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5 DAYS eating ONLY WILD FOODS! | Survival Challenge | The Wilderness Living Challenge 2017 SEASON 2

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Five days, zero groceries, and one rule that flips survival TV on its head: don’t lose weight, gain it.

“5 DAYS eating ONLY WILD FOODS! The Wilderness Living Survival Challenge – COMPLETE SEASON 2” is the feature-length recap of a challenge that has quietly built a following among bushcraft diehards since Season 1. Uploaded in June 2018 by outdoorsman Chris, who runs the channel The Wooded Beardsman, the video stitches together the full second season, originally filmed in 2017 alongside fellow survivalist Jeremy, known online as One Wildcrafter. The two spent five days in the backcountry of Northern Ontario relying on nothing but fish, foraged plants, fungi, and whatever game they could take, with modern tools and bushcraft gear allowed but store-bought food strictly off the table.

• Chris and Jeremy drove 22 hours into the remote backcountry near Woodland Caribou Provincial Park to reach the challenge site.
• The core rule bans any brought-in rations — 100% of calories must come from wild-caught fish, foraged plants and fungi, or hunted game.
• Unlike most survival formats built around starvation and endurance, the explicit goal here is to maintain or gain body weight over the five days, not lose it.

A Different Kind of Survival Format

Most televised survival challenges measure success by how much weight a contestant loses and how long they can grind through deprivation. The Wilderness Living Challenge inverts that entirely. Chris and Jeremy aren’t trying to survive on fumes — they’re trying to prove that a skilled bushcrafter can eat as well, or better, off the land as they would at home, and the scoreboard is whether they hold or add pounds by day five instead of shedding them.

That framing changes everything about how the five days play out. Every hour not spent setting lines, checking snare sets, or scouting a patch of edible fungi is an hour of lost caloric opportunity. The pressure isn’t just “don’t starve” — it’s “eat like it’s a real diet,” which turns foraging and fishing into a constant, active grind rather than a last resort.

Northern Ontario as the Proving Ground

Woodland Caribou Provincial Park sits deep in the boreal forest of Northern Ontario, a landscape of lakes, black spruce, and rock that gives up calories reluctantly. Getting there wasn’t casual — the 22-hour drive into the backcountry before the clock even started underlines how far Chris and Jeremy went to put themselves somewhere genuinely remote rather than a manicured demonstration plot near a road.

Twenty-two hours of driving just to reach the put-in point, then five days living off whatever Woodland Caribou Provincial Park was willing to give up.

Once on site, the pair’s daily rhythm revolved around angling for fish, scanning the shoreline and forest floor for edible plants and mushrooms, and processing whatever game they managed to secure. Anyone who’s watched builds like the bushcraft tent made from plastic wrap knows the genre lives or dies on this kind of improvisation — using what the land and a basic kit actually provide, not a curated supply drop.

Foraging, Fishing, and the Weight Rule

The season’s real tension sits in the gap between what the boreal ecosystem can realistically offer and what two grown men need to eat to avoid losing mass over five days. Fish became the most reliable calorie source, supplemented by whatever wild plants and fungi they could positively identify and safely harvest. Campfire cooking turned each catch into an actual meal rather than a survival snack, which is the whole point of the challenge’s premise.

That balancing act — identification skill, harvesting effort, and cooking technique all under a hard five-day clock — is the same skillset shown off in projects like making a basket from pine needles, where patience and material knowledge matter as much as raw endurance. In the Wilderness Living Challenge, that patience gets tested against a body that’s actively trying to burn through five days of hard outdoor labor without shrinking.

Season 2 doesn’t dress any of this up. It’s Chris and Jeremy, a boreal lake system, and a rule set that rewards real wilderness-living competence over survival theatrics — which is exactly why the bushcraft crowd keeps coming back to the channel for the next installment.