 and I just went with that because I like it. 94 00:04:46,482 --> 00:04:49,793 I remember as a kid, an old Kentucky old-timer came over 95 00:04:49,896 --> 00:04:51,413 and showed me this method. 96 00:04:51,517 --> 00:04:53,206 I grew up connected to a group that 97 00:04:53,310 --> 00:04:55,655 was really anti-government. 98 00:04:55,758 --> 00:04:57,758 The whole group tried not to exist 99 00:04:57,758 --> 00:05:00,103 on paper or anywhere else. 100 00:05:00,103 --> 00:05:03,000 So we all grew up completely off grid. 101 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,068 Here is my passive water filtration system. 102 00:05:06,068 --> 00:05:08,931 During the days, we would train for emergencies 103 00:05:09,034 --> 00:05:11,551 and combat situations, asymmetrical warfare 104 00:05:11,655 --> 00:05:12,896 and insurgency tactics... 105 00:05:12,896 --> 00:05:14,379 Whoo, baby. 106 00:05:14,482 --> 00:05:17,275 And to survive and to react in a harsh environment. 107 00:05:17,275 --> 00:05:20,000 Now I have achieved luxury. 108 00:05:20,103 --> 00:05:21,931 Me and my wife and our two little boys, 109 00:05:21,931 --> 00:05:24,241 we work in humanitarian aid. - Hey. 110 00:05:24,344 --> 00:05:27,344 So we're in many countries the bulk of the year. 111 00:05:27,344 --> 00:05:29,586 For the past few years, it's been almost 112 00:05:29,586 --> 00:05:34,551 strictly conflict zones, meaning evacuations, medical. 113 00:05:34,551 --> 00:05:36,034 Excellent. 114 00:05:36,034 --> 00:05:37,827 My family and I really love it. 115 00:05:37,827 --> 00:05:40,586 But it's taking a toll on my kids, on my wife, 116 00:05:40,586 --> 00:05:41,862 on our health. 117 00:05:41,862 --> 00:05:44,448 And so the money could do a lot for us. 118 00:05:44,448 --> 00:05:46,310 "Alone" is a huge opportunity to leave 119 00:05:46,413 --> 00:05:49,517 some inspiration some legacy that my sons will be proud of. 120 00:05:49,620 --> 00:05:51,068 I love you. - Bye. 121 00:05:53,655 --> 00:05:56,344 I'll tell you one thing, it's hard to do a good approach... 122 00:05:57,689 --> 00:06:00,655 Like that. Hear that noise from my arrows? 123 00:06:00,758 --> 00:06:03,482 This brush is pretty thick, practicing stealth 124 00:06:03,586 --> 00:06:07,344 in this terrain, a real challenge. 125 00:06:07,448 --> 00:06:09,655 Hopefully the game here is not very wary. 126 00:06:11,275 --> 00:06:15,586 Experience in conflict zones taught me 127 00:06:15,689 --> 00:06:17,862 that tension zone between life and death 128 00:06:17,862 --> 00:06:21,310 can make you much more alert and aware. 129 00:06:21,310 --> 00:06:24,551 Awareness is key in survival. 130 00:06:24,551 --> 00:06:28,000 So you want those instincts tuned, tuned really sharp. 131 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,206 You know, you don't want to miss opportunities. 132 00:06:35,137 --> 00:06:38,068 I see some big old tracks. 133 00:06:38,172 --> 00:06:39,827 I see moose tracks right off the bat 134 00:06:39,931 --> 00:06:42,241 and grizzly bear tracks. 135 00:06:44,379 --> 00:06:49,068 Look at this, plenty of grizzly bear here. 136 00:06:49,068 --> 00:06:51,344 I'm seeing more moose sign than I expected. 137 00:06:51,448 --> 00:06:55,517 And these tracks indicate how frequently they come through. 138 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Oh, squirrel right there. 139 00:07:27,379 --> 00:07:29,551 I think I got him. 140 00:07:30,655 --> 00:07:32,172 Yeah, I got him. 141 00:07:44,206 --> 00:07:47,965 This is excellent, excellent. 142 00:07:47,965 --> 00:07:49,862 I've got this squirrel already. 143 00:07:49,862 --> 00:07:52,862 And that means that I'm not gonna go hungry tonight 144 00:07:52,862 --> 00:07:55,413 or probably tomorrow because I'm gonna use this guy 145 00:07:55,413 --> 00:07:58,448 mostly for bait for pike. 146 00:07:59,793 --> 00:08:01,517 Now we have to feed the beast. 147 00:08:07,620 --> 00:08:10,000 Don't worry. 148 00:08:19,620 --> 00:08:22,137 This is my tradition. 149 00:08:22,241 --> 00:08:26,655 I have to feed the teeth every time I draw blood. 150 00:08:27,827 --> 00:08:30,034 This is good. 151 00:08:30,034 --> 00:08:31,689 This is my first day. 152 00:08:31,689 --> 00:08:33,724 This is my beginning. 153 00:08:35,137 --> 00:08:37,482 Thank you, God. 154 00:08:51,172 --> 00:08:53,758 OK. 155 00:08:53,758 --> 00:08:56,206 ♪ Doo-doo 156 00:09:00,689 --> 00:09:02,172 Ooh, maybe I'll keep this. 157 00:09:02,275 --> 00:09:04,344 I could hang my pot. 158 00:09:04,344 --> 00:09:05,793 Can you see me? 159 00:09:05,896 --> 00:09:08,379 Yep, I think I'm in it. 160 00:09:08,379 --> 00:09:09,862 And how about you? 161 00:09:09,965 --> 00:09:13,896 You, I can't tell, because the screen is off. 162 00:09:16,137 --> 00:09:18,000 Hmm, I'll get a hang of this 163 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,551 video thing sooner or later, 164 00:09:19,551 --> 00:09:21,620 I swear. 165 00:09:21,620 --> 00:09:23,586 Battery low. 166 00:09:23,586 --> 00:09:26,068 Rookie mistake. 167 00:09:26,068 --> 00:09:29,275 This whole self-filming thing, it's one more challenge 168 00:09:29,275 --> 00:09:31,448 to meet and beat, I guess. 169 00:09:31,448 --> 00:09:33,724 Get that rolling, yep. 170 00:09:33,827 --> 00:09:36,896 I think we're ready to go. 171 00:09:36,896 --> 00:09:38,034 Thanks, Bud. 172 00:09:38,034 --> 00:09:39,896 My name is Sarah Pointer. 173 00:09:39,896 --> 00:09:42,206 I live in remote Alaska. 174 00:09:42,310 --> 00:09:45,344 And I own and operate a fishing lodge with my husband. 175 00:09:45,448 --> 00:09:46,758 There you go. 176 00:09:46,758 --> 00:09:49,482 I am originally from St. Petersburg, Florida. 177 00:09:49,482 --> 00:09:50,793 And I met my husband, 178 00:09:50,896 --> 00:09:52,379 and we decided that to be happy, 179 00:09:52,379 --> 00:09:54,206 we needed to get into the woods. 180 00:09:54,206 --> 00:09:56,793 Here's my house hiding behind those trees. 181 00:09:56,793 --> 00:09:58,620 We walked away as a family. 182 00:09:58,620 --> 00:10:00,517 And we've been broke and happy ever since. 183 00:10:00,517 --> 00:10:02,275 Whoo. - Whoo. 184 00:10:02,379 --> 00:10:05,310 But just to live is a full-time job. 185 00:10:05,413 --> 00:10:08,482 Probably about minus 22-ish. 186 00:10:08,586 --> 00:10:10,034 Bear prints. 187 00:10:10,034 --> 00:10:13,034 Out my door, I face risks every day. 188 00:10:13,034 --> 00:10:14,482 Gotta stay on my toes. 189 00:10:14,482 --> 00:10:17,103 I can hunt and feed myself. 190 00:10:17,103 --> 00:10:19,137 I can fish and feed myself. 191 00:10:19,241 --> 00:10:20,931 Fence for my fish trap. 192 00:10:20,931 --> 00:10:24,103 My foraging skills are fantastic. 193 00:10:24,103 --> 00:10:26,379 Finding myself a little morel delicacy. 194 00:10:28,206 --> 00:10:32,586 To win this money would allow my husband and I to retire. 195 00:10:33,896 --> 00:10:35,620 In the past few years, my husband 196 00:10:35,620 --> 00:10:37,344 has gone through some serious health issues. 197 00:10:37,344 --> 00:10:39,068 And so I had to step up, 198 00:10:39,172 --> 00:10:41,448 or we would have lost our livelihood. 199 00:10:41,448 --> 00:10:42,827 Rainwater brought it up. 200 00:10:42,827 --> 00:10:45,034 Had to go check the boats. 201 00:10:45,034 --> 00:10:47,034 I think it's my mental strength that 202 00:10:47,034 --> 00:10:50,241 takes me above and beyond. 203 00:10:50,241 --> 00:10:54,896 Wamp-wamp, I think this will work fine for tonight. 204 00:10:54,896 --> 00:10:57,862 Let's go explore a bit, huh? 205 00:10:57,862 --> 00:11:00,482 See if I can find some berries and boletes. 206 00:11:01,482 --> 00:11:03,241 I'm not gonna take my bow. 207 00:11:03,344 --> 00:11:07,482 I don't think I want to weave through these woods with it. 208 00:11:07,586 --> 00:11:11,379 I think because I live around the bears and the wolves, 209 00:11:11,379 --> 00:11:13,965 I'm not afraid of them. 210 00:11:13,965 --> 00:11:16,103 I'm concerned about how I'm going 211 00:11:16,206 --> 00:11:18,344 to be able to sustain my body. 212 00:11:18,448 --> 00:11:20,896 Quick shelter was a priority. 