A Year Alone in the Wilderness

Derik Varia 18-year army veteran hunter fisherman bushcrafter survivalist I like to sum up all these skills with one word and that's woodsmen I think you need to be well-versed and all of the skills that you're gonna need to make it out here so I'll be attempting to survive alone no camera crew and only what I have on my back for up to a year we're right in the middle of the mountain lakes region-- resources should be plentiful knowing how to get them is the key so here I am alone dropped off on a old logging road of sorts so I'm just gonna take a minute here and collect my thoughts come up with a game plan I pretty much know what I need to do but I just want to relax get more mentally prepared for this I think there's a certain romance to doing something like this you know it's appealing to a lot of people outdoors people type people of course but uh a lot of people I think tend to think about it is coming out here and you know living off the wind I tend to think of it a little different we'll try to anyway living off the land kind of denotes a certain parasitic relationship which obviously isn't good so in order to make it out here for a year you kind of got to live with the land and incorporate yourself into nature's rhythm you'll see a lot more things if I come stumbling down this logging road like a typical hiker I'm not gonna see anything at least in the way of wild game and that's one of the main resources that I'm gonna have to find out here and get on top of you know in order to make it so this isn't a sprint it's more of a marathon I need to take my time do things right kind of read the landscape and go with it all so we're gonna go off leave the pack here for our second take a quick walk around my immediate area see if there's anything in the way of resources right now the weather's pretty good let's been raining to my knowledge off and on for the past twelve fourteen hours so everything out here is pretty wet but and again we're here in the mountains you know the weather can change in a matter of minutes and you could have a stall them come a little player over the top of the mountain you're not gonna know that till it's right on you so staying dry is gonna be key obviously maintaining my body's core temperature is gonna be of the utmost importance and this isn't your typical 72 hour scenario where I get rescued at the end or magically find my way out you know I'm trying to be here I'm trying to live out here for up to a year now this is a good sign right here couple trees I just noticed this walking back to my pack here this is from a deer a buck to be particular where he's rubbed the tree with his horns and I know for a fact that's a deer because I confirm it multiple ways one I've got the classic deer rub here on the tree but and then I confirm that with something else on the ground just to be positive because that could also be so here's my ground confirmation by the way of scat let's deer scat and then we have a little bit more right there and though it's not hunting season that's a pretty good find again just tells me that I can't rule this area totally out food is obviously going to be very important animal that big I probably don't want to shoot right away unless I absolutely needed it but coming winter time here in a couple months that's exactly the type of food I'm going to need so uh we'll keep this area in mind hopefully we don't have to travel too far to where we can you know find a spot that's full of resources and by that I mean you know proper trees and ways to get firewood again without spending too much calories having to cut it down this area would do that but I need other things I need plants for you know to eat wild edibles I need medicinal type plants because I only have minimal stuff with me you know in the way of medicine and stuff like that at some point here within the next couple months I'm gonna have to build a pretty permanent shelter if I plan on making it through the winter so those are the type of resources that I'm looking for to go along with you know the animals that are going to help feed me a water source is obviously critical for me it's just as critical for the animals and that's a good place to start off when you're looking to do any type of hunting obviously fishing and trapping so we definitely need to find a water source another classic deer rub within thirty yards all right well we head off here come across another really good resource wintergreen Teaberry it usually grows in acidic type ground there's a lot of pines here usually out in the open somewhere but not always in the classic way to identify this point you just break a leaf off kind of macerated in your fingers like this and then smell it it smells exactly like wintergreen so again it's a wild edible it grows little oranges almost red type berries even those if you pick kind of squeeze it into your finger it's got that sweet smell to it went to greeny smell to it very good to eat also this is a medicinal plant so you can take the Leafs of these make them into a tea and it's very good you know for cold and flu type symptoms so it's a good fine you know good hunting tip I learned while hunting tip could go for a lot of things well I learn from an elder up in Maine when I was seeking more knowledge you know like I said earlier your typical backpacker will walk through these woods and if he's stumbling in a rush got somewhere to go he's