Into Alaska - Terrifying Windstorm Hits Hard |10-Days Family Camping in Alaskan & BC Wilderness -E.7
good morning good morning well here we are still in Telegraph Creek and we spent a better part of the afternoon yesterday dialing everything in for our canoe trip and trying to fit everything into the canoe before we uh hauled everything down the hill to the Pud in and it looks like it's going to fit we have you know a a lot of stuff because we're traveling with four people and a dog and all the gear we need to be safe out there um now the good news is is that uh there's no portages on this trip so this is like the only Portage is portaging from the truck down to the pudding this canoe is rated to over 1,400 lb I believe um so the weight's not an issue the only issue is finding enough space to put everything any who um yeah we're just going to have our coffee and eat some breakfast and we should be getting onto the river this morning so can't wait to experience the lower Sten [Music] go [Music] away so this is a new life jacket that we got for Wesley it's kind of acts as a neck ring and then it's got a lot of flotation just on his chest so it will basically flip him right side up so his head is out of the water no matter what so it's specifically made for disabled people so that they can feel extra safe when they get on the water sweetheart [Music] bringa for rainow S the [Music] Sandy [Music] oh my on Shore still here taking up okay we are on the water in a very heavily loaded 18t prospector but we are still under the uh amount of weight this puppy can take this thing's rated for over 1,400 lb so um and we have a swift coming up right off the Hop looks like left might actually be better no yeah a lot of boils hey a lot of boils but it does feel quite stable yeah it does this is a little wavy here eh yeah yeah no problem though he yeah like it the one thing about having a heavy load is that your stability is more you know yeah we're doing it we're paddling the Sten we're paddling the Sten [Music] yeah nice our [Music] body [Music] up around this corner we actually have a proper rapid so we have to like Scout it I mean we might yeah sounds like something but it looks like we could just pull up on this Gravel Bar good here it's just a booger it's just a booger um so there's a kind of a big winding blind corner here and I'm just walking down this Gravel Bar it's quite a walk but it's nothing of any seriousness but just cuz we have the kids I'm going to make sure that uh the Rapids safe some bigger stuff over there clear passage right through there annoying life jacket yeah I'm going to take one KNE [Music] too right just keep your eye on the far right see that got a piece of cake right nothing wo very good very nice woohoo good CL I think we're L scary but nailed [Music] it [Music] W beautiful sorry buddy away tall tan Fish Camp here go Dodge smoke C yay yeah oh wa look at this look straight ahead see that oh wow [Music] is [Music] that is bad Rapids so to run bad rapid it looks like we have to hit a line that uh we're going to need to be fairly precise on at the top and if we we hit that right we'll be able to miss the big waves and stay right and essentially just run a sneak route and avoid the whole thing I think we're going to crush this it doesn't look too bad no yeah you threw your hat in the water yeah well that wasn't so bad you pass me H's H now ready one two well we are past the Rapids and uh we're looking forward to cruising a bit further down river the scenery is just getting better and better Clearwater Creeks rolling in off the mountains making a nice hissing sort of babbling noise stacked mountains in the distance we're hoping to stop at a a fairly major tributary that um with any luck will hold fish at its mouth the sticken is a silty river milky as they call it um has a lot to do with the glacial till in it so typically where the fishing's good is where Clear Water tributaries pour into it and create a big Clear Water Back Eddy at the Confluence and so that's where we're going to fish I mean you still might catch something in a regular old back Eddie here but uh your chances are fairly low so yeah we're hoping to camp at a spot where um we might catch a fish and we'll definitely have a beautiful view that's uh a given in this country [Music] oh [Music] [Music] yeah nice look at that woo that is not a small fish it bit it hit right here like it hit right in front of my feet it's not exactly a tank but that's a good good amount of food eh good eater I'd say we're eating tonight yeah here Wes hey little cutie good job buddy are you fishing Wesley's fishing you want to catch a fish cuz you saw daddy catch one hey here we go he's so happy we're at the campsite right y was that a fun paddle you did good today Wesley did you like all the scenery yeah did you like the scenery today I think you did you go yay no more life jacket no more life jacket you going play with the dirt again aren't you no more life jacket G brother he yeah bud what did Mama do she's not letting me eat all the cck bars for dinner can't eat only CP bars for dinner but we bring eat some fish you want to eat some fish oh my