Camping Gear for a 9 Day Canoe Trip in Northern Ontario

I have a conundrum. That's my gear for my nine day trip. I can't close my backpack. Thanks for tuning in guys. I'm Joe. Stay tuned to find out what I'm going to do, what I'm going to pack for my gear for my nine day canoe trip in Temagami. Let's pull everything out of here. So I'm bringing a second backpack. I'm bringing a day pack, one that folds down so that when we go on day hikes, We're gonna hike up the highest mountain on Ontario and then we're going to also the tallest mountain on Ontario We're gonna be hiking around some old-growth pine and stuff and I'm not Carrying this thing around for day hikes. I mean, this is my my backpack that I'm going to be bringing I'll go through it all in a minute the pot rain jacket and I put it in in this order for a reason the rain jacket I want at the top the water. I want at the top rain pants odds and ends big old food bag chair you would like to get hit in the face of some food uh okay i'm gonna have to rest this out and we'll go through it all in a minute but first off this is my backpack this is my dry bag backpack that i used um past two or three canoe trips i've been on like i said i did eight days out of this um in september and i can't do nine days out of it now it's a 70 liter bag and it's by MEC it's called the Slog Bag it's got a nice backing on it good harness system it's a good bag so let's uh start with sleeping bag this is my sleeping bag it was a toss-up between my positive three celsius MEC bag and my negative seven celsius um mountain hardware bag the difference between the two is the mountain mech bag the mountain equipment co-op bag goes probably about three quarters to a little bit less size than this when it's packed down and that's a really nice size the weight doesn't really matter it's the volume so i'm deciding to bring this one over the small bag because i packed everything in here with the small bag and it still didn't fit so i'm not saving anything by bringing the small one and then this one will keep me warm indefinitely the temperatures are supposed to range they're supposed to fluctuate so it's get hot days supposed to get chilly days they're supposed to get rainy days and on those rainy days if we're paddling all day long into the rain in the rain and i roll up at camp i want to just be able to crawl in my sleeping bag for half an hour or whatever and warm up you know what i mean so negative seven bag all the way this is my sleeping pad this is a thermarest neo air this is the one i've used all the time i really only had one sleeping pad suitable for this trip because the other two or three that i have are too bulky and big or not enough insulation and they're just air underneath so this is a very old uh pad you've seen it used multiple times it doesn't have the corners cut on it or anything it's bigger than than the new ones this is like six years old But this is old faithful man. This thing does does me really well, so Bring a patch kit for it and everything should be good. Next up is gonna be my REI chair This is just a small little folding chair poles and then the chair itself and I toss I toss the idea of not bringing it I toss back and forth the idea of just bringing a hammock instead to sit in the hammock around camp But in all honesty, it's hard to rig one up by the fire You might have to move because of smoke you might not even have trees near the fire all that stuff Who knows but I do like having somewhere to rest my back when we get to camp this this trip I expect us to have more of a camp life. We're not so rushed We have nine or ten days out there like I'm saying so there's gonna be some camp life And I'd prefer to be comfortable the little creature comfort chair again. That's an REI chair my tent. This is my very small Big Agnes Fly Creek UL1 this tent was like two pounds including the poles i keep the poles separate it's easier to pack that way poles tent i love this thing that it's just not for me to get in but i've been in torrential downpours with it i trust this thing it's a good tent let's do clothes so i have all the clothes i'll be bringing extra in this stuff sack and i'll be wearing uh i'll be wearing Fjällräven Keb trousers i'll be wearing a polyester t-shirt a light one i'll be wearing Under Armour underwear and i'll be wearing thin short Smartwool hikers and that'll be throughout the day i do have some here that that might take the place of those that might layer on with those but we'll have to see while we're out there so i do have a long sun bug shirt it's like a sun shirt or a bug shirt long long sleeves it's got it's cool it's thin um i have worn this clothing before i like it so hopefully i'll be able to use this in the daytime i am expecting bugs there's going to be black flies and if you guys haven't dealt with black flies i don't even know how to explain it to you it's it's insane so you need long long pants long shirts tucked in everything bug net all that fun stuff so kyle guy i'm going with kyle he's uh i don't think he fully grasps but anyways so we've got a merino long sleeve we've got another long sleeve this will be for sleeping in this is just another poly long sleeve but it's thick i like this shirt a lot and if it gets chilly i can throw that on to in conjunction with some of the other clothes that i'm wearing or by itself who knows we'll see when we're out there uh my long johns they're a costco brand they've got like 11 percent merino in them my smart wool medium hikers socks my one one pair of extra underwear i got a little thin pair of socks another thin pair of socks so three pairs of socks total and my merino wool beanie so that's all my clothes not much not much clothes but in my experience you don't need many clothes. when you're out there you're not changing your clothes every day for sanitary reasons you're changing your clothes because you're cold you're changing your clothes because you got soaked and wet, you're changing your clothes because you got too hot. And this stuff will all take care of all those things. I have my small down pillow. I love this thing. I couldn't find it when I was packing. I was super bummed out. This thing will pack down into little crevices in my backpack. It'll be fine. In here is my paracord bag. So I've got paracord, I've also got reflective cord in here and then the the bag itself is still nylon and it will take the place of a bear hanging bag so I'll be able to fill this with stones or sand or even a couple short sticks and huck it over top of a branch to hang my bear bag as opposed to hanging or as opposed to throwing a stick over it how they get hung up but this is gonna be my pot cooking and everything set up for the trip for the whole nine days just got a Snow Peak 900 titanium cook set with a rubber band around the top because that lid is not gonna stay on and inside it I've got my bush buddy this is what I'll be relying on for for cooking my twig stove so that's perfect nice little nesting kit I'm gonna be bringing this Boreal 21 by Agawa Canyon made in Canada it's actually a pretty cool little saw I like it because it's not made of wood and last time when I went out there on a long canoe trip I brought my Adventure Storm Buck Saw very nice sorry very nice saw but as it gets wet and stays in the wetness the kerf folding it back up into the into the handle the blade it gets all swollen I couldn't get it back in for the life of me so this thing is solid it's 21 inches I've got a racing dry wood racing blade on it and yeah made in Canada and everything I actually like the looks of it it's 21 inches long So we're gonna give it a nice test out super easy to set up and take down like you just saw that was me setting It up. This is me Taking it down takes two seconds to I got a little sleeve for it to go in So that'll be the sock and then as a communal this is communal gear Kyle is going to be bringing a Gransfors Outdoor axe, which is the small one. I think it's got the collar on it. Very small little hatchet like axe It's got a wider head on it for splitting which is perfect and then Kyle's also bringing an extra tarp so that we can have a communal hangout spot in case it rains my food is all in here I'm not going to go through this because I went through this in my food video again check that video out this is about 13 or 14 pounds of food rain gear I've got Mountain Hardware rain pants they have big bottoms on them which I don't normally like but on rain pants I do so that I can just slip my shoes and everything right through I have an Arc'teryx hybrid rain shell it's got two flies everywhere except for where that you need it it's got three on the shoulders and uh maybe on the butt and the elbows so a nice jacket what you said but i've got uh my Primaloft my mech Primaloft i always use this is a wind shirt this is my Patagonia Houdini wind shirt fantastic piece of gear it actually uh folds up all into its own pocket and really thin i'm going to keep this in my cargo pocket pants my cargo pants pocket when i'm canoeing and if it gets breezy or whatever i could throw this on as opposed to having layers on i could just have a t-shirt and throw this on take it off as i need we'll see but that's my idea i've got as far as water um storage i've got a nalgene i've got a bag a platypus both one liter my my fishing rod i kind of went over in my fishing gear but it's an ugly stick with a lews reel on it it's got 10 ball bearings so i'm looking forward to using that i have monofilament on it right now but i have a secondary spool that i will be putting um braid on again in my oh beautiful sweetheart were you supposed to color on that so i went through this in my my food video as well but i have a 26 or 40 creek copper pot and a little tiny 200 mils of captain morgan i have to put this in a plastic bottle still i'll do that on the way so for this trip something new i bought um some neoprene gloves and socks so i was on a calarney trip a few years ago and it was like 40s in the daytime and raining all day it rained for like 19 hours of one day i got borderline hypothermic so i want to wear these socks neoprene keeps you warm as you're wet right i'm getting wet period i'm going to be wet day one my feet are gonna be soaking wet i know this but if i got these neoprene socks on maybe stay a little bit warmer the weather is supposed to be warmer too than than my previous Kelowna trip where it was 40s in the day so who knows if I'll need them I'm going to bring them just in case and I got my neoprene gloves which will be useful for paddling my kayak style paddle and then grabbing fish out of the water with gloves they got a little bit of a grip on you guys have seen me use this on camping trips before this is my piece of Reflectix and inside it I have a sit pad the idea is the reflectix goes down right against my back on my backpack before everything else goes in the backpack then this piece of blue foam pad can get slid in and out easily as i take breaks on a portage trail or whatever if i need to sit on the ground that comes out super easy as opposed to trying to get this full reflectix out which i'll still use this reflectix as a ground sheet at night because i'm not bringing a footprint for my tent or anything so this will add protection for my sleeping pad add warmth and all that and then when i'm at the camp i can actually lay on this use it as a like a foot thing if i'm changing whatever a million uses and it's really small and light doesn't take up much room at all because it goes flat right against your back like i said these are the shoes i'm going to be wearing they're Merrell Rapids they are almost like a portage shoe they've got super grippy bottoms see how when i do that there's like extra lines and go away those are going to grip the wet rocks really well and they're going to dry really well too because they're all vented all vent tons of ventilation on these and then the cord lock is like that constricting lock so there's no laces to mess up just tighten it and go and because i know somebody's going to ask well why aren't you wearing Gore-Tex or why aren't you wearing hiking boots or anything like that well because Gore-Tex does not keep you dry hiking boots are heavy hiking boots take forever to dry so I've got these two pouches and inside these pouches are things that I don't want are small things I want to contain that I don't want to get lost or be all loose in my backpack so this one my one I've got things like extra batteries SD cards remote control camera wipes stuff like that for my camera for both my cameras my GoPro and my DSLR i've got a full 11 dc4 my phoenix headlamp with a couple extra batteries and with these uh cr123s you have to cover the positive and negatives when you're storing it i've got a Snow Peak titanium spork old faithful my battle horse knife, the Nishkum, right? Emerald named that one. I've got, oh that should actually go into this, it's a cleaning alcohol swab for cleaning my camera, cleaning my lens. We're doing, for water purification we're doing drops, these are pristine drops, Kyle's using Aquamira, we're both bringing our own. Actually I have a secondary backup battery. So pretty, pretty straightforward in that one and that'll stay in my small backpack with me this one I've got a first aid kit so my first aid kit consists of very simple things I've got some strong duct tape style tape got sting relief ibuprofen aspirin like butterfly stitches kind of thing band-aids alcohol swabs alcohol swabs band-aids band-aids band-aids and gauze if I can't fix what's wrong with that stuff then I need a hospital anyways. So Kyle's got his own first aid kit as well. I do have pain pills outside of this. So in here I've got medications, anti-diarrhea pills, stuff like that. You don't want the diarrhea while you're out there. I've got pain pills in here, stomach pills in here, anti-acid pills, Pepto-Bismol pills, stuff like that. I do have the IBS so I have to be careful. Sunblock in a stick, no mess. I've got toothpicks. I've got toothbrush and toothpaste with more toothpicks. I like these little sandwich, these little snack baggies. They come in very handy. I've got a full roll of toilet paper. I've got a bunch of baby wipes and I have hand sanitizer. Musk all for the bugs even though it's not going to do a a damn thing chapstick a lighter and also my bug net will go in there for my head so like i said earlier i was able to do that eight day canoe trip in the fall with that 70 liter backpack and now i can't so something has changed what's different um i believe i have a lot more food um last time i just barely squeaked by food wise so i want to bring some more food um my fishing tackle is much bigger than it was like three times the size of it as it was and i'm bringing an extra backpack a small backpack that has to fit in the big backpack as well so when i and my camera i forgot about that when i'm doing portages we're single carrying everything each way or both of us sorry um and i can't have two backpacks i'm sure i could wear one on the front of me and one on the back but i don't want to do that so i have to have everything fit in my backpack and therefore since it's not fitting all in my backpack i think i'm going to stop at my friend doug's house and get his 120 liter backpack it will be way bigger than i need it's the same style it's a Seal Line uh dry bag backpack i think that's what i'm gonna have to do because i can fit everything in there i can't seal it with the second backpack in it and that's no good to me this is the second backpack i'm going to be bringing this is my WhyNot wax canvas uh sling bag collapsible bag so basically this is the backpack itself wax canvas on one side uh ripstop on the other and then it's got two attach points you can put a sling on it and carry it around or you put a piece of paracord on it carry it around your waist if you wanted it can double as a pillow on the wax canvas side and also so actually i should show you so there it is just open it it folds all into its own pocket a wax canvas backpack and it's actually very comfortable i've used it already so that opens up to a decent size bag right so in the in the canoe and um for hikes and things like that i'll be having different things in it but in the canoe i'll have my my fishing tackle in it a couple different things for my cameras and then the most important thing is it's somewhere for me to put in my snacks for the day it's somewhere for me to have to put my camera if it starts raining i'll have a big ziploc bag i'll have it inside there i'll just be able to shove it right in and in in my canoe i i don't want to be having to reach around behind me to my big bag to try and fumble through stuff so anything i think I might need in the canoe I'll be having in that small backpack and anything I'm going to need for the hikes be it water snacks all that stuff I'll have in that small backpack I'm going to put a link in the description where you can get yourself one of those they're a really cool backpack you can just check it out I highly suggest checking the company Why Not Out it's the same company that's doing my bushcraft backpack for me really cool guys so anyways I hope you guys oh oh my camera gear so I'm bringing my camera that I'm shooting on right now which is my DSLR my Nikon D5500 with uh 18 to 140 lens i will be bringing my shotgun mic i i debated it for a while nice but i will i'm also bringing my GoPro Hero 4 Silver bring a bunch of SD cards memory cards and batteries and buddy doug is going to let me use his new Olympus um waterproof point and shoot thing so it's got capabilities for um time lapse it's got it's like super waterproof so i can use in the car sorry in the canoe all that stuff so that's really nice of him so i have three cameras this time guys i should be able to get a bunch of footage last but not least polarized sunglasses so i can see the little fishies in the water as i'm catching them all right boys and girls thank you very much for watching this i hope you learned something i hope i didn't bore you too much talking about my gear canoeing series can you say bye say thanks guys