[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
‐ I'm about to get caught in a gnarly storm.
Oh! Should've been working on the shelter.
‐ I knew it was taking a huge chance not bringing
a fire striker.
My expectations are always higher than my ability.
‐ I'm starting to feel nauseous.
[gagging]
I'm starting to think, "Can I do this?"
‐ I don't think anybody has ever forged a knife on "Alone."
Maybe when it's done I can prison‐shank a muskox.
‐ Holy [bleep], got one.
Solitude is not something that I'm accustomed to.
I miss my family.
Oh, yes. Got my first fish of the trip.
‐ No frickin' way.
It is swimming towards me.
♪ ♪
male narrator: In "Alone's" most terrifying location yet,
ten participants face the deadliest predator
in North America.
‐ There he is right there.
‐ Grizzly bears. ‐ Hey, bear.
‐ There are a lot of grizzly here.
I'm gonna have to live with them.
‐ Go on! Get!
‐ Every second we're on the land, we're being hunted.
‐ Holy [bleep], mountain lion.
‐ He's circling around my shelter.
narrator: Bone‐chilling cold...
‐ Winter is coming.
‐ You combine the wind with the rain and the cold,
this place could make the Arctic look easy.
‐ Oh, [bleep].
narrator: And complete isolation.
‐ You cannot hide from yourself
mentally and emotionally.
‐ Ah!
‐ There's no place to go.
‐ I am suffering from loneliness.
narrator: Who will survive?
‐ Yes! Yes!
‐ This could be the end.
‐ I don't want to tap, but I don't want
to die either.
‐ You have to suffer before you can succeed.
[gagging]
narrator: The last one standing wins.
‐ At what point do I push the button?
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
‐ [sighs]
I'm going to cut the sleeves off my shirt.
♪ ♪
One sleeve, off.
All right, sleeveless shirt achieved.
♪ ♪
‐ What to do with the sleeves?
Sweet headwear?
No.
Arm cozies.
No.
I don't know. I'll find a use for them.
Oh, yeah. That's nice.
All right, I got to get dressed.
♪ ♪
‐ Feeling pretty decent this morning.
I'm most concerned about getting that shelter finished,
so that's going to be my main goal again.
I worked on getting two more rafters on the front wall
for the roof and insulating that front wall.
The sooner I get my shelter squared away,
the sooner I can start focusing
on hunting and fishing.
Rafters, it's more work, but it's important work.
What I'm going to do is cut them down to size,
strip them,
and then get them up there and secure them.
Gosh, wouldn't a fish just be so lovely
or a nice juicy grouse?
You don't deserve fish or grouse.
You haven't suffered enough yet.
A year ago, I was toiling away 10 hours a day
building trailers in a factory
full of fiberglass, dust in the air,
and now I'm out here in British Columbia,
Chilko Lake, living the dream.
I left my job to come do this.
I'm going to hang on as long as I can.
I got twins on the way back home,
and that money would make a huge difference
in their lives.
I don't really have the option of going home.
Beautiful.
There it is, the skeleton of my beautiful house‐cabin‐thing.
Okay. Next part of the process:
what I'm worried about here is making this wall
as solid as I can.
I want to block out the wind.
The wind comes heavy from this side.
You can see right now it's blowing,
so line the outside with boughs,
and then I'm going to take these big sheets of wood
from rotted tree stumps.
This is my answer to building my shelter in a windy place...
[chuckles]
Bark panels.
I got to finish this sucker. I want to move into it.
♪ ♪
‐ So I was thinking about testing out these underwear.
What do you think?
Triple XL.
Woo.
So I'm going to do
what Amós did and hang my fish in them
after I tie these monstrously large legs up.
Nice fish bag.
♪ ♪
I'm happy to have caught that fish,
but I ain't got much left,
starting to worry me a little bit.
If I can just keep a bear away from it,
♪ ♪
I'd be able to see that one good.
All right.
Maybe nothing will get in that. That would really suck.
♪ ♪
‐ I got a good start on the permanent shelter.
I think I'm going to try to get the fireplace finished
and just moss the whole thing.
I think that would insulate it pretty well.
It's going to get cold. It's going to get wet.
