Can I Survive Alaskan Winter with No Sleeping Bag, No Tent & No Tarp? — Transcript

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1. 0:36What a beautiful spot.
2. 0:41First things first, I need to find a
3. 0:43place to sleep. Needs to be sandy, flat,
4. 0:46and dry.
5. 0:49There's standing water down there.
6. 0:53Looks like more ice.
7. 0:58More frozen water.
8. 1:05More ice there.
9. 1:10I can see some gravel under that log.
10. 1:34[Music]
11. 1:35This log is frozen to the ground. So, we
12. 1:37got to free that.
13. 2:00We got a pretty stiff breeze coming from
14. 2:02this direction. So, just getting
15. 2:04underneath this log and behind the snow
16. 2:07bank really makes a difference. I'm a
17. 2:09little worried about my sleeping
18. 2:10situation, though. I need dry sand or
19. 2:12gravel to sleep on. I've got clean
20. 2:15gravel here. Got clean gravel here, but
21. 2:19I've got a giant frozen puddle right
22. 2:22here with probably three to five gallons
23. 2:24of water frozen. So, I need to go and
24. 2:27thaw out this ground and dry it out in
25. 2:30order to be able to sleep on some warm,
26. 2:32dry gravel. Melting ice takes a lot of
27. 2:35heat and energy. It's going to take a
28. 2:37lot of fuel, a lot of fire, and a lot of
29. 2:39time to thaw this all out.
30. 2:44Got a bunch of these root balls here I
31. 2:46can chop up. Get a lot of good dead
32. 2:48firewood out of that.
33. 3:07There's a lot of wood around here, but
34. 3:09it's all frozen and covered in snow. I
35. 3:11luckily found a little stash of some dry
36. 3:14stuff.
37. 3:17Look at all this. This is bone dry
38. 3:19driftwood. That is going to help me out
39. 3:21a lot.
40. 3:25It's got all this nice dry wood. I want
41. 3:26to keep it dry. Not going to lay it down
42. 3:29in the snow.
43. 4:06[Music]
44. 4:21All
45. 4:34right, got the fire going, but now we
46. 4:36need to make it big. Real big. So, uh, I
47. 4:39better get more wood.
48. 4:53It's getting hot in there, but I got to
49. 4:55keep adding wood.
50. 4:58[Music]
51. 4:59I've been chopping and hauling firewood
52. 5:01for 3 4 hours now. Got to keep going.
53. 5:34I am exhausted. That is a lot of wood. I
54. 5:38can feel the heat of the fire all the
55. 5:39way over here. And that heat is getting
56. 5:41stored inside that big log and in the
57. 5:44gravel and in the surroundings.
58. 5:52That is hot.
59. 5:57I want to get in there and start fussing
60. 5:58with it, but it's so hot it's hard to
61. 6:00stand near that thing. Just going to
62. 6:02kind of let this fire die down a bit so
63. 6:04I can get in there and uh then I'll
64. 6:06start scraping the coals around and
65. 6:08we'll see what we got underneath.
66. 6:41The gravel's coming along better than I
67. 6:43thought. Right over here is all thawed
68. 6:44and mostly dried. So, I'm going to dig
69. 6:46this down really deep. Pile it all up
70. 6:49right here. Make a nice little trench.
71. 6:51I'm going to build a fire over this
72. 6:53frozen part to thaw it out. I'm going
73. 6:56put some fire in that trench as well.
74. 7:18Well, we're making good progress, but it
75. 7:19looks like I'm going to have to get a
76. 7:20lot more wood. All right, off we go.
77. 7:28Tell you what, I'm tired. I'm working
78. 7:30nonstop. If I haven't eaten, I've been
79. 7:33doing nothing but cutting wood and
80. 7:34stoking this fire for hours.
81. 7:51All right, I'm going to let all this new
82. 7:52firewood dry. Once it's dry, I'm going
83. 7:54to stack it up.
84. 8:01Well, right now the fire is going where
85. 8:03my bed's going to be. So, I'm going to
86. 8:04move the big pieces of wood over to
87. 8:06where the fire pits going to be. I'm
88. 8:08going to try to get a fire going over
89. 8:09there. Then, we're going to take care of
90. 8:11the bed.
91. 8:31All right, got a nice bed of coals, some
92. 8:34really hot sand. We're going to spread
93. 8:35it out nice and even. Get my bed ready.
94. 8:53I'm trying to bury the coals with the
95. 8:54dry sand so that it doesn't extinguish
96. 8:56the coals. It just kind of smothers
97. 8:57them.
98. 9:02Well, just for fun, I brought along one
99. 9:03of these laser thermometers and we're
100. 9:05going to take some readings of the
101. 9:06ground and see how well this sand and
102. 9:08these coals radiate heat on top of the
103. 9:11coals. Right now, we're getting about
104. 9:12108. Over here, we're getting like 115
105. 9:15and we're getting like 130 right here.
