05x04 - Temagami Forest

[bunniefuu]

This is insane.

Oh, mosquitoes, mosquitoes.

Tomogamy, Ontario.

It's a nature lover's paradise.

I have a cottage here.

I've canoed almost every river and lake
within its boundaries.

There are cottages dotted throughout the
remote lakes...

...and there are logging roads and access
roads...

...winding through the rich and beautiful
forest.

So you would think that survival here
would be easy.

Yet 98% of people who end up lost...

...do so within a mile of their own home
or cottage.

It's not difficult to get turned around
and lost forever...

...in a forest as thick and deceptively
beautiful as this.

I've taken myself into the middle of this
wonderful region...

...to attempt to survive in the ways of my
original teachings...

...survival in the Great Lakes Boreal
Forest crossover region.

You know, you would think...

...with all of the places around the world
that I've survived in...

...deserts, jungles, the Arctic...

...even in a life raft on the ocean...

...surviving out here, northern Ontario...
...my own backyard, essentially...

...would be a bit of a walk in the park
for me.

Well, we're about to find out.

All right, before I do too much or travel
too far...

...I want to do my zone of assessment
check.

So I'm in the middle of the northern
Ontario bush...

...and the first zone of assessment is
zone number one is my body.

And I've got this for clothing.

Not much else this time.

I've got a bit of an arsenal on my belt
here.

I've got a multi-tool with a flint
striker.

I've got a belt knife and I've got a new
saw blade...

...that I want to try out my harmonica.

So zone of assessment number two is
immediately outside my body...

...which is my backpack.

Number three is what's further beyond.

At this point, what I know I have further
beyond... ...is a lot of topography.

Trees, hills, pine needles...

...and more mosquitoes than any human
being could ever count.

That's it.

Just me and the northern Ontario bush.

Though there's a lot of fresh water
around...

...I've walked in with a small water
bottle.

Just not much else.

Here, I don't feel like the dangers are
very many at all.

Oh, I know people really worry about
bears.

I'd be more worried about a moose in the
rutting season.

Any time.

I've got to be real careful I don't just
turn myself around in circles.

I stay walking in a relatively straight
line if possible.

And one way to do that is to... ...I'll
go around the left side of this tree.

Keep moving.

Go around the right side of the next tree.

Left side.

Right side.

And that... ...can sometimes help...
...to keep me going in a straight line.

Another thing I can do is...
...while I walk I've got the sunlight...

...and by the time of the day
I know it's... ...high in the sky.

If I keep it...

...in a certain spot...
...on the side of my head...

...and keep walking...
...keeping it there...

...then I'm going pretty straight.

Well, while I walk I've been hoping to
find...

...maybe a stream... ...or even
puddles of water, something.

I mean, this is... ...this
is northern Ontario.

This is the land of fresh water.

I'm finding nothing.

But...

...this might be able to help me right
here.

This is all sphagnum moss.

I've been told this has a natural
antiseptic in it.

And this... ...will be my toilet
paper for... ...the time out here.

It's actually what... ...native cultures
used to use... ...as padding for...

...baby diapers.

Mmm.

That's a good drink of water.

And there's lots of it along here,
so... ...I can quench my thirst...

...just by squeezing moss.

One stop shopping.

My toilet paper...
...and my bottle of water.

This plant here is...

...it's not much in terms of being a wild
edible.

I can't really eat it.

But it's still good knowledge to have.

It's called gold thread.

But it's also called canker root.

You can chew on this...
...and keep it in my mouth.

Chew, chew, chew.

Chew.

Never swallow.

Spit it out.

And the enzymes of this root... ...work
on the cankers... ...and heal them.

And it's incredible...

...how well it works, actually.

And see... Oh,
mosquito down my throat.

When you're in a survival situation...

...sometimes it's not a bad
injury... ...that really puts you down.

It's something as simple as...
...having a mouthful of ulcers...

...or a stomach ache... ...or just a
sprain... ...or something like that.

So knowing a few... ...medicinal plants
like this... ...can make a big difference...

...in a survival situation.

Ah!

Mosquitoes.

Now, if I can find a plant... ...that
will repel all these mosquitoes...

...that'd be helpful.

Searching for wild edible
plants... ...is a constant in survival.

But you have to know exactly...
...what you're looking for.

You risk sickness...
...even death.

Sometimes...

...the time of year dictates...
...what it is I can eat.

This should be a good time
of year... ...for berries, but...

...again... ...in a survival situation...
...the emphasis is on... ...should be.

