Taking a Chance because I NEED to.

What do you got? You got the sketchbook. Hey guys, before we jump into the video, I wanted to show you what we've been working on. Scout Goes Camping. It's a hardcover children's book that we started in October before Scout got sick. The project kind of got put on hold. Well, we dealt with it in his death, but I wanted to get it out. This is for sale now. This is up for sale. This is a decent book with all about camping with the family. We've got Will, Joe, and I. Emerald in autumn and Scout of course and this is a children's book of yeah i remember scout this is a children's book about camping but it's also got safety tips how to pack for your bags or sorry how to pack your bags all that stuff for camping lots of really cool stuff in it i'm extremely proud of this book i'm very happy to have this book and to offer it up for sale i wasn't even sure if i wanted to continue with the book and publish it but now i'm looking at it this way like Scout loved camping he loved us he protected us what a better way to celebrate him than through a book it'll encourage kids to spend time with their families and fall in love with the outdoors just like we did there's a link in the description of this video where you can get the book and the first hundred people I'll give you guys a coupon code the code is Scout you can spell it any way you want uppercase or lowercase it's SCOUT and you'll get a it'll bring it down to 20 bucks the books 26 bucks it'll bring it down to 26 or sorry I'll bring it down to 20 bucks from 26 for the first 100 people to use that code excuse me what do you think tasty no he knows if all goes to plan by the time you're watching this I'll be six days deep in the Canadian wilderness I'm supposed to be getting dropped off the 30th a float plane with Kyle into Woodland Caribou I'm driving 10 hours north tomorrow tomorrow morning to Thunder Bay meet up with buddy Kyle who's flying in from California pick Kyle up and travel the six extra hours to Red Lake we actually lose a losing hour or gain an hour because the time change is different anyways once you get up to Red Lake um stay there for a day with Harlan getting ready for our camping trip getting all of our gear sorted get our fishing gear sorted getting our maps and getting our route nailed down we will be getting picked up by a float plane as well seven days later we're traveling down the Gammon river system in Woodland Caribou provincial park be fishing for pike lake trout and walleye this is the gear video for this before i hop into this this is me taking a chance because i need to do this for myself uh anybody who has watched my videos understands what i'm talking about i'm going to be having a procedure coming up next month and then i'm going to be out of commission for a little bit and i need to get a real canoe trip in just for my own peace of mind this is not for anyone else this is up for any other reasons This is for me wanting to go on a canoe trip with my friend really badly and doing it. Let's get into the gear Well, you know what? I've decided let's do this in real time because really I am Honestly still getting all my gear sorted like that You can see piles of things everywhere backpack is filled filled, but I don't have everything organized right now So let's do that together. It's it's real because I'm traveling for two days beforehand and two days after to come home so I need specific things in the car with me food and clothing and stuff so that's what this bag is for some of this needs to go into that not much I do have all of my breakfast already sorted out for the trip so here's my silly little super greens Kia meal that goes in here for my for my road trip for my for my hotel stay for on the road whatever yeah some things to go in there will be some clothes I need to drive back right I have Harlan's socks we got to give back to Harlan thanks for the canoe copia socks these are my my secondary pants I'm gonna bring these to either wear around camp at night or to change into if my other pants get soaking wet so these are actually gonna go in my backpack I don't believe I'll bring this shirt this is a short sleeve wind shirt bug shirt Sun shirt I don't think I'll bring it because I am bringing this one which is a long sleeve right so the idea is I need to stay away from Sun and bugs I don't know if you can see but right there is all black fly bites just from just from watching my daughter's soccer practice the other night here where we live so Harlan has assured me the black flies aren't as bad up there it's much drier I don't believe them so we need to stay away from the black flies long sleeve shirt tucked in and underneath that is this rhino skin and this is a very tight to my body tight cuffs tight waistband so this will get tucked in and because black flies like to crawl right they crawl instead of mosquitoes they land and they sting you black flies crawl and they find