I was doing some hiking today.

Got a little mixed up and lost the trail.

So I am lost out here in the woods.

Kind of did it on purpose for the sake of the video.

But nonetheless, I'm still lost.

I didn't bring any food or water.

All I have on me is a backpack full of camera gear, some batteries for the cameras, and some lights.

And my survival lighter that I put together myself.

The only problem is it's out of butane.

So now it'll be even more of a struggle.

And I brought my rain jacket because it's been raining off and on all day.

It's supposed to rain off and on for the next few days.

Possible bad storms.

So this should be interesting.

So hopefully we're going to catch some fish, do some foraging, find some food.

So I'm going to make a fire, cook what I catch or find.

I also need to find some water.

So I need to figure out where I'm going to camp out for the night.

I want to camp near a stream so I have a good supply of water nearby.

I can also use the stream to be able to find my way back to the road.

Then I can find my truck.

But that's going to have to be tomorrow because I'm running out of daylight.

It's getting kind of late, and I'm pretty far back here.

So I'll show you what I have in my lighter.

I have it wrapped in gorilla tape with some items inside.

So I have an exacto knife blade here.

Some thread.

There was a needle in here, but I took it out the other day.

Probably won't need that anyway.

I have some fishing hooks, a fly and some fishing line.

I also have some aluminum foil folded up in here, which I can use for boiling water.

And that's it.

That's what I'll be surviving the night with.

And my rain jacket.

It's out of butane.

For now, let's do some foraging.

On my way to a stream.

Usually I find chicken of the woods and chanterelles this time of year.

If I could find some of those, those would be great.

Oh, yeah.

Chanterelles are coming up.

Here's some bigger ones.

Put these in my rain jacket pocket.

You see how bright orange they are?

Makes them so easy to spot.

That's awesome.

Some more down here.

I'm going to get beautiful.

I think I see some chicken of the woods.

Yes.

Looks like they just started growing.

So these will be nice and tender.

Perfect.

Chicken of the woods is a fungus that has a similar texture and flavor to chicken, which is how it gets its name.

I haven't even been looking long.

That one here is a little mushy.

So I'm going to leave that one.

So I'll actually be in good tonight.

I thought I might starve.

I am finding a lot of this today.

Has a lot of carbohydrates and protein.

It's very high in vitamin D too.

This is my new friend.

We got chicken of the woods everywhere, so it'll be a nice mushroom dinner tonight.

Definitely humid out here.

A lot of flies out to.

More chicken of the woods.

Check that out.

Almost passed this one up.

More chicken.

So I'm just going to keep heading downhill because that's where the streams should be.

Usually if you keep walking, eventually you're going to find a stream around here.

So I found the stream.

This looks like Snake City.

So I got to be careful walking through here.

So I'm going to get some water.

So since the stream is here, I'm probably just going to set up camp right inside those hammocks.

May or may not be wild trout in here.

It doesn't look too promising, but.

In some of these streams around here, there's a lot of tannins.

That's why the water is kind of brownish colored.

I think it's from all the hemlock around here.

They leech out tannins and it turns the water to kind of a tea color.

There's a lot of beavers and beaver dams here, too.

Probably upstream of here.

There's probably some, which is a really good reason why you want to boil the water.

They make the water really dirty.

Giardia is a real problem.

You don't want to get sick from that.

Comes from beaver poop in the water.

Sky's getting dark.

It's starting to rain again.

I'll get the aluminum foil out of here.

I'll just form it into a bowl so I can collect some water with it.

Fill it up.

Take it back to wherever I'm going to have my fire.

All right, so we got a bit of a problem here.

You can see tiny pinholes where the folds were on this, so this is not going to work.

So I'm going to figure something else out for water.

Maybe I'll harvest some rainwater.

Can be a lot better than drinking the water out of the stream.

Right now I'm just going to go set up camp.

This rock looks good.

Here's my rain jacket for mushrooms.

That's dinner for tonight.

I'm going to get a fire started first before everything in the woods gets even more soaked.

Good place to find.

Dry tinder in.

The rain is under a rock like this.

A little overhang before you reach under there, though.

You just want to check for snakes and spiders and things like that.

It's a lot more dry than all this stuff out here, and I don't have any butane in this lighter, so I'm going to really need some dry material.

It's still going to give off a spark.

It's not going to be enough to light something like a dry leaf.

What we're going to do is take the exacto knife blade.

Put all my dry tinder under there, let's kind of clear Some of this brush out first.

So I'll burn the woods down.

Woods are soaked.

So very slim chance of that happening, but still.

Good practice.

Take the tape off.

Take a little piece of it.

Sit that here on the ground.

Tape is flammable.

I could use that for tinder.

I'm going to make very small shavings off of the side of this lighter.

All right, so I got enough dust here.

Now, what I want to do is pry the safety guard off the wheel of the lighter.

Take the wheel.

Just pull it back a bunch of times.

Slowly, without making a spark.

Grind off fair cerium dust onto that pile of plastic shavings so I can make one really big spark.

