Josh James swaps screens for sourdough in the Southern Alps

His father-and-son tahr trip brings campfire carving, thermal spotting and a gorge that demands a different route.

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Father Son Tahr hunting New Zealand with Josh James and Sonny Jim main divide VLOG #368

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0:15Josh prepares bread, cucumber and beetroot beside the campfire with Sonny Jim.
1:10They cross rocky river terrain to spot tahr with thermal optics, then stop as darkness falls.
5:48Josh checks fallen branches for moisture while searching the damp beech forest for dry firewood.
9:48A tree root becomes wilderness cordage as Josh demonstrates how to split it down the middle.
11:37Steep banks and large boulders force them to turn back along the riverbed.
17:46They climb through mossy beech forest to find a route around the gorge.

What fills a week in the hills without devices? For Josh James and Sonny Jim, there is bread to toast, wood to carve and a mountain route that refuses to be straightforward.

"Father Son Tahr hunting New Zealand with Josh James and Sonny Jim main divide VLOG #368" is the second instalment of their first tahr trip of the season. Josh says the device-free time made it easier to engage with each other, with no shortage of things to do. He also notes that Sonny Jim has begun playing the harmonica that had long been floating around the house.

The practical details give the trip its texture. Josh searches damp beech forest for dry firewood, splits a tree root into cordage and serves a breakfast featuring leftover roast duck stuffed with chestnuts. When the river gorge becomes too steep, with oversized boulders and vertical banks, they turn back before trying a forest route. Thermal optics reveal tahr on distant slopes, but spotting them and reaching them are clearly different jobs.

The vlog reached about 17,000 views, making it the stronger of the week's two uploads and the channel's busiest video for daily views. One viewer asks for the camp bread recipe, a nicely domestic request amid all that mountain country.

The other upload, "KTM 1290 Superduke R New Zealand Mountain Road pure sound", trades walking boots for an engine soundtrack. An older camping-and-fishing vlog, including Queenstown and venison stew, also keeps drawing viewers.

Subscribers held steady at 105,000, while daily views are well above their usual level. For Josh, the week's main draw remains the slower journey: making camp, finding a way through and spending time together.

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Hey bro how do you make that bread it looks so bloody yummy I see it on a few of your vids would love to give it a crack while were out camping with the kids with the Dutch oven.
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Katabatic wind flows. Have a go at that! Always educational and interesting to watch, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
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Always a pleasure to watch.cheers Josh
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