Camping with my Wife and Dog in the Fall

There you go. I'm ready to go. That was a little close. What? That was a little close. What's wrong? I'm a little nervous. Why? Because I'm leaving my children. Alright, get in the car. I'm getting in the car. That's the wrong dog. Where's my dog? Come on, trip. Say goodbye. Yep, go. I know. Not used to this one, eh? Do you have something to lay here for his paws? What? Something to lay on my leather for his paws? We're going camping, buddy. Sorry. I'll see you later, okay? Come here. My cash. It's been forever since Will and I were able to get away together. Just her and I. So we're going to go two nights camping. Where are we headed to, Will? Killarney. Yeah, we're going to go to Killarney for two nights. We got the old big boat on top. I haven't used it yet. I got Tripper with us. So we're kid free for two days. Woohoo. Doug's face is covering yours completely. Oh, we're just driving down the road to Killarney right now. Don't know what we're going to do. We might have to get a car camping spot tonight and then head out tomorrow morning. We might be able to paddle in a little bit and get a spot tonight. It's just after four. Tomorrow we're gonna hike up the Silver Peak Trail, which is like an all-day thing to the top of the mountain with doggo, so that should be fun. Hopefully there's still some colors. As you can see, there's tons of colors driving in here. We will see where we get to camp tonight soon. Go ahead. Say that again. Is it on? Say, how am I good at anything? I'm not good at anything. I don't know if I'm... Yeah, you're good. Stop doing that. Hey. Phenomenal. What? Phenomenal. I'm phenomenal. And he's not good at anything. Speak up. So, so far today, we have driven to the Killarney, what is it? Canoe? Killarney Canoes on Bell Lake. Killarney Canoes on Bell Lake, and where we were supposed to get our permits and it was closed. It said it was open till 8, but we were there at like 4.15, and it was not. So now we drove for a bunch of nonsense, and then we drove all the way to George Lake, which was also closed. And then we had to go into town because we had no gas left. We had to get gas. And wood and water, because you need those supplies. We got all those things. We did get all those things. $14 for a bag of wood. and now we are driving back to George Lake to get a camp spot where we will camp without paying because there's no one there no one there to pay so we kind of have no choice we're kind of stuck or we just kind of camp on the side of the road yes anyways tomorrow we have a small drive maybe about an hour drive back to the original put in spot and a couple hour paddle and then we can like or do the mountain hike we've been waiting to do. I've been very excited to do. Yes. Put your hood on. What are we doing? We're sitting in the cold. It's not that cold. Look at that fire, bro. My wine is keeping me warm. Nice, close to full of wine. So yeah, we're just car camping tonight. Whoa. Car camping tonight. We'll start our actual trip tomorrow. The big hike will be fun. It'll be good. burn a lot of energy uh for the old doggo will has never been here before so in Killarney they're known for their white quartzite hills and their mountains so so did i say so yet yep a little bit see some white and hopefully some red leaves and yellow leaves still and the smell the smell of the fall and a big hike too we got a big we got a um i got a normal size backpack on we'll have for the day have some lunch it'll take like a good five six hours by the by the end of it so it'll be a good hike so so so so well there you go all right tripper out of the water come out of the water man you're doing silly you're gonna be all cold now boat in the boat come on come on come on honey you got your paddle oh this is different this is different well tripper's doing great in this canoe normally he's too he's too big for my pack boats now like uh whatever i have him in there he he can't even move around he can't stand up or anything so i do have to get a bigger solo boat for him i definitely can't solo this boat um yeah we'll see what happens next year and maybe a prospector from swift set up in a packed boat fashion but he's starting to shiver too i have to get to a portage and let him run a bit shouldn't have walked in that water buddy shouldn't have went right into that water waist deep the whole point of this trip is to get up to the silver peak so that's what we're doing we'll be cutting it close, doing it no matter what even if we're uh hiking back down in the dark we have steaks to cook tonight we need some firewood and stuff but i'm not going to be able to get firewood before we start this hike and do it all in the dark she says she has faith that's what Killarney's known for that white quartzite rock there's some big old mountains around here i hopefully early november i'm going to do the La Cloche backpacking trail with Tripper Me and Tripper do about 80 kilometers in three nights. It's a legit loop, and you'll see tons more of that white quartzite. That's got to be Silver Peak in front of us there. And I believe our campsite's just in front of Will. See a sign? Uh-oh, Tripper. Let's get over there. We made it. We made it. Look at this. Gear bomb site. So we have to get the gear that we need for the day inside my Fjällräven bag and head down the lake a little bit more and start our hike for the day. So we need