3 DAYS ALONE ON THE RIVER PART 2- Huge Cliffs, Running Rapids and Paddling Out to my Family.

This is going to be an adventure. I've never done a river trip where I have to run rapids, and I've never done a river trip solo. Very shallow here. Okay. Learned something there. I've been watching my channel for a while. You understand that I go on these long, extended trips in the summertime, and when I go away, self-care is kind of at the bottom of the barrel, right? 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We're headed down there today. It must have got cold last night. Check out the sand is frozen. Can't even make a footprint in the sand. next to the wolfies. A little soup, eat as well. Another day on the river. supposed to get pretty warm today, probably around 50 or 60 degrees. cold though. eat this up, enjoy my fire. a nice scene, sun's coming in from the side. Actually where I am is the darkest spot. There's some sun on that side, some sun down there. so we'll break down camp soon, get in the water. rapids right there, rapids probably nothing worse than I've already come across but at some point today it's gonna be the biggest rapid on this trip and I don't know if I'll portage it or portage it or run it we'll see hopefully run it in the boat and pretty cold my toes are numb so we got to get out into the sun hopefully warm our bones, good campsite really good campsite awesome beach flat enough lay my tent, that's all I needed, really happy with it and excited to see what this day brings as well Mr. Sun, Sun, where the heck you go hiding behind them trees? This little canoeist is asking you please come out so you can warm my bones. Okay, attention, yeah that was the best one, oh yeah I just threw the GoPro up at the last seconds, so it moved around my bad, all right, warming up I just hopped out of the just hopped out of the canoe to walk around a little bit to try and warm my feet up, the Sun is warming the rest of my body up and I'm sure my feet will come along shortly, just ran a bunch more rapids I'm getting the hang of it but again oh I see some more up there but again, I sound like a broken record, I know that these are not anything but I cannot control that I didn't know but that's all right, it's good for me to learn on, and in there, there's more up there, I I'm gonna leave the big camera out this time, hopefully everything stays copacetic, so yesterday when I said this river would not be paddleable in the summer, that was wrong, it was just some parts of it, you have to do a lot of portaging or wading, pulling, lining but most of it, after the first like half of the day not even maybe first two out three hours yesterday, then it got better because this is a legit river, like it's shallow but still probably ten feet where I am right now so it's definitely paddleable in the summertime and maybe more fish will be active I haven't been trying to fish here and there haven't really got too many bites other than that little pike yesterday, but uh, anyway beautiful area, beautiful area for a beginner like me to be here and learn my learn the ropes especially alone beauty morning, lots more of a flow today that they want to make some distance today trying to hit some highlights see how this white water goes up ahead with this camera tip it's a little tippy that tripod on there nice view rapids right there pretty such beautiful terrain out here it looks to be quite an amount of ice in the forest so let's go check it out oh man that's kind of cool this is pretty wild I'm glad I pulled over problem much more confident I think there might be a carcass over here I turned the bend and a bald eagle flew up and then about six turkey vultures flew up and they're all in this hump of something over here this they started out on this hump of something over here it looks to be a dead moose we're gonna go check it out butterflies are into it too he just knows right off I'm downwind okay we're out of here wonder what that poor old guy succumbed to falling through the ice could have been just old age too i suppose it's pretty big and old old looking but who knows um sure it wasn't wolves because it was still intact anyway such is life and the end of life it's crazy it's cool it's cool about a river you never know what's going to be around the next bend honestly i have no clue like uh bear dead moose i saw something else too i could swear it was a bear but it was too far away to see could have been an otter I guess but tons of birds crazy scenery love this of this kind of trip let's stop for lunch soon it's afternoon it's after 12 12 30 or 1 now bald eagle I spooked away from the the moose I've changed directions in the river It is stronger here though, so that's good than yesterday, but it's all against the wind all the time, as you can tell from this hole. So the long... All my stuff here, dry clothes, there's firewood around, there's driftwood everywhere. All my stuff's here. My adrenaline's through the roof right now, but we're gonna do it. I wouldn't do it if I didn't think I had a good chance of pulling it off. And I have my inReach zipped in my pocket, life jacket on, it'll be okay either way. Like, don't get me wrong, it's cold. water's gonna be freezing but it's worth it the snow on the shore over here a lot of snow is that a tree sticking out of it crazy a lot has happened since we saw each other last stopped and had supper i guess that's all that happened i stopped at supper and i continue i'm gonna continue on because uh i can't find any good spots at all the camp and i uh yeah i'm just gonna go until can't go anymore soon enough i probably got an hour before dark all i have to do is set up and go to bed um