We're going to have strong winds.
It can be freaking miserable.
A big heavy fireplace draws out the smoke much better,
and then also,
there's just a massive amount of thermal mass there.
I know that long‐term efficiency
is going to be important, so when I cut firewood,
that's a big calorie expenditure.
I want to get as much out of that wood as I can.
I might have to put some moss in that crack
and then put mud over it.
A little too big for the mud.
I don't think I've ever thought about my family more.
It's like every second.
♪ ♪
I do all these things,
fishing and building shelters and everything,
and these are things that Corey and Finn
would absolutely love doing.
Every day I want to push that button
so that I can go see them,
but then I remind myself that it's just temporary,
and it'll seem like the blink of an eye.
I'll see them soon enough
and have lots of stories to tell.
♪ ♪
Got the back pretty much sealed up.
I'm going to get a fire going in this thing
and see what it does.
There we go.
Ahh.
Seems to be working pretty good.
Yeah. It's nice to have a fire in here.
That makes me happy.
I'm glad it works.
Wish I had some marshmallows and a graham cracker
and the boys; they'd love this.
I wish I had them here with me.
They would be having a ball.
Before I left home, my oldest boy said,
"Do lots of cool stuff so we can see you on TV lots,"
so I'm doing my best.
♪ ♪
[wind howling]
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
‐ I was up listening to the mouse go through my stuff,
but I don't see too much damage.
I was trying to smash him with a stick.
I almost got him a couple times but couldn't quite get to him,
But going to suck it up.
Going to do what I got to do. Got to just keep going.
♪ ♪
‐ We can do it, Chad. We can do it.
We can do it, Chad. We can do it.
We can do it, do it, do it, do it.
Starting to feel a little bit better
about the prospects of today.
I still haven't fully explored my land yet.
Still have more to explore.
[exhales]
All right, onion time.
Onion.
Let's see what we got on them onions.
Fixin' to have a big‐old stew.
I'm getting really good with the onions.
It's exciting.
I mean, I know it sounds simple,
because it's just digging up wild onions,
but I love learning stuff,
and I love getting better at stuff,
and I love seeing the result of getting better at stuff.
So what I like to do is jab at the soil next to it,
soften it up, pry it just a little bit
and then follow with my fingers along the stalk
until I get to the goods.
I'm just learning this landscape.
I hardly know it at all.
You can never know everything.
You can hope to know enough to survive,
but you don't know if you know that
until you put yourself out there.
Usually, I have my wife along,
and she helps keep my mentality straight,
helps keep me alive.
♪ ♪
Not having her around is a challenge,
big challenge.
Oh, [bleep]. There's a fire going.
Oh, [bleep]. [bleep].
Holy [bleep]. I didn't even notice it.
Holy [bleep].
♪ ♪
Damn.
That was crazy.
I looked up,
and this little patch of earth right here was burning.
Holy smokes.
That could've been bad.
Very, very lucky.
♪ ♪
Let's see. How's our pile looking?
That's good enough for one stew.
Chop them up and put them in.
I'm so thankful that the wind wasn't worse in my spot.
♪ ♪
‐ If I start a brush fire in my area
with the amount of grass,
I'm looking at the entire area burning.
Now I keep the fire going all the time,
because I do want to have a fire for cooking food,
but I need to pay close attention.
I'm not doing this again.
♪ ♪
[slurps]
Ahh, survival stew,
world's finest meal when doing survival.
Just a few simple ingredients:
water, whatever food you have,
and that's about it.
Ahh.
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
‐ ♪ I can't wait to move into my hall ♪
♪ It's going to be [bleep] glorious ♪
♪ Warm and cozy ♪
♪ Happy as can be ♪
♪ I made a hall in Chilcotin Mountain ♪
I'm pretty excited about it.
♪ ♪
‐ The goal today is to just get the cabin
into a sleepable state.
First things first,
I'd like to get a bed on a raised platform.
Having a comfy bed is important.
Boards for my bed.
I don't know if everyone came here with the mindset to win,
but I sure did.
I came here with [bleep] in my bank account.
The money is a pretty big deal for me,
what we're going for...
