Survivorman | Utah Canyon Lands | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Les Stroud

yeah [Music] [Music] [Music] today on Survivor man I'm in southern Utah and it's among the most mysterious and unexplored regions of the American Southwest ancient cultures have survived here and vanished in the breathtaking but brutal Canyonlands I'm going in seven days [Music] awesome massive country the ancient magic in these canyons is legendary I'm in for the ride of my life my crew will drop me in and the local Scout desert Dave will be camped out many miles away until I get back no water predatory mountain lions nighttime chills disease carrying insects loneliness and despair these are the dangers and challenges of the southwest canyons this is winter one of the most remote Canyon lands of the American Southwest it's no wonder Butch Cassidy and its Wild Bunch chose these remote parts to hide out from the law for now it's just me my camera my horse for the next 7 days alone Dave knows a lot about surviving out here but he's not telling me everything I think people get kind of psychologically spooked out by some of the amazing energy that runs around these canyons a lot of people that have come here and vanished there's something happening here that's not like what he's used to well I'm on my own now time to check out my surroundings I guess here we go [Music] this is some pretty amazing biking country I figure if I had to really I could probably bike out of here in about three days but hey this is a survival show let's make it a week yeah I do have a pack full of gear it's on my camera gear and clothing they left it for me like shooting your own horse to eat I'll cannibalize the bike to survive it's incredibly quiet here too quiet I don't really know how much sunlight I have left let me tell you one two three and a half hand width so that's about three and a half hours I better find a place to settle down [Music] well this juniper tree behind me is gonna make some pretty good shelter for me but first I want to get a big fire going I figure if it does snow tonight at least if I have a big fire going you know I can maybe make it through the night it may not look like it but snowstorms blanketed these canyons just before I got here baked by the Sun in the day and frozen solid nothing at least there's plenty of fun here the jetway up there right now those people are eating lobster the temperatures in these parts are wild swinging to huge extremes in a matter of hours this is good stuff really good stuff my biggest fear can my body adjust firestarter and Betty I'm gonna make a long fire that I can feed from one end I don't have to worry about trying to break logs small I'm actually gonna line this thing with rocks because sand is actually pretty damp survival means multitasking and getting it done without breaking a sweat if I sweat the cold nights will be hard to handle I've still got maybe two hours of sunlight left work on my shelter this ridgepole was a little bit lower than I wanted so I dug a hole down a bit and then lined it with some juniper bark and this grass just to braise me up and it keeps me off the cold sand and then I covered all of these branches and sticks and over top to protect me a bit reflect some of the heat back once I do get a fire going but this is about as much work as I want to do tonight before I get too sweaty Suns almost behind the mountains every time I come out and try survival in a new location I'd like to test some kind of survival item just to see how it works this time around I'm gonna try this little item magnesium flint stick what I want to do is shave off this magnesium I need to make a little pile got to be real patient well that's not a bad pile we'll see I just don't know magnesium baby burn burning meat whoa but that little magnesium stick is definitely a winner in my book Hey [Music] nice to be under this juniper tree cuz it is chilling down really quickly as soon as that Sun disappeared so I guess I should show you what I have to survive with for the week always of course my multi-tool you've already met mr. magnesium flint stick and last not least hmm well look at this an old traveled up piece of energy bar mmm and some corn chips Wow I see that's about enough to last a week wouldn't you inedible but useful well there's snow up in the mountains and just a few miles from here devastating flash floods wiping out everything in sight and I hear that bobcats and mountain lions come down into these valleys at times like these searching for food easy food sleeping food [Music] that was one frosty night grounds all frozen now and frosted over really it was just a matter of sleep a half-hour wake up feed the fire sleep a half-hour wake up feed the fire and just pray for morning [Music] believe it can't find any water in this area at all and yet there's a creek down in the canyon cut I guess what I can't get to it because everywhere I look it's like a 30-foot drop and there I can get down in there but I'd never get back out again look see what I mean how frustrating is that a beautiful Canyon cut flowing Creek and I can't get to it that's called getting ledged up and cowboy terms come to a spot like this get down you can never get out again you can't get to the water you die dehydration and at the moment I'm alleged up this is all the water I can find in this whole slickrock area all it is is a little bit of frost melt when Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch came through here they sometimes had to shoot a horse just to eat it's time to retire my trusty horse the parts on this bike could save my life [Music] [Music] [Music] I shivered through last night because my shelter was thrown together so quickly to beat nightfall I'm hustling now to insulate it and