Thanks for tuning in today folks and welcome to part two of my solo Alaska

Caribou Hunt from 2020 the audio diary notes that I kept from my experience. The first half, part one, I related most of the hunt in the immediate experiences

after landing, setting up camp, and so forth. This second half is about, well,

predictably the second half of the hunt and oddly enough even though I had all the hard work done, by far, the most difficult part.

There were extreme challenges in terms of weather.

There was a lot of uncertainty as to whether or not the SuperCub airplane would be able to come in and

collect me because of those weather challenges.

And I had some equipment failures. Oddly enough, stuff that you wouldn't expect that made the situation more challenging.

So without further ado, we'll just jump right in.

I'm Joseph von Benedict, and this is the backcountry hunting podcast. Day 5 solo caribou hunt 20.

I don't remember whether or not I talked about where I'm getting my water.

The last whole two and a half three days I've been drinking a lot of rainwater caught off of the blue tarp that I've got my supplies covered up in about a little ways distant from my tent. The first day it was

sunshine and I when we flew in we saw some little potholes and whatnot and then down in the bottoms a creek.

It's a long way to hike down to get water.

So I filtered some water out of one of the potholes up above the tent on a flat where it looked clearer than the

stuff near the tent. Stuff near the tent looked like it had a lot of old crud in it, ranging from caribou dung to just rotten moss and whatever.

Well the stuff up on the flat was

nasty looking

So I came down. I did filter a couple bottles full actually a whole bunch I did a

two gallon collapsible jug and then two different one liter bottles.

Because I didn't know I might all be like that right.

I came down off and tried a pothole out here not too far from the tent, found a little

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