REVENGE ON THE RIVER! Attempting to Canoe Through the Rapid I fell in Tarp attached to Truck Camping

I see Tosh's truck, so that's a good start. We're going to meet up with Toshy boy and go conquer that river that I spilled in. Oh, there he is. What's up? How's it going? Awesome, how are you? I'm all right. We're gonna go not fall in the river. We'll try not to. Perfect. You good, buddy? Yeah. Nice. All right, I'm gonna turn around. I'll follow you. All right. So since we've got two vehicles, two canoes, doing a linear trip. Tosh is driving behind me. We're going to drive to the takeout spot where we're going to finish our trip in a couple days and we're going to leave my vehicle there. We'll switch out the canoe and all the gear. We'll check out this cool waterfall that's there and we'll leave my car there. We'll hop in Tosh's and drive up another hour however long it may be to get there. Leave his vehicle there at the put in and then start our trip. I've got a different boat a little bit better for white water i still haven't got my white water boat yet but i will be personally portaging anything i don't feel very confident in running and then uh in a week i have my my course so that everything will be a-okay it should be a-okay so anyways on to the trip okay we good all right Tash see you sometime bud it's uh it's moving so I can't wait for him it's just gonna we'll have to catch back up down here in a little eddy or something all right feeling good had a few people ask me if I'd be worried about getting back in a river after that know exactly the opposite I want to get back in as soon as possible get back on that bike so that's what we're doing and this time with a buddy so even better it's moving nice little sandy gravel bank jack pines everywhere like it's hard to even explain how clear the water is here i'll show you do it red tail hawk right there boom just like that it's been a while since i saw one of those guys saw them in southern ontario all the time freaking getting a sunburn here and there's snow oh it's rocks big old hill in the front down the river still put away the big camera not too long ago because i anticipate some rapids coming up you go as graceful as a gazelle this is that side trip i wanted to do up the secondary river um but as you can see it's still flowing i'm not moving anywhere i'm paddling and i'm getting pushed back yeah so we're not going to with Tosh's messed up knee we're not going to hike along the sides so we're just going to finish the river and then again this will have to be a secondary uh come back and do a secondary trip up here what i don't know what he's saying if you got a fish but anyways we'll come back and uh and do this part of the river maybe in the summertime i gotta go see what he's saying well we just pulled over have a little snack uh on this little gravel bank while we had the chance to packing away all of our stuff because we know there's some rapids coming up so this is what i've got got my extra paddle lashed in my pack is attached to my boat got my tow rope safety kit this is my day bag that's going to be attached in the front here as soon as we start going my paddle is going to be attached or sorry my my uh fishing pole will be attached i've got my life jacket on no dry suit uh just it's we'd probably be soaking in sweat if we had them on today but um anyways there's two of us we have changes of clothes we've got in reach everything's good so even if we dunk which hopefully we don't everything will be fine um but i still will uh portage what i don't feel comfortable paddling through good boy oh man that looks intense yeah bigger than i thought it was he says y'all sitting on the edge right now it looks bad to me man looks bad to me i know i can't yeah because it's so long it goes down quite a ways it keeps going yeah it's got me second guessing it if you make a mistake up here get a long swim yeah you're riding it down yeah yeah don't take a look further down though yep hey tosh is manning up he's doing it we're gonna film him this is one of the sketchier spots in my opinion he doesn't seem to think it's so bad and that's good i'm glad to hear that i'm glad to hear that it's just my inexperience and this isn't even the one i dunked on i hope he doesn't get i hope he doesn't dunk i really hope so he's trying to go slow he says there he is right there that's the worst of it he's passed so i'm gonna go down and try and catch up with him there's pooling in my butt i'm a whole undercarriage that was fun though i was kind of i i almost bailed twice you saw that not not fell but almost took out yeah i thought you weren't gonna, yeah well when you said don't do it I was like I don't know, right right right, more or less I just didn't want to make a call, you don't want to be responsible, I got you, I got you, exactly well it's pretty hungry so what's up, we're going this is the Zpacks duo med duplex duplex the two-person version of your tent and mine will be, what do you know what it's called, yours is the Soloplex? Maybe. Googleplex? Suplex? Anyways it's carbon fiber. So this is the two-man and I have the single, the one-man version of it. I haven't