It's definitely the Arctic.
Not fooling around here.
I mean, it's why I put so much energy towards my shelter
right away rather than food.
But now I am hungry as hell.
There's crowberries here.
I'd love to stop and pick them and have a little breakfast.
Crowberries are definitely changing.
The foliage is getting more orangey.
And I feel like the berries are going to be drying up.
So I'm trying to fill my gullet now.
Check it out-- not a bad handful of crowberries.
All right, that feels like about all I can manage.
I think maybe it's because my body actually
really wants animal food.
I'm really hoping for red meat and large game.
I think that's the only real long-term sustainable
strategy for being out here.
[QUIET MUSIC]
Just shot my first spruce grouse.
The arrow went right through that entire bird.
Oh, it's so hard to be so close to having gotten a grouse.
Please, please, please let me find you.
There is so much habitat to cover.
She was white and dark gray.
I'm going to go around the edges now.
And then I'll go through the middle again.
I'm pretty physically tough, and I don't give up easily.
But I'm working really hard.
I'm very active every single day.
I'm doing a lot that burns calories.
And the cumulative effect of that
is burning through all of my body's stored calories.
Just don't know how far a grouse can go wounded.
I know a bear can run 30 yards after it's
been shot in the heart.
There she is.
Oh my god, thank god.
Oh, oh, my god, I found her.
I want to save every piece of her.
She is so gorgeous.
Ah, so grateful.
I've been coming to this whole experience from such
a good place, from a place of just
really wanting to live in deep connection with the land.
So I've been so conscious and so prayerful and so communicative.
But I've been starving.
[LAUGHING]
So it is so gratifying now to feel the reward.
Yep.
[LAUGHING] Got grouse feathers smeared in my tears.
Oh, god.
Whoo.
Wow, what a freaking morning.
Oh, it's windy and cold.
So I'm just going to hang out in here
and eat my amazing grousiness.
Yes.
Look at that.
That, my friends, is a good-sized piece of meat.
Wow.
And here are heart.
This is all chunks of breast meat.
This is liver.
And then there is the leg.
Hooray.
May this motivate me to hunt better so I
can eat like this every day.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Mm.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, that is so satisfying.
This was the tipping point.
And now I'll be bringing in the game.
And maybe now the grouse are showing up.
Now that I am fully fortified with delicious meat
in my belly, I want to be out exploring
that new area with my bow.
And time is a-wastin'.