3 Days Solo Survival with No Food and Basic Gear

Tricky Dang I think this is as far as I go Currently a five-hour drive north of Toronto about six kilometers up this forestry road I'm pretty much in the middle of nowhere at this point I can make it no further in my car So I plan to continue on foot for a few more kilometers, and then I'm gonna hike off into the woods I know there's a lake that might be suitable for my needs and those needs are food I brought absolutely no food with me on this trip and over the next three days. I plan to use the limited items and Tools that I brought in my bag. This is mostly camera equipment, and I hope to sustain myself over the next three days Anyways, let's just get right into it because it's kind of late in the day, and I'm already getting hungry Raspberry yummy one calorie I know what I can do with this. I'll show you guys later There's so many raspberries here. I should save these for later, but Wow those are good. There's a lot of raspberries here, and I'm gonna keep that in mind, but for now I kind of want to get out there. I want to get to the lake find a nice place to camp Who's not my priority at this moment? I also need to get some firewood boil up some water because I don't have a water vessel. I just have a single pot Thing about this lake too is I know nothing about it I saw it on Google Earth and figured it looked kind of nice Hopefully it provides some of the resources that I'm looking for otherwise this might be a boring video I might be a hungry dude. You see that might be more interesting actually Pretty good fire starter Not the best birch bark I've ever seen, but it's the only birch bark I've seen so far So this right here is reindeer moss, and this is edible you boil it up once or twice becomes a little bit spongy right now It's quite dry and brittle never tried it myself. I think it's one of those types of foods. That's like a tummy filler I don't know how much nutrients in it Yes, oh This is perfect This place is perfect. I can't believe it Wow, it's so flat and perfect another can this one's an old one says Please don't litter right on it. Please don't litter. I don't know if you can get much better than this I'm gonna go scout the rest of this peninsula out. This is the spot. I saw on Google Maps, and I was Hoping it would be good and turns out. It's perfect. That's awesome. I'm so excited. I can camp here This is not an issue nice and flat pretty well protected could be quite buggy in here who knows This is a great spot to set up a tarp No widow makers yeah, so this is quite an ideal situation already Yeah, so this all makes sense now. This is an old cabin that I'm in this is the footprint of an old cabin This is the only thing that remains of this whole Structure yeah, but this was a large cabin at one point pretty cool No wonder why it's such a great spot somebody else thought the same thing That's usually the case so for my gear other than clothing camera gear and first aid I have a hundred and ten yards of line some hooks and some leaders cooking pot It's just a regular cooking pot But I also have some oil and salt which I may or may not end up using for my tools I have Grand Forks books Scandinavian forest axe. I got a p4 Leatherman I have a silky saw gone boy with a broken tip, and I got an uber Liban fire starter My sleeping gear Nemo switchback. I got a small tent footprints I got this see the summit mosquito pyramid net got this mech Talon plus 5 sleeping bag This is the D&D hammocks 3x3 tarp, and then I have a whole bunch of paracord in this mesh bag I do have rain gear. I do have a few extra pieces of clothing which I probably won't end up wearing I have a lot of camera gear and my journal headlamp Garmin GPS in reach so I think right now. I'm going to do a little bit more exploring of this peninsula I kind of get to know this area I'm going to get a fire going and get some water on that fire so I can have some drinking water and then I'm going to make a shelter and start forging for mushrooms berries and Maybe making some tackle to catch some fish a lot of work ahead of us. I'm so happy that this place is going to be a Good spot to set up camp. I'm so pumped about that because it was such an unknown so having Secure location to set up camp out of the way. I'm excited to start this journey This is a wintergreen. I've never tasted the berries before but it's very clearly wintergreen. I've eaten the leaves and you can tell with the leaves because They kind of make a heart shape the Veins they make a heart shape that come wrap around. I've never tried the berries, but It tastes good. They taste like wintergreen gum. I know the leaves taste the same Quite like those berries They're really good There's lots of frogs around here, which is great Because if what I'm planning to do with that can doesn't work out I can use those as bait sorry, mr. Froggies for even thinking that but I'm going to clean up around my camp get all these branches out of the way that can like grab me and You know get me in the eye All these branches are dead and they're gonna make great firewood Clearing out the under branches of trees is actually good for