From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.

My first time was in Italy.

Some with this guy and his two dogs and we're in Borolo, so it's all like castles.

They've vineyards up on the hills, and it's cold, because they don't want anyone to

see their secret spots.

It's this really dark, misty, moonlit kind of scene.

We're trying to go through these forests and follow these dogs in this sort of cold, drippy

night, and branches are just like whacking us in the face and stuff.

But then the dogs will give a signal that they're digging, and then we're just running

through the woods, tripping, getting to the spot, trying to get to it before the dogs

do.

You really start to become super aware of your senses, because hearing becomes extra important.

Your eyes are doing whatever they can do in that environment, and obviously then your

nose is the final arbiter of the whole thing.

So it really feels like you're just this hypersensitive bundle of nerve ends moving

to the woods.

That's outside magazine, contributing editor Rowan Jacobson, describing a unique and very

secretive hunt that takes place in forests around the world.

Rowan is both an intrepid journalist and an obsessed foodie.

Over the years, his assignments for outside have included tracking down a long-law strain

of chocolate in the Brazilian Amazon, foraging for invasive species in long island sound,

and investigating the new wave of imitation seafood.

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