Backcountry Camping 10 days 100km of Canadian Wilderness on foot - day 8
day eat cookies doing her morning routine which is licking her paws i'm just changing so i can get on the trail patrick went to use the privy and we just had breakfast oatmeal with some fruit oh we're gonna get packing and go fill up our water bottles a little trailblazer cookie's a champ she's done so well i'm very proud of her it's windy it's cold but it definitely is not raining so that's a bonus and uh once we get in the trees it's going to get a lot warmer i'm sure just got to get out of the wind this is a little exposed we set up that tarp last night what a difference this is the only way i'll set it up from now on the reason being it absolutely blocked the wind last night and it was windy it was definitely windy during that storm we had a lot of rain last night 10 to 15 millimeters or so and uh yeah we're warm and dry so the lean 2 is the way i'm gonna go from now on out here and that tent in my regular tent that was never an issue but this one it's only a tarp with a mosquito net underneath it so it kind of the wind kind of just blows right through it so you're kind of stuck with a better sleeping bag and silly me for the in order to save on weight i took my lightest sleeping bag it's definitely a summer sleeping bag and as such i'm sleeping in all my clothes every night but there goes uh something to learn right it's not summer anymore it's fall it is september 10 of 2020 and we have 28 kilometers to go we're on our way out we're not heading in anymore we're heading out that's right cookie we're heading out four more days back on the trail today is a very short day uh no more than five kilometers today and very good because my right hip is acting up today plus i got the best string i got that push string blister on my left foot the one on the right seems to have gone away but the one on the left tour and it's just a pain in the butt so i'm stepping weird and now my hip is hurting but we're pushing on right on schedule this is what we're walking through right now rocks to the right and rocks to the left yep thank you just going through these rolling boulders in this area now when i said that there's a lot of mushrooms in this place i am not exaggerating and just for some reference here i'm going to put some feet down so you can see what i'm talking about but look at the size of the thing you see that there's my foot and i mean this happens to be one kind of mushroom and there are hundreds of species here it's so colorful this area seems to be just this one and i just found another one actually there's those guys there's that yep yep there are those if anybody knows mushrooms and what they are leave us a comment yeah that looks like an old machlachik slippery jack mushroom mushroom and more mushroom this is the forest of mushroom uh i'll try to drop in a photo from up close see them white ones over there it doesn't look like a morel but if somebody could tell me what that is and it seems to be growing everywhere here in this section uh let me know let me know in the comments section please i'm interested to find out yeah this whole section is just littered with them yeah look right here right here beside the trail boom top of a rock here what you see in a distance it's the silver peak the highest point and i think i see a person up there actually all right up there that peak to the left 560 meters or something we did not do that today but we will be doing that in the future i've done that was it eight years ago eight years ago i've done that yet the first sign of a blue sky it's all dark and ominous all around us and there it is blue sky above us beauty and here we are walking through those rolling boulders it's gotten a lot more technical as we went along it's all up and down up and down up and down up and down now anyway i'll see you later not to mention that this is day eight hueva look around don't miss this because this is gorgeous we have gone around this entire range mountain range up and down all those mountains behind this one that's the silver peak we haven't actually climbed that that but we went around it and then pretty soon you're gonna see the last peak we're gonna climb on our way out of here and then it's the crack the crack nah don't worry you'll be fine we'll just take it nice and easy and it'll be just fine uh i'm going that way i think the loose boulders slippery roots wet rocks and just a path through the woods no more than two feet wide i'm just following that i don't know but there's lakes to left and right we should be almost at our destination now for the day and that lake down there looks pretty home for tonight lots of room to camp around here lots of nuts okay it'd be nice to take these backpacks off let's just find a good spot right away first because a lot of it is wet over there i want to go where it is nice and uh dry like that spots there this spot here is good i'm trying to also like find a spot which is gonna be okay it's far away from here but come here check this out i can set up the tarp we can do the setup right the here seems to be coming from this direction i'll set up the tarp to stop that from happening but i'm saying let's go try it let's see if