preventing forest fires And I don't want to be rushing to get this all set up to get into bed after this is all set up I can do whatever I want Aka get water get food It's pretty good Our pit right here sunset over there You right here So originally I want to bring trap wire instead of these leaders But I totally didn't think that I couldn't make fish hooks without trap wire to connect a piece of metal to the hooks because if I just use my Fishing line on this. This is a jagged edge. It'll just rip so it won't work dang dang dang Might as well use some of this spruce This is my first sip of water in a whole bunch of hours I'm a little disappointed that I didn't find snare wire. Those leaders won't work for making fish hooks I need malleable wire so I can attach Those cans that I found to the hooks, but hey, it wouldn't be a Xander Budnik video if I didn't forget something. So Just another day. I'm gonna have to go to plan B I'm still gonna try to make fish hooks But I think that catching a frog and using it as bait is Gonna be my best bet of catching a fish. I know that some people out there are gonna have a problem with that. It's okay Putting the spruce in here just like spruces it up a whole bunch We're good I gotta be careful. Not only am I alone out here. I'm not close to any roads. I don't have cell service I have my Garmin in reach so I could use that but that's like I think I don't have too much sunlight left today. Maybe about an hour and a half I want to be able to catch fish in the morning At least set myself up in a way that I have the greatest amount of success Fortunately, I won't be able to make a lure out of the can as simply as I was hoping to because I don't have that trap wire so gonna make my rod and Get my hook and stuff ready for the morning The reason why I'm making this nice and smooth is so when I'm casting the line the line doesn't snag on anything This is gonna be my fishing reel my fishing stump Fishing reel attached to this leader attached to a hook. So if anybody's wondering what the leaders for it's for Pike pike have sharp teeth and if say they're pike in this lake Which I don't know if there are and a pike bites this if the hook was just attached straight to the line There's a chance that they would just bite right through it high chance so a Leader is used to prevent that Great so we have this ready for tomorrow. I'm gonna go check on the water. See how that's doing I know I feel a little bit bad of catching the frog But I'm gonna give them a quick death and just let them be a part of the circle of life You know if anybody's curious it is legal to use live frogs as bait You're not like like sell or buy frogs for live bait You have to catch them yourself in the location in which you use them Running water over there. I hope to go over there tomorrow, but in the morning, I'm gonna fish all these areas around this peninsula Really good. I think I see fish feeding from the surface problem with catching a fish right now is I'd have to cook it before I go to sleep Judging from my last few camping trips the bugs have been really bad this year as soon as the Sun drops And it starts to get dark. They get pretty vicious jackpot These are really good. I don't want to eat too many tonight because they're high in sugar I don't want to be bouncing off the walls. You know This will be my breakfast So I believe this stuff is called sweet fern But if you rub it on your body, it makes a good insecticide bug deterrent for black flies and all types of flies But it doesn't work for mosquitoes unfortunately any case Smells really really nice Mmm. I love it almost like cedar and peppermint together Mosquitoes are out, but they're not terrible yet, so fingers crossed that that they're not super bad this week. Oh Yeah here. They are Here they come Get in from the wrong end So the bug net is a must yeah good day. I mean I'm surprised like how not hungry. I am right now Yeah, I'm super happy that I set up the bug net like before I did anything I'm just gonna journal for a bit read my book and Mosey on off to sleep. I'll see y'all in the morning, then While she wrote I didn't sleep too well last night feel like I was tossing and turning the whole night It's currently 630 just after 630 prime fishing time so time to catch a frog see this There was so many frogs in here yesterday yesterday afternoon Maybe it's too cold for them Got one I Dispatch the frog that I intend to use so he is no longer suffering I'm gonna see if I can attach the can to the leader much better Great, let's test her out Lures too light it's really hard to cast it out there Oh my god, that's a big bad Yes That's it dinner Breakfast I was uh it's with the frog Hello That's what I'm talking about Well, we got breakfast Go fry this thing up All right, so I guess my plan is to clean the fish. I'm going to Filet it and I'm gonna cook those fillets right now eat those and then use the rest of the fish I'm gonna make fish head soup and hopefully I can find some mushrooms and Cattails to add to that for dinner tonight. That would be Mwah, I'm going to drink as much of this water as I can because I'm gonna need this pot Fish