I would think that either of your choices would be fine. I myself would go the hardened bushcrafter route.
BTW, that is some great country in the video link. Although I live in some of the best pacific rain forest / coastal mountain areas of the PNW, I still much prefer the wide open low mountain countryside like what is seen in the video.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock