Canoeing Across Temagami - PART 1: Canada Day on the Lady Evelyn

So this is where the official maintenance of the road ends. You can see how the gravel just stops. And now we're onto, this is what the road, most of the roads look like at one point. And with that, time to start the trip. All right, so we just got here to the launch at Gamble Lake. We're starting our nine-day trip through the heart of Tomogamy. We're starting on Gamble Lake, making our way through the Lady Evelyn River down into the Trout Streams, crossing Lady Evelyn Lake and into the where we're going to kind of play it day by day and figure out a route as we make our way back to Smooth Water Outfitters. Apparently we're going to have some pretty rough terrain going through some of those portages. They haven't been maintained nor traveled in quite some time and so of course that gets us rather excited. Pretty stoked to see what we have ahead of us. We are so stoked. So stoked. We just came to a spot that looks like it could be an old logging road. It's definitely man-made. We saw a bear already on our way into the access point which was pretty cool. I have a feeling we might see some more wildlife out here today. It's a pretty wild place. Seems like the right temperature right now. Yeah, we're all about those casts. Noah's got the first brook trout of the trip. Dude, that's a nice fish. That's launch, eh? Just opened that up, got rid of the guts. Looks like we have some lightning coming but that was close. It's been raining on us for about a couple hours now but as you can see behind us we've got some blue sky. It's nearing dinner time. We have our trout and we're on the Lady Evelyn River in between the two waterfalls. The plan is to stay at the second set of waterfalls coming up in the next kilometer or so and dry off a bit. Yeah, this is a 345 bro. I got my map back. We can't really find a portage. I don't know where Alex is but I'm pretty sure I can land this. So that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go to the opposite shore. All right, here comes the challenging part. Is there supposed to be a campsite here? This looks like a waterfall. I don't know, they've classified a few things strangely. We can line this. Yeah? Yeah. On the right side. See that little nook at two o'clock? Yeah. I don't know. It's kind of a rock garden. This is a real ankle breaker of a portage. There is some water flowing underneath. I think we're in a camp right over there tonight because it looks like a nice clearing. Brook trout and rice with like a chipotle sauce on the rice. These bugs are messing up my shot here. Look at that flake. What are you up to? A little repair job on my raincoat. So I was just going to cut them into this one. I'm going to do kind of two different. I'm going to split this and kind of go boom boom and then down here I've got smaller. I'm going to use another one of these maybe or one of the smaller ones that I have and just kind of cover the smaller holes. How did that happen? A $30 jacket. Wear and tear? Yeah. The bugs have still been bad. Nothing has changed but you know what? We're enjoying ourselves. A little red riding hood over here. This is day one. First night out in the wilderness on our nine-day tomogamy trip. Just from today we can already tell that it's going to be a challenge. Some of the portages aren't maintained and we're not even in the unmaintained spot yet. So who knows what Mosquito holds and even farther down this river. A little fireball cinnamon whiskey for Canada's 150. It seems like Canada's been around for longer than 150 years. It doesn't It just came to existence 150 years ago. It didn't even exist before we came here. I was saying downtown Toronto probably looked as rugged as this. Cheers to Canada. Cheers Canada. It's all your rugged landscape, canoe routes, backcountry adventures. I'm not a fan of that. It's because it's viscous.