even opened it yet but I like like looking at Tasha's, I'm very very very interested in it. Cubic fiber, very lightweight. What is it under a pound or something? This one is I think just over like a couple ounces. I have to bust mine out soon enough because the bug season is right around the corner. We're on borrowed time. So again Tasha's set up I'm going to go in between this pine and this spruce and set up the old hammock. No tarp tonight. I think I am about as hungry as a little boy could be. Burn the future. It's enough to bring steak and potatoes for supper tonight and I will do bacon and eggs in the morning. That's right. I can sleep in. Well, supper was real good. Thanks again to Tosh for bringing those steaks and potatoes and stuff. It's amazing. I just hiked down a little bit of ways from the camp. Tosh is back there with Cooper. there's a nice rock wall here it's a little congested but i thought i might come down and take a couple casts here and see it's almost nine o'clock we ran oh rudely interrupted me that uh we ran some rapids today tosh way more than i did but i ran more than i did the first time we haven't come to the spot where i bailed yet last uh on the last trip we haven't come to the spot where i fell in so we're gonna see tomorrow how that goes with the boat that I do have that I'm using today is way better for the whitewater it's it's handling it better and I'm able to kind of gauge off where Tosh is going to help myself out a little bit again don't have much experience so two days after I get back from this trip though I will be on my five-day whitewater canoe course where I will get experience I just chilled out by the fire for a while and it's almost 10 we're tired so good night sweet dreams and we'll see you in the morning good Good morning, I had a great night's sleep. It's roughly seven. Tosh and Cooper are up right now, cooking up some bacon. We're gonna have a good start to the day. It's a different type of day than yesterday, as you can tell. It's very cloudy, it seems like rain. So if we were gonna tip in the rapids, yesterday probably would've been the day to do it, but we're just not going to do that. Anyway, so we'll do all right. Bacon's done, put the eggs. You want yours on a wrap? I got two wraps, you want yours on a wrap? Is it a breakfast wrap thing or? Cheese on this too, cheese on this. Pulling these bad boys up. The cameras have been put away, everything's getting strapped down. We got rapids just around the corner, just over yonder. So the first set I ran last time, the second set around the bend is when I bailed. So my goal for today, if I feel safe enough, if I feel confident enough is to run that set of rapids, Then I will have revenge on the river and everything will be right in Joe's world. But we'll see. There's three sets. There's the first I ran, the second I bailed on, and then there's one right behind it. And then there's a break and then there's a set and then there's an actual waterfall. So we'll definitely be sure to stop at the waterfall and show you guys everything. We on the water. It was an interesting, interesting put in. Got my heart pumping already. Oh man, I really don't want to go swimming today. Yes, those are bad waves. All right, Tosh and I just scoped out the rapid. What do you think? I think it's doable. What do you think about the spot where I fell in? I wouldn't want to swim what you swam through. Thank you for putting it nicely. Yeah. I fell in in a spot where I shouldn't have fallen in. But anyways, this is it right here and we're going to run it. Tosh is going to go first, so it's all on him. There we go. It's still like really quick. All right, buds. Little canoe tap too. Oh, hell yeah, man. I'm like, I got a buzz, man. You want to go fish? I guess it's pretty shallow anyway. yeah me too it's all sand eh buddy dude my i had to follow you i wouldn't hit it my um my front of my canoe i'm not joking i was like at a 45 degree portaging around portaging around the waterfall right now um it's substantial small for a waterfall size but certainly can't go down it in the boat so well at the bottom it's a pretty nice little chill spot so i think we're going to take a little lunch break there do some fishing and chill out yo there's tosh Tosh and Cooper Real it's like a metallic blue Picturesque in here I'm having a great time this is a great day a great trip now look what i just found poor guy this is probably the third one of these fourth one i found okay we're gonna get out of here getting everything poor guy or girl there's so who knows though who knows these days our lunch break is over we're back on the river just leaving now this turkey vulture is circling this moose so you just know he can smell that from a mile away those guys are scavengers for carrion and other words that make me sound like i know things so anyways we're going to continue on on this great paddle adventure well i think we're past most of the white water for the most part at least sorry i just peeled off my protective coating that's been on there for a hot minute anyway um yeah just sitting in this really cool area there's like a dome half dome freaking