there's anything there so such is every day we come to a spot we gotta figure out a good location to go to sleep because you definitely don't want to end up in an area like this all this is wet for a reason there was a puddle here when it was raining we want to avoid sleeping in a puddle find me a spot for the tent first that's what i'm hoping for i think i did yeah i'm pretty sure that was it it's more windy here actually and we'll set up the tarp so don't worry unless you know what let's drop the bags there for now and let's have a walk around without the weight we don't want to miss a spot like yesterday again you know it was a nice spot there just leave it under the tree for now oh yes yes sir big old heavy backpack hmm we have a waterfall on the other side let's hear the water rushing it's right over there here's our water access a bit wet and slippery so you have to be very careful but it's better than hanging off a rope and grabbing it from the bottom not bad actually so hi what you doing troublemaker hello don't go there come on let's go hey uh so site number 45. site number 45. we arrived here around four o'clock after two hours of walking so that was an average of just over two kilometers per hour i guess fairly technical up and down up and down a lot of steep sections a lot of slippery stuff because of the rain last night and then we were brought here there's some sort of a waterfall and i imagine we'll be checking that out tomorrow on the way out maybe it usually passes all the nice stuff this trail here i mean it goes through everything it does not disappoint for sure oh knees are hurting so bad that's the lake bunny rabbit lake that's our access to the water that's how steep it is and it goes straight up and you can't even see the tent up there but it's a lot better than it was yesterday that's for sure the bunny rabbit lake we had about three bars or three percent on the battery here so i don't know when this is gonna run i'm just gonna quickly pan through and change the battery so we have uh gotten a word of frost advisory for tonight and tomorrow night we are absolutely wearing everything today i'm wearing my shorts the daytime shorts on top of my stuff that i'm gonna go to bed with so just for the fun just to be a little bit warmer if the carp set up in a lean-to the tent underneath it and when you walk inside it's actually toasty that tent without the tarp on top of it is absolutely freezing and uh my sleeping bag just like i said is not good enough today however should be pretty good hopefully the wind doesn't change and now blow the other direction huh no that'd be the worst we'd be catching the wind oh my god oh you're close to a road you're close to carlisle access point where we are right now at uh site 45 and um tomorrow we're going to site 49 and that's where we'll make our home we're doing better actually with our routine we're doing a lot better with our routine we're helping each other out as well yeah along the way we've picked up the things that have to be done just make things easier which is great we're both exhausted but we're doing awesome and i even brought deodorant and i'm happy deodorant you want me to show you all the things that i could have not brought with me oh man i would okay if i were to do this next year again and i'm planning to maybe even do it um i would downsize everything huge huh huge huge dumpster heavily yeah and bring everything everything dehydrated bring mountain house yes mountain house chili was great i'm not doing all this cooking it's it's fine when you can take care of it and it's there's two of us but on your own but the some of partially some of our meal is partially cooked yeah which needs a little bit more heat and cooking time some of our meals are not cooked at all so what we've learned is that we cannot bring raw rice we have to pre-cook it's not raw rice i've it was par boiled but it was not fully boiled so it has to be fully done in order for it to just pour water over yeah and then eat it okay so partially part of our meals are already dehydrated and just pour water over here i'm perfectly aware of that and part of our meals are not so that's where we need the bush buddy and a little bit more cooking time because uh the fuel we got in uh in our dip oil would not last if we were to cook all that stuff oh it would not be good on the jetboil and the heat's too direct so this is where this guy comes in and he is a lifesaver i'm so happy we brought this thing this is the one extra weight that i'm glad for bringing yeah me too bush buddy made in usa look it up and buy one they're a lot better than all those knockoffs from china trust me i'm also carrying the extra filter yeah you got the extra ceramic filter that's right we have an msr ceramic filter with us too um as a backup to the catadyne the catadyne has been working wonders yeah it's actually a great filter it is a great filter it's perfect for this frosty huh frost advisory today sunblock i didn't even use this i didn't even take anything out we haven't really had any sun we were in the trees the whole time and the times we were outside of the trees on the tops of the mountain it wasn't too bad it wasn't sunny just gonna move that thing a little bit