So that didn't work.

I'm going to try that again on a new pile.

There we go.

We got fire.

It took me a few attempts to get this fire started with that empty lighter.

But we got it.

It's not easy when everything's wet, so I'm not going to have much of a shelter tonight.

Because I don't feel like wandering around in the dark looking for materials.

Good thing I have the rain jacket.

If it starts raining too hard, I'll just curl up and hang out under that.

So I'm going to get a little dried out here and then cook those mushrooms.

All right, so I found this fallen tree here.

I'm going to take some of the limbs, use them as firewood, but also try and make a raised platform for my bed.

So I don't have to sleep on the wet ground.

It's easier than I thought it was going to be.

So there's my bed.

Normally my sticks would be a lot straighter and I'd have a lot more of them.

But tonight I got to do what I can with what I have.

We're going to be having grilled chicken.

Chicken of the woods.

You have to cook these.

If you don't, they'll mess up your stomach.

Chanty chanterelle.

Just a little dry.

So the only bad thing about cooking them over the fire like this.

Great flavor though.

I just really wish I had a skillet.

Some butter, salt and pepper.

That would be wonderful.

I'll try cooking them in this foil.

Might be good for something after all.

These boots have seen better days.

I usually don't get new boots till mine are about falling apart, but I think it is time.

Oh, yeah.

These are much better now for the chanterelle.

I'm going to cook the rest of them this way.

Santoro has kind of a fruit like flavor, a hint of apricot.

I heard a coyote howling and howled one time, and then it stopped.

It's fairly close.

All right, it's time for bed.

For my wonderfully comfortable mattress.

Not very many straight sticks in this forest.

As you can tell.

This is why you always come prepared so you don't have to sleep like this.

I foresee back problems in the future.

It's actually not that bad.

It's a little dark out there.

So I'll see you guys tomorrow.

I didn't get much sleep.

I stayed dry for the most part, but I was not comfortable.

My legs and feet are a little wet, but my top half is dry.

Thanks to my trusty rain jacket.

Didn't rain too much last night.

Kind of just drizzle.

Fire still smoldering.

So I get that going again.

Water is going to be a priority today because I am thirsty.

You don't want to go too long without water.

Unfortunately, my aluminum foil did not work.

Probably just going to catch some rainwater.

I don't want to drink out of that stream.

I don't really have a way to boil water.

Really?

No birch bark that I can form into a bowl.

I could burn a bowl into a log, but that takes time.

Drop some hot rocks in.

Not sure yet.

Still drizzle in a little bit.

I did hear some thunder and the sky is looking kind of dark.

Like you could start dumping on me at any second, so I'm probably just going to stay put.

Hang out here, see what happens.

Make myself a little shelter.

I'm really going to have to have a shelter because I'm not going to have my rain jacket.

Because I'm going to set it out in the open.

Down here by the creek so I can collect rainwater with it.

I don't want to do that in the woods, because you get a lot of water dripping off the trees and could be contaminated from, like, bird poop.

Find a good place to put this.

Probably right in here.

I'm going to use the inside of this rain jacket because I had the mushrooms on the outside of it.

They were kind of dirty, so I don't want that getting into my drinking water.

Oh, how about that?

Berries?

I didn't even see those here before.

These are going to be good.

Blackberries.

So let's get this set up.

Just make a kind of a bowl shape.

All right, so there we go.

There's my water catchment system here.

Don't be jealous.

You see, above me, there's no trees or anything.

It'll collect pure rainwater that way.

Nothing off the dirty trees.

I try and find some more of those berries.

We're berry picking.

There's a lot of them in here.

These berries are a godsend.

Wow, those are amazing.

A little hydrating to.

So good.

I'm going to try and sip some of the water off of these leaves.

Another berry.

That's thunder.

I got to get this shelter built quick.

These are not going to be the perfect sticks, but that's what I'm going to have to work with.

This ain't going to be pretty, but it's going to keep the rain off me.

Just kind of throwing stuff up right now because that storm is coming.

See that bark falling off of this tree?

Make sure there's no snakes or anything under there first.

Oh, good.

There's some nice slabs of bark on this tree.

Pretty high up there.

So I got to try and knock them down with a stick.

There we go.

Let's get that other one.

Beautiful piece of bark.

If they could all be like this, that would be perfect.

I don't have the best pieces of bark here, so I kind of have a mess of smaller pieces.

I got something up, so that's all that matters for now.

A little toad.

So that storm never came.

Got really dark.

It was thundering a lot, but nothing.

Just a little sprinkle.

That's all we got.

And that was it.

So sky still looks a little dark.

Well, at least I got my shelter built.

So if it starts pouring, I got somewhere to go.

So I'm going to dry my boots and socks out a little bit, and my feet.

So I found some coats, foot leaves.

They're not really big, but they're the biggest leaves I could find.

I might be able to boil water in these, so let's try and do that.

I'm going to go down to the creek and gather some water in these leaves.

Use this as a straw.

