Joe embarks on a solo winter camping trip by the Mississauga River in a tiny camper. Despite a rib injury, he spends his time exploring the snowy wilderness on a four-wheeler, tracking wolves and rabbits, and enjoying the comforts of a heated cabin. The trip emphasizes the balance between rugged outdoor exploration and the cozy tranquility of winter vehicle camping.
Hey guys, how are you? Joe here. We're heading up into the hills,
into the snow, got the tiny camper attached to the back of the truck,
we're going to go set it up for the night, have some fun.
In a little bit, got to get everything unattached,
we're going to put the trailer over by the river here,
got a nice supply of water,
but I'll move the trailer around with the four-wheeler
after I get everything off, it's much easier that way.
I busted up my ribs the other day, so I'll try to take it easy here.
It's
quite
a
bit,
let's
go
see
if
we
can
get
these
jacks
up.
So surprise surprise,
I've never used a jack before like for this instance.
That's locked there. It's not high enough
I need to take this up
more apparently
to go to that and then
that should hold
it sturdy, right?
That's off.
Let's see how level it
is. I just want to test
how level it is.
Yeah, it shakes a bit
That's for sure.
It's got to come up in the front
So what I'll do is jack it up again with the one that's attached
Stick the other one up higher
and get it under I think then that should be good
I was plowing my four-wheeler with the plow the other day
We got dumped on and I was backing up quick and I didn't see something
And I launched over the handlebars
and got myself in the ribs pretty pretty good.
Yes. Yeah, that's much better
Okay, cool. That's all squared away
Maybe I'll get in here organized
I haven't used this much since I got it
Camped in it one other time at Emerald
and her friends been playing in it, I found
Evidence of that today when I clean this out with a bunch of
of old candy wrappers and stuff.
I'm lucky the mice didn't get into it.
Emptied it out of a lot of the things
that the guy had in it, we got water from it.
Added some of my own and good supper tonight.
I got a stove, propane stove, we might use it outside.
I might
use it
in here,
I'm not
sure yet.
Not too far from the highway over here,
but I like it here because we got the river next to us.
Got a nice open spot, easy to get to
and I'm gonna take my four wheeler
and ride around another spot that's accessible from here
without having to go back in the truck.
So, all good.
Got my chair, we'll have a big fire tonight.
Cook up some good food, like I said.
We got everything plugged into here.
So the plan for today is, hang out, go four-wheeling,
and then come back tonight and cook up,
edit some videos and just live out here in the here,
in the, just live out here in the camper
and not rough it tonight.
We'll have all this electrical stuff,
we got a heat source, we got all this electrical stuff.
We got my laptop, like I said,
So everything's good, yeah, it'll be fun.
Still relatively early, I have plenty of time
even though it gets dark around five now, 5.30.
I guess this one
here, so it's all out
of the way.
I'll just be running down here to the table.
Revolution race baby, Ontario lady.
Seamstress
for the band.
Oh my god, it's
on the hot side
of the camper
in the sand.
As if I would've camped on a beach,
that I said that. How's it? How's it? How's it look?
Can you see me? I can put more lights in
here too, but it looks okay. It's pretty decent.
GoPro mount up there. Not too shabby. I'm just
going to relax in here and maybe take a little five minute snooze.
And then I'm going to get out,
go head out on the four wheeler. It's nice. Nice.
The necessities the automobile gave me this to
bring. Tons
of room.
Tons
of room.
So I've
been on the
trail for a
minute now
and there's
tons
of
tracks
these
look
like
coyote
and
mouse
all
the
way up
bunny
or
squirrel
rather
very
cool
i just came across
a couple cool things i'm out in the middle
of nowhere now i've been riding for
a minute check this out multiple canine tracks like
that's a pretty sizable one um and there's
no human prints around right so that's one side that's another
and that's relatively fresh so i
think that's wolf if i'm not mistaken like uh
that's way too big for coyote fox anything like
that and if it's somebody's dog
then they're frick there's no houses around here look at the size of
that that's a big paw man look
and then there's a squirrel tracks going in there but like yeah
i think uh that's wolf i could be pretty sure
that that's wolf wolf tracks he came over here
smelled something honestly look at the size of it
so wow that's a good one that's a good one
Pretty decent. I've been up this way before
but now I never went this specific way.
