Kiosk Lake 4 Day Canoe Trip - Algonquin Park North 2024

Hey, where are we going? We're off to Algonquin Park. Again. For how many days? Four days. Three nights. What are we doing there? Lunch in front of the kiosk. We're going to Mouse Lake. And then? And then Maple Creek and then back home. And what are we going to do there? Music. What's up guys? We just got to Kiosk Lake. Checked in. Got our stuff ready. I have Oriana with me. We'll see how this goes. Four days. Should be sunny every day. Hopefully we don't get bugged out. Any last words? This is going to hurt. The lake is beautiful. It's calm already. It's nine o'clock. Nine o'clock. So we'll see you on the river. It's Father's Day weekend. I just turned 40. And I'm about to find out if I can survive 33 kilometers of paddling and 27 kilometers of portage. Day one, Kiosk Lake to Mouse Lake. Here we go. Alright, so we just set sail. Left Kiosk. We're heading to our first portage to make it into Mink. First, Little Mink. And then we've got about a five hour trek to Mouse Lake. Weather's beautiful. We'll see how this goes. We're just approaching our first portage. We're going to be heading into Little Mink Lake. Doesn't look too long. 640. We'll see how it goes. I've got my little trusty hat. It makes me feel like an explorer. So I wear it. Oriana thinks it's dorky. But Oriana has one also. Is this the right way? Uh, no. Hard no. Definitely not going that way. What? Okay, so we just had to carry the canoe around that dam. Sorry, over the dam. Through the bush. And now there's more dam here. I don't think this is the way. This can't be the way. There's no portage mark anywhere. This is something else. Check this. Now we have to get through here. What a problem you are, little guy. Hopefully we'll figure it out. Looks like a bit of a clearer path here. I think there's more blockages there. And we made it. Little beaver was the problem. Well, that was one hell of an experience. We just did our longest portage of the day. About 1100 meters from Mink Lake to Club Lake. It wasn't that bad. The only thing is the bugs. You can't stop. That's the shitty part. You put down bags and you want to take a break and they're just devouring you so you just gotta keep going. We ended up dragging canoes and double carrying canoes and it was just chaotic. But we're out. Now we're on our way to Maus. One more portage. Five something meters. And then we're there. We're almost at our site. And it's 4 o'clock. We left at what time? 9.15? That's a chunk of a day. That's hard. The last portage was a bit of a killing. What's that? It was not an easy day. Coming up we got a little beach. There's our marker for the campsite. And we'll be back once we set up shop. Well, we finally made it. Kiosk Lake to Maus Lake. Let me tell you it wasn't easy. The portages alone are intense. I even rented an ultralight canoe instead of mine that I have at home which is like 50 pounds lighter and it made no difference in that terrain so still awesome to do. Glad we got through it and we're going to have a day and a half here now to see have fun and do some fishing. On Maus Lake, two days, day and a half. Namaste. We are making fish and mushroom risotto. Looks nice. Very woodsy. No more woodsy than I would have liked. I would have liked some salmon. Alright, so first meal, well we just ate our book trout so second meal. We're going to have some what is it again? It's dehydrated garlic parmesan mushroom risotto homemade. Let's see how she works out. She's delicious is what she is. Nice and crunchy. It's the cheese. I know it's the cheese. Can you hear it? I broke my tooth. I should have learned this from last time but I made mac and cheese last time with real cheese and it doesn't reconstitute so cheese doesn't that's why people use powdered cheese so the parmesan in here. I'm not putting that garbage in my food. No, that's ok. I'm just saying. There's got to be a way to do it though. Because the rice isn't crunchy. No, the rice is fine. Mushrooms a little bit. Mushrooms are a little chewy. What else is in it? Onions? Tiny bit. Chives. Garlic. Cream. We're the only ones in the lake today and tomorrow. I think we're the only ones in the park to be honest. We haven't seen anybody. Well, in our first 10 minutes we saw kayakers heading back. Tomorrow is supposed to be a beauty day. 30 plus. Hopefully that kills the bugs. We brought dessert too. Homemade apple crisp. We'll see how that reconstitutes. Pretty clear. There's no ---- in it. No gas. No pollution. Just fish. Fish guts. Oriana made some apple crisp. I'm not even convinced there's apples in it. It didn't reconstitute very well. It's actually pretty good though. It tastes like caramel mush. Caramel applesauce. Really? It's not mine. It just wasn't reconstituting fast enough so she put it on the fire and it melted. Of course I was out getting water like a man. Doing life saving things. Oh wait, I just got an apple. That was better. That's just pretty damn good. It's like apple creme brulee. It's got a burning top. I think I have firewood in here. Firewood. It works. The chunks are good. Everything's good. A little bit. It's like the perfect amount of sweetness. I don't think so. I need more of this. Yeah but you need deep fried dog ----. I have probably eaten deep fried dog ----. Wow. Done. Yeah the little chunks are good but the saucy ---- I love it. It melted all the oats and the crumbles. Yeah. Yep. There's none. Well there's some for tomorrow night too. For dessert. Maybe I'll cook it this time. Yeah okay. Good. Rodney versus Rihanna. Apple crisp off. We've eaten a lot though. I'm glad we've eaten the brook trout. I'm full. And then risotto. Crunchy rib risotto. That's right. And then melty apple sauce. That's right. When you like pick the remainders out of your teeth it's good. It was more like rice crisp and apple risotto. Apple crisp risotto. You just did it backwards that's all. Apple risotto and rice crisp. I'm gonna catch tomorrow my goal six fish. I haven't seen you catch six fists in three years. Wow. Fish. Not fists. Yeah. Fists. You're about to ******* catch a fist. I didn't see any yet of you guys. Ah. But look at the crazy glue. This is why I'm tied to my face now. So day one is done. What time is it? Oops. Bad fingers. 