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Beautiful show. Thank you

That is some beautiful country my friend. Fall is an amazing time of the year. The colors are beautiful and the rock formations are amazing too. I hope you both enjoyed your trip.

by getting adequate food in your belly (mixed with the rations and salt) the fish and cambium give you the strength needed to go like hell for 10 days or so and that's what you need to do in order to get things properly set up, soon enough, Not long after freezing temps arrive, the bears will be hibernating

the tape lets you reassemble the bivy as a sleeping bag and clothing. Half of your 12x12 tarp becomes your sleeping tent. The "wings' of your fish weir are made of rocks, sticks and boughs. Eventually, the purse and "v" of the weir can likewise be made, , Once you've rendered down the blood, marrow and fat of the bear, the win will be in your pocket, So you can get LOTS of face-time doing what nobody else has known or been able to do. You only CLEAR 1/4 million of the prize, so you'll have to also write a book, teach classes, and have a much bigger channel if you want to no longer work a regular job.

the 10x16 ft producer's tarp can be your shelter for the first 2-3 weeks, It wont be colder than 40F and then only at night. Use one corner of the tarp to line the stone-boiling pit for your water. Once boiled, remove the layer of grasses and the stones, Fold over that corner of the tarp so as to keep bird crap and bugs out of your boiled water. In 2-3 weeks, you'll have made the 5 pots, 1.5 gallons each, out of baked clay,, with their gasketed, close-fitting, numbered lids.

when you know to take the big roll of Gorilla tape, you can cut up your 12x12 tarp and the reflective tyvk bivy into strips, cut slits in the piecs, make netting out of the cotton rope hammock (as much as allowed) for the center of the seine and have 60x3-4 ft wide seine and a baited weir. You can be eating plenty of fish and cambium every day, by day 4-5. Butcher the fish in the weir and tie tarp and tape bait bags to the far end of the inside of the purse of the weir. The more blood and guts you spill there, the more fish you will catch. The tree blind, and the bait box for bear is the win, man. You only need to catch about 100 lbs of fish in the first month and that's nothing much. After 1-2 weeks, it'll be too cold to wade in the water, so you''ll have to devote a day to making the pontoon outrigger raft. Use the backpack and the 3 sets of coveralls, stuffed with debris, sewn and taped. Tie one to each corner of the 6 ft long, 4" OD logs. Then all you need is 2 logs, 4" OD, 10 ft long as your "keel", 2 logs, 4" OD, 6 ft long for your cross logs and 3 logs, 7 ft long, 6" OD as your diagonal brace logs. Put some small logs across the keel logs to keep your feet up out of the water, Sharpen the log ends to minimize drag. Lash the camera case to some short logs and sit on it. One hour makes a paddle handle for the Cold steel shovel, with a lanyard hole so you can't lose it.

Man that shelter is awesome! The cobb looked like it turned out great too just remember to heat it till it is dry all the way through. A few days of fires early on will do that for you though. Caleb did an awesome job as well and it looks like there will be another generation of survivalist in the Fortney family.

it's 50F when you launch in mid september. Water cools off more slowly than air, so you'll still be able to wade in such water, for a week, maybe 2 weeks. A 6x12 chunk of the tarp that remains to you, after you've made your sleeping tent. Cut it into 4 strips and use it to make 48 ft x`.18" of membrane usable to make the weir

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The Innuit and other natives did not have steel saws, axes, metal wire, metal cookpots or knives. Yet they survived in Canada for millennia, at MUCH colder temps and for MUCH longer times at those temps, than the participants on this show. You can do without those things obviously. It's SO MUCH faster/easier to just use tarps and debris for your shelter, guys. Debris shelters suck. they soak up rain, drip on you and your food and gear. They get very heavy, threatening to collapse and smother you in your sleep. You're not allowed to puncture or cut up the tarp that the producers give you and you've GOT to have a tarp you can cut up and the tape. The producers tarp is needed when you have to work in the rain and to cover your piles of firewood, dry, loose dirt and dry debris. It only takes half of your 12x12 reflective tarp and some of the Gorilla tape to make your sleeping tent.. You need the salt really badly, unless you're on a sea coast, of course. The rations keep you going for 9-10 days, By then, you should be catching plenty of fish to mix with your cambium.