probably not gonna see any wildlife you can read the landscape off a bird language typically they'll definitely know you're coming they react to stimuli and not you know everything else that brains don't process stuff like we do so uh they know you're coming you'll see them hook up to a branch you know if you're being careful and now they know you're there and if you look intimidating or out here like you're hunting they sense that because their lives depend on it so you make them sound their bird alarm you know the deer that was 50 yards up the trail it was already moving out and you'll never see him nor the bear so they'll know for up to three full minutes that you've been coming and you'll never see him so again taking your time looking around you using a wide field of vision you know being careful not to snap branches and just being a klutz will benefit you greatly so I'm coming to a small clearing here which is usually good for certain type plants too a lot of plants grow on edges of things edges the fields and just a water stuff like that so that's a good place to look for wild edibles and medicinals as well so we're going to scout this so see if we can find anything so it wasn't much in the field but still very early here up in the mountains of New Hampshire winter basically just ended to two and a half weeks ago while this whole ground was covered in snow so it's gonna take a little bit before all you you know edible plants medicinal plants not coming up but uh it's in the early stages of that now I'm down in some marshy / swampy area right now I can see a bunch of fiddlehead ferns all over the place so there's some edibles wild rhubarb are you kidding me right now you know again winter kind of just ended here up in the Northeast so this stuff's just starting to come up and still got a lot way to go it's definitely edible right now and that's some good eating right there I'm probably gonna have to steal a little piece just because salad eat it raw if I had some sugar right now man oh man but it's pretty much gut you know a half round stock obviously the reddish tint to it and then on one side it's got a classic you groove to it and uh that's how I'm able to identify it not to mention if I just break a piece off and smell it that's some good stuff so again where if I had to guess probably a couple football fields length away from where we first started and we've already discovered quite a bit of resources here the one that we haven't found yet which is one of the most important is going to be water so uh we still got to continue on hopefully I don't have to get too far away from this area because it's looking pretty good there's a lot of birch trees lots of pines and that's going to be key for me to affect fire so hopefully we can find what we're looking here looking for here shortly well I've been hiking around for quite a while and I finally found a water source which is good I've been taking multiple breaks along the way and I drank in most of my water so can be happier right now so I'm gonna drop my pack here I'm thinking this is a good spot where I'm at to set up camp pretty open right here stand up Hines mixed with some hardwoods some of the things I'm looking for where I'm gonna set up my camp is first thing I look for is any widow-makers or something that's gonna fall and make me not be able to go home to my wife the area right here looks pretty good for that after that I don't want the lowest ground our cold air tends to sink anyways they're gonna be the colder spots and I don't want the highest ground because I don't want all that wind on me either so I'm looking for middle ground something that's not gonna flood out on me and you know try to get the least exposure to the elements as possible and as be as safe as possible so again this looks like a good spot so I'm gonna catch my breath here dig some stuff out of my pack and we'll take a walk now about 50 yards off to my right and I'll show you what I found for water I got to be careful walking around with a calorie tick on my back for as long as I have a little one right now I haven't sweat too bad which is good but you definitely want to stay clear of stuff like that you know that goes right around the 40 degree mark today but uh can I keep pushing myself not taking my time build up a good sweat you know hypothermia right around the corner couple more sips look I got some water while we're down there checking out the water circulation you know generally speaking up here in the mountains you can find a lot of little streams like this and in some cases it's just Mountain runoff I don't know that that's the case or not here the stream is always here so some things I need to think about are is this gonna be a good spot still come with us on this is probably gonna get froze over it's very shallow so it doesn't appear to have any fish in it at least not right here as the summer moves on it may have frogs and crayfish and stuff like that which is really good Louis chain to source is always good and this is exactly where you find them at the water's edge another thing to think about isn't it extreme emergency if I had to I'd probably just go ahead and drink this water but being out here for a year that's the last thing he loved the wherever this is coming from obviously I don't know yet I could walk upstream and try to figure that out but a lot of this water's getting filtered down as it comes to putting the rocks