Packrafting through an Inland Temperate Rainforest

Good morning everyone! How are y'all doing today? I am here at the end of this road and I want to take you with me today to the slice of river paradise. I am not too far from a city but it starts to feel like the wilderness real quick out here. I'm bringing bear spray, hopefully we don't run into any grizzlies, but it's real nice. First we have to do is I've got my packraft, I've got my bag, I'll put it on my back and I'm going to walk about six or seven kilometers up this overgrown road and then inflate the packraft, put it on the river and float back to where I've parked. And I want to bring you along today just to show you how beautiful and how cool this spot is. It's going to be lots of fun. There is a couple old growth trees still left in this valley and this is one of them. Big old cedar that is pretty wide at the base. That's how I can tell it's an old growth. It's a big beautiful tree. Okay so I've made it to this beautiful meadow with beaver ponds and the river is on the right side away from the road but I think it's a good place to put in because the water is calm and you can see glaciers and peaks up the valley. It's a really beautiful spot and I've been waiting all spring to do this, to put my packraft on some beautiful clear mountain water and just enjoy this natural landscape because it's gorgeous. This is a bit of an exploratory because I don't know what's around each bend. I've scouted some of the river bends. Yesterday when I walked here I saw a porcupine on the trail. I was following big footprints, big hoof prints, possibly moose and I haven't seen around every corner but I can see that it's most likely paddleable. I love this middle metal section with the winding curves and sandbars so that's what I'm going to put on here. There's big old cliffs up there. It's a very steep valley. It reminds me a little bit of Squamish. Spread the needle. Boogie time. Which side of these trees do we take? Okay that one's pretty big. After almost losing all of my camera gear in the previous big rapid, I decided I'd do a short portage around this one. A packraft is pretty light to carry anyway. As a bonus I stumbled across some more old growth trees too in this beautiful fern-filled grove. So that was a fun paddle. I may have to repeat that and do it again when I have friends visiting who also have packrafts because with a group it would be safer and I would continue on and paddle a little more of the river than I did today but it was a great exploratory trip and I hope that inspires you to find a little bit of wilderness wherever you are. So thanks for watching and see you in the next adventure. Good girl.