It doesn't mean it is... ...and
it doesn't mean I'll find them.

Some bunch berries
here... ...that are...

...almost starting to get ripe.

If I can find some... ...red
ones... ...I've got myself a meal.

Hey, hey, hey.

Oh, I think I found
myself... ...a fast meal here.

There's a plant...
...called wild cucumber.

Another plant called star
flower... ...and they're side by side.

And here they are.

There's some star flower...
...but I think I might have found...

...some wild cucumber if I did.

That's a beautiful thing.

Let me check this out.

It's wild cucumber.

It looks like I've got myself a meal.

I'm really carefully...

...peeling away from...

...the tuber.

That's awesome.

Oh.

And it tastes just like it.

That's good.

Mmm.

There's four or five more here.

Mmm.

It's sweet tasting.

That... ...is delicious.

Mmm.

Mmm.

It's gotta be well cucumber.

But there's a plant here...

...that's the same plant... ...and
it looks like a different growth.

...and I'm not certain...
...all of a sudden.

I haven't seen... ...really
ever before... ...a full...

...mature... ...wild cucumber.

Right?

Just in the books...
...kind of thing.

It's been a long time...
...since I've seen one in the wild.

And here I am...

...eating one.

And it tastes like one.

But this part of it... ...the way it looks
like this... ...I've never seen before.

So here's the...

...part that I saw... ...but then...
...there's this... ...stem that comes up.

And these guys...

...it's probably a...

...wild plant expert... ...looking at
the going... ...yeah, yeah, yeah...

...that's wild cucumber.

Eat away.

It's awesome.

Or someone going... ...no, no, no...
...that's the poisonous such and such.

Don't touch it.

But I just went from
certain... ...to uncertain.

I hate that feeling.

Well... ...I've eaten it now...

...so...

...I won't eat anymore...

...till I find out...

...how I feel.

I've always been a fan...
...if you have the experience...

...of mobile proactive survival.

Moving on...

...looking around the next corner.

Maybe I'll find a cabin...
...a vehicle... ...even a road.

Staying put... ...in forest this
thick... ...just never seems...

...like the right option to me.

Not if I have a choice.

This is... ...yet
another way to...

...get some water.

No sphagnum moss here.

Just this...

...punky... ...rotten wood.

I'm gonna reach into...
...the center of it here.

It's all soaking wet.

And this is good water to drink.

I can just keep... ...hydrating
myself... ...as I walk through the bush...

...constantly putting
liquid... ...into my body.

Because it's...
...it's hot here.

The mosquitoes are bad.

The heat's intense.

The humidity's thick.

But there's not much to
drink... ...where I am right now.

So... ...this'll do it.

Good fresh water.

I keep seeing blueberries here.

But unfortunately...
...I don't see...

...them in season yet.

All I see is the plant itself.

That doesn't mean it's not useful...
...because I can actually make...

...blueberry tea... ...out of the
leaves... ...if I find a way to boil water.

So often people think... ...well
you can just... ...find some berries...

...and live off raspberries...
...and blueberries.

Boy if I was in that area... ...in July
or August... ...that's what I'd be doing.

You've gotta find... ...those big patches...
...of blueberries and raspberries.

And they might be many
miles... ...in between them.

So that's blueberry tea I guess.

I have to always, always...

...think about getting material...

...for fire starting.

Now this is good birch bark.

This definitely falls under the
category... ...of gather it while I see it.

I don't wanna go all the way... ...around
the tree... ...and pull off too much...

...and go too deep... ...because
that actually kills the tree.

But in this case... ...I'm just
taking... ...just the dead stuff...

...that's on the outside.

That's all.

This way... ...I can...

...gather the bark I need... ...and
feel like I'm not damaging the forest...

...at the same time.

I just keep gathering as I go... ...and
hope that I don't start throwing up...

...because... ...what I
thought was wild cucumber...

...was something else.

Oh, look at this.

Let's see.

This is when I wish I knew more about
mushrooms...

...because...

...if this was edible... ...well,
that's a nice bulk of food there...

...but I have no idea.

And learning mushrooms is extremely
difficult.

You have to be shown... ...by an expert...
...who can't do it with a book at all.

The only real mushroom I
know... ...that I'm confident picking...

...is the shaggy mane...
...grows in my backyard.

The problem with eating mushrooms... ...if
I eat it and I'm wrong... ...I could die.

Very dangerous.

Talking about it... ...and knowing
it... ...are two different things.

This is wandering survival.

Pushing onwards... ...always looking for
the right place... ...to spend the night.

This is the way...
...it normally goes.

Every once in a while... ...I just... ...find
myself in these... ...pockets where...

...mosquitos are incredibly intense.

One interesting phenomenon that's happened
with me...

...mosquitos... ...is that...

...over the years of doing
survival... ...and guiding...

...I've been bitten so many
times... ...and I had to remain stoic...

...because maybe I was guiding
teenagers... ...or something like that...

...and I didn't want to have them
panicking.

And so the mosquitoes... ...I'd have
six, seven mosquitoes on my arms...

...biting me...
...and there we go.

They would just bite...
...and fill up on blood.

And then I began to notice
after a while... ...that...

...I wasn't getting bites anymore.

I mean nothing.

Not a single bump.

So this guy's gonna bite me.

He's filling up with blood right now.

Nothing's gonna be there.

Nothing to itch.

Nothing to scratch.

She goes on to make more mosquito babies.

There she goes.

Fat with my blood.

It's not that the mosquitoes don't drive
me insane.

They do.

But just knowing I no longer have to endure
itchy welts... ...all over my body...

...is an incredible psychological comfort.

Just still looking for a place to
sit... ...and sleep... ...the night out.

I think I've made a drastic error.

I should have started... ...looking
for a place to be a lot earlier.

Maybe even...

...built a shelter.

I've just been...
...going and going.

It's too late to do a lot of things.

I'm just gonna find a place to sit down.

So I'm getting too tired to do anything
else.

Surviving like this... ...is
kind of like an adventure race.

I just don't stop.

I keep going.

It's actually so much closer...
...to any real lost victim's reality...

...than building elaborate
shelters... ...or traps.

God.

Not getting myself prepared
for tonight... ...was just...

...stupid.

I just kept walking until I realized...
...and I was walking into the dark.

I've got no shelter.

I've got no shelter.

The mosquitoes are just terrible.

First night out... ...and I don't
know that I'm gonna sleep at all.

Ow!

The hell just bit me.

That hurt.

The mosquitoes just didn't seem this bad
during the day.

They're intense now.

Oh, God.

A fire would have been smart...
...yet I simply overlooked making one.

Too busy pushing on in the warm weather.

That sounds like rain.

That is rain.

There's rain coming in.

Great.

It's just sprinkling for
the moment, so... Ow!

Right in my eye.

I hear the storm coming.

That makes these massive pine
trees... ...are like lightning rods.

So I'm really sitting in... ...you
know... ...the worst possible place...

...for lightning coming through.

Out in the rain getting drenched... ...or
dry here... ...and getting electrocuted.

This is impossible to sleep like this.

Lost victims are motivated to keep moving
by many different things.

Fear.

Longing to see their family again.

Even embarrassment.

Whatever it takes, sometimes you have to
just keep moving.

Well...

...it only rained a little bit off and
on...

...through the night.

Looks like it's gonna clear up here today,
too, so...

Who knows?

This time of year... ...it, uh...
...it rains and then it stops...

...and then it's sunny and then it
rains again... ...and thunderstorms.

You get everything.

I'm just gonna keep moving and see what I
find.

You know, for years, I have traveled with
a harmonica...

...and I've played it at night to bring me
comfort and keep me company...

...especially around the fire.

But the actual and real use that I have put
it to... ...in any survival situation...

...especially when I have to go through
woods like this...

...is to play while I walk.

Basically... ...it scares away
anything that I don't want to run into.

Now, I don't know, you're probably
thinking bears.

That's probably true.

I don't really want to run into a black
bear.



...he's going to be running like a shot,
or she.

And I've had them where I've come upon a
mother...

...and the cubs run up the tree and the
mother takes off...

...and I'm standing at the bottom of the
tree looking at the cubs.

That's usually what happens with the black
bear.

That said, I play this harmonica while I
walk...

...and I don't have to test my theory.

You can see clearly that there's an
opening up there.

I can see the water from here.

So now I can base my travels on the
lake...

...follow the shore, or do what I
need to do... ...to get out of here.

You come with me.

All right.

So here's some berries.

It's a poisonous look-alike.

This is the clintonia borealis.

It looks so much like blueberries.

The plant doesn't look like blueberries at
all...

...but if you know what a blueberry looks
like...

...but the berries do, and if you were
confused...

...and I've seen people that are by this
plant...

...you could try eating it, and it's
poisonous.