in here I can see some smaller rocks on the bottom while he's up mopping these and things like that and it's moving water it's not standing still so it's not stagnant so again if I had to an extreme emergency rather than be hot or die of dehydration I'll just go ahead and drink this stuff again I'm gonna be out here for a year going you to go ahead and just before we drink that we obviously have to disinfect it so there's numerous ways you could do that I can get all creative and make a primitive type filter out here you know it's not gonna do a whole lot for me other than get out some particulates to truly disinfect that the only way to do that and disinfect it 100% is to boil out water so that means we need fire it's getting late in the day not sure you know woodsman of days passed you know typically the 18th century timeframe which I've done quite a bit of research on those folks didn't live by the minute or the hour or the day they lived by the season that's how they kept track of time you know what was going on in one particular season what resources were available when that's kind of how they did things so I'm gonna try to do the same so with that said I think it's about time that I actually go ahead and set up camp I gotta gather firewood yet to get a fire going so if we go ahead and do that first I think come back start setting up my shelter and I will go from there if you notice there's quite a bit of birch trees around me quite a bit of pine as I mentioned earlier well that's a key factor for fire up here in the Northeast you know if you can't get a fire done with that pretty much you're any trying we're not gonna go the easy route this time seeing it's day one and I'm still pretty fresh haven't spent a whole bunch of calories to this point this may not be where I end up staying the duration but it's going to be here for the night anyway and possibly a few days at least so I can get a good feel for what's going on in the area so I found what I believe to be horse weed it's a big stock plant typically has a lot of leaves on it this is obviously from last year they generally have a pithy type stalk which is good for certain things so we're going to go ahead and try to get a hand drill fire going here shortly but first we got to go collect our tinder and kindling now part five has a coil in it called ventolin which is highly combustible which makes this my prime tinder up in the morning some people prefer different things my go-to I absolutely have to get a fire going this is the stuff right here it'll take a spark from a Ferro rod I'll open flame obviously very easy even when it's wet don't by peeling the bark off like this you're not gonna hurt the tree honey it's kind of shedding that's all two-layer anyways as it's growing what you don't want to do is cut into this with your knife or an ax or something like that and totally wring this tree out at that point you know then you're killing it so be a good steward of the woods get what you need in a respectful manner don't take everything your way give them back to the force provide so we have some birch bark for our tinder now we need some kindling and Kinlan needs to be some small stuff generally again up here pine is my go-to you want all the dead small stuff that's still on the tree hanging up high especially you know over the course of last night and this morning it's been raining on and off here so anything on the ground at this point it's gonna be wet you want the stuff up high that snaps just like that and we get it that's gonna do you a lot of good now this stuff you're gonna need a whole bunch of it so I'm gonna keep collecting this we'll make a pile I can't set up on top stop preparing for tonight [Music] all right what I've chosen for my shelter is an oil cloth top again going back to the folks from the 18th century this was that preferred carry mainly that's all they had when it worked for me so the difference between this and an ultra-light you know backpacker type sill night Ark is obviously this is going to take spocs from my fire a lot better than a SIL night talk so I'm not going to get all the burn holes and a chance getting wet so the reason I set my topper up the way I did and this is typically how I do it more often than not but I get sort of a rain fly over the top front section of it just in case the wind changes during the night when I'm sleeping and the rain comes from a different direction it offers me more protection than just just straight lean-to type design I've also cupped it in in the back because I don't need such a big area it's not too cold right now but all I need is a small fire out here the heat will radiate into this and keep you toasty warm you know if the blankets ain't enough by chance so I try to keep it small and compact instead of you know this big monstrosity where all the winds coming in and out you notice I have a tree at where my head's giving that'll offer me a little bit more protection up by my head you know in the way of some predator animal that may walk into cows and life setting this up in a way where the wind is kind of blowing from your back towards me at an angle so I could could have put my top the other way and totally block the wind but then on the other side of things any wind that's coming around is taking the heat from my fire away from me so I want the wind you know to help me to a point and help blow the heat into my shelter but I don't want it blowing