213 00:11:20,896 --> 00:11:24,689 Now, my primary focus is foraging. 214 00:11:24,689 --> 00:11:27,068 Where are the berries? 215 00:11:27,068 --> 00:11:30,068 I need to gather the carbohydrates and sugars that 216 00:11:30,068 --> 00:11:32,655 I can before the snow falls. 217 00:11:32,655 --> 00:11:35,241 I found berries. 218 00:11:35,344 --> 00:11:37,034 Oh, hell yeah. 219 00:11:37,137 --> 00:11:40,379 As soon as it freezes, I'm gonna lose access to a lot 220 00:11:40,379 --> 00:11:42,000 of those carbohydrates. 221 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,620 That's a bolete. 222 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:45,758 And that's the fuel that's gonna keep me going. 223 00:11:45,758 --> 00:11:48,448 It makes me very, very happy. 224 00:11:49,827 --> 00:11:53,862 My plan is to graze like a moose. 225 00:11:55,793 --> 00:11:57,241 Here we go, a little bit further, 226 00:11:57,241 --> 00:12:00,068 and then I'm gonna have to cut back towards camp. 227 00:12:02,379 --> 00:12:05,172 Huh. It's a lake. 228 00:12:06,758 --> 00:12:10,172 This looks promising for fishing over here. 229 00:12:11,413 --> 00:12:15,862 Holy [bleep], it's a beaver. 230 00:12:15,965 --> 00:12:20,241 Oh, hell, yeah, badass. 231 00:12:20,241 --> 00:12:23,482 I have a limited amount of weight I can lose. 232 00:12:23,482 --> 00:12:27,137 Harvesting a beaver would be protein and fat that can 233 00:12:27,241 --> 00:12:30,655 carry me for weeks out here. 234 00:12:30,655 --> 00:12:34,551 God, I just regret not bringing my bow. 235 00:12:34,655 --> 00:12:35,965 I need this. 236 00:12:35,965 --> 00:12:38,517 It would relieve so much stress and anxiety 237 00:12:38,517 --> 00:12:40,551 on how to feed myself. 238 00:12:40,551 --> 00:12:44,344 Look at you, all protective and territorial. 239 00:12:48,586 --> 00:12:50,379 Yep, I'm totally intimidated, dude. 240 00:12:50,379 --> 00:12:51,517 I'll head on. 241 00:12:51,517 --> 00:12:52,551 Don't you worry. 242 00:12:52,551 --> 00:12:55,000 You did it. 243 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,862 I'm scared [bleep]. 244 00:12:58,965 --> 00:13:01,310 But I am gonna find where you're working, 245 00:13:01,310 --> 00:13:03,655 and then I'm gonna shoot you, 246 00:13:03,655 --> 00:13:06,551 and then I'm gonna eat you. 247 00:13:23,655 --> 00:13:25,275 I have to be really, really careful about not 248 00:13:25,379 --> 00:13:26,448 getting lost out here. 249 00:13:26,448 --> 00:13:28,137 A person could get lost out here easy. 250 00:13:30,275 --> 00:13:31,758 Sometimes you can't even see the sun, 251 00:13:31,862 --> 00:13:35,034 so you can't use it as a way to get back. 252 00:13:36,172 --> 00:13:39,068 Get back, get lost out here, and lose all your stuff. 253 00:13:40,655 --> 00:13:42,103 Bunch of berries... 254 00:13:45,862 --> 00:13:47,862 Rose hips. 255 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,172 I'm being picky about where I'm putting my shelter. 256 00:14:03,931 --> 00:14:07,620 Man, walking through this horse tail, 257 00:14:07,620 --> 00:14:11,275 this makes me think. 258 00:14:11,275 --> 00:14:12,344 When I get back home, 259 00:14:12,344 --> 00:14:13,931 I'ma mow the hell out of my yard. 260 00:14:16,896 --> 00:14:18,551 Got a little rubber worm. 261 00:14:20,517 --> 00:14:22,034 My name is Dusty. 262 00:14:22,137 --> 00:14:23,137 I live in Arkansas, 263 00:14:23,137 --> 00:14:25,137 and I'm a welder. 264 00:14:25,137 --> 00:14:27,241 Gonna have frog legs tonight. 265 00:14:27,344 --> 00:14:28,413 I grew up rough. 266 00:14:28,413 --> 00:14:30,275 My town, we really don't got much. 267 00:14:30,379 --> 00:14:31,689 Just a couple houses. 268 00:14:31,793 --> 00:14:33,103 And this is about it. 269 00:14:33,206 --> 00:14:34,241 You had to make your own fun, 270 00:14:34,241 --> 00:14:35,482 and my fun was the outdoors. 271 00:14:35,586 --> 00:14:37,241 All right. 272 00:14:37,241 --> 00:14:40,000 The difference that I'm gonna bring is my hillbilliness. 273 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,689 I've been a hunter ever since I could walk. 274 00:14:42,689 --> 00:14:45,275 I killed my first deer when I was eight years old. 275 00:14:45,275 --> 00:14:46,896 Deer track there. 276 00:14:46,896 --> 00:14:49,862 Fishing-wise, if there's a mud hole with a fish in it, 277 00:14:49,862 --> 00:14:51,137 I'll catch it. 278 00:14:51,137 --> 00:14:52,551 Nice little rainbow. 279 00:14:52,655 --> 00:14:54,344 I'm a big-time trapper. 280 00:14:54,344 --> 00:14:57,172 I hit this, and there you have it. 281 00:14:57,172 --> 00:15:00,103 The Arctic Circle is a whole new environment. 282 00:15:00,103 --> 00:15:02,034 I've never been in negative 40, 283 00:15:02,034 --> 00:15:04,310 but I've always been a really quick learner. 284 00:15:04,413 --> 00:15:05,862 And got a lot of skill. 285 00:15:05,862 --> 00:15:07,344 I don't give up. 286 00:15:07,448 --> 00:15:09,724 I got a lot of fire in me, a lot of push and go. 287 00:15:09,724 --> 00:15:12,344 You can put that on an arrow shaft and use it. 288 00:15:13,655 --> 00:15:14,896 There's some of the squash. 289 00:15:14,896 --> 00:15:18,172 My wife and kids, they're my everything. 290 00:15:18,172 --> 00:15:21,862 If I won the $500,000, I could better my family's life. 291 00:15:21,862 --> 00:15:23,310 I'd get a better place. 292 00:15:23,310 --> 00:15:24,379 Be a big thing to me. 293 00:15:24,482 --> 00:15:25,793 Here we go. 294 00:15:25,793 --> 00:15:27,586 Never really had opportunities to go 295 00:15:27,689 --> 00:15:29,000 on an adventure like this. 296 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,862 So this is an opportunity that I've 297 00:15:30,965 --> 00:15:32,551 always wanted all my life. 298 00:15:32,551 --> 00:15:33,793 I'm here to stay. 299 00:15:33,793 --> 00:15:35,413 Y'all's gonna have to come get me. 300 00:15:37,793 --> 00:15:39,689 All right, I'm going for it right here. 301 00:15:39,793 --> 00:15:41,827 I found me a spot. 302 00:15:49,068 --> 00:15:50,517 Right off the bat, I'm gonna try 303 00:15:50,620 --> 00:15:51,655 to get my shelter. 304 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Because it just gives you a good, safe feeling. 305 00:16:00,068 --> 00:16:01,413 Ho, ho, ho. 306 00:16:01,413 --> 00:16:05,034 On the design, I really don't got a name for it. 307 00:16:05,034 --> 00:16:08,724 But it's kind of a lean-to log cabin. 308 00:16:08,827 --> 00:16:14,379 Small, but it's put up in a very fast, efficient way. 309 00:16:20,103 --> 00:16:21,965 Close that time. 310 00:16:24,586 --> 00:16:25,862 One log at a time. 311 00:16:35,586 --> 00:16:39,172 You need to get your hardest labor done quick as possible. 312 00:16:39,172 --> 00:16:41,000 And that way, the only thing you have to worry about 313 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,379 is catching fish, mice, squirrels, 314 00:16:44,379 --> 00:16:47,000 rabbits, picking berries. 315 00:16:50,862 --> 00:16:55,000 We're 125 miles in the Arctic Circle. 316 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,275 We're gonna be dealing with some extreme colds, 317 00:16:57,275 --> 00:16:58,896 extreme weathers. 318 00:16:58,896 --> 00:17:02,551 And the cold kind of got me on edge. 319 00:17:02,551 --> 00:17:04,482 That's a big thing too. 320 00:17:04,586 --> 00:17:06,551 Especially when the freeze out comes, 321 00:17:06,551 --> 00:17:10,241 you get wet, that could be death to you. 322 00:17:11,827 --> 00:17:15,379 Couple more logs the roof will be done. 323 00:17:15,379 --> 00:17:17,620 This is an opportunity that I've always wanted 324 00:17:17,620 --> 00:17:19,068 all my life. 325 00:17:19,068 --> 00:17:21,413 And I can't give it up. 326 00:17:24,275 --> 00:17:26,448 Yeah. 327 00:17:26,448 --> 00:17:29,689 Ha-ha. 328 00:17:29,689 --> 00:17:32,000 pretty sturdy. 329 00:17:32,103 --> 00:17:33,862 Proud of it so far. 330 00:17:33,862 --> 00:17:35,206 But I got gaps. 331 00:17:35,310 --> 00:17:38,724 But I'm gonna fill them in, put a tarp on it. 332 00:17:50,241 --> 00:17:51,827 That's a squirrel. 