Les, have been watching you for years, anything and everything you do is done with class and professionalism. Seldom do I find myself having so much respect for someone I don't know personally and have never met. Thank you Les.
Love this series. I wish I could afford to buy you’re big survival kits. I just have to many kids to raise right now. Btw thank you for all the content you bring to RUclips. So glad I still get to watch you’re shows.
I used to hunt mussels on the Oregon coast. Love it. They just somehow tasted better, knowing that I'd brought them in myself. Can't do it anymore; too crowded, traffic's too bad, and you can't lift your arm without elbowing a Californian, but this brings back good memories. I needed those vibes. Thanks.
I liked when you brought a guest on your show and let them pick 2 items. Man I would of loved to have gone out with you even if it wasn't filmed, it looked Luke such a interesting adventure. Thanks for all your shows, I constantly watch them over and over lol
Dear Les, my favorite episode of all time is the one you did on Survival Kits, I've watched it over and over and over and I still watch it every night to fall asleep. Please could you make a new updated Survival Kits episode possibly on some more serious comprehensive kits and I promise you'll get at least a million views just from me! Sincerely Willow.
Cockles, mussels, clams, oysters, geoducks - alive ... alive ohhhhh !!!! Also barnacles, goose neck barnacles, sea urchins, ... and amazingly sea anemones are edible meat. And at the same time eat the nearby kelp and algae that are in the surf zone. At true Pacific Northwest habitat you could almost live upon it - with wild meat as a luxury. There is an extreme number of edible varieties through all the seasons.
Love the vids brother Les! I live in south Louisiana. Here we harvest brackish water oysters from Lake Ponchetrain and it's connecting lakes/bayou's/rivers ect. They are some of the tastiest oysters on the planet. The brackish water makes them mildly salty and very delicate tasting. If you're ever back in Louisiana, do yourself a favor and treat yourself to some local oysters.
Great clips from Season 1. Really enjoy having "science thrown at me", it's definitely helpful in further identifying the plant. Nice to see the dogs again, hope they're doing well. Did you (Les) ever figure out why the garbage bags of soil where on the side of the ravine? It seems odd that someone would cultivate the miners lettuce in such a precarious spot. Had a great time with this video. Keep 'em coming! Thanks!!
I started this video thinking God they always focus on the East Coast and forging East Coast plants and boom there you are on the West Coast I just started the video I made this comment hoping that I'm right that you're going to show some West Coast foraging especially California the West Coast is an isolated population of the United States California is the most populated area in the western area of the United States so I'm hoping I see some California vegetation that I can forage I live in Santa Cruz I know most of them but there's some I don't know let's see keep up the good work bro.
Hi Les. My name is Gary and I live in the woods of NH. I have so many things going on in the woods behind my home, it's unreal. I moved here about 2 years ago and another you tuber, "Hiker Dave NE" hikes with me often and when i first moved here there was only one old tree break that Hiker dave has on video actually and now, there are so many bends, X's , tree breaks, TeePee structures, etc, everywhere you look and there seems to be something new each time I go out there. I truly enjoy SURVIVORMAN videos since way back. I wanted to ask you though, I recently came across one of your videos or Scott carpenter's video where you both were together I believe on Scott's property and he was expaining to you some of the things going on there to you. I need to ask you What the name of that video was and if it was yours or Scotts as I was mentioning this video to Hiker Dave and he wants to view it also. I would appreciate if you could inform me of this. Thx Les AND KEEP UPI THE GREAT VIDEOS, LOVE EM ALL
10:34 Couldn't you also go digging with some disposable gloves? Something thin enough that you can still feel the dirt and the root systems and everything but if you need to you can take it off and you can still smell things and touch things without a lot of contamination. You can always switch gloves between digging one thing and another. This obviously wouldn't work with every situation, such as the cattails earlier but for the ginger it certainly should. The smaller edibles that you can easily get out with your hands, I would probably bring a couple of pairs of disposable gloves with me just in case and use that to help gather without getting my hands truly dirty, getting oils or pollens or other things like that directly on my skin just in case they cause irritation or something along those lines. You never know when something will set off an allergic reaction.