straight in and trapping any smoke that may come with it so it's kind of at an angle away from this side where my head's gonna be and blowing out towards my feet so uh this is again typically how I like to set up my talk shelters all right I've taken a piece of that horse weed that we found cut a small just a small chunk of eastern white pine just a little slava lap nothing special so now what I need to do is get a little divot started in here for the piece of horse we'd try it right here I'm gonna finish that with my Swiss Army knife round it out a little better all right so I get a little divot that'll be where this spins inside once we get that going I'm gonna have to cut a little notch in the front of this board to allow the dust to fall in to create my ember hopefully so give this a few spins [Music] all right smoking good sign some dark dust that's also a good sign I'm gonna set that off to the side for a second and cut our notch misuse the star on my Swiss Army knife for that I don't want to do cut myself and finish that the knife just clean out and here that stuff inside there let's jag it hopefully that's gonna do it alright so the next thing we need to make sure we have is our birds nests you remember that birch box that we grabbed I'm just gonna process this up and it's just a matter of mastery in it creating fine fibers so when I put the Emmer in there broken bus [Music] just wanna tuck that back into my fire lay over here because I don't have a big enough bird's nest to hold in my hand and blow it upon him hopefully that's gonna be alright [Music] [Music] now it's smoking but I need to fill that hole with dust before it's ever gonna do anything for me I'm not getting too crazy with it I really want to do that shut up Cole shouldn't say shoot we do have a cold so for sweet eastern whites eastern white pine I'm sorry whose uh dump that into a bird's nest over here blew it right out that's not a good thing so you know that's that's the thing with permitir fire I mean I got actually very lucky I mean I kind of know what to look for I've done this but obviously but uh first time go made the set and I got a cold but the way I did it my bird's nest wasn't properly built I said that earlier it wasn't big enough to where I can hold it in my hand so that was one downfall and I'm thinking it wasn't processed enough either so uh I ended up just blowing that small coal I had oh and you're gonna have typically a small coal when you use on a hand drill so uh we're not giving up time try again add a little cedar bark to my birch bark gives me a little something to hold and we're going to try it that way this time I'm set that off to the side get our set back try this one more time [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh yep round two I still got a little number right inside that not if you can see that [Music] put into our bundle here [Music] [Music] [Music] there now I should be able to boil our water now and obviously that wasn't the easy way to do things but primitive skills primitive skills are very important to know that I'm pulling the practice in the event but that's your only option so chose to do primitive fire one because I still have the calories to do that I didn't waste too many today and at the same time I've conserved resources that I have in that my preferred method of starting a fire at least when I'm out doing this type of thing is with a Ferro rod or my lighter you know bit lighter but all those nothing runs out you can't depend solely on Thoreau just keep this fire going now shouldn't be too hard to do I got some big firewood just over here you can see still got some small stuff and all around me there's nothing but down trees again we're not too far probably 400 yards or so away from where we first started so we're in pretty good shape at least one out [Music] all right get the only 100% way to disinfect your water just a boil the only way let's take my metal container fire fresh water might even make a tea so hot water is done and get that out of there shut it off to the side from now so our water is done we got some pretty good firewood right here for the night still got some small stuff and again there's plenty around me so not overly concerned with wood for the night hopefully it's not gonna get too cold but I think I have what I need for the night now I gotta stop focusing on so what I have a mind to do just go out on a little scalp see if I can find some food and probably set a couple traps two or three anyway see if I can have you know something to eat but tomorrow as well as tonight I'll see if I can hunt some you know small game for dinner tonight I've got maybe a week's worth of food if I'm lucky in the way of you know some flour some pancake mix some oatmeal and awesome beef jerky and stuff like that so that'll be it for tonight if I get skunked on this little scalp and uh hopefully we can set a few traps and have some food but tomorrow it's gonna be an ongoing thing from here on out today one I'm already talking about hunting and trapping again because I have about a week's worth of food and we know food is very important so if I'm gonna make it out here here so we're just gonna let this fire down die down a little bit so I don't leave it unattended I want to get out set a couple of those traps try to do that on it's gonna be beef jerky and some type of bread well the rains coming in haven't been gone you know five ten minutes so I'm