the bike frame makes a great supporting wall try not to take too much to hurt the tree exposes them to bugs out of respect for the environment I took this bark from several trees I think in time I could probably maybe even we a really nice bed out of this but for now I think just pulling it in loose like this keeps it lofty probably good insulation as a result this temperature can be deceiving I'm tempted just to kind of kick around in the Sun that could be the death of me it can go well below freezing in just a few hours the shelter can never be insulated enough I can never have enough firewood see that look beautiful isn't it well beauty fades fast especially when you're cold and alone the general rule that survivors use to gauge the odds of survival is called the five W's wood well there's plenty of wood for burning and for shelter weather weathers pretty good right now if it did turn bad there's places that I can get in and protect myself widow-makers well there's nothing tall standing and dead that's gonna come crashing down on me in the middle of the night and kill me wigglies scorpions spiders snakes they're all buried deep in the ground this time of year I don't have to worry about them but water Wow water there's none of it without a good supply of water I may have to move on at daybreak [Music] off to bed [Music] feel a lot better with the shelter like this now I'll tell you all closed over and hopefully warmer thanks to this June for barking fireplace [Music] it's too bad I have to leave the shelter is just right but I need a drink and this place is dry the strapping from inside the bike tire is perfect to bundle up this juniper bark and the bark has great insulation and way too valuable to leave behind the crew will have to fly in later to clean up the site this is an amazing sight you guys see what I'm looking out here I'm thinking down there is water the canyon like that it's got to be a flowing Creek and water is what I need so I'm gonna take the chance on it it's got to be at least a thousand feet straight down okay now I'm pretty sure and I can find my way down in this Canyon but I'm walking on is a French cattle trail yeah that's right I said cattle trail they know the way down there are cattle roaming throughout here free-range cattle don't mean salvation that's for sure tell you what staying as dedicated as I am to getting some good shots here this canyons getting too steep I'm gonna strip down a bit and stop filming too much work going up and down setting up these cameras alright I'm ready to head down take the little camera with me maybe I can talk to you on the way this is when the camera gear really gets heavy should have taken my pants off before I walk this is where it came from it's a long way down I better check this place out [Music] this is not good news let me show you where I just walked this is my Creek down in the valley bottom dry as a bone [Music] your body needs to thermoregulate and part of that is your cells need to shrink and expand and if you don't get a drink of water you can't do that you can sleep all night in lots of insulation next to the fire and still be cold all the time not good news it's a long way to come and not have water thirsty my mouth this tasting stale my head doesn't hurt a bit I know that's from dehydration not drinking enough I haven't peed in a long time that's a bad sign a small patch of snow to keep me going until I can find shelter I searched a long stretch of this canyon floor for some good shelter a lot of caves that I thought from a distance looked great up close they're either too high to get you we're too small to snuggle into and most are pack rat dens anyway this one is facing south I could keep me warm on sunny days so caves are great for people but there's a lot of creatures that have set up their living in there that are dangerous tough and they carry black plague or bubonic plague hanta which kills you a little faster anaphylactic shock from being bit by the kissing bugs that live on bats and pack rats I think this cave is ready for an extreme makeover [Music] [Music] I've leveled out the floor inside here I put up a rock wall and area for a fire on the inside here then what i need to do is get a fire going in there and start to warm up the cave very gently very slowly well I knew once I got my fire going that I'd probably want a big one just to get some good coals first so I thought I'd set my fire up in a little flat area there get a big fire going and I can transfer some coals over to here and start a small low fire to help warm up the cave you got to be really careful this is a deadly situation it wouldn't take much to thermal crack this wall and have a Cadillac sized Rock come crashing down on top of me so I'll need to heat the cave very slowly to keep the rock intact and maybe smoke out any pack rats that might be deep inside you know everywhere I go survive it's pretty intense and pretty special this place it's magical here not sure strangest I've ever felt really is in this Canyon I mean I'm just corralled in by it all and to know that the Anasazi were here and the Paiute and Butch Cassidy and his gang it's a lot of history here one of the traditions of the Paiute people were to take this rabbit brush take this plant and they would burn it into the cave on the first burn just to ward off evil spirits and ghosts and such seems to me like a good idea desert Dave told me that these canyons were the most remote in the southwest and as a result had the densest population of mountain lions locals fear coming down here as I have unarmed one of the fire rocks just blew up on me send big coals right into my bed and burn my finger trying to clear it out oh it's gonna feel a little strange sleeping in here I'm sure I'll be thinking