Canoe Unicycling??? | Canoe Flip Challenge

What is going on guys? It's Alex here with Northern Scavenger and we have a fun video for you today. Some of you may be familiar with the Canoe Flip Challenge that's currently going on. A great little challenge that has been made to raise money for Project Canoe. For those of you who don't know who Project Canoe is, they're an outstanding organization that focuses on taking at-risk youth or youth who wouldn't have otherwise had an opportunity to get into the backcountry, into the backcountry. Some of you may be familiar with it. Noah and I did the Meanest Link route a couple years ago and we raised money for Project Canoe on that challenge. We tried to do the Meanest Link in under 10 days. It's an organization that we're definitely familiar with and any opportunity for us to have another opportunity to support them is an opportunity that we're going to take. Now this Canoe Flipping Challenge, for those of you who are unaware of what it is, essentially the challenge is to flip a canoe over your head as many times as you can in 60 seconds safely and then to make a $1 donation for every flip that you're able to do over your head. The other option is to be as creative as you can and so I've decided that I'd like to be a little bit more creative in this one because I've seen some great videos out there, some other great creators who are coming up with all sorts of fun ways to do this challenge and so I've decided that the way I'm going to one-up this today is I'm going to see how far I can ride with this canoe on my head while on a unicycle. So I haven't done much unicycling at all lately so I think just getting on this thing is going to be interesting. I think it's like riding a bike but I don't know that for sure. So in order to tie this to a donation what I've decided is that I'm going to hop on this unicycle, throw this canoe over my head, I might actually put the canoe on first and then hop on the unicycle. I'm going to give myself three attempts to see how far I can ride and whatever my longest distance is I'm going to donate $1 for every foot that I'm able to ride this unicycle and I'm going to see how far I'm able to go. If I don't make it that far on any of my three attempts then I might just have to add them all together just to make my donation worthwhile. So anyways, without further ado, time to hop on this unicycle and see how far we can go. Alright, attempt number one. Yeah, excellent. I feel like I'm playing road hockey but I don't know what you call this sport. Oh, he just pulled in and yep, that's good. Ready? Hang on, I'm going to, yep. I feel like this is going to be a good one. Yep. Oh, we got some momentum. That was pretty good. Time to measure it out in the old Canadian fashion. This is a 16 foot canoe. Let's see how many feet this is. That's 16... 32... 48... 64... Alright. 64 and a bit. Like 70 feet. Woo! Alright, so I think that that ended up going pretty well. I didn't think I'd make it as far as I did. I was a little nervous, but we pulled it off. So, it looks like on my first attempt I rode about a foot, attempt number two was about 10 feet, and my third attempt I made it 70. So I think we'll put those together for an $80 donation that I will be sending to Project Canoe. In terms of nominating people, I think most of our friends have already done this challenge. So, in that case, I challenge the viewers to either do this challenge or to look up Project Canoe, learn a little bit more about their organization. If you can afford to make a donation right now, I know that they would greatly appreciate it. And we would definitely appreciate that as well. And just make sure that when you are making donations to tag hashtag CanoeFlipChallenge in the comments section on their website so that they're able to trace back how much money was able to be raised by this fun little challenge. So, thank you very much for following along and we'll see you guys on the next one.