We Survived 100 Miles Into the Wilderness (Day 1)

Homemade eggs. And what else you got in that? Potatoes, hash browns, hash brown potatoes, and, uh, cheese. And cheese. No meat, no like— this is going to be the key, is, uh, meat and a carb. We're surviving 100 miles into the wilderness starting today, day 1. What's the goal today? What? 25 miles. Today is the hardest day. It's gonna get awful heavy after a while, Austin. It's gonna make you— if you wear him, your butt's gonna get sore. Yeah, all the weight you see. Can I go in my Y bike? And he's like, no, you can't go where we're going. And he's like, can I go on your back then? You nervous? Yeah. What are you nervous about? I don't know, being really hard. I guess this section beat us up last year. Okay, you nervous yet? Yeah. What are you nervous about? Last night I started getting nervous. I mean, we're going through pain. Pain. And so, uh, I just don't want my body to give out on me. Why did we sign up for this? Stop, Laura, this is more than— We get excited about this, going and beating ourselves up for all day. I'm nervous about the rain. Highs is in the 50s tomorrow. What's the weather look like, Rebecca? Currently we're in that green and it's not raining, so So are we gonna get wet or not? I think you will get wet at some point, but I don't think it's gonna be like constantly. Maybe if it's raining, we're at the trailhead, we wait a little bit. Hey, can you make sure they move the sheep? I don't know if that— that one might fall through the crack. Okay. Josiah is doing big animals and Lily's doing little animals. Josiah does not want to do this with us. It's not his idea of fun. Plus we need somebody to help with the farm, so it's fine. Bye-bye, honey. Bye-bye. I love you. I love you too. Bye-bye, bud. Bye, Peter. You get your mama. Look at me, buttered by strawberry jam biscuits. The last of your indulgences till tomorrow night. The only way I can get away with carbs. We haven't even left and it just started raining. We're at the 16-mile mark. Dropping a car. It just so happens that there's a trailhead at the 16-mile mark. Why carry all our stuff? Probably the hardest 16 miles. Carry as least as possible. Yeah. What do we— so we just need one, or do we need any food? Well, you need as much as you need to make it 16 miles. So are we taking a— like, I got snacks, but lunch break we don't need. No, we're gonna have lunch here. So we got all our camping stuff, our lunch, our supper. In here. No, no micro SD card in here. How is it that's what I forgot? Well, you said you were gonna forget something. I'm glad I forgot it here near Walmart. Thankfully there's a Walmart not even 3 minutes from the trailhead. You think we'll make it? I do. If we do not make it, we only have one more chance End of June. The film festival deadline is August 1st. We're gonna knock this film out because we're gonna go back and get narration shots, B-roll shots. And here we go again. This time maybe we'll start. Bye-bye. Oh, I love you. Do you remember, do you remember before your surgery how you came and got in bed with me? Aww. It was. He was so nervous. He was so nervous. Kind of reminded me of last night. He even got in the bed with us. Wow. Check out Austin's rig. He's not gonna get thirsty this time. No, because you have this huge Nalgene, 48 ounces, plus you have a CamelBak. It's got 148 ounces. Okay, they said plus a LifeStraw, about 100. 100. Okay, we can get water out of the creek. They say 100-120 ounces a day for 25 miles. That ain't me. I'm not normal. No, so he's not going to have that happen to him again. Jonah, on the other hand, is only bringing that water. We have 16 miles to go and then we can be at the checkpoint and get water. You can do that. That's not— that's, that's enough water for you. I thought I had it on. That's enough water for you? Yeah, because it's 16 miles. But it's like 2,100 feet in elevation gain. Have fun. Hopefully you don't get too wet. Where'd we miss it? Was there a trail back there? No, there isn't. 1 mile in, we're lost. Okay, so our, our, uh, our trail has been washed away from the hurricane. Wow. Okay, we are back on the official trail. Of course, it's not a trail yet. We're going through a campground. No more paved road for 50 miles. We were feeling real good through here last year, guys. We got some double track here. Let's— Josiah, Papa, Jonah, good friends. We need to be like singing the chant or something right now. Yeah, work, work, work. We had no idea what was ahead of us. I'm more nervous this year because I know what's ahead of us. Little snap. We're about to climb an Ernst double track. How are you wearing pants? Well, last year my legs got all cut up. I figured on this first day at least. I'm taking a picture every time you guys are breaking, and then I'm gonna have a slideshow at the end. All right, young guy, look at this. It's washed out more. A ravine from the hurricane. This is where we realized the young ones were ahead of us and the wise old men were in the back. We realized you were on the side of the old man. Memories, Jonah? Bring back