I didn't Expect THIS! 3 Day Solo SURVIVAL CHALLENGE

I'm glad even you get skunked once in a while. When an outdoor pro struggles a bit on a trip, makes the everyday man like me feel a little better with all my outdoor struggles too.

I was in a remote mountain village in Northern Thailand in primitive living conditions. I was trying to start a fire with a ferro rod my boys gave me for Christmas. A little hilltribe boy was watching me from his family’s bamboo hut and I was going to impress him. After a number of attempts, he suddenly realized what I was trying to do. He got a big smile on his face and ran outside to join me. He reached his hand out to my starter bundle and with his Bic lighter we had fire. HOW HUMILIATING!!!

Let's go. Watching you win Alone introduced an inner city kid to the outdoors! Been obsessed ever since.

Thank you, Clay for being down to earth and very relatable. I look forward to each one of your videos. I pray God’s blessing upon you and your entire family.

The dog had a great time!

If a nice fish is close to the surface you can smack the water above it with the flat of your paddle and stun it. Growing up poor as kids in the 70s, fishing was all we cared about. We found or dug our bait everyday. Pulling grass clumps and shaking out the worms and grubs, knocking down exposed wasp nests under overhangs for larva, but usually turning over dead logs on the ground did the trick for worms, crickets and grubs. For those that dont know, you can feed one entire nightcrawler or worm onto a hook from nose to tail and just keep feeding it up your line until the hook is sticking out of the tail and the line is running inside the worm. It will catch fish for hours and stay on the hook/line. A whole nightcrawler will cast without weight and slowly sink naturally without a loud weight splash. Big fish like a big meal and not being spooked first. Also, frogs will bite just about any lure you bounce around or on its nose, even a bare hook. I guess they see it as a bug flying. Caught dozens that way over the years just to let them go. Thanks for another real video Clay. All the best to the family.

Cedar is a good dog! Great companion!😊

Cedar is so cute, what a good dog!

Be careful…a BEAR may have left that dollar as bait for a human.

I watched an interview with Paul Rosolie. He spent a lot of time in the Amazon. He wasn't having any luck catching fish in one of the rivers. One of his chaperones kicked off a shoe and sliced a piece of calloused skin off his heel. He put that onto the hook for bait and caught a little fish quickly. He used the little fish to catch a bigger fish, sliced that fish in half, used that as bait and so on. Within a couple hours he had a fish big enough to feed a large family. Don't know if it's true, but it's a cool story.

Brooo, the survival plus getting all that footage, and angles.. really top notch content bro. Just found your channel btw .. but yeah man I can tell you’re more real then bear grylls

When the aircraft were flying in the area NW FLA seems like an area I was in back in 73. We stayed at the Ranger camp and trained in the area. The water was so good back then we did not have to filter it when we waded through the water. Lots of scorpions 😊. Take care.

My son and I have started a fire with a clear plastic baggie filled with water , for tinder we used dry bark or dead tree sawdust we just crushed it up with our hands took a little bit it worked, we saw another YouTuber Greg Ovens do it pretty neat !!

For finding bait, have you tried 'worm grunting'? Worm charming, also known as worm grunting or worm fiddling, is a technique that uses sticks to attract earthworms from the ground. Here's one method: Find an area with loose soil, such as under a log Push a 12-inch stick about three inches into the ground. But before doing so carve ridges on the one side of the stick you stick into the ground. Grab a second stick(smooth). Rub one stick up and down against the ridges of the other stick that's stuck in the ground, as if playing the cello, for about two minutes Worms should rise to the surface

Appreciate you keeping it real! Failure is frequent in the nature. She’ll humble you.

I would have laughed so hard if a fish came and gulped up that minnow you set free 🤣

Great stuff clay. I appreciate the time you take to explain the logic behind your explore-exploit choices. And thanks a bunch for sharing even when things are challenging! We learn the most from times of scarcity. Hope the light blend coffee was still to your liking!

That has to be the most tear jerking science with you feeding your dog. Your a good man clay

Excellent cinematography! The production value of your videos is asounnding, makes for great viewing.

Love it! Soo many good ideas.. great camera work and the dog is aaaadorable 💕