when you know how to not need a fire inside of your sleeping tent and how to make that tent with very few, small poles, you have no need of an axe or saw. The saw edged shovel, once you make several different lengths and configurations of handles for it, does all the wood-processing you need. That's a huge savings of time and calories.

animals can't gnaw thru cordage that is holding them 5 ft off of the ground, guys. So you dont need snarewire when you know how to have a split, fire-hardened, springpole, lashed between 2 stakes. Nettiing can be used to wrap around stick "box-frames" and used to catch rabbits and birds, It's not in the water, so there's no limitation on how much netting you use in that manner. Netting is far more effective than hook and line fishing You' can have 20x as much cordage and netting made out of the rope hammock than you can take as a gillnet and paracord.

You can catch 100 lbs of fish in 2 weeks, no problem, probably in the first week. This is why you can't be bothering with a primitive shelter. It's not going to freeze for your entire first month. It's not going below 20F for the next month and only be really cold at night. Therre's no reason for you to be outside of your sleeping tent at night, or morning, either, actually. If you know to dice, boil and the fry cambium, chew it, then spit out the fibers, it can add up to 25% of calories to your rations. The rations total 10,000 calories, so you can have 12,000_calories. You dont need any food for the first two days, because of your normal diet and "pigging out" on fats and protein the 2 days before you launch. 3 weeks before you launch, put yourself into ketosis, so that your body is accustomed to using fat for fuel. Eat 2000 calories per day, days 3-8 and you can do without food for day 9. By then, you'll have caught plenty of fish. As time passes and you dont have much to do, you can (and must) replace the clothing and tent part of your weir with sticks and stones.

any time that you're going to be in or on water, have a fire, hot rocks, dry debris, dry clothing ready to get yourself dry and warm in just a very few minutes if you start to shiver., or the thumb to pinkie-tip dexterity test tells you that you're getting hypothermic. If you really go at it, with the two rations and salt to help you stay energized and hydrated, you can have a goodly amount of fish to eat and fishheads/guts to use in the stake and log bait box for bears. Set up your tree blind 10m from the bait box and 3/4 mile from your camp, That leaves it 1/2 mile from the edge of your little 2.5 sq miles of allotted land. A bear with an arrow thru its vitals aint going 1/4 mile, much less half a mile. A 200 lb bear, fat for winter, offers you 200,000 calories if you eat all of the blood, organs, brain and marrow. That's enough food to lose NO weight for 60+ days of holing up in your shelter. Bears are not going to ignore the stench of 50 lbs of rotting fish parts when they are trying to fatten up for hibernation. You WILL get some

the remaning half of the tarp, the bivy, some of your clothing (at first, cause it's 50F degrees and the water's even warmer, for a while) can be used to make a baited net weir, with stick and stone 'wings" which "guide" the fish into the trap. The netting that you weave, after unraveling the hammock, is best used as a seine, altho it CAN be used as a baited gillnet when you're not using it as a seine. Eventually, the water will get too cold to wade in. Then you'll have to use the 3 pairs of coveralls as debris-stuffed pontoons. Sew and tape their seams and lash them and the backpack to the 4 corners of the outrigger logs on your log-framed rafe. Only 8 small logs are required to craft this raft.

if you pack ENOUGH dry debris between 2-3 layers of tarp, it's WARMER than any sleeping bag. It's just a question of how thick of a layer of such debris you use and how to seal the edges so that the air between the tarps is "trapped:" It's AIR that insulates you, not goose-down. The tyvek bivy is worth a lot more than any sleeping bag, cause it's unaffected by its getting-wet. When you have enough netting and know how to use it, you'll catch FAR more fish than you can with hooks and line (especially pike when it's cold) Pike will bite thru your line and cold weather makes fish dormant.

