List of episodes of the series «Ray Mears' Country Tracks»

Building a Makeshift Rucksack

• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 10 min.
• Episode description:
  Ray dispenses knowledge on building a makeshift rucksack from natural materials such as nettle string, and advises on navigating in woods.

How to Harvest Food from a Hedgerow

• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 10 min.
• Episode description:
  Ray demonstrates his skills as he dispenses knowledge on how to harvest free food from a hedgerow, including fungal 'chickens' and pignuts.

Lighting Fires Safely in the Wild

• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 10 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Natural First Aid Treatments

• Episode number: 4
• Episode duration: 10 min.
• Episode description:
  Ray demonstrates his knowledge of natural first aid treatments, ranging from headache cures to bandages.

Fire Harden a Digging Stick

• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 10 min.
• Episode description:
  Ray 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.

Building Snow Holes in the Cairngorms

• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 10 min.
• Episode description:
  Ray builds snow holes in the Cairngorms, while Lindsay Cannon goes sand yachting in Kidwelly.

How to Make Woodman's Tea

• Episode number: 7
• Episode duration: 10 min.
• Episode description:
  Ray 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.

How to Light a Life-Saving Fire

• Episode number: 8
• Episode duration: 10 min.
• Episode description:
  Ray 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.

Building a Woodland Shelter

• Episode number: 9
• Episode duration: 10 min.
• Episode description:
  Ray 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.

How to Cook Rabbit and Purify Water

• Episode number: 10
• Episode duration: 10 min.
• Episode description:
  Ray demonstrates his skills by cooking fresh rabbit in an earth pit and purifying water with a filter made from charcoal and sphagnum moss.