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When last we saw her, Rose Anna Moore of Wellsboro was in her 19th day of her challenge surviving by herself in the Canadian wilderness as a participant in the History Channel series "Alone."
She next appeared in this past Thursday's episode, having reached Day 26. At this point, only five of the original 10 people remain in the challenge, and Moore is one of them.
On this day, she just had the most restless night of sleep thus far, with a "brutal" wind penetrating her doorless shelter. The wind is a good indicator of what's to come with winter approaching, she says.
She sets about making a door to batten up her shelter.
As she works, she thinks about life back home and how her life has changed. Four years earlier, Moore says, her store was broken into and she lost a lot, her marriage ended and her son went off to college.
Everything she knew stopped.
Initially, she did not know what she was going to do, she tells the camera, but she is "very purpose driven."
She started doing what she loved and began a "quest" to teach the next generation hunting and hide tanning and why it's beneficial for the environment, she says.
She completes the door for her shelter and talks about being on "Alone," where the goal is to outlast all other participants in total isolation, doing all of the filming themselves while simultaneoulsy building shelter, making fire and scavenging and hunting for food. And fending off grizzly bears, which seem to make their way into campsite after campsite along Chilko Lake in British Columbia, Canada, from day to day.
Between real dangers such as predators, starvation and other health threats, it's a matter of time until each participant taps out and exits the challenge.
But so far, so good for Moore.
"I can do this," she sayd. "There's no reason that I can't."
"Alone" airs at 9:30 p.m. Thursdays on the History Channel. Watch for future updates on how Moore does in the Sun-Gazette's Outdoors section.