Three Forest Monks on an Overland Navigation Trek

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Kenton led three of our forest monks on an overland trek -- come along with us and learn a few things along the way!

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so from here figuring out where we want to go you asked me to try to pick something over land and then just navigate our way using just natural yeah features yeah we're not gonna use maps you can look at the map now yeah yeah it's orienteering or anything like that the idea is to navigate go over land landmarks whatever we can see from here it's kind of a good challenge so what we'll have to do then I think because that looks too steep to climb like you know that first Valley right there mm-hmm that looks too steep we're probably gonna have to go take like a Z kind of oh yeah try to not try to go straight up the cliff yeah it doesn't look

what about the left side yeah that actually looks much better do you know what you're sitting on that yeah

rocks enoki mountains they have one of the oldest mountain ranges on earth soon after the first foundation foundation he's worried it meant small mountains gone Pinocchio and like this here was around before everything can you tell there's a river yeah like there's almost the line I think there's almost a gap between the trees you seeing different species of trees or gap or what do you see like different species I think it's again yeah it's all of our balsam fir down there and our so you guys are thinking these cliffs

yeah and we'll have to discuss how to get that huh yeah I'm trying to find some landmarks right now that they create two sticks like a lot of trees how are we gonna distinguish anything especially when we're down in it I'm the top you might say oh look at that yeah no that double top screws down man that's a great landmark and soon as we're down in here yeah everything above that canopy becomes anything you can look for places where the canopy is because our camp the canopy is gonna be the most distinguishable thing right like maybe maybe not because we're up here and then we'll be down there maybe if there's an obvious obvious place Canton I don't know if I'm just seeing shadows but it looks like there's another sort of you see how those trees there you see this Ridge of trees up there no no no just right right in front of us

yeah see how they kind of like swerve down like that no no I see what you're talking oh yeah so what we're looking for is a combination of of those with with that other species yeah because we have a use water-loving species yeah and so if you look carefully in there you do see a couple up through there yeah and there's you know they're spotted through the woods then you have to kind of wait and measure things yeah but what we have isn't you have little streams that cut down out of Springs and can be rolling down to that main river and so you might start to be able to distinguish yeah yeah let's see how they water went up and over there it looks like there's been might be something going down that way that one yeah so those are up and that doesn't make sense with right cuz the water can't flow up so you're absolutely right if we'd go over there there's multiple streams that come down here do that valley behind these cliffs and they run down into that moon I can't wait say they were definitely we're getting there like I'm getting to those clips with these clips okay [Music]

we're still good with the Sun in the clouds over you in the right direction where's the river he's great oh yeah can finally hear the river all this then [Music]

ghost light is used medicinally by some people as it's kind of a weak hope yep essentially no another cell [Music]

okay so what I've been doing to try and get from point to point is just look for one tree and then another one that's straight within its line so we're looking we're saying it grows on wood this is a coral mushroom oh yeah and we have to look at the tops and see if it has little crowns on top it has these little crowns on top and it's growing on wood and you have your crown tips coral and that's an edible it's really fun you put it in your pan it's like popcorn pop out but if you can keep it in there they get crispy and they're like a nice sprinkle over a pasta or something like that

these ones so they come out almost ivory white these ones would be edible but they're past their prime yeah whenever that color square out with this no this is actually kind of an important little camping marker yeah this is stuff brought up by the flood and if it was raining or something and you run into camp down here and you saw that that would be a good warning that the splash floods and no I'll kill you nature is endless what it has to achieve [Music]

so yeah it's a great edible but it has even worse thing and seeing that also just be careful of your feet when the shoots first come up then they really don't have any stingers and it's a good thing to harvest and then later on they get seeds almost like a little flax seeds you just take off the tire [Applause]

yep just put the end in and suck through the straw you have to suck for a while before you get any water if you need it - you can probably just drink out of the straw and spit it back into your water bottle if you need to fill up your water bottle with fresh yeah [Applause]

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I don't know we just try to correct our angle or do we try to find that white pine that we saw up from the clips you could try I think we should go up a little more and then cut in and if we do find the white pine good for us but then then we're not like wasting all day trying to find this one white pine do you think yeah I guess I groove and then we just see how long it takes until if we see and if we see it fixed along with his photographs [Applause]