It's got a hollow stem.

I have some little rocks heating up in the fire.

Should be good and hot.

Knock some of that ash off.

I'm just going to put that in there very carefully so I don't poke a hole in the leaf.

So that didn't quite bring it to a boil.

So I'll need another rock.

I'll take this one out, put a new one in.

We got a boil.

It's not much, but something.

I'm going to add a couple berries that'll make it taste a little better.

Yesterday was mushrooms.

Today I'm gorging myself on berries.

So it's cooled down.

I got my straw.

It's ready to drink.

Not bad.

The berries gave it a little better of a flavor.

All right.

We got another storm coming.

I think this one's coming this direction.

So we got to move.

It is getting dark.

We got a storm coming.

I'm hearing thunder.

I'm in the shelter.

I'm going to find out how good this shelter is.

So we got a few small leaks here and there, but nothing crazy.

It's not too bad.

Especially for how heavy it's raining.

It's coming down pretty good.

I don't care if I get a little wet.

I just don't feel like getting completely soaked.

Nice storm.

Well, the rain stopped.

Well, that was a pretty good storm.

Got a little wet.

What I am excited about is my rain jacket.

Let's go check it.

See how much water we got.

Let's go check it out.

The creek's really flowing now.

Beautiful.

Oh, look at that.

Precious water and a little bit in the hood.

Beautiful.

Now, it's not the best to drink rainwater.

There could be some contaminants in it, but at this point, I'm just going to take what I can get.

Sun's coming out.

Oh.

It's rainwater.

Not the best tasting, but right now any water is going to taste good.

Butterfly landed on it.

I'm just making all kinds of friends out here.

So I got a good amount of water now.

I'm hydrated.

Let's do some fishing.

Not sure where I'm going to go yet.

Streams are pretty washed out, so I'm not sure how this is going to go.

There's a lot of rain in a short amount of time when the water's real high and rushing like this, I usually don't catch anything.

I'm not even going to try.

But what I am going to do is go find the river.

All right, so I got everything packed up.

I'm going to get out of here.

Hopefully all the bad storms are over for the day.

I'm going to take this little break in the action here, to take a hike and see if I can find my truck, but I am starving, so maybe catch some wild brook trout.

If that doesn't work, I'll try the river.

I'm just going to follow this stream.

This is a tributary to the river, so that's where I'm going to go.

Check it out and see what that's like.

Maybe we'll catch some rock bass.

Those things bite no matter what the weather is.

A little baby toad.

Found the river.

River's looking a little high, too.

It's not as bad as I thought it would be there.

This is perfect.

I always look for these bigger rocks in the river because that's where the bass like to hang out.

The rock bass that is just nice.

Nice warm over there.

Got him.

So let's get my fishing line and the hook.

So what I'm going to do with this line, I got that tied to this the other end here.

And I'll just wrap it around.

I'll tie the hook on.

All right.

See if we can catch.

Just throw right under the rock.

That's something.

I lost it.

Rock bass.

See if we got some more.

We got something.

Got one.

Small but edible.

So I'm going to find another worm.

Try again.

I just dip it right under this rock.

Here.

We got one This one's a little bigger.

For smaller ones, that should make a decent meal.

That'll hold me over till I get to my truck and get home.

So let's cook them up first.

I'll descale it.

Just take my thumb.

Just like that.

They're pretty easy to take off.

I'm going to take my exacto knife blade and attach it to the end of the stick.

Kind of a split there.

Back it out.

And push the bottom in.

And I'll just wrap it around here with either duct tape or fishing line.

I can gut these fish with this.

It doesn't have to be perfect.

It just has to work.

So the scales are off.

I'll take the guts up.

Cut in a little.

too far.

Here we go.

I'll rinse it off a little bit and I'll do the other ones.

They're small, but in a survival situation, you got to eat what you can get.

All right, let's try this again.

This time I found some birch bark, made some really fine shavings.

Should work better than the plastic.

So there we go.

Much better.

Birch bark is your friend in the wilderness.

I can't wait to eat.

Let's grill these fish.

Little grill here.

I'll give these a flip.

These are looking good.

Cook them till the eyes turn white.

Turned out to be a nice evening.

The rain stopped.

The sun came out.

It's a beautiful day.

Well, I would say this trip was a success.

We caught some rock bass.

Harvested a lot of mushrooms.

Berries?

The survival lighter came through.

Other than the aluminum foil, I'm going to make some adjustments.

Like maybe use some heavy duty aluminum foil.

Yeah, maybe add a few other things.

I might even add a little bag of seasonings.

All right.

So these fish are looking about done.

Pull the meat off the bones.

Make sure I got all the bones out.

Rock bass never tasted so good.

A nice flaky white meat.

But again, I do wish I had some seasonings.

Well, I'm going to put this fire out and get out of here.

Go find the truck.

Take off.

The road is just right down the hill from here, so I can follow that to my truck.

There it is.

We made it.

I survived.

Well, I'm going to go home and go eat a lot, so thanks for watching.

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