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last time on episode three of the

wilderness living challenge

season four i want to make sure my aim

is dead on i don't want to hurt or wound anything

all right first grouse of the slingshot chanterelles that that is going to be oh

that's gonna be one delicious this

beaver really is good enough that

i feel like you could serve this in like

a fancy restaurant easily and it would

people be loving it until you told them what it was

and now day three of seven day

wilderness living challenge good morning

ah another beautiful morning in canada

nope the camera's all fogged up try that again

oh that felt good sprinkling a little bit so i went back

to bed now the day is really rocking out

there i can see it's brighter than

yesterday it's looking good

i feel like i finally caught up on my

sleep getting ready to come up here i

slept i had like four hours of sleep

preparing trying to get out the door to

come to canada and then four hours of sleep after i

when i drove up here and then four was

asleep the first time we got here and we

couldn't stop talking about

the bear hunt and what was going to go on and oh

i think coffee's calling i brought some

instant coffee got my one cheat there

my instant coffee let's see how that goes

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every day brings new life to help us on our way

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always taking my breath whether sun or

the rain will carry us over that horizon we see is this is

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moments like this oh look at that bright sun

nice it's gonna be a good day bright sun

there he is getting his applesauce on applesauce on

getting your applesauce on how many

apples are going to eat today well

i i figure like the a plateful is a good amount so

whatever fits on that did you finish

your applesauce yesterday i did

yeah so nice that's that's about what

you ate yesterday that's about what i ate yeah so that's two 12

13 15 something like that so not to not

nice looking apples yeah for wild apples yeah this is a tree from

uh farm field where i hunt nice

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big shot this is

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there we go fire in no time it's all about the prep work

higher up the dryer up you go to the trees like the uh

hemlocks or pines you get some branches

from up in underneath where they're

protected you bring those down with the smaller fine tips

get a little pile of those going like

you saw at the end and then a lot of

small stuff especially in this wet area

like there's a lot of small stuff

faster you get it going the faster you can get your coffee on

all right so it's day three of eating

the stuff that we brought with us and the

um grouse that we got and we're gonna do

a weigh-in before we head up the river

for six more days out there

so let's see what i why i weigh in at i weighed 205.6 i think it was okay 203

losing weight we've been eating a lot

too you're down 10 pounds

according to the scale so if we were

just saying 205 it's like i'm down two pounds

yeah down two pounds i'm losing the

challenge so far i gotta eat more

you gotta you gotta eat more pack it in

there you gotta eat apples i

for those of you that care you might be

wondering how we do this with all the

cameras and all the batteries chris he brings lots of batteries

i on the other hand have less batteries

but i have a solar charger

and a power pack unit right here which

has four outlets four usbs a um some sort of a usbc

and a cigarette lighter thing where you

can hook an adapter to it and then put a

jumper pack on your car to charge it i think

it had jumper cables that came with i

didn't bring those out into the wild

and the solar panel has two usb ports

that you can of course i washed my hands this morning with soap i didn't but i gotta get it done

so dismantle this make it in nice chunks

so that we can actually eat it and all the bones go back in

everything goes back in we don't waste anything here

it all gets stewed and rendered down and we make

this beaver go as far as we possibly can oh so so

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nice i haven't done instant coffee in like over two and a half years so

but it's got the caffeine that i need so

i don't end up grumpy i'm biting chris's

head off so that's the most important thing it'll suffice

all right how'd we do oh we did pretty good looks

great put the beaver ribs in there

yeah little beaver ribs spare ribs yep big old hunks of fat

can i have myself some of that

that is excellent that's so good

i'm gonna dish myself something up get my feet on

you're gonna tip it for bra i try to

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what are you saying to you save me some save the neck for me bob

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beautiful oh look at that nice rich fatty broth

all right guys i reminded you before if

you don't understand why you're in the middle of the forest

with zach fowler eating beaver

go back to start and figure out how we

got here we got some bear coming up on the way

we're almost through one beaver so far

uh are you tired of eating beaver yet no no no not at all

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lord thank you for this beaver and this fat bear fat

food this adventure out in the wild jesus name amen

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oh and that broth is so rich

that tastes so good i just i feel so good

i woke up this morning and i just felt

so rested sleeping in my hammock

eating like this i feel like this is i'm getting a recharge

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was that a piece of the bear nobody

should eat alone even in the woods all right

are you trying to get a sponsor from this yeah no not really

i think you're right though about the

fighting weight you know it's like

yeah it's like uh yeah you're gonna drop

a certain ammo and then you're gonna be like okay i'm good

yeah we'll be here long enough for me to

stabilize out i don't think so i think i'll probably be on a

um a landslide for a while

you know well jeremy uh won wildcrafter he

comes out with me a lot and we did a

challenge and he continued the challenge for a month

so basically all the leftover food we had the beaver meat

he kept eating it for another month and then he found

he at the end of it he had he had plateaued

and he stopped losing weight he was

eating the same things we were eating

except he was cooking them on a stove and

you know carrying on with his regular

life his work in this job and all that

so i would probably do the same thing yeah

so if you can bring this stuff back to

maine you could continue the challenge right

i don't think they're gonna let you

bring beaver across the border all right we're changing lodgings

boys time to pack up the hammock we're gonna head out

drive around a little bit see if we get

some more grouse and start heading up

the river to our final destination for the next six days

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yeehaw

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boom nailed it all right so we just jumped to grouse