I'm going so it's kind of cool
seeing new stuff
Following a river or a stream here
It's pretty scenic as well
But man these tracks go like they go
and go and go and go and go I think
Now see I'll follow them for a bit see where it goes.
I was told there's
Grouse up this way, but I don't know it might be too late
in the year now or they may all be hunkered down
I'm not sure but it's cool just to be out
anyway wanted to explore this area anyway
and uh it'll be nice to go back to that tiny camper
in the sand fall hole
baby waterfall i really
do like this time of year
okay i'll get back with you
the tracks
just stopped
the track
stopped okay i
was looking at
the lake let's go
see where they
went look they're there one
went that way one guy cut
into here
this is so fresh i'm telling
you this must have just happened that must have scared them away
or something look it's so fresh
it's so fresh he went down he broke the ice right there look
at that oh this is crazy cool cool cool
so he walked out onto the ice here and he broke it
and he came up man he's right oh shoot okay
we don't want to do that but look there
then he took off over that way i i didn't even know there
was a lake here to be honest all right cool man
that's freaking awesome just how close it is you
know how how close on his trail i am just right
behind him very cool i think they split up i only
one track this way and i think i want another one
that way let's go see yeah there it is one
i drove over them but we should see where they go he tucks off
the trail they're there yeah
you went the same way look at boom boom boom boom down there
and then out that way so they're
sticking together definitely sticking together all right well
that's pretty cool man pretty cool
we'll go check this lake out
and see what that's all about well we're out at the lake won't be long
now before uh it's frozen up for the winter not yet
though checked out my gps i found out where i
am i'm gonna keep going up the trail
for a bit it seems like it peters out after
a while so we're
down the trail a little bit more
and i'll show you guys what i found it's just big bunny intersection
so i'm gonna walk around in the bush a little bit see
if i can't snag one but like it's pretty heavy
not as fresh as the other tracks
but pretty heavily used you can see them going all in
there and that's where you would set a snare
then left boom and all down there so many bunny tracks
cutting into the bush here and there anyway like
I say I'm gonna spend some time trying to grab one
who knows well much to my surprise
and excitement we've caught back up with the wolves
they ducked back in onto the trail not too far back
that way from the from the lake side um they
came in and they were on the trail for a minute
and then look he came over here and what did he
do here like seem like a a herd a mole or a vole
or something because why else would he be digging
that out like it's definitely the wolves
and then he came back over this way two sets of them again
and they were following the bunny tracks
but as soon as the wolf tracks showed back up the
bunny tracks seemed to have disappeared
so they're either walking on top of them or the bunnies got
wise and they took off but look it it
was bunny tracks forever now it's wolf again only this is
is so interesting it's very interesting perfect
day for it too it's not too cold keeps snowing
on and off we got a nice warm place to go back
to with some good food check it that's not too
far over there 100% see the trail oh boy
i would like a bunny just like mr wolf
trying to get my phone out of my pocket
so i can see what time it is no luck on the bunnies or the
gross i didn't even really see any gross tracks i don't think lots
of bunny tracks though but
anyways it seems like i've come to the end
of the trail uh it's at a river it does go through but
i'm not trying to get all wet right now it's three
o'clock okay that's not too bad 2:51 let me show
you trail comes down here
and it looks like it's picked up right over there but and it's not
actually it is not deep at all i could go through
it cool little spot though i'll look on my gps and
see. I'll check
the GPS out
and see where
the trail
goes. It's kind
of deep there.
Doesn't
look like this trail gets used much.
It's got some blow down. It gets tighter up here. So
I'm just going to turn around. Nothing too
interesting up here. We'll go back over the
creek. I didn't go back.
I ended up turning down
a different trail
and right down lakeside here. I
think this is still the same lake.