if you dont know 5 ways to make fire, easier than the bow drill, you dont belong on this show, at all Fire roll a strip of your shemagh, using rust from your shovel as an accellerant. Bury some coals in your ashes and youll keep your fire "alive' sor 12+ hours, Then you re-make some coals and bury them again. As insurance, bust open some rocks and create some charred piunkwood, , which you store in a tarp and tape bag, with some resin, fat-wood shavings, and scrapings, and ashes. As more insurance or if you cant find proper rocks, make a big pump drill. with removable spindle-end and dove-tailed in contact points on the fire-board. Then those vital pieces of fire-making gear can go into the tinder/punkwood storage bag.

you dont need or want the sleeping bag, ferrorod, bow,, cookpot, paracord, axe, saw, belt knife, gillnet, fishing kit or snarewire. You want a slingbow, with 3-piece, takedown arrows, 6 of them with flu flu fletching and judohead blunt tips. you want the reflective tyvek bivy, XL size, the reflective tarp, the 2 person cotton rope bivy, the big roll of Gorilla tape, the block of salt, the rations of pemmican and GORP, the saw edged variant of the Cold Steel shovel and the modified Crunch multitool.

youll be making as much netting as is allowed in the water, out of the cotton rope net hammock and using the rest of the hammock as a wing on the weir. Part of the tarp will be used to line the 6 gallon basket that you'll weave on-site, out of roots, vines, withes, etc. that you'll have split and soaked for that purpose. You'll stone boil 5 gallons of water at a time in a pit, lined with the tyvek bivy. . You can stone boil food, or kebab it on skewers, fry it on the shovel-blade, put it on ashes that are on hot coals, or bake it an earthern or stone oven..

you dont have to have more shelter for the first month than a tent made of half of your reflective 12x12 tarp and some of the big roll of Gorilla Tape. 3 hours to make it, with most of that spend on getting the poles and stakes. Practice cutting it out of clear, cheap sheet plastic at home and assembling it in your back yard, or at the edge of down. Use permanent marker to lay out the outline of the tent on your tarp. Ditto the 2-3 pairs of pants that you'll also make out of it, but only one pair is needed right off the bat., Save as much of that tarp as you can. It and the tyvek bivy will be part of the "wings" of your baited net-weir.

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I read about the medicinal value of dandelions so I ate one. Oh my it tasted horrible. I enjoyed this show .

Oh Hell. I have been smoking it, and not eat it lol. Just Kidding. I Live in Texas and pick that wild lettuce, I eat that, and also make Pain Killers with it, and Wild Garlic also grown in the wild here. Thank you for this info video. There are Many people who don't even know what grows in there back yard. You have a New Sub :).

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have you googles how many calories are in greens, most roots, berries? it's negligible, relative to the effort involved. just walking a mile, on flat pavement, unburdened, at room temps, burns 100 calories per mile, at room temps, Having to fight hills, mud, brush, wind, dampness, cold, carrying 30 lbs of camera gear everywhere, Late in fall, the only plant food worthy of consideration would be nuts and acorns and they put you where neither one is viable. Ditto cattail roots, The only viable thing is make lots of netting out of a cotton rope hammock, If they limit how much netting you can have "in the water' , netting can be wrapped around a stick box frame and used to catch birds (entire flocks) and rabbits. Your baited weir can be made of sticks and stones, so that your gillnet can be used as a seine, several times per day. The seine can force fish from 4-5 ft deep water into the weir, which is in 18" of water. You need at least 30 lbs of whole fish and 30 lbs of fish left overs as bait for a bear. Boil the leftovers, which makes the fat rise to the top. cool the ceramic pot (made on-site) in the river/lake and skim the fat off of the top of the water. Make a stake and log bait box for a bear, 10m from your tree blind. . this is NOT luck, which IS the only thing that puts a moose on yur little 2.5 sq miles of allotted land! Bears can detect the stench of a rotting pile of fish from miles away and that's exactly what you need. Locate this bait 3/4 of a mile away and downwind of your shelter. when you approach it, go 1/4 mile past it and work back upwind toward the bait box/blind. You can be making more netting as you sit in the blind. Sleep in the blind, too, with a string from the bait box to your ankle, so you will be awakened when a bear is on the box. A 200 lb bear is small one, but ready to hibernated it is 25% bodyfat. So it's 200,000 calories, if you save the brain, marrow, blood.. That's enough food to lose no weight for 60 days. if you just hole up in your shelter. You can catch enough fish and peel enugh cambium to lose no weight for a week, take enough gorp and pemmican to lose no weight for 3 days, Virtually any american can stand to lose 30 lbs and many can stand to lose 60 lbs. You wont lose a lb per day if you're "holed-up" conserving your calories. So that bear is a huge factor,. In fact, ti's the win.

