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birds from earlier the bear from

yesterday the chanterelles for while

we're out in the bear hunt

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the goal of the challenge is to gain or

maintain our body weight while eating

nothing but wild foods

so last october i headed up to the

backwoods of canada

to meet up with the wooded beardsmen and

do just that for seven days

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last time on episode one of the

wilderness living challenge season four

this morning we're uh just gonna drive

around and see if we can't strike one or

whatever uh

the dogs pick up the scent from the bear

and

oh

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i promise doc some wild yeah and some

more

we're gonna go take the meat and go live

wild with it

and now into the wild day one of seven

day wilderness living challenge

all right so we got it all packed up

minus the canoe we're gonna be putting

on

what do we think we got 100 pounds of

meat probably 100 pounds of meat two

beavers

almost a whole bear minus just a neck

roast and

the uh one rack of ribs which i take yup

just a half of the rib

and we got a big all the fat which we've

taken so we're gonna bring that and

render it use that to cook stuff in the

whole time

taking that with us all of our gear you

think we pack too much

look at that it's chocked full all the

way to the front

so uh we might have packed too much

we'll

pair it down when we get there to put it

in the canoe that's not all gonna fit

it's not gonna fit but uh

let's get the canoe on there and get

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going

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here we go head north

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nice look at that i thought i missed the

first one but there's actually two

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there you go that's two we're gonna go

look for the rest of them in the bush

yeah they're somewhere up in there

see if we can find them all right not a

bad start we just barely pulled down the

road

there's some grouse we see him going to

the bushes we're going to the bushes

after him

boom four grouse so one more he gets his

limit and then i'll pop him some with

the slingshot if we get more before we

uh

make it to where we're going for camp

tonight you gotta go into the pot with

uh

bear yeah yeah we gotta we gotta eat

these today they're fresh

yeah fresh meat man okay we're eating

four grouse today

pork roast today and breakfast and

they'll be gone after that oh yeah we'll

probably get eaten great

for sure these are tiny tiny nice

good score let's get the rest away there

so we can set up camp and have that fire

and eat them

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all right we're here i found a spot i'm

not even gonna really be roughing it for

tonight

we've got a picnic table and stuff we

went further down to where we're gonna

launch in the morning

with the canoe but there's a lot of rvs

and four-wheelers so at least it'll be

quiet right here it seems

and we even got a little bit of a lake

down here maybe we can catch us

and we can catch ourselves a trout for

breakfast to go with the grouse

and stuff let's see what we got

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taste the water and tell me how many

fish are in there a little dirty

yeah clear water though clear

clear water super clear water

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all right so wilderness living challenge

as part of this we're just using we're

using whatever we got store-bought stuff

is okay

we're not going primitive it's all about

food and keeping your weight up

more of a bug out situation than

anything else bug out with supplies

kind of thing so i got my outdoor vitals

my zero

degree summit bag from outdoor vitals

and my warbonnet cover

and my warbonnet hammock i'm gonna be

cozy

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do

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all right there we go she's all set

prizes for speed

chris has definitely got me beat setting

up a tent but i think

i will be more comfortable we'll see

we're going to do a weigh-in

at the beginning at the end i'm going to

remove my

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all right guys you know the goal of the

wilderness living challenge is to

go as long as you possibly can we're

going seven days this time and we're

trying not to lose any weight at all so

i'm gonna weigh in real quick

um and then we're gonna weigh in at the

end over six five

six seven days we'll see what we go and

if we lose any weight at all we

lose the challenge okay so i got shoes

off got my

pockets wasn't empty i got my uh knife

on

um so i'm gonna keep that the same as

when i check out

let's see what i got 140.4

so that's my official weigh-in weight if

i lose any weight whatsoever during the

challenge

i officially lose so zach's gonna jump

on right here

205.6 it's consistent all right there

you go

weighing in at 205.6

let's do it let's get it let's get it on

let's get our grouse on

yeah we gotta eat yeah okay

going backwards

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there we go cleaned up look what mess

that shotgun makes of it

it'll be good though

all right so i let him have first blood

the birds are coming out pretty good

but i still think a head shot with a

slingshot would have been a lot cleaner

i gotta get some firewood

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all right so already you can see a