back here we've seen a bunch of those fiddlehead ferns in that mocchi swampy area I'm thinking I'm gonna set a trap of two down here probably try to get a or possum so I definitely got to be on our game now get wet come tonight again hypothermia not too far away make for a miserable night and we got to get back in time to make sure we can keep a fire going so I'll head down here and set a couple of traps all right I'm thinking right is probably a good spot first set what I'm thinking that stream that we're not too far away from our camp I believe is the same stream here so uh the opossum in your Coons are going to come down by the water's edge you know as well as everything else but more particularly them looking for something to eat so right in this little crook of the tree I'm gonna throw some bait I'm gonna set my trap right here in this trap that I kind of just kicked out for now I've got my wire tied up just took care of my trap wood and I will go from there so let's off get this trap in the trap bed and get it baited there's a lot of different types of traps I prefer an MB myself for the leg holes anyways tied off to my wire overhead spank it to the tree what else is good about these type of traps they're a little on the expensive side but they got what's called the night latch so at night you don't have to fiddle around with the dog here on the pan to see if it's level I'm not I'll see if it's right set it as a hair trigger or whatever you just push this down under the loose jaw so it doesn't catch your finger push that down till it clicks and you're good we'll buries us in here as best we can I don't have to have these I don't have a lot of trapping supplies with me just a few traps because I think it's that important to carry traps but it just covers the pin that allows you to sip some dirt over it to cover it up and no dirt gets under the pan so when the animal steps on it goes off usually there's a sifter to do this again when you coming out for a year long there's only so much you can carry so I didn't think that was that important that I had to have it so we're just gonna have to make do I can grab some of this kind of funnel them in if we can just a little bit so it wants to see they on both sides and put some sticks some dirt that's just called fencing so at the animal it makes the animal want to come in here path of least resistance and it's going to bait this hole up here with some sardines I brought two cans of sardines with me just for this not much in the way of bait but I'm hoping this gets me going and as I catch animals hopefully that'll give me more bait nice fishy smell I should bringing the and the possum sure well they'll rinse us out by the creek take your back with them so you can see I put a couple more sticks in the front yeah I don't do this because when I'm typically trapping I have the tools like I said to make that nice nice dig the proper holes and I don't have all that jazz I just have trapped some trap and wire and a little bit of bait so I put some sticks block in the entranceway to that little hole which is going to cause the animal to have to work my set a little bit more and hopefully get caught in my trap [Music] [Music] well we got three traps set out nothing on the hunt I didn't want too much I was getting kind of worried about the rain so I wanted to get back please get some the trap set off to eat what I have with me put tonight so Phi is obviously out so we're gonna have to get that going again I'm just gonna sit down and relax for a while take it from that so I figured while I was relaxing here took a few things out of my pack to show you guys some of the things I have without digging too much oh so for tools what I typically carry on me and what I use that I think very helpful obviously a good acts especially come winter time but you know this can help you do a lot of things build a wall permanent camp when the time comes when you find the right place I have a small folding saw you know for smaller type test that comes in handy to make an primitive fire sets to building shelter so helping with firewood the whole bit I have a bigger bow saw that's wedge down in the back of my pack that I didn't feel like digging out at the moment but I have that as well but you know cutting some bigger trees down and again useful for the same things just bigger trees after that and of course you know I can't always carry a knife on my hip but I like to carry several knives and it's not to come out here and be Rambo you know that's not the idea behind it some people just love knives and like to carry a lot I have a reason for that and I like to think of it as task-specific tools so you know some people think you know one knife will do everything for you I tend to totally disagree with that I think one knife can do a lot of things for you but it's not made to do everything and that's why there's different types of knives so I have a small Mora here that's you know a bushcraft style knife to get the carving notching stuff like that you know can't type stuff bushcraft type stuff I have a custom knife that was made for me by a good buddy of mine it's a stainless steel and it's a skin and night that's exactly what it was made for it's got some red hardwood some bone some leather work into the handle very nice knife so hopefully when we get some game here we'll better use that and skin it out I got a another smaller knife this is you know more fat rap and