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Thank you very much!! I am leaving in a month to do another grouse & shed hunting trip. Unfortunately, I do live quite far away from ely. If I lived there, I would be posting dozens of trips a year:) I live in the quad cities, Iowa. About 9 hours away:(

Thank you SOOO much. Sometimes, I doubt this channel will ever take off. But I know what I'm doing out there is worth putting the time in to record & edit. And comments like yours help keep that doubt at bay a bit. I'll keep on keeping on with this channel for awhile longer. Have a trip coming up in Sept:)

I have one for every one of my trips! Check out the other videos if you get time:) my bestfriend Roman I hope to join me next year on his first trip

@@MichealGrabosch I watch all your videos - love the content! It'll be great to see Roman out there in the woods. :)

I have bounced around the idea of being a guide for a while as i have been asked a lot. There are a lot of factors. Mostly because the trips I take are my vacation time from my jobs. I get 7 + weeks a year but i do not live near bwca. I live 9 hrs south in iowa. So if someone one day really wanted to make a go of it, I would love to do it all as a guide for them over the top. Setting up camp, porting gear, showing all tips from my years, taking them where they want, do what they want to do, chop wood, start fires, cook meals, provide the canoe, food and gear etc etc. But it would have to be worth my time due to it not being my regular job* I am a finish trim carpenter and work at ups. So there would have to be a lot of back and forth conversations about it.

The last week of Sept is so beautiful. The trees are so vivid with colors.

I have never seen another one, but wenonah does still make them. An Aurora. It is a very all well rounded canoe! My favorite by far, and I have paddled most of them. But I also convert this canoe from a tandem into a solo because I go on such long trips. It's a huge benefit to having more space. It is a very deep canoe.

Right?! I thought she was going to let go at any point.

That is to put it lightly. My first 4 times traveling solo in p.m.a for over 3 weeks at time, the best rated footware gave out! I now use which I have used 2 trip and year round at work and out to eat sometimes because they look nice! - La Sportiva Raptor 2 or something

However, I do not wear them for ankle support. I wear them for their lightweight feature, best durable, and a nice solid toe in case I stub it hard on something. The grip is amazing on rock. Around camp and when porting I wear waterproof seal socks. Around camp, I wear artic shield insulators with socks and or sandlas. It's amazing

@@MichealGrabosch Thanks! I will check them out. I usually where Xtratuffs when it's cold but being rubber they are hard to swim in when they fill up with water. I wear the Keens when it's warm but need something for cold water paddling and or more rigorous type of trips

Thank you so very much! The number of cuts, scrapes, or soreness is crazy after getting to a lake off grid. Haha. It takes a good week about until I am even able to physically make it back out of there. Thanks so much for following my journey.

Not really. 2 of the big northern were. I try not to put all fishing back to back so people don't get bored if they don't like the fishing aspect. I try to space fishing out in the video

There are. But she failed anyways in the long run.

@@MichealGrabosch daaaaang

@@riftster313 hyeaaa :/

Great question. I have used some of the best. All of them have failed me on 25-30 day solo trips. All have ended up with part of the toe side coming off. Except these I have used for 3 trips and work every freakin day! La Sportium. Ultra raptor 2

Thanks, great video. Heading up to bwca next week and excited to be back behind the paddle.

Thank you very much. This is one of the biggest accomplishments I have achieved. I'm so happy to be able to share it with people who love the same thing.

Thank you so much for following my adventures. I have a big one coming up in late Sept adding grouse to my diet while out there

I only wear one when crossing large lakes or in bad weather. To each their own

I am not quite sure. I plan on doing a gear review soon for people that have asked

@@MichealGrabosch thanks!! I go but never solo, nor pma. Really dig your videos and lifestyle!

@@Jpica12_23 thanks bro

Wow. Your feedback is such a boost. Thank you. I have been out on trips where I troll so much that I ruined my trip by exerting too much energy.

Pma is different in so many ways. The biggest I've noticed is that lessons learned are usually learned the hard way out there. Haha

I hope to live long enough to be able to live vicariously through my memories 😉

So much thanks! I'll make sure each new video is better than the last if you promise to keep following 😉

Thank you

@@gottafly125 thank you

I so much appreciate the feedback! Like a longer version of the fish catching? I still have all the footage, but there are about 170 hrs. Haha, I have a lot of tips I've recorded, which I was going to make a long segment on. Some people asked for gear review as well

I run into a lot of moose. Especially when shed hunting. When they get up by you & cast a shadow over you. It's crazy. But not near as crazy as watching them just plow down trees running from little old me. Haha

I mean, a 2-3 hour version of this would be awesome. Just my opinion though. I for one like the many hours long trip videos, even if there’s multiple segments. Still, what an amazing trip! Congratulations on being the next guy to put his name up.

I hope you get to see the trees start to turn. It gets so beautiful in late Sept. Mid Sept, you still have no bugs and a lot fewer people:) Thank you both for following my journey

One other one which I could not find anything on the internet, through Rangers or pma forums was pitfall lake in the pitfall pma. I have a video about 3 yrs ago making it there. It was crazy terrain to bring a canoe to. Anyone that made it there in the past with a canoe ... well, they must be as crazy as I am, I suppose. Was not as well edited or video taped as I am getting now. Next year, I move onto quetico, and there are enough lost lakes to time to last me a lifetime

Thank you btw

Turning 40 in a month. Therefore, I am trying to push it as hard as I can working out year-round for these trips until one year I'll need to start cutting back on what I am doing out there.