333 00:17:53,172 --> 00:17:54,965 Got squirrel guts. 334 00:18:01,517 --> 00:18:05,241 All right, I'm gonna get to work on a temporary shelter, 335 00:18:05,344 --> 00:18:07,689 which will keep me for a few nights. 336 00:18:09,827 --> 00:18:11,413 All right. 337 00:18:15,586 --> 00:18:17,482 For my temporary shelter, I have very 338 00:18:17,586 --> 00:18:19,965 few critical requirements. 339 00:18:19,965 --> 00:18:22,034 I need some good spacing between the trees 340 00:18:22,034 --> 00:18:26,103 so that I can fix things how I have in mind. 341 00:18:26,206 --> 00:18:30,448 But ultimately, I just find a spot that looks homey. 342 00:18:30,448 --> 00:18:32,517 I follow my instinct there. 343 00:18:32,620 --> 00:18:34,275 Good, good, good. 344 00:18:34,275 --> 00:18:35,793 I grew up in the woods. 345 00:18:35,896 --> 00:18:38,793 And I learned, if your instincts are properly tuned, 346 00:18:38,896 --> 00:18:41,344 nature actually guides and drives you 347 00:18:41,344 --> 00:18:43,586 to the right things. 348 00:18:43,586 --> 00:18:46,103 I have to get this work done because opportunities are 349 00:18:46,103 --> 00:18:47,758 gonna present themselves. 350 00:18:49,586 --> 00:18:51,827 Yeah. 351 00:18:52,758 --> 00:18:55,000 All right, let's go check those fish lines. 352 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,896 Fish, fish, fish, I've got a fish right here. 353 00:19:11,586 --> 00:19:14,379 Ooh, might be a nice one. 354 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,206 Fish, fish, fish, fish, fish, yeah. 355 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,896 Wow. 356 00:19:32,482 --> 00:19:35,551 Good Lord, it is a nice one. 357 00:19:35,655 --> 00:19:39,620 Look at that. Look at that. 358 00:19:39,620 --> 00:19:42,172 Yeah! 359 00:19:42,275 --> 00:19:44,310 I need to start cooking. 360 00:19:47,344 --> 00:19:50,137 Now, I've got a problem. 361 00:19:50,137 --> 00:19:52,758 Here's my squirrel. 362 00:19:52,758 --> 00:19:55,896 And I've got my big old fish. 363 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,344 I simply will not have time to start doing meat preservation 364 00:20:00,344 --> 00:20:01,448 while it's daylight. 365 00:20:01,551 --> 00:20:02,827 So I'm gonna cook it all up, 366 00:20:02,827 --> 00:20:05,586 and I'm just gonna eat like a hunter. 367 00:20:07,586 --> 00:20:11,517 Fishy, you are amazing. 368 00:20:15,620 --> 00:20:19,655 One of the biggest reasons I want to do this is my family 369 00:20:19,655 --> 00:20:22,275 has reached a point in our work that I don't 370 00:20:22,275 --> 00:20:25,793 know if we can continue it. 371 00:20:25,896 --> 00:20:30,758 The stress levels have become almost debilitating. 372 00:20:30,758 --> 00:20:32,172 We're always in different places, 373 00:20:32,172 --> 00:20:35,241 sleeping in different beds, different countries. 374 00:20:35,344 --> 00:20:38,482 Now for the pike. 375 00:20:38,586 --> 00:20:41,275 With that money, I could build a house in the States 376 00:20:41,379 --> 00:20:45,068 and provide my family with the baseline security 377 00:20:45,068 --> 00:20:49,275 for when my boys are wondering where home is in their hearts. 378 00:20:49,275 --> 00:20:50,620 I'm gonna eat my red squirrel 379 00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:52,862 while this is cooking. 380 00:20:55,689 --> 00:20:59,724 Oh, finally, yes. 381 00:20:59,724 --> 00:21:02,172 I think about that money, and I think 382 00:21:02,172 --> 00:21:03,827 I'll do just about anything. 383 00:21:03,931 --> 00:21:05,206 I'll injure myself. 384 00:21:05,206 --> 00:21:07,827 I'll wear myself to the bone. 385 00:21:07,931 --> 00:21:10,034 My wife keeps assuring me 386 00:21:10,034 --> 00:21:11,827 we'll be fine without the money. 387 00:21:11,827 --> 00:21:15,517 But I know what I want to set them up with. 388 00:21:15,620 --> 00:21:16,931 I'd like to get that money. 389 00:21:17,068 --> 00:21:21,137 Look at that big white, fluffy, flaky fish. 390 00:21:27,103 --> 00:21:32,068 Mmm, now there's a real supper. 391 00:21:32,068 --> 00:21:34,586 There's a real supper. 392 00:21:34,689 --> 00:21:35,931 Mmm. 393 00:21:35,931 --> 00:21:39,344 Pike on day one, very pleased with that. 394 00:21:40,758 --> 00:21:42,862 Mmm. 395 00:21:58,103 --> 00:22:00,103 Oh, good morning. 396 00:22:00,206 --> 00:22:04,241 First night in the books. 397 00:22:04,344 --> 00:22:07,482 I slept-- I got a good night's sleep. 398 00:22:07,482 --> 00:22:09,793 That's for sure. 399 00:22:09,793 --> 00:22:13,068 The first full day, I was a little confused. 400 00:22:13,172 --> 00:22:15,000 So I was exhausted yesterday. 401 00:22:17,517 --> 00:22:22,034 The priorities for today, priority one, 402 00:22:22,034 --> 00:22:24,896 enjoy the sunrise. 403 00:22:24,896 --> 00:22:29,275 Look at that; that is absolutely amazing. 404 00:22:29,275 --> 00:22:32,758 Priority two, I got to get some water, 405 00:22:32,862 --> 00:22:35,724 get a fire going, so I can boil it. 406 00:22:35,724 --> 00:22:39,137 Continue the search for a permanent shelter location. 407 00:22:39,137 --> 00:22:43,379 All right, let's get started, a lot of work to do. 408 00:22:43,482 --> 00:22:46,137 One more sunrise. 409 00:22:51,206 --> 00:22:52,241 Boil some water. 410 00:22:52,344 --> 00:22:53,931 Don't want to get sick. 411 00:23:01,482 --> 00:23:03,275 Oh, there goes. 412 00:23:03,275 --> 00:23:05,172 Nope. 413 00:23:05,275 --> 00:23:08,965 The ground here is wet, soggy, sandy. 414 00:23:08,965 --> 00:23:11,068 There doesn't seem to be a lot of dry firewood. 415 00:23:11,172 --> 00:23:14,896 And I know that's gonna make getting a fire hard. 416 00:23:14,896 --> 00:23:16,586 It keeps-- it lights up for like a second, 417 00:23:16,586 --> 00:23:18,344 and then it just goes out. 418 00:23:18,344 --> 00:23:21,586 I'm really concerned about dehydration. 419 00:23:21,586 --> 00:23:25,448 Well, there goes-- no, going out again. 420 00:23:25,448 --> 00:23:26,620 I've never had so much trouble getting 421 00:23:26,620 --> 00:23:28,275 a fire going in my life. 422 00:23:31,620 --> 00:23:32,689 Damn it. 423 00:23:35,068 --> 00:23:39,689 OK, I'm gonna pause this, take a step back. 424 00:23:39,689 --> 00:23:42,482 I'm gonna pack up this tinder, keep it in pocket. 425 00:23:42,482 --> 00:23:46,000 Maybe that'll dry it out, try again in a bit. 426 00:23:46,103 --> 00:23:47,931 All right, let's go explore. 427 00:23:47,931 --> 00:23:49,344 My name is Peter Albano, 428 00:23:49,344 --> 00:23:51,310 and I am a librarian. 429 00:23:51,310 --> 00:23:54,862 I love the idea of being this keeper of knowledge. 430 00:23:54,965 --> 00:23:56,551 Being a librarian makes me well-suited 431 00:23:56,551 --> 00:23:58,000 for this challenge. 432 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,172 You have to be creative and learn really quickly 433 00:24:00,172 --> 00:24:02,896 to make the most out of very little resources. 434 00:24:02,896 --> 00:24:05,482 There we go, super-easy foraging basket. 435 00:24:05,482 --> 00:24:08,724 I don't fit the typical mold of a survivalist. 436 00:24:08,724 --> 00:24:11,482 I volunteer with the local search and rescue group, 437 00:24:11,482 --> 00:24:13,793 and I also do Alpine rescue stuff. 438 00:24:13,896 --> 00:24:16,689 Look at the size of these tracks. 439 00:24:16,689 --> 00:24:18,862 I have a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. 440 00:24:18,965 --> 00:24:21,310 It's as much a mental game as a physical game. 441 00:24:21,310 --> 00:24:23,241 It's a great way to learn how to deal 442 00:24:23,344 --> 00:24:25,586 with stressful situations and keep your cool. 443 00:24:25,586 --> 00:24:28,379 We're out in the woods, best place to be. 444 00:24:28,379 --> 00:24:31,275 Most of the skills I have, I've taken from books. 445 00:24:31,379 --> 00:24:33,275 When I was 12 years old, I discovered 446 00:24:33,379 --> 00:24:34,586 the "SAS Survival Guide." 447 00:24:34,586 --> 00:24:36,517 And there was how to build shelters 448 00:24:36,620 --> 00:24:37,965 and how to build traps. 449 00:24:38,068 --> 00:24:40,689 That sort of really set me off on this path. 450 00:24:40,689 --> 00:24:43,965 Fully functional bushcraft door. 451 00:24:47,689 --> 00:24:49,034 My family means everything to me. 452 00:24:49,034 --> 00:24:51,172 That's the whole reason for existing. 