Exploring the Untouched Wilderness of the Great Lakes | Restless Viking
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- We head off into a very remote wilderness in the Great Lakes. It isn't the upper peninsula - it's much more remote. Poppins and I are in search of a little train stop on a nearly abandoned rail line, dozens of miles from a remote public road. Overlanding in the Algoma District of Ontario.
This is an overlander's playground.
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(That footage at the end! 😨!!!)
Poppins inside the Jeep with her mosquito net on; I laughed out loud because I would probably do that too. 💗
1962, my dad took our family to Wakimi Lake Provincial Park. North of Thessalon about 100 miles. All gravel roads, my mom was not happy, riding in the back of a two door pickup with a topper. My brothers and I were in heaven though, awesome memories.
Very interesting. I’ll be sharing your videos with my husband
Poppins, you're amazing!💛💙💚💜❤
Awesome trip. Thanks for filming your adventure .
I love these types of adventures. Thank you for taking us along 👍😎
I rode that train back in the early 80s,stood in the vestibule between cars,with my head out the open door! Well,you know,those toilets,don't have any holding tanks,and I got sprayed with piss,with every flush😢! A few other young guys stuck their heads out.
I went and washed off, didn't notice the smell in the wind!till I washed my face off.
We stopped and dropped of mail,canoes,food and ppl,or dogs and sleds!
But the climb up to the top of Agawa canyon was quite a veiw,considering most of Ontario is pretty flat south of Barry!
It'd be nice if that train ran again !
Thanks for taking us along on your adventure! Way to be a trooper Poppins !!! I loved the bug net with the Hat! Awesome!
We have done the tour train and it too was great, as was the canyon lunch break it provided.
Love adventure drives and will do them with you. No bugs come through on CZcams. More!
LOL. We plan on doing more.
Beautiful scenery, cool video.
Thanx 4 sharing.
Many thanks!
Hot Date and I spent part of our honeymoon on the Agawa Canyon Train. I saw there was a town at the other end we could have stayed at, but didn't figure there was anything there. So, we just took the ride to the canyon. Still worth the trip.
My dad used to take us fly-in fishing north of Wawa.
Poppins ❤
I grew up in Thunder Bay in the 50s and 60s and I have a sister who still lives there. I go back often Chicago Duluth Thunder Bay but a few years ago I went the SE way from Thunder Bay. It’s almost shocking how different it is. So much less developed. And that’s an understatement. I saw cross country bicyclists on that road and wondered what are you thinking!! Miles and miles of nothing
Great Adventure with POPPIN'S driving I felt so much safer with her driving us Chuck :) and loved the hat POPPIN’S :) Happy Trails To You.
Happy holidays!
Thank you another wonderful vid. I enjoyed it with my morning cup of Joe.
Love the film , keep wheeling thru the bush !!
My wife and I just traveled on the Agawa Canyon Railroad just two months ago. It was a long day, but defiantly worth doing.
wow
Thanks for posting this! It brings back great memories from the 70's and 80's of camping at Pancake Bay and Batchawana Bay and then catching the train in Frater to the canyon. I seem to recall the train station was in someone's house which also served as a post office.
Very cool!
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Selectable lockers are an expensive but totally worth it.
We've taken the Agawa Canyon tour train several times. Poppins gets a gold star for surviving this adventure! Bugs - I hate those bugs.
Never been across the International Bridge but I have been halfway across the adjacent railroad bridge several times many years ago.
Wow - I know right were you are! I was a timber surveyor for Domtar many years ago. The stories we could share!
Very cool! The stories indeed!
That is so cool! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks!
Welcome! And thank YOU!!
Nice rubi and great to see it in it's normal terrain , Here in Oz they dont bring in the Diesel version 😥
Thanks! They don't have the Diesel down there? Wow. It is almost always the other way around.
💚Poppins
#mysisterinlawiscoolerthanyours and she’s smart too. 💕Poppins💕
Another great adventure! Poppins, get Chuck to take you to a spa!!!🤣😂
🤣😂 We just finished a "Poppins Weekend" with wine tasting, resale shops, cute dinners and dress up weddings. So . . .
👍Well played!@@RestlessViking
Great video Chuck and Poppins. I just got back yesterday from my Canadian adventure east of the Soo. Canoed at Temagami and then adventured north and west of Elliott Lake with friends who live there. My weather was similar to yours.
--Rob Burg
I like that are. There's lots to explore over there!
Looks beautiful. Now you have me researching Canada "trails"
Yeah! Glad to hear it! There is a good Atlas to start your research called Ontario Backroads. Of course, GAIA has many of them too. We find the mystery of the unmapped roads to be a lot of fun.
@@RestlessViking thanks for the direction! I was just starting to try and figure that out.
Great adventure video! I've only crossed the bridge at the Soo once, three decades ago to go skiing at Searchmont. Picked up a brochure for the Agawa Canyon Snow Train, but haven't made it back there yet. Someday...
Great video! I have been to Frater and beyond a number of times and great to see you explore there.
Taking off to the boonies to a whole new level. Looks like fun.
❤ Poppins.
Also, this channel is awesome.
(another Michigander)
Yay! Thank you!
We were laughing at Poppins driving the Jeep with the bug net. Definitely something I would do, lol.
😂😀 - She is a trooper for sure.
Ah, memories of Pukaskwa National Park and hiking the White River with my Dad after dropping my Mom off at my Grandma and Grandpa's in Hancock. I don't recall us doing much south of Wawa, though like Isle Royal was amazing to me how tame like the fox were up there. Also, how insanely giant and invasive the bugs are when in season. About the same in the UP in regards to the critters, at least the northern parts I'm familiar with along the lakeshore. Thanks for sharing! Neat seeing the Agawa area.