Thanks! I can totally do that. I started out with a lot different gear. Have tried it all about. And may stick with what I have for a long time now. I'll try to put together a video of that in the next month or so.

@@MichealGrabosch along that line, I'd love to see a shot of your tackle box, and favorite lures. I rarely target pike in the bwca, but it looks like fun.

@@analyzerguy I can do that::)

@brandon-ogle ill be back up there in late Sept when the crowds are all gone ... as well the bugs. The last week of Sept is sooooo beautiful up there with all colors in full bloom. That and I get to add grouse to my diet the whole trip:)

@@escapewithjay I am interested. Thank you so much!!! 💓

@@MichealGrabosch Hey Micheal, did you happen to see I sent you an email about beef sticks? I know you said you sometimes dont check your email so I just wanted to follow up in case you missed it. If you were not interested that is ok I just didnt know if you saw the email. Thanks man!

@@escapewithjay no I did not. Send me a friend request and I'll be able to see messages. It hides them from people not on my friends list:)

@@MichealGrabosch Not sure what you mean by friend request, are you referring to facebook? I sent it to the email you gave me a while back

Thanks, bud! I put like 40+ hrs into editing this trip with over 130 hours, so it fit into 30 min while working 63 hrs a week.

Thank you Very much! I hope and pray that I have many more years of adventures to share with everyone. Tomorrow, I am posting my recent trip from this year.

Those are nice!! I have one. But where I go, I need the long reach of the silky saw in order to schlack trees above my head to fit my canoe through ports I make:/

@@ajcannoli2421 youtube only allows shorts in portrait for phones. My trips are all recorded on a gopro - widescreen

@@MichealGrabosch dang, that's unfortunate. I just paused and disabled rotate. lol

@RandallW20 I wish I lived up there, too! Haha. I'm 10 hrs south in iowa. I just have a lot of vacation time at my job and choose to use it all for bwca and deer hunting season. Thanks for the support!

@@MichealGrabosch Wow, Iowa. Been through there on the way up to BWCA. Not much there in Iowa. 🤣 I’m another ten south of you in Texas. There’s not much here either. I try and spend my time out in NM & CO. Wish those north woods were closer though. It’s the most free I’ve ever felt being up there. The wife and I are looking at moving away from here and northern/central MN. Is at the top of my list.

@@escapewithjay it is my best trip and edit yet. A lot happens through it all. Haha 😀

@@MichealGrabosch when were you up there? we just hit slowfoot lake end of june. it was our first run into the pma.

Last week of May until mid-June. If I had gone any later than that, the water levels being lower would have made it near impossible. I hope you had a good experience. P.m.a teaches you things each time. Lessons learned out there are memorable;)

@@MichealGrabosch I told my buddy about your trips and showed him your rebuilt fire pit at delta. With the success of making slowfoot under my belt I was going to offer to team up with you to make starlight if you didnt make it this year. I will add a link to your video when I upload my slowfoot video tomorrow in the comments. Hopefully get you a few more views from my audience. How did you learn someone was there 59 years ago? and, is the starlight in the picture?

@escapewithjay nothijg against you, but this year, I need solo trips more than ever. I have lost more this year in my life than ever before. Knowing I was the first one there in 59 yrs almost exactly will be shown on the video. Very special thing to have found and be a part of. Also something I found on the lake that explains it for sure, along with 9 massive trees in the waterway, i had to saw through. To get there ... it was incredibly hard. I'm talking about carrying canoe/gear through a few miles of bog. You will see...;)

Thanks so much for following! Next week I will release my latest adventure where I made it to a lake, no one has been to since 1965

@@MichealGrabosch I will watch it, but I will have to wait an extra week because I sir will be in the Boundary waters paddling my canoe!

Amazon. They are like $20 for the nice ones. I very much appreciate you following the page! I hope it keeps growing over my years of adventures. Stay tuned. Next week, I'll be posting my recent one from ajune... And it was 👌

Thank you so much! In a week or so, there will be a new one with even better fishing/traveling memory

Thank you so much! I started making these for my grandma to see. But she passed away a couple of years ago. Didn't know if I should keep putting in all the effort editing 100+hrs of footage. Seeing some feedback from you and others helps a lot! It's nothing compared to my grams smile and laugh, though ☺️

I am editing one of my recent and best adventures up there yet from nune

I can't wait to show it. Just need to find time to put it all together.❤️. I took a lot of time to show how I do things and make my routes through pma

@@michaelmcsweeney9742 I totally understand. I wear mine when crossing the middle of lakes or in bad weather. I know it'd be wise to wear it all the time. I may get to doing that as I age a bit more. I'm turning 40 in a couple months

Why should one get angry when wisdom is shared?

@kattalasso I spend a lot of time targeting just the large ones.:)

Many many thanks

@@steveklick I recorded on the map while out there where I went. Once the video is together, you'll know:) as well anyone else that watches. Ahha

@@MichealGrabosch great!

@@terrygrabosch4882 no fires. Just fog this trip. Had a lot of hail I'll post in my next video. I usually do have a green paranoid wrapped around my feet. Because YES, if that canoe had ever gotten away from me, with where I was, that could be the end. I would have to swim to shore fighting hypothermia and follow the bank till I find my canoe through thick cover. Then paddle back to camp.