453 00:24:51,172 --> 00:24:54,344 I've come here to prove to my kids that you set a goal, 454 00:24:54,344 --> 00:24:55,965 you can achieve it. 455 00:24:55,965 --> 00:24:58,517 I tell my kids all the time, every problem has a solution. 456 00:24:58,517 --> 00:25:00,310 You just have to approach it logically. 457 00:25:00,310 --> 00:25:01,413 And you'll find it. 458 00:25:01,413 --> 00:25:02,620 And don't give up. 459 00:25:02,620 --> 00:25:04,068 First try, score. 460 00:25:04,068 --> 00:25:05,655 My perseverance and my outright stubbornness 461 00:25:05,655 --> 00:25:07,931 are what's gonna take me to the end. 462 00:25:12,689 --> 00:25:16,689 Cool, these are all kettle lakes, 463 00:25:16,689 --> 00:25:19,344 technically, not ponds, but they're called kettle lakes 464 00:25:19,344 --> 00:25:20,689 because of the way they're formed. 465 00:25:20,689 --> 00:25:21,965 I bet on the bottom of your screen 466 00:25:22,068 --> 00:25:25,034 right now there's a definition of a kettle lake, 467 00:25:25,137 --> 00:25:27,379 which is cool. 468 00:25:27,379 --> 00:25:29,758 I was telling my son there was kettle lakes in the area. 469 00:25:29,758 --> 00:25:33,000 He suggested I name one teapot lake 470 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,793 because he has an amazing sense of humor. 471 00:25:37,793 --> 00:25:39,620 So ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you 472 00:25:39,620 --> 00:25:42,413 to Teapot Pond. 473 00:25:44,241 --> 00:25:46,241 Hope you like it, Ethan. 474 00:25:46,241 --> 00:25:49,034 All right, I'm heading back, feeling dehydrated. 475 00:25:49,034 --> 00:25:51,310 But my wife made me promise never 476 00:25:51,310 --> 00:25:55,137 to drink untreated water. 477 00:25:55,241 --> 00:25:57,896 What I always planned was to find a location 478 00:25:57,896 --> 00:25:59,758 for my permanent shelter as quickly as possible 479 00:25:59,758 --> 00:26:01,413 so I can start on it right away, 480 00:26:01,413 --> 00:26:04,103 and then after that, look for opportunities for food. 481 00:26:04,206 --> 00:26:06,482 But yesterday was tough. 482 00:26:06,586 --> 00:26:09,241 It was just me second-guessing myself. 483 00:26:09,241 --> 00:26:11,275 All the things to do can get overwhelming. 484 00:26:11,275 --> 00:26:14,068 Even this morning, it's still there. 485 00:26:15,275 --> 00:26:17,482 Look at this beautiful game trail. 486 00:26:20,068 --> 00:26:22,862 Oh, what's this here? 487 00:26:25,137 --> 00:26:28,310 That is a big bear. 488 00:26:32,344 --> 00:26:34,758 They're old. 489 00:26:34,758 --> 00:26:38,000 But still, I'm definitely not going 490 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,000 to be building my permanent shelter 491 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,655 very close to this trail. 492 00:26:43,344 --> 00:26:45,103 I feel like I need to focus. 493 00:26:45,206 --> 00:26:48,034 There's a sign of grizzly bears in my area. 494 00:26:48,034 --> 00:26:49,275 More bear tracks. 495 00:26:49,379 --> 00:26:51,034 And I'm really concerned about how 496 00:26:51,034 --> 00:26:53,068 fast winter is gonna come. 497 00:26:53,068 --> 00:26:54,758 And you know, in a fight, 498 00:26:54,862 --> 00:26:56,862 you don't really have a lot of time to second-guess yourself. 499 00:26:56,862 --> 00:26:59,379 If you hesitate, then you get hit, 500 00:26:59,482 --> 00:27:01,103 and then you're gonna lose the fight. 501 00:27:01,103 --> 00:27:02,896 All right, I've had this in my pocket for a while now. 502 00:27:02,896 --> 00:27:05,344 Let's see if we can light it on fire. 503 00:27:05,344 --> 00:27:07,620 In a fight, you need to move quickly, 504 00:27:07,620 --> 00:27:09,034 and if you're gonna adapt to something 505 00:27:09,137 --> 00:27:11,655 that's not going your way, you have to do it fast. 506 00:27:11,758 --> 00:27:13,965 Oh, there it goes-- 507 00:27:13,965 --> 00:27:15,482 nope. 508 00:27:15,586 --> 00:27:17,931 I know that once I start building my permanent shelter 509 00:27:18,034 --> 00:27:19,862 and getting a fishing line in the water, 510 00:27:19,862 --> 00:27:21,931 then I'll be able to refocus and just 511 00:27:22,034 --> 00:27:24,241 get to the mission of winning. 512 00:27:27,620 --> 00:27:29,689 Ooh, it's going. 513 00:27:29,689 --> 00:27:32,344 Come on, come on, come on, come on. 514 00:27:32,344 --> 00:27:34,379 Oh, yes, fire. 515 00:27:35,931 --> 00:27:37,793 As you can see, I'm not a complete amateur, 516 00:27:37,793 --> 00:27:39,517 even though it may have looked like it. 517 00:27:40,965 --> 00:27:42,379 I got to gather a bunch of this tinder, 518 00:27:42,379 --> 00:27:44,241 keep it in the shelter. 519 00:27:56,206 --> 00:27:58,206 Here I am eating rose hips. 520 00:28:02,137 --> 00:28:04,000 Well, it ain't too bad. 521 00:28:05,655 --> 00:28:08,379 Man, I was really hoping blueberries would be around. 522 00:28:09,379 --> 00:28:11,448 I haven't seen ones yet. 523 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,103 Let me get a bag out here. 524 00:28:22,206 --> 00:28:25,034 I'm gonna gather some of these up. 525 00:28:25,034 --> 00:28:28,413 Pretty good little patch of them here. 526 00:28:28,413 --> 00:28:31,896 Since I've come here, I'm focusing on the terrain. 527 00:28:31,896 --> 00:28:33,862 It's all new to me, all of it. 528 00:28:33,862 --> 00:28:37,344 Just the berries alone here, there are so many varieties. 529 00:28:37,344 --> 00:28:39,551 Ooh, that toothpaste. 530 00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:42,310 A lot of these trees, I've never even seen, you know? 531 00:28:42,310 --> 00:28:45,620 That's the big thing to me is seeing new stuff. 532 00:28:45,724 --> 00:28:48,172 You live in a spot and stay there as long as I have, 533 00:28:48,172 --> 00:28:49,586 you kind of get bored of everything. 534 00:28:53,620 --> 00:28:55,551 Just watching the ground leave like that, 535 00:28:55,551 --> 00:28:57,172 and then when you get up so high, 536 00:28:57,172 --> 00:28:59,275 you get above the clouds, and it just looks like 537 00:28:59,379 --> 00:29:01,862 cotton candy, you can walk on it. 538 00:29:01,862 --> 00:29:04,482 So a whole new environment. 539 00:29:04,482 --> 00:29:06,931 It's like a whole new me kind of. 540 00:29:06,931 --> 00:29:11,896 All right, we got rose hips for supper. 541 00:29:11,896 --> 00:29:14,310 Like to have some meat to go with it. 542 00:29:14,310 --> 00:29:17,620 I am a meat eater. 543 00:29:19,586 --> 00:29:21,793 I keep hearing squirrels over that way too, 544 00:29:21,793 --> 00:29:24,241 so get my snares out. 545 00:29:36,655 --> 00:29:39,586 Well, one squirrel pole's set. 546 00:29:39,689 --> 00:29:42,034 I'm not gonna play a starving game. 547 00:29:42,034 --> 00:29:45,758 One way or the other, we'll get something. 548 00:29:47,758 --> 00:29:51,724 All right, I'm gonna boil us up some water. 549 00:29:58,241 --> 00:30:01,379 I'm gonna cut some firewood real quick. 550 00:30:15,620 --> 00:30:17,206 Man, look at that. 551 00:30:20,482 --> 00:30:22,724 I'm gonna go for it. 552 00:30:30,172 --> 00:30:32,965 I gotcha now. 553 00:30:40,965 --> 00:30:42,206 There he is. 554 00:30:51,034 --> 00:30:53,275 Gotcha. 555 00:30:53,275 --> 00:30:56,517 All right, thank you, little buddy, 556 00:30:56,620 --> 00:30:59,517 for your giving me yourself. 557 00:30:59,517 --> 00:31:02,482 I appreciate you, you don't know how much. 558 00:31:06,137 --> 00:31:08,034 Thank goodness. 559 00:31:10,034 --> 00:31:13,000 All right, I'll skin him down. 560 00:31:14,172 --> 00:31:19,034 What we do here, punch it through his back. 561 00:31:21,206 --> 00:31:23,413 Pull his a little britches off here. 562 00:31:25,034 --> 00:31:27,344 When I want to draw my bow back, 563 00:31:27,448 --> 00:31:29,275 it was just like I was aiming at a big buck. 564 00:31:29,275 --> 00:31:30,896 I got so excited. 565 00:31:30,896 --> 00:31:32,413 There we go. 566 00:31:32,517 --> 00:31:34,206 It's kind of hard to breathe, my heart 567 00:31:34,310 --> 00:31:37,758 just boom, boom, boom, over a freaking squirrel. 