Awesome amount of work completed

What a great job, I know how much work it is but you make it look easier than it is and fun too. Which knife do you use while you’re out there. I may have to go back and look around your videos to see.

Man i hope you get on alone !

Well it sucks the door didnt work out. But i bet the next one will lol. The shleters looking great and you about got it whooped!

Wow! I think that doors gonna work this time I wish I would have had an awesome door system like that on my shelter.

This is great! Thank you for taking the time to video this class for us. You're the man!

everyone makes the same silly cub scout crud that they learned from a book. If you want to WIN, you have to NOT do what all of the other losers have done. this challenge is won or lost while you're still at home. Do NOT take the axe, bow, saw, paracord, gillnet, belt knife, fishing kit, snarewire, cookpot, ferrorod, sleeping bag. Instead, take the reflective 12x12 tarp, the reflective, XL size reflective tyvek bivy, the rations of gorp and pemmican, the 3 lb block of sea salt, the 2 person cotton rope hammock, the big roll of Gorilla tape, the saw edged shovel, the modified Crunch multtiool, and one of Chief Aj's slingbows. with take down, 3 piece arrows. Take only 3 broadheads. The remaining 6 arrows should feature Zwickey judohead blunt tips and flu-flu fletching, so you dont lose/damage so many arrows and waste so much time looking for them.

rocks dont fly straight enough (from the slingbow) for use on anything but small fish in 6" or less of water, almost straight down in front of you.. You can use the back of the shovel (long handle) to slap the water over the fish in such a situation, and the blow will stun them. they will float to the surface and you can either flip the onto the shore or put them in your pockets, bag, etc.

at first you stone boil 5 gallons of water in a pit, lined with the reflective tyvek bivy, twice per week 1 hour each time , instead of boiling 2 qts at a time, 3x per day, 1/2 hour at a time. Over an 80 day period, that saves you a week of time and calories. Duh. Use a 3x3 ft hunk of your 12x12 tarp to line a 5 gallon basket and store your boiled water in that basket. Some time the first week, devote a couple of hours into making the clay-refining pits on some hillside and fill the top pit with shoreline mud and water. Keep stirring this and adding more mud and water and over time, you'll drain off the clay-suspended water into the lower pit. Eventually, the water in the lower pit will clear. Drain it off and have clean, workable clay in that pit. Remove the clay, and put it on the back, lower side of your work pavilion tarp. While you're waiting on the clay, make the kiln and the charcoal that you'll need to properly fire the 8 clay pots (1.5 gallons each) and their (numbered) close fitting, gasketed lids. 1-2 of the pots will break as they dry, or as they fire, and you'll probably break 1-2 in normal use, too. You need at least 4 of them and 5 is much better, so while you're at it, make 8 of the pots. Also while you're at it, make 50+ of the 1/2" OD ceramic balls, needed as ACCURATE "ammo" for the slingbow. Stop wasting time on lost arrows, or damaging them.

you dont need or want that silly little 2 qt cookpot nor the ferrrod. The saw edged shovel is far more useful than the axe and saw put-together. If you dont believe me get the shovel, make a normal stand up shovel handle for it heat-steam bending the green sapling. drill two holes in the shovel blade for lashing and mount it on an L shaped forked sapling, for use as a pick/adze/hoe. Now SEE how much hard ground you can move with the axe, digging stick and jacket or the cookpot, as vs much you can do with the shovel, alternating handles as needed. Drill out the mounting holes in the shovel's ferrule. Use longer, larger OD bolts, 3/4" long chunks of large OD nails welded to the heads of the bolts. weld nuts to the female side of the ferrule. Then you can quickly swap handles for the shovel, without any tools. By tossing out the worthless SS file, Phillips and serrated knife blade and replacing them with a pair of real-deal Nicolson file blades (one of them 3-sided" and the blade from an Old Hickory parin knife (so you can strike sparks with it) you'll be able to sharpen the shovel, the saw teeth and the knife blade. Rig the Crunch multtool to also be taken apart and re assembled with your bare hands. Then you can hold the knife blade in the vise grip and have an easy job of boiling the jaws of the vice-grip and the knife blade, to prevent your getting food poisoning. That iS a threat if you process food with a folding knife.

