Introducing my YOUNG DOG to BACKPACKING. part 1. CAMPING TRIP W/TRIPPER, Searching for Fall Colors!

We're 22 kilometers and camp out overnight. My backpack, Tripper's got his. I'll bring it with me. What are you eating? It's a nice fall day. We're getting a break in the weather. It's been storming like crazy. Today's the only day that's not supposed to rain until tonight, so we'll get to camp and it'll rain, but that's okay. Look at these colors. Let's go. This way, bud. Mm-hmm. You get a drink? Come on, this way. Right here, right here, come on. Hey look, Tripper, get a drink. We got the fall colours but we also got the fall weather, a little stormy. So how you guys been? I know it's been a while since I posted a video and even longer since I shot one. The past few videos I shot or that I posted were from the summer. I've been busy, I was away for a couple of weeks working on something really cool. Unfortunately I can't tell you what it is right now but I promise it's very cool, you'll be excited and as soon as I can tell you about it I will. You guys will be the first people I can tell you about it. guys will be the first people I'll tell you can probably look forward to that information sometime in early in the new year but all is well Tripper and I are doing good you can expect to see lots more videos regularly now I do have a couple more canoe trips in the books it's the end of September as you can see by the colors it's prime camping time it's prime canoe tripping time prime time to be outside for me so I do have a couple more canoe trips in the books looks look just little ones but for the most part it's gonna be back at the fort it's gonna be bushcraft camps but tripper hiking with tripper lots of fun stuff until the snow flies and then once that happens winter camping videos just look at the leaves hey tripper what do you think buddy my good boy what are you doing you're gonna get all your stuff all wet man he's carrying his sleeping pad and his food his leash his water bottle a couple other things I got a sleeping bag for this reason for this very reason it's about 7 in the morning that's why it looks a little dark still hey hey are you done what are you doing for wild and he's off okay that's what I mean fully loaded hiking and still full of piss and vinegar running down trails boy running down trails boy good boy tripper sit tripper sit go on i'm not trying to fight you go he's wild get that stick get that stick get it get it scissors that stick row scissors it such a good dog tripper tripper what is it hey buddy look at his ears he can smell something moosey or what we literally have leaves falling off the trees right now i absolutely love being outside i love being outside at this time of year i could smell the leaves watching them fall just seeing these colors man it's playing tricks on my eyes there's so many different colors out here makes the whole ground have like this reddish pinkish hue it's awesome hey bud i'm a good boy so here's looking inland and that's all maple yellow birch and then you come in closer to the water you get into the cedars and the hemlocks and there's the lake that big old beast that beast balsam firs white pines black spruces stuff like that white pines will grow up in the hills too though this is so pretty did I mention this is so pretty look at this oh I'm so lucky to be out here this way bud no get out of the water that was silly hey come out come come thank you oh it's sprinkling out too you're gonna get everything soaking Look at that man, you're gonna be so cold tonight. Everything soaked. It's not like it's warm out, but he's happy. So we got a lot of particles, I'm gonna clog up my filter. Okay, this is kinda cool. Trail is dedicated to first attendant, I think that's how you say it, Hugh McKenzie, who survived 27 days lost in this area after his Gloucester Meteor jet aircraft crashed in Helenbar Lake in early July 1946. access this trail i had to start on a different trail okay so here's where the real fun starts i guess this trail is way way more narrow and less maintained which is perfect it's exactly what i want that's a shame i'd love to read this the Mackenzie Interior Trail visitors register and i'd love to sign it as well but unfortunately it's been left out in this broken box in the rain it's got pencils it's got pencils still that's unfortunate i love to read these things I got the old interior cabin on Old Woman Lake and Lake Superior okay well back in you go there good job good job wooden box on the trail proper now tripper hey big guy on the trail perhaps there's my plane above and that sure looks moosey in there very moosey the plane tripper the plane totally different terrain now up in the highlands trip up in the highlands big guy more fungus here I'll make a point to show all the weird ones I find We're coming out of the young maples now and back down into some more mature trees. I just wanted to show you guys this yellow birch. Look at this massive, massive yellow birch. Now some people might confuse this for a maple because of the big thick plates. But I promise you, this is yellow birch and the bark is still very flammable. And just to prove it to you, it might take a second, but then once she's gone, she's gone. Yellow birch. Tripper's digging. Truffle dog. So this is very common. He digs, digs, digs, digs, and sticks his nose right as far hard as he can into the hole that he dug, and inhales as much as he can. I don't know. He's got dirt all up in his nasal cavities for sure. Always does it, but he seems to love it. Like, he's smelling for something. I swear he's, like, digging up roots. Truffle dog. Truffle dog tripper. TDT. You don't want TDT, yeah? Snout. Snout right in it. Tripper of the trip. You tired? It takes a lot out of you, hey? I'm like, good boy. Oh, yeah? What are you saying? What are you trying to tell me? What's going on? That's your tail making that noise Alright we're coming out to this marshy spot Looks like Looks like we're going to skirt on like a little Dike or something here Yeah there's water on both sides of me Probably lots of beavers and stuff This way dude this way This is different in here man Actually this is a beaver dam I'm walking on An old beaver dam it's wet that's for sure Look at that forest This is a really pretty forest I'm expecting elves to come out Little woodland creatures, okay. Oh woodland elves in here. What is it? Yeah, this place is magical Looks a little berry. Oh berry. I will talk with baritone in my voice I Will sing with baritone in my voice To scare off all the berries, so I don't have to walk around yelling. Hey bear Anymore check it out. This is like a coral fungus size reference Look at me I can do it too. I actually can't we're getting some elevation now. Whoo. You smell something