568 00:31:37,758 --> 00:31:41,379 But I guess that squirrel means a lot to me out here. 569 00:31:41,379 --> 00:31:43,793 Man's got eat, you know? 570 00:31:43,793 --> 00:31:46,379 I don't need to be a-thinkin' about it, 571 00:31:46,379 --> 00:31:50,482 but it sure does 572 00:31:50,586 --> 00:31:53,206 remind me of my little girl. 573 00:31:53,206 --> 00:31:58,206 She's just now getting into squirrel hunting. 574 00:32:00,034 --> 00:32:03,758 I grew up in a hunting world. 575 00:32:03,758 --> 00:32:06,793 I'm gonna get him ready to cook up. 576 00:32:06,896 --> 00:32:09,413 My mama, my grandpa, 577 00:32:09,517 --> 00:32:12,586 I squirrel hunted since I was 578 00:32:12,586 --> 00:32:14,862 seven, eight years old. 579 00:32:14,965 --> 00:32:16,655 And I mean, that was our lives. 580 00:32:16,758 --> 00:32:19,862 Made the person that I am today. 581 00:32:19,965 --> 00:32:23,068 I think Sir Fuzzytail's ready to eat. 582 00:32:23,172 --> 00:32:25,068 It's a different ballgame out here. 583 00:32:25,068 --> 00:32:29,206 But I was raised for this type of situation. 584 00:32:33,448 --> 00:32:35,034 Mmm, squirrel. 585 00:32:38,379 --> 00:32:41,896 Oh man, oh man. 586 00:32:43,862 --> 00:32:45,827 It's good. 587 00:33:06,517 --> 00:33:07,551 Ouch. 588 00:33:10,517 --> 00:33:14,379 Ow, yeah, that's brutal. 589 00:33:14,379 --> 00:33:16,344 Pretty much trying every object I brought 590 00:33:16,344 --> 00:33:17,931 to see if it brushes hair. 591 00:33:20,793 --> 00:33:24,000 So far, no. 592 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,620 It just rips it out, everything. 593 00:33:29,448 --> 00:33:32,517 One of the past contestants mentioned losing hair. 594 00:33:32,620 --> 00:33:35,448 And I thought it was because of malnutrition. 595 00:33:35,448 --> 00:33:38,689 But I'm starting to suspect it was from lack of hairbrush. 596 00:33:41,896 --> 00:33:44,034 This is a game for short hair. 597 00:33:47,206 --> 00:33:48,517 All right, back to work. 598 00:33:52,379 --> 00:33:57,379 Spending a lot of energy today building up a shelter. 599 00:33:57,379 --> 00:34:00,586 For my permanent shelter, I'm building a wickiup. 600 00:34:00,586 --> 00:34:03,482 A wickiup is a winter version of a teepee. 601 00:34:03,482 --> 00:34:06,896 Instead of an animal hide as the walls, 602 00:34:06,896 --> 00:34:09,275 it's debris to help hold the heat in. 603 00:34:10,724 --> 00:34:13,931 I picked this spot for its proximity to the lake. 604 00:34:13,931 --> 00:34:16,206 And I'm protected from the winds 605 00:34:16,310 --> 00:34:20,103 with this massive alder bush forest around me. 606 00:34:28,551 --> 00:34:33,034 It's coming along, slowly but surely. 607 00:34:33,034 --> 00:34:34,827 All right, let's take a break. 608 00:34:34,827 --> 00:34:36,310 Trek over to the lake. 609 00:34:36,413 --> 00:34:38,827 Got a date with a beaver. 610 00:34:41,413 --> 00:34:44,551 Maybe he'll come close again. 611 00:34:44,655 --> 00:34:47,689 The last time I came over here without archery equipment-- 612 00:34:51,103 --> 00:34:53,310 There's a good chance I could have eaten him. 613 00:34:55,103 --> 00:34:57,724 Nobody to blame but myself. 614 00:34:57,724 --> 00:35:00,310 Where'd you go, little feller? 615 00:35:00,310 --> 00:35:03,551 That beaver would carry me a long ways. 616 00:35:03,551 --> 00:35:05,931 Protein, fat, 617 00:35:06,034 --> 00:35:08,655 it'd be a game changer. 618 00:35:10,827 --> 00:35:12,448 Nothing. 619 00:35:12,448 --> 00:35:14,793 That's what I get. 620 00:35:14,896 --> 00:35:17,862 Got to be prepared for anything, always. 621 00:35:20,724 --> 00:35:22,310 . 622 00:35:31,724 --> 00:35:34,862 See if he comes over here. 623 00:35:36,793 --> 00:35:39,413 See how close he'll swim. 624 00:35:40,965 --> 00:35:43,758 Oh, that's pretty close. 625 00:35:56,103 --> 00:35:58,758 Oh, my God, did I get him? 626 00:35:58,862 --> 00:36:01,000 Oh please God, let me have gotten him. 627 00:36:03,206 --> 00:36:05,275 Oh, my God. 628 00:36:05,379 --> 00:36:07,206 My heart is [bleep] pounding. 629 00:36:09,379 --> 00:36:12,482 From my vantage point, it looks like I hit him. 630 00:36:12,482 --> 00:36:16,482 Oh, my God, arrow hasn't moved at all. 631 00:36:16,482 --> 00:36:20,551 Kind of tells me it's probably impaled to a sunken body. 632 00:36:20,655 --> 00:36:23,620 Am I gonna have to go swimming? 633 00:36:25,862 --> 00:36:27,689 I'm gonna risk it. 634 00:36:30,068 --> 00:36:31,482 You got to be smart about this. 635 00:36:31,482 --> 00:36:34,172 I can't go hypothermic and die. 636 00:36:35,931 --> 00:36:40,655 Today would have been a good day to wear underwear, huh? 637 00:36:40,758 --> 00:36:44,344 Holy cow, it's really cold. 638 00:36:44,344 --> 00:36:48,034 I don't have any of my fire-making stuff here. 639 00:36:48,034 --> 00:36:50,310 I haven't gotten any other source of protein, 640 00:36:50,413 --> 00:36:52,896 so I need the beaver. 641 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,655 I can't believe I'm about to do this. 642 00:36:58,275 --> 00:36:59,862 Mind over matter. 643 00:36:59,862 --> 00:37:02,413 There are so many traps in the bottom of this lake. 644 00:37:02,517 --> 00:37:03,689 I know I'm gonna trip. 645 00:37:11,965 --> 00:37:16,896 Ooh, ouch, oh man, I hope I get a beaver. 646 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,034 Did I get him? 647 00:37:19,034 --> 00:37:21,448 Oh. 648 00:37:23,724 --> 00:37:26,068 I missed him entirely. 649 00:37:31,862 --> 00:37:34,275 . 650 00:37:35,965 --> 00:37:38,655 I thought for sure I had him. 651 00:37:44,551 --> 00:37:47,068 Woo, woo, woo. 652 00:37:47,172 --> 00:37:49,724 Got to get out of my wet clothes. 653 00:37:59,206 --> 00:38:01,724 It's disheartening. 654 00:38:01,724 --> 00:38:04,620 I can't believe I flung that arrow at that beaver. 655 00:38:04,724 --> 00:38:08,206 I know better, know better than shooting into the water. 656 00:38:08,310 --> 00:38:10,172 See if I could see him. 657 00:38:10,172 --> 00:38:14,000 Desperation makes you do dumb things. 658 00:38:16,172 --> 00:38:19,034 No disturbance anywhere on the lake. 659 00:38:19,137 --> 00:38:21,586 Nothing in the nearby vicinity. 660 00:38:23,172 --> 00:38:27,896 All right, back to my shelter. 661 00:38:29,827 --> 00:38:31,310 I think I just got excited. 662 00:38:31,413 --> 00:38:32,310 I thought I hit him, 663 00:38:32,413 --> 00:38:35,724 but I obviously didn't. 664 00:38:35,724 --> 00:38:39,068 I'm trying not to let it get me down. 665 00:38:39,068 --> 00:38:42,068 I'm not doing super great at it right now. 666 00:38:42,068 --> 00:38:43,517 I'll get there. 667 00:38:46,137 --> 00:38:48,000 I want to win this so bad, 668 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,000 but I need to make sure that I don't make mistakes. 669 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,137 Another opportunity lost at eating that I did to myself. 670 00:39:24,172 --> 00:39:26,344 Just before I-- turning the camera back on, 671 00:39:26,344 --> 00:39:28,620 I saw a gyrfalcon buzz. 672 00:39:28,620 --> 00:39:30,655 It looked like an adult male. 673 00:39:36,620 --> 00:39:38,000 Well... 674 00:39:46,482 --> 00:39:49,068 It's amazing to think three weeks from now, 675 00:39:49,068 --> 00:39:52,655 they're gonna be 4,000 miles away in Central America. 676 00:39:52,655 --> 00:39:55,310 And I'll still be here. 677 00:39:56,344 --> 00:39:58,310 For 15 years, 678 00:39:58,310 --> 00:40:00,413 I've been a professional falconer. 679 00:40:00,413 --> 00:40:03,655 I specialize in falconry-based 680 00:40:03,758 --> 00:40:05,965 bird abatement, which is hunting predating 681 00:40:05,965 --> 00:40:08,172 birds to protect crops. 682 00:40:08,172 --> 00:40:10,586 I'm gonna add a guide to my fly rod. 683 00:40:10,586 --> 00:40:15,034 My dad taught me everything he knew about wilderness skills. 684 00:40:15,034 --> 00:40:18,068 And so I've been a hunter literally since the time 685 00:40:18,068 --> 00:40:19,103 I could walk. 686 00:40:19,206 --> 00:40:20,448 Pretty good group. 687 00:40:20,448 --> 00:40:22,965 I'm a fourth-generation fly fisherman. 