10 day solo camping with no food or water.

My raised bed took a while as I'm 6'5" and needed the length. Downsides of being tall. Upsides - concerts and reaching things on top shelves.

My gear for the trip. Some items were used every day - knife, axe, saw, billycan where as others were dead weight. Looking at you wind up radio and book on Australian edibles. I also took a solar panel to charge gopro, head torch, phone for pics etc but it was about as useful as a left handed spoon.

Starting to take shape. I walked for 2 days and only got about 13kms (8 miles) because of hectic bush in and around my face that even the machete couldn't alleviate without some serious flailing. When I found this clearing by a river I threw down stumps and called it a win.

My pack all tucked up ready for a spanking in the -5 degree (23Fh) Victorian mountains. They opened the skiing season while I was out there and I could feel the wind chill blowing straight from the fields to my twitching eyeball.

I built a firewall so that I could be protected from the winds and any authorities hunting me for my extreme GoT streaming techniques. Pretty happy with that double entendré as I did have a fresh water stream that provided me with all my purified and boiled drinking water as well as some healthy Aussie trout in my gill net.

I Macgyver'd this billycan hook which had two settings - hellfire and forgotten tea.

Home sweet freezing ass home.

My camera and phone died pretty early on in the trip so this is the last pic I was able to take but I added a tarp to the inside of the shelter that extended out to a roof that caught the heat from the fire really well. Also put in top and tail walls to the lean to that cut out a bunch of wind chill factors and lay down a whole heap more foliage on the outside and under the raised bed. I ate mainly trout caught from my gill net and a few native edible plants - I trapped a rabbit on day 8 which was tasty af and helped a lot with the mental ordeal of getting out and trying to survive in the wilderness. I still lost 4kgs (9lbs) All in all it was a fantastic trip that I will definitely do again - just maybe not in sub zero temps next time as I spent a good portion of my nights judging the hell out if past me for deciding to do it in winter.