an opening and they have this like mouth not it's not a proboscis and they just take a chunk out of you so that's going that's going these are my pants these are the same pants I wore when I went with Sean to Woodland Caribou these are Tilly pants and the reason I'm wearing these is because the leg cuff goes longer than my the elastic cuff the elastic cuffs on these kind of ride up so this I can tuck into my sock if I need to yeah so we're gonna bring those they're a little bit heavier they're a little they're so quick dry they're just a little bit heavier than these guys but these will make us a good secondary pair this trip it's okay to double carry on the portage we're not trying to single carry we don't have a lot of we don't have anywhere we need to be we're getting picked up on a float plane as well seven days later we can travel seven kilometers a day or we can travel 30 kilometers a day if we want to we just have to get on a certain one one of a few certain lakes that can be picked up that a float plane can land on that we can get picked up on so this isn't a super crazy distance trip this is a get in tune with ourselves and nature and catch fish and relax and have a little bit of fun imagine that these are my pantyhose no these are uh the rhino skin socks so they're double layered and um yeah we'll be wearing these i don't know if i'll be wearing these in conjunction with another pair of socks over top of them we'll see the first day i'm just going to wear these and see how it goes first day there's a risk of thunderstorm so flying in on the float plane might be delayed or interesting I've got my old hat my old bushcraft USA tan hat if you see it there's a theme here all tan all light colors right black flies especially really like the color black and dark dark clothes so we're sticking away from dark these pants are about as dark as it gets and they're still pretty light they're not brown or black it's okay underwear and then a shirt for underneath the white one if I need it just an Arc'teryx quick-dry I got some underwear for the car. That's important, right? Underwear for the car. Two pairs. I've got good socks. These are darn tough thin socks. I like these. So this is going to be my, the clothes that I wear on the first day. sans cold weather gear if I need it. This is, sans means other than or something along those lines. This is a merino wool buff that you kind of do one of these, put it in the water and then do one of those and it gets you nice and cooled down or you can put over your head. Bug protection as well. Lots of uses for that. So that's my clothes for the first day. That can get pushed out of the way here. I do have an extra pair of underwear laying on the ground. Let's throw that in the car bag. With the clothes, I do have a bug net, a bug head net, but I also have the original bug shirt. There's a full-sized bug jacket in here that's coming with me just in case I need to do it. So that's coming with me in the backpack. And then as far as belts go, it's just this nylon belt. I don't like to use a big thick leather belts when I'm sitting in the canoe all day paddling so this nice thin one comes with favorite pair of skater jeans um will be used kind of jumping around here but I'm just dealing with the things that are right in front of me uh right now so we've got fish crisp Kyle really wanted me to bring fish crisp we got fish crisp we got lard okay this is the same stuff we used with some lard instead of oil works well keeps well so I will be doing one of these because I don't want to bring the whole bag. I'm not going to use it a lot. I'll probably have fish crisp one or two nights. The other nights I'll be doing it without breading because it's probably not the greatest for me and I do want to stay in good health while I'm out there. So beforehand I'll just put it in a bag and then I'll make sure to bring an extra couple bags to batter the fish in right because you don't want to keep putting fish in the same battered joke in the same bag and taking it out that would get a little fish danky so we got a decent amount fish crisp there it is Kyle and I too so who knows how much fish we're gonna get no we'll be catching fish so I got that then again like I said we'll bring a couple extra bags to actually shake and bake style the fish in it so a couple bags just go right in there that works just fine and throw the lard in there too. We'll deal with that in the food bag. I got some fruit to go. These little fruit leather things. I got a handful of them. They were 40 cents each. I grabbed a handful. Banana, lime, stuff like that. Pretty healthy. The sugar's pretty low in them. Decent. Decent stuff. Otherwise for fish, I have a lemon. I have small pearl onions, the red ones. I have garlic and I have tin foil i plan on doing some walleye in the tin foil with the lemon the garlic uh the lard some bam sun spice in there should be very tasty i got some hard cheese some