11 Days Solo Camping in the Yukon Wilderness E.1 - Bush Plane Drop-Off & Arctic Grayling Fishing 

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11 Days Solo Camping in the Yukon Wilderness E.1 Bush Plane Drop-Off & Arctic Grayling Fishing.
The Yukon holds some of the World’s last large expanses of wilderness. It’s brave wilderness - deep backcountry camping, remote wild camping in the full sense of the word as it’s well off grid and far from the road system. This is episode 1 of my documentary series about my survival in the woods where I’m truly alone in the wild and exploring the Yukon. After bush flying into a remote mountain lake, I head out solo camping and fishing on a wilderness travel adventure for 11 days by canoe. On this trip, I’m paddling the far-flung Bonnet Plume River followed by a stretch of the Peel where I plan to rendezvous with a float plane to extract me from the wilderness.
The words you here me recite at the beginning of this film that end with, “And I want to go back, and I will” are from Robert Service’s poem “the Spell of the Yukon”. This is what inspired me to return on my second big solo canoe adventure in the territory. But why do these things? some people ask, they’re dangerous, why make consecutive, large-scale adventures your goal? I’ve tried to answer this with a metaphor in this film. Before the construction of roads, steam powered paddle wheelers plied the waters of the Yukon and Stewart rivers moving supplies, ore, and people. Their voyages were challenging with rapids to negotiate and gravel bars to avoid. One of these old paddle wheelers was preserved and now sits stagnant on land in Whitehorse, Yukon. I reflect on this to illistrate how, in life, we remain safe if we don’t take risks, or remain in the “harbour”…but like ships, that’s not what we were built for. We were built to do amazing things. My two cents to you all is to start finding a way to make your dreams your reality right now, even if they mean taking risks that scare you.
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Chapters:
0:00 Trailer / Adventure Overview
1:25 Whitehorse & Miles Canyon
2:32 Up North Adventures Outfitting Canoe
4:56 Drive to Mayo from Whitehorse
6:40 Alcan Air Mayo Floatplane Base
9:56 The Bush Plane Flight
12:50 Setting up Camp & Outfitting Canoe for Whitewater
22:33 Goal Zero Nomad & Yeti 500 Off-Grid Solo
23:00 Fishing for Arctic Grayling
27:37 How to Clean a Fish with the Cold Steel Bird & Trout Knife
28:14 How to Cook Grayling & Trout on a Camp Stove in the Wilderness
29:56 Panning for Gold
30:17 Nighttime Interview - Recap on the Day
33:36 Stashing Food Barrel & Bedtime