Ray Mears Country Tracks

10 Episodes captured from UKTV Documentary channel in November 2006.

Xvid 1-pass 640*480, mp3 lame 3.92 192Kbit/s, 9 mins per episode.



Episode descriptions and corresponding file names are numbered in the order these were recorded, this is almost certainly NOT the 'correct' order.



1. Building a makeshift rucksack

The survival expert dispenses knowledge on building a makeshift rucksack from natural materials

such as nettle string, and advises on navigating in woods



2. Lighting fires safely in the wild

Ray demonstrates essential skills for survival in the wild, including a reliable method of

lighting fires safely and efficiently without the aid of matches or lighter fuel



3. Natural first aid treatments

The survival expert demonstrates his knowledge of natural first aid treatments, ranging from

headache cures to bandages



4. How to harvest food from a hedgerow

The survival expert demonstrates his skills as he dispenses knowledge on how to harvest free

food from a hedgerow, including fungal `chickens' and pignuts



5. Unknown title

Ray makes a sip well, fire-hardens a digging stick, makes a bushman ostrich omelette, goes

coke can fishing. Lindsay Cannon looks at caves in the peak district.



6. How to make woodman's tea

The survival expert demonstrates his skills as he explains how to use the versatile birch tree

to make a refreshing sugary drink called woodman's tea, and Lindsay Cannon enjoys a spot of

mud-sliding



7. How to light a life-saving fire

The survival expert demonstrates how a stick, some moss and a bootlace can be used to light a

life-saving fire, while Guy Lindley-Adams revisits his childhood with a walk along south-east

England's chalk cliffs



8. Unknown title

He cooks up a feast of freshly caught rabbit, bakes a damper bread, and demonstrates how to

filter water to make it drinkable.



9. Building snow holes in the Cairngorms

The survival expert builds snow holes in the Cairngorms, while Lindsay Cannon goes sand

yachting in Kidwelly



10. Building a woodland shelter

The survival expert demonstrates his skills as he builds a woodland shelter complete with

natural insulation and a bed made from a pile of twigs, and Lindsay Cannon goes `island

bagging' off the Scottish coast