double smoked hard cheese i've got some lunch meat as far as camera gear goes i've got a brand new hero 7 uh gopro which should be good uh the audio is supposed to be better on it than the five which i've been using and the five is not good on the uh in the canoe it picks up the paddling and my talking at same time as you probably saw my last video it's not good i hate it so that one's supposed to be better i've got the five the seven and the session so i'll set those all up differently on my boat and and or uh for time lapses and stuff i've got connector pieces for my boat just random stuff for the gopro and here i have a power bank for charging the gopros i have a gopro cord and i have three nikon batteries for my camera that i'm filming on right now i'll be bringing my Nikon Z6 uh with my Rode VideoMic Go and my tripod that all that i'm using right now i have one battery in there obviously so four batteries total no charging this time i'm not bringing a solar panel or whatever it'll be a little bit less filming with the um a little bit less filming all around i'll probably have two hour long videos out of six days and i can go for a night and get two hours no problem as you know so anyways we'll be filming a lot with the GoPros in the boat and And then using the big one as well, but mainly using that one for the nice stuff. Campshots, catching fish, stuff like that. So that's my camera gear sorted. This is my thwart bag that goes in the canoe. It hangs up in the canoe like that. Again, we're not single carrying, so I'm not worried about this. This would throw my balance all off, right? Inside it, I have things like a stainless steel Mora I have a bug net for my head. I have some twist tie gear ties for my attaching my tripod to my boat or my my Fishing rod to my boat while I'm portaging got my spot Harlan is hooking us up with a sat phone Bring the spot to just another dealie Bob to connect stuff to my boat this is a strap that I use some webbing that I use on the front of my boat like a rope so I can Line it or it helps with portaging and balancing so that gets put right on my boat All this stuff like doesn't stay in here this stuff goes on my boat this is a bail kit safety kit my gps very handy oh more more GoPro stuff so this is a head mount i'll have to put that with the camera stuff straps for my glasses so i don't lose them bug spray a patch kit for my boat and a fillet knife with that i'll be putting this secondary tackle box in there i already do have one in my life jacket packed away with 99% of my tackle already. I'm not going crazy on the tackle this time But I do foresee myself buying a few more spoons and stuff Maybe some wraps when I'm up at Harlan's shop, but anyways until then All that fun stuff gets swallowed up by this. This is a fox light Gear for peg with my food. I do have a spatula. It's good. It works like a spatula does I got a handkerchief? I have these glacier gloves that I'm not sure if I'm going to bring or not it's not supposed to be too cold, but paddling in the thunderstorm or Keep my hands away from black flies might be useful. We'll see. I'm not sure I got these and wasn't careful the first time This is a dry bag for my camera to keep ready when I'm in the canoe just to slide it over top of that camera If I need to this is a secondary Kevlar bag For food. It's a scent proof bag and Kevlar. I'm bringing this for Kyle. He said he needs a second one he's a big boy it's big big hungry bringing this map case the secondary map case for Kyle as well I have one this is the AquaQuest one you put the map in there keep it dry it's useful so all that kind of stuff is getting put in this this day bag so I don't have to search through my big bag to get it all out these are getting packed in there this is my water filter system the be free like you've seen me use 1 million times this is a pretty new one so even if I do puncture it I can just plug my plug it with my finger and the the the filter will do well for this trip up there you can almost drink the water uh just right on the lake but I can't risk that I do have a 15 pound spider wire camo braid so normally I use 10 I couldn't find 10 but this is just extra anyways in case my line messes up a lot of the times I find with braid when I'm casting it gets pretty uh tied up but it doesn't twist like mono does when you're trolling so it's i like it i like braid better than mono butt wipe a whole thing of butt wipe i got an extra lens this is a nikon um 85 mil prime so hopefully i can use and with the adapter to go on my nikon on the new nikon i hope to use it i hope that i get some good footage out of it i can go with the camera gear. I'm bringing these neoprene socks. They're pretty thick. I plan on having to jump in the water every morning after my morning ritual. So I don't want to have to walk out onto the into the water on slippery rocks or jagged rocks or what have you. It's nice to have things on your feet when