106. 9:18So, it's about 100° on top of the coals,
107. 9:20but we have a few hot spots where it's
108. 9:22over 130°.
109. 9:27Oh my, it is toasty in here. Just
110. 9:29getting the heat from the fire and from
111. 9:31the wood and from the ground is But I am
112. 9:34hungry. I think I need to start cooking
113. 9:36some food. I've got this bread dough
114. 9:38that I made up and it needs to rise just
115. 9:40a little bit. So, I'm going to get it
116. 9:42warm. So, I'm just going to lay it down
117. 9:43on this warm gravel I'm sitting on.
118. 9:47I'm just going to bury it just a little
119. 9:50bit. And I got some honey and butter in
120. 9:53this little jar here.
121. 9:56Let that honey and butter melt right
122. 9:58there.
123. 10:04A nice little steak we seasoned earlier.
124. 10:07Go ahead and put that straight on the
125. 10:09coals.
126. 10:13Steak's just cooking away on the coals.
127. 10:15Let's check out our temperature here.
128. 10:17That 320 on the surface, man. That's
129. 10:20pretty close to what I would be cooking
130. 10:22at it in a skillet. That's pretty cool.
131. 10:33Having cooked that just on the coals,
132. 10:34that is a pretty beautiful medium. Look
133. 10:36at that.
134. 10:41Man, that hits the spot.
135. 10:55There we go. And mix up that honey and
136. 10:58that butter. It's all melty.
137. 11:03There we go.
138. 11:07Oh.
139. 11:08That's heavenly butter and honey just
140. 11:10dripping off it.
141. 11:18It's been a long, long day. It's about
142. 11:2010:30 at night right now and uh I need
143. 11:23to start thinking about getting ready
144. 11:24for bed here. I'm going to bust out my
145. 11:26blanket.
146. 11:28All right. You want to use wool blankets
147. 11:30when you're sleeping next to the fire
148. 11:32cuz they are fire retardant. You want to
149. 11:34be really careful when sleeping next to
150. 11:35fires. Before we get ready for bed,
151. 11:37let's see what the temperature of the
152. 11:38ground is.
153. 11:41Got 74 degrees right there. 54
154. 11:4772.
155. 11:49So, definitely a lot cooler. Definitely
156. 11:51a lot cooler, but still not too bad.
157. 11:58Well, right now my feet are warm, but
158. 12:00they're kind of wet cuz I built up a bit
159. 12:02of a sweat. So, I got to pull off my
160. 12:04boots, my socks, and dry my feet off and
161. 12:06dry my socks before I go to bed so I
162. 12:08don't wake up with cold feet.
163. 12:16Got to be really careful I don't melt my
164. 12:17boots.
165. 12:22I'm just sitting here drying my socks
166. 12:23and shoes, and I can hear the ice moving
167. 12:25on the frozen lake behind me. It's
168. 12:28groaning and cracking, and you can hear
169. 12:29ice sheets being pushed up on top of one
170. 12:31another. It's pretty cool, actually.
171. 12:34Look at all that steam coming out of my
172. 12:36boot. That's water. That water will make
173. 12:39you cold. Well, my sons Tom, Nate, and
174. 12:42Jake have been coming with me on a lot
175. 12:43of these camp outs. I bet a lot of you
176. 12:45guys are wondering where they are
177. 12:46tonight. Well, Tom and Nate had school,
178. 12:49so they couldn't come. And Jake, well,
179. 12:54hey, Jacob, you want to go camping with
180. 12:56me?
181. 12:58I want to baby
182. 13:01[Music]
183. 13:23I got you.
184. 13:24[Music]
185. 13:29I had them.
186. 13:30Well, Jake's out having a good time with
187. 13:32his mom, and that's that's important.
188. 13:38One thing I got to do tonight is I got
189. 13:40to get all this firewood and organize it
190. 13:42and put it within arms reach of my bed
191. 13:44so I can stoke the fire all night.
192. 13:47A lot of this wood needs to get dried
193. 13:48out, too. So, I got to do that as well.
194. 14:07Oh, it's nice to lay down. My back's
195. 14:09killing me. I'm going to sit here and
196. 14:10watch a movie and kind of relax. We'll
197. 14:12just kind of take it easy. It's a lovely
198. 14:14night tonight. Well, it's been about 5
199. 14:16hours since I buried the uh coals. Let's
200. 14:20check the temperatures. Got 89° right
201. 14:23there.
202. 14:2676
203. 14:28and 59.
204. 14:30Definitely still got heat, man. You can
205. 14:33still feel it.
206. 14:39Here's my pillow for tonight.
