Grant Lawrence Superfeed

The hermit would become intertwined in the Lawrence family's life one more time in an unpredictable way.

The hermit's shack that had stood at the edge of the woods in the cove for twenty years is finally torn down in the early 2000s by a new Desolation Sound neighbour nicknamed Bernard the German.

After more than a decade of living way off the grid, the hermit Russell Letawsky returns to civilization.

Russell gets into a vicious fight in the notorious Lund Pub at the end of the road, the closest watering hole to Desolation Sound.

The Hermit Russell Letawsky constructed a tiny one room cabin to live in permanently along the shore of Desolation Sound with no modern conveniences, running water, or electricity.

Russell settled in a little cove beside host Grant Lawrence's family cabin. Russell would become an unlikely friend of Grant's staunchly conservative father.

Russell and Audrey hitched a ride on a barge from Toba Inlet, getting off on a beach in Desolation Sound that was recently purchased by Audrey's sister. The area would change Russell's life.

After a month of following only a map and compass from BC's interior, Russell Letawsky and his girlfriend Audrey manage to cross the Coast Mountain Range, which was an incredible accomplishment, but it was still a long way down to the ocean, and they were out of food and starving.

Russell Letawsky and his girlfriend Audrey embark on an epic hike of a lifetime, with the goal of crossing the jagged Coast Mountain Range, from the interior of BC to the ocean, using only a map and a compass, and without the help of any roads or trails – straight up, through the bush, into an area infamous for its landslides and seismic instability.

Something snapped in Russell Letawsky in downtown Toronto. He felt compelled to get out of the rat race, which led him on a winding road trip to the west.