♪ ♪
Oh, yeah. That'll work.
Now that we've got the frame made for the bed,
let's say we go and get some padding,
some boughs and some moss.
♪ I toil away building my cabin ♪
♪ The suffering is needed ♪
♪ You can't come out here expecting to thrive ♪
♪ Without making a sacrifice ♪
♪ ♪
I hope by the time I'm out of here
I have something on here
that'll make my unborn daughters proud
when they watch it one day,
and I hope I'm the last one standing to see that end.
♪ ♪
So far, that feels pretty damn comfy, I've got to say.
♪ ♪
‐ Okay. Move‐in day has come.
This is my move into high society.
That's right, folks.
Biko Wright is moving up in the world,
upgrading from a tent to a house.
♪ ♪
Pack...in.
Not complete but move‐in‐able.
♪ ♪
[waves crashing]
♪ ♪
‐ It's windy right now, and the waves are crashing,
so I'm not going to try fishing.
I mean, as far as the wind goes,
I'm really concerned about being able
to even put a gill net out effectively.
Long‐term food is constantly on my mind.
Being able to shoot a deer is the only way
that I'm going to be able to make it till the end,
so I'm going to go deer hunting.
♪ ♪
That thicket has bear trails all through it,
so that's a big gamble, but either that or go hungry.
♪ ♪
Man, I hope I'm not burning calories for nothing.
I've got to find good,
and I can't control where I'm at.
The biggest hurdle is just reading that landscape
and figuring out where the opportunities are.
Right there, those open shrub slopes,
that's where the deer would be.
Let's see what's up this ridge here.
Bear scat.
Whew.
♪ ♪
This is not bad, this little aspen patch down below us.
I won't be able to determine if there's any deer in here
until I get down into the bottom.
God, this stuff is...
I'm afraid this whole place is like this right there.
I've hunted some rugged country
but not anything ever this big and this rugged.
♪ ♪
Just nothing but jack straw, lodge pole timber.
And you could slip and fall and stick a pole
through your leg in nothing flat.
♪ ♪
[bleep].
[sighs]
What a pain.
[bleep].
God, this stuff sucks.
This is not what I was hoping to find.
♪ ♪
Holy crap.
I am glad to be out of that stuff.
[groans]
Whew.
[exhales]
♪ ♪
Hmm, no deer.
[exhales]
This burn may have been productive at one time
before the timber started falling,
but it's so jack‐strawed in there now
that it's not what I was hoping for.
♪ ♪
My hopes of having a good
deer‐hunting spot are crushed.
Oh, well, just have to get the fish and figure it out better.
I don't know how to...
[groans]
♪ ♪
I know what to call that. That's a [bleep].
♪ ♪
All right. Back to camp.
I don't have the body type
to be able to not procure food from the land,
and so if I had an Achilles' heel,
it would probably be my metabolism.
I'm too skinny. I cannot out‐starve anyone,
which means my chances of being able to stay here
as long as I think I need to stay here are low.
It's starting to worry me a little bit.
I ain't got much left.
Bear scat all over this place,
more bear, more bear.
Claw marks.
♪ ♪
‐ Grizzly bear.
♪ ♪
[bear growling]
[bleep].
♪ ♪
‐ That's no more than 12 yards.
♪ ♪
So there's my bow,
and that willow right there,
that bear was just on the other side of that.
Had the bear spray out just in case.
All right. I'm gonna head back to camp,
hopefully not run into any big bears.
I don't want to surprise a mama bear.
I respect grizzly bears.
They make me anxious, because you never know
when something might walk up on you.
♪ ♪
You could blunder into the wrong grizzly
and be in a world of hurt.
I mean, if you come up on a grizzly that's guarding
a kill or a sow with cubs, the next thing you know,
you've got a grizzly bear standing on your head.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
‐ It's shaping up to be a nice day.
So I'm going to bathe, because everything stinks.
♪ ♪
Viewer discretion is advised
partly because of the nudity
but mostly because when I hit that cold water
I'm probably going to scream like a little kid.
♪ ♪
Oh!
Woo!
After that cold of water,
I don't think you have to blur me anymore.
Oh, goodness.