say my desk inin at his carbon steel so it's pretty rugged but its intended purposes for skinning and our clean and game as well next one that I like good old fillet knife it's hard to beat that knife oblate fish you could probably get by with one of these other knives but ah you're not going to fillet a fish like you will with this one so I like to have one of those as well and hopefully fish is gonna be a pretty regular part of my diet thrill to summertime if I can do some getting through the ice in the winter I'll surely try that I have a bigger you know survival-type knife push push crab pretty much a one knife does all concept but again I don't believe in that foot there's just a big rugged knife again custom-made for me to my specs so it's a good knife I've used this for a couple years now or not ever done me wrong attached to the sheath of this one is a Ferro rod for effective fire same concept behind this one as far as the Ferro rod always have one with me this happens to be another custom knife that was made just for me and it's a butcher style knife again for skinning game and stuff like that so past specific is what I believe in so that's for the array and knifes the one on my hip there's just a cheap old hickory butcher knife I'm pretty fond of a butcher knife it was used all over the frontier and you know it worked then it worked for a couple hundred years then and it still works and also I like to carry that one you know quite often so those are just some of the tools that I bring out with me that will help me do the things that I need to do you know they survive out here so you get again walls rush them I'll share that with you guys so you know there's only so much you can pack on your back to think you can come out here and you know live for a year and kind of have to decipher what's most important to you what's the most important priorities that you need to accomplish out here and what's going to help you do that so pretty nitpicky to try and figure all that out I try to cover my basis going on you know the six survival priorities fire shelter water food personal hygiene and first aid and then navigation in a survival scenario you know search-and-rescue would come into that and signaling but I'm trying to be here and make it for a year so I cover all my bases as far as that stuff goes to include you know shelter isn't just the top it isn't just some type of you know natural debris Hut or something like that it's part of the clothes on your back is your immediate shelter so you get a choose wise and accordingly there too so I have some more things in my pack as we go along here I'll pull them out and show you why I brought them what they're used for why I thought they were important things of that nature but uh one thing I wish I had was some sort of conveyance so I didn't have to carry all this stuff and quite frankly I could have brought more because you definitely need more than you can pack in your back reminds me of a couple stories I'd like to share with you while we're hanging out by the campfire you know waiting to get something to eat here and then going to bed so I think you'll enjoy so this reminds me of a couple stories actually documentaries that you know I've watched in the past several times over Nick prenta he is one of them he lived up in Alaska built his own cabin and all with hand tools you know chisels hand saws the whole bit and I took him a couple years to do that he went out the first year cut down all his logs peeled them stacked them up until he could come back the next year and stop building his cabin so when he went back and started building he had the opportunity or the luxury of stayin and somebody else's cabin in the film it shows him canoeing across you know the river or the lake to get to where his building his cabin so I guess my point is he had a means of conveyance a means to bring everything he needed out there he mentioned in the documentary of this being his third trip of bringing gear out so again he had a way to bring everything he needed out there he wasn't just packing it all on his back you know whatever you can fit in a backpack and going but he lived out there for quite some time his cabin still there today I think it's a tourist attraction now and you can actually visit it another one is he mo and Edna Cole will also live you know far up in Alaska I think close by the Arctic Circle or something like that female pool the Kimo started out as a butcher basically from my understanding worked in packing meat and I had an opportunity to go up in Alaska and try to you know do this essentially so he ended up marrying an Inuit woman Edna who ended up going with him and you know they did a lot of things together over the course of you know several years they ended up with three cabins that they made you know in all kinds of resources and again the point to this is he had a way of conveyance a lot of his stuff was flown in by bush plane so he had you know 55-gallon drums full of dry goods and multiple rifles and shotguns and he was an avid trapper he actually trapped the fur and that's what you know he paid with or traded for you know the food to eat and any needed supplies that he had but again he had conveyance to bring everything that he needed out there for him so uh you know a guy I think this is a appealing to most people it's certainly appealing to me that's why I do it it's more of a lifestyle for me than a hobby or