688 00:40:23,068 --> 00:40:25,034 And I've never been on a river that I couldn't fish. 689 00:40:25,034 --> 00:40:27,689 It's a great big sucker. 690 00:40:27,689 --> 00:40:29,586 I've never been in an environment 691 00:40:29,689 --> 00:40:30,965 where I couldn't find food. 692 00:40:31,068 --> 00:40:32,724 Oh, he's so fatty. 693 00:40:32,724 --> 00:40:34,034 And I've never been in a situation 694 00:40:34,137 --> 00:40:36,724 where I could not make a fire. 695 00:40:36,724 --> 00:40:39,034 I don't think anybody has the skill set 696 00:40:39,137 --> 00:40:41,206 and the desire to do whatever 697 00:40:41,206 --> 00:40:44,793 is required the way that I am. 698 00:40:44,793 --> 00:40:46,137 Wait, what is it? 699 00:40:46,137 --> 00:40:47,586 Oh! It's a-- 700 00:40:49,034 --> 00:40:51,655 I'm the father of three children. 701 00:40:51,655 --> 00:40:54,482 And my number one responsibility in life 702 00:40:54,482 --> 00:40:56,344 is being their dad. 703 00:40:56,448 --> 00:40:58,275 I went through a divorce. 704 00:40:58,275 --> 00:41:01,931 And in order for me to maintain shared custody, 705 00:41:01,931 --> 00:41:06,206 I had to dissolve my business and seek employment locally. 706 00:41:06,310 --> 00:41:10,275 But I lost about 3/4 of my income doing that. 707 00:41:10,379 --> 00:41:12,793 So for the better part of a decade, 708 00:41:12,793 --> 00:41:14,413 my kids have watched me struggle. 709 00:41:14,413 --> 00:41:16,275 And I think it's important for them 710 00:41:16,379 --> 00:41:20,068 to see what I'm capable of doing. 711 00:41:22,827 --> 00:41:25,862 I lost my fishing line out of my backpack. 712 00:41:25,862 --> 00:41:29,724 A side zipper came open 713 00:41:29,724 --> 00:41:32,241 while I was busting through the brush. 714 00:41:32,241 --> 00:41:35,551 I have spent the last three days looking 715 00:41:35,551 --> 00:41:37,655 everywhere for that line. 716 00:41:38,689 --> 00:41:40,965 Walked, I don't know, several miles. 717 00:41:40,965 --> 00:41:45,724 And I don't know if I'm ever gonna find it again. 718 00:41:46,655 --> 00:41:50,379 I don't have a net, so I've been tying one. 719 00:41:52,206 --> 00:41:55,620 Losing my fishing line is embarrassing. 720 00:41:55,620 --> 00:41:59,103 This was the tool that I was going to rely on the most 721 00:41:59,206 --> 00:42:01,758 to provide food for myself. 722 00:42:01,758 --> 00:42:03,931 But the thing that I've learned over the years 723 00:42:03,931 --> 00:42:07,655 is that the less time that I spend wallowing in my shame, 724 00:42:07,758 --> 00:42:10,689 the better, because then I can throw myself 725 00:42:10,689 --> 00:42:13,206 into solving the problem. 726 00:42:13,310 --> 00:42:14,827 That's the thing about survival. 727 00:42:14,827 --> 00:42:16,344 It's not survival of the fittest. 728 00:42:16,344 --> 00:42:18,931 It's survival of the most adaptable. 729 00:42:20,827 --> 00:42:25,827 All right, I'll go and get this in the water. 730 00:42:30,827 --> 00:42:34,275 All right, so I'm gonna lay it in here. 731 00:42:38,275 --> 00:42:40,172 Water's really shallow, 732 00:42:40,275 --> 00:42:42,862 but it's the only water I've got. 733 00:42:45,103 --> 00:42:49,172 If I can get something here, that would be incredible. 734 00:42:55,413 --> 00:42:57,551 Well, that was graceful. 735 00:43:11,137 --> 00:43:14,517 I don't know if you all at home are ready for this. 736 00:43:15,172 --> 00:43:17,344 Check out this hunk of man right here. 737 00:43:19,172 --> 00:43:20,551 My kids are lucky they look like their mom, 738 00:43:20,551 --> 00:43:23,965 I'm telling you. 739 00:43:25,758 --> 00:43:28,310 I'm just working on my shelter, 740 00:43:28,413 --> 00:43:29,758 my permanent shelter. 741 00:43:29,758 --> 00:43:31,034 Gonna be very small. 742 00:43:31,034 --> 00:43:32,758 Kind of like a dome-type structure, 743 00:43:32,758 --> 00:43:34,551 not much bigger than me. 744 00:43:34,655 --> 00:43:36,758 So I think I'll build my bed first 745 00:43:36,862 --> 00:43:40,103 and then build the shelter around it. 746 00:43:40,206 --> 00:43:42,896 Here we go, last post for the bed. 747 00:43:44,655 --> 00:43:46,931 This is the spot that I've picked. 748 00:43:47,034 --> 00:43:48,586 These spruce trees will give me 749 00:43:48,689 --> 00:43:50,586 some shelter from the snow, 750 00:43:50,689 --> 00:43:51,862 the wind, the rain. 751 00:43:54,344 --> 00:43:55,793 There. 752 00:44:01,241 --> 00:44:05,482 So 8 feet long, 6 feet wide is what I was going for. 753 00:44:05,482 --> 00:44:08,827 That'll give me enough space for a workspace, 754 00:44:08,827 --> 00:44:11,275 the bed, the fireplace. 755 00:44:11,275 --> 00:44:13,448 Anyway, I'm gonna keep going. 756 00:44:13,448 --> 00:44:15,689 Most of this area is covered in moss. 757 00:44:15,689 --> 00:44:17,551 And I don't want to build a shelter on the moss. 758 00:44:17,551 --> 00:44:19,931 These first two down here. 759 00:44:19,931 --> 00:44:21,724 The permanent shelter location has 760 00:44:21,724 --> 00:44:24,172 a harder packed, muddier ground 761 00:44:24,172 --> 00:44:25,931 that's better to walk on. 762 00:44:25,931 --> 00:44:28,689 It's gonna be drier when I get a fire going inside of it, 763 00:44:28,793 --> 00:44:30,620 and I'm gonna be able to dig into it. 764 00:44:30,724 --> 00:44:31,793 Into the muck. 765 00:44:33,137 --> 00:44:35,275 Oh, yes, oh, yeah. 766 00:44:35,379 --> 00:44:37,275 I wanted to build a shelter where I can 767 00:44:37,379 --> 00:44:39,000 put stakes into the ground. 768 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,724 And it's just easier to do that there. 769 00:44:41,827 --> 00:44:44,206 You kind of see how the dome is forming. 770 00:44:44,206 --> 00:44:45,724 That looks perfect. 771 00:44:47,862 --> 00:44:49,241 It's starting to cool off. 772 00:44:52,448 --> 00:44:54,310 Well, I'm so happy to be starting on this. 773 00:44:54,310 --> 00:44:56,344 It's gonna be a huge stress-reliever. 774 00:44:59,275 --> 00:45:02,862 I'm basing my shelter off of a qaluurvik. 775 00:45:02,862 --> 00:45:06,793 It's a traditional shelter of people in this region. 776 00:45:06,793 --> 00:45:10,655 It's made with green alders and willows. 777 00:45:10,655 --> 00:45:14,275 It's built in a way where you stick one end of the alder 778 00:45:14,275 --> 00:45:16,689 into the ground and you bend it over. 779 00:45:16,689 --> 00:45:18,758 And then you do the same thing on the other side. 780 00:45:18,862 --> 00:45:22,758 And you tie them together, and you end up with a dome shape. 781 00:45:24,724 --> 00:45:26,689 It's super simple. 782 00:45:26,689 --> 00:45:27,965 Wish you could feel how much stronger 783 00:45:27,965 --> 00:45:30,655 this is just from doing this. 784 00:45:30,758 --> 00:45:33,517 I chose this kind of shelter because we're in a place where 785 00:45:33,517 --> 00:45:35,827 next week, there could be snow, 786 00:45:35,827 --> 00:45:38,344 and it's going to be efficient to heat up in the winter. 787 00:45:38,344 --> 00:45:41,620 First batch, spruce boughs. 788 00:45:41,620 --> 00:45:44,862 It's easy to make in terms of calories used. 789 00:45:44,965 --> 00:45:47,517 I don't have to fell any big trees. 790 00:45:47,620 --> 00:45:50,724 At the end of the day, this is a game of calories. 791 00:45:50,827 --> 00:45:52,586 I put on a bunch of weight before coming out here 792 00:45:52,586 --> 00:45:54,275 to have some reserves, 793 00:45:54,275 --> 00:45:56,896 and I have to budget them wisely. 794 00:45:57,655 --> 00:45:58,896 When I put my green tarp on here, 795 00:45:58,896 --> 00:46:00,517 it's gonna look like a turtle shell. 796 00:46:00,517 --> 00:46:03,275 I might have to call this the turtle lair. 797 00:46:03,379 --> 00:46:04,448 It's not in the sewers, 798 00:46:04,551 --> 00:46:07,206 but you know, it's still pretty cool. 799 00:46:07,206 --> 00:46:08,827 Oh, what a good feeling. 800 00:46:08,827 --> 00:46:09,827 It's coming together. 801 00:46:25,896 --> 00:46:30,965 Oh! 802 00:46:31,068 --> 00:46:33,724 Typical. 