about this rock over my head constantly [Music] well it was some night oh I must have slept better because both my fires went out the little one up in the cave is out and cold but this one just has a little tiny bit of residual heat maybe I can turn it back into a flame maybe this guy oh if I just blow on the ashes they'll all fly away and that'll be the end of it but when I slip this small tube from my bike down through the middle and focus it into the last hot bit of ash I can gently coax the surrounding charcoal back into red embers once again this way I don't use any more of my magnesium stick saving resources wherever I can is the survivors code ok maybe right now there we go now I'm gonna put these corn chips and believe it or not all that efforts and a couple of corn chips was worth it the chips keep the first flames burning well thanks to the oil they're cooked in I'll show you what I mean but those corn chips look yeah and it holds its flame just like a little tiny candle so if you don't have much tinder and you happen to have some corn chips in your pocket like I did then it's a great way to help get your fire going because that grass went out quick on me and then you can transport your flame to wherever you need it or you can eat them [Music] well on my trail down into this Canyon along the way I mentioned that I was following a Cal trail so I decided to grab myself not just your ordinary cow patty okay it is your ordinary cow patty but it's got a special job cow patty like that given that it's a little bit damp may smolder for as long as a an hour to an hour and a half which is a good thing if you want to keep the coals going in your little fire pit and not burn up your wood it's already day four and I haven't had a decent drink of water yet up and down this Creek and all I'm finding is damp sand it's wet but it's not wet enough hunger is nothing compared to a quick approaching death by dehydration oh well finally promising a little touch of water here is one little puddle and by the signs of the mouse poop close by they drink out of it too so I wouldn't advise drinking out of a puddle like this with mice around but I've got to have water oh my gosh you got to be really careful entering these canyons even the big ones - not just these slot canyons if there are storm clouds in the air or if there's been a lot of warm weather like I'm getting it might melt the snow up on the mountaintops you could find yourself stuck in the middle with a big wall of water coming at you and no escape for days of deadly silence in these canyons that hole it's quiet yeah too quiet kind of fear makes you wonder if even the Raven is real ah brother Raven is calling me I think he wanted to tell me but I was close to something good here oh it's nice to have his company help you though because I found some water here it looks like it's a seepage of water I don't think I even need a drinking tube for this one I'm glad I found some water makes life a little more bearable quenches my thirst a lot better than little bits of snow but I've got to make a real concerted effort trying to get some food the only realistic meal I can catch around here is rat the Paiute string deadfall is amazing a simple but deadly bit of ancient technology it combines cord making methods with leverage and balance principles pure physics really a stone-cold end to unsuspecting prey got that rope tied around my little notch here and tied around this guy here too yucca just a single leaf I guess from the yucca plant these little fibers so just use the yucca as a binding this is my little bit of energy bar that they so graciously allowed me to have but let me show you how we can turn this well at least I'm gonna hope I can turn this into a lot more substantial food all I need is a little tiny piece not much at all just like just to mush it up hmm be careful not to eat it yeah just a little tiny bit see I don't want to give these guys food to go away with because I've mashed it into the end of this stick he's gonna have to work at that to get it now for the hard part I can keep my mind off of hunger by doing something proactive like building and setting up these traps problem is this activity is all about catching food now I'm even hungrier see the trigger got ya top piece the string little trigger stick there which puts pressure on this strength this stick here and it goes up underneath and just sort of lodges onto the rock I gotta go make a few more of these wish me luck another five or six traps should at least better my odds and finally having a meal this is a nice discovery that's a big pool of water good inch frozen on top though alright the inner tube makes for a perfect canteen now have a look at what I found it doesn't really matter where you go everywhere on this planet somebody has been and left behind garbage mm-hmm this looks very promising one man's garbage is another man's treasure this is Mormon tea it's got ephedra in it and it can actually give you a nice energy boost I've been gone a number of hours and that cow patty it's still red hot and smoldering just add dried grass and I've got fire again that improves life significantly even have a lid hmm I spent time cleaning all the rust out of this tin can with the available sand eating or drinking any wild plants is extremely dangerous unless you know exactly what you're doing Cheers five days without a meal can play on your mind and this wild tea has got a kick to it the solitude the crazy temperature swings the long hike down the canyon it's all taking its toll maybe this explains all those grizzly King and legends of lost minds and missing souls where things get unreal [Music] five days without food well I'm in trouble once again my little puddle that was so fresh and clean is down to