12 Hour Endurance Test - No Camping Gear - 48 Kilometers!

So I had momentary hope, you know? Doesn't look too bad, other than that bug on the screen. Didn't look too bad. Then you look behind me. It's just, that looks very, very bad. Trying to go, trying to go. Only like 10 more hours, you know? I'm just boiling up some water this morning for breakfast before I head out. It's 5:30. I'll make it out there by like 5:45 or 6. There's 16 hours of light in the day. And I think I can get done around 8 o'clock tonight. We'll see. It's very windy outside, I can hear it rustling like crazy But it's all going in my favor Hopefully that doesn't screw me over on the big lakes When I have to make a big water crossing Or whatever, but we'll be alright It's going to be a big push today But I'm excited, that's what I came here for I had a good night here at the Widgeon Lodge And it means meeting place It's a nice spot here, I had this whole cabin to myself And I feel energized And ready to freaking do it bud Just came outside and flipped my canoe Look at the size of this spider compared to my finger This is probably the biggest spider I've ever seen in the wild. That is a monster. Oh my god, he's big. Get out of here. Get out of here, dude. He's so big. That's a big spider. That's a good start, right? Buggy, buggy. Okay, it's two minutes to six and I'm on the water. So we're calling this a 6 a.m. departure time. Try to get out into the wind and away from these bugs. Today was supposed to be full sun. No chance of rain. it's not really looking like that right now so while the wind is out my back that's a good thing there's no blue sky over there and yeah being that that this was supposed to be no rainfall sun and that I was supposed to be gone in a day and going full very light I have no rain gear and no tarp so the weather can play the weather will play a big role on how today goes the wind just stays at my back and blows that'll be all right but I don't want a thunderstorm out here or potentially rain all day it's not warm enough for that with no protection I do have my wind shirt that is something but anyways we shall see starting off I'm not going to turn back I'm going to turn back already because of some weather man it's dark man it's dark dang here comes the rain just sprinkling right now but uh it sure looks like it's gonna come down i could turn around i'm not too far from the put-in but then that means i have to get a shuttle back to my car another two hours that way and i would not have done this thing so i think i'm just gonna keep on at it and go through the rain because i know i'll be done today but uh it could be a couple degrees warmer i wouldn't hate that but we're gonna do it this entrance to the park is all full of cottages and stuff i'm not in the park yet i've got a big paddle just to even reach its borders but we'll be out of these cottages and camps soon and be on some pristine pristine looking lakes at least it looks wild in there i love Killarney it's heavily used don't get me wrong there's a lot of people who visit there but mainly people stick to the access lakes or a few lakes in there's still places in there just like in Algonquin where you can go and not see anybody for days so i had momentary hope you know doesn't look too bad other than that bug on the screen didn't look too bad then you look behind me it's just that looks very very bad trying to go trying to go only like 10 more hours you know still no rain yet other than that sprinkle and uh crossing my fingers but anyway i've gone exactly one hour and i've traveled seven kilometers no portaging yet the seven kilometers an hour is a pretty decent clip i think i'm coming past the last two little shacks that are built uh because i think i'm in the park now yeah it's still very dark very dark back there i've done 12 kilometers in two hours i'm on my first portage it is buggy it is buggy way worse than the algonquin trip by far all right here we go college is a little overgrown i don't think many people access the park from here there wasn't even a portage sign not that it matters there's a portage sign on this side that's a good sign well with 12 kilometers down i only have 34 more to go i need to get on to a big lake these bugs are driving me crazy put my bug net on i guess oh boy all right on we go buggy joe well i just uh trolled through murray here and i got to the end and i was reeling it in because it's gonna get shallow something hit pretty good oh dirty old pike just a little guy it's not rock it's not rocketed back into the water nice and easy little dirty porcupine it's okay you don't have to shoot your quills at me bro no water you're good it looked like i might have been blessed here dodged a bullet with the rain we shall see this water is like five inches deep tops it's a slow go we're bottoming out now certainly hardest it's been today yet this is not a summertime trip this is a spring trip where the water's higher I might have to get out and pull the canoe opens up a little bit more so I can skirt through like this like this yes keep it short-lived I can see where it widens out up front it's maybe 300 meters it'd be hard to make in this it'll be probably knee-deep muck pulling the canoe and the shores are not really accessible without getting stuck in the mud oh boy yeah that's stinky that's very stinky come on come on you can do it it deepened out ever so slightly i'm holding the paddle as wide apart as i can has to make it just go super shallow it's not easy going but it's better than it was i can see the end though the end is in sight that's the main thing um that is no kind of beaver dam i've ever seen before what the heck is this thing a little blair witchy if you ask me i'm uh i don't know where i am i i'm supposed to be on a portage and i just saw no portage sign and through all this little beavery marshy area i've had to pull over a couple beaver dams i don't know i'm hoping that the sign is down here i also have to backtrack and that's not good for my Timing for today perhaps help you avoid trouble Onyx SOS is there for when trouble finds you Powered by Overwatch and Rescue they connect you with a serious emergency response team that can coordinate Rescue and evacuation if you have a serious emergency off-road You just open tools you tap SOS and your GPS coordinates are sent automatically and overwatch and rescue