things like food, extra clothes, food for the dog, water, stuff like that. Just dump it all out, honey. We're going to get the tarp up quick. Here, bring some sit pads for the top. Do you want our extra socks? Uh, nope. What? Yes, please. Baby, build the heck out of it. One. Got everything all packed up, ready to go. This backpack turned out to not be overly light after all, but it'll be alright. got everything we need all the rest of our stuff is packed away stay dry in case it rains but i don't think it will we don't have much of a paddle left i'm gonna leave the big camera here i'll take the little GoPro style camera just for the the weight savings but yeah all right next time you see us we're hiking that trail with all the people the idea that trail that we could start on would take us to this trail we could not find that trail we were lost and bushwhacking to find the right trail you don't that's it okay i don't know if we did not have a gps we would be back in the boat yes so he told me to hop hop over a little pond to uh to access a trail closer to the silver peak trail to cut off a big portion of it because we didn't have enough time for the a lot of time in the day and um yeah turns out that that was all just nonsense i could have we didn't have the portage at all we could have stayed on the same lake we were on and uh just got over but anyways i think we're here now thank goodness for the gps we're on the trail we're trying to make up some time so i can kind of quick but the trail is flooded out in a lot of spots it's uh it's a nice crisp cold day so we can definitely make up some time this is an all-day thing it's noon we're starting it and i think we don't get done until about six colorful it's so pretty hat I said I'm not complaining it's cold in here you warmed up i've warmed up oh guys we're climbing the peak now we made it we're here the awesome view freaking gorgeous that brown is oak yeah that yellow there's all birch you know bunch of evergreens we want to get into oaks the oaks grow on the rock oaks and pines grow on the rock oh that's cool i do that would be crazy maybe that one farm by us there's like always like 30 40 of them sitting there i've never seen so many cranes together at once there's a little oh it sure is oh look at this is really pretty i see the mountains yeah over there too a lot Fun fact, the La Cloche Mountains used to be bigger than the Rocky Mountains. Cecil on the map. I'm watering. Not from someone sitting. Oh my God. I bet you I'll bury you. It's so pretty. During the wintertime. Mighty windy and cold. I'd be playing a walk up. Yeah, with all your gear. In the snow. Oh, is it worth it? Yeah. The wrong turns. It's just a normal trip for me. Yeah, I'm glad we were able to finally get out here Take out when she's big enough to do it Look at this crazy plant life up here I had a YouTube channel of all the things that I find cute in the forest Yeah? Like what? Like those little tree things When we were bushwhacking that I was like in love with The little Pennsylvania pines Yes, I was in love with them That's what my YouTube channel would be Just showing them? The cute things I find while I'm walking And what, just showing them? Just showing them I'd be like, these are cute These are cute, look at it I'm walking Look at it Well, we should probably start heading back, honey. That's pretty cool, hang out here for a little while, have a decent hike back down, but it won't take as long if we're going down. So, I think our camp is just right over there. That's what Will told me, so we're going with that. No, that's not been the case this trip. We're back from our hike. We're back at camp. We were supposed to camp for the night. It was a great day, great hike. On the way down, I kind of fell. I slipped a little bit and my back is feeling pretty sore. We don't have a far paddle to get out, and we'll be home in a few hours, so we'll do that. We'll get supper on the way out. I still feel very accomplished. We camped last night. We did the hike, which we wanted to do. Actually, we did it really good. I think we did the whole trail back and there and back in, what, four hours? Four hours with our little bushwhacking of adventure in the beginning, which took an hour. Well, and on the way back. Yeah. So we're not too bad. No, that trail said it took two hours. We did it in 45 minutes. At the climb. Yeah. We stayed at the top for as long as we wanted to. It's not like we rushed, like we were done. No, it was nice. It was really nice. So anyway, good time away. Head home. Actually, we could probably just get a hotel and take a hot bath, a hotel room and stuff. Yeah, sounds good. Might as well take advantage of our babysitter. Yeah. Anyways, I know it's a short one. It's been a long time since Will and I did a video together. I think the last one last camp trip was camping with a girl They did actually pretty well for its time. How long ago was that? That was years ago. I was at Hoist lakes a few years ago. Yeah, I rolled with like three Trippers tripping but uh Anyway, yeah, it was a good time good time away together, and I'm sure we'll have some more memories soaking in the bath Oh, I can't probably can't see it the trip's not over anyway but thanks for coming along and uh yeah there'll be more i got some more super bushcrafty type stuff coming quick so i'm sure you guys will get your bushcrafty fill thanks for watching goodbye