Ray Mears' Country Tracks
Season 12002
This show is series of re-edited short episodes from the Tracks (1994) and Country Tracks (1998) series. It introduces various outdoor skills, bushcraft and countryside cunning with survival expert Ray Mears.
This show is series of re-edited short episodes from the Tracks (1994) and Country Tracks (1998) series. It introduces various outdoor skills, bushcraft and countryside cunning with survival expert Ray Mears.
10 Episodes
Ray dispenses knowledge on building a makeshift rucksack from natural materials such as nettle string, and advises on navigating in woods.
September 10, 2002Ray demonstrates his skills as he dispenses knowledge on how to harvest free food from a hedgerow, including fungal 'chickens' and pignuts.
September 12, 2002Ray 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.
September 17, 2002Ray demonstrates his knowledge of natural first aid treatments, ranging from headache cures to bandages.
September 24, 2002Ray makes a sip well, fire-hardens a digging stick, makes a bushman ostrich omelette, and goes coke can fishing. Lindsay Cannon looks at caves in the Peak District.
October 1, 2002Ray builds snow holes in the Cairngorms, while Lindsay Cannon goes sand yachting in Kidwelly.
October 4, 2002Ray 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.
October 8, 2002Ray 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.
October 11, 2002Ray 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.
October 15, 2002Ray demonstrates his skills by cooking fresh rabbit in an earth pit and purifying water with a filter made from charcoal and sphagnum moss.
October 29, 2002