Hammock Camping in Gatineau Park (backpacking)
so today i'm hiking into the beautiful gatineau park to try hammock camping for the first time it turned out to be quite the trip i had a surprise bear encounter i saw a few deer and i was even chased by a skunk ah Gatineau Park you never disappoint bugs are out already all right let's get going see you later hi what's over i'll miss you that's so sweet of you i'm gonna miss you too big guy what i thought okay so here we go this is uh meats lake the first of the lakes that i'm hitting so i'm pretty excited about that hopefully uh i'll get to the other one soon i'm really hoping i get to go on uh on the coast of the lake get a really good view it's beautiful lake and that would be really awesome if i could do that wish me luck if you're into these kind of videos please consider subscribing hit the like button if you like if you don't like it that's okay i'll keep working and maybe my videos will be one that you like in the future okay so now i know i'm getting closer to civilization i can see other campsites coming up i can see the beach uh it's still pretty far away but at least i can see it from here so i know i'm on the right track and i'm getting closer which is good because it is so hot you can see the sweat pouring off me right now all right let's get moving so one of the things i really love about hiking in gatineau park whether you're just for a leisurely hike or you're hiking to go do some camping i love the fact there are very unique things and there's lots of spots where you can hit water a bridge like this i love walking over bridges like this it's over a little creek but it's great they've taken the time to build something like this gotta get moving here we go and freeze the frame right there see this little guy right here the bear right here well i had no idea he was there the glare of my camera screen was so bad i just pressed record to get a nice shot of this stream i only found this little guy when i was going over my footage back at home this beautiful bear was there the whole time anyways thanks little bear for joining me and allowing me to hike in your beautiful forest about 10 minutes after my unknown bear account i accidentally came across another woodland creature this time much smaller but potentially much stinkier okay i'm about to take a little bit of a break and get some water actually there's sorry there's something in there something over here oh crap oh crap crap okay so that's a first for me i've never been chased by a skunk before i'm not sure if she was gonna spray me or if she was gonna chase me down i did not really uh look back too quickly uh i did not try to interfere with that skunk at all i saw it pass me by i was gonna stop but then when i saw it i decided i'm gonna leave it anytime i see any kind of wildlife sure i'll try to get some photos of it but for that one she was telling me to skedaddle and get out of there which is fine i did not want to uh provoke that i did not want to get sprayed can you imagine getting sprayed out here in the woods i'm three hours in i think something like that and getting sprayed by a skunk yeah that is not something that i want to add to my camping resume okay let's get going my heart's uh pounding still but i have to stop get some water and i will relax then oh boy okay let's do a quick tour of the campsite the first thing i like to do when i get here is take a look at the campsite took off my bag actually that was the first one because it was a long trek here and i'm glad that i'm here anyways campsite looks pretty decent it has everything you can has a fire pit has a beach i love a campsite with a beach and of course a beautiful lake so i'm trying to set up the hammock so the first thing i did notice when i got here is there's not a lot of options for my hammock there are some sites around here um but uh yeah there's some trees but nothing's perfect there's this set of trees over here but it looked like that's too far away there's a set right behind me over here but that looks like it might be too uh close together just can't win can i anyways i'll try to set it up and uh get it to work out um i got a while i got some time here at the campsite so i'm not too worried it's not gonna get dark really really soon it took me about uh i don't know the actual hike i would say probably four hours or so so that's not too too bad anyways i'm gonna set that up get the campsite all ready to go and then i might take a swim and then we'll start dinner here we go so as you can see i don't have a good setup here for the hammocks it has to do i've only have these two trees that are pretty close together and they're gonna have to do i have other two trees that are too far apart so nothing is uh is perfect sometimes i guess i guess that happens since this is my first time hammock camping i'll have to just do i had to wrap around the straps a couple times the trees uh the straps look like they're holding they're not going to damage the trees which is good hopefully it doesn't fall and damage me because that would suck anyways i have to set up the mosquito net i don't think i'm gonna set up the tarp i have it with me it's supposed to be a nice night i actually kind of like the idea of uh sleeping under the stars so hopefully i can do that i do have a mat for the uh the hammock and my sleeping bag i don't have an underquilt supposed to be pretty warm tonight so i'm hoping that is going to get me through the night so wish me luck first time doing the hammock camping i uh not 100 sure i'm doing the proper thing but hey gotta give it a chance uh okay so i've started the process uh firewood we're having some steak tonight hopefully some sweet potato and a little bit of zucchini uh the fire pit is not the greatest fire pit i wish it was just something uh you know a simple fire pit with rocks i can cook around but uh that's okay we will process this wood and get everything started i'm hoping to be able to relax a little bit hopefully it looks like it's gonna be a beautiful night i'm hoping to get some more uh video and some photos uh tonight that's only if i get everything set up first so let's get moving okay so we're gonna try the ferro rod today i've never tried it so wish me luck practice it a little bit oh it started that's a good sign so right now i'm letting the fire just uh burn down a bit so i have some nice hot coals i'm not very patient so i have to try to be patient here we're gonna put a sweet potato on that bad boy before we do that we're gonna cut the sweet potato in half hopefully that helps cook it i'm not too sure if it will we will find out okay so let's put this in the fire and get this one going okay so the sweet potatoes on we're gonna cook the steak on this mini grill that i bought i actually simply added some uh