memories. The first time we broke down. Did you find it? Yeah, it was right here. We need the nut. It's probably right— oh, that probably fell back off this. Yes, one of the support bolts. That had right here, yeah, came off. We had these bike racks that kept breaking down, or started right here. The nuts were coming loose. It was like a half hour delay, wasn't it? So much more prepared. Do you see any bike racks? No bike racks. Because we learned we can drop— we're gonna have a drop point at 16 miles, and we did that. Even then, we're not gonna have bike racks. I have a seat pack. Y'all don't even have seat packs, do you? No, I just have a front pack. And back park. I feel so much stronger and more confident this time around. What about you? Yeah. What about you, Austin? Yeah, I feel good. You're keeping up with us. People were already lagging by this time. Yeah, we were all split up at this point. First singletrack. We're already hiking a bike. We're 2 hours in. I feel like though it took us 4 hours to get to this point, didn't it, Austin? Oh yeah, something like that. Or 3 at least. This is hard to believe. 2 and a half hours in, this is where we took a break. Fruit strip, salmon stick. You saved yours for last. Yeah, these things are awesome. Felt like it took forever to get right here. We're 8 miles in, we still have 19 miles. We're still way ahead. Okay, that's true. Almost there. But we're way ahead. Hey, take a meat stick. You're afraid that we're gonna not make it to camp? Have to set it up in the dark? Huh? Sure. Well, if these old men hurry, we might not make it. That's the puncture, right? Isn't that? Yep. Oh no, that's just a seal. That's not a puncture. Pretty sure it's tubeless right there. Well, why don't we make it to Turkey Pen? I'll go. It's not very far. Fix it there because you could be fixing it while we cook. Yes. Is it rideable? Yeah. Also, it could be maybe water got in the rim. Flat, flat? No, I think it— I think this is a tubeless tire and it had to fix itself, so in the process it lost some air. Okay, it's old. And Austin, you have a spare tube and John has a spare tube? Yes. It's not making a noise. It's good. Hope this works. I forgot to test it before we left. You guys ready to see if this I think it's gonna work. Homemade, homegrown rice pilaf. So it's just freeze-dried and we're just gonna pour the hot water on it. I think that's all you do. I don't know if the meat's coming back to life. Probably need some more. Yeah, yeah, it mostly works. What might need more water? Oh my gosh, I don't know if because we're camping— I think we're glamping at this point. We just rode 16 miles, 2,200-foot climb, or this freeze-dried food is amazing. Oh my gosh, we are not going to suffer for food this, this trip. It's about to get real, gentlemen. We're loaded up. And it's starting to rain. Jun has got a flat. What, not even a tenth of a mile from the truck, and it's starting to rain. Could you throw that on me since you're waterproof? Do you want me to, um, why don't you take a minute, get yours on? Would you take it out, please? I can't get under that trap. There you go. You're home run. You're home free now. Have you caught him ever back on? Yeah. That's the trick. Where we camped first day last time. Yep, bring back memories. I pitched a tent right between these two dead pine trees. Big mistake. We're feeling really good though, but we better keep going. 8 more miles. This rain at this point is slowing us down. Yeah, so might as well take your time because we're not pitching tents. Pitching camp in rain. Too young and he's pushing me. I'm trying to just make sure I don't injure myself. Right here. Watch out, it's kind of deep. Let me take that bike. Sure. Yep. I don't want you to drop it. I think I got it. Are you hurting? No. Okay. I feel good. I don't know what mine did. Don't forget, when it gets dark, it's going to get dark quicker in this, uh, in this woods. We should be able to go now. No more river crossings. This was the trail. It's now a little waterfall. Here where you had to drop out last time. Yeah. Justin's hurting. His, his legs are hurting. I don't think it's going to get any better. His knees. Scale of 1 to 10, how much better do you feel? I'm 10. 100% better. 100% better. Yeah, we were here at day 2 early. Yeah, now we're here at the end of day 1. About 2.5 miles to camp, 10 till 6. It's getting dark in these woods though. I don't know if we'll make it before dark. If we don't, we're gonna have to walk our bikes. It'll be too dangerous. We should be at the top of the second big climb for today. So should be kind of cruising. 6:42. I think we're at camp. Here's more water and it's looking clean. The water was running a little brown after the rain down low. Oh yeah, the hammock. There's a hammock spot. There's a hammock spot. We're taking refuge in our tents, set them up. Didn't film any of it because it's raining. Getting pretty cold. Are you guys cold? Are you guys going to be able to warm up? Yeah, I have a sleeping bag. I think I'll get warm. The rice pilaf is killer. It's helping warm me up.