you're walking into the water, depending on where you are. So I'll use these in the morning for that. And then by the end of the day, when I get to camp, I'm sure they'll have dried out and then I can use them for camp shoes so that I'm not walking around with bare feet and getting my ankles all bit up by bugs I am bringing a pair of lightweight hiking boots which I normally don't do that's what my footwear is going to be normally I'll wear hiking hiking shoes or uh like quick dry shoes but this time it's not going to be that cold I don't really care if my feet are wet for most of the trip and the boots come up higher to protect protect my ankles from the biting bugs which my ankles always get lit up so yeah this is my footwear for the morning swim and for nighttime possibly but it's worth bringing i'll go through my uh my life jacket just really quick and then i'll dump out my bag so this is my fisherman life jacket obviously i always always have it it's got two big pockets on one side i've got fishing it's like some lures i've got a worm i'm sorry a big spoon and i've got uh pliers to take the the lures out of the fish and then on the other side i've got my tackle that's all the tackle i had before i bought that secondary box this has got spoons wraps jigs and a couple tiny spinners but that's it i'm really expecting pike and walleye lake trout would be pleasant but it's a little bit warm in the in the year for it but we'll see anyways this go this is small enough that it can go right in my my pocket oh yeah my life jacket so it's still heavy enough when I'm portaging it but it's not really going away into a secondary bag and I don't have to put into my big bag I'm not bringing a secondary backpack on this trip even though we can port don't portage don't carry I'm not going to this port bag will be enough I'll probably have to strap it to either my backpack would carry it so that's that I've got my fishing license in there as well let's dump out this backpack real quick this is the same backpack I've been using for canoe tripping for years it kind of shows it used to be kind of red excuse me I'm gonna dump it out I just want to take a couple things out beforehand I didn't have a lot in it before my extra gear came out first up is my chair Kyle and I both decided we'll bring chairs this is a Kilonox I used to have a REI one but I accidentally melted it at the fire so this This one's a touch bigger, but it's no big deal. Not the lightest thing, not the biggest thing. It's just whatever. But it's worth having, especially for me hanging around camp for a little bit. I've got my sleeping pad, which is my Therm-a-Rest Neo Air X-Therm. I've got my tent, which is my Big Agnes Fly Creek UL1. My poles and my stakes for my tent. Just a super thin, small safety blanket. Kyle's bringing a big tarp as a communal thing. I have a few communal pieces. He has the tarp. it's a big one but in case this is for signaling it's it's blaze orange here for signaling or for just extra protection it doesn't weigh much at all it's still nylon from Bushcraft Outfitters i think it's a six by eight yeah six by eight so it's worth having in my opinion this is my rain gear just uh Arc'teryx rain jacket and pants and this is my clothes so not too big so really oh sorry in my sleeping bag this is my sleeping bag nice and small really if you look at my base of stuff it's not that big you know i mean it's not that much stuff but then you add on so my food's a little bit much actually it's not bad in there but once i add the other stuff i'm sure it'll be quite a bit my my pot system is just a sil nylon, i'm sorry, sil nylon pot a titanium pot with my uh wood stove in it my Bush Buddy wood stove and a little spoon on the side so there's my cooking stuff this is one of the communal things the fry pan this will be used for fish for eggs uh all good stuff so communal communal saw communal axe and kyle's got the tarp i believe um i do also have the lard and the fish crisp man i need to give kyle some of this stuff to carry i think yes i forgot i do have a possibles pouch here with things like sunscreen a headlamp first aid, battery for my headlamp, polysporin for my bug bites, a repair tube for my tent poles with a bunch of gaffer tape on it, fire steel, whistle, yeah, so that's important to have, we will be getting the maps from Harlan, like I said, and I do have my GPS, like I said, anyway, let's pack this bad boy up. The way you pack your backpack is important. I'm going to go chair first. Look at my tent. Look at my tent and my sleeping bag. Those are small, guys. So small. Such a joy to use light stuff. Especially when you know it holds up. This has been used. This has been used. All right. Anyways, I've got those two in there laying flat. Those two in there standing up. I like to slide anything long down the side of it right off the hop so that like the poles go there the saw goes next to the poles I'll put the axe on the