For the next three days and two nights, I'm going to be camping out in the wild with very limited gear, using a tiny survival kit that I put together myself in an Altoids tin.

I'll have to depend on the contents of this kit to make a fire, construct a shelter to clean drinking water and acquire food.

We're going to be doing some fishing and some foraging, and I'm going to have to find ways to stay warm for the cold nights ahead.

Encountering some wildlife along the way wanted and unwanted.

So join me as I venture out into the wild and rugged foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

I'm not bringing any food, not bringing any water, so it's going to be whatever the land provides.

Other than a little bit of rain, I don't think the weather's supposed to get too bad.

Next couple days, which is unfortunate.

Always makes things a little more interesting.

Beautiful time of year.

Everything's vibrant, green.

Looks like I've come to the end of my road fork right here.

It's a chilly 56 degrees.

I got my camera gear in this pack in the tripod walking stick.

And this is my survival kit.

And once I get out there, I'll show you what all I have in here.

I'm gonna get hydrated before I go.

Let's head out.

So I'm just going to follow this road for a little while, cut into the woods, and then hike a little farther.

There's a little note.

There.

Loving this wet weather.

Well, this looks like a good place to start walking in.

All right, so I'm going to show you what I have in my survival kit.

I have this duct tape around it so it doesn't open.

Plus, I can use duct tape for all kinds of different things.

All kinds of goodies in here.

We have more duct tape.

A utility blade here.

And this will be my knife.

So pull that down a little more.

Two sewing needles.

The ends are magnetized so that I can use that as a compass.

If I ever need to put it on a leaf and some water.

Show me which way is north.

I have some bank line here which I can use for lots of different things.

Some iodine tablets all wrapped up in this plastic bag.

And then here I have a mylar survival space blanket.

I have it vacuum sealed so that it's more compact and fits in the tin better.

A little fishing kit here.

Fishing line, some hooks, some flies, some little split shots.

And this is a mylar bag that I use to store freeze dried food.

Fold it up and this will be my water container.

And next we have a fair cerium rod for starting fires.

Utility blade as a striker.

Cotton pad soaked in wax.

Fire starter.

Some more duct tape.

And underneath of this duct tape, we have some utility cord.

All kinds of uses for that.

That's all I have to survive for the next couple nights.

Other than the clothes on my back and the stuff I have in my camera bag.

There we go.

So in the camera bag as my drum drone controller, some work lights, battery pack, and this is also a light radio.

More battery packs case for my phone in case it starts raining.

Charging cables.

Headlamp.

What else we got in here?

Another headlamp, USB drives and a trail camera just to see what kind of creatures are lurking around at night, if any.

And that's it.

So should be fun.

Should be interesting.

The porcupine.

Hello.

What are you up to?

Just hanging out.

All right.

I'll leave you alone.

Oh, here's the creek.

I'm just going to keep walking upstream, see if I can find some good spots to fish for trout.

Maybe do a little fishing.

Wet a line as they say.

Tons of places to camp here, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Finding a place to camp out for the night.

I want to be close to the creek so I have a water source and a food source close by.

There's some birch bark.

Makes good tinder.

I like to gather this stuff when I find it.

Because where I'm headed, I might not find any birch bark or pines or whatever else I need.

The smell here is just glorious.

Fresh woodsy aroma.

Love being out here.

Now this looks like a good trout hole.

So that's some pretty deep water there.

This looks pretty good in here too.

I have line now.

I just need to find a rod.

There we go.

There's my fishing rod.

Fairly flexible shooting brake.

It's not like I'm catching a huge muskie or anything.

And I'll just tie my line on the end of it and get my fishing kit out of here.

I don't have bait right now.

I do have some flies in here, though.

Might catch me something.

If not, I'm going to have to look for some worms.

Not some 4 pound test here will be plenty for these trout.

Not going to need all this line, so I'll cut some.

And I'll probably let out about 6 or 7ft of line.

We'll try this wooly bugger.

I'll add some weight to this.

There we go.

Let's do some fishing.

No bites so far.

Might have to try some live bait.

They don't want the wooly bugger, apparently.

See if there's anything under this log.

It's kind of hit or miss with wooly buggers.

Sometimes I do good with them.

Sometimes I don't get a single bite.

Small worm.

There.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's what we're looking for.

We're good to go.

Now.

Good juicy worms.

Took the wooly bugger off and I tied a hook on.

Cover up as much of that hook as I can.

I'm really hoping there's some trout in here that are hungry like I am.

Check it out.

Oh, we're not going to go hungry tonight.

Nice brook trout.

I'm going to use this branch as a stringer.

That's one trout so far.

Cool.

Let's see if we can catch some more.

Apparently they want worms today, so that's what we're going to give them.

Throw this on the hook.

Try again.

That one.

This is one.

Oh.

Oh.

Nice one.

That's awesome.

Another nice trout we're going to throw on the stringer.

The fish are biting and that's what we want.

Another one.

So that is three trout.

That should be enough for a meal tonight.

Getting kind of late, so probably find a place to set up camp and have to dry my socks out over the fire later.