rock in front just nice day chilling out so not sure what's gonna happen today see how far we get but like i said i think the white water is done for the most part and we conquered the river i ran way more than i did the other time i ran everything that i felt comfortable doing and some that i didn't feel i was kind of apprehensive about but it all worked out um you know what i want to do i want to buy a whitewater kayak as well like just a stubby kayak a creek boat or something and come up in here because it's only a couple hours from my house come up here and spend some time practicing and learning like i could take my my bike and and that that kayak and and my truck and shuttle myself back and forth and do runs of the white water and work myself up to the to the big ones that tossed it but who knows maybe at this uh whitewater canoe course i will end up buying a kayak if they have a used one for sale or something but i think that's what i'll do um just to learn i really like this stuff it's fun it's very um engaging there's a lot of adrenaline it's the most fun i've had in a boat in a long time and look at the scenery you can't beat it birds are singing got this guy over here it's gorgeous gorgeous it's huge massive sandbank there Swift's here, we've come past a couple recently, it was a surprise but i like it, it's a welcome surprise gets us moving a little bit quicker, a little bit of movement in the water is never a bad thing, oh it just keeps getting bigger i was just looking at my camera i couldn't tell it's rugged been paddling all day we started around eight in the morning, it's four now we just looked looked on the map and we think we're like less than an hour away from the takeout where we put left uh my truck yesterday so we planned two nights for this trip but we really did it in one night in two full days so instead of bailing and going home we're going to get out to the truck and drive back to Toshi's truck and we're going to camp out up we're going to drive down and find a cool spot and camp out in some crown land next to the trucks tonight we'll uh definitely take you along with us this event the weather has been everything today it's sunny right now i can feel it all i got a sunburn on my arms the difference we're not trying to show off like it's just just a sunburn i don't want to embarrass anybody with these freaking pythons but yeah it's been a great trip man good company super happy to have run those rapids and conquered the river we're just gonna haul ass now, get out and set up camp on a comfortable flat area. I'll probably go to sleep on the ground tonight. This is the end of our paddling. There's a huge waterfall just that way with a bridge there, but it seemed like a safer takeout right here. I think so. I think so. I think this was the better option. Yeah. Let's not mess up the trip at the end. Flip in the last hundred yards. So I'm hiking down a couple of roads right now to get back over to my truck then I'm gonna drive back down and pick up Tosh and Cooper load the canoes on top and then head out to his truck and camp out again tonight man I know I said it already but holy smokes I'm happy really really happy about this trip everything went swimmingly and I didn't go swimming find somewhere to sleep? All right. So we're driving down this little path. It used to be a used to be a trail. Now I think it's downgraded to a path. Trying to find a spot to camp for the night. Trying to make our way down to the river and find a good spot. I think I might have lost Tosh back here. Back there. Let's see. We're at the river. No. Oh, that didn't pan. This looks great to me. I'm happy here, man. Sold. This is already over the view here. This is, yeah, I love this. What's that? See what's up there? I know what's up there. It's a dead end. I've been up here a bunch of times. Okay. This is slicker over here, I think. Okay. Yeah. It's a nice view over the river. It's awesome. Okay. Hopefully you don't need water. Destinations. There's the puppers. We should be able to scrounge up some wood. Tosh is going to get this bad boy going. It's going to take much to light that up. Northern fire. Look at this fat wood we found. Other than I was in the general area. He's so humble, Tosh. Yeah, I was gonna make up some good fire, some orangey flames. Hey, I think he's gonna roll off the edge of that ******* He's gonna go man. He's going cutting it close big guy. Hey Coop. Mm-hmm. No problem. He's gone. He's got the same one He had, come on good boy Beautiful night, the peepers are out. Fire's going nice. You find ----. Oh, wait a minute Stole a chair, pushed me off. He was like, you know, get off this chair getting ready for bed here. You might be able to hear the thunder in the distance. It's been thundering and lightning on and off. I'm happy I set up this tarp for sure. There you go. The rain is starting to hit the tarp. That will make me fall asleep very quick. Perfect time for this great trip. Nothing I like more than sleeping under a tarp in the rain knowing I'm nice and protected and you know what I don't even have to get up and do anything tomorrow except for drive home So it's pretty slick.