Spring Canoeing - Going End To End On Chilliwack Lake 

Thank you Kelly!

Not sure. I'll probably get back to Widgeon and hike to the falls at some point before I leave for my summer trip. I've also always wanted to go to the pitt river hot springs, so one day I'll canoe all of pitt lake and get myself there.

I should. I have a pair of insulated winter rubber boots that I use if it's really cold, but they are way too warm for days like these. Regular boots would of been nice

My canoe is a 15 foot Clipper Solitude. I think it actually says 15 and a half feet on the tag. It has served me well lol. I did Bowron in 3 days as a challenge when I turned 30, and it definitely wasn't easy. I did 53 kilometers on day 1. I went from the start all the way to the end of Isaac lake. The chute campsite. Then day 2 I pushed to Skoi lake, which is the one in between the 2 really short portage. I was so done on the 2nd day, I actually lost a flip flop in the mud dragging my canoe towards a portage. The moment that I was digging for that flip flop was the lowest feeling😂. Then day 3 was pretty easy, pretty short day relatively speaking. It was an awesome experience, but also I don't really want to do it again. I hate that I don't have footage of it though, and re doing it the same way to get footage feels weird. But trying to do it in 2 days would be pretty epic, but also terrible. What I'm really thinking about doing is 4 days, that's what I set up my reservation for, but I think I actually have up to 14 days to do it. Then I have enough time to hike to that waterfall you're talking about, and also give me more time to enjoy it. I've done it so many times, and in a bunch of different lengths. I've done it in 8 days as a group several times, but that's too slow of a pace for me. I like a good 25 to 30 km a day, and that's really a 4 or 5 day pace. When I did it in 3 days the weather was also perfect. Isaac Lake was smooth and windfree the whole time, that's why I just kept going.

@@SARGEinc Ya 4 days will be good, you gonna check out barkerville when your there too, could make a good extra video? If I did it again I think I would take close to the whole allowable time, not to be lazy but just to make the most of it to really take it in and see it all, like you could paddle up one side back down the other and then back up the middle lol camp at every camp ground and spot all the wildlife. I'm tossing around the idea of seeing if I could make some sort of setup to hold a canoe on my roof off centered to the drivers side above solar panels as I mounted a roof box on the other side to hold all my camping gear and extras. It'll have to be on the narrower side but I might be able to or a kayak I guess.

@@frankevans287 I might go to Barkerville depending on timing and how I feel at the time. I'll probably add more to my trip, so it depends on what I do. I like Barkerville, I've been there a few times before. One time there was 4 of us that had just grabbed ice cream cones, then we went into the courthouse to check it out. Then Sir Matthew Begbie, "The Hanging Judge", tore a strip out of us. He yelled at us for bringing food into his courthouse and kicked us out. It was hilarious. Guy was in full character and kicked 4 grown ass men out of the courthouse😂. I still think about it. As for the canoe on the roof. I had high hopes that I could fit a solar panel and a canoe on the roof, but once I saw how much space it actually took up I gave up. Maybe there's a way to put it off center, but My fan is centered, and that needs to be able to open and close with the canoe on the roof. There are smaller and different shaped panels that might be able to be fitted in a way that the canoe doesn't block them. It would be nice if the boat was narrower like a kayak, but it isn't. It's actually kind of a pain to have the canoe with me at all times, bit that's what I like to do. A couple of buddies have inflatable kayaks that I'm kind of jealous of, it seems so nice that they can just throw it inside their cars when they are done. Not that I really have any more space inside.

@@SARGEinc I got yelled at and called a reprobate when I was like 8 for getting to close to the sluice box thing lol. I really like canoes too but it's the transporting and storage that is a major pita, I'm not doing a roof fan though so I do have that on my side, I plan on building a cedar strip canoe soon so maybe if a decide the dimensions just right I can do it, I can't compromise too much though it's still gotta be a functional stable canoe, if not I may go kayak

I'll definitely be making more van videos moving forward. I have a little bit more work to do to it, and then at that point it's going to be full on camping season. It's weird that you mention using drones not for war. I've seen so many videos from the Russian war in Ukraine using drones. It's always in the back of my head when I fly my drone now. It's pretty crazy knowing that you're flying a kilometer away from you, watching something that has no idea you're there. It really makes you think about the power of these things, and hope no one wants to use one in a bad way around me.