I have to say very beautiful man. You make it look so easy lol. But like you said you not only have to be shown by experts but it still takes years of research and haven’t the know how to do this on your own without thinking about it know what I’m saying. It’s like you go out and say ok this plant has blueberries but the on next to it has blueberries to but the plant looks a little different but has the same little blueberries witch one do I pick from. See what I mean one plant could be poison blueberries and the other is the real thing.
Les, your videos are just marvelous. But here is the real reason why I'm making this comment. People are simply going nuts. A lot more are becoming homesteaders or Preppers or a lot of them are trying to live off grid, isbecoming way ridiculous they're saying you have to grow a garden or you should at least get some chickens and start a garden. You need to get food savers, you need to get food dehydrators, you need to freeze dry foods, you need to buy canning jars and you need to learn how to can all sorts of type of food whether it's dry goods, pre-made up meals that you freeze and store long-term, canning vegetables, fruit storages. Or for honey, jam, jelly etc etc. But they're also saying not only do you need to prep you also need to buy these buckets and CO2 absorbers and these mylar bags but you need to hoard all this food. My questions are what in the world is going on? Why are these people doing all this? And why are they putting a scare into a whole bunch of people into doing this? Because, now they're saying that canning jars are becoming hard to find and all of these machines for dehydrating for freeze drying for vacuum sealing are becoming more expensive, and becoming more high demand because of all this panic prepping and preparing? I know our planet is in trouble because of global warming and right now there's some food shortages, it's getting harder to have some food and other goods to be delivered, whether on a barge ship with storage containers or not enough truck drivers and now they're having problems with railroad workers and even having things being delivered by train. A lot of this stuff that these preppers, homesteaders and some that are going off grid or are now building tiny homes or having them built to go off grid. These people are trying to mean well, and do good. But doing some of this kind of stuff is not easy for people who are living on a real small income, a fixed income or the elderly or people with all different types of disabilities, weather it's physical, mental, or special health needs, some of these type of people need assistance from healthcare workers family members or other means. With a good majority they're living in apartments or condos and they don't have all the space. I do have an understanding that people need to prepare and store stuff just in case of power outages or if a major storm, tornado, hurricane hits you. But it's all going out of control is there any way you can put out a video to have people understand the realization of what all this prepping, homesteading, doomsayers also telling them, they should hoard stuff especially food. They need to understand what they're doing to people, that simply can't do what they're doing.
When you research how many calories you get from such food, it's warm weather stuff only. You'll losing more calories to the dampness, cold and wind than you're getting back from eating those items. Only 1/4 of a clam or mussel's live weight is edible flesh and that flesh provides only 400 calories per lb (on average) you can easily burn 400 calories more per hour doing such things than you get from the food. So you'd need to harvest 4 lbs of live weight clams, periwhinlkes, etc, per hour WITHOUT getting wet., just to break even. If you get wet, not only will you start losing twice as many calories per hour, you'lll also have to be out in the cold, wet conditions drying out your clothing and wasting calories getting the firewood, etc. Such foraging fun in warm weather, but long term, in the cold, like on the Alone tv show, it's a mistake
For thousands of years native Americans here in pacific northwest harvested lots of clams and mussels to go with their acorns, berries and nuts and they did ok. If you are in a good spot you can fill a bucket pretty quick during a minus tide and might even find some crabs. One or two good sized horse clams and you have your 4 pounds.
Thanks Les for the decades of education and making your adventures accessible to so many people!
Amen! ;)
Love you Les! Lost my wife 4 years, watching your videos has helped me through it, Think I've watched everything you have atleast 3x over.
I hope you are well .I'm sorry to hear that.
God bless,
@@jeremikenagy5365 Thank you
@@michaelriley8970 You are so welcome...I just hope you are doing ok.I know loss is the very worse thing.If you ever need to talk I'm always here.
Loving this series Lester!
I really enjoyed wild harvest music so peaceful ty Les
Thanks les ,you teach I listen, keep up the great work everyone yummy
Les, have been watching you for years, anything and everything you do is done with class and professionalism. Seldom do I find myself having so much respect for someone I don't know personally and have never met. Thank you Les.
Love this series. I wish I could afford to buy you’re big survival kits. I just have to many kids to raise right now. Btw thank you for all the content you bring to RUclips. So glad I still get to watch you’re shows.
