I got lost in the woods part 2

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This is the part two video follow up. My wife selected a few items for me to pack and those items were all i had for this video. I needed to find general direction make my way to a water source disinfect water and find the road to get out

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hey guys how you doing this way marsh man's outdoors and as you can tell I'm blind as a bat what's going on in this video today is my wife took me out to a trailhead I blinded myself she guided me bouncing me off tree after tree down some trails for several miles and then she took a side trail I told her there's this trail that may goes on for like five six miles and then it takes a big huge right turn I told her once she hits that right turn take one of the trails and then go off that trail onto that trail follow that trail first quite a while and then go out into the woods and drop me into a clearing and the reason why is because although I'm not absolutely ignorant of this area where she dropped me off at a pretty sure I've not been in this area you know that I haven't been in it for several years so what's going to go on now is she's actually going to leave I'm going to pull my phone out I'm gonna wait for her to call me to tell me that she'll back at the car for safety reasons then I just want to make sure she's not in the woods then what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull the blindfold off at that point

and I'm going to figure out my general direction and then I'm going to figure out where I'm going and they show you guys me getting out of the woods basically affecting self rescues if I don't get eaten by fire all right sit me down hello all right well I will be calling you I don't know probably a few hours I take me three or four hours it gets done but I what I alright lets you play well and it begins alright guys so as you've seen kind of the opening credits I came into here literally blind I had my wife kind of guide me through the woods and through trails and all kind of stuff and even though she wasn't exactly the happiest person in a world to do so she's not exactly a hiker or outdoors person today because she we went on a heck of a hike to get out here mmm so what the purpose of this is is for me to be generally as lost as possible I all full disclosure this is a demo for instructional purposes I'm pretty sure by about thirty percent sure that I know around where I'm at I just can't get over it you know I mean I can't drive to Nova Scotia or the borough forest and get lost in the boreal forest just not practical for me right now and I know I know a lot of these woods around here I don't know exactly where I'm at I will say that pretty unfamiliar with where I am actually and before we even let the house I had my wife again she's part of this experiment with me to pack my back and I laid out several items and I told her she's allowed to pick three of them and right now we're going to find out those three items alright so I chose this bag today and it's from Mule Team pack in canvas so older bag they don't even make it anymore but I asked her throw in some things that was on the ground and she picked looks like some cordage again cordage I just played a bunch of Hanks on the ground thought about was one item sorry I got a saw and got a canteen empty though alright 32 ounce canteen some cordage and a saw oh wait

I told her to pick three items but she picked four I don't know why she also put in a flashlight hopefully we won't be using this hopefully we got all the woods before nightfall and I have some camera batteries and stuff like that but necessary for me be filming alright so now that we know what our items are we know what we've brought into the woods now I'm just kind of relaxing

so the situation that we have that I'm going to be putting myself into is as close as I can get to it without actually coming into the woods and getting lost myself you know can only go so far but so if the situation is right now that I'm lost and I don't know why on that so the first thing that I want to do if I find myself lost is I actually want to just stop relax there's actually an acronym for that it's stop and it's sit think observe plan act Stoppa

that's kind of what you want to do just kinda chill out relax assess the situation and then come up with a plan and then use the plan to your advantage so right now what we need new this that's our priorities plate 90 degrees out I'm going to need water wipes it and packing any water thanks Meg it really isn't a big deal because it kind of kills two birds with one stone so what is going on is the map of this area if I could kind of like draw it up here there's a big huge creek that comes along and the only bad thing is it's big huge

like right hand turn and doglegs like four or five miles up so depending on exactly where we are and I'm kind of thirty percent sure where we are I'm going to have to find direction because I'm going to need to head southeast yeah southeast southeast the reason why is because I need to find that Creek and there's two reasons why I need to find that Creek one obviously when we need some water like 90 degrees out here and I probably got good ten miles that I need to hike to is I'm going to use that that Creek has a natural hand rail I'm going to once I get to the creek I'm going to follow that Creek upstream and it about four or five miles and it will lead me to the bread and that's where I can you know effect self-rescue hitchhike whatever the wife will be there to pick me up basically long and short of it again this isn't exactly a survival situation I'm just kind of doing a demo for instructional purposes I'm going to be showing you guys how to find general direction primitively we're going to do three or four different methods on that we're going to use the shadow lipstick which I've said before in previous videos a shadow stick which is kind of an ottoman compass some people call it things like that and then finding general direction with using like an analogue wash things like that then once we get to the creek obviously since I don't have any water you want to have to we have to decontaminate some more we have to get some water in us when we hydrated I mean really hot out today so where that's going to be a priority getting cool getting hydrated once we get to the creek bed and then taking off to the road so let's get started

all right so need to find general direction I hear I need to know where I'm going I have a target of southeast that I need to hit so one of the first methods I'm going to employ to finding my general direction you know you only need to use one of these I'm just showing you guys several them unless you want to use a couple to confirm your first reading or whatever but first one we use is the shadow list stick so in my favorite methods I've shown it on Chris's channel episode on my channel I'm going to show you this one more time just with a straight stick all we're going to do is put it into the ground and then we're going to point it at the Sun directly at the Sun until the shadow disappears completely into the stick let's show you alright I know what you think you know the shadow stick the shadow sticks there are good methods of finding general directions but if you have the flaw there's no Sun nothing to cast a shadow what are you going to do well it's pretty easy actually if you're wearing a watch you know what time it is you can find your direction general direction by using an analogue watch and I'll explain how all you really basically have to do is point the hour hand of your watch at the Sun horizontally