And I'll get these trout cleaned up.

So this is a job for the utility blade just to make a handle for this real quick so I don't cut myself.

Should be good enough.

Cut off the middle of it.

I'll make a V, cut under the gills and cut that connector piece and open it up.

Everything should pull right out of it, and we're left with the kidney.

And I'll just scrape it out of there and I'll give it a rinse.

One cleaned trout.

Now we'll do the rest.

Starting to drizzle a little bit again.

It's getting a little chilly out here.

A little breezy, but it is nice.

I'm not complaining.

It's been real warm this spring.

It's a little too warm some days.

This is cinnamon fern.

Some people confuse this with ostrich fern.

You can eat ostrich fern fiddleheads early in the spring when they first start growing.

Only problem is, I don't find too much ostrich fern around here.

Ton of cinnamon fern, wood fern, Bracken fern.

Not too much ostrich farm.

Other note.

Well, there's a bunch of them here.

Okay, there's another one.

So I'm liking these big rocks over here.

Just looks so inviting that this little stream right here.

But over here looks really dry.

So I'll set up my shelter real quick and gather some kindling and firewood.

I can just make a lean to shelter against this rock.

And ground's fairly soft, because all these hemlock needles on the ground hang these fish up for now.

Grab some of this.

Not very big, but I have to do.

I mean, what I could do is just wrap myself in it.

Or I could make a lean to with it.

Not sure if it's supposed to rain much tonight or not.

These do reflect your body heat back toward you pretty well.

So that'll keep me a little warm tonight.

But they're not insulated, so it's not going to be real warm.

So I'm going to use this as a tarp.

This is going to be the roof of my shelter in case it does rain.

So I'm going to make some grommets with this duct tape, some reinforced corners.

This will be an attachment point for my line.

It should be all I need.

And to do the same thing at the other corner.

I do two in the middle, one here, and then one here.

So now I need to attach these bottom corners.

I'm going to make a tie out point on this corner.

Another tie out point here.

Now I'll give you the virtual tour.

Here's the sleeping area.

That's about it.

250,000 or best offer.

Or maybe I'll rent it out.

I haven't decided yet.

It's a little rough around the edges, but nothing a little sweat equity can't fix.

This is a prime piece of real estate.

Look at all this beauty.

Waterfront property.

A little babbling brook flowing through the front yard.

This hemlock kindling burns really good.

You get some of the birch bark I gathered earlier and my pine resin.

I need really good tinder because the very small, fair cerium rod to use and everything is soaking wet.

I do have this cotton soaked with wax, but I shouldn't need that.

So I'm just going to save that for when I do need it.

I just need something that's going to take the spark, turn it into a flame.

So I'll just scrape tiny shavings of this birch bark.

There we go.

We almost had it.

Here we go.

I put this chunk of resin on.

We have fire.

It's going to let this flame die down a little bit.

Let's cook them over the hot coals.

I should add some seasoning.

It's getting chilly out here.

The skin will protect the meat from burning.

I'm pretty excited to eat.

Not going to lie.

Even without any seasoning.

That is good.

Let's dig in, shall we?

Good and smoky.

Little charred on the outside.

A few bones after this.

Definitely going to need some water.

So let's dip into our survival kit.

Get the mylar bag and the iodine tabs.

I cut some off so that it would fit into the tin better.

Now I use a mylar bag because in case I run out of water tablets, I can boil water in this.

Just fill it up and drop some hot rocks in there.

Now we wait.

Get warmed up.

So I put some rocks on the fire.

I'm going to heat them up and they're going to go in my shelter with me.

Keep me nice and warm.

It's not real cold, but it's a little chilly and it's only going to get colder as the night goes on.

So I add another one.

Those rocks will retain heat for hours.

Kind of splash that around to get the sides to yummy.

Not the best tasting iodine water, but it'll do well.

It's getting late and I'm getting tired.

I think I'm going to go to bed.

These rocks are good and hot.

Roll them into my shelter.

It feels warmer in there already.

This is not the most comfortable bed I've ever had, but ground's pretty soft, so it's actually not bad.

This hot rocks are keeping my back nice and toasty.

I'll see you guys tomorrow.

All right, so I do want to get that out of here.

I'm not a real big fan of these things.

I heard something walking around out there.

Not sure what it was.

Morning.

Got chilly.

Well, wasn't the best sleep of my night.

It wasn't the best night of sleep in my life.

Wasn't the worst.

I'm going to go for a little hike and get warmed up.

That's what I'm going to do.

Let's get the blood flowing.

There's hot rocks.

Kept me warm for a while.

Till they cooled down toward morning.

Maybe we'll do some foraging.

A little more fishing.

Very medicinal.

Mushroom.

Anti-inflammatory.

You can make a tincture with it.

I might actually get that.

Take it home with me when I leave.

So I definitely don't recommend the Altoids kit for cold weather.

There's primitive ways to stay warm, but it's a lot of work.

Just bring the proper gear.

I found some wood metal.

You can see the tiny needles on it.

It's just like stinging nettle, but a little different.

Not as many stingers.