I'd better to get back to work on the shelter.
♪ ♪
This wind is telling me I have to get this shelter done.
♪ ♪
These notches are driving my OCD crazy,
because I'm trying not to take too much time.
As a carpenter, I like to have things just perfect.
♪ ♪
I am over sleeping in the tarp.
Less whining, more notching.
♪ ♪
I'm determined to get this knocked out.
I feel like it's going to be a game changer
once I have a solid home.
♪ ♪
‐ As someone who takes pride and enjoyment
in constructing things, that's of prime importance to me,
that I have a quality shelter,
and it's really, really difficult,
because I know I could spend a month
making this perfect cabin,
and yet I know I have to hurry up
and get it done while my energy is quickly waning.
♪ ♪
‐ This is survival in the real wilderness.
This is not a sanitized version of nature
that many people get.
This is not a park with curated wilderness and plants.
This is actual wilderness.
This kind of interaction with nature
is something that very few people get to experience,
and I think it's something that will change
how you view the wilderness and survival.
♪ ♪
A full doorway just big enough to be able to get in
and out of, small enough to try and contain the heat.
Tonight is going to be a different kind of sleep.
♪ ♪
‐ You could pretty much eat the scenery here.
It's just so beautiful.
I mean, look at that, Caribbean‐waters color.
Are you enjoying that nice blue lake
that I can't seem to pull fish out of?
Please, Chilko, just give me one fish.
No. Instead you're going to take my lure, huh?
[bleep] this.
Damn it. That was it. That was my chance for a fish.
[bleep]. It's so frustrating. I'm normally a great fisherman.
You ain't getting no fish out of me.
You need to lose some weight, buddy.
That's what Chilcotin is saying to be right now.
[laughs]
♪ ♪
Since I'm done with all the shelter stuff,
I'm going to switch gears to food‐getting,
start focusing on that. I can't just starve.
It's not a good way to go about it.
My area, it's definitely hard to walk around and hunt it,
and I haven't seen any sign, no deer scat.
I haven't seen a single grouse.
It's been a long while since I left my immediate area.
There may be a hidden meadow that I don't know about,
some kind of hidden corridor, just got to explore.
So my game plan is to try and swim across
this bay here.
My landing point is somewhere
by those deciduous trees.
I couldn't get there on land. I tried.
You hit dead ends trying to work the shoreline
through the thick trees and all the deadfall.
My only other idea is, you know, I swim a lot,
and I figured maybe I can swim over there.
I think it's about a 1/2 mile,
so it's going to be a pretty long swim,
and I could get swept into a powerful current
that takes me out,
and the water is freezing, so hypothermia is a risk,
but it's a risk worth taking, because you never know, man.
That might be the land of promise over there.
♪ ♪
‐ Here I go.
Hopefully, it goes well without any issues.
♪ ♪
‐ Yep, that's [bleep] cold.
Woo.
Gods of the lake, keep me safe on my swim
so that I may venture and see what treasures my land holds.
Let's go find out.
Here goes. One, two, three.
♪ ♪
[groans]
♪ ♪
‐ And we have amphibious landing.
♪ ♪
Whew. Holy [bleep].
♪ ♪
[laughs]
Maybe we'll have a couple of SILT bearings.
Only two left on that one.
How about some rose hips?
[bleep]. It's thick in here.
Looks like more of the same, super thick,
unhuntable forest.
I don't see myself harvesting much game from the land here.
Arrow is bound to hit a branch on the way to something,
even if I did see something.
♪ ♪
This is a bummer. Yeah.
I'm going to head back towards camp and the sunshine.
♪ ♪
Well, that's that.
I swam all the way across.
It was very tiring, a total waste of calories.
♪ ♪
I want to do well in this, make my family proud.
I don't want to let them down.
It would make it a lot more enjoyable though
if I could figure out the food production.
Once again, I am eating flowers
and plants and roots for dinner.
I know I won't be able to carry on on plants forever,
because come late fall,
the plants aren't going to be available anymore.
I'm already starting to see them dwindle,
and fall just begun.
Greens, roots and flowers,
it's what's for dinner.
♪ ♪
‐ So this is a fishing pole.