well I'll drain it out just with this right now and unfortunately the closest source of water other than this is a that one silty puddle fairly deep but it's a half-an-hour walk away from here see these two rocks here but these just didn't happen by chance these are replaced here they are the perfect fit to each other for a Paiute deadfall exactly the same type of deadfall that I'm using to try to catch pack rats just like this one here which is one of the five that I have set right now but guess what it's sprung so I haven't opened it yet I don't know if I've got a meal but we're gonna find out with every failed trap my hunger grows I actually expected to find something under these traps but they're not even knocked down at all I'm just gonna knock this one just to show you just how effective they can be one last trap to check I think it's down let's go find out no need for a big fanfare this time because the first one had nothing so oh well what do you know I'll show you what this guy here I think it's a type of a ground squirrel I'm gonna call it dinner remember the spokes from the bike this skewer will put distance between myself and the squirrel the plague is still a very real possibility down here ground squirrel I'm gonna need to cook this guy really well so I'm gonna get him on the fire now let him cook for a good long time once again I've been able to use a piece off the bike it's gonna help me cook this little fella just use the brake cable hook him through his head there and now I'm just gonna let him cook good and slow what I'm gonna do is singe all of the hair off and cook him very well just in his own case like that just to make sure everything is in terms of diseases and parasites that's been taken care of look I don't like to kill anything at all but this shows you that with a little bit of ingenuity and determination you can get yourself a meal you truly are lost and need to survive all of this camera work combined with actual survival makes hunting and gathering any food at all vital to my ability to carry on these juniper berries well they do taste absolutely horrible eating a couple of them will help to because of the chemicals in them will help to prepare my stomach for eating meat make it easier to digest you know a lot of archaeology is I can just hear this coral sizzling over there a lot of archaeology is based on what they find in terms of stone tools rock tools things that are chipped into other things and the Paiute around here and the Anasazi we're both terrific at what's called flint knapping this is a piece of rock just from laying around in this area and this is a hammer Rock which is an actual artifact from this area just laying on the ground you see the chipped end it was used for turning big pieces of rock into little pieces of rock into knife points arrowheads and spear tips and those kinds of things that's really what flint knapping is so I'll see if I can use it aha success that that little guy it's very very sharp this thing is so sharp just cuts right through he's definitely not cooked through yet flip over use the other side of this flake because I'm going back up the top again and I'm sorry if this looks disgusting but it's no different than a chicken or a pig or turkey or anything else I'm not satisfied that he is cooked all the way through yet so I'll need to cook it right through to make sure any parasites are dead oops my squirrels burning dinner oh look pretty charred on the outside so it should be well what I'm not gonna eat is the entrails being being the intestines and such but you know the heart the kidney the liver all good stuff to eat there's my meal what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna save all the bones and I'm gonna cook them even more I'm gonna have them for breakfast good bout of calcium so inside here I've got ya know the looks to be the heart nope absolu there is my squirrel good well tonight for a little extra warmth I'm gonna use hot rocks I'm just taking these rocks I got four like this and I'm just putting them in close to the fire get good and hot and I tuck these in like this well as I sleep and they'll keep me warm good and warm for quite a long time I've got four and I'll just rotate to two heating up two on my body two heating up till my body this water is still a big problem a long way to get it breakfast [Music] Oh anything will get you up in the morning it's chewing on some cold squirrel bones that was a cold night you know I'm just not sure the toughest part is the constant search for water or this huge fluctuation between very hot days and bitterly cold nights I don't think I can do another night like this son the food made me even thirstier but at least cleared my mind maybe these canyons have beaten me The Outlaws used to lure lawmen and here to starve them out and they called it box death film or no film I need more water to survive you know what I'm not gonna do another day it's gonna take me all day just to hike out of this Canyon climb all the way back up I'm getting out of here now survival is ultimately about getting out in my case I'm still strong enough to do so so I'm heading back while I still can well of course I had to come back from the camera what you think so now begins my long climb up out of the canyon you know what this time I'm making the crew come back and pick up this camera see you next time [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Survivorman - Les Stroud

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Length: 44min 22sec (2662 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 05 2020

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[u/Dazzling_Broccoli294]

Les is Canadian and I really thought he was going to quote Ricky there. It was so close!!! Un-garbage!