further away because it's burning hot right now um what i wish i had brought i wish mom could come and see this place that's not what i'm asking i wish my dad i would bring them that's not what i'm asking about yeah what from your gear are you missing possibly the one thing that i'm by far is my pajamas like fleece pajamas oh i would love to have those fleece pajamas right now just the pants though just depends you know like the ones that people used to wear in the 90s those type of pajama pants that's what i want here oh what a mistake not to bring those it'd be so much warmer it's like as a canadian you have to have a pair of those you know it's like a country thing we love our pajama pants this day it's a beautiful lake actually this is gorgeous here that waterfall sounds like a wind but it isn't no no that's a waterfall the wind has actually calmed down quite a bit now it's a very interesting landscape lots and lots of mushrooms everywhere did you see the mushroom by your poles looks like reds i'll show you what she's talking about here this does look edible but it has too many twin brothers that are not and um i don't pick these guys it's sad but true i don't know how to pick them and they're supposed to be some of the tastiest ones right i bet you this guy's perfect but he's got a twin brother and i don't know the distinctions all that well so let's go walk around quickly i've shown you the lake if that video recorded i've shown you that looks like somebody set up their uh tent right here and then it rained a lot and then they trenched to stop the rain from coming and probably failed look here's a wash right here that's where the water got to these guys were sweet that's why it takes such a long time to find a good camping spot this was somebody that got totally swept up by the rain here that happened to me a few times you live you learn it's the fire pit our wood that tree has naturally fallen over on its own i did not cut down anything live there it is over there it's got some greenery on it but that's not my doing it's gonna burn just fine mushrooms there's lots of mushrooms just look at all these guys this is predominantly the mushroom of the forest and here boom another edible guy right there let's see if we can get up closer that's edible but don't take my word for it like i said in previous videos make sure you uh go with somebody that knows very well and they can teach you that is the best way to learn and you pick up a few and you start there beautiful spot marked by uh one of these orange the usual campsite in parks ontario and that's us there are a lot of mice and a lot of squirrels so we're keeping all our food and all our cooking stuff off the ground it goes up into the tree like 12 feet above the ground for the night because of bears they won't dare come into camp now but they do come at night sometimes especially when you leave food around right so don't leave food around and this is our little setup here so the wind is predominantly coming in from that side blowing this way i'm set up right on top of a thing here it just drops off all around me so the top obviously being the windiest that's what i've done and that pretty much takes the wind away and it's toasty in there now got all the cargos oh sorry all the cargo can go right behind the tent like in this section where you cannot really access but it just became it became a storage space so much space back there our backpack's already back there yeah actually very good our little neck of the woods hello this is home for tonight yeah hi hello she's always hiding in my sleeping bag she's cold now it's the best yeah good girl cookie good girl she's warming it up for you yes i know this whole landscape here that's what it looks like there's jagged rocks everywhere extremely hard there's a little island right over there i don't know if you can make it out it starts here and it ends right there tiniest little island over there very remote lake but i doubt there's any fish in there the water's just so clear it's probably uh the ph is too high or something fish delivered oh um yes we're doing our meal covered on the bush buddy so it speeds up the process so what we do is we pre-soak our stuff and this little guy onyx this is actually a very good tool you seal it up it's got a rubber seal underneath underneath there and it's been our helper we pre-soak our meals the ones that need extra time this is a fuel saver and now a time saver i guess right yeah big time big time these are great so if you're going for a truck like this make sure you cut yourself a piece of mat two feet wide however much you want oh yeah it's just an old sleeping pad i took some sections off and it weighs nothing but it helps a lot when you stop and you're doing something when you just just want to sit down and have a warm dry spot it's unaccessible here everything here is wet it's inaccessible she's in here hey cookie cookie say hi to the microphone like i mean letter b as if i'm bothering her just check out these mushrooms man like this is right beside us here look three different kinds right here hand for reference there's mushrooms absolutely everywhere look there's one even upside down crazy how amazing my dog is there's another