BACKPACKING to a Waterfall, CAMPING at the Top, and RAFTING back on the River. FIRST PACKRAFT TRIP!!

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So we're over on the Toa Ob Trail. We're hiking today and we have a pretty cool trip. We're going to do a pack raft adventure on the way out. So we're hiking along the Agua River and we've done this before, maybe two, three years ago? Three, four. At least three. So anyways, we're going to hike to the end. We're going to camp at a waterfall, try and catch some salmon on the way. And then on the way out, we're pack raft the whole length of the river that we hiked along today to get out there. This is a first for both of us we just uh literally blew up the pack rafts last night for the first time messed around with them so we got them in our backpacks and uh yeah man I'm pretty excited yeah yeah stocking up on some water before we cut away from the stream until we hit the river oh she's a cold one dog oh man that is that's gonna be refreshing that's probably good you probably stop it now so i can conserve it okay yep you got it i think so then i says to mabel i says mabel where's hazel nice fall day no trees nice fall day no leaves on the trees but then you look right here it's full leaves and green still literally out of a sea of birch one has its leaves still well i am this hill this hill i i already know on either side yeah i remember remember there's a last time there was a uh a chicken halfway on the left-hand side it's a long swooping hill tell the folks what you mean by chicken a grouse grouse or a partridge oh maybe a spruce or a spruce or a spruce pen are you done yeah okay i think up here is better you think you want to do a safe way? a safe way maybe. here we are there's the river. we're gonna make our way down fill up our water bottles again maybe take a fiver. we kind of hoofed it pretty quick to get here because we're excited. only seven more kilometers? yeah it's like the worst seven though remember? i know but that's i was prepping for a lot more than that. it does it's not a not a long trail at all but it does get uh hilly quite hilly in the middle oh beauty yeah i'm gonna take five here yeah which i have to do some casting oh for sure for sure yeah good call tomorrow yeah that's moving hey yeah it is it's not bad we'll have to take the corners the bends pretty uh skillfully carefully oh that's perfect look at that this is gonna be a fun time dude okay doug caught a beauty fish let's go check it out These rocks are so slippery. My ass! Oh my butt's soaking wet. Dude. Hold it up. Beautiful man. Gorgeous. That was a big fish. My butt wet. Nice job. On the trail again. Paddles clanging together once again. Attention! escarpé et glissant just come strolling across you know black bear little black bear four-piece paddle yeah on account of their they're shorter another campsite we're coming across here i'm gonna drop my bag and go to the river and check it out this is gonna be so much fun to go down in the pack raft i think it's got enough uh depth to the water too and if not you just bounce off with the pack raft pretty cool pretty pretty cool pretty cool little spot nice camp again i'd be lying if i was saying the paddles aren't hitting any tree branches at all it's quite often but like doug just said we are skirting the river here and this is our good vantage point to look for obstacles widow makers what have you that may be man is that pretty or what that may be hindering us tomorrow blocking our our paddle out in our rafts but like it's moving quick and uh as far as we can see here it's pretty good to go and doug has left me douglas look at this trail back into the forest we go here's something kind of cool check this out so this is obviously a beaver chew right nobody chopped that with an axe and look how high it is though we don't have giant beavers we don't have giant beavers here so obviously what happened doug tell the people too close to the creekside camp oh god that was a comment there oh my um anyway so the real reason is because it was a winter beaver there was snow on the ground yeah i know the stumps were high but i didn't need the pieces below because they were all wampus i understand they weren't straight i hear you this is beauty man epic scenery in here let's stay in the middle in the middle lane it's shallow shallow shallow in the middle here i'm coming around this side oh look at down there oh dude that's what i'm saying oh yeah no i'm coming down that side for sure all right beauty campsite here some benches nice pool good water access oh yeah beautiful beauty well here's the tree where every canadian is born we all just come out of that i should dig that up i made you crawled right in there last time i did a tree look at that now that i'm a bark carver like bark is bark hey bark is barking and you can carve that up look at that tree you guys heard it here first bark is bark straight out of the carver's mouth. Oh, I think we might