This Solo Survival Challenge was inspired by my favourite childhood book: HATCHET, by Gary Paulsen.

I construct multiple bushcraft shelters and showcase a diverse range of primitive survival techniques while fishing, hunting, and foraging for a variety of food!

This is a mix of education and entertainment. My style is meant to teach in a way that's enjoyable and exciting to watch, hopefully inspiring everyone, including younger generations to get out and enjoy the outdoors!

The Bear Essentials is my Brand, and I make/innovate on a bunch of camping and outdoor gear as a passion project. If you'd like to help support my journey, business, and educational content, feel free to reach out or visit The Bear Essentials Website and check out my gear!

www.bearessentialsoutdoors.ca

Your friend,
DJ

#survival #bushcraft #primitive

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:20 First Wild Encounter
1:50 How To Stalk Animals
3:35 What I Brought With Me
6:15 Finding Tinder Fungus
6:40 How To Tell How Much Time Until Sunset
8:09 How To Do a Chaga Fire Plow
11:01 Chaga Fireplow Success
13:04 Making a Birch Bark Bowl
14:20 Boiling Water in a Birch Bark Bowl
16:28 Hunting for Bullfrogs at Night
19:26 Eating Frog Legs
22:06 Day 2 Plan
22:40 Harvesting Bunchberries
24:19 How Tinder Fungus Holds an Ember
25:30 Harvesting Wild Cattails
26:46 The Cattail Root System and What's Edible
28:21 Making it To the River
28:59 How To Weave Cattail Cordage
29:45 Building a Hobbit Hole Bushcraft Shelter
33:30 Wolf Prints
34:00 Eating Wild Sarsaparilla
24:52 Harvesting Dogbane to Make Fishing Line
36:31 How To Weave Fishing Line Cordage From Dogbane
40:56 How to Make a Survival Gorge Hook
43:49 Catching Crayfish
44:36 Primitive Fishing Using A Gorge Hook and Hand Made Fishing Line
46:36 Rekindling a Chaga Fire from Ember
48:22 Catch and Cook
49:08 Eating Cattail Rhizomes on the Fire
51:14 Leave No Trace