Richard's 4-Month Forest Monk Training, Video Three

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all right so hasn't it two months but it's that giving up yeah it's been a lot of adventures I mean we had Shawn here we went out to the clips he's been going without time without yeah yeah well shot Chavez here like this is fun I'm putting a video up up here but he was someone that I connected with last year he's a Marine and part of that Survival show so he came with a lot of diverse experience and some fun stories I'm sure he'll publicly but anything instruct you about that did you get a chance to connect I don't really talk to him one-on-one at all you know but just him being around and what he's you know just said when we were like around campfires a couple times or even when we first met him he's just such an open guy and just the way he broke down barriers late but not that there were any barriers to break down but just right away he would skin and he was super honest and truthful just happy to be around us and I guess as we got to know him and this whole experience with the wheel it makes sense you know after having that kind of challenge why not you know it's like what we're doing here just a lot more brutal kind of gratitude feel this awesome yeah yeah I was reading that so I was really cool and then where we went was really cool too of the North capture trail just being able to because we're camping here all the time but it's still it's still different than going out and camping again yeah you know yeah we're double camping yeah that you're already yeah then you go camping oh we learn we learn trail tracking we learned a little bit of tracking cuz that was my Chavez here yeah series been doing tracking Tracking's incredible do you like it oh it yeah how it opens off the floor us like you said because before I thought we were doing pretty well with not having make big trails going your account yeah and they're not as big of trails as like some of it once that were made before we came here but there's totally true darn it so that whole thing just yeah so seeing the trails that I made since coming here and then and then all week the little ones they go you know and the deer really stamped into the the hill yesterday when they saw us and ran away took that term or just all that all that energy that goes into that even from a deer which I think it would be a you know much more delicate than us they still have that both that ability to make those trails yeah or some of those bigger various older trails like the glaciers you were talking about with the kettle's it's like tens of thousands of year old trails yeah so being able to see some of the or the trees the fallen trees and everything that's all I think to me it's just I always just find help completely ignorant I am every time I go in the woods because there's there's so many layers mm-hmm to learn I mean you just stay tracking and then about I mean it's not just footprints in the ground its tracks of that glacier you know you start to read through the history inside there's so much you're trying to figure out some of the scars on the trees there are lightning or Frost

which is also something that's happened a lot since coming out here you know it seems to fall into its category like that what about well adding any wild foods

well actually I know one because this morning you showed me yeah it's a it's not quite out but it's in the process of being out okay so yeah I'm trying to make a cornmeal which is acorns and then you grind them in not while you take that's it

start from the very beginning I guess you find a tree that is an oak tree and then knots fall off of it and there's the nuts that are they grow B or not quite developed that the tree drops off and you have to differentiate between those and the good ones and it took me a couple couple tries to figure out which one's the good ones on and I figured at the beginning that I guess use them all you know to get serve but that is not the way to go just leave leave the growth but the growth because it's it just makes a really gross really slimy sludge more than a powder okay but I end up dead finding like what what is kind of you know the primate core at least for the red oaks around here can you just tell them yeah that's a pretty pretty much some of them are still like a little bit feet I mean I'm no pro but but there's there's definitely a difference

once you figure about they seem to glow a little bit like they're think they're healthier you know I'd be the same as like a

right tomato to a you know a nice big ripe tomato it's sort of it's sort of that idea where you pick it up but yeah so I it's been all while harvesting them and I found a couple different oak trees that really were nice to me and you know a couple hundred from each of those that were we're all good and then I cracked them all open which takes a while and I started just using my teeth but my teeth got sore so I just might hit him they didn't broke him open and then that Hulk because they'd already be sort of crust and then crush them in the memoriam festival and let them dry and they have almost and all of you smell right at the beginning like when they're when they're crushed okay smell all of it which is weird wait normally wait all of all those leave one side are named cats oh okay like fresh shots yeah they have that sort of so really which wasn't he yeah thought it was going a little Greek there but then so I we had a fire and I tried drying him over that I think it was a little too quick and it also got really dark okay I tried the rest of them in the Sun and that's a little better but the little insects seemed a lot better so there's a little there's little girls and stuff that call the Robin that said to pick all those out and then the next step is reaching because it grunts are super bitter