depending on what when i get there i might have a little fire but i've already eaten like i've said and all i have to do is go to sleep i don't know what that is up there that looks to me like a big opening on a hill like a point we're definitely going to go see if we can camp there it looks very inviting at least so far it's the farthest thing from flat maybe maybe over here right here relatively flat there's not much to stake out too but it's okay relatively clear of overhead trees some firewood right here this is the best spot i've seen so far i'm up nice and high a little beaver dam or beaver lodge right there i mean out of time anyway so this is this is it regardless but i don't i don't hate it it's pretty nice nice view of the river and i hear a noise up here hello occupado just for tonight please thank you i check it out i didn't even notice this right at the very top of the peak of the uh little hill here there's a fire pit so someone has used this at least for a spot before stop all right we're going flyless tonight now to get some firewood there's all this maple like this there's little pieces in between these clumps i'll collect a lot of that looks like this might have been a fire pit at some point obviously not in forever Weeds growing all in it and everything But I think if I can use this and sit right here on the ledge and have my fire right here and that will be good with me, yeah, there's all this is all burnt stuff in here for sure This was a fire pit at some point by who or when to know picking up die down for a little bit That is the moon that is crazy. You think it was the sun, wow? And with that, I'm going to go to bed. I checked out and put the fly on my tent. Judge me. Judge you. Judge me. All right, guys. I'm going to hit the hay. Probably get up tomorrow pretty early. But who knows? If I sleep in, I sleep in. I'll see you guys in the morning. I'm going to sleep well. It's getting dicey. Getting dicey. Okay, these gloves are not meant for hot. It's right next to a beaver lodge here, so I'm just going to let it boil a little bit. One or two minutes longer than normal. We'll grab some more wood and throw it on here while I'm eating. I'm gonna get up and get out of here I think I'm ahead of progress now. So Looking at the stuff last night looks that way So I'll paddle for a few hours see where I am and then probably give my wife a call Don't get me cuz it's about I don't know a good haul for her to get here a couple hours At least the sky has changed dramatically from this morning, but to get in the boat and paddle on pretty good morning Not as cold as yesterday. That's for sure. What a different vibe than yesterday, man it's like ominous almost it is supposed to rain today i thought i had about a half a day until it started but who knows so i think i have about an hour or two left of the river and then i have about the same distance it looks like on the map it looks like i have the same distance ending on a big lake so an hour or two paddle on the river and then an hour or two paddle on the big lake and once i get to the lake i'll call her or i'll message her on uh in reach which has proven to be pretty useful i uh this is the first time i've used one or i've had one myself at least i bought it in preparation for these big trips this year um it's helpful because i can tell her like i'm going to be at this exit we we mapped out a couple different uh takeout points on the way up on the drive up she dropped me off so like for instance i'm getting a takeout point one along the drive up there's one two three four and i'm going to one which is the farthest paddle for me in the shortest distance drive for her if i would have dunked in that rapid there yesterday the strongest one i did um and if i couldn't fix myself up then there's the SOS button too and i definitely wouldn't want to hit that but it is there in case i need it but uh yeah a little peace of mind better than the spot because the spot you can't text out and say like i'm at camp or like uh you can actually check the weather on this inReach thing too so i don't like the fact that you have contact because like i don't want to be told if something went wrong at home i can't get there to fix it but the good thing is you can't get texted you can't get text you can't get texts until you text out like they can only reply so anyways i like it pretty useful and this is pretty freaking scenic right here that is an enormous sheer rock man like it's hard to get the scale it's got to be 200 feet up easy it's just gorgeous man look at that that's crazy just gorgeous here man dead calm too there's not a breeze or a sound wow this place is magic no joke and just like that the clouds disappear sun comes out and it's a beautiful day it's crazy how the topography has changed on this lake i started north and i paddled south and north was way less rocky and serene as south and mind you south is still pretty damn north but uh comparative to each other up there was way more flat and grassy and like sandy down here you can see all just the magnificent cliffs and awesome contours really really cool really spectacular time to be out too with the snow on the banks and no bugs getting pretty nice every day the first day was darn chilly but other than that i'm pretty good actually speaking of the can release the beast i just sent the in reach to my wife to leave at nine and it's 8 30 now so if she's there by noon i imagine i'll be there by noon too and neither of us will have to wait too long either way it's all good i'm just waiting on the reply i have not got the reply text but uh i imagine that'll be coming along anytime now cue in reach cue in reach reply but we'll