expert coordinates help Now hopefully you'll never need to use it But it's really good peace of mind to know that it's there if you do You can learn more at onxmaps.com, save 20% off your onX Offroad membership by using my code WOLF Or by clicking the link in the description Thanks guys Well, there's no portage sign here, but it looks like an opening I'm gonna try it out at least. Yeah, I think this is the portage It's got to be like nobody uses it. There's no signs of footprints. It's all super overgrown I don't think anybody comes through here, especially that low water was all dammed up probably changed in the last few years or whatever last 10 years even it even says on my Jeff's map that uh low water at the east end of Murray May make it impassable impassable to travel um especially later on in the year i figured it was spring still but spring still should be all right but that was about as shallow as she can get before you have to walk but like yeah this is this is not used uh just not looking like a trail too much anymore cool it was it was the right portage that's a safe for sore eyes after being in a creek for most of the day already we're going on just over four hours beautiful contours on this lake big hills perfect sky winds at my back out of the creek it didn't monsoon on me all as well i've seen many animals today already in that creek it was buggy but it was also full of animals i saw two sandhill cranes a porcupine right at the water i paddled up to them um a big snapping turtle real close a muskrat came up over the water real close to me sure there was a beavers and lots of fish yeah it was a cool cool experience nice morning i'm uh four hours 15 minutes into the day and I've done 21 kilometers so I think I could have done this in a total of about 10 hours and that'll be .7 kilometers portage and I need to stop for supper at some point and I'm making time up like crazy that wind is blowing pretty strong on my back it's poking out there are some dark clouds but it doesn't look half as bad as did earlier today and just like that back into the creek we're good we're good no beef no beef fish lake since it's called that also because i think this is the last lake i'm allowed to fish on for most of the day now um on my map on my map it says there's a fish sanctuary on Green Mountain and David i believe i can't remember which one but i know this is i know i'm not allowed to fish for a while on this trip if not before the rest of it so throw it in a little deep diver see what we get well fish lake produces just getting down the start paddling again i'm of brook's biggest one i've caught this year so or so all right that was fun fish lake got a fish i'm on a start to a portage i come up and look what i see pretty pretty old cabin hello with sterling old burrs pretty run down pretty ravaged probably pretty mousy i don't think i'm going in that one it's 10 to 1. we've got over 30 kilometers done well i'm on great mountain lake that's the lake that i had booked uh for a campsite just to have a campsite here and um i plan on eating my supper here until before i moved on but seeing as how it's 1 20 in the afternoon i don't think we'll be having supper pretty nice sight though quite windy if you want that in the spring for the bugs flat spots for your tent good water access i think I want to sit down here and have a drink of water, maybe I have a snack then head on to the biggest portage of the trip of the day 2700 meters just right there, right the big one 2700, it's a beautiful forest at least to start off with, see what I think at the end, big old hemlocks, a couple bugs you know, well seeing as how this lake is called Great Mountain Lake, I guess I can't be too surprised, I'm walking straight uphill on this portage, oh boy, slow going on the inclines that's for sure, well we certainly have climbed, I'm still climbing, there's a rock cairn showing the way up on this bedrock now, shield looking for the next cairn or something, there is a flagging tape right there, we up here looks like more rock cairns here, yep oh my calves are burning another one down there, I'm out onto David Lake now, it's a pretty lake, nice sky, probably be one of the biggest crossings I have today, it's three o'clock now, I started at six so that means this is hour nine and I've gone 39 kilometers already so I only have seven or so kilometers to go, I'm down a far ways on David and I got a series of a few portages and then I come out at Bell, it'll still be a little while but very pleased with my progress i'm much farther ahead than i thought i'd be and i don't even feel like stopping for supper i might depending but i doubt it i've been snacking i got jerky trail mix bars gum today turned out a heck of a lot better than it looked like at the beginning I can keep going I'm starting to slow down I can feel it but I can keep going it's one big beaver dam so we've gone from the far west point of Killarney and now we're close to the takeout in the far east I've noticed the portages have changed quite a bit there's boardwalks on some of these and uh the ones out there are a lot more rugged I'm almost at my takeout lake I'm losing my voice I'm almost at my takeout lake I think this is my last portage 20 to 5 I'm going for 10 and a half hours or so i've done 45 kilometers so i should be near the end once i get to the lake ducks everywhere i was wrong there's one more portage of 300 and then i think i'm at the car i think it portages into where i parked my car if i'm not mistaken which i have been mistaken once or twice in life you know once or twice it was right it's the first time for everything a lot more cars than yesterday when i dropped my truck off 5 30 i went for 11 and a half hours i did 48 kilometers i'm done that was a big day happy to do it i did an 11 and a half hours and i was able i could have done it in 16 i had 16 hours of light but yeah i blew through that pretty happy with that the worst black flies the whole trip other than this morning was just now at the car i brought in a bunch with me and i ripped it up a little bit but no big deal i'm off to go get supper probably wendy's because that's on the way and uh try to get rid of these black flies in my car hope you guys enjoyed this video i had a good time i like this type of thing but don't worry i will do a slow paced canoe trip very soon thank you for watching goodbye