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Jim's here!

Yeah!

You did it!

Whoa! Yes!

Wow, look at that. Six-pound whopper. Oh, I'm so happy. We're going to be

eating tonight.

Whoa! Fish on? Yeah. Oh, yeah!

Woo-hoo! We have what it takes to win this. Cheers, baby.

Jim's Crop Trap is revealing its head.

No!

Nothing. That's devastating, Jim.

It felt like this water come through.

Oh, my God, dude.

Somehow the ground tarp we're sleeping on was getting some water back on it,

and it pooled back in towards Jim and has soaked through his sleeping bag and

soaked his pants.

This whole area completely soaked through.

Dude, look, from here to here.

How did you let that happen?

I didn't. I just woke up and it soaked through, dude.

This is a rainforest, and it's just dumping rain.

It doesn't matter how many more layers you put on top, you just start getting

absolutely freezing, and you're so miserable.

I mean, this is no joke. The weather around here will kick your ass.

As soon as your sleeping bag gets wet, it really doesn't hold the heat, and you

start to freeze at night.

You know, that means that there could be a chance of some really serious

problems.

So I'm going to have to dry my sleeping bag and my pants out now.

The slightest breeze blows through our shelter and just rips the heat right out

of our sleeping bags and chills us to the bone.

If this rain picks up, it's going to wash us right out of here.

How can one place get so much rain?

This is just amazing.

Just wondering how many inches of rain we've gotten since we've been here.

We're situated on an inlet surrounded by mountains.

So there's the rain, and then...

these mountains funnel these incredible gusts of wind that come through

like some mythological beast and it's scary

even in the most miserable weather you have to get out

you have to uh you got to keep your body moving otherwise things just start

getting sore and stiff and you're old Yeah, especially when you're old.

Thanks, buddy. I appreciate that.

Really, I have no business being out here. I'm too damn old to be doing it.

But my son dragged me out here with him, so...

So, I

don't know. Maybe it is starting to lighten up, and we may get a little

break here in the afternoon.

It's not like you want to do this.

But we can only fish on the low tides.

And it's so important that when we can fish, you give it a try.

Sam has told me he doesn't think that he could have done this with someone else.

I can't even tell you how great that makes me feel.

Okay, baby, come on. Let's catch a fish.

Coming out here and doing this with this old man, I think it's impressed him.

Oh, nice catch, Dad.

Yes!

Oh, I'm so excited. I'm so happy we got something.

I think every dad wants their son to look up to him and be proud of him.

There it is.

What do you got there? This is a black rock bass.

I like to think he's proud of me.

This is incredible.

Oh, this is such good news.

Better get another line in the water.

Here comes the rain again.

Yep. Here comes the wind.

Damn. Holy cow.

There's a huge storm rolling and the wind's whipping.

This is insane.

It's like a hurricane.

Oh, God.

This is nuts.

This is nuts.

It sure is.

What do you think? We should probably head back. I think it's a smart thing to

do.

Let's get out of here.

It's hitting me in the face right now.

It's killing me.

We are in standing water.

Wow.

To see this river of water running through here blows my mind.

If you need some water, let me know. I'm the guy with the source here.

Oh, man.

I decided I wanted to move my bevy down, and so when I got up and I look, and

there's a damn river of water.

I can't believe I caught it when I did, you know?

Look at the amount of water coming through there.

Wow.

This thing's good.

So we're going to have to go get another tarp here that we're using for water

catchment and set us up a good tarred floor of this shelter. Just have to

empty it out. It totally breaks my heart, but you got to do what you got to

do.

When this place is raining heavily and muddy, it's a miserable place.

That's when the mind is going to turn to those other things like my family.

All I can think about is my wife and kids.

I did not expect that I would have such deep longings to be with my family.

It's really caught me off guard.

My mind is saying, I don't want to be here. I'd rather be at home.

I really wonder if Brody feels the same way.

Today's a great example of the kind of weather that if you get wet, it can get

you hypothermic.

This is the water underneath my tarp right now.

We are officially on the verge of being flooded.

If we can't stay in dry environment, long-term survival here, I just don't

really see it possible.

So today, it's just an absolute downpour, and it also happens to be high

tide.

Here you can see the tide, and that's the back wall of our shelter right

there.

It's rising incredibly quick.

You know, normally the water is way out there.

It really only has to rise a few more inches before it actually gets

into our shelter.

Never dreamed the tide would ever rise this high, but we're having the lunar

tides right now.

Very worst thing that could happen right now is to have an onshore breeze that

would be blowing even more water up in here.

hoping that this rain will let up and hoping that the biblical tides will

recede.