see there's been tons of beaver lodges along this trip no beaver dams moose bear tons of birds very little fish i believe it's just too cold for the fish i could be wrong oh what does this say what the heck anyway good trip really happy i got this one in beginner trip for the rest of the season very looking looking very much i'm looking very forward to this canoeing season i've got a single blade canoe coming instead of paddling with a double blade and it's expedition kevlar so it'll be a little bit better on the rocks and i can maneuver it a little bit more well a lot more with a single blade from the middle than i can with these i will still bring the double blade for situations where it's too windy or i have to cross a big expanse or something but i want to learn how to paddle with a single blade proficiently it's just something i want to do this year that along with more white water because that was probably the biggest adrenaline dump that I have had man since four-wheeling I guess since I started four-wheeling or even since I did the white water the stuff on the American River with Kyle the white water stuff on the inflatable duckies kind of alluded to it earlier in the trip but go watch that video I'll link it it was a harrowing time me and Kyle always seem to find ourselves in some kind of adventure missed that dude hopefully the world fixes itself and we can go on a canoe trip sooner rather than later river's widening up i feel like i'm getting close to the lake now grossly misjudged the time it would take me to get the distance i need to get the whole trip i've been on the river and most of it had a current and i judging off yesterday i cruised i did most of this river yesterday now as you can see it's wide open it's uh it's basically a lake and it is taking me so much longer it's probably slowed me down three times as slow uh so my poor wife is gonna be at the takeout probably a couple hours before me i imagine she's already there it's uh 11 30 now I still think I have if I'm there by 12 30 or 1 I'll be doing good so it's a long arduous process now just paddling out there's not much topography anymore it's changed mostly into hardwood on one side and birch on the other and just open and windy not as windy as the days before but it's it's a long long paddle I didn't expect it. I thought I was just gonna cruise out like I did last couple days, but I was silly thinking Anyway, I got my work cut out for me and I have no food left zero food at all Like I ate my last pepperoni and handful of cranberries an hour ago Paddle paddle paddle One o'clock, it was just a short jaunt to get out of here and it turned into a half a day of hard paddling So I messaged my wife again on the in-reach saying that I was going to be a couple hours longer. I told them to go back to town somewhere and get some lunch or something. So hopefully that's what they did. I didn't get a reply, but anyways, she'll be out of here in about another hour, I think. I'm starting to see civilization, so it's a lot. I'm done. I'm hungry. I haven't had any food since this morning. It's a good lesson to not underestimate things. be prepared. I had room in the canoe and I had room in the backpack and everything for extra food and I should have brought it. I brought two pairs of boots on this trip. Brought two sleeping bags which I needed. Plenty of clothes but food I was lacking and I really thought I was going to get a fish or two to eat. I really did. That little tiny baby pike I caught at the beginning was nothing and then nothing since. Today I've been trolling the whole way. Bunch of the trip was too short too shallow to fish at all and I was moving quite quickly so it wasn't a really fishing oriented trip but I was expecting to get in the bottom of some rapids and fish and catch stuff but even the uh the big rapid I ran yesterday and fished the bottom without nothing not even a hint of a fish no bites so there's no black flies out there's no buds on the trees really you know I mean it's not really time for fishing yet but I figured give it a shot I thought I would catch something anyways more food more food for little joe i don't have a lot of reserves really like i'm not joking around like it's i burn up what i have when i'm when i'm doing this stuff and then i need to eat to replenish it and uh when i don't have food it's kind of taxing on the body i get a little hangry but uh i asked my wife to bring me a sandwich and some fruit so hopefully uh i'll be there soon enough to get that and until then hydrated i made it i made it another night here so hopefully they'll be here soon and hopefully they've got their food i'll get with you in a couple minutes i'm beat well this is where i came from big old river ending in a big old lake and now i'm up here on this hill it's a whole fire ring got my gear all right all ready to be loaded onto the car as always really good gear Neff bag Swiftpack float this was my biggest portage of the trip carrying my gear from there up here crazy trip lots of firsts for me super super fun uh weather couldn't have been better and uh yeah man really happy it happened so on to more canoe trips super happy to start the canoe tripping season with a bang like this thanks for watching guys see you next time goodbye oh snap here comes the cavalry the gear my stuff's over there i'm sorry that was a long time right i found this and me and adam want to give it oh thank you i have a lot oh thank you thank you i have a lot of gear to put in the car can you just hold on to it for a second no i want to load up mop some food okay yes i do i really wanted you to be in the water, what, yeah you can put it right in the back if you want