I used to hunt mussels on the Oregon coast. Love it. They just somehow tasted better, knowing that I'd brought them in myself. Can't do it anymore; too crowded, traffic's too bad, and you can't lift your arm without elbowing a Californian, but this brings back good memories. I needed those vibes. Thanks.
Just bought my ticket for the court street theater in Saginaw, can’t wait to meet you! You’re the GOAT
Thanks Les for the video. Keep them rolling.
This is like an entire episode of Survivorman in 12 minutes.
Thank You Les , you sir are a living legend!
I liked when you brought a guest on your show and let them pick 2 items. Man I would of loved to have gone out with you even if it wasn't filmed, it looked Luke such a interesting adventure. Thanks for all your shows, I constantly watch them over and over lol
We're witnessing history
Dear Les, my favorite episode of all time is the one you did on Survival Kits, I've watched it over and over and over and I still watch it every night to fall asleep.
Please could you make a new updated Survival Kits episode possibly on some more serious comprehensive kits and I promise you'll get at least a million views just from me!
Sincerely
Willow.
Realy cool serie, thanks!
OG Tarik from Philly salute SURVIVOR MAN AKA LES STROUD what's up man smash the like button people!! 👑💯💪🏿👍🏿🙏🏿✌🏿💰💲🌳🌴🍁🏡
Cockles, mussels, clams, oysters, geoducks - alive ... alive ohhhhh !!!! Also barnacles, goose neck barnacles, sea urchins, ... and amazingly sea anemones are edible meat. And at the same time eat the nearby kelp and algae that are in the surf zone. At true Pacific Northwest habitat you could almost live upon it - with wild meat as a luxury. There is an extreme number of edible varieties through all the seasons.
Hey Les! What kinds of foods do you like to take when not surviving but going into wilderness? Do you have some favorite staples? Thanks! 🐻 👋🏼
Oregon is incredible
Les really said "just the tip 😈" 🤣🤣
Love the vids brother Les! I live in south Louisiana. Here we harvest brackish water oysters from Lake Ponchetrain and it's connecting lakes/bayou's/rivers ect.
They are some of the tastiest oysters on the planet. The brackish water makes them mildly salty and very delicate tasting. If you're ever back in Louisiana, do yourself a favor and treat yourself to some local oysters.
2:30 Helle Knives if anyone else was curious
Great video! Was this filmed in Oregon?
Great clips from Season 1. Really enjoy having "science thrown at me", it's definitely helpful in further identifying the plant. Nice to see the dogs again, hope they're doing well. Did you (Les) ever figure out why the garbage bags of soil where on the side of the ravine? It seems odd that someone would cultivate the miners lettuce in such a precarious spot. Had a great time with this video. Keep 'em coming! Thanks!!
I started this video thinking God they always focus on the East Coast and forging East Coast plants and boom there you are on the West Coast I just started the video I made this comment hoping that I'm right that you're going to show some West Coast foraging especially California the West Coast is an isolated population of the United States California is the most populated area in the western area of the United States so I'm hoping I see some California vegetation that I can forage I live in Santa Cruz I know most of them but there's some I don't know let's see keep up the good work bro.
Hi Les. My name is Gary and I live in the woods of NH. I have so many things going on in the woods behind my home, it's unreal. I moved here about 2 years ago and another you tuber, "Hiker Dave NE" hikes with me often and when i first moved here there was only one old tree break that Hiker dave has on video actually and now, there are so many bends, X's , tree breaks, TeePee structures, etc, everywhere you look and there seems to be something new each time I go out there. I truly enjoy SURVIVORMAN videos since way back. I wanted to ask you though, I recently came across one of your videos or Scott carpenter's video where you both were together I believe on Scott's property and he was expaining to you some of the things going on there to you. I need to ask you What the name of that video was and if it was yours or Scotts as I was mentioning this video to Hiker Dave and he wants to view it also. I would appreciate if you could inform me of this. Thx Les AND KEEP UPI THE GREAT VIDEOS, LOVE EM ALL
Les you can't mistaken that Oregon Coast line "Piont Break", next time surfboard....very tasty programme brother. Thanks...👍👍👍🏴🏴🏴🍺🍺🍺
Yep.