other side to even it out all slid right down to the bottom sticking straight up um next up should be the heaviest thing which is the food so I will do that and then we'll go through the food in a minute here oh yeah my grill my grill is coming too a little Joe Robinette grill this is the bag this is the bag that the Scent-proof bag goes in. We'll not worry about that right this second just for Demonstrative purposes. I'd like to put that one food right in them right low in the middle and close to my back So that's not pulling out away from me and making it difficult to hike We've got Crossbow's pouch just my pants my socks and my bug jacket are gonna get all slid down in the little gap That's in front of the food bag. Just to take take the space up Okay, I can go in food. I mean sorry my clothes in my rain jacket. I'll still nylon cooking kit I'll keep the the teepee right at the top stuff needs to go to Camera stuff actually the camera stuff should be able to go in here with the with the lens This is a FoxLite pouch as well. I love using their stuff They're small American company salt of the earth pay people like to support them. This one's a nice inside it's it's bright very visible anyway lens and camera gear are gonna get kind of sandwiched in here protected so this is what I also have to remember right I have a tripod and I have that camera I can't portage all the time with the camera in my hand this one this trip being a little bit different because of the double carries but I do have to save room in my backpack for that tripod and that camera the lucky thing is that tripod can fit sideways like this at the top so I don't have to try and smash it down on the side after it's all full so lightweight tripod it's a pretty good one too I do sacrifice some things with it because they don't have like a I don't have that that thing where you can pull the leg out and make it uneven I have to kind of anyways I can work it it just it's a little bit inconvenient but it's it's worth it for the lightness of it it's got a little handkerchief I'll throw in there I do have to repack this after oh and a couple little all-purpose garbage bags you know they're gonna be good to keep things dry or whatever they're all you don't know when they come in handy i'll put that in my camera bag actually said and uh i appreciate it i did oh okay she's getting up there a couple last things this is my map case again fox light gear um clear case on this side possible pouch on that side i'm going to bring some paracord and another ridge line just in case this can go on my boat this can get strapped to my backpack or strapped to my sport bag whatever whatever i want to do i can rig this up like that so that's coming with me not necessarily going to my backpack but for now we'll put it in there and i think that's really it as other than this camera gear so this will be on the boat this one might be in my backpack and this will be on the boat so i only really have like maybe this that i have to pack away okay so that's not much a half a pound Camera gear adds up in weight and bulk. Don't want to forget my extra fishing line. I'm almost positive I'll need it. I think Kyle might be bringing two fishing rods, which, shoot, is not a bad idea. Do we want holes all in our bug net? Because that's what we just got. That's what we just got. Joseph. Oh, it's all in there. I have to go buy another one. Let's put that not near the zipper part. basically you see here this these cameras my life jacket my thorp bag with my canoe my fishing pole and my paddle that'll be everything see I do have room plenty of room in here for my tripod of my camera as you can see it's a look just over three quarters of all bad boy feels like oh yeah not too bad not too bad at all my water filter will stay in my cargo pants pocket. I'll probably just put that in here for now. I did forget to mention I have a lot of toiletries with me as well. Medications for bug bites and for myself and stuff like that. So that'll all be coming with me along with my toothbrush and things that I have to pack still tomorrow. So this is my food bag. Everything fits in there with the exception of this little bit of lard and fish crisps which Kyle is going to carry. I've made that decision for him. So food for a week first up let's do the suppers so I've got lovely wife's chili not mom spaghetti lovely wife's chili for night one a decent amount it's a we dehydrated ourselves she makes it herself everything's good no preservatives nothing like that second night is dehydrated shredded chicken rice dehydrated vegetables like carrots onions green beans leeks fun stuff a little bit of spice in there as well there's a lot of chicken in there We dehydrated that ourselves as well third night mom spaghetti lovely wife spaghetti fourth night We're taking a chance if we eat this this is pepper beef with rice, and this is an alpine air I've had it forever. It's time to eat it. It's