driving down the road we're gonna head

out into the woods and see if we can't get it

see if we can find a way to get in here this woods is thick

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right there beautiful shot

yeah that's a better shot didn't wreck it this time some good eating

here we are down at the river time to load out

tear down head upstream let's do it

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all right i paired down my huge pile to one bag

two bags three bags that's the camera bag

trap basket with my tools and different

things drone in two little packs inside of there for

my pot and stuff like that this has got

clothes and my charging gear

and my hammocks and things and then my shotgun over there all right you ready

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whew

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yeah nice yeah nice that's my first stuck on the wing yeah

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there we go there you go one duck

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we found a campsite we had come past this earlier

and decided to turn around come back to

it because there just wasn't much doing on the lake

and we keep seeing those ducks on our

way up the river so we thought we'd come back

and post up here we can head up to the

lake do some fishing come back down

do some duck hunting at dusk and done

there we go let's see what we got going on here nice nice fire pit second fire pit

there we go we don't oh it's even got

some nice lobster mushrooms here some really big looking lobster mushrooms looking good already

there we go we can have separate fires

if we don't want to spend time together

we get a little sick of each other's company

some work he said he could put his tent

and there's plenty of trees

for me to put my hammock let's get the let's get down packing

look at this there's even a camp table

i have to repair that home sweet home

yeah i feel good about this spot yeah me

too it's a nice little setup

let's get that canoe out of here and unload

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you're going for a cover photo somewhat yeah

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what are you doing over there dealing with secrets

just watching you do your thing this is how i do my cover photos

a little behind the scenes there if you wonder how he does it

now you know i just stand there

he's a minimalist like amazing what he

does with just two cameras

i have i don't even know how many cameras i have on me

it's embarrassing now that i see him do everything with two

looks like a little clearing through

here it might be nice for my little homestead for the

next six days all goes well

like a super duper trail right here

maybe not in the best place to right through here

and up into the woods set up right in the middle of a

moose pathway with my camouflage cover

maybe right next to it that could be entertaining huh

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this will do it's a nice little spot right here

tree right there some trees to tie my ties on to

off to firewood take back to our camp

chris is a little ways over there

like to be far enough away from my friends to uh

not have to hear them past wind in the morning

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all right all done i can stand

it up here both the wings are pulled out

on the hammock one where you put your gear in

the other side so you can breathe my underquilt is on

and my other kit and gear and bag are down here

i'm all set so if it's raining heavily i can take the uh

take the wing in and bundle this up and

out of the way and i have

all of this all of this space around me to be able to

utilize and hang out free of being rained on directly

yeah now i gotta get over there it's

time to do some firewood and help out with the

evening chores and get the food going

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so we just added a first camp creation here

down log that i cut off right over here

and i cut all of the sticks you see them coming down like this

all of them so they approximately be flat with the ground and it makes a bench

and then you just bring it over to where you want it

stomp on it till it settles

and you got yourself a comfy two-person

sitting spot so we could sit somewhere nice by the fire and pluck the birds

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more cheers lots of bear fat

everything a growing boy needs

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mmm big old chunk of fat a little bit of

a little bit of bear meat on it

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boiled clean my plate a couple needles to

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give a wipe bacon at the belly right yeah yeah the fat oh

yeah there we go there's the uh beaver bacon right there

the i'll try to show it to you beaver

bacon nothing really to see

it's just the belly the beaver belly

there we go here's a nice one i've had about 50 percent fat

there's the bear fat and fever meat

with every meal so far and according to

our weigh-in this morning i lost

pretty close to three pounds

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what do you think the distance is

well we can go by a number of hours what

do we do three hours or something

yeah at least three hours of paddling

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i'd be curious to know how many calories

we're eating in a day with all this fat

hmm it's going to be a lot

what do you think ah fat like that

it's gonna be a huge amount of calories

well look how much fat's in there i'm

avoiding eating that a little bit

you've just been drinking the broth

instead well i've been eating mostly the meat like try to go 50 50 at least

so i've had no adverse effects so far out of eating just

like 50 fat and like literally

giant plates full of this wiggly fat but

it i may have this afternoon felt a little like uh

like blood and stomach a little

crazy but it might have also been the

motion sickness from the boat which i don't

get as far as i know so maybe a combination of both

sorry i'm a little high on my fat you're a little fat high yeah

did you just get like a rush yeah like yeah

yeah you shouldn't do that too often you

should because it's good for you

at the same time just let it settle in there

next time on wilderness living challenge

season four can we keep the meat from

spoiling can we keep our friendship from spoiling

and can we keep finding good ways to

cook the food so we don't get too bored and go out of our minds

tune in next time to find out every

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