When you cook these, it deactivates the stingers.

Pinch the stems very carefully.

I'm going to gather some of this very nutritious plant.

I just grab the stem real tight and up.

And usually don't get stung that way.

But when it brushes up against the back of my hand, that doesn't feel too good.

I'll cook some of this up later.

And grab my fishing rod.

We're going to do some more fishing.

Let's see if I can find any more worms.

Nothing here.

Not seeing anything.

It's got to be a worm under one of these rocks.

There we go.

Got him.

And here's a shotgun shell.

How about that?

I can use this.

Put my worms in.

Acorn.

Acorn cap.

Yeah.

So there's my worm container.

I just came out to the road.

This is the section of the creek that flows near the road.

It's a nice deep hole here I can fish.

Should be some trout in there.

So we can catch.

Oh, no.

You got my worm.

We got a worm.

Thief on our hands.

I'm going to catch that one.

Hook them.

It's all right.

Let's give them a big, juicy worm.

See how they like that?

One of the juicy worm.

Awesome.

Beautiful little worm.

Thief!

Nice one too.

Another brook trout hooked them.

Good.

Another good sized trout there.

They seem to have stopped biting in this spot.

We're going to move on.

We got one.

This one's fighting hard.

Another nice brook trout.

I'm constantly having to check myself for ticks out here.

These small ones are so hard to see.

There's a little stream over there.

I want to gather some water from.

That is some good looking water.

And let it stew.

I'm gonna try this spot again.

This one's kind of small.

I already have three.

I let that one go.

Today's bounty.

So I'm going to clean these up.

Take these back to camp.

Cook them up another night of not going hungry.

That's always a good thing, because I like to eat.

There's some more yarrow.

Perfect.

Because I'm starting to get attacked by bugs.

Wow.

I almost forgot what color the sky was.

There's the sun.

I haven't seen that in a while.

Been overcast for so long.

Back to the campsite.

We go.

This time to get a fire going.

I'm going to use the cotton soaked with wax.

Make my life a little easier, even though things are a lot more dry today.

Birch bark I gathered earlier.

I'm just going to expose those fibers.

Give that a spark.

Should light right up.

This isn't the best scraper in the world, but it does work.

I'll put these rocks back on the fire.

And I need these rocks again tonight.

I'm going to get cold again.

It's a nice piece of cherry wood I found over there from a fallen tree.

And I'm going to do something a little different with a space blanket.

Let's take this down.

I'm going to dig a trench.

Later on, I'm going to fill that up with hot rocks, put a little bit of dirt over top of it, and put the space blanket on top of that.

I don't think it's supposed to rain tonight, so I might not need it over me.

It'll be a moisture barrier because the hot rocks will make steam.

Steam will come up from the ground and get me all wet.

If I don't have a barrier, I'm just going to dig a trench here.

No easier said than done using a stick.

Should be good.

We'll fill that up with hot rocks later.

I'm going to make a little grill here.

And stuffed these trout with some metal.

And the rest of this, I'll just put by the fire.

I do love trout, but I could really, really go for a steak with onions.

Mushrooms, side of mashed potatoes with gravy.

Or even a burger.

That sounds great to chicken Alfredo, lasagna, buttery pierogis.

Then a nice dessert.

Like maybe some apple crisp with some ice cream.

The hunger's getting to me.

Once I eat this trout, I'll stop thinking about food.

I hope the trout are dumb.

Good stuff.

Something's going down.

It's getting chilly again.

Droughts are hot enough, so.

Glowing red.

And we're going to roll them over to the bed.

The bigger the rock, the longer it's going to retain heat.

So this one put off heat for a long time.

Look at that rock.

Red hot.

Give that one a minute to cool down.

Another thing you can do is bury hot coals in a similar way.

But you'd have to bury them a lot deeper than you would rock.

That's for more extreme cold.

Using rocks is safer.

Couple inches of dirt on top.

Certain debris.

That's steaming.

Now, before I lay on top of that, I'm going to let the rocks cool down some so I don't get scorched.

Normally I would get an all night fire going, then sleep close to that.

But I don't have a saw to be able to cut logs big enough to have an all night fire.

But big logs on.

They'll burn for hours.

It's heating up already.

Oh, that is nice and warm.

I feel like a baked potato.

This is nice.

Oh, it's going to get a little too warm.

So this is why you want a moisture barrier.

Look underneath it.

There is soaked.

Put this rain jacket on for extra moisture barrier.

Well, I'm going to try and get some sleep.

I'll see you guys tomorrow.

Turned out to be a nice sunny morning.

Ripped my space blanket last night.

Still a little warm.

So they're still putting out some heat.

This papery birch bark can be hard to ignite.

With just a spark from a afar.

Take it or rub it in between your hands.

Crush it up.

Makes fine pieces.

It's going to warm up by the fire for a little bit.

Got a little chilly.

But rocks kept me fairly warm.

Kept me real warm.

First half of the night.

Well, the Altoids tin survival kit was a success.

Although I definitely don't recommend relying on it, especially not in cold weather.

Get some of that.

That's a nice one.

Let's get out of here.

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