This is my‐‐ my reel right here.
I wrapped a wire around the back,
put the tension that I needed,
came up through those holes,
and just bent them over.
Then I made‐‐ with my trapping wire,
I made eyelets.
That's pretty cool.
♪ ♪
I'm hungry.
It's gonna be a nice day to go fishing.
♪ ♪
My focus is finding food.
♪ ♪
I have water, shelter,
fire for food.
I can tell I've lost weight.
I want to be here as long as I can by choice
and not taken out because I can't keep weight on.
♪ ♪
Fishing pole isn't working as well as I thought.
This spins too fast.
♪ ♪
I think I want to be able to pull that in and out,
because I have that lure on there,
so I'm going to
put the stopper on this
and set it down.
♪ ♪
So much to figure out here.
♪ ♪
I just need to get food, and I'm going to be all right.
♪ ♪
[leaves rustling]
♪ ♪
Man.
♪ ♪
Hey, bear.
♪ ♪
That was intense.
Now I'm very...um...
I don't know, just‐‐
not really scared, just so cautious.
♪ ♪
Everything right now is a food source for grizzly bears
going into hibernation,
so I think it's making them more curious,
and it keeps me on high alert.
It doesn't change the fact that I'm going to stay
and stick this out,
but I think this season upping the element of danger
makes it a different game.
I don't think it's about being tough.
I think, you know‐‐
I think I'm pretty‐‐
I can endure a lot.
I think it's about being smart,
and I think I have to be very smart
when maneuvering around here in the things that I do.
♪ ♪
‐ Well, it's me again, Tonya Riesling,
coming to you like from Chilko Lake.
[wind howling]
I would say if you were planning
on a leisurely kayak today on the lake,
you should perhaps choose another day.
Back to you in the studio, Herb.
♪ ♪
Head back to my spot.
Everybody worried about the bears,
but really it's the weather.
It's really nice to be in a more permanent space,
and this will allow me to focus on food.
I gathered some cow parsnip.
Cow parsnip has a nice center, so it makes it easy
to make up tubes that I can get the fire going with
instead of having to always blow it so close.
First things first, we'll check this out and see how it goes.
Oh, it works like a champ. Yay.
So that's a small win, because...
All right.
Here's our first foray into...
Wow. Ugh.
That might be one of the worst things
I've ever put in my mouth.
♪ ♪
Well, it looks like the weather is starting to change,
so I'm going to head to the water.
♪ ♪
I need to fish.
Fish have what my body needs.
They have fat. They have protein.
I need fish.
So that rock over there has a little bit of a notch in it
that I could probably brace a pole off.
♪ ♪
‐ I think it's really important to make things
and be a part of the food that we eat,
whether you hunt or fish or garden.
I think it builds gratitude and understanding.
There's a little notch in the rock.
♪ ♪
I think it's important not to take all that
for granted for sure.
All right. I braced it. It's out in the water.
I'm going to leave it to sit and soak and hope for the best.
♪ ♪
‐ I ain't going to lie.
I'm feeling the loneliness a little bit.
It's not the loneliness so much
as it is the change
from normal.
There was a routine there that was built that...
There's something swimming.
♪ ♪
‐ Is that a black bear moving across the way?
Let's see if I can get it.
♪ ♪
‐ There it is. See that?
That's a black bear across the way.
Just trudging along
without a care in the world.
I like seeing that.
I mean, it's all the way across the lake,
but it still counts as a bear sighting.
♪ ♪
‐ Having a deep connection with the landscape
is what I'm all about,
and that's what it's going to take for me
personally to win this:
building and sleeping in an earth shelter,
making fire from the sticks that you find,
gathering food from the landscape,
whether it's animal or vegetable food.
Now that the bulk of the shelter build is done,
it's definitely time to focus on hunting.
♪ ♪
I'm going to grab my bow and see
if I can get a shot at something.
♪ ♪
Whoa.
What the [bleep]?
♪ ♪
What the [bleep]?
A [bleep] mouse chewed my bow string.
♪ ♪
I can't [bleep] believe it.
He [bleep] chewed through the whole thing.
♪ ♪
What the [bleep]?
Holy [bleep].