have talked about this last time too actually. Oh octopi Perfect tree. Oh shoot slippery The little grooves in there I got well, there's a funky smell you smell that it's a little wet slick 50 foot drop and plunge into the cold icy river yeah that's the ticket look at all this i just sheared right off those big rocks super cool well we're just coming up to our first spot where we think we might have to portage around tomorrow it's uh yeah yeah that's pretty rapidy down there you can't see most of it from here but she's a bit much i think much for me we'll go check it out but i imagine that'll be a portage but no big deal ah i don't know actually it doesn't look that bad we'll have to see what it looks like over past that rock but it really doesn't look too bad see around the other side of this rock it gets pretty dicey in there standing waves just with all the all the rock around i don't know we'll see we'll see tomorrow anyways back on the trail it looks exciting looks very exciting oh we're halfway up the hill how you feeling dougie oh good, we just gotta go up there where the sun is, just into the sun came from down there I drank all my water yeah, nowhere near the lake, the river now ah the bowl, oh man that's pretty vertical okay, look at that mushroom Monkey Town won't you take me to the Monkey Town I am the globgolobgolo use this opportunity to get some water here at this waterfall so we've been away from the river for quite some time now so that part will be a mystery tomorrow on the paddle out but it looks like we might be coming towards it again here so much moss here very thick depth yeah well we're on our ascent now sorry our descent we're going down and uh i can hear the river down here somewhere, we're going down once you go back up you can't go down again i think we'll be sliding down before it's over oh no lead the way Doug the billy goat. Oh my goodness. I'm not following suit, bud, no nothing. Have a good time. Oh We're almost down the steps of Mordor here. Oh, no. Oh, no, that was a big big climb down, Jiminy Christmas It's uh, you got to kind of pick your way along seven kilometers takes a while One spill you're not gonna get it. I'm sorry. I'm still light on my feet. Give me another ten years. Oh is this where we take five, Doug? Zone Two, B Two, Campsite One of two oh my goodness okay one more time here we go oh the river looks good from here we it's gonna be a mystery down that a ways but it's awesome i wonder what way it comes from that way or that way we brought our life jackets this time packing them in necessity i'll be wearing mine um i'm excited man this is something i've done before and i've wanted to do for a long time so the wraps that we're using are by Coco Pell i have the robe the road i believe i'm looking oh no i'm good thanks that's uh that's the problem with these things you need to borrow a filter okay i uh yeah but you have how long have you had that for this year i buy one every year i buy three a year i don't think that pinhole has ever been that big on mine where's the fire not there because you just doused it with your water so it's the road you have the rope I have the I don't know but mine is for lake duty not rapids so we shall destroy it tomorrow it was terrible that was unintentional they're all situated well a very nice spot for lunch as we leave zone two oh look at that little tent spot right there this is really cool check this out so this is yellow birch growing there's a secondary shoot growing down at the ground then grows right inside of the tree symbiosis or not because they're the same thing well if you watched our last video here you'll know there's some trees out here over top of the river i think too low to the the water to start underneath them so this is gonna have to yeah there's three or this is gonna have to be a portage i think but we'll see maybe i don't know i wasn't really pointing it up so this is the spot where we're gonna have to pull out there's no way the water is too high that looks like a death trap yeah no good no good man the funnest part of the river too so i think our camp was just up around the corner so i think we'll probably end up carrying it just put in here we'll be putting in right in that yeah see if i'm right but I believe we camped just up around the corner caution because we have zero experience with the uh the rafts that's right so no time to be a dummy so there's a possibility of going to the right uh in another fork another channel around those uh trees so we'll see how it goes tomorrow if we're camped close to here that we think we might be we might just hike down and put in past that stuff because the other side looked very shallow too there wasn't trees down but it was almost like you're gonna be slogging through it so we'll see where we end up camping tonight we don't really remember exactly how far down but Doug thinks it's pretty close he's been right for most of the nonsense today so I'll listen to him on this