head soup fish head soup. Let's do this kind of I Don't know what happened to this one. I'm it's alright though and whole bunch of extra fish for fish head soup All in a day's work Find a great way To get rid of all that fishy smell is to get Yeah dirt Just like work it into your hands. Yeah pretty much gone Very faint if If not, just completely gone and like they smell a little bit like dirt now, but much better than the fish I'm gonna put a little bit of that vegetable oil in Salt should be good and look how appetizing this looks Doesn't that look so good? Yum All right, let's cook these these fillets. Oh shoot. I need to make a utensil Sweet energy got food It's pretty satisfying actually and it's not just a small fish. It was a pretty big bass Decent-sized bass. I'm so happy. I got to catch that I want to thank the frog. I want to thank the bass for both their Both their contributions to filling my belly. I want to thank myself for contributing to the circle of life I want to thank my mom and dad for giving birth to me. I want to thank God for creating such a beautiful beautiful universe Those days that just feel so good to be alive Right now Last bite first bone oil in there. Take some dirt out of there So it's that time of the morning where your digestion is letting your body know that you need to take a crap We're out here in the woods. No toilet paper. No Thunderbox so I'll give you guys a couple tips on how to take a poop in the woods without without anything so one of the better places to take a dump in the woods is Around a whole bunch of moss because you got your toilet paper right where your toilet is So what you do is take some moss out dig a hole Use a stick you can also use your heel if you want At least six inches down nice little hole. Perfect so once you've dug your hole, you can just assume the squat position is a very good position for Helping you do your do your work grab some moss Clean things up if the moss is wet. It's actually quite nice. It acts as a moist towel Let just be careful of there being little hidden pine cones in your moss because if you're wiping with that moss Get a little bit awkward Anyways, once you're all done bury the moss with the dirt cover everything up good to go Hope you guys enjoyed those poop tips. If you did leave a like maybe subscribe for more poop tips in the future All right, so the plan is hike around the shoreline that little bay over there seeing if I can forge anything on the way They have little seeds in them, so I eat them but some people spit them out I Was hoping to find cattails over here, but there's none you know explore the little stream This area is way more moist than everywhere else it's in a little valley and it Just rained last night. So it holds that moisture a lot longer. It's like it was stashed here almost Obviously a ton of birch bark it should be way more than I need for the rest of this trip It's a little damp. So I'm just gonna take it back to a campsite and put it in the Sun when I get there But I'm gonna press forward So this looks like crown tip coral an edible fungus, but it's not growing on wood And it's hard to tell if the tips are crowned Crown tip coral mushroom should be growing on wood that doesn't mean that it isn't growing on wood underneath here It's it appears to be growing just straight on the ground, so we'll leave it alone and press forward Wow I Say if there's no cattails here. I'm not gonna find them on this trip still hoping I find some mushrooms I recognize though all else fails. I got tons of berries and still some fish head soup Jackpot So I think I found some fun trails Yeah There you go found two Sean trails That's which is awesome I could tell these are Sean Charles because I plucked them many times with somebody who knows about Sean Charles shut up to Kai They have false gills the false gills are also the current which means they start halfway up the stem the color of them Mmm, the smell that smells fruity. They smell like apricots. I Really like these Sean Charles, so I'm gonna keep going look for some more few more days, and these things would be all right This is what it's all about I'm gonna head back to camp now I'm gonna see if I can collect some more mushrooms on the way, but I doubt it I think my best bet of collecting them was that little stream just seemed like the an area where mushrooms would grow so So after I started the last fire before I went to my walk. I put my ferro rod somewhere I think I put it in my pocket and If I put it in my pocket before my walk then the ferro rod has also gone for a walk because I cannot find it I had it in the deep pocket, and it's no longer there So if that's the case it's somewhere on my hike hopefully it's somewhere around here in any case I can't find it. I've been looking for the last 25 minutes I know this happens all the time, but damn this is how these things happen Just like not thinking start the fire and then you're just like go go go with that and then you just put the ferro rod down because you're just like focus on the fire and Then all of a sudden the ferro rod disappears happens all the time and unfortunately it happened to me But