The snow is blowing sideways out there. I'm just going to
chill for five minutes
and then I'm going to head back. One bird.
I have plenty of food. It was a lot
of fun driving around and exploring that area.
And I'll certainly come back to that lake. Maybe
I'll be able to bring my side-by-side in and my canoe on top
or even my truck
maybe in the summertime
and I'm gonna look up here I have the map of the area
and see what type of fish
are in there I know there's fish in there because
there's fish in the smaller one I've
been in but not the proper bigger one so
anyways good little trip build
a small fire pit
and split up some firewood get
a fire going have a couple snacks
and relax and wait till a little bit later
to cook up supper in the summertime this spot is used
a lot by people just coming in car camping and
pulling their rvs up if you want to know where i
am i'm right next to the Mississauga river
on highway 29 across from little Lefoe creek
because of the amount of people that use this
area it's nice and flat there's rocks everywhere
for a fire pit there's not much firewood but i
did bring some and i can go across
and cut some too that's not an issue but i have my truck right
next to me why not right that's this type of camp
so and you're allowed to be here and nobody owns
it i guess the king does these days use this as like
a staging area like i'd love to come back
with somebody and show them
this area like camp out here maybe Doug me and Doug are supposed to do
uh an overlanding type thing out of the truck
so and i guess doug got a couple comments in on my
last couple videos but I threw him under
the bus I wasn't referring to Doug at
all I wasn't even referring
to anyone specifically and me and Doug have been
friends before this YouTube whole YouTube thing so I'm sorry if we got
lost in translation
but it's certainly not what I meant you guys should know I
love me some Dougie teach me how
to do you teach me everybody love her heart
okay
that's
probably
fine
right
there
what's wrong that
little rippling part
of the river there's
nice to fall asleep
sleep too if I can hear it over the top of my uh
my heater actually I might not even need the
electric heater once I'm in bed I'll probably shut it off
to be honest with you so it's not
on overnight I have plenty of a warm sleeping bag
and a blanket in there so oh I'm excited
I'm excited to sleep all right let's get some
of this split down get a fire going
busting we
finna see
if this is
busting or not
all right I got
my prep my wood
prepped
out here
firewood kindling super dry kindling I collected
some birch bark when I was out riding today
because again the resources in this area are probably pretty stripped
and I don't need to
take any more from this immediate area than it's already
been taken on my travels birch bark in
the old
pocket be a
good fire
most of this
is hardwood
balling out
of control
folks and you get
these
ribs taped up or something.
I could put a lot more stuff underneath the bed.
Got one of the little loafers there, you know.
Old dad, old Joe dad stuff.
Yeah man, I'm excited, this is gonna be fun.
Gonna be super comfortable in here.
Put up some stuff on the old cast iron
and gonna chill out, edit,
maybe even watch a movie, who knows.
You know, Tanooki Mario.
Fire is
rocking,
I got my
heater
turned
on,
I just turned it on now.
I'm going to close
this back up,
Let it warm up in there a touch.
Then maybe I'll tuck in there in a little bit and cook up supper.
Some dry socks
because
my boots
got
soaked on
that ride.
I'll leave my boots up here.
Well, oh no.
I dropped my pepperoni.
Got it.
All right.
All right, well, we're all set up here.
I've got to say it's pretty cozy.
Not too much room, but it's also comfortable.
So I've got a pepperoni going right now.
I've got a drink.
I think I'm going to do some editing,
and I will cook up my food soon.
But like I said, I got a snack going on
It's not too late
It's almost 6, so that's good
I don't have anywhere to be tomorrow
So I can sleep in, cook up a good breakfast
And just enjoy my time out here
I don't really ever do this type of thing
So it's all different
It's all new to me
How'd you guys like
that video
Of Tosh and I
I should get a drone, he's got a drone and I was able to use it
For a couple clips in that video
Seems like everybody, all the cool kids have one
No joke though
The only reason I I held back
was because you couldn't use it in provincial parks
But now I guess I'm not really camping in those too often.