not too bad in the ingredients or the preservatives But if I can avoid this I will I'm just bringing it because it's something different And I've had it for a long time if I can eat fish instead of that I will this is dehydrated vegetables and rice so I need to catch fish with this for supper and if not that's just what supper is that day night six one two three four five six is chilly again and then this we have six nights seven days this is again my lemon tinfoil onions and garlic that'll go with walleye in the fire which should be pretty tasty if there's walleye to be caught by us just checking on my camera I'm long-winded you know so we got lunch next and lunch again if I can avoid eating as much lunch meat as I can then I will but it's there in case I have seven flatbreads I have about four or five days worth of lunch meat I have this dried cheese that will go with the lunch meat and I also have these mustard packets that an awesome subscriber sent to me that will go with the lunch meat as well so this is all one for probably about five days I've got oh no where'd it go oh this this is my chicken stew it used to be beige I dehydrated the heck out of it and now it's like black but that's okay that's a light lunch as opposed to lunch meat for my stomach I also have a light lunch of chili in case or it could be an extra supper whatever these are my goji berries my dried fruits all that stuff which goes into my breakfast I don't know why I have it in my lunch spot goes into my breakfast, gotta check the camera again, gotta do it, I'm on red, seeing red again, sure, okay, breakfast, I've got, I made up my own oatmeal with flaxseed and a good oatmeal and some extra sugary oatmeal in there, just for a little bit of kick, and then with that is going to be going the bacon jerky, a couple pieces of bacon jerky every morning, so I've got one, two, three, four, five, six of those oatmeals that are all the same but for the seventh day or one of those seven days I do have a Spanish omelette so that's from a Happy Yak and that'll get cooked in my my skillet it's the ingredients aren't bad so seven mornings of breakfast with my bacon jerky and as well the berries so berries, jerky and the oatmeal together should be a filling breakfast should be as far as oh I've got also this chia powder these chia seeds with probiotics in it that go in my water it's pretty good for me I've got dehydrated or sorry freeze-dried bananas and pineapple in here just a couple couple bags of party mix for the night time just two of them for snacks I've got throughout the day I got those that jerky has two packs of jerky in there, got M&M almonds or almond M&Ms I've got almonds I've got peanut butter M&Ms and I've got almonds. This is about half, almond M&Ms. This is about half the M&Ms I normally would bring. They're a good snack for the daytime. I just don't know how much I should be eating. Other than that, for snacks for the day, I've got about seven, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven piles. Things like Clif bars, Nature Valley bars, and then fruit roll-up type things. I've got a variety of different ones for every day. I assume this will be enough food Coupled with the fish the only thing again. I didn't fit in there lard and fish crisp but I'll carry that, what I do like to do for my suppers Excuse me, I've kind of condensed them just into one big Ziploc bag So that when I when it's time to eat them I know where they are, they're gonna go on the bottom of the big bag because I don't really want to be Having to search through that to get snacks or breakfast or whatever, so I put all those at the bottom That can go together nice and neatly, this other one can stay out It's just too bulky to put in there It'll slide down beside them. Okay, let's pack this food bag up I was able to get it all to fit two minutes ago I'm hoping to do the same again, flat one right down in there. Okay, so Yeah, I'll try to just pack it Ideally so I can get to things in the daytime that I need I don't care if when we're at camp we have to dump it all out But at lunch, it'd be nice to not have to do that dextrose I don't know man. I don't know. Oh looking promising like I said I will bring the second one for Kyle because he asked me to look at that Damn grill doesn't need to go in there, it will at night because it stinks like food, but you slide down inside it Let's see about this now, like it was meant to be seven days worth of food, damn I sure hope you got something out of that video. Hope I didn't run on too long, shake and Yeah, I'm excited. I'm very excited to go on this trip with Kyle I'm pretty nervous to see how my body's going to handle it, but it has to be done, man. It has to be done. And maybe this will be good for me, you know, but if you're watching this, chances are I'm 90% done that trip. Thank you guys very much for watching. Wish me luck. I'll see you soon with a real trip video from this trip or two.