Listen to the Rain

From what I remember, the amount of large animals around goes way down as you go on, and if you hunt a lot you're less likely to find food.

I may have just gotten lucky again, but I never ran into that. Even almost all the way to Oregon I could still pull in hundreds of pounds of food with a week of hunting from all the bears I shot.

Fording really is for ultra-shallow conditions

I assumed that 3.6 feet would qualify, but I was wrong. After that, I just floated or took the ferry everywhere.