4 Day Winter Camp Pt.1

Well, we just finished our eight-hour drive up north and expected there to be a lot of snow. And as you can see there's some but not much. There's Ken's load out with his sweet shoes. There's my gay blue sled with my traditional shoes. We are off that-a-way where there's no more people. It's kind of hard to walk here. We're just sliding along really. I should have brought my crampons I think walking alongside the the shore just for safety reasons we took a long detour not a long detour a short detour and uh to just walk around the edges of the lake so that we're not putting ourselves in danger which is probably a good idea how is that come to one of our first inclines first of many see how KGD handles it there's sure to be a lot of cussing and Things getting lost Buddy took a stick out on the way. All right. That's what we just came off of all three Now we're up on a portage on land. But as you can see there is all open water there My heart sank, oh, you know, it sucks even more I wasn't recording that our third lake which is Lois Lake Might spend the night there might push on to Norway Not sure. Really should have brought crampons. We're just sliding across the ice here. If you try to walk you're gonna fall so you just gotta kind of slide your feet. And it's real sketchy. It's like, I don't know, there's water coming up anyways. Some spots are worse than others but that should be pretty solid underneath. I got it on film! Well we're entering Mud Lake which is nothing more than a beaver pond really. But this is the amazing fishing hole. This is where we I caught all those bass and I caught that pike too. I think we found our place for the night. I'm gonna post up right between that tree and that tree and Ken's gonna set up over there where he is. I think we're both pretty tired and setting up camp might take a minute. I was trying to set up my tarp all that fancy way that the A-frame, I can't figure it out. I got my, pulling it back there to give me some room. I'll tie it off, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it all neat and flying low. Dragged up the A-frame like normal put a mast over there as a door. It's kind of a windbreak because the lake is over on that side. Well we got all our stuff set up. Fire's going, firewood's here. Probably just cook our food, hang around by the fire tonight. Off to Bear Lake in the morning. We are uh you know eight o'clock, ten after eight. We're gonna head out to try to make it over to Bear Lake. Ken says it's about 500 meters from here and uh you can bet it's gonna be up and downhill for sure and through the trees. these hills are a pain in the ass it's kind of way down there fix up this sled I just did this hill might not look like too much on camera and really it wouldn't be if I was just walking but lugging this sled to work out it's a Bear Lake here and plan on camping next to the lake in the pines the snow is really coming down off the lake that's the lake right there I personally want to find a spot that's a little shelter from the wind this is ridiculous all right guys come out here i've been to Puzzle Lake here where we uh four times and every time we try to get to Bear Lake and uh just we've got here a bunch of times but we just have never been able to camp here so we got here today and we camped we were all set up we're gonna spend the night so that's pretty cool our goal is finally achieved i'm just eating some of my kielbasa and cheese, all kind of set ups. So I'll be setting up more elaborate setup than I did. I just got the normal A-frame. The ground's frozen, so you can't pound any stakes into it, so mine's not too good, but it should be all right. I got it over the wind and everything. Snow's still coming down hard. It's not as big flakes now, but it's been snowing all day, and I'm beat. I have no energy at all. I think that I was sick a couple weeks ago, i imagine just haven't got it back yet camp down in there you can see the snow coming down hoping to not get too wet but it's crazy in there the snow is coming off the trees like nuts but out here the wind is real bad i think the lesser and this island is covered with mullein just mullein after mullein the isle of mullein call it i would go as far as to call it the isle of mullein early supper about 4 30 and i eat my two meat sticks meat sticks all around all right guys it's the third day about six in the morning and last night after i stopped videotaping it stopped snowing but the snow was stuck on the trees and it came down all night like that until wee hours of the morning where it turned to ice it froze so my tarp is now one solid ice block and then down here It's literally ice, and there's water underneath it. So, all my stuff's covered in ice and snow. Got down pretty cold last night, but I had my old blanket inside my sleeping bag, which helped a little bit. Made it for tight quarters, but we'll go see what temperature it is right now. Ken said it was about negative six. Get the fire going, get some breakfast and warm up. Well, it's down to about negative five now. Hopefully it stays this cold all day, and we'll be able to travel good.