803 00:46:33,724 --> 00:46:35,931 I just busted out a fire. 804 00:46:35,931 --> 00:46:39,379 And it took me about a half an hour, but I finally got it. 805 00:46:42,206 --> 00:46:44,827 I decided to not bring a ferro rod, 806 00:46:44,827 --> 00:46:48,068 because I knew that there were other ways 807 00:46:48,172 --> 00:46:49,827 that I can make fire. 808 00:46:49,827 --> 00:46:53,000 And I wanted to free up an item. 809 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,068 Now that I've lost my fishing line-- 810 00:46:56,275 --> 00:46:59,620 I'd say hell yes, give me a ferro rod. 811 00:46:59,620 --> 00:47:02,793 But what I want to be able to do now 812 00:47:02,793 --> 00:47:07,103 is not have to do a friction fire every day. 813 00:47:07,103 --> 00:47:08,931 Takes too many calories. 814 00:47:08,931 --> 00:47:11,482 And it takes too much time. 815 00:47:11,586 --> 00:47:16,103 So in my pot here, what I am processing 816 00:47:16,206 --> 00:47:19,413 is dry rot wood. 817 00:47:19,413 --> 00:47:22,103 And what I'll have left is pure charcoal 818 00:47:22,103 --> 00:47:25,206 that I can use to catch a spark from my belt buckle. 819 00:47:26,482 --> 00:47:32,344 That is exactly what we were going for. 820 00:47:32,448 --> 00:47:34,724 And this is gonna help tremendously 821 00:47:34,724 --> 00:47:37,965 in fire starting for me. 822 00:47:38,068 --> 00:47:40,551 It's gonna be really important to keep humidity 823 00:47:40,551 --> 00:47:42,000 out of all that charcoal. 824 00:47:42,103 --> 00:47:45,965 So I'm gonna make a container. 825 00:47:45,965 --> 00:47:49,965 So I've got some birch bark now. 826 00:47:49,965 --> 00:47:52,827 And this is what I'm gonna make my container out of. 827 00:47:56,206 --> 00:48:00,448 So I'm taking my spruce root, 828 00:48:00,448 --> 00:48:03,310 and I'm stitching this whole thing together. 829 00:48:10,344 --> 00:48:12,206 There-- oh, there we go. 830 00:48:13,931 --> 00:48:18,448 So I've cut two plugs, 831 00:48:18,551 --> 00:48:21,724 a bottom and a top. 832 00:48:21,827 --> 00:48:24,034 On the bottom one, what I'm going to do 833 00:48:24,034 --> 00:48:27,206 is drill a series of holes 834 00:48:27,206 --> 00:48:29,379 and then drive pins in those. 835 00:48:31,034 --> 00:48:33,137 There will still be a little bit of gap in there, 836 00:48:33,241 --> 00:48:37,172 but I'm gonna do enough to make it pretty tight. 837 00:48:37,275 --> 00:48:41,344 And all I want to do with this is make a handle. 838 00:48:41,344 --> 00:48:44,620 This method for making a tinder box 839 00:48:44,724 --> 00:48:47,137 has been used for thousands of years. 840 00:48:47,137 --> 00:48:50,000 In fact, when they found Otzi the Iceman, 841 00:48:50,103 --> 00:48:52,517 he was carrying one of these. 842 00:48:52,517 --> 00:48:55,551 It was a really good window into the past. 843 00:48:56,724 --> 00:48:59,586 I think that'll work. 844 00:49:01,310 --> 00:49:03,827 Turned out pretty good. 845 00:49:03,827 --> 00:49:05,137 Here's my belt buckle. 846 00:49:06,827 --> 00:49:09,586 I'll give you a close-up view of it. 847 00:49:09,689 --> 00:49:11,931 This belt buckle is made out of carbon steel, 848 00:49:11,931 --> 00:49:14,862 and I think I can start a fire with it. 849 00:49:14,965 --> 00:49:19,241 Here's our nice little piece of quartzite that I found. 850 00:49:19,344 --> 00:49:24,965 And then all we got to do is throw a spark into that. 851 00:49:24,965 --> 00:49:28,034 Ooh, there, done. 852 00:49:28,034 --> 00:49:31,448 Can you see the orange starting to spread in there? 853 00:49:35,655 --> 00:49:38,655 There we go, finally. 854 00:49:41,689 --> 00:49:44,896 And this is gonna make life a lot easier going forward. 855 00:49:47,620 --> 00:49:49,448 It's perfect. 856 00:50:01,344 --> 00:50:02,620 I'm hungry, 857 00:50:02,620 --> 00:50:05,206 so I'm gonna go check the net. 858 00:50:05,206 --> 00:50:07,000 Putting a net out in the water, 859 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,448 there's a lot of luck involved. 860 00:50:10,448 --> 00:50:12,482 And so it was kind of a blow to lose 861 00:50:12,586 --> 00:50:14,620 my fishing line on day one. 862 00:50:16,034 --> 00:50:18,413 But I need to provide food for myself, 863 00:50:18,413 --> 00:50:20,689 and I know that there's going to be a period of time 864 00:50:20,689 --> 00:50:23,310 when the river starts to freeze 865 00:50:23,310 --> 00:50:27,137 that fishing is gonna be off the table. 866 00:50:27,241 --> 00:50:28,896 Empty net. 867 00:50:30,275 --> 00:50:32,551 No fish in it. 868 00:50:32,551 --> 00:50:35,137 I'm gonna put my energy elsewhere. 869 00:50:41,172 --> 00:50:43,758 Oh, that's a beaver. 870 00:50:52,379 --> 00:50:54,793 The way we're gonna get him into bow range 871 00:50:54,793 --> 00:50:57,310 is by making a bait. 872 00:50:57,413 --> 00:51:01,551 And all you need to do that is a young willow full of leaves 873 00:51:01,551 --> 00:51:03,517 and drop it right off the bank. 874 00:51:05,172 --> 00:51:06,827 He's cruising around, and he'll see it, 875 00:51:06,931 --> 00:51:09,965 and he'll come to it. 876 00:51:13,551 --> 00:51:14,758 I see him way up there. 877 00:51:14,758 --> 00:51:15,827 He's about... 878 00:51:19,482 --> 00:51:22,034 Just waiting for him to make his rounds back up here. 879 00:51:24,241 --> 00:51:27,689 That beaver would be a great source of food right now. 880 00:51:27,689 --> 00:51:29,517 He's got a lot of protein on his body, 881 00:51:29,517 --> 00:51:31,379 and he's got a lot of fat. 882 00:51:31,482 --> 00:51:34,137 And I'm worried that my body will 883 00:51:34,241 --> 00:51:39,137 start fatiguing and becoming weaker and weaker. 884 00:51:43,931 --> 00:51:46,172 Still waiting for this beaver. 885 00:51:46,172 --> 00:51:49,241 So I honestly don't know if he's coming back, 886 00:51:49,344 --> 00:51:52,965 and I really may have messed up 887 00:51:52,965 --> 00:51:57,000 by not shooting him right off the get-go. 888 00:52:00,862 --> 00:52:02,275 Boy, what a fail. 889 00:52:19,379 --> 00:52:22,000 I've got something I want to show you. 890 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,206 It is pretty cool. 891 00:52:25,206 --> 00:52:27,448 Being able to store water, so I don't have to boil it 892 00:52:27,448 --> 00:52:29,655 every time, is real critical, 893 00:52:29,655 --> 00:52:36,103 so I've made this quiver to help me with that. 894 00:52:36,103 --> 00:52:37,517 I'm gonna take my arrows out, 895 00:52:37,517 --> 00:52:39,689 and they won't be carried in there anymore. 896 00:52:42,103 --> 00:52:44,275 I've got another solution for carrying my arrows. 897 00:52:46,551 --> 00:52:48,206 I've sealed this with beeswax. 898 00:52:48,310 --> 00:52:50,103 This is a brand-new quiver. 899 00:52:50,103 --> 00:52:52,758 Now I'll take the rest of this water that I've boiled, 900 00:52:52,758 --> 00:52:54,620 and I'll store it in here 901 00:52:54,724 --> 00:52:59,655 so I can cook or boil a second batch of water. 902 00:53:03,517 --> 00:53:05,310 Still perfectly waterproof. 903 00:53:05,413 --> 00:53:06,344 So I like that. 904 00:53:06,448 --> 00:53:08,931 This is gonna be my canteen. 905 00:53:08,931 --> 00:53:11,448 I think it's gonna be a great help to me. 906 00:53:13,965 --> 00:53:17,620 So my big thing right now is to get a bow quiver made. 907 00:53:20,517 --> 00:53:24,034 Every time I carry these arrows around with my bow 908 00:53:24,034 --> 00:53:27,068 without them being secured, I run the risk of cutting 909 00:53:27,172 --> 00:53:28,137 the string of the bow, 910 00:53:28,137 --> 00:53:30,586 so I can't have that. 911 00:53:30,586 --> 00:53:35,896 So I'm gonna construct a bow quiver out of my arm guard. 912 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,103 I've got two little sections of holes punched, 913 00:53:38,206 --> 00:53:39,655 and I'm gonna cut out each of those sections 914 00:53:39,655 --> 00:53:43,241 into a rectangle. 915 00:53:50,310 --> 00:53:51,758 Now, here's the idea-- 916 00:53:51,758 --> 00:53:56,379 fold this leather, make a couple of cuts, 917 00:53:56,379 --> 00:53:59,241 so that the arrow clicks into the hole 918 00:53:59,344 --> 00:54:03,034 through the groove made by those cuts. 919 00:54:03,034 --> 00:54:04,620 The holes align. 