one we're just approaching our last campsite the campsite we stayed at three or so years ago when Doug and I hiked out here yeah oh look that's where I had my that's where I slept last time right where that puddle is yeah the sweat baby look at that Paul's oh yeah oh just a little brookie guy a little tiny baby there he goes that was an equal fish to yours for sure so we're gonna put in just after this little rock garden and we'll get a bunch of that fun rapid stuff I'm really looking forward to it have I mentioned that well that was that was fun pulled out a little brookie had another one on doug had a couple on and uh yeah now we're gonna go up this big incline and i'm gonna regret putting my long sleeve shirt on we're gonna hike up to the top of the waterfall camp up there very very slippery this is very very slippery sorry lots of inclines lots of climbing a little hurts pounding come on santa oh buddy if that doesn't get the heart pumping i don't know man big old waterfall huge drop still hiking screen's gonna get all wet from the mist down the river we go all right here we are much nicer camp than down at the bottom of the the falls where we stayed last year or the last time there's some flat real estate which is very uh very nice it's loud here there our camp is made Oh, I hurt the old bum bum on that one. You're all fancy. Zero, it'll be a five. It's going to be nine degrees. It's going to be nine degrees tonight. It doesn't even feel like it's nine degrees right now. Oh, this is a slick setup. Shoom, Doug's shoom. So you did end up trimming a foot off of the awning here, yeah? It used to come down above here, but I couldn't sit up in it. right I mean I don't need extra coverage no you're in there you're in there that's pretty cool man I gotta say it went up pretty quick too guess a taste guess a taste oh yeah look at you Hobbit Doug no not for the video we're on the quest for water but it's we're at the top of a waterfall here it's it's it's moving pretty good please be careful into the line folks surprise for myself Because you probably care, but I got cheese. Oh, boy. Got a little slice of cheese. Pop, pop. Let that melt in there, and I'll eat in about five minutes. Wow. I'm a hungry boy. All right. What time is it? I got to tell you. Doug's having a little issues with his rehydration process. Lasagna's hard. Nobody likes hard lasagna noodles. Well, we're just hanging out by the fire. It's almost bedtime. We're just going to stoke it up one more time. It's getting enough. One more time. One more time, let's get a little chilly, a little, a little on the chilly side. Joe's gonna pair us tonight. Doug thinks I'm gonna not make it through the night. Oh, it's very wet. The uh, yeah, everything's very, very wet. So I draped a tarp over top of the sleeping bag, but it's so damp and cold. Isn't it? That waterfall is not your friend. Making everything damp and cold. Stay away from the waterfall folks. Don't go chasing them. Oh, this is not great. uh we're in bed though so good night pack rafting in the morning well that was one of the worst nights sleep i've ever had in my life how about you doug top two he says only second to the bivy of wet not goodness last time so uh yeah pretty cold um i didn't get wet i had to take that tarp off because like doug said the condensation got trapped in between and i was getting soaked but after i took that off it wasn't too wet doesn't change the fact that i slept like piss uh it's like 8 30 now um it's we're not ready to get in these rafts are we not at all there's a big old mist over the water i was like constantly like doing the worm last night trying to warm up oh my goodness okay stupid worm all night what did you do all night listen listen to podcasts it's damp it's damp cold like i would rather we would have been in better shape in the middle of winter yeah dry yeah like it is so wet like you can't it's never gonna come across but it's just It's just misty, cold. He ain't lyin', he ain't lyin'. All right, let's get up. I'll show you the fog over the water and start to deal with our day. All right, after much debate, we found a good spot to put in. We think it's a good spot at least. So it's kinda cramped in here. Doug's down the way there. But we're gonna get our pack rafts out and blown up here. Take some doing. Tied it together with the jam knot. Canadian jam knot at that. So inflating these things might take a little finessing, getting used to it but basically this is the gist of it once you get a large amount of air in the bag tends to go pretty quick but the valve you got to keep at the end you got to close it and finish it off by the mouth finish it off with your mouth a moment of truth you ready Doug same here bud it spins oh man it's very very spinny did I mention it spins oh this spins come on it's spinny We're about to go. How do you feel? Tied down, not far at all, not even. Here we are into it. I hope you can see something over top of my backpack. If