Wolf On A Camping Trip!

We're at Badonkadonk, bit of a different start to this one. This is my annual trip with Mike and Adam and we're in Temagami parking at a lodge and they've already started. I'm about an hour behind them. I've already dropped my canoe off at the water. Looking like a weirdo talking to myself. Wolfie's got his red paw packs on. Stay. Stay like that for a minute. We're gonna work on our stays and our sits and listening. Okay. up up up good boy get in the front get in the front good boy gopro stop recording being so patient wolf what a good boy you are i hummed and hot about bringing him here come on up up good boy simple fact that it's Temagami as you can see behind me it's crown land that is uh why all the tin boats okay we're in a different type of canoe that he's not ridden in too much before a lot more secondary stability in this one wolfie down you okay good boy i see i see people paddling i see people paddling i see double blades in the air i lost them they either went around the bend and it took me too long to catch up for field of view it's a doggy at a cottage anyway i lost them i can't believe that that's very quick just like that i turned a bend and i got a glimpse of them they're 500 meters maybe 700 meters in front of me there's two paddlers, two solo boats with kayak blades, double blades. I'd bet money that it's them. So I'm gonna follow them as quick as I can. 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It's got this awesome global positioning system where I can check out maps where I am on it actually, and it shows me exactly where I am and where I'm going. You can zoom in and out literally by touching it or using the buttons touchscreen. It's been super handy on my canoe trips where I can actually tell the distances of portages sometimes they'll say on the map it's a 720 meter portage and I'll do it with this and it'll turn out that it's actually a 900 meter portage it's uh become a super handy tool it tells me the time when the sunset how long it's going to be till sunset it's super helpful for being out there moving around and not knowing when I should get to camp check out the link in the description below to get yourself a Suunto if you're anyone like me like I've been wearing and old school watches forever. This is really up the game, big time. September already, is it? Hey guys, who's that, Abelette? You just stay in this one though, North Star. So how's it going? Yeah, you too. Yep, I didn't, Toothless Joe didn't help me. I just came in, did it, Joe did it up myself. I saw, I figured I saw where you guys went in. There's two little canoe tracks in the sand by the other, by the red canoes. I park right next to you, yeah. Since we're in September now, I feel like most of the bugs are gone, so for this trip I brought my Durston X-Mid Pro 2, X-Mid 2, the steel nylon one, and I didn't, I took the bug net out of it. So there's no inner tent, it's just a shell, and I brought my piece of Tyvek Typar. This is my lay-on, my sleeping pad, and my sleeping bag. Pretty roomy in here. If it does rain, Wolfie can come under with me. It's only supposed to rain one or two nights that we're out here. Wolfie can fit under here definitely, but other than that, he's gonna sleep outside because that's what he likes to do. Especially this time of year, no bugs, pretty comfortable weather as well, especially for him. We are at camp, it's a decent camp, I'll show it to you here. And we're gonna cook up some steaks and potatoes for supper. Do you guys remember, did he just kind of chill once we were at camp? Well, yeah, because we went to bed at like 6pm. Yeah, you guys had to watch him, eh? It's like past your bedtime right now. I thought, I couldn't remember, He started doing this this year, I thought but no I even I remember two years ago, Mississauga River Yeah, he likes to go on the portage trails I would look here when he was roaming quite a bit. I was yelling for him for about 45 minutes one time I thought I lost him. Yeah, it was nerve-wracking to say the least. It was so nice. I can feel it from here Helicopter flying above. Hey, we got a Nutri-Farm steak. We got potatoes from Will's garden onions from those garden and garlic first night feast nice to bring real food so just pouring water and making mush all right good first day it's almost 10 o'clock I'm going to bed those guys are up by the fire it's nice nice chilling out but I am ready for bed with you guys in the morning day two good night we're going to paddle ourselves away from the sound of the highway today We've got some portaging to do and it's going to be a nice day, it's supposed to be a nice week. So, nice to be out in the fall weather. Starting off the day, the first real day. Yesterday we were just paddling into the campsite, meeting up. Now we've got a real day of paddling and portaging. Wolfie approves. Yeah, very shallow. Dang. Well, like I said, we're in Tamagami, lots of crown land. this is a route that I've not done that we've not done and we have to cross a road here so I'll be a little bit careful with Mr. Wolf got Wolfie tied up just so if a ATV comes by or something we're all good and he doesn't decide to wander in the middle of the wilderness it's okay but in a situation like this I gotta be a little bit more attentive got him tied to my waist the cord paracord in his uh leash his long fluffy pants my good boy bottomless muck my favorite oh we're pretty shallow here but it's working out not too bad what do you think boys lovely he's very fancy of you very gingerly and very gingerly wolfie can you lay down please down wolfie down lay down okay sit down we're through the worst of the slogging we think but time will tell all right we just did our first carry i have a 680. it's pretty legit uh portage considering we haven't done anything like that yet distance wise so second carry now with the canoes and hopefully wolfie comes this time come here i can't it's too shallow come come good boy remember that folks, as Wolfie gets in the way, just remember motor up stay to the right words to live by there is a tree growing in that block of styrofoam, yep, telling you how to live your life now because these signs always