the early version (first month) of your sleeping tent takes at most 3 hours to create. A later version, for the next month, takes 3 hours or so, and the final version takes another 6 hours, but 2 hours at a time, at dusk for 3 days, cause you're letting a 2-4" thick layer of wet debris freeze overnight. This is necessary about day 60 when it's too cold for rain to be much of a threat and you need to convert the producer's tarp into a debris-stuffed "sleeping bag'. At day 30, the producer's tarp was needed to protect the 6" thick layer of dry debris that you needed to add to the additional (external) pole frame of the little sleeping tent. By little, I mean "coffin-sized". By having a reflective, SMALL, SEALED, insulated shelter, you dont need a heat source inside of it down to 0F, for as long as you have bodyfat, so as to make metabolic heat. If you score enough fish, or use enough fish to bait in and arrow a bear, you'll never be so emaciated that you need the hot rocks under your raised bed trick.

you got the wrong ideas about shelter, bro. They never see much cold at all, certainly not more than a month or so below 20F and almost never below 0F. You dont want a fire in your shelter and you dont need one if you know what your'e about. You use a separate pavilion, perhaps with a fire if you have to work out in the wind and rain, stand up, etc and you can of course use a fire for THAT but you want your sleeping shelter to not need one. You can build such a shelter in one day if you know to take the reflective 12x12 tarp and the big roll of Gorilla tape. You can build the beginning version of the work pavilion in a couple of hours, and the finished version ( a month later) in a few more hours. The early version uses the 10x16 ft producer's tarp but later, you have to add that to your sleeping-tent. So you have to substitute spruce boughs for the tarp

taking the two person, cotton rope hammock lets you NOT take the snarewire, paracord, gillnet and fishing kit. That's how you get to take the salt and the rations of pemmican and Gorp. Those items are how you can work like hell the first 10 days, enabling you to catch enough fish to keep on trucking. Netting can be wrapped around stick 'box frames" and used to catch crabs, birds and rabbits. The cross wires on the Judohead blunts can become barbed treblehooks for trotlines. where it's not feasible to use netting. While you're making the ceramic cookpots and their close-fitting, gasketed lids, make 50 plus baked-clay balls for use vs birds and small game, via the slingbow.

when you know how to make a 0F capable shelter in 1 day and a work pavilion in half a day, and you dont need a fire in the sleeping-tent, you save 1 week of calories and time on the shelter, 2 weeks on the firewood. If you know to stone boil 5 gallons of water at a time, 1 hour per time, twice per week, you save another week's worth of time and calories. 30 days has often separated 4th place from the winner. if you also learn what to do with those saved 30 days you can do even better as to staying power, and also suffer a lot less. Making clay refining pits, charcoal, kiln, and ceramic cookpots gives you a MUCH better life out there and will guarantee you a lot more 'face-time' on the show. So will making a 7 piece composite, "father and son" bow out of pieces of wood no more than 2 ft long. The gorilla tape makes it very easy to fletch arrows. Showing how to make fire hardened wooden broadheads will get some face-time, So will knowing to have the Saw-edged cold steel shovel. Make and the modified Crunch multitool able to be taken apart and re-assembled with your bare hands. Make longer and various configurations of handles for the shovel and you can have a pick/axe/rake, a 2 handed axe (with stone weight) stand up shovel, vertical ice-chipper/posthole digger, Without the handle, the shovel is a SKILLET, a "big knife", trowel and prybar. The addition of 2 real-deal, nicholoson file blades and a carbon steel knife blade make the Crunch a very useful tool, letting you sharpen the shovel, it's saw teeth and your knife. Converting the small flathead into an awl/drill blade lets you make the mounting holes in the various shovel-handles.

