Good day friends! So today, we're going to be doing something actually quite unique
for us - we are going to be doing - it's almost like a back...I guess it is a
backwoods camping. We have rented a backwood cabin and we
are going to be doing a seven kilometer hike in, and then spending in a couple
nights there. There's going to be no electricity, there's going to be no other
people, and it is going to be absolutely fantastic!
So right now it is the Labor
Day weekend here the very end of August, and so we wanted to take the opportunity
to get out, get away from everything, and just enjoy some peace and quiet!
Because we've never done this, we are having a little bit of a challenge of
packing our backpacks. So we've all backpacked in different places across the
world where we just basically live out of that backpack, but camping you got to
take a whole host of other things. You got to take your little pots and pans, you
go take your food, we're taking chairs to sit on, so we're finding a
little bit of a challenge to try and fit everything in, but hopefully we'll be
able to figure out - without too much more problems.
Is it all going to fit?
Catherine, you packed way too much stuff .
Is it a blank check?
Credit card?
It's an annual pass.
Oh nice.
For Parks Canada.
It's only good until today!
Thank you guys very much. Enjoy. You guys know where you're going and everything?
Thanks!
Take care! Enjoy!
We are here: Visitor Center and we're parking at Eel Weir,
So we have to drive to there.
And then hike into there.
Which she said is 8.5 kms, which I thought was 7kms.
So Akane, we've got some bad news.
Oh what!
The hike is actually over eight kilometers long.
WHAT?
Not that bad.
Max's legs probably going to fall right off!
Poor little buddy.
Fishing without a fishing license.
Fishing license?
Yeah, you need a fishing license to fish here.
What?
Oh look, it says right here on this paper - I thought maybe it would.
Use a filter. Bleh!
Boil the water for a minimum of three minuyes.
Adam is testing the limitations of this vehicle to the max.
Yes, so far I realized
that you can scrape the bottom on huge rocks and it doesn't really matter.
Next we should see how it does as a boat!
Yeah!
I've never cleaned these shoes.
That was nine months ago? (referencing our Mexico trip)
Almost!
And I've got Adam strapping
my sleeping bag to my back, since I can't do it on my own.
So we're all in very poor shape.
We're good?
Oh, no.
What?
Don't worry about the eggs.
They're in a hard container, impossible to break.
Don't try and break it just because I said that.
That pretty handy having that right there in front of you.
Yes!
Okay Akane, we've been hiking for five or six kilometers so far, how do you feel?
Not too bad.
Really?
I'm dying.
Ok, you stay there.
My shoulders are dead!
Stop!
Oh! What do our eyes behold?!
But a cabin!
Yay!
W - 2
That's what we're looking for.
So some people go farther?
Oh yeah, this is our home...
for the next few days right here.
Wil-Bo-Wil cabin.
Unlimited free wood!
That's what we like.
I have a bit of burst blood vessels.
Oh man.
Oops.
You don't have to turn it?
You try.
Oh wait, does that push in?
I don't know.
Well, looks like we're sleeping outside tonight!
Oh! That's nice!
Even chairs!
Oh games!
Cards!
Oh nice.
Oh that's nice.
Oh, what's that?
Oh nice!
That game is fun.
Oh, they're actually big! We can sleep by each other.
Amazing!
This is bigger than I was thinking.
It's definitely bigger than I was thinking!
What do you think? That's a good one huh?
Now that's cool.
That's a nice little unit.
And the pot is fairly big, bigger than I thought.
Oh that's cool.
It's a handle.
It just attaches on.
did you get that from MEC?
Um Chris gave it to us, but it's I think from one of those places.
Nice.
That's handy.
That's how we are going to make our fire. And if that fails, lighter fluid and a torch!
Ok, so we're all set up camp, and made our
beds, put food away, put stuff in the coolers like they're supposed to be, and
now we're going keep following this path that is right along the cabin route and
it should take this right down to the lake, so we're going go grab some water,
because we bought ten bottles of water to bring and so that will only last us
so long before we're probably going to need to boil some lake water and use that for
cooking (for sure) and potentially drinking down the road depending on how
hot it is, and how much water we're drinking.
If you decide to stay in cabin W2, please be aware that small nice like this fellow are all over the place.
Come on friend!
Bye!
See ya.
After a fun-filled day of hiking we were ready for bed.
Be sure to check out part 2 (day 2) of this trip in the next video. It was simply too long to add to this one.
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Filmed August 2018