fortunately it happened to me. You know because it's lesson learned Fishy yeah, I'm pretty thoroughly unimpressed with myself Pretty disappointing to be honest You see so many people lose their ferro rods on the show alone or on YouTube and you think to yourself that'll never happen to me, and then it happens to you, and you go. Oh, I get it It's really easy to lose your ferro Bummer Just feel like a butthead you know oh great a lot of salt I'm not big on mushrooms, but chanterelles are pretty good bonito Wash it down with some fish head soup Mmm. Here's the plan. I'm really thirsty right now, so I'm just gonna drink a lot of that fish head soup I'm gonna put more water in it Just boil it up again My brother's like you should spray-paint that thing too. She's pretty painted orange, so it's visible. I'm like yeah Yeah, sure man, and sure enough here. I am My plan was to keep it in a spot permanently like keep it in my bag as opposed to keeping in my pockets But after you light the fire you just put in your pocket And then you're dealing with the fire, and you just forget about it It's uh it needs to be part of the fire making process like you start it you put the ferro rod somewhere And then then you continue making the fire. Yeah, it's complicated because once you get the fire lit You're just like into the fire making so easy to just put the ferro rod down or put it in your pocket and forget about it So I'm gonna try to make a bow drill I've only ever made it with cedar and there's no cedar in this area, and I never got a fire started I got a number, but I never got a fire started I'm gonna try to try to get one going tonight if it works, then I can make fire tomorrow morning if it doesn't then No fire Found some pieces of driftwood that I might be able to help me turn into a bow drill We'll see That should be alright, we'll see I don't know if this is completely bone dry. I mean it's beech wood so We're gonna give it a go I Don't think this board will work. It's It's not perfectly dry, but hey, let's try it anyways We're getting smoke That's good So now we got a little bit of a little hole established Cut the little V This tinder bundle is way better than the last time I've used one I think it's too punky No, it's not This wood is no good for this too much moisture in it No This is not gonna work. I didn't get it this time, but definitely getting closer I know this tinder bundle will work wonders once I get a number last time I found the correct wood, but I didn't find the right tinder this time I have the right tinder, but I don't have the right wood soon You know that feeling when you're really dehydrated, and you just want like a cool glass of water But all you have is warm fish head soup Gotta love it Bon Appetit That goes in the fire All I drank today was fish head soup. So I'm looking forward to some good old-fashioned lake water. I Really really like this place I'll be back. It was a good campsite caught a fish So many berries too Nice to be back on the spruce T So as the Sun sets my fires going out for its final time No luck finding my ferro rod today, no luck with the bow drill. Valuable lesson as always I'm just gonna journal and head to bed. I'm actually pretty beat, but I'm relatively full so I'm happy. See you guys in the morning So I'm up and at them and so are the bugs, but unfortunately the fire is not that's kind of okay Because there's some valuable lessons in that those are high visibility paracord on my ferro rod the secure location for my ferro rod That's not on my body. So I don't lose it on hikes three get better at the bow drill just in case So it's kind of a good thing that that happened out here on this trip as opposed to on one That was more serious or potentially deadly. It's always good to learn those lessons that way as opposed to it a more serious situation I just want to thank the land for what it's provided me the fish the fruit the fungus it's so amazing to be able to come out here and Forge and fish for sustenance What an amazing thing to be able to do I'm super grateful for that and this experience I know a lot of people are unable to get out there and have these types of experiences for themselves So I'm super grateful that I'm able to and I wish that other people are able to have these experiences as well I want to give a huge shout out to Kylan and Dave Marone Kylan and Dave own lure the north two weeks ago. I did an outdoor Survival course with Kylan where we spent eight days forging and fishing with basic tools and gear For sustenance. She is a season 7 contestant on the show alone And she was absolutely one of my favorites to watch in that season everything I did on this trip I basically learned from Kylan so I huge shout out to her She has such a wealth of knowledge And I'm so grateful to be able to have that experience with her and learn from such an amazing outdoors woman So huge shout out to Kylan Dave Rosman and lure the north Thank you guys so much for that experience because without that I wouldn't have had this one. So that's it for me I'm gonna head on out now. Hope you guys enjoyed that one as much as I did. Thanks for watching Have a great day