not, I'll try to fix it here next time we stop, if we get to stop. There's some rocks, quite a bit of rocks. Okay, this is great fun already. That was great. And it wasn't even anything, right? Like that was just a little bit of moving water, but these boats are the most responsive things going. Look at that. I think Doug's liking it too. We're gonna get up here to some shallow stuff. so who knows if we have to get out or not I certainly don't want to ding up the bottom of the boat but it is pretty durable pretty tough well we came to a shallow spot gonna have to walk it a little bit here no big deal it's pretty smooth sailing I think here oh here we go some rapids here's some rapids yeah buddy bumpity bumpity bumpity bump like I can wait till the last second where that rock is I can just wait and be like this is a lot of fun dude it's looking pretty shallow up here Doug and I are just gonna kind of scout it well scout it from this side you know what I'm just going I'm just going don't look scratched up this is fine actually this is so much fun I'm definitely doing this again I can see this packraft becoming part of the old Arsenal pretty pretty awesome view I'm joking I'm joking I'm joking I'm joking I'm joking I'm joking I was He's joking! 15 times! Doug might be real mad with me, I'm not sure. He held up around the corner to let me go first to see if it was safe to come around the bend or if there was a waterfall, and I yell back, bail, bail, and he starts to go, I go, no, I'm joking, right away, I scream, I'm joking, like 15 times, and he doesn't hear me, he jumps out of his boat, he's way back there, I think he's pissed. I yelled, I was joking, literally a microsecond after I yelled bail. busted out i've been able to hear me, ----, you good? I was over here just like crying laughing so hard no no i told them but i was like doug might be mad with me i'm not sure like wasn't this cool there's doug coming walking his boat he's not angry with me at least he says he's not this is so cool i freaking love this thing coco pelly for the win what a gorgeous area Gorgeous day gorgeous George. All right, so we got to check this out This is a spot yesterday that we thought I might have had to portage around Let me go scope it out and see I feel pretty confident in this thing But just want to double triple check that it's all good. All right, I scoped it out. I really don't know I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it because I really want to so let's see how she goes This is sketchy, but this is what we're here for. This is gonna be the most whitewater I've ever run Oh, no, I've done more in California. We're gonna be okay. We're gonna be fine nope nope too much at the end there watch can I go this way what no why chickened out chickened out at the last minute wow that almost pulled me right wow I'm sure I glad I pulled out at the last minute there that yeah I even just kind of went next to it at the bottom and it was sucking me in and under that was a lot of turbulence okay maybe next time Oh Joe at least I didn't have to portage a little wet a little wet on that one oh my butt is so wet I have a wet buttocks this is a nice little quick moving swift going around the uh around the bend here i think doug's gonna take the shallow side and kind of walk i'm just gonna go through again because this raft is much more durable oh yeah there's some moving water here boy and girl singular this is a little this is totally fine doug should have came this way totally fine sideways nice maneuvers yep that's it that's the out what a good time that's all she wrote that's it yeah yeah i had a lot of fun too what do you think doug all right for the video right here we only got a little 20-minute hike out you don't have to do that and uh that was a good trip all in all the end made made up for it definitely made up for freezing our bare butts off last night to be fair i'm soaked to the bone can't wait to change the clothes in the truck yeah but i'm not cold i am cold i'm not cold and wet it was fun it was a lot of fun i'm glad we did that i'm looking forward like i said 18 times already this is a lake pack this is not made for this but i'm looking forward to just having it available when i'm out tooting around even just to go at home just down the river just to have just when you're tooting around that's it well you have fun the last couple hours made up for the whole trip that was amazing it was a lot of fun that was so much fun i'm definitely doing this again i'm going to look for other spots to do this with this thing's held up awesome and I can carry it which was surprised to me so this is our first time in one a little apprehensive at first but knocked her out of the park and felt very comfortable about five seconds in so very safe yeah all right we're gonna call it here 20 minutes hike to the car then change the clothes in the long long drive so we'll see you guys on the next one thanks to Doug for coming and hanging out