yeah kind of yeah tannic acid so that'll be that'll be a chore because it apparently it takes a while to do it the way I'm gonna do it because I don't have you know no fuel the burn burning boil but you you take the acorns and you put them in a big bucket or something like that and then you pour in about six parts water to that or more I'm assuming Morel make him go away quicker and you let that sit for like so and then you drain it out and we go away with with a strainer or something so that meal stays in that and then you do that again you said anywhere up to 20 times they might be a while before you have a lot yeah it's about me I guess peanut butter is kind of a standard up here about three and a half peanut butter jars and what do you can do that no no no no it is some sort of flour I guess yeah flat brother okay wow this kids yeah breads never used it before never never even really heard of it

nice and you do press up star too if you want

well your family came up yeah thank you never sue it was so good that they were you yeah and it was it was cool it you were saying it's nothing quite than two months but that was like a really good halfway point too just to see them again and I'm glad I haven't changed too much like I can still relate to my family which is cool kind of worried that I'd be you know being able to see him like this whole time I said last time that I hadn't really had any challenge before he came here and it was sort of one of those things that definitely should have knocked on wood because that day like right after the video went down to the wake to wash off and roll Vanko and stubbed my toe and then that night was either super rainy or super cold or something no no there's something with that night I woke up gosh I miss my family today and you know I hadn't really realized it until dawn but that a little bit of pain and naturedly

you don't think you have a challenge well here you go so I got my little little dose of nature big dose of humbling humility and then you know ever since Santa really early started to to miss them and to think about that and yeah I haven't come up with super cool and I mean there's there's so much they could have told them but it it was it was talked to tell them everything you know as far as like what I wanted to show them but I've been learning and stuff when just being able to be with them was really cool that's right that was the that was helps to be the the main point yeah so that that's a good you know a good start for the second now generally yeah say my little sister little sister loved it yeah she's super got off where she led the way good knobs another way at all and I kept trying to preach oh let me let me go ahead but you found it like she should stop at the intersection since she'd always point to the right one okay fortunately there were no barriers so no other way oh one thing that Barris might have done they all liked it not everybody went in the water but I mean the scenery around it's so different from that lots of martial arts that's a workout any I guess just any insights or or thoughts you like share with people spend this much time I felt that just walking in the woods has become a really nice thing they have done that before but up here where it's like I really don't have to be anywhere after you know after training or whatever I can spend like a whole day just being out in the woods that's that's been super duper nice because there's they're like no no limitations to it at Altis and I don't have to go anywhere necessarily you know there's no limitations link boundary wise really and there's also no limitations isn't wait I have to go a certain distance or I have to go on this trail like I can go absolutely anywhere on that just not her yeah and so it's cool to to wander physically instead of just mentally because you know I meant we wandered a lot me in my past and up here too but being able to physically wander like that is it's different you know there's just a huge change and maybe it's just because I'm you know better at using my sons

my mental abilities for being able to just see all that and then to watch everything change because we're a campus our camp you know it's it's four sides of match so we can see all the way around this all the time so being able to just watch the season change as it changes the whole time from you know the beginning of August still not all of these falling onto the ground and how like there's a carpet of red and orange now and yellow where they were they're out of bed before and things like that and just all the breezes and the night sounds and the bass songs and all the different smells

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do you think I see gonna shine this kind of the old standards we all get a chance to go walk around and nature definitely do it being able to cook not an open fires the best-tasting thing like there's there's no comparison to it even though I'm a bad cook it's it's still delicious it's just such a different way of being able to see see the season change and being able to see the whole day outside it's just fun opening oh I opening and like sensory opening but also you know opening me up to some of those challenges you know the different colds and like the rain today and stuff like that being able to go out and to be in that and still be comfortable is really really nice yeah and it's that it's that comfort in the same way they're like a nice cozy couches but it's it's peaceful I feel good so being a little bit of do more and more I feel good in these places that I thought you know we're uncomfortable or special but just not where I'd really want to spend time so yeah that's slow changing it seems like that's happening a lot where I realized that wow time has gone by there has been a lot of stuff that's changed since that it came because I always thought that you know maybe that's just a young person thing that time isn't really going by too quickly yeah but looking back it definitely does I feel like in Preston that still isn't going by super quickly but it's already thank you for saying absolutely thank you thank you for the question rolled up thank you for listening