anything if I wasn't tied to society at the moment and had a family you know this is the way I want to live off-grid so this would be this will be a good stepping stone for me get some more learning experience and you know take that with me when the time comes to go ahead and do this the wife's on board with it she's a big supporter of mine she supports me and everything I do you know for the most part so she's all about it we just gotta wait for the little one to fly the coop one day and hopefully at that point we'll be set up to where you know we can go ahead and do something like that but it's still raining pretty steady about that time and have to get something in my belly but I did actually have a couple packages of ramen noodles that's a trail favorite for me I don't want to pull out a whole bunch of stuff and get a bunch of things dirty I'm just gonna boil some water my cup for that I also have the beef jerky that we mentioned you know tried throwing the beef jerky in with the ramen noodles and that's good pulled us I think I'll snack on that and eat the ramen noodles by themselves when they're ready I'll get that water on the go and go snack on some beef jerky incredibly warm right peel off a layer mash them up so it fits on the cup and I'm ready pretty good living right here got something one of them traps tomorrow even better just as I shot that last scene just behind us here how to gobble he couldn't mend more than 50 yards of so I didn't see him but it was definitely close he cackles a couple times I thought we were gonna get lucky I think that's why I like it so much out there especially by yourself you know yet nobody's mercy and on anybody's time clock you and mother nature once it let's follow her rhythm you'd be right I haven't really talked about you know some of the dangers out here other than a hypothermia I think I've mentioned a couple times and that's one of the three killers but around here and those lots of wild game catch a moose at the wrong time in the rut you know I could definitely prove tragic so they're around and I got to be aware of them that's not currently the rut but they're here you know you got your coyote you Bob Pat pretty sure this links in the area don't worry so much about those because as long as they know you're here you'll probably never even see them and then you have black bear which could obviously ruin your day pretty quick on this area at least them turkeys again so according to my research in this area they figure about 4,800 to 5,000 black bear across New Hampshire and they figure it's about an average of one per square mile but obviously that's just an average so that more densely populated and some areas opposed to others so I definitely got to be cognizant of them as well I think the last known or documented black bear attack in New Hampshire anyway was in 1748 or something like that so uh you know the chances are slim but I don't know how they get their statistics if that's just off of people you know going to the White Mountains on a summer trip or a hike something like that then there's not a whole lot of opportunity to run into the bear to begin with when you're living out in that backyard it's a whole lot different well my god water's done for ramen noodles let's go ahead and get that oh you walk on Turkey antagonizing me over here might just have to go take a walk it's definitely getting dark but I can still see quite a ways probably done in here in a minute see if I can go get him that ramen shape Oh [Applause] hello [Applause] these schools [Applause] Oh wasn't the best hen cackling normal but he's definitely full probably letting everybody know where he's not it's just about the roost it's a big sign like a couple more pieces of this beef jerky I want to eat too much the only bag I have tear into them ramen noodles get something warm in my belly it's gonna be our and I are off of that right tuck in and call it a night all right ramen it is and all tonight this isn't just a favorite woods meal for me I like this a lot at home to breathe haven't heard any more gobbling back there so he's probably up in the tree by now good to know he's around though for sure we're hoping this rain stops not a big fan of rain at all I rather have six feet of snow than rain [Applause] this hot spark really good thing about wool will sweat up a couple of wool blankets I have to worry about that slept too much ultra light style ultralight backpacking type stuff and I'd have holes all on my stuff already night one no that wouldn't be a good thing [Applause] I eat this every day unfortunately that's not gonna happen I got one left [Applause] 364 more days to go [Applause] put that away keep the Curtiz away it's about time to turn in so thinking back on the two documentaries I thought the bolt from female bull and dick brenneke and having a way of conveyance to bring everything that you need out to wherever it is you're gonna be can you actually make it a whole year with just what you can pack in your back hole just half the sea [Applause]

Channel: The Woodsman School and Guide Service

Views: 4,988,020

Rating: 4.0535426 out of 5

Keywords: bushcraft, woodcraft, survival, selfreliance, camping, solocamping, canoecamping, carcamping, walmart, basspro, cabelas, outside, adventure, outdoors, hunting, fishing, trapping, foraging, offgrid, unboxing, unboxingtherapy

Id: kNOB9S_kJLo

Length: 78min 6sec (4686 seconds)

Published: Wed May 07 2014