Crossing Killarney Provincial Park in Winter 2012 TRAILER

The decision, and it was consensus, we're going for the adventure route to the left, or to the west. And I think that this was a key decision for the group. We're continuing all the way along the north side of the park, through Great Mountain and Howry Lakes. One option we were thinking is we could come into this clear silver lake, not camp at the summer site, but just sort of maybe tuck into a bay and camp right on the ice. Getting all ready here at Joby Lake Parking Lot. Yeah. Anna, have you ever been winter camping before? Nope. No? This is the first time. Yeah? And I'm super excited. Yes? What do you describe your moccasins to us? Uh, function with subtle class. Ooh. Somewhere between a 30 and a 45 over the moccasin, which is ideal. Are you sure those are moccasins? Oh, yeah. Oh, hold on. These are not moccasins. Sorry. These are snowshoes. Oh, good. Okay. Choo-choo. You're going to grow old. You're going to grow cold. Barring suns on the avenues. For your own personal waterloo. You're barring suns on the avenues. For your own personal waterloo. Adolescents. Smooth down souls. They're putting a home at the back. Maybe you worry about them, but they'll be alright. You going to try it anyways? Sweatpants. What? Crap job shoes is. Nice guy here. It's been a great trip so far. Yeah, it has been great. I've had some beautiful snow. It was fairly arduous portage. Toboggans went along like centipedes on a contour. Steven, any pointers on making a taco for your sled? Yeah, it's much easier to make a taco on your sled when you do it in the summer and things aren't frozen. But if you have to do it in the winter, you just persevere. And with your warm hands, you can kind of melt the frozen knots. And I think this is one of those underrated experiences of winter camping. Frozen hands. So we finally made the decision. And it was consensus. We're going for the adventure route to the left or to the west. Right now we've been traveling down this waterway, which is a series of beaver dams and ponds and a meandering creek. So far we've only had a couple people break through. But the travel's a lot faster on the open snow here. So we're going to continue on here and the portage actually heads to the right or heads more easterly. And we're going to actually try to cut through on some swamps and waterways to the left and then over a little hump of land. And I think that this was a key decision for the group. I think we finally realized after a couple days on the trip that we are not canoers. We're winter campers and this is an expedition and we can carve our own path and create our own future and our own destiny. We're felling two trees to make a bridge so that we can cross to get to the other side so we can reach Fish Lake. It's so beautiful and the sun's out too. So double score. Right on. Okay, we've got one more toboggan. Let's do it. High five. The wind is so cold. It's minus 27 this morning and it was very, very pretty. Now the sun is bleeding through the trees. We decided to hit up in order to avoid the classic canoe portage. And it's just magnificent. So beautiful. There's so much snow on the trees. Little birds everywhere. And there's something magical about going through here as if we were early explorers or trappers.