I just don't like the thought of the water infiltration.

it's pretty scary yeah and really it's it's uh it's pretty much too late to

move our shelter

can you tell from over

there what the water's doing i can't tell if it's going up or down

Yeah, it's definitely still rising.

You just can't afford to get wet out here. You just can't afford it.

When you get wet, that's it. Your clothes are going to stay wet.

I hope you don't get to that point.

It's so easy to just press that button and go home.

Well, it's early morning.

Yesterday was a torrentially rainy day.

Today, so far, it's not pouring rain, which is a great bonus.

Trying to get out here at low tide.

Get some gumboots.

Got some limpets.

But, you know, always looking for something better.

Be nice to have a couple roasted over the fire this morning.

Where are you gumboots?

There's one.

Cool.

In the pot.

Okay. Dave's first gumboot.

These are really good roasted.

Got these plates on the back of them, and you peel off the plates like little

shells.

That's all good to eat right there, babe.

Really? Yeah.

It's funny when they say, oh, it tastes like chicken. This does. It tastes just

like chicken. Yeah. That's a good woman gets you up in the morning with some

wild seafood.

And there's actually substantial meat there.

It's good stuff.

Mm-hmm. Man, it's nice to know you got food.

A little something-something.

A little something-something.

It is not raining on me right now.

which is awesome.

Yesterday was an unbelievable storm.

Brody and I both ended up sleeping on running water.

Probably the worst night of sleep we both have had, maybe ever.

I was really hoping on building a shelter that allowed me to dry things

out. But as a result of all the flooding, we need to find a whole new

location.

The only time of the day that we ever felt warm was whenever we'd be in our

shelter.

And now you can't stay dry.

Well, I think this whole basin is a drainage from the mountains.

There's no flat ground.

Coming to Vancouver Island, I knew this place was going to be wet, and it is.

You don't try to live in places like this. You don't try to hike in places

like this.

In addition to going through this tall underbrush to get anywhere, you've got

to climb over all these tall trees.

So this is the other spot that we're looking at.

I would say this is an incredible calorie expenditure to do everything

we're talking about doing here.

I'm not sure that we'd get all this done.

The shelter locations are just absolute.

around here.

There's no good location here that I have found.

There's just worst, worse, bad.

Let's get back to the shelter now.

Most of the time, people get wet. They are eventually able to get out of it in

a dry environment, but to be out in this stuff like we've been, it's easy to see

how this place can kick a man's ass.

And so, I really wonder, Do I really want to stay here longer when I could be

home with my family?

All right, so here's the scoop.

I've been thinking hard.

I need to explain some things about my situation.

Presley's birthday.

Oh, yeah.

What a miserable day that was for me. I thought about her all day long.

I realized just going through this deal with my daughter's birthday that...

The only reason to stay out here long term is for the money, you know?

If I hit that button and go home, then my kids will know that I chose them over

money.

You and I have the greatest treasures at home.

Right.

When's your daughter's birthday?

November 20th.

Okay. That's coming up.

I don't think you should miss your daughter's birthday.

I'm telling you.

Maybe we should just have a shorter run here instead of trying to stay long

term.

I

don't

want you to leave here with regrets, you know, just going along with me.

We've never been a family that chose money over family. I mean, that's never

been who we were.

And that's why all this is so painful.

And I want to get back there and be so much more loving than I've ever

been before to my wife and kids.

And, you know, the best advice I can give as a brother is we need to get you

home for your daughter's birthday. It's her first birthday. She won't remember

it, but you will.

I appreciate that.

You know, I have to start doing some thinking about it.

I realize what my brother is going through.

I'm sympathetic to his feelings.

But there's no doubt that I could go longer.

I feel like I have unfinished business on the table.

I don't want to look back and think that this was incomplete.

That would be just saying that this is a story that really has no ending.

it's not a bad sitting spot is it now when the sun's shining it's great

ever

since i got dropped off on that helicopter i've been busting my butt and

tracking through the mountains but my brother he was pretty much checked out

by the time i got here there comes a certain point where We're here together,

so you need to come to an agreement.

I did want to try to push him to stay here, you know, but if it's really

weighing on him that heavily, I don't feel right dragging him through that.

Hey this is Chris.

We're officially tapping out.

Hey, guys.

What's going on?

Today's our day.

The idea of being gone for an extended period of time for my family was very

difficult for them to accept, and I carried that out here with me.

You know, you have mixed feelings about it. But right now, I'm thinking about

getting back home, you know, for my daughter's birthday. You know, it's a

big deal.

I'm looking forward to that.