Check out this big scroll of birch bark Who needs hiking poles beautiful white spruce up in the high grounds black spruce tend to be in the low grounds with the club shape on the top whereas white spruce more christmas tree shape okay so not that it's a big deal or anything and i don't mind i'm just letting you know this is what i mean by not maintained there's trees down all over the trail and that is not an issue it's just well well different than the other trail well different so many mushrooms this time of year too fungi to make a dad joke they're not gonna do it oh it's getting windy tripper some leaves is falling right quick right quick and just as I thought moose in the area banging in your area so it's moose here and it's the rutting season so we'll keep an eye out hey big guy wow that's one big old stump beauty colors too it's amazing in this stump there's other things growing there's winter green right there for example there's a balsam fir tree growing a white spruce tree growing and a deer all out of a very large old stump okay that's a big tree big pine it looks like at least it was thick thick bark you could use this for shelter we got a big plate goes all the way up Wow you can use that for shelter for fire building a lot of things just a platform to get off the ground that's a super useful piece of Tree right there resource nice. We don't need that we have modern technology tripper We have modern technology on this trip, which is nice to have in this bright red backpack But we'll do something like that soon enough. This is the season. This is the season no bugs good temperatures Crazy dogs gotta fix this buddy. No no come here come here I gotta fix this super Sloppy on this side dude Sloppy Joe, Slop, Sloppy Joe Being such a good boy, Tripper Being a good dog Joe, Slop, Sloppy Joe Oh, he's a grinder Alright, go, come on, good boy Let's go I no longer think Tripper has a Chad voice 110, oh no Oh no That's the trail Oh man It looks like we are getting wet Wow Maybe I can go around That's flooded right out Wild okay, so that's what it is the beavers literally dammed damned it up right there, and that's now a pond Okay, this trail is gonna disappear if people stop coming on it on the map It looks like it kind of goes forward and hooks around and I haven't even come to that dude's campsite yet And I've been walking for quite some time so I Must be making slower time than I thought because at first it was pretty flat ground And I was I was going quick I made a lot of time up on the map. Anyways, it looks like it hooks around over here I might get lucky I might be able to skirt Oh clean water perfect. I might be able to skirt That water I might have been able to skirt that water and ended up on the trail still But we're gonna we're gonna have to do some searching to get on the trail But I am going to fill up with water here Well, I can because this is some nice flowing stuff By far the cleanest water that I've come to since I've been here I clean my filter out, and I'm going to drink as much water as I can. I'm going to drink my fill here and keep this full because there's less water around than I thought there would be. Look at how high up this beaver. So that's like four feet to there and then to there. So that's beaver chew for sure. Look at how high up it is. Seriously, that's huge. It's crazy. They started working on it there too. So that's obviously from the wintertime when the snow is up super high and they're able to get a good height off of it. Oh, my God. Tongue. I bit my tongue. Ba-bam. Back on the trail. It was a fun little detour. Good little water and snack break and bite my tongue break. An ostrich. Part dingo, hyena, Tasmanian devil, velociraptor, and you can add ostrich to the list. Are you an ostrich dog? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. The moose poop is getting bigger the higher we go. I put my rain jacket on at the last stop. there because I was chilled and now I was just completely uphill from there we're not that energy buddy yeah even he's going slow up it now we're getting into some oaks up in here up in here up in here y'all gonna make me look at leaves coming out to another one of these clearings I think this is called Bear Mountain there's supposed on my on my map it says it's called Bear Mountain anyways so there should be a lookout soon the last time I was at a place called Bear Mountain it was in New York maybe an hour or two outside New York City when we were trying out for the show alone and while we were on Bear Mountain the crew went and got us a bunch of rabbits that we had to clean and then a bear came on Bear Mountain because it smelled the rabbits so Bear Mountain one-in-one for bears we'll see if we make it two-and-two oh coming through coming through two big guys you don't want to mess with coming through you don't want to step foot uh-oh uh-oh we are on a trail just littered with moose poop i don't know that this is the lookout be careful buddy it's slippery get away from the edge please hey come here come here good boy super slick rock right now it's a very very slick slicker than snot as Doug would say okay here we go this is looking very promising as a lookout getting my workout oh yeah here we go here we go beauty we got colors we got contours we got a great view we're gonna stop here and relax come here away from the edge big guy hey trip good boy i need you to heal okay hey sure heal good dog this one you okay hey heal with me oh okay it's not such a bad drop never mind you're good i thought it was right here stay back though stay back oh man i look up oh my goodness this is so gorgeous look at the colors trip stay up through the colors guys can't believe this stay back here trip come I need you to stay away from the edge buddy okay good boy this is unreal so much wilderness around here all beautiful colors and contours oh my god look in the distance look far far in the distance look at all the contours well this place definitely warrants a snack break we're gonna have a snack this off you for a minute hey hey good boy get this thing off you get you a little food he's been drinking the whole time out of mud puddles and lakes and streams and rivers and outflows he's fine for for water there's some bugs up here there's some black flies up here he's chasing he ate uh he had a big breakfast this morning and i've been feeding him my jerky along the way but he does have his own food as well enough for today and tomorrow it's good that i like i like using this backpack for him it's awesome there you go big guy grub away Merrill no heavy-duty plastic bag to keep it dry and when he's frolicking in the dank Minnesota bit as we sit here this is what he's made for this is the life that you're made for Tripper gonna do more of this with you big guy