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Wilderness Canoe Association
Canada
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If you share our love for wild places and the canoe as a means of exploring them, then we invite you to join us.
The Wilderness Canoe Association is a non-profit organization of individuals interested in the outdoor pursuits and in wilderness travel by canoe.
Mission Statement:
The Wilderness Canoe Association is the best place to find friends who share your passion for the outdoors. With first-class camping content to enjoy, dozens of trips to participate in, and hundreds of experienced members to help you take tripping to the next level, you’ll be living your paddling dreams in no time.
Sharing the Wilderness Experience since 1973.
The Wilderness Canoe Association is a non-profit organization of individuals interested in the outdoor pursuits and in wilderness travel by canoe.
Mission Statement:
The Wilderness Canoe Association is the best place to find friends who share your passion for the outdoors. With first-class camping content to enjoy, dozens of trips to participate in, and hundreds of experienced members to help you take tripping to the next level, you’ll be living your paddling dreams in no time.
Sharing the Wilderness Experience since 1973.
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Very heavy setup for backpacking.
Something we are not doing.
Awesome job lads controllled
Thank you for sharing this story. Great lessons learned.
Nice line!
I believe that several Black Feather guides went to a lot of trouble to come and offer assistance but no thanks was given to them
Great video to lend practical experience to us all. Thanks.
We all make mistakes. Its important to have equipment and skill set to get out of trouble
Its helpful watching you guys navigate these rapids. I'm taking away some good pointers.
Think about joining our club. There are a lot of members and outings.
This looked like so much fun! Definitely takes a lot of communication!
Yes you need to talk to your parter in a good 2 way communication. You can hear we are always discussing options and then one of us suggest a direction and generally 99% of the time, we are in agreement.
What portage/dry bags are you using?
Typically Iori and I use a 70 liter MEC Dry bag (like a Sealline bag). We bring what we need. Others use a 130 liter Sealline bag and bring lots of stuff.
Wow looks familiar. in 2017 our first night off the Keele we saw these green clouds quickly approaching us so we tied everything down tight and hoped it would be enough. The first gust hit full force blowing away our tent and collapsed shelter as the rain pelted down. My wife had been clever enough to put on her dry suit, but I had not. By the time we rescued our gear I was slightly hypothermic and spent the rest of the night wrapped up in an emergency blanket inside the shelter. Fortunately morning dawned sunny and calm. We certainly learned our lesson and friends now think us paranoid when we camp on sand or gravel bars.
One thing I always do is tie off all the boats. You can not loose a boat. I have short cords tied to my tent that I can tie to rocks or sticks (piled with rocks) to secure my tent. The day my tent turned into a tumbleweed was during an early morning pack up and I wanted to dry the bottom of the tent. It decided to roll around a bit damaging the fly.
Nice, useful, and good info. Well done
Thanks buddy!
Good job Gary! Here's Larry doing an assortment of advanced moves right away.
Water seemed a little high for beginners.
Most of the rapids are so completely washed out at this level that there is nothing to them except a long wave train. Split Rock Rapids is generally the same at every flow. Volume just makes the features bigger. This is kind of the appeal of the Snake Rapids section; each one can be so different under different conditions, that it is always interesting and challenging no matter what.
The flow was 125 m3/sec. At this level Palmer Rapids has all the rocks on the left covered. At 20-40 m3/sec you would be forced to the right hand side of the river. One of the great things is every weekend the water is at a different level and each rapid slightly different
This is an interesting video. The descriptions are good and the some of the features shown are interesting. My only complaint is of the video work. The head mounted cameras are disorienting with the fish eye effect and the rapid panning. Mixing head cam footage with fixed camera footage (preferably not wide angle) would add significantly to the quality of your very interesting and useful video.
It is noted! I have talked to Gary about how he waves his head all over the place. It does not make for good canoeing form either.
@wildernesscanoeassociation Darn that Gary! Thanks for posting the video. They aren't many videos about winter paddling, and very few good videos on local paddling.
At 28:29; that was just a textbook low brace. Almost like you knew what you were doing!
It is from practicing to roll. Of course the situation arose because of paddling lazy and passive all day.
@@eberlymj It was a dandy save, Matt!
Keep doing your pushups and chin-ups, and you will master the roll!
you might enjoy the music video of my 2023 Nahanni trip: czcams.com/video/EL2_2JmaxVg/video.html
Sure, thanks for that.
Anyone tried the H20 Alpha yet? Looks like fun!!!!!
I have not seen one in person.
My first white water experience thanks gary Chris and Tom and all wca members Larry mchrnry
You already reached the eddy at Rifle Chute, so you are an old hand at this.
I've had similar issues reading Kevin's book and trying to match portages up that were different lengths on newer maps. Thanks for the credit on the Frontenac footage btw!
I could point to a few things specifically, but generally Kevin's books are reliable. At the same time, especially in Lost Canoe Routes, conditions change and where there is not a lot of traffic, nobody is specifically responsible, so that there are no guarantees.
I suspect he doesn’t travel to the other provinces or the far north because the cost of one trip to the far north can cost the same as an entire summer of paddling in Ontario and his audience is people that want to paddle in nice areas they can drive to in a few hours and pay a few bucks for permits.
Absolutely. He certainly wouldn't recover the cost of a fly-in to the Yukon either, making a CZcams video out of the trip.
Glad to see you made it out while the flow was still up. Ran that myself about a month ago. Awesome job guys
Thanks 👍
"This is why I shouldn't have skimped on leg day at the gym, I think."
Smokes are performance enhancing donchaknow.