920 00:54:04,620 --> 00:54:07,482 And there's a little slit to go into each one. 921 00:54:07,482 --> 00:54:10,862 It's gonna be four arrows carried in this. 922 00:54:10,862 --> 00:54:14,931 I have to affix them here and here. 923 00:54:15,034 --> 00:54:18,551 So to do that, I need a T-shaped branch. 924 00:54:18,551 --> 00:54:20,724 I'm gonna use this wire to sew it on. 925 00:54:25,517 --> 00:54:27,448 Throughout my childhood, every moment 926 00:54:27,551 --> 00:54:29,827 that I wasn't chopping wood, hauling water, 927 00:54:29,827 --> 00:54:32,413 doing the things that off-grid living requires, 928 00:54:32,413 --> 00:54:35,793 I would get away and bushcraft and dream 929 00:54:35,793 --> 00:54:38,482 about being a frontiersman. 930 00:54:38,586 --> 00:54:40,241 That's two. 931 00:54:40,241 --> 00:54:42,310 My frontiersman adventures would take me all 932 00:54:42,413 --> 00:54:44,896 over the northland, this land. 933 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,689 And that's where I lived in my mind. 934 00:54:47,689 --> 00:54:50,862 So for me to be here in reality right now, 935 00:54:50,862 --> 00:54:53,103 my mind is just tearing it up out here. 936 00:54:53,103 --> 00:54:56,517 And that's why I don't want to mess it up. 937 00:55:00,310 --> 00:55:02,448 All right, so there's my bow quiver. 938 00:55:02,551 --> 00:55:04,068 That'll make it a lot easier for me. 939 00:55:04,172 --> 00:55:07,344 When I need to pull one off, it's fairly easy. 940 00:55:10,413 --> 00:55:12,655 I think that'll shoot just fine. 941 00:55:12,655 --> 00:55:14,620 All right. 942 00:55:20,275 --> 00:55:21,724 Look at that shadow. 943 00:55:21,724 --> 00:55:25,586 That's the shadow of a warrior hunter. 944 00:55:27,103 --> 00:55:28,344 Here I go. 945 00:55:30,758 --> 00:55:33,793 There's still a lot of bear tracks here on the shore, 946 00:55:33,896 --> 00:55:35,896 mostly a little old. 947 00:55:35,896 --> 00:55:37,655 The most sign I've seen of anything, 948 00:55:37,758 --> 00:55:40,379 of any animal out here besides the red squirrels, 949 00:55:40,379 --> 00:55:42,896 is predators. 950 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,172 So wherever there's that many predators, there's big prey. 951 00:55:46,172 --> 00:55:50,448 Oh cool, cool, fresh moose tracks. 952 00:55:50,448 --> 00:55:52,000 Check this out. 953 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:53,724 That's a good sign. 954 00:56:06,620 --> 00:56:09,000 My hunting strategy is very simple. 955 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,655 Be opportunistic. 956 00:56:11,758 --> 00:56:13,862 I really want big game. 957 00:56:13,862 --> 00:56:17,517 Because if I get big game, I can relax about food. 958 00:56:17,620 --> 00:56:20,068 I can do all the other stuff that this 959 00:56:20,068 --> 00:56:22,655 survival life requires. 960 00:56:22,655 --> 00:56:25,379 And I'm thinking, you get big game, 961 00:56:25,482 --> 00:56:26,931 you win the show. 962 00:56:32,482 --> 00:56:37,137 Oh my gosh, far across my swamp, 963 00:56:37,137 --> 00:56:40,172 I see a moose, a bull moose laying down. 964 00:56:40,172 --> 00:56:43,793 It's way, way, way out there where a tip of my bow is. 965 00:56:43,793 --> 00:56:45,655 If I could make a play on this moose, 966 00:56:45,758 --> 00:56:47,413 oh my goodness, I'd be silly not to. 967 00:56:47,413 --> 00:56:52,206 So the wind is kind of coming on to my left ear. 968 00:56:52,206 --> 00:56:54,379 So I'm gonna go down the river that way, 969 00:56:54,379 --> 00:56:55,965 or through the willows that way, 970 00:56:55,965 --> 00:56:57,206 and keep an eye on it. 971 00:56:58,655 --> 00:57:00,724 I want to see if I can call out to him once I get 972 00:57:00,724 --> 00:57:02,103 into a good position. 973 00:57:12,896 --> 00:57:14,827 I'm gonna approach it from a different side, 974 00:57:14,827 --> 00:57:18,655 where the brush is thicker near it. 975 00:57:18,758 --> 00:57:21,827 Just circle around it. 976 00:57:24,620 --> 00:57:26,448 I've got a little screen of willows between me 977 00:57:26,448 --> 00:57:29,482 and it at the moment. 978 00:57:29,482 --> 00:57:32,172 I'm gonna-- I think I'm gonna try 979 00:57:32,275 --> 00:57:34,413 calling to it from right here. 980 00:57:49,034 --> 00:57:51,413 And the moose just stood up. 981 00:57:51,413 --> 00:57:53,241 He's looking in this direction. 982 00:57:57,172 --> 00:57:59,206 I think it's coming. 983 00:58:05,862 --> 00:58:07,551 There it is. There it is. 984 00:58:08,931 --> 00:58:12,275 I can't believe it. I can't believe it. 985 00:58:18,551 --> 00:58:20,517 And the moose just stood up. 986 00:58:21,758 --> 00:58:24,586 There it is. There it is. 987 00:58:27,413 --> 00:58:30,413 I can't believe it. I can't believe it. 988 00:58:30,413 --> 00:58:34,827 Oh, it's trying to go away. 989 00:58:36,482 --> 00:58:38,862 It's steadily walking away. 990 00:58:48,793 --> 00:58:51,586 He's just standing there. 991 00:58:51,689 --> 00:58:53,551 He's unsure of what to do. 992 00:58:53,551 --> 00:58:54,965 So am I. 993 00:59:28,586 --> 00:59:31,103 I can tell you one thing, I'm burning up 994 00:59:31,206 --> 00:59:33,241 all my calories just with my heart beating 995 00:59:33,241 --> 00:59:36,965 and watching this play out. 996 00:59:38,034 --> 00:59:41,689 This is the hunt of my lifetime. 997 00:59:41,689 --> 00:59:46,379 But it's hard to be still and not call a lot. 998 00:59:46,482 --> 00:59:47,896 Maybe I'm not calling enough. 999 00:59:47,896 --> 00:59:49,517 But I have a tendency to overdo things, 1000 00:59:49,517 --> 00:59:52,379 so I'm taking it slow. 1001 00:59:53,896 --> 00:59:57,758 He's stepping this way. He's stepping this way. 1002 00:59:57,758 --> 01:00:00,517 I would say 500 yards. 1003 01:00:05,758 --> 01:00:09,793 Please, come to papa. 1004 01:01:13,965 --> 01:01:16,758 Oh, my gosh. 1005 01:01:18,068 --> 01:01:20,034 It's standing there in the brush. 1006 01:01:20,034 --> 01:01:23,103 OK, I got another chance. 1007 01:01:23,206 --> 01:01:27,517 I want this moose as bad as I wanted any animal in my life. 1008 01:01:33,034 --> 01:01:35,758 . 1009 01:01:41,172 --> 01:01:44,758 I can't even-- because one arrow 1010 01:01:44,758 --> 01:01:48,241 dropped right under its chest, 1011 01:01:48,344 --> 01:01:50,758 disappeared into the grass. 1012 01:01:50,758 --> 01:01:54,655 And my next arrow was looking perfect, 1013 01:01:54,758 --> 01:01:57,517 and a twig I didn't see, 1014 01:01:57,620 --> 01:02:01,724 about 10 feet in front of it, caught my arrow, 1015 01:02:01,724 --> 01:02:03,862 and I just saw it dart off to the right. 1016 01:02:03,862 --> 01:02:07,724 And he booked it out of there. 1017 01:02:07,724 --> 01:02:12,517 I've never had that much riding on an arrow shot, 1018 01:02:12,517 --> 01:02:15,206 never even close. 1019 01:02:20,758 --> 01:02:24,137 I cannot describe how much I wanted that moose. 1020 01:02:32,724 --> 01:02:34,655 That was my golden ticket right there. 1021 01:02:34,655 --> 01:02:37,620 That was a golden ticket. 1022 01:02:39,689 --> 01:02:42,965 And I mucked it so bad. 1023 01:02:44,551 --> 01:02:49,103 The feeling of defeat is deeper than I can tell you. 1024 01:02:53,103 --> 01:02:57,034 This failure has me numb. 1025 01:02:57,137 --> 01:02:58,724 I mean, I've hunted enough to know 1026 01:02:58,724 --> 01:03:01,206 the odds and probabilities. 1027 01:03:01,206 --> 01:03:04,379 So I'm smart enough to know that that 1028 01:03:04,482 --> 01:03:06,344 was a special chance, 1029 01:03:06,448 --> 01:03:08,758 and it's gone. 1030 01:03:08,862 --> 01:03:11,413 Probably the biggest opportunity 1031 01:03:11,517 --> 01:03:15,482 I'll have all winter. 1032 01:03:22,482 --> 01:03:24,793 I've got no words. 1033 01:03:24,793 --> 01:03:27,965 No words for today. 1034 01:03:30,965 --> 01:03:31,862 . 1035 01:03:31,965 --> 01:03:34,068 Oh, there's ducks coming. 1036 01:03:38,034 --> 01:03:41,034 Oh, ooh. 1037 01:03:41,034 --> 01:03:42,275 Oh, my God. 1038 01:03:42,275 --> 01:03:43,655 Oh no, he got off. 1039 01:03:43,655 --> 01:03:45,482 No, no, no, no, no, no, you're not going anywhere. 1040 01:03:48,310 --> 01:03:49,965 I feel kind of sick.