screws so i can keep it out of the of the flames and stuff you can just put it on top of wood if you wanted to or something like that it's just one of those little uh things i tried on my own got some stainless steel screws so i'm excited about that so we have the sweet potato going we're also going to cook up some zucchini all right let's go put that on okay so the sweet potato is on there i'm gonna throw this on top of here just for now i don't really want this to get burned zucchini i think is going to cook much quicker so we're gonna put on there for now and then we'll take care of that okay so now we have the the grill on there i probably should wait a little bit longer but i'm too hungry i'm gonna put the steak on and hopefully it sizzles okay so it's finally done sweet potato i think is going to take a little bit longer that's not a big deal i was just doing a test with the sweet potato the zucchini turned out really nice anyways i'm gonna eat then uh hopefully uh do some more filming the sun is just going down i think it's gonna be a real nice night all right so as you can see it's starting to get dark i'm gonna get the fire going soon i had it for dinner then put it out and i'm going to get the fire going again and enjoy that the hammocks all set up i have nothing else to do with the hammock the mosquito netting is on the mattress pad is down the sleeping bag is ready to go i'm good to go i have everything set that i need i'm really hoping that i'm going to enjoy sleeping in the hammock if not well too bad what am i going to do i have to give it a try and hopefully i can sleep well a lot of people really love sleeping in a hammock so that would be fantastic because being able to come out to a spot like this in a walk-in spot and be able to use the hammock that's awesome so gonna have fire you're not gonna see the last of me tonight but hopefully when you see me in the morning i'll be all smiles because i had a great night's sleep on the hammock i also didn't set up the tarp i hope i don't regret that it doesn't look like it's going to rain i have the mosquito netting to protect me from anything they gently falls on me i said gently so any squirrels or any chipmunks want to jump on top of me you know what i think the mosquito netting is going to save me anything else than that then i could be in trouble hopefully no bird poop or anything like that so it should be good i'm excited i'm gonna get this fire going and enjoy a nice big fire before uh hitting the bed in the hammock here we go there's nothing like a good campfire am i right there's just something about a campfire that makes everybody wanna sit around and talk when i uh take my kids camping they're still young so they don't really appreciate the campfire as much they're like you know roasting marshmallows and making s'mores that kind of stuff but as far as just sitting around hanging around the campfire it's not a big deal to them that's fine when they get older they'll enjoy it um i know i for sure enjoy it and as a kid i didn't get to do a lot of campfire so i really enjoy having a good campfire right now i think uh i'm pretty exhausted from that hike it was uh a long one wasn't as challenging as my first one which was funny but it was a long one so i think what i'm gonna do is uh i'm gonna burn what i have here probably keep it going for an hour so have a frosty beverage maybe some snacks and then try to get myself into that hammock not gonna lie to you i'm a little bit nervous i don't have a backup plan at this point so it's hammock or bust hopefully the hammock doesn't bust and uh yeah so i'm excited it's one of those things that uh i wanted to try i'm only here for the night so if i get a horrible sleep i still have a 20 kilometer walk or hike out of here it will teach me a lesson to uh make sure i get the hammock set up properly i really wish i had more space for the hammock uh today um but again you don't know when you go to these sites you have no idea what you're getting yourself into so anyways i'm gonna enjoy the rest of this fire maybe do some uh astro photography get some time lapses going something like that i'm not too sure all right well wish me luck and uh see you in the morning good morning well i did it i slept in the hammock i thought it was going to be a lot rougher than this i made a lot of changes kind of at night time because it's my first time so i didn't like the uh sleep pad so i got rid of the sleep pad and then i just kept the sleeping bag it was a little chilly but nothing really bad like it's a warm night so i think i'm okay the bugs weren't bad i mean i have the mosquito netting but they weren't buzzing or anything um yeah everything was pretty decent it was actually really comfortable i wasn't sure if i was gonna be able to fall asleep right away but you know what the next thing you notice it's the morning time um i did wake up a couple times i guess and uh i mean that's fine when i'm camping i'm always waking up anyway so it's not that big a deal so i think it was pretty successful uh nothing fell on me everything looks good um so i wasn't too too cold i was pretty comfortable and nothing fell on me so i'm going to consider that to be a win-win so we'll see maybe this is uh my new thing when i'm camping to bring the hammock and just set up the hammock um i just say set up the hammock but there's still lots of stuff to set up uh then just the hammock i think ideally that would be the best thing for me to be able to just set up the hammock and go under the stars i was able to uh i have some tree cover here but i was able to see the stars at night and that was pretty darn cool okay so time to get up i'm going to uh make some coffee have a little bit of breakfast and i got another 20k hike out of here so let's go so got some walnuts and some cranberries because i'm not a big fan of oatmeal so i'm all done i packed up the hammock packing i think was pretty decent i think it's a little bit quicker than the tent i have a small tent but uh the hammock packed up pretty well i got everything uh put away and uh i love that they all come in their own pouches that is awesome so i did a quick tour of the site i think we're pretty good it's uh it's pretty uh clean uh there was some garbage here before but not much so whoever was here before me nice job i think uh i'll get going i got about uh four hours i don't think i'm going to uh videotape much unless i see something really really nice because uh i'm trying to get back home and uh hopefully i can do that so i might get the camera up but for the most part i think i'm just gonna try to track it and get home as quickly as possible because it's hot and uh got stuff to do at home so plus i miss the family of the kids okay thanks for watching and we will see you next time bye site you
2021-08-18 20:23
