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Awesome video! I live near enough to Ely that this video can be the recipe for an excellent outdoors date! Can't wait to enjoy it! Is Gator's Grilled Cheese Emporium still there? Last I was in Ely, it was to log one of the few remaining Webcam Geocaches left in the States! It's not available any longer but it was a great trip with a friend, and we logged a few more caches there and at Pfeiffer Lake.
Hey Jodi! Great video! Tell us more about that fishing pole, please. Suggestion: add that and your cloth map to the gear list. I heard you talk about that map in another video, but don't remember which video or any of the details.
We liked your hard won camp trip too ! Who amongst us has never forgotten (or not had enough $ to buy food,gear) love of a hardy time prevails.Bummer your water filter is unusable.Home is where everything is perfect,thats why we always go home.Thanks
I was heading to Lake Vermilion from Indiana to photograph Loons. So glad I found your video about the flooding. I guess I'll have to wait until next year. Good to see you still had fun.
Good video, love the courage. The weather seems more ominous when you’re out there alone. So do noises at night a twig snapping or the wolves howling across the lake.
Tie that canoe up. Always. I had an incident where the canoe was like 10 meters or more from the shore and wind caught it while I was sleeping and shipped it a mile down shore. Now I tie the boat up even on quietest night. And that 18’er is a big boat to solo.
Yes! I agree. I use my life jacket straps to buckle the canoe to a tree at night. Super easy. I only use para cord if the trees are all too big. And the canoe is definitely large for solo use. But it’s what I have, for now. Looking into smaller boats.
Best boat is the one you have. I have paracord on front and back as dock lines anyway usually. I have a 15’ , 16’ and 16’7”. The 15 is the go to solo but the 16 is fine. Portaging the 15’ is a big difference just in knocking trees and just managing the length surprisingly. 15’ is slow on open water though. Great video.
@@Canoejerry I have used a Wenonah Aurora solo before and loved it. That one is 16ft. I'm torn between a boat like that which can be used solo or tandem, OR a strictly solo canoe. I love solo trips so maybe a true solo canoe is warranted. I'm open to input. haha
My 16’ is an aurora royalex. That boat is nice for tandem and ok for solo. The 15’ is a swift prospector. I was torn between the 15’ prospector solo vs tandem. I’m able to do 3 days tandem trips with a kid and smaller gear. I’m usually 80 percent tandem and 20 percent solo. If it was reversed I’d get a used solo. I’ve been eyeing the north wind solo but never paddled it.
The rain this year is making BWCA extremely unpredictable in terms of access and also we've had some crazy storms roll through. I dont mess around , the best month to go to ensure safe weather conditions is august
Have you ever considered wearing the Chota (or similar) knee or hip waders? I have a pair of their stocking foot knee waders and they work great paired with water shoes. No more wet feet!
What a marvelous video…thank you so much for sharing your adventure! I’m so glad you are doing these things while you’re young! I’m 71 years old now and that’s slowed me up considerably!❤️😊Also have you ever tried paddling with a kayak paddle…I find that it works really well, especially in wind!
I've failed the Angleworm as well, about 15 years ago, never went back. Don't know the Big Island trail. I'll have to look into it. I got 5 inches of rain a couple days ago and was stranded for a day or two because of washed out roads. Good see an old Jodi video if you don’t mind me saying so.
That flooded part of the trail, has been flooded for almost a year now. I took that hike last July, it looks the same. The boardwalk was washed out even last July.
Nice job making the best of the situation. We did what I think is that same section a few years ago to get to Spring Creek. The water was almost as high, but the weather was better so we trudged through it. The paddle on Spring Creek was interesting to say the least.
I did this trail a while ago and swapped shoes to walk through flooded areas and kept a pair of shoes dry. I wasn’t able to see how deep the water was on the far end of the flooded piece here this go around. I haven’t been on spring creek yet!
My wife and I visited Iceland in 2001 will our was stationed there while in Navy. We were there for 9 days. There are many place to visit. They have the greatest waterfalls. The Blue Lagoon was fabulous. The whole is heated by geothermal activity. It’s a shame you only had 24 hours there. Even being there for 9 days we still only saw a small portion of what the island had to offer you.
Since I'm a book nerd, I googled the book you took along. After reading a short description of chaos theory, I officially am more confused than before.
So far, what I have read in the book has been about the beginnings of the chaos theory. I'm no expert. I just find it interesting. The book begins by using chaos theory to explain why it is impossible to predict weather far into the future even with loads of data and mathematic understandings of weather and weather systems. Basically, there are patterns to weather, magnetic pole switches, and other phenomenon yet they never repeat exactly and past data cannot really predict future data with any accuracy. So far, I would recommend the book.
I have a telescopic fishing rod. So I packed my rod in my portage pack and assembled it at camp. I have previously brought non-telescopic rods and just portaged them by carrying them. It works, but it can be tedious if the portage path is overgrown or if you are carrying many things at once.