What the [bleep] am I going to [bleep] do?
♪ ♪
‐ What, am I going to tie a [bleep]
knot and re‐splice the thing?
A [bleep] mouse chewed right straight through
my bow string...
♪ ♪
Trying to get at my string silencer.
♪ ♪
Just being able to hunt with the bow
is such an important part for my mentality.
Tie a knot in it. It'll be very difficult for me
to be here without the ability to wander around with my bow.
♪ ♪
What I'm doing here is wrapping this serving
around the bowstring as protection for the string
where the nock of the arrow comes onto it.
Oh, moment of truth.
Is it going to hold?
♪ ♪
Yes! Back in business.
♪ ♪
‐ Definitely a harder day mentally, emotionally,
but still in the game.
♪ ♪
Whee.
Time to make
the little mousetrap,
hoping to kill my little marauder here.
♪ ♪
‐ Here we go. Figure‐four trap to catch a mouse.
♪ ♪
This is hopefully going to eliminate the problem.
♪ ♪
I'm super hard on myself.
I lack belief in my abilities in life,
but it's just something I've got to learn
to stop doing.
Just need to ease off myself.
Jeez. [bleep].
It's like the blessing and the curse of the cameras.
The curse is that everybody can see it and can judge me,
but then the blessing is the motivation to do better.
It holds. It holds.
I got it set, Chad,
and there it is,
figure‐four deadfall.
Mouse comes in, jiggles the bait stick,
pow‐pow, pow, gets smashed.
So we'll see if it works.
♪ ♪
‐ Take my hat off.
I got to see this hair.
It feels like it's taken on a life of its own.
[laughs]
I think this might be the longest I've gone
without washing it in the past, say, 20 years.
Whoa. It feels like straw.
Yeah. That is a look. Love it.
♪ ♪
‐ All right. The sun is out, which is nice.
Although that can change at a moment's notice,
so I'm just going to start working on this door stoop.
♪ ♪
All right. So I'm going to do a beam here,
and then I can always dig this out
and have a little bit of a step‐down,
because it is pretty darn small to come in and out of.
My stomach feels a little off.
♪ ♪
I feel a little nauseous.
♪ ♪
‐ I haven't really eaten much today.
I've been eating cow parsnip, and it's just not enough.
♪ ♪
Ooh, I'm still feeling a little funky.
It's, like, stomach and...
♪ ♪
Into my armpits, which seems really weird.
♪ ♪
‐ Yeah, so... oh, my God.
I'm getting really nervous about something I've eaten
or if it's the water.
[gurgling]
Oof, boy.
Just going to sit for a second.
Oof.
Oh, man.
[sighs]
I feel like I'm going to barf right now.
Oh, my God.
♪ ♪
So I went to tend the fire.
I was feeling a lot better,
and I started to blow on the fire
using my little tube
and instantly started to feel
as bad as before.
I am worried that what I've been eating
is not cow parsnip.
It could potentially be water hemlock,
which is extremely poisonous.
They look very similar.
So I'm going to see if my symptoms get worse.
♪ ♪
Just remembering charcoal can help neutralize toxins,
so I'm going to just chew on some charcoal from the fire.
♪ ♪
And now it's just a waiting game
to see if things stay the same or get worse.
♪ ♪
I am so dizzy and nauseous.
I am afraid that if I have indeed poisoned myself
in some way and it escalates, who knows?
I might have some terrible reaction and not wake up.
♪ ♪
[sighs]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
‐ So I slept okay and then just woke up,
and whew, I mean, broke out
in a crazy intense sweat.
I thought I was going to throw up,
so I come outside and just,
like, stripped off my layers,
and I feel really weak,
just trying to basically
get to morning.
It's hard when you don't know exactly what's going on.
You just feel bad, and you're not sure why.
♪ ♪
I think something is coming out
one end or the other.
I think the lower end,
so I'm going to take a moment.
♪ ♪
‐ All right. It is daylight,
so we're going to go down and get some water.
♪ ♪
Wow.
To be up and moving feels really weird right now.
♪ ♪
But I feel a little bit better.
Whatever was there worked its way out of my system.
