Up North Journal Podcast

Sit down with us on this episode as we interview the Season 2 Winner of the History Channel's show Alone David McIntyre. He takes us through his journey on surviving 66 Days on Vancouver Island along with 9 other contestants that were individually isolated to survive on the island. David gives us his background into surviving the outdoors. Grew up in rural Pennsylvania  Loved learning the Native American ways Studied wilderness survival Went to Brazil on a missionary trip and developed his wilderness survival skills there and started a survival school there. Was asked to apply for the show Alone His father moved to Pennsylvania to raise the family and David's passion came from that rural lifestyle. Getting ready for the trip Starting in August he began to prepare for the trip Learned in August that he was heading to Vancouver Island Left in late September for the Island Had to buy cold weather survival gear Had 10 items he could take with him off of a list of 40 Purchased a lot of the gear from Cabela's O