mushroom these look really cool i don't know what they are though mushroom heaven so if you like picky mushrooms this is the place to be i am very impressed with her she follows so beautifully yeah our dog's amazing on this trek wow considering the stuff we had to scale the few cracks we had to go through wow she listens so well look here's my setup and here's another set of mushrooms and for reference right they're massive huge i get it some of these may not be edible but some of them are that one is not oh here it looks okey-dokey boom another one they're just everywhere there's so many let's take a walk if you like picking mushrooms this place is something else you see all those they're everywhere see what's on this side actually so our access to water is pretty steep on that side here however i'm seeing a much more gradual access so here's the rock we're on top of and here the perfect location to get water look at that there's a little step how cool is that right at the light right level at the right level and everything you hear that waterfall across the lake it's not the wind and the sky is turning more blue that's a good sign for tomorrow thank you god and thank you dominic for giving us the weather forecasts we brought out um satellite phone with us i do own one of those it's just uh a thing for me now i bring it with me everywhere you never know these places are wild and nature as one of my subscribers has mentioned can be really cruel and i agree come prepared make sure you have two-way communication somehow figure it out how to do it and make sure you have it otherwise it's it's an adventure that's how i used to do it i never used to have a satellite phone i didn't have a cell phone when i started doing this so getting out there it was different it was always that situation but we're in 21st century get yourself something that works out here even a text messenger there are those and that can provide gps coordinates as well and i'm barely walking i'm so tired get some more wood for bush buddy all i need is a few twigs it works so well oh look how mushroom how's it going baby there's a much easier access to water just around this way it's like it's a path and the water is right here it's perfect my smoke it's just starting to cover the lake and i suspect it looks pretty cool because there's no wind the lake is disappearing what's going on yep that's from us it looks pretty cool actually this would be a smoky valley today so this is the night of day seven eight day eight yes really no this is our eighth camp i totally lost count we have 11 days total ten camps so this is our seventh camp in our first in our seventh day oh is it seven seven mm-hmm you're screwing me up man no i'm not you but yesterday it's nine camps and ten days or something on and we're finishing on sunday so it's 10 days but it's 11 walking days isn't it thursday we walked we got here we're so confused saturday sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday yeah sunday we're out of here we're still walking on sunday yeah we've got about eight kilometers to do not bad this is so nice they called for frost but i'm actually getting like a warm night are you cool we just had a really nice meal too yeah cookies cookies going after mice they're snooping around checking if we have any food left over such a beautiful night and it's going to be so toasty in that tent today new favorite setup right there so what's a lesson for you that you would take before somebody else let's say a mistake that you have done that for anybody that does it after you break bring above ankle boots sturdy boots which you have i don't break them in for at least two weeks before you come that's one i would say bring if you bring in jetboil bring two fuels because one i'm conserving it you're also not doing the same thing that people always do i usually use mountain house and stuff like that just boil the water pour it in rehydrate go to sleep after eat and go to sleep right we're doing somewhat of it half of it and the other way is bush buddy yeah but i'm still conserving fuel for the let's say i'm not having excessive amounts of tea that's such a nice fire so what else that's it rain gear i don't know you're maki you're talking about mistakes so definitely downsize your gear yeah and then make sure you have a warm enough sleeping bag because i kind of messed up on that one the weather the weather was so much warmer and that sleeping bag was doing so well and then all of a sudden 10 degrees colder i am this place looks so cool at night that's our surroundings so what were you saying about this fire being built up you build it up on top of rocks so that the roots that are underneath all the rocks don't catch fire because uh there's roots all around here especially these spruce trees the roots can catch on really quickly but it goes underground and it gets to the tree and starts burning the tree and then the forest don't fire so you gotta build it up so that the fire is never at the roots which are like right on top of the ground here exposed yeah and that's why they bring suzie have access to watson good girl i think we're gonna call it a night when you wake up again let me get everything okay night night
2021-03-11 11:28