keep motor unlocked, all right, calm down, they're a piece of plywood with paint and styrofoam, he's greasy, you're right, we get it, all right, exactly, okay, well heads up guys well it's uh late in the day, six o'clock and we've arrived on our destination night destination lake for the night, uh Iceland Lake we haven't seen anybody other than people in 10 boats fishing, nobody camped at all on any other lakes We come onto this lake, two sites already filled with people The second site called me out by name Is that your own Wolfie? I stopped and talked to them for a while, nice people But they said that the sites that we're looking for, those guys are up in front of me, but the sites that we're looking for right now to get to here are very hilly. Unless you have a hammock, you're not going to be happy there And they couldn't find the other one so we are searching for a campsite and it might be a make your own camp type thing, we'll see Wolfie's been a very good dog today and kept up on the portage, he's doing them four or five times wear his backpack all day when he wears his backpack he feels like he has a job to do more it feels like to me at least that's what i've heard so that's what we're going with gorgeous canoeing day started off very cold warmed up and stayed nice minimal wind i used my double blade today but only very little I caught a walleye small eye not big enough for us to eat but that is the first fish of the trip for anybody it's only day two all right Mike and Adam are checking it out they said it looks pretty decent anyways just got to go up a bit and it gets flat so that will do flat area is all I need okay good boy nice twigs that somebody left before that I think will go up without a because they have enough oar enough tip Lichen lichen to start and I do freeze-dried meal tonight nice and easy Dumplings homemade chicken dumplings peas carrots corn chicken and dumplings There's a wild piece of birdsfoot stay here Wolfie job buddy good job today Wolfie, Wolfie, Wolfie. You're all tangled up. It's time to get up. You want some food? Hi. Remember what you told me you did in front of those girls? Oh my god. Maybe the most embarrassing. My first solo trip, sitting right on the floor and there's all these high school girls, like 10-15 of them on a trip, and I just come through I'm flying through and they're like I caught up to a ton of them, and then I go to get in the boat, and I like slipped, so my butt went right on the gunnel, so the whole boat went over, my ******* backpack is like floating away, I'm literally in the water, the canoe's full of water, so all these like 16-year-old chicks had to help me get my ---- together, I ******* chopped my thumb, I just got over there, I was like the fattest you've ever seen, I was like, I gotta leave. Megan! Megan! I stayed on McIntosh just like two weeks ago. Nice, it's a nice lake. Yeah, it rained literally the whole day and we had like 30 minutes of light to be able to grab the first sight Which was kind of shitty, but you don't have a good memories of McIntosh now That night was at least sunset Megan on McIntosh. Yeah, McIntosh first portage looks pretty well used. Okay. Yes, you left it on Well today I'm gonna make a loop back to the car. It'll take me all day day there'll be three days camping with these guys and happy for it happy to have some companionship and stuff but i do have a lot of responsibilities and things to get done at home so while it's still beautiful weather and fall and there's still time to have I want to take Will my wife camping I was able to take Autumn and Emerald both my daughters camping this year uh solo with with me and it means something I want to do that with my wife too we haven't had time together in years alone so I think that's what I'm going to do me and Wolfie will make a big a small loop out today and these guys will continue on their big loop and there's always next year for camping with these guys but I feel like making memories with my family and spending time with my family is the thing I need to be doing right now and I've been feeling like that for a long time and I have been doing it just not with my wife alone and that's important so that's what we're going to do. This is cool look how windswept that one is That's extreme Tom Thompson would have a field day You smell something you're all agitated now, buddy. This drops right off in the water. Yeah, this might be fishy Look big Good boy So he came through here with the chainsaw I just trimmed them up. Oh, yeah you guys touch tips just the tip though stay wolfy stay with me homie all right big guy see you boys great trip thank you i will uh wish you guys the best and we'll talk when you guys get out how about that yeah do that i can uh i can inreach somebody to make sure to let you guys know i'm all good tonight too so all right maybe we'll end the season the same way we started leaving a group of guys early on a canoe trip to go do my own thing figure my stuff out which I need to do from time to time so they're gonna go right I'm gonna go left and uh Wolfie and I will continue the journey out through the day make it out today if we can hopefully I can because uh there might be some weather coming in and if not we'll camp tonight we'll make it out tomorrow but I'm gonna do a push to get out today it's 12 o'clock what's going on it's 12 o'clock and uh i have a big day ahead of me supposed to do here okay i go quote unquote water paddle through teleportage and there's the end right Wait for me bud Wolf Wolfy like one is that good I'm the werewolf boy look at that badonkadonk wolfy down oh it's halfway there down so very reluctantly but you're good boy beautiful boy very good dog this trip wolfie super pleased with you super happy super proud of you we might get into the thick of it here this is narrowing out in the already narrow section oh boy it's petering right out okay we'll find you again after this what are you doing come on up up up good boy good boy good job buddy oh we dropped wolfie off this is too much too much in and out and too many logs to go over like this one to go with him out of the boat again anyways and i see some more obstacles right in front of me