Whereas before I always was I do sausage
potato
some onion garlic pepper
Maybe a couple other things I'm forgetting
but that's the gist of it Hakuna Matata a lot of potato
Alright, that's that
Bonus extras. What else we got?
what else we got to cut up we got
these Johnsonville Brats Johnsonville mild
Italian so I figure I would cut up
one or two for my meal pull it out of the
casing probably yeah like
that oh oh how it feels
so real
Lying here, no one near only,
and you can hear me,
and I say softly, slowly, hold
me closer and I can't hold you.
This is a super old Coleman propane
stove I've had for a very long time.
I believe I got it from my mother. I could be wrong about that though.
Boulevard is not that bad, you know.
get down up here all right let's see i'm gonna open
the window i think it's nice and toasty
in here now and i
don't want to get meat
stenched out quite
toasty up in here oh
oh yeah what else
we got
going on
here where
that oil
where
that oil go
the hot oil
chestnuts
all righty
time to
dig in, try it out oh
dropping food, mmm oh
the sausage is on
point temperature
and spice
Holy smokes. Let's have a pepper to calm down,
you know, calming down the yellow pepper. Mmm
I love the peppers man, cooked peppers,
you know, never used to be into it
No, holy smokes, you know how I live
without it super happy super good.
Very comfortable.
I could get used to this
Well dinner was super good
finished almost everything.
There's some sausage left,
but it would suck
I'm full. Anyway, I have freeze-dried
ice cream sandwiches crazy sounding it
Will made them, she cut them up into little pieces
Mmm, it's
so good
Mmm,
you
must
pay
the
rent
You must pay the rent
I can't
I'll pay the rent
You know, anyone else?
Anyone else or no?
Is that just my weird childhood?
The car's almost done,
I think I'm gonna head to bed soon
Nice
and cozy, eh?
Look how frickin' cozy, bud
Well, it's light out
Some ice
on the window
I slept okay last night
I was awake and asleep
a few times, but it's like 7, 7:30
I'm gonna get up soon cook some breakfast, bacon's done
My handy-dandy paper towels here,
you know nothing but the best so I'll put them in the bowl and
Try and degrease some of this bacon while I cook my eggs
Thanks, Tosh for the bacon looks delicious.
All right, that's that and that can sit while my eggs cook
not even frozen or nothing they're gonna have
to be a little broken up scrambly style just
because i don't have uh it's just cast iron you know
and it kind of sticks with the bacon
bits in there
but that's okay maybe we'll make a wrap oh i only need paper towels man
be awesome all right well i got
my eggs done all scrambled up
in here i'm not gonna put it on a
wrap i'm just going to throw my bacon back
in for a second warm it back up and then i'll eat
right out of the pan I'll just move
the pan off off the burner that's a nice
breakfast and I
also have an orange
and orange juice yeah
cool cool cool the
door open to have any kind of good light
in here just whatever I'm not too cold
anyway so we're
good mmm very
good very good I
slept in again
it's almost nine
o'clock now feeling really good I'm just gonna take
my time takes a little bit to
pack all this stuff back up
to but yeah pretty cool I just turned on my truck to
see the time and the temperature
and it's negative six right now so negative
six at like 9:30 in the morning means
it was probably roughly negative eight
or so last night who really knows
but I'm sure it was colder than negative six
so that's pretty good I haven't had
the heater on at all since yesterday when I
heat it up in general
or in the first place the stove probably did give off
some heat I'm sure that would make sense
it's propane right and I did get warmer
when I was
cooking clean up
easier oh this is
a fun little trip
come back here
this area in the summer to try
and get up into that uh that lake actually i might even be able
to ice fish it to be honest if you get there
in there it's a snowmobile but um i hope to i think
i might have to go get my ribs checked out uh it's not getting better
so we'll probably figure that
out and then the next trip will be a cool winter time trip
that i wanted to do that i originally
wanted this trip to be but anyway thanks
for watching guys i hope you enjoyed it i sure did
i'll see you soon on the next one