I better get myself set up before it gets
too dark.

It's gonna be too late otherwise.

Wow.

This is thick.

Every time I think I'm going through to a
clearing...

...I'm not.

The assumption is that jungles are
thick... ...and forests are walkable.

Yet sometimes, it's very much the
opposite.

All right.

There we go.

This overhang... ...and knowing that
the northwest wind is coming from...

...in behind this rock...
...this will do the trick tonight.

Maybe if I put up a
few... ...a few Poles...

...get a little fire going this time as
well... ...help keep the mosquitoes away.

All right, I gotta get busy.

Because before long, that sun's gonna set
again.

It's one of the reasons why I
love having... ...a handsaw like this.

Don't get me wrong.

An axe is great too.

I love having an axe, but...
...an axe is heavy to carry.

Okay, that's one.

Forty more.

You know, the principle behind shelter
building... ...one of them is to try to use...

...stuff that's in the vicinity...
...to make your shelter.

It's the way... ...igloos
are made, really.

You think, oh, they put all the blocks on
top of the snow?

Nope.

The blocks are dug out...
...to make a big hole...

...and that's half the igloo right there.

Then the blocks are put up over top of
that hole.

You scoop out and put on top.

That's some of the... ...hopefully
most of the grunt work done.

I'm gonna go up by the rock...
...and take stock and see what I've got.

Well, it's not much.

Probably one of the lamest shelters I've
ever made... ...but believe it or not...

...half of it's made for me because of
this rock.

So, really...

...I think I'll be fine here if it comes
on to rain.

And better than that... ...there'll
be some air moving here...

...to hopefully keep the mosquitoes down.

That's a big concern for me...
...because last night was brutal.

All right.

I wanna get a fire going.

This is very much a land flowing with
fresh, drinkable water...

...which, thankfully, takes that need out
of the equation of survival.

So, with water and shelter looked after
tonight...

...I won't sit out in the dark without a
fire going.

Getting a fire going is a lot like a
cooking show.

You gotta have all your ingredients laid
out.

In the birch tree, I found this fungus.

See that?

This stuff can take a spark.

I'm going to hope that I can make that
happen here.

I've never been shown how to do this...

...so I don't even know if this is the
right thing to do...

...but my gut says chew it up a little
bit.

Look at that.

That's amazing.

I can't believe how well that works.

And I had no idea it was going to work
this well.

I've never tried this stuff before.

I'm just going to try it.

I'm just experimenting.

Let's try this.

Let's try breaking a bit off into the
cedar bark.

Some of the coals.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Ha, ha, ha.

All right.

Yeah.

Now we're talking.

This stuff is fantastic.

This tinder fungus.

Wow.

I've never seen anything like that before.

All right.

So I'm going to save this tinder fungus,
because that's just awesome.

This is some other birch fungus,
but the beauty of this is it's said anyway

that the smoke from this fungus helps to
keep mosquitoes away.

So I'm just going to let this guy hover
right there.

This is going to be a much better night
than last night.

The small plastic bottle I've been using
to collect water can now be put to a

second important use, one that for many
lost victims, if they knew this technique,

could save their life.

Well, let's try this.

I have no wire, no string, but I usually,
when I get out into the wilderness,

make it so that my belt is actually a
rope.

I've done that for
years, and I can say that

has come in handy more
times than I can count.

Here goes nothing.

All right.

So I'm just going to put some blueberry
leaves in there now.

Get that back on the flames.

Now we watch water boil.

I'm surviving in the Canadian northern
forest, where from one hour to the next,

I could go from a manageable existence to
a horrific endurance test.

This may not look it.

And I might not feel
it in a couple of hours,

but right now, it's
actually comfortable.

Just by simply setting up under this rock,
the warmth of a fire, and to have the

mosquitoes gone, and
then combine that with hot

water that I've been
able to boil in plastic.

It's unbelievable.

Mmm.

Oh, man, that's good.

Having hardly slept at all in a couple of
days, this night's going to help.

The danger of settling into a place that
is kind of okay for survival is that I can

wait too long before I
make my next move, and

my energy becomes
depleted too much to head out.

So I'm going to keep moving.

In the course of moving on, I can make
things much worse for myself, too.

Everything in a survival situation is an
important judgment call.

Oh, okay.

Oh, boy.

I see a bear scat here.

And that's precisely why I play the
harmonica while I go through.

I'm going to make it to the clearing.

I can see the clearing.

And water.

Ow!

Ow!

Oh, hey, hey, hey.

That looks good.

I see water.

Ha-ha.

I see food.

No, I see why.

I'm starting to see different signs of
animals.

Everything comes down here to feed.

Including me.

Oh, h*-h*-h*.

Oh, man.

You won't believe what I just found.

I wouldn't expect to find this down here.

And I did.

And... And there's lots of it.

Oh, I gotta show you this.

This is... This is one
of my favorite finds.

When it comes to looking for food in the
northern forest like this.

This... is called...
creeping snowberry.

It's these tiny little white guys.

You just lift up the plant like
this... to expose the berries.

Mmm.

Oh.

What a score.

So this is my... first
little treat... of the marsh.

My second... bigger treat...

is out there.

The cattail has two benefits.

Both as a food
source... and also...

as a fire starter.

It grows throughout the world.

And it's an incredible filter of
pollution... or otherwise contaminated water.

But the best thing about it for survival...
is that it usually grows in abundance.

Mmm.

There's the kind of chunk I'm looking for.

Right there.

Peel the layers away.

Ah.

Yeah.

Now we're talking.

This one's nice and tender.

All right.

I'm going to... keep eating
more of these cattails...

and get myself filled up.

There's a lot of them.

Easy to grab.

Mmm.

And tasty.

And this... this is... super calorie-efficient
eating... in a survival situation.

It's being able to come to a place like
this.

Just pick, eat, pick, eat, pick,
eat.

The creeping snowberries were just a huge
bonus.

All right.

I'm going to take the next hour
or so... and just sit here and eat.

And then...

head back through... and see
what's up around the corner.

This is just really weird.

Ben, I see something on the ground.

I bent down to pick it up.

One... wild blueberry.

It's absolutely a blueberry.

And there's not a single
blueberry plant... around me.

So just here... in the
middle of the swamp...

there's one wild blueberry laying on the
ground.

How does that happen?

I don't know.

I guess maybe a bird had it in its beak...
and was flying overhead and dropped it.

Dropped it down for me.

Ooh, sinking in.

Ah!

Dropped the camera in.

The one camera that's...

not waterproof.

That's what I want.

That's an amazing fire starter.

For.

in a survival situation... do you
try to find shelter, food, water?

No.

What you really are on
the search for... is a way out.

Rescue.

Salvation.

Human activity.

Anything to take you out of your misery.

Because there is nothing about
surviving... that isn't miserable.

But after a while... you know you're...
could be getting close to something...

when you start to
see... signs of... humans.

Look at this... old
junk lying around here.

Coming up to the edge of the shore here.

Again.

Just looking around.

You gotta be kidding me.

It is.

Check this out.

Look at that.

Unbelievable.

Now, I myself have...

stored... more than
one canoe in my lifetime.

My father and I used to...
hide boats... in different places.

Old fishing... lakes and spots
that we... that were our favorites.

and...

I've probably come
across... at least...

four or five... boats and
canoes... in my lifetime.

Just traveling around...
being in the bush.

And here we go.

No more bush hiking for me.

I wonder if there's a paddle though.

I don't see one.

I'm just gonna angle this... so that... I
can hide from the rain... if it comes in.

It's gonna be a nice sheltered spot.

You never know... in a survival
situation... what you're gonna find.

a cabin... a cottage... a big
cave... or... rock overhang...

in this case...

a big old canoe.

I don't have a paddle.

Really tough to make a paddle...
but what I can make is a pole.

If you want to rain
now... you can.

Don't bother me.

Whenever I find signs... of human
activity... it makes me feel more up.

The energy from the find... is a
psychological boost... and motivates me...

to get active.

I think... still one of my favorite
things... with tinder... is mixing... and...

matching all the
different... tinders together.

Birch bark... pine needles...

sometimes cedar bark.

But to set all of this off...
it's gonna be the cattail fluff.

The trick to the cattail... is...
getting it as fluffy as possible.

The fluffier I can
make it... the better.

the more likely it will
be... to take a spark.

Look at that.

Now... come on.

Catch, catch, catch.

There we go.

The birch bark takes the flame...

from the cattail.

The cattail's already gone out.

The birch bark takes the flame.

Pine needles come over top.

So far tonight... I'm getting
lucky with the mosquitoes.

They're not too bad.

Not yet.

And the rain's held off.

There's a... phenomenon
that happens here.

I call it the ten minute warning.

Depending on what...
the temperature... is like...

you get a situation where... uh... you start
to hear this... this hum... this buzz...

in the distance.