7.30. Day one is way done. Whoa. Okay. We were gonna have drinks but now we're like. I'm not putting muck in my body. No. Not this minute. No. Tough day. There wasn't supposed to be any wind and we had some wind. It was supposed to be tail wind and it was head wind. But that canoeing wasn't terrible. That was pretty easy. No. Canoeing was really enjoyable. It was enough of it though but it was It was a nice reprieve from the freaking bugs and the flies. Yeah. It's the only time we got a break. Yeah. And then tomorrow morning, wake up, have some coffee. Probably have a mouse lake bath. And then we have the day off tomorrow because we're not moving from this spot so we're gonna do some fishing. And I broke my fishing rod today. Because I'm a bass master and now I'm a trout master because I found speckle. Finally. That was a big broke too. I broke my rod. But we ate it. It was delicious. So hopefully tomorrow we can catch some more. I know. See you all tomorrow. It's a wet door right down there. All in all, we had a fantastic sleep last night. I must have slept a solid like 8 hours. It was cold. But I don't know. I was good because I'm used to it from last time. I actually slept. It's true. I feel like I slept. My back hurts though but whatever. Get the fire started. It's like 7.30. We actually got out of the tent pretty late. Pretty usual. I'll have some breakfast. Gather some firewood. Hopefully do some fishing. We've had our coffee and we went for a little walk to see the site next door because we share a beach with them. I think we're going to move our stuff over today. It's a much better site. There's a table so my stuff is not going to be everywhere. It's really not that far of a walk. The thunder box here has been flipped. I don't know who's flipped it but that's pretty shitty. If it's a human and if it's not a human then I'd put it back on it's top but it's not level and I'm not going to go play in that stuff. I'll just let the yogis know. We're at our new site. Tent. We like this site much better because there's a table. We have our fire pit and our mosquito tent is going to go here we're thinking. We're closer to the water. It's a little more open so we're thinking maybe it'll warm up a little bit faster with the sun. Really? Binoculars? What are you looking at exactly? Safari explorer. Anyway, that's the site. I'm pretty tired this morning so I might have a nap. I haven't figured it out yet. I'm sore from yesterday and recouping I did have to take some Advil so I'm feeling a little warmed up and loose and should get better as the day goes. Breakfast on the table today. We've got oats organic, gluten free with dehydrated strawberries and blueberries and goji berries. Water is cooking and ready to go shortly. Breakfast is served. I just paddled back. Orianne is taking a little break here. She's going to do some yoga and stuff. I just paddled back to the first portage of how we got here from Club to Mouse Lake. It doesn't look so bad right now but it's hard to push in that water. I'm going to go do some fishing. I saw a waterfall not far from here so I'm going to go check it out while she takes a break. See if we can catch some more brooks. Alright, so I was expecting it to be a little deeper here based on yesterday but I was pretty tired so I'm going to try it anyway. See what we can find. You never know. Don't need much water to survive in so let's try it. The biggest question was in the last chapter you gave me the soul I have today without you I never could have moved away now I see what you teach I do believe I always should have stayed Is this really happening I can't believe it's true I just surprised as you Is this really happening I wonder what it's like We made dehydrated food for today. Hearty beef stew. That contains pasta. Who puts pasta in their stew? Yeah, so we'll see. It's not gluten free so we're going to have upset stomachs. But Thunderbox has a toilet seat here so Oh, piece of beef. Yeah, barely. I think homemade dehydrated meals are ******* 10 times better. It's okay. The texture is better than what our food is but But we also let it sit much longer. Hours? No, these ones 12 minutes. Yeah, it's well reconstituted but I prefer food. I could definitely eat more. But we don't need to be crazy full either. Alright, I'm back. Oh, here's another fisherman. It looks like a digestive trout of some sort. You pig! Well, good afternoon. What are we having for dinner tonight? Homemade dehydrated shepherd's pie. Made with Idaho potatoes. That is good. So good. We overwatered the meat again so the flavor's gone but if you've ever tried Idaho potatoes, you know where it's at. They're nasty but good. Mmm. Welcoming flavor. I feel like I'm going to wolf this down. Which would be nice right about now. Salt, pepper. Delicious. So fishing today sucked. We got a rock bass. The lake is crazy rough. We had to puddle all the way to the other side and left ourselves drift back and that only lasted about 15 minutes so it's just brutal. It's windy, it's rough, it's not pleasant. Not at all proficient. Don't mind. Tomorrow will be good. Tomorrow right off the bat we have 