The decision to leave is extremely difficult.

Usually, I'm a fight personality.

I'm not a flight personality.

I'm going to stand my ground.

I'd love to stay longer, but at the same time, it's more important for me to keep

a good relationship with my brother.

I think Brody wanted to stay.

And it just pains me to even think about that.

I feel like the only reason he's tapping is because he doesn't want to let me

down. When I came out here, I was really ready for the physical part of this. But

as far as the emotional journey, missing my daughter's birthday totally changed

my experience.

That's really been the biggest surprise for me on this journey.

Being out here created this sense of deep longing for my family.

I understand now better than I ever have before that we're meant to be with

people that we love and people we're attached to.

Even though some people won't understand the decision to leave, I know my wife

and kids will understand.

I just puked.

I'm

just

puking my guts out here.

Maybe I should get a fire going.

you can come chill by the fire for a bit i can't stomach that seaweed

this

diet is catching up with me here just a whole ton

of seaweed and if i'm not able to stomach that seaweed i mean that's a

staple for us so

If we don't start catching fish, I don't know how long my body can keep doing

this.

I need to go sit around and wallow in self-pity.

to get better.

It's another day, man. It's another race.

Ted was horribly sick this morning.

Just not a fun time.

So I just said, why don't you try to take it easy, man, and rest.

I'll try to get some food.

I think one of the most meaningful things that I can do right now is to

nurture Ted back to health as best I can.

I believe you are your brother's keeper.

We're given X amount of survival items.

The best survival item you have is the other person you're out there with.

Someone to kind of carry you through those rough times.

I'm going to try to carry the ball here.

It's just disappointing and strange that there's just never any fish here.

If I don't catch a fish, I might just, I don't know, stab myself in the face.

I got a fish, baby.

First cast.

Yes.

Oh,

a little herring or something.

a little herring or something.

Oh, no!

Oh, no!

There's a whole school.

They're all tiny. I wish I had a smaller hook.

Oh, man, this tide's coming in quick.

Probably makes sense to try some active fishing off another point here.

We just need a fish real bad.

We both feel like we can stay out here as long as we want if we can find enough

food.

Perfect.

Sure would be pretty sweet if this cashed in here.

Oh my God, I got a fish.

Yeah, baby.

Yes.

Yes!

Yeah!

Yeah!

He got a fish!

Oh, thank God.

Keep giving her.

I will.

I hear those seagulls going, telling me there's a good chance there's a second

run of herring coming.

And so I'm going to try to check.

By the net.

Dude, there's a massive school here.

There we go.

Caught one.

Yeah, baby.

Here's another one.

Don't mind if I get one more of those.

And that's eight.

Yeah, baby, we're getting somewhere here.

Another one.

Yeah, there's one again.

Yes! There's the 16 sablefish.

I got a huge greenling.

What a day.

Woo!

Beauty day.

Emotional roller coaster around here.

I think my face was out of the way for that sucker.

The weather has been a son of a gun. It's just pouring.

Brooke built a good shelter.

But we came out here with the mindset that we're gonna win this.

And that means we need something better suited for the weather.

The idea is we're gonna put up a little cabin.

Somewhere in here is kind of what we're thinking.

This does look like the flattest piece of real estate I see.

Yeah, I think so too.

Everybody's got to do what they think is right out here.

I don't want to be in a tent.

I want to be in something serious.

I don't want to worry about, do I got to roll to this side when the wind's coming

that way?

Timber! No, I want to live in something.

The mental benefit of being inside four walls is huge. And this is a mental game

as much as it's a physical game.

What I was kind of thinking about doing is digging a trench all the way around

and then standing the logs up stockade. And all you'd have to do is you'd have

to lash the top to four poles to keep the top true.

A cabin represents progress and longevity and promise of a better future

out here surviving.

Dave and I naturally are inclined to divide and conquer.

If it's a cabin we're going to build, well, he'll start digging a trench and

I'll start cutting trees.

Whoever is best equipped to do the thing that needs to get done, you have to do

it.

Once the trench is dug, all you're doing at that point is cutting seven-foot

logs, stick it in the hole, pack it in there, lash it off. So the whole place

is going to get tied up together.

I've been building stuff since I was 16 years old. I've built several little

cabins. I have a pretty good idea about how much it's going to take to do this.

And this upgrade is a calorie risk. We're just going to have to...

Take our time on it.

But it'll be a big payoff. We just got to watch ourselves.

Got to watch it.

How you doing?

I've never felt so weak before.

It's like somebody unplugged me and forgot to recharge me.

Help old granny up.

Granny.

Oh.

Brooke is resilient.

