Stepping Back in Time: Solo Canoeing Through Rapids to an Off-Grid Blacksmith Forge 

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Stepping Back in Time: Solo Canoeing Through Rapids to an Off-Grid Blacksmith Forge
In the not-so-distant past, the rivers of Canada and much of the northern USA were the highways. In this film, I take a step back in time and use the river I live on as my forest access road for practical purposes. To do this, I paddle my canoe from my homestead to the local blacksmith's forge to pick up a couple handcrafted things for my property. I've always loved thinking about what life was like in the olden days, so when I learned a blacksmith
‪@c.johnstonblacksmith‬ lives off-grid downriver from me, I figured canoeing to his place provided the perfect opportunity to step back in time...The only thing is, the river between my place and his is wrought with dangerous, whitewater rapids....it seems my trip to the blacksmith's off-grid house would come with a solid dose of adventure.
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Chapters:
0:00 Overview
0:43 Drone Shots Around My House & Loading the Canoe to Begin the Adventure
3:06 Lost Portage Trail: Running the First Two Rapids & Sharing a Traditional Travel Route
6:59 Portaging a Beautiful Canyon & Waterfall
10:38 Scouting and Running a Raging Rapid!
15:18 Losing a Big Fish, Eddying Out Before a Chute! Portaging & Running a Rapid
18:24 Running a Canyon Rapid and Scouting it From a Bridge
20:13 Fighting a Big Fish Underwater, Traveling Through a Culvert, Wildlife & Flatwater Paddling
21:43 Arriving at the Blacksmith's Off-Grid Forge
23:36 Blacksmithing a rustic "Squirrel Cooker" Outdoor, Campfire Cooking Tool
26:13 Blacksmithing an Outdoor Fire poker and Coal Raker - a Suprise for my WIfe Tori
29:10 Tori Shows up with the Kids to Pick me Up & I Have a Suprise for Her!
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