300 meters What is that? 3,000 meters. Portage. Portage right off the bat. So that's going to be crazy. Bright and early. Bright and early. And then we're off to Maple Lake. And then Maple. Maple. That's it for day 2. I've been catching fish all day. Ariana's caught like none. How's the fishing? But anyway, it's a beautiful evening. And we're going to pack up early tomorrow morning and head to our next spot. Got some big portages first thing in the morning and then hopefully smooth sailing so we'll see you guys in the morning. Champ is still trying to catch her first fish here. I'm trying to teach her it was hard. It's hard to teach her this. It's hard. It's good. She's not that good. Look at this. She caught a half inch. I don't even know what that is. American chub maybe. It's a... Anyway. It's okay. At least she caught something. What happened? Did it bite you? Did your hook get caught in your finger? My uncle. We're having coffee. Turned into an alien. We're going to start packing up. We're heading to Maple Lake today. We've got some crazy portages. But the lake is nice and calm. Good for paddling. Not so good for yesterday for us fishing. Today would have been a great day. But anyway. We're going to troll either way. Yeah, yeah. For sure. For sure. We're going to pack up and then we'll keep going. We're leaving. We're all packed up. Ready to go. Water is beautiful and still. It'll take us maybe 20 minutes, half hour to get across the lake to our first portage. Rodney's just finishing up. Making sure everything is good and then we're off. Right babe? Yep. Bye bye. Big ass portages to do. Bye bye Mouse Lake for now. We're ready for them this morning. See you guys in a bit. We're ready to go again. A little rested. We had a down day but it's time to go through some more grueling challenges. Today we're heading from Mouse Lake. Our first destination through Maple Creek and to Maple Lake at the very end. How calm Mouse Lake is right now. For the last two days it's been like white cap after white cap all morning all night and now it's like crystal clear and we're leaving. We're heading to Maple Lake. It's Murphy's Law. But I appreciate where it is and I can already see our first portage from now. Still at the edge of Mouse Lake here. Just about to hit the portage but Oriana's fishing because we saw some fish jumping but there's an actual spring here. I'm going to try and find it to fill up that bottle before we start trekking. Oh wow, ever dirty in here. Nice little spot here. Oh, she's cold. That's why there's rookies here. Very cold. Oh my god. Crystal clear. Crystal clear. Alright. First portage. It's already really buggy but we're going to try and take our time as much as we can just to kind of save some energy but we'll see how that goes. Pack run first and then back for the canoe and food bag. Okay, we just got to the second portage. I guess it's 135 meters which right now feels like a cakewalk but it looks like there's a little bit of a hill. A little bit. But we'll see you on the flip side. So we're at the end of the second portage. It felt like 30 seconds. We have a bit of a paddle now and then a 1500 meter portage left to go. Rodney's been a trooper. Portage number two of the day. 1500. Oh wait, no, we got to go back and get a canoe and a wet bag, dry bag. But we're here. Érable. Urables. There's a bee after me. That one was challenging compared to the first one. I thought the first one was bad so we may just be getting tired but at least now we just go get the rest of the stuff come back and we're done for the day. Second portage done. The biggest and the baddest is over. Now we're on Érable Lake. We're heading to a small little 170 meter but Érable Lake is pretty big so we'll be here for a while. We're excited to be landing and cooking food and doing all that good jazz so I'm just not excited. Crazy. Just had the best swim. The best deserved earned swim. So we're at our new site and once we set up we can give you a little tour but it's an island and it's quite sunny. We had to jump in off those rocks over there but we're going to eat and set up shop and then we'll give you a little tour. That was an exhausting day. We had about 4500 meters of portaging. Very challenging portages but we got through. Barely. We got to our last site. Sleeping here tonight and then off tomorrow back home to the concrete jungle unfortunately. But we're going to do the best we can tonight. Oriana's already fishing. We've had some food. We were exhausted. We had a swim. We didn't record anything because we just wanted to get it done. We just jumped in the water. We were exhausted and hot. We're on a little island. It's all set up. We'll see if we can catch some dinner. What's this delicious stuff? Wow. Homemade meal. Grilled chicken jambalaya. Whatever that means. It's got to be Mexican or some stuff. Mexican. Creole. Well constitutioned. Reconstituted. Reconstructed. It's very good. It's got a little bit of a kick to it. It's very Nicaraguan. Not at all. There's a long way to that restaurant in Nicaragua. In Granada. What do you think? It's good. I'd do this one again. The stew is okay. But I'd do this one again. We had chili for lunch today. Man, it was good. We made it at home though. Then dehydrated it. It was very good. So good. There's so many ants here. We just went out fishing for an hour. Caught a fish. Oh, that was yay big. It's 9 for us. It's 9 o'clock. Exhausted. Another big day tomorrow but also heading home. Fishing has been atrocious. We had like a show of rock bass babies today. That's about it. So good night. we've got another show of small ones. Then we're paddling a creek all the way back. Anywho, Maple Lake sucks for fishing.