How can I forget the oysters of the Mexican desert 😅
10:34
Couldn't you also go digging with some disposable gloves? Something thin enough that you can still feel the dirt and the root systems and everything but if you need to you can take it off and you can still smell things and touch things without a lot of contamination. You can always switch gloves between digging one thing and another.
This obviously wouldn't work with every situation, such as the cattails earlier but for the ginger it certainly should. The smaller edibles that you can easily get out with your hands, I would probably bring a couple of pairs of disposable gloves with me just in case and use that to help gather without getting my hands truly dirty, getting oils or pollens or other things like that directly on my skin just in case they cause irritation or something along those lines. You never know when something will set off an allergic reaction.
I have to say very beautiful man. You make it look so easy lol. But like you said you not only have to be shown by experts but it still takes years of research and haven’t the know how to do this on your own without thinking about it know what I’m saying. It’s like you go out and say ok this plant has blueberries but the on next to it has blueberries to but the plant looks a little different but has the same little blueberries witch one do I pick from. See what I mean one plant could be poison blueberries and the other is the real thing.
Yes ...i need his help with just about everything every thing save maybe eating it !LOL
You dont have rouge waves. The waves build in sets of 7. You just have to know when to expect the big wave.
Les, your videos are just marvelous. But here is the real reason why I'm making this comment. People are simply going nuts. A lot more are becoming homesteaders or Preppers or a lot of them are trying to live off grid, isbecoming way ridiculous they're saying you have to grow a garden or you should at least get some chickens and start a garden. You need to get food savers, you need to get food dehydrators, you need to freeze dry foods, you need to buy canning jars and you need to learn how to can all sorts of type of food whether it's dry goods, pre-made up meals that you freeze and store long-term, canning vegetables, fruit storages. Or for honey, jam, jelly etc etc. But they're also saying not only do you need to prep you also need to buy these buckets and CO2 absorbers and these mylar bags but you need to hoard all this food. My questions are what in the world is going on? Why are these people doing all this? And why are they putting a scare into a whole bunch of people into doing this? Because, now they're saying that canning jars are becoming hard to find and all of these machines for dehydrating for freeze drying for vacuum sealing are becoming more expensive, and becoming more high demand because of all this panic prepping and preparing? I know our planet is in trouble because of global warming and right now there's some food shortages, it's getting harder to have some food and other goods to be delivered, whether on a barge ship with storage containers or not enough truck drivers and now they're having problems with railroad workers and even having things being delivered by train. A lot of this stuff that these preppers, homesteaders and some that are going off grid or are now building tiny homes or having them built to go off grid. These people are trying to mean well, and do good. But doing some of this kind of stuff is not easy for people who are living on a real small income, a fixed income or the elderly or people with all different types of disabilities, weather it's physical, mental, or special health needs, some of these type of people need assistance from healthcare workers family members or other means. With a good majority they're living in apartments or condos and they don't have all the space. I do have an understanding that people need to prepare and store stuff just in case of power outages or if a major storm, tornado, hurricane hits you. But it's all going out of control is there any way you can put out a video to have people understand the realization of what all this prepping, homesteading, doomsayers also telling them, they should hoard stuff especially food. They need to understand what they're doing to people, that simply can't do what they're doing.
Careful of the Red tide, yo. It's not a communist thing. lol
When you research how many calories you get from such food, it's warm weather stuff only. You'll losing more calories to the dampness, cold and wind than you're getting back from eating those items. Only 1/4 of a clam or mussel's live weight is edible flesh and that flesh provides only 400 calories per lb (on average) you can easily burn 400 calories more per hour doing such things than you get from the food. So you'd need to harvest 4 lbs of live weight clams, periwhinlkes, etc, per hour WITHOUT getting wet., just to break even. If you get wet, not only will you start losing twice as many calories per hour, you'lll also have to be out in the cold, wet conditions drying out your clothing and wasting calories getting the firewood, etc. Such foraging fun in warm weather, but long term, in the cold, like on the Alone tv show, it's a mistake
For thousands of years native Americans here in pacific northwest harvested lots of clams and mussels to go with their acorns, berries and nuts and they did ok. If you are in a good spot you can fill a bucket pretty quick during a minus tide and might even find some crabs. One or two good sized horse clams and you have your 4 pounds.
Thanks les ,you teach I listen, keep up the great work everyone yummy