Great video, haven't been able to do many adventures this summer thnx,hope theres another video showing the town or if is anything left of it lol.
You’re a trooper Poppins❤. My wife is not a big fan of that much adventure. But we’re working on it 😂.
Great video guys!
Poppins, yer a real trooper, eh!
Great video, sending a big Canadian hug and *sorry* for the bugs 😅
😁 😄
When I was Yooper copper country I got a bug jacket that was bug net vented under the air pits and had a bug net that zipped up on to the hood to protected the face. Add a fishing hat with a brim all the way around and it keeps the net and hood off the face even more. The bugs were brutal and I would not have survived with out it and DEET
Bug shirts are a life saver! We usually wear them when bugs are bad, they were there, but not "bad" on this trip. Poppins has a full bug suit - two jackets and a number of head nets!
Eh i go up a Wart Lake Its 71mi north of the Soo. My fam has a Cabin on in Island. cool old land.
Such an awesome adventure that you took us on. It's a gorgeous area. Loved the bug net! Do the two of you ever get a tad freaked out when you're "alone" in the woods???
Good question. It would be rare for both of us to get worked up while in the wilderness. Alone in a large city (to Chuck) is a more of a concern than in the woods, where he has spent a huge share of his life. Poppins isn't afraid of the wilderness, cities or Chuck. 😀
LOL, love it. Thank you.
On my list, highway 17 mainly in my converted Promaster from Grand Portage Minn to Detroit Mich. Will avoid secondary roads like 101 and 144, have 350-400 mile range at moderate cursing speeds, though they look good but boring from the street views.
Another great video. However it ended abruptly and left me wanting more. Please tell me there is a part 2
Great adventure! I did a course with the Fortune Bay bunch back in 2016 I think it was. I was prepping for a Canadian adventure myself. A friend of mine went on a few with a 4x4 group up there and gave me some tracks. Between covid and a kidney transplant, it's been put on hold. I still love getting to the UP. Funny for as many times as I have been to the Soo, I haven't crossed over to Canada.
Very cool. I used to give a lot of classes with Fortune Bay. Canada holds a lot of adventure and I really hope you are able to get up there soon!
That road is what my dad would call a "speed road" on the old Press On Regardless Road Rally which was held in the UP about 30 years ago. They've stopped having it there but in its heyday it was considered even worse than Baja. When he said "speed road" he meant that the drivers would be doing 50-60 mph, if you can imagine driving that fast on that road.
I think POR was the last WRC event in the US. I've heard stories about it from a couple older rally guys. Then there is the story of a Lancia Stratos abandoned somewhere in the UP.
@@Rattles02 That wouldn't surprise me at all (the abandoned Lancia Stratos). Probably in the Huron Mountains.
@@theresemalmberg955 One of the car mags ended up doing an article about it a while back. I think it was somewhere just out of Hancock supposedly but a car like that, I would assume it is just a tall tale.
@@Rattles02 Outside of Hancock? Doesn't seem likely. Too close to main roads, towing facilities--something like that wouldn't be left there for long. Now the Hurons on the other hand, I can see. They are off the beaten track. In fact I would not be surprised if there were more than one abandoned vehicle back there.
Looking good , you got carpenter skils and the work ethic to get it done. I got everything and more done that I had planned for the week. The heat was brutal but got er done..and even had time for friends and family up this weekend to cap off a successful week, but I'm not 25 anymore, I feel it.. 😂
Right on!
@RestlessViking sorry probably did not make sense for ya, waa replying to a different post and some how ended up on yours 🤣
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Poppin, if you have less bug bites, you are the winner
Either of us got any bites - that makes it a victory for Poppins!
Post your old videos at Frater Chuck!
They aren't mine (I got permission for the edited video in video footage) - someone else produced the video (I wasn't a video guy back then). There might be something on the Fortune Bay Expedition Team FB Page - I think we posted stuff around 2010 and did an expedition to the canyon on foot and exited via train. They have a small channel with some footage too - there might be something there. @fortunebay
After the mosquitos up there finish you off, they go after your family.
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This was great! What year is jeep? Does it have the 3.6?
Thanks Josh. It is a 2001 with the 3.6.
@@RestlessViking '01 ?!?!! Great shape!
LOL!!! Sorry! "2021"!!!@@gus473
Are there fuel stops available? Or are you carrying extra?
Once you hit the Frater Road, no fuel stops, we carried extra fuel. Highway 17 does have a few but there is a 70 mile stretch without fuel (Frater Road is in the middle).
Does that make you in the market for some better off road tires?
They were ordered before the trip, but waiting for the buy 3 get one deal. 😄 Those tires had too many miles.
Yeah, the net on poppins was hilarious!
Bugs do love her and the net does work wonders for her.
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You guys go on the coolest adventures. I definitely want to take my girlfriend over the bridge to canada. It’s crazy how a 30min drive past the bridge is such a huge change in scenery.
Crazy Indeed and very true!
Why didn’t you show us the town of Elton?
Some of the footage is in a SD card, in a drone, in a tree in the far off wilderness. The rest of the footage, the GoPro (as often happens) didn't capture it. It was just a field and 1 cabin.
Is the Frist aid kit for Bear Nations or Medical Refuge?
The ones we carry?
@@RestlessViking The one above you in the Jeep?
Ah - that is just an old mollie map bag with registration, edc items, passport, etc. I carry a rebuilt Adventure Medical Mountain Medic kit (and a current certification as a WFR. It is a "big" kit, so it is in a place under the backseat - not as accessible as above my head. That's a good idea for a smaller kit.