She has no quit.

But right now, she's completely out of gas.

I've never, ever seen that from her.

Kind of scary.

bird is right up here at the shoreline.

I'm scooting all around.

No idea what it is.

Silly little thing, though. Not even scared of us.

The other day, we basically just stayed in our tent all day.

Unfortunately, the tides are kind of super high lately. It's been really

scary that it's just going to flood our shelter.

It hasn't yet. We're super happy about that.

damp very wet here not the easiest place in the world to start a fire so today

we've got to visit a couple of spruce trees to see if we can start getting

some resin flowing we use the sap as an accelerant that resin is quite

flammable use whatever you can out here

We're going to walk down our shoreline just a little ways, and we're going to

scar some of our spruce trees.

We really don't know how quickly they'll start secreting any of the sap, but

really it does it as a defense mechanism to heal its own wounds.

So here's a big spruce tree right here.

It's a big old trunk.

It sure is. Big tree.

We're just going to give him a little cut.

Obviously not enough to kill it.

So by cutting the tree, we had a bit of an angle with the sap wall collect down

at one side.

Any white in there yet?

Getting there, yeah.

It'll be interesting to see if that works. I have no doubt it will work.

It's just a matter of how long will it take. How long it takes.

All right, next tree.

Oh, this one's got a good resiny spot on it.

Holy cow, look at all that stuff.

Yeah. It's been dripping on the ground.

Look at that. That's just pure resin.

All of that is great for starting fires.

Very nice. That's some good stuff right there.

I'm going to let you make resin cakes tonight. How's that?

All right.

Now we got a bowl of resin ready to start cooking.

Nice. We are good to go.

Oh, yeah, this stuff's melting down nice.

Oh, man, look at this resin.

Wow, look at that.

Hoo-wee.

You got the cedar shavings close by?

They're right over there.

Basically, all I'm doing is I've laid down a layer of cedar.

Then once the resin is good and cooked, I dump it onto that layer of cedar, try

to spread it out as thin as possible.

Then I put a fresh layer of cedar on top.

And then it's just a matter of letting it cool down.

So here we've got our little resin cakes.

Here you've got three of the finished cakes, and they work really well.

Yeah, incredibly well.

And that's really been the key to our fires lately.

Thank God for the resume.

So this is a big moment, Ted.

I can't believe we finally caught these fish.

We're just scratching the surface here, you know?

I feel like maybe the good times are about to roll, dude.

This amount of toughing it out at the beginning is what makes most people

leave in three weeks or a month, you know? Mm-hmm.

Maybe it's going to get easier, you know, long-term.

Maybe we'll turn out that we're actually good at this, Jim.

Maybe we're amazing at this.

Mm-hmm.

Trained survival experts, Jim.

Exactly.

I don't think that we suck.

Maybe we should have some trot lines out there, right, Ted?

I don't know, man.

I don't like the idea.

I do, but if we can catch fish like this, I'd much prefer it like this.

The thing about all this seaweed... Yo, look!

Wait, wait, wait.

Wait, wait, wait.

What the just happened, dude? It's a teal.

Oh, my God.

Did it just happen?

What the?

This is a green-winged teal. These are really good-eating ducks.

It just walked right into my campfire, and I grabbed my freaking tilly hat and

just smacked it and killed it.

With my hat.

It was unbelievable.

This is a sign, Ted.

Some sort of turning point, you know? Like, finally, our luck has changed,

dude.

Thank the duck for its life. Thank the fish for its life. And just thank you

for this gift.

Yeah!

Yeah!

Dude, can you believe this has happened? Yes!

I can't, like, can you believe this, dude? I still, I just can't get over it.

A pot of fish.

Let's try it out.

People are going to be like, yeah, right, the production team came and

whipped that duck there or something, you know?

Oh, my God.

What?

It's so good. I bet.

It's ocean fish, dude.

Mmm.

And when you haven't eaten, like, it just sends this, like, shockwave rush

through your body of excitement.

Just to think, we're going to eat a roast duck for breakfast. Yeah.

Jim, if we can eat it like this, we can stay out here forever, man. Amen.

Simple as that.

What an epic day, eh?

A duck just runs up right here.

Are you kidding me?

I'm going to set a trot line.

Oh, dude.

The hook's embedded in my finger.

I'm worried about Brooke. She is pushing herself farther than she should.

Let me carry the big one. Why don't you just keep doing your thing?

I'm just going to keep going. Just take it easy. We're ready for the maiden

voyage of hope.

The risk of wetting our gear, it could give us hypothermia, all kinds of

problems. Wait.

Hold on. Hold on!