♪ ♪
Let's just go sit for a second,
have a little water.
Earlier, I was close to tapping, because for me,
this‐‐it's not worth risking life and limb over.
The further you go into hunger,
the less clear your mind is,
the more likely you are
to make errors that can be really harmful.
The thing is about these kind of experiences is,
there's a lot of ups and downs there,
a lot of doubt that you have to work through,
and then you have to fall back on what you do know.
So I'll just keep going as long as I can.
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‐ Good morning.
I need to get fish.
I need meat, period.
I need to get some calories in.
There's not really much for berries around anymore
other than bear berries.
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Once you're warm,
dry, and have water, you have to find food.
That's the name of the game to stay in it long‐term.
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So I'm going to spend a couple hours fishing this morning.
Let's get to it.
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To come out here, I had to shut down
my contracting business.
It's a very serious commitment,
something I don't take lightly.
Oh, no. What's this rat's nest?
Crap.
This was not something I did on a whim.
This is something I took a lot of thought
and consideration into before I decided to do it.
I don't need another rat's nest.
Come on.
And if I don't succeed,
then have I just put a speed bump in life?
Have I sent financial and family stability
backwards rather than forwards?
No way.
Come on. Come on. Come on.
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‐ No way. No way.
Come on.
Come on. Come on! Yeah!
[laughing]
I did it!
I just got a bull trout.
Yeah!
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Unbelievable.
Whoo!
I'm going to cook this up and have a good meal.
[dramatic music]
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‐ Let's go see about a place to make a refrigerator.
Want to get down here in this draw near the creek,
a place that I can dig a little hole,
because all the cold air is going to sink down there.
I think it'll help keep it cooler.
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I picked about a gallon of cranberries and currants,
and, you know, it's still warm.
So the only way that I know to get these berries cooled down
is to go down beside the creek and dig a hole.
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That's something that my great‐grandparents
did down in Florida
to keep their milk and stuff cool.
There we go.
That ought to keep them cool.
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Oh.
Normally, anyone that's planning
to spend the winter here
would've spent the entire spring right on up
until the first snows preparing to be out here.
We don't have that luxury. We have to get on the ball
and get whatever berries are left,
and you're competing with not only grizzly bears,
who love berries, but all the birds.
Anything that you need later in the year
that's not going to be there you need to collect right now.
Look at all that goodness.
Mmm.
They'll probably ferment and get me drunk.
That'll be all right.
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‐ Hello, folks, and welcome to another episode
of Chef Jordon's "Wilderness Cooking Cuisine."
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‐ Today we have got a treat especiale just for you.
We are talking bull trout head soup,
so first off, we're going to start with about a quart
and a half of water.
To that we're going to add
one bull trout head,
and then we're going to add about 2 tablespoons
full of chopped false Solomon's seal root.
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That's going to give a little extra flavor to it.
While this is simmering,
I want to put together a smoker
so I can smoke the rest of the bull trout.
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But now we've got fish,
and with fish come the bears.
Now, smoking typically takes 24 to 48 hours.
The problem is, I'm not sure how long fish
is going to be able to sit here overnight
without a bear coming and eating the fish.
My thoughts are to slice up the fish very thinly
and try and accelerate the smoking process,
so I can do it much quicker, and then I can get it
stored away and safe from all the bears.
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Now I've thoroughly made a mess of things.
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You know, I really need to make some real chopsticks
at some point instead of these...
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Curvy, last‐minute alder branches.
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That's a bone.
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Mmm, fish head skin.
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It is a huge confidence boost to realize,
"You know what? I can get fish."
Not only that, but this is a substantial chunk of meat
that I just pulled in,
and if I did it once, I can do it again,
so it feels like a turning point.
I have a way of obtaining food out here,
and hopefully that means taking home
the half‐million dollars.
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‐ I cannot play fattest‐man‐wins game.
I need a house where when I'm in it,
no extra calories are being burnt.
‐ I think we're just going to go for it.
We're putting the pier in, wind and waves be damned.
[bleep].
‐ Very few people know the details
of what I'm about to say.
‐ Hey, bear!
Nothing I seem to do seems to scare them off.
[bleep] He's coming.
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