it'll be our hand directly at the Sun take your watch off if you have to and then bisect from 12 o'clock to whatever time it is our knot minute our hand so let's say it's 4 o'clock which 5 o'clock ok so it's 5 o'clock right now so I'm going to take my hour hand I'm going to point it directly at the Sun and then I'm gonna look where 12 o'clock is right in the middle of 12 o'clock you draw a look between 12 o'clock at 5 o'clock you draw a line right through that that's your north/south line at that point this kiddo so then you know where east west and south and north is things like that so let's go ahead and do that now I got this hang on really could use that hatchet man

all right so basically we could do this with paper we could do this with a stick we could do this with other whatever so basically all we're going to do is we're going to take this surface and we're just going to kind of draw across and then we're going to have our five o'clock basically from there so basically the long and short of this is that even if you have like maybe just a cell phone or you know an analog watch or whatever as long as you know what time it is you can still use this technique alright so like I said all we're going to do is we're going to score this and across as you can as we possibly can and then going to say that this is 12 o'clock 1 2 3 4 and 5 so 5 o'clock would be right here let's go and point that directly at the Sun there all right so 5 o'clock directly at the Sun so this is 12 o'clock so what I need to do is I need to bisect from 12 to 5 right about there make sure that's pointed the Sun right about there so this is my north-south line

okay so we've been at it quite a while here I'm fighting a bull thistle down below me poking the heck out of me but you know I think probably about halfway there at this point what I didn't tell you was when I found my Southwest direction you know I kind of looked terrain and I picked a really good tall tree or something really far off in the distance and you know even though I'm in the woods I'm gonna have to deal with uphill downhill ninety's actually trails you know stuffs been in my way I could kind of get around that stuff push around us up as long as I pay attention to where that tree is and big oak you know so I'm not going to miss it once I get to that oak I'm gonna have to kind of reposition myself and that's fine other place to leapfrog from you know to so so I can stay on my southeast track and you know like I said I would be hiking for miles I've already been quite a distance already I'm I'm I'm getting kind of pooped out getting the tanks are actually kind of on entity so I might have to actually sit down and chill and do at least one of those techniques over again you know just reassure myself that I am still on my bearing especially after I reached that tree over there you know I might even do it over there if it's a nice clearing so right now I'm kind of taking a breather chilling out I don't want to overexert myself I don't want it's 90 degrees out like 90-something degrees out actually so I definitely don't want to get like heatstroke or anything like that I have no water I got to get to that Creek so I guess water but right now I can actually get a little bit of fluids and vitamins and things like that into me with this trail side nibble here that I stumble across our olive you know here in Eastern woodlands especially this time of year this stuff's everywhere and it's invasive it's incredibly invasive this is actually one of the only plants that can thrive around the nitrites and things like that that that walnuts produce you know so but right now it's edible it contains lots of fluids again lots of vitamins actually a side note the seeds from the autumn olive have been found to promote prostate health and men's be okay guys eat okay so we're going to have this trail side nibble right now

and get back to you probably to get back to you when we're going around to crease all right well I'm hungry and I'm thirsty so get back to you soon I think we're good yep I see the creek we made it we made it we made it cool sweet

all right that took a while I took a lot of walking but we're here we finally made it and now all we have to do is walk upstream and probably got a couple mile hike ahead of us there it might be close to dark or getting to the evening part of the day all the time we get there but we made it so all we got to do is now walk up well I need water what I'm going to do is I'm going to soak as much my clothing and this Coal Creek because it is cool in this cool Creek as we can then I'm going to dig a coyote hole and I'm running really short on battery guys so I don't know if I'm be showing that but I do have videos on making that I literally only have about 14 minutes left of camera time but I'll show as much as I can and then I'm going to make it to the road where hopefully we get picked up by some hot chick named Megan all right guys [Applause]

all right so sign in the middle of this rocky Stan Bart here and it's a really good place to be because are you taking the digging stick and I can dig down below the water surface you can already tell well kill again and make a really big hole here in a sandy soil sorry it's still noisy but this could be below the water table and effectively you know water that has been filtered through the whole Creek that now this isn't by any way a 100 percent net the cleaning water but one it's better than just getting the spray from the creek if you have a lot of methods though you can tell me what you can't keep it in the water sorry I can't tell it's really rocky less I'm going to dig down a little bit deeper I'm unfit and just kind of relax and let myself calm down a little bit they'll walk in like hours and hours and hours and more I let the sediment trickle down let this water clear up and then I'm going to collect it and we're going to move on alright so I just went back to the creek and I reweighed my bandana I've taken my break selected myself now it's time to take this creek upstream so you can find the road hopefully and meet up with Megan hey sexy he's a dope girl yeah but you don't know

um pretty much the law part little too tired