I found lighters don't work if the striker gets wet from wet hands so I went to a fire steel which works well.
Then it is the lighter that failed. In the cold though I don't think a spark will be enough. In the winter the fuel needs to be warmed first, thus the candle.
What an unbelievable trip, spectacular scenery!
It really is!
I have a Prospector 16. Haven't used it for years. I think it could haul 1400 lbs? I ought to blow the dust off of it and use it again.
I also have an Evergreen Prospector. Is yours Royalex? Evergreen did not put numbers on any of the canoes as far as I know. So I don't know what you mean exactly by Prospector 16, since I think there was only one model. Otherwise, yes, it is exactly 16 feet long and an excellent canoe. The Prospector is a little small. Maybe there is enough displacement that it could carry that much weight, but it does not have a lot of space.
@wildernesscanoeassociation It is a 16 foot Evergreen Prospector. Have owned it for quite some time. It does have a brass tag with a serial number on it. I purchased it at MEC in Edmonton. Funny story with that. Purchased it one week and the week after I drove back to Edmonton. Walked in the store. It was still hanging from the ceiling. Told them that's mine. They took it down, and I walked out of the store. Didn't even ask for the receipt. Hahaha 😀. I think it was $1500 at that time. Used it a lot in those days. Got to get back at it. I did enjoy those days. Also, I do not recall what it's made of? Not Royalex. Some other name. It's tough as nails though.
@@wildernesscanoeassociation Kevlar. Weighs 50 lbs.
That's nice! My Royalex one with outfitting weighs 74lb.
@wildernesscanoeassociation Yes. Pretty easy to carry. When I was younger, it was an easier lift over my head. Lol. Once I have it there it's pretty balanced.
I listened to Kevin on a podcast last year and he mentioned intentionally shying away from writing about whitewater routes as he doesn't want to encourage unprepared paddlers from attempting something dangerous. Definitely do not want to speak for him of course, but that was the general impression I had about from the podcast...
It is a fine line. Kevin teaches a lot of students some other skills, but is not a qualified canoe instructor.
I can’t believe that ‘pin’ released y’all……good thing!
Oh yes, it was pretty lucky.
Hi, there. Great presentation. I have a question: you mention your favourite hike - could you share its location? Is it the Netro area?
Looks like I'll have to get a copy. Thanks for the recommendation
I think you have enough experience that you would not need to read this book, but it is an especially good example.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Hey it's no problemo. It is fun to make videos!
Hey there! Hope ur doing well, will you be running an elora course this summer at all?
This year's course is 1 and 2 June 2024. Please send us an email and I can give you the contact information.
@@wildernesscanoeassociation amazing I'll get right on it!
The good word is that Northstar Canoes is using the original mold built by Dagger Kayaks, and previously used by the Bell Canoe Works.
Thanks Matt. Here in Dubai today thinking i should have brought a solo open boat. The streets are flooding again.😂
I don't suppose there are any rentals around, but it surely would be fun to paddle the streets!
Great job Matt
Thanks. The footage in this one only spans five years!
Shame they don't do a stainless steel version! I avoid cooking with aluminium and Teflon at all costs!
You missed something: they do have a stainless steel version ... the Trangia Duossal line is stainless inside food contact surfaces, aluminum outside for better heat distribution.
This is great. I checked out chocolate thunder yesterday and thinking it might be a good spot to practice(at current level). Just have to watch the dam below.
Is the video accurate enough? 'cause I don't actually know.
@@wildernesscanoeassociation No. It's much lower than the video. Fast and deep at the bottom, wave train a little further up, obstacles further up again... Lots of eddies on River right but parking on River left.
Your vids are great, found you a few months back. Great work. I too just did much of the same run a week or 2 ago. Amazing the difference between the flow. My CZcams channel is the same as my handle. Would love to join you sometime. Cheers. Kayak and wilderness adventures
Matthew you’re a great person and a great patient adventurer.
Cool! Nice to meet you today.
Thank you for this. I also read you story published pn the web and that's extra ordinary. That was a wake up call for me.
Thanks go to Dawne and David Robinson.
Great video, Matt! Nice history and narration.
looking pretty low --- probably the most common 3 words for the 2024 paddling season...
It is fine right now. In the video it was around 9cms which is pretty much the lowest it can be run.
That's better! :) (less gravel)
We were very lucky, in that it rained substantially the day before the trip.
Fantastic video Matthew! It was fun reliving this memorable trip and learning more of the history through your narration. Thanks again for inviting me to be a part of it!
Oh thank you for helping, we owe you a debt. This was definitely the most documented thing we have done, with the best production.
next time put the helmet on BEFORE the danger! hahahaaaa
Exact!
Well done Matt. Very thorough on the details.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Notice how I did not explain where we camped.
like it. perfect trip- talk to you soon~ 👍
Thanks for visiting
I wish your written description included your start & end points.
They started from the Streetsville Memorial Park on Church Street, and went down to Port Credit. But the video does not show any of the top actually, and begins at Erindale Park. We will make a better video with a lot more explanation in the future, and are still accumulating footage.
I always found that going down to Port Credit not worth the extra time. I liked the video. However, the Rapid right above Dundas St at Erindale Park is the best on this section of the river.
It is the biggest feature. The Credit just isn't very challenging for kayaks.
Thanks for showing this. For me this is the only stove with the soul and i'm glad it will live long.
It is our pleasure. I agree that the quiet calm of the wilderness is kind of ruined by bringing along a blast furnace. These stoves are more gentle and consistent with the environment.
I would do this again... at twice the volume and take out where you did! Truly a great river. Thanks for this video, Gary!