207. 14:44[Music]
208. 14:50I must have been tired cuz it's 5:00
209. 14:52a.m. and I slept pretty good. So, I
210. 14:55stoked the fire up really good and that
211. 14:57feels really nice. My feet are really
212. 14:59cold. So, I rolled some logs down that
213. 15:02way and built a fire. And uh hopefully
214. 15:05that'll warm my feet up here in a little
215. 15:06bit.
216. 15:15Oh, good morning. It's actually 9:00.
217. 15:20Well, the ground's really hard, but I'm
218. 15:22warm. The uh fire by my feet keeping my
219. 15:26feet warm. I feel some warmth in the
220. 15:29ground still.
221. 15:31Not a ton, but a little bit. Usually
222. 15:34when I sit on the ground, it just sucks
223. 15:36all the heat out of you. I mean, even in
224. 15:39the summertime, but uh not not now.
225. 15:43It's pretty nice.
226. 15:50[Music]
227. 15:52Oh, my back
228. 15:54didn't melt my boots.
229. 15:57always a concern. Well, I'm curious to
230. 16:00see how warm the the gravel is.
231. 16:0346.
232. 16:06I mean, that's still pretty good.
233. 16:1271. So, we got about 60° here and we got
234. 16:17about 22° over here. So, yeah, big
235. 16:20difference. I'll tell you what, sleeping
236. 16:22on 70° gravel versus ice and water makes
237. 16:26a huge difference.
238. 16:31Smoked pork jowl bacon. All right, we
239. 16:35got our little setup here.
240. 16:37Let's start cooking.
241. 16:43I need a better dinner plate. So, we're
242. 16:46going to make one.
243. 16:51Look at that.
244. 16:58Just cook the face of it till it's nice
245. 17:00and crispy. Then you slice a little bit
246. 17:02off the edge, eat it, put it back on the
247. 17:04fire, crisp up the next beef.
248. 17:08Look at that.
249. 17:10I still got some honey butter left. I'm
250. 17:12going to make me another piece of
251. 17:14flatbread. This dough is almost frozen.
252. 17:17Got to let it warm up a little bit.
253. 17:22There we go. Lovely piece of warm bread.
254. 17:25I know exactly what I'm going to do with
255. 17:26this.
256. 17:33[Music]
257. 17:36That is so good.
258. 17:39Smoked meat, butter, honey, flour. These
259. 17:42are all survival foods of the past.
260. 17:44They're so delicious.
261. 17:47I love them.
262. 17:51Oh, that was good.
263. 17:56Well, I'll tell you what, building a big
264. 17:57bonfire and burying my coals worked
265. 17:59great. Kept me warm, and this was really
266. 18:02comfortable. But it reminds me of that
267. 18:04movie Jeremiah Johnson. Uh, Robert
268. 18:06Redford plays this mountain man and an
269. 18:08old-timer shows him this trick. And in
270. 18:10the movie, it looks super easy. They
271. 18:11just dig a hole and throw some coals in
272. 18:13it. And it's a fun movie, but it's it's
273. 18:15not accurate. If you've got two feet of
274. 18:17snow on the ground, you can't just dig a
275. 18:20hole. You've got to thaw the ground out
276. 18:22first. Additionally, you need the right
277. 18:24type of soil. You've got to have
278. 18:27something dry. If you throw wet, mucky
279. 18:30stuff on top of your coals, you'll just
280. 18:31put them out. Additionally, if you go
281. 18:33into the woods over there, you're going
282. 18:35to have 12 to 18 in of moss and organic
283. 18:39matter on top of the soil, and you've
284. 18:41got to burn all the way through that
285. 18:43stuff before you can even get to the
286. 18:45soil. and it takes hours to burn your
287. 18:47campfire down to soil when you build a
288. 18:49campfire in there. So, you really need
289. 18:52coarse sand or pea gravel or something
290. 18:55like that. So, it has to be like a
291. 18:56frozen river bed or a frozen beach or a
292. 19:00sand pile or something like that in
293. 19:02order for this trick to work well.
294. 19:03Otherwise, you're just going to use an
295. 19:05enormous amount of fuel and time. And in
296. 19:07survival situations, time is a scarce
297. 19:10resource. But I'll tell you what, if you
298. 19:12have the opportunity and the resources
299. 19:13to do this, it works really well.
300. 19:16Sleeping on 70° sand as opposed to 10
301. 19:19degree ice
302. 19:21makes all the difference in the world.
303. 19:23Well guys, it's been fun, but I think
304. 19:25it's time to pack this party up. Once
305. 19:27again, if you guys are going to do this,
306. 19:29make sure you use a real wool blanket.
307. 19:31If you use a synthetic blanket, it'll
308. 19:33melt when sparks land on it.
309. 19:49Ah, she's been a good shelter, but it's
310. 19:51time to go home.
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