goodness so helpful put's being very helpful Hudson stay close please far thank you uh want a little oh don't do that be gentle gentle what going holding up our no no no don't take that one no no no Hy don't take that one look bu guys I think yeah come sit down puty come sit don't need no help let's do pasta tonight spaghetti yeah yummy spaghetti dad daddy daddy Mama very good D dad dad play dad dad play dadad okay Dad Dad will play [Music] here you go [Music] Bud wussy loves it yeah more fast y yeah you got to rehydrate your brother's food [Music] [Music] ladybug tonight is pasta um I just rehydrated Wesley's dinner which is chicken pop pie I know sweetheart dinner is not going to take long well tried to get another fish no such luck but uh that one Dolly VAR in good size so uh it'll us with a little side of pasta or something uh also this tributary is uh right out of a glacier and it's kind of Milky um so I'm looking forward to hitting up some of the more clear water tributaries cuz I think typically they produce more fish but uh who knows it's that's fishing for you are you drinking a rock tea wow yummy Rock tea excited to this go M could use some more rocks oh I was worried about it it's pretty good eh yeah it's ripping yeah like oh everything is [Music] everywhere what' you do oh uhoh and North why you have a dog right there the rocks and everything very good honey I'm just using some fish Cris here because uh we forgot the Old Bay we left it in the spice rack I love Old Bay with Fish And we didn't bring any fish seasoning so we're going to have to uh do it the oldfashioned way huh huh fish hi plenty of time for that Hy hi I don't care enough okay I'm sit on Mama's Bo wind completely changed Direction hey weird eh one the other direction okay super windy all of a sudden I'm just H the swe help me help I can understand you're so scared it's pretty scary isn't it but we're okay right it's just wind it's just just sounds scary Wesley is just chilling look at him he's asleep already Wes's used to this camping situation huh lie down in here no yeah Mama's going to lie next to you it's okay not quite like that dummer still technically boy over there like a little bit of a crazy turn of events here all of a sudden what was a perfect evening just turned into AIC wind storm and it all happened right when I was about to finish cooking my fish so I think me and T are going to put our rain jackets on and eat that fish and climb into the tent but this is [Music] crazy and after all that it is now raining and the uh uh wind has pretty much stopped we just guide the crap out of the whole tent huie was super scared but Tori went in the tent and calmed him down and he fell asleep and all is well so um the tent we have is meant for like Mount Everest perfect mhm wow I need a drink after that I was so I was just like oh my God what are we going to do what if the tent shreds apart were you scared yeah I was terrified H scream crying I felt so bad mama it windy scream crying oh my my heart was breaking and then also shoved him in the tent thinking oh he's going to be protected from the wind in there and meanwhile he's just in the tent with the tent flopping around and he's more terrified it's the poor kid he has no idea yeah and we're kind of freaking out like you know chaos ensues cuz we're running around doing a bunch of stuff that was chaotic I think I was freaking out a little too much and I scared of tring over here well I was terrified I was terrified and I was just trying to not have terrified hey pretty good they were like it's going to be raining for the next 5 days yeah but we're on a trip for 10 days so maybe the next following 5 days will be nice and when we're in the rainforest nice and sunny and sunshiny okay so nighttime of day one and uh it threw a lot of different things at us from a beautiful morning to taking time to get on the river to starting out feeling uncomfortable packed in gear not in the right place scared that we were too heavily loaded to all of a sudden gaining our confidence running a bunch of Rapids and nailing some technical Maneuvers to hitting a nice beautiful stretch of river taking in the scenery and just getting to Camp catching a beauty fish right off the bat and being like oh man this is perfect what a nice evening to all of a sudden gale force freaking winds me to are thinking like 75 80 km an hour winds but uh yeah it was pretty scary I can't say I've ever really had um a raging Windstorm blow up like that out of absolutely nowhere but you know what at the end of the day yeah it wasn't what we wanted but we knew how to deal with it and we handled it and everybody's fine and we're looking forward to tomorrow on the river anyways it is late I'm tired crazy chain of advents today not to mention the Big Horn the Great Horn Owl I guess they have a nest around here that was just hanging out right over there calling at us so that was nuts but uh yeah looking forward to seeing what tomorrow has in store and uh I'm going to go to bed before my pants get any more wet come okay serious isue this morning I just woke up and climbed out of the tent and our canoe is [Music] gone
2024-01-02 20:34
