Algonquin Park's Meanest Link - PART 2: Walking The West
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- čas přidán 7. 11. 2018
- Alex and Noah made it to portage country, and Algonquin’s Western boundary is no exception. The first day in the park included 23 portages in 42 C weather followed by a meander down the “lost” river. A river so thick in alders, you get lost.
The Route:
McCraney Lake, Little McCraney Lake, Rain Lake, Casey Lake, Daisy Lake, Ralph Bice Lake, David Lake, Mubwayaka Lake, Pugawagun Lake, Pezheki Lake, Iago Lake, Papukiwis Lake, Manu Lake, Shawshaw Lake, Tim Lake, Chibiabos Lake, Indian Pipe Lake, West Koko Pond, Big Bob Lake, Nipissing River.
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Part 3 will be up Monday, November 12th
Atta boys !! love watching this, and learning too. Lets go brandon
Kudos for documenting when you're putting in those kinds of days! Looking forward to the rest of the series.
I have to say it’s fun watching you guys do this trip and what your thoughts were while on this trip compared to the Arctic trip series currently posted! I’d say the meanest link fails in comparison regarding the toughness of the trip. These were the beginnings of a love for expedition style tripping!
one of my favourite parts of Algonquin!
Making Giardia wraps for lunch on the bottom of your canoe: priceless! Personally I'm a wuss and bail out on trips with too many portages -I like to paddle and I don't mind a hike but I like to keep them separate-so you have all my respect. Happy adventuring!
Damn. Portage hell. 🏆 🥇
Gnarly! Love that cabin. I find pitas don't fare well on trips...naan and tortillas seem to have the character and willpower to last on trips like this.
Hahah the character plays a big part in wrap selection!
Great video guys! 23 portages in one day, unbelievable. Looking forward to part 3!
Fantastic part two guys!! The upper Nip can be torturous with alders and 'alder spiders'.. nice impromptu camp! :) Can't wait for part 3 (and thanks for not taking two weeks to put up part 2) Awesome work!
Luckily we didn't see any spiders, maybe because we were too worried about either being lost on this river or getting hypothermia from sleeping soaking wet in the canoe that night..Thanks for watching!
I just love that place! Great series guys. Looking forward to part 3
So Awesome! cant wait for Part 3
Awesome footage. The portages, the alders, these are what leave lasting memories. The snow is coming down in MN and this series has inspired me to start planing my spring canoe trip. Looking forward to part 3.
We always say it is the ultimate highs and lows of a trip that are the most memorable! Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed!
Love this series! Keep em coming.
Loving this series boys!! Good job.
Great video guys. Epic trip. Best part of the whole video is Noah “I don’t feel like I smell that bad” bwahaha
He smelt worse than he thought..lol
Glad to see you guys found the food drop I left for you at Rain Lake, hope you enjoyed the extra calories. ~ Randy M
Did you add the chocolate pudding???
Chocolate Pudding? Not sure that was chocolate pudding, are you sure a squirrel didn't get into your pack and leave a treat? Was it nutty and crunchy?
@@AlgonquinOutfitters haha yes in fact it was...we thought our mom had snuck it into one of the bags and then thought maybe we had it left over from previous years supply and somehow it snuck in.
This meanest link trip is not so tough from my end... Now on to part 3... Dennis, Canoehound Adventures
nice cabin ! good job guys
Wow! This is awesome, second guessing your decisions yet marking the right choices is a very character building experience I’m sure, I really wish I had been born in Canada and had the chance to grow up with these opportunities. Very enjoyable series... and how cool was that cabin. Great stuff, thanks... on to part 3. Cheers, Paul.
Each trip we find new experiences that build our character in one way or another. We are grateful to have grown up with all these great tripping areas near us! Cheers
Great adventure but I would have to have a line trolling along lol
This was one of the most difficult parts of the trip for us. Only having 9 days to complete 424km meant we had to be moving most of the time. That being said we both thought that if we had just had the rod set up the entire time, we would have been able to fish more and not be too far behind schedule.
travelled up that section of the nip once (grassy lake to big bob), i remember my dog staring at me as i kept telling him to put his head down because of the alders, neither of us will be going on that route again.. maybe down but not up.. good times! watching this series for the 2nd time, great inspiring stuff ! planning a canoe trip next year aug/sept from the town of killarney to opeongo lake in algonquin, so far just 2 of us, tried to convince the guys from A for adventure but its a tough sell lol let me know if you got a month to kill
Impressive portage record, but do you really remember what you passed? Ah youth. Thanks for bringing me along. Brian 78
Hey Brian great point! We both felt like we got about as much enjoyment out of this trip as we would have taking more time to complete it. The only exception to this is the fishing. We passed up some really great areas to fish in order to push a further distance. There was also one set of waterfalls that was really cool that I wish we could have checked out a little more but we got there late at night and were pushing distance to find a campsite.
Good job guys. Don't think of it as mould...think of it as penicillin ;)
haha we tried our very best to think of it that way!
12:40 was controlled outrage. I get that same way about not being able to eat sandwiches.
I feel you, my dude.
Was a Jr. Ranger in 98 did that stretch of the Nip. It sucked. Loved it but it sucked. Rumor has it there was a chainsaw forgot at a portage.
The same thing happened to my tortillas on my trip in May. I think it's something to do with the humidity in the food bag/barrel. Weird!
Glad to hear we are not alone haha
You guys sure get the share of rain on your trips
It's too bad you didn't know about the cabin or were in need of a camp when you did find it - that would have been a welcome sight at about dusk!
Yeah we both said it would have been awesome to stay there. Since we were trying to push as much distance as possible in a day, we had to keep going!
Haha! “To the river gods!” Um... shouldn’t that shot get poured in the river? I mean... when they give a tobacco offering... they don’t smoke it! :p. Awesome trip gents!
Maybe there would have been less Alders if we had...Thanks for watching!
This is sweet- but now, consider Chris and Julia Prouse doing the entire route in just over 6 days completely self-supported, no food drops or anything. :-)
Aaaand they also filmed....we have chatted with them about that. Amazing what they accomplished 🙌
@@NorthernScavenger Like you guys, Chris is a great cinematographer. Plus, she may be the strongest human I know. :-) I really enjoy your trips, and this is one I have always wanted to do, despite the 80 portages, including the Dickson-Bonfield 5k. :-)
@@NorthernScavenger Happened to be enjoying this series again - thanks for all the kind words NS and Dana! Truth be told, this is my favourite series on CZcams. I re-watch it sometimes when I'm missing Algonquin or have a bad day. Alex and Noah captured the vibe beautifully and it always puts a smile on my face :) I'm incredibly thankful for having been introduced to the Link through them, and their fundraising for Project Canoe encouraged us to do the same... so my hat's off to NS for all their hard work and dedication to the community 👍
@@ChrisProuse Hey, Chris!
Never seen thunder I’ve heard it though
haha you are missing out ;)
The trouble with these films is you're always eating, and eating better too, this makes for extremely challenging viewing...
Why weren’t you fishing
23 portages. Dirty. Hahaha.