If that happens...

look out.

Because...

within... almost ten
minutes exactly...

you're about to be
swarmed... by mosquitoes.

And what it is... I... my understanding
is that... the mosquitoes are actually...

you know... they're all sitting on
their... little branches and leaves...

and blades of grass... and they actually
are warming up... their body temperature...

getting ready.

And then they take off...

on their hunt for blood.

and when you hear
that... ten minute warning...

it's gonna be a bad night.

I haven't heard it yet.

If I'm going to hear
it... it's going to be soon.

Man... I can just hear the... mosquitoes
are... buzzing... and they're echoing...

I don't know how many there
are... but it sounds like a million...

because of the canoe.

Oh...

Oh...

This is insane.

Oh... mosquitoes, mosquitoes.

It's still raining.

It rained pretty
much... all night...

and I just tucked in here.

The good news was... with the
rain... every time it was hard...

the mosquitoes would go away... so I had
this... time where I would... sleep more...

while it was raining...

but... then when it stopped raining...
the mosquitoes would come in again...

and wake me up.

They're pretty intense this morning.

So... awesome rain shelter...

not so good for the mosquitoes.

I gotta make my way out of
here... figure out how I can...

maneuver this canoe in the water.

I'm gonna need to make a pull.

So the reason why... I
want to take all this bark off...

and make this as smooth as
possible... because if I'm pulling...

in rapids or anything like
that... then... I don't want to be...

slicing my hand open on... points
and things sticking out from the wood.

I want this to be nice and smooth.

Makes it a lot easier to work with.

One of the reasons why I like... mobile
survival so much... rather than just...

sitting still is... you... you end up
finding a lot more... things that can...

be advantages...
for your very survival.

And the thing is... you've got to start
it early... before you start getting tired.

And in this case...

come upon a canoe...

those types of finds...

are everything in a survival situation.

And they don't happen...

when you're sitting still.

So there we go.

That's my pole.

And I'm sure it will do the trick.

Let's get out of here.

Another hour or two of rain... and
finally... I get a break in the weather.

And now it's
possible... to move on.

It's nice that there's a... big
long rope on this thing too.

Let's see if she floats.

Perfectly.

From my knowledge of this region...
I know that if I head upstream...

I can make it to a road.

And sometimes... you have to take
the harder path... to make it to safety.

the path of least resistance... is not
always the best direction... to travel.

Hmm.

There's only one way to do this.

To break one of my own...
major important rules.

And that is I'm going to...

go in the water with my
boots... get my feet wet.

Sometimes to get to where you have to
go...

you gotta break the rules.

And away we go.

It can be very dangerous... to allow
myself to get wet... during survival.

If I can't get out to safety...
or get dry before the night...

then I run the risk of... chilling
down... to the point... of hypothermia.

it's beautiful.

Beautiful.

The whole trick
to... polling is you...

to get in a rhythm... and
then... have the pole kind of...

stay up against the
back... of the canoe...

as you shove it into the
ground... underneath.

And it keeps you straight.

Wilderness survival travel...

must always... be
slow... and steady.

One small slip on a rock... and a broken
or badly strained ankle... can cause death.

One dunking in the water...
can lead to hypothermia.

One turn to the east... when I
should have turned to the west...

can change a route to
safety... to a trip into hell.

And yet... all the safety consciousness...
and all the tough decisions...

have to be employed...

while having had
little sleep... or food.

Which only serves to... reiterate the
fact... that nothing can be done quickly...

in a survival situation.

Fortunately... in an area like this...
the beauty that surrounds me...

serves to calm the
mind... and spirit...

making survival...

even more possible.

There's a...

flat... straight...

clearing... right across up
there... that to me looks like a road.

And I know these
roads... in this area...

walk my way out to the
highway... and home.

Yeah.

That's what I wanted to see.

The road.

That's enough of this...
pulling up the river.

I'm getting out of here.

Even only a mile from
your cottage... or home...

you can quickly find
yourself lost... and alone.

Then the fight...
to survive begins.

All the while... you know... that there
are roads... and buildings... somewhere.

And so onwards... you push.

Sometimes towards safety...

sometimes into certain death.

And too often... only
miles... from your own bed.

It happens every year.

It happened this year.

And it'll happen... to
someone... next year.

Prepare yourself... for survival...
when in the wilderness... always.

always.

So it doesn't ever happen... So
it doesn't ever happen... to you.

that's all.

I don't know...

that's all.