which is awesome gonna walk around it i see a little trampled down part here somebody must have done it before pretty wet oh that's wet well it was certainly nice getting together with Mike and Adam I haven't camped with a buddy since Kyle and then a bunch with the family and stuff which is great but guy time is nice considering I'm I have all women in my family um it's like a Wolfie I just I have a lot to do a lot to do like I said I want to camp with Will and stuff and this this place is um don't get me wrong it's nice but it's full of cottages like completely packed full of cottages the road the the tin boats that we saw at each portage there's like parking lots for them there's like spaces and stuff made up of wood and lumber um very very populated area still cool if you're around here and you want to just do a trip and go it's nice I drove five hours to get here which isn't that bad and it's more to see the guys but I probably won't come back here super developed I've been tripping in Wabakimi and woodland caribou and stuff I have a hankering for Quetico even though people keep saying there's a lot of people at Quetico I don't mind people there's no infrastructure there's no flights into Quetico there's no motorboats which would be nice got some dark clouds right above we'll probably make it out before the thunderstorm though come on buddy now that was the other thing I wanted to mention was I just it's like roads and stuff like the portage trails intersect ATV trails and back roads and a lot of it was having close to highway 11 and with wolfie i have to be on extra alert and a little stressed out he's good but it's just like like for instance right now i have him tied to me because we're going down a road um it's just i'd rather have him in like an area where there's no roads around so i can let him be free and not have to worry too much i don't like to be stressed out out here it's not what i come up for but he did really well there's no no complaining on how he did it's just maybe and maybe it's even more my insecurities but i i want him to be safe and he does take off if he if he saw a grouse or a deer and chased it and then the atv trail intersected and he went down it he might be too excited to find his way back or not i don't know you know what i'm saying dog problems bro and if he wasn't a husky and hadn't done it in the past i would never even worry about it like the scout i didn't worry about it but couldn't take scout on canoe trips either so give and take wolfie is great i just have to be bring him to the right places and be a little aware come on bud how cool would it be to grow up as a kid with summers at a place like this, going to camp they call it, it'd be very cool. Probably out of the question for a lot of people today due to the price, but at least here in Canada, Canada, the darkness is coming. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Can you see that? That looks wild, I gotta get out of here. We gotta go, Wolf, look at that, holy crap. That's our campsite for the first night. I've been separated from those guys for about four hours now, doing this smaller loop than they're doing. And like I said, that's the campsite for the first night. So I'm making my way downtown, walking fast. This is passing a home by. Wow, that keeps looking gnarlier and gnarlier behind me. Each passing moment. I think I can make it out in about an hour. I don't know if I have an hour left before the skies open up, But we are sure gonna push it as fast as we can. That's why I got the double blade out And we're moving only a 30 meter portage to go and a decent paddle and the rain starts I am on top of that 30 meter almost and then it's like I don't know 40 minute paddle It's coming. It's coming. I don't even think I'm gonna get my rain gear on I think I'm just gonna haul it to the car because by the time I pull all my stuff out grab my rain gear put it on it's near the top but still by the time i do all that i'll have lost time this will pick up and um i'll still be wet so it's not that cold i can handle it my car's less than an hour away with shoes and clothes heat so wolfie and i will be okay any amount of light is kind of gone i do have a gopro battery in my pocket and my cell phone is in my pocket cell phone is pretty waterproof roof, the battery. Battery I might have to throw in my backpack quickly. Is that a battery in your pocket Joe? Is that a GoPro battery pocket in your joke? I'm not happy to see you. Oh I don't want to be on the water for too much longer. She's picking up. She's picking up Wolfie. Okay go go go. Good boy. Well the rain didn't hit us too bad at all. It's not even raining right now. Only lasted a couple minutes but off to my right I can see a lot coming down in the distance and they can keep it over there look at those clouds though look how wavy and pillowy they look still at the same time menacing oh look at that menacing dennis dennis the menace style those are the dennis clouds denisian denison clouds they're menacing denison clouds are menacing yeah looking at coming down there that wall of it coming down all over there that is that is coming down i can hear highway 11 to my left i got rain coming down to my right and we are headed straight down the pipe all right we're out it's uh we got about 4 or 4 30 half hours after i left uh left the guys shout out to mike huge shout out to adam romano adam Romano Explorers or something like that is his YouTube channel Mike is Mike Morton Instagram I think he has an old channel but he wouldn't be filming this one Adam did shout out to Wolfie he was a champ the whole time shout out to all the boats and cottages making me uh rethink the Tamagami trip good to get out with the guys good to go home fox is running across the road everything's good definitely many more trips to come i said ending the season like i did i didn't show it but i didn't even make the video Joel Brody and i started the season off Algonquin spring the spring Algonquin brook trout fishing I came in after them found them I left before them just like this trip I kind of like that but it's not the end of the season not by a long shot the end of the season comes the ice is on the water