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so these are golden chanterelles we just picked up we might take that just take the bottom off so you don't cook it dirt up into the those so you can tell these you guys they're ground-dwelling when you look carefully at those gills you're not really guilt I can get it on there can you see how they're not sharp other kind of dull most most gills are gonna have a blade there then it's the current it's running down the stem yeah and then you've got a good positive ID on this this is a really one of them choices mushrooms oh that's out here so if you you know as you learn the different different species have different strengths of branches but the key is keeping your foot in close you know so if you if you step out on the branch in any kind of branch in general it can give you some some problems but if he keeps his hand almost touching the trunk like and his feet almost touching the truck

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like we I don't think we should go that way it'll veer us off too much because even if we are off and we don't get to our exact location it's gonna be way easier we have a huge spread of territory that we can hit even if we're not precise

we'll hit one of those cliffs and get them up and get our bearings yeah so I think we just go straight through there okay

we were just talking about a slight modification to Garrett's tree method and here's what I was suggesting was that instead of just taking a distant tree we're gonna pick two trees that then that next just an aspen and that gives us a line back to a third tree behind us and so then when we get up to this middle tree which we're just about to hear then you can pick another one beyond that because when we just pick one ahead you think about it Garrett was picturing it on a piece of graph paper you just go up to that next one it's easy to start curving left or right but when you plot a couple ahead then you can draw this straight line by looking behind you and looking forward that's gonna continue to drive you strength is our Big O or kind of deepen it's hard for me to tell by not how's that one aspen back there and then there's our little cutoff here's that little aspen you're applauding up so I think we're good I think we're good you keep in that direction

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let's check this out took my shirt off right here's my head do you live it up on the cliffs yeah and I was looking at the cliffs the shadow was behind me yeah no I almost said I was almost gonna say that shadows behind me we're heading towards the cliffs yeah right so now the shadow is going to opposite way so it's kind of telling me something's wrong here right way I'm not gonna say yeah it's for you guys to figure out [Music]

I guess we had this way and we'll find like another tree to climb or something see we'll see what we can find it [Music]

okay there's more elevation you see cliffs you see the cliffs [Music]

oh why from the clips huh okay the fell swoop space we just passed some red rocks that I was pointing off to them that were just on the ground nose of a cliff material like cliffs all right there but because eyes are on the ground and missing the cliffs [Music]

there's more of those red rocks yeah so those told us fear cloves and as a little fYI really for the last ten minutes these were visible through the woods you guys yeah yeah I was just looking up and scanning to your left is you there's all the most toxic plants that we have here that berry don't recommend this I do it but don't recommend it to anybody the berry itself is actually edible though that seed in the middle is highly highly toxic this is a beautiful plant and a dangerous plant whose the vulture is waiting for us to fall three three hours meal [Music]

can you go left a little bit air without the safer take your time [Music]

we gained the top of the cliff but it's just more woods and we're trying to find some cliffs up ahead they've opted to head off in this direction and there's some quite a bit of terrain between here and there but eventually we'll get to the trail that runs through this wilderness then we can take the trail back if we can find it so go it's trying to keep the valley right off to our left do not get lost off into the woodlands and you can see again this is what you can watch the canopy so looking through here and just the wood seems to disappear there's no more canopy here the canopy just continues and continues and just looking out through here it tells me where that valley is I'm sure you can see that difference

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little treasure I just found [Music]

this is valerian this client is another one that's used by some people as a sedative please don't use any of the plant identifications in this video as plant identifications remember to always check your plants with a really good field guide or better yet an expert in your area before you try to eat one or you something medicinally this is a wonderful staghorn sumac very lemony tasting I'll try to remember to put a little link up here to a video with Mirabelle showing how to make this into a wonderful lemonade pretty awesome huh [Music]

the world we live in yeah huge users mmm they're kind of right now no I've way better oh you guys want some [Music]

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one cliff over look after another [Music]

we're trying to hit the trail out here Wow guess we're not going over that are we gonna hit this trail we're gonna have to drop a lot of elevation [Music]

see how that goes yeah some serious drop-off you just kind of appear out of the green and then down it goes hard to imagine it almost really looks like it's poker or something from the bottom doesn't happen

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it is an aspen tree remember those fat deer vision all right so you kind of look and you should see something it gives you clue turn her off man man yep exactly hit the trail they leave the G up on yeah it was a lot of fun a great great ending this whole three weeks a whole two weeks that felt like two months honestly [Music]

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and following the path back [Music]

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