3 of the 10 slots are reserved for women, one each for a gay/trans person, a non-white and a person with a bad disease or injury. So only 4 of the slots are available for a straight white guy. Show them that you can start fires by flre-rolling, big pump drill, fire saw, fire thong and you'll get some interest, 95% of the 10,000 applicants each year are straight white guys and almost none of them can do the above. Show them that you can make charred punk wood without a metal container and you can bust open rocks and make flint and steel fire with your multitool's replacement carbon steel knife blade and the char. If a black lesbian with MS, 3 kids and a sob story can do bow drill, they will send a plane for her.

Oh there are no classes near me like this. Thank you. I’ll be watching this a few times .

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Great video. Glad your still hanging in there brother

Dude that’s cool thx tou

Keep getting it man. Keep getting it.

I’m back checking out your show , man time fly’s. I’ll catch up . Glad your doing well out there and still having fun my friend

if's 50F degrees when they launch, and wont freeze for a month. The rivers freeze solid in many areas, The fish MUST migrate. So in a month, you're done fishing if you are not on a lake. In any case, you need to make a LOT of netting in the first week. Take the sale, pemmican and gorp, and mix in some diced, boiled, then fried cambium. dont eat anything the first 2 days. Then you'll have 1700 calories per day for a week of hard work. The next day, no food, will still be functional. 10 days, you'll have made the pontoon outrigger raft, and 1500 sq ft of 4" mesh netting, or 700 sq ft of 2" mesh netting. That will be feeding you. acceptably, mixing in a bit of cambium. Netting can be wrapped many times around stick box frames and used to catch rabbits, crabs, birds.

they care more about your videograpy than anything else. Dont show them anything that I've told you. If you do, they wont let you on the show, cause you'll make everyone else look like the campfire girls that they ARE

for the work pavilion, add some poles for support of the tarp. Make it a plow point configuration, Practice at home so that you'll know how to do it. aim the low end of the plow point at the prevailing winds. Dont take the tarp all the wy to the ground, cause you'll need head room, maybe room to swing the shovel and cut wood. Drive 3 ft long stakes 1 ft into the ground, Tie the bottom edges of the tarp to these stakes. Fill in the gaps under the tarp's bottom edge with brush, debris, then dirt. This will stop wind and rain from entering your work pavilion., but let you have a 7 ft high ceiling. Put a Siberian fire lay out front, if need-be as you work. If all is wet, make an alternative Swedish fire torch or 3 and use them to ignite the Siberian. yt has vids on both. of these. Neither can be extinguished by rain. both burn green, wet wood if need be and the Siberian projects its heat all in one direction, twice as far as a normal fire. It's vital to learn these fire lays.

make the tent 8 ft long, triangular in cross section 3x3 ft at the foot end, 4 ft high, 3.5 ft wide at the base at the head end. Make the bed 5 ft long, 30" wide, 10" high. drive 4 forked sticks as the corner posts and use 5 ft long, 1-1.5" poles lengthwise. Lash together the tops of two 1.5-2.0" OD poles, both 9-10 ft long, overlapping 1-2 ft of their small ends. That's your ridgepole. Tie one end of this pole into the fork of a small tree, away from big trees, for safety in windstorms. Make a small tripod, stake down its poles and guy it out to other stakes, Put the foot end of the ridgepole in this tripod and tie it in place. Doht have heavy logs above you as you sleep! dont hurt yourself trying to lift 80 lbs logs 7 ft in the air, either. You dont want your sleeping tent to be much bigger than a coffin. Make a separate work pavilion out of the 10x16 ft tarp that the producer's give everyone. do NOT leave the producer's tarp up when you're not right there watching it, or the wind will have it! Rig it with loops and toggles, so you can take it down in a minute flat, and stake-weight it down. use green, springy branches, tied into a "u" shape as 'shock-absorbers at every tie out point on every membrane that is exposed to the wind, and use the gorilla tape to reinforce such connections, or you'll soon regret it.