little bit of competition strategy going

on here chris has got it figured out

the point is to lose the least amount of

weight to win

and he's got me doing all the sawing and

all the work and he's like i'll pluck

the grouse

who's burning more calories i'll let you

decide

get as much of the dirt off as we can

and toss them right in yeah

a lot of post-it dirt

you think about the apples should the

apples go in yeah we save them

throw a couple apples in yeah it'll that

the juices the

juicing the sugar from the apples will

make it uh

like gourmet yeah

okay i'm gonna grab a couple more i

think we're gonna go that route

there we go we've added the chanterelles

we got some bear fat

the what's that a roast yeah

from the bear fairloin i think fair loin

we got the

birds from earlier the bear from

yesterday the chanterelles for while

we're out in the bear hunt

and the cheat sugar salt cheating

seasoning salt

all right look at that beautiful all

kinds all

four birds in there and the bear fat and

the beer meat

that's gonna be awesome

the big reveal how'd we do oh

beautiful pretty good it looks like we

were just about to be low on water

some caramelizing

going on around the

some caramelizing of the apple along the

edges

i probably could have had some more

liquid in there

look at that bird though that one that

meat

perfect oh yeah

you got the best bird i got that one too

and the second yeah

you left me that what is this fat

i don't know i think that is a chunk of

fat i'm going to eat it you can eat it

i'm going to eat just a big old chunk of

fat well because you're in ketosis you

can do it if i did it it might go

blow through me right some mushrooms

you had to cut up that uh bear hunk

there that's like i think that's pretty

good

have you had bear meat before yeah well

i don't remember

no it was too long ago all right take

away that

all right first bite of bear meat

hard-earned bear meat let's see

is there any cooked all the way through

oh it's gotta be good and good and safe

yeah gotta be cooked by now

oh good that is good

that's good what does it taste like is

it like beef

i find it like a like a loose beef like

a not a tough beef like a loose beef

i feel like there's some other flavor

there almost like a

yeah you get like a lamb chop or

something you know it's like like a

wildy wild

yeah that wildly tastes but it's not

gross in any way

it tastes really good

i think this is the way we cook it it

tastes like a

a roast like any beef roast that you did

yeah it's a roast like

yeah it tastes big flake yeah it's very

beef like

the fat is very juicy very good it

really works

works well here's a big old chunk of fat

right that needs to be rendered more but

you're ready to go

i'm going for a big old chunk of fat how

many calories in that chunk

right i don't know there's more calories

in fat right

absolutely and that's the thing and this

is you know when being a ketogenic i'm

trying to eat sixty percent fat

in my diet so mmm

so that we didn't do so good on the bird

it needs a lot slower cook you said that

too yeah it's gotta be slow

we were like trying to get cooked so we

can eat and go to bed and get up early

and

that's what's happening but

unfortunately we get this big old hunk

of fat

and put a little bit of fat like it's

like putting a wet pad of butter on your

dry dry chicken or something

a little piece of fat those chanterelles

are amazing are they good

oh yeah it's the perfect thing to soak

up the fat

hmm

that's good the bird with the little

slice of fat on that tasting apple

the apple is probably something we could

add in later because it seems

and the chanterelle could have gone in

later yeah it's like the apple i think

burnt

wishbone a wishbone yeah it's got to be

dry we're going to

put it by the fire to dry it out that is

the tiniest wishbone ever

hey guys look at that there you go the

tiniest wishbone ever

we make a wish we'll dry this out with a

fire and wish our trip turns out good in

the morning

a little bit of chanterelle

a little bit of bear meat with each bite

this

is delicious only biggest my biggest

fear

is that we got so much bear we got you

know like a hundred pounds of bear

and two giant beavers my biggest fear is

that

i get so sick of eating it you know

i don't think it will because i never

got sick of eating trout for 87 days in

patagonia but

i don't know we're gonna have to catch a

trout yeah

yeah oh yeah i hope we oh i hope we

catch a lot of everything out there

put some adobo spice on it um

well first meal really good the apples

it brings out that little sweetness

well we almost did it all a little bird

left

let's see how do you do i ate all my

steak except for three bites and two

chunks of fat

we were like extremely optimistic that

was a lot of food that we were gonna

have that for like two more meals

if that's true then then what do you

think

how long's 100 pounds of food going to

last us well i don't know

how many pounds was that i was like wait

almost three birds

yeah birds plus handful meat like that

all right refilled the pot for breakfast

there's a big old beaver

rear end tail would come off there top

of the beaver going that way

and there's still one of the spruce

grouse in there with it and put that on

the fire

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all right so i got it in there the dutch

oven

and five inches four or five inches of

hot coals i'm gonna proceed to bury it

and leave a couple openings for air

so that uh they burn down and this

hopefully

settles down fairly evenly and continues

to cook for a

good long simmer we've got an airspace

here

and airspace here and an airspace here

so the coals coals will burn down dutch

often will settle

beaver cook wake up warm it up again

beautiful tender juicy beaver for

breakfast