back from Fort 4 via Crown Point Road and BBC

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: Dear friends,
: I want to report I am back from three days at Fort No. 4, via the Crown Point Road.  Rogers' Rangers spent Sunday and Monday being filmed by the BBC for an episode of Ray Mears' upcoming wilderness survival series.  Mears is an "extreme survivalist" expert who travels the world learning bush skills and presenting them on his show for wilderness survival.  Somehow, he learned about Rogers' 1759 Raid on St. Francis and the harrowing journey his men had getting to Fort 4, most of them starving along the way.  Mears studied likely survival tactics of Rogers and his men -- the food they could forage for, mushrooms they could use in place of charcloth for lighting fires, how Rogers made would have burned trees to make his raft when he was too weak to chop them down. 

: Theoretically, Rogers learned most of these skills from the Indians in New England and the area of the New Hampshire land grants in the 1740s and 1750s, and brought those skills to the Rangers.  Of course they would have been employed during their return from St. Francis to Fort 4.  I wish we could have learned more from Mears, as I'm sure he could have taught us a thing or two.

: We were filmed going through the woods in true Rangers tactics, raiding the Indian village at dawn, and returning home starving.  We all needed to lose some weight to make the latter more realistic!!

: The BBC will air the series in the UK in January, and the Travel Channel broadcasts it here but we are lucky to have any advance notice at all.  

: I hope I can let you know, but the Huggy Merchant may see it first!!

: YMHOS,
: Pvt. Chauncey Goodrich,
: Rogers' Rangers, Rogers' Own Coy.


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