A series of events in the late 1960s and early 70s began to change Russell Letawsky from businessman to bushman.

Long before the future West Coast bushman found Desolation Sound, he grew up a farm boy in a small prairie town in Northern Alberta, surrounded siblings. He became a junvenile delinquent and car thief before leaving town to find his fortune. 

Host Grant Lawrence was only 11-years-old when he and his family came face to face with the Hermit of Desolation Sound. Little did any of them know how much of an impact this grizzled bushman would have on their family.

Hermit of Desolation Sound is Grant Lawrence's latest true life adventure series, starring Russell Letawsky, the hermit philosopher who lived off the grid in a dank shack on West Coast of Canada for over a decade.