V7E4: Navigating the North Maine Woods 

I'm Mexican, from Guadalajara and I was in these places in 1996 working for a forestry company making brush cutting. It was a dream. I really enjoy your video and I wish a lot to come back some time there. Greetings and prayings for you.

This is my back yard, enjoy its endless sites and beauty. Amazes me most people only know Maine for its coast.

All I can think about while watching your videos is how you have to come back to get your camera each time the shot cuts.

I was fishing on [you can't find it pond] two days before you drove in there.The yellow canoe you pictured is mine. I do take exception to your comment about abandoned canoes .These canoes are left there by folks like me [Mainers] who don't mind others using their boats. But there is always some out of stater who doesn't know or is to lazy to flip them back over [upside down] so they do not fill with water. The North Maine Woods is a treasure of private land that we have access to.Please take care of it and be careful ,no houses ,no electricity ,no paved roads just thousands of miles of woods ,some bridges are abandoned so use caution crossing them. Remember that logging trucks have the right of way Herb

I grew up in Millinocket, Maine ..traveled all those roads many times..Penn. Mass and especially NJ about as welcome as a baby ruth in a swimming pool..LOL

I always love seeing people expl my beautiful home state i hope you liked it. God bless

I've watched this video like 4 times...way too good

I love at 4:40 that you used your blinker. I was commenting to my dad in a similar situation years ago how weird it was to be 20 miles from the nearest person, and I used my blinker and was uneasy driving down benign country roads with no seatbelt.

Just found you on RU-vid. Am really enjoying the trips you are sharing. I am from Maine and you've given me some excellent ideas on some trips to take in Maine. Please keep up the good work!

"The City of Caribou" -- you are a generous man.

Over the months and as my year clicks over, I have come to find your clips strangely addictive. Of course I don't love everything, dry sandwiches for one :-O and of course as a dedicated angler, the fact that you don't fish irks me to the core whenever I see you on a beautiful stretch of water lol, but seriously, there is a serenity and continuity to your vids that keep me coming back for more and looking forward to your next adventure. I am mostly astounded by the variety and beauty of your great countryside and wild places right across the US of A and each area has it's own unique beauty once you find it, and find it you do. Please keep up the good work, here's to the next one. atvb ODJ.

Iam from Northern Maine and enjoy watching this so much. Been to many of the same places. Thank you.

Maine is so beautiful!

I love and appreciate your calm demeanor but you’re so cute when you’re mad! This kept me on the edge of my seat hoping you wouldn’t run out of gas. Love love your videos Chris! I always look forward to the next! PS, I also enjoyed your specialty egg and cheese sandwich today for breakfast! ❤️😉

Got to say helo from 1 old Maniac to another. I left Maine back in the 1960's and went into the military for over 20 years. Now I live on the west coast. I am going to add your channel to my list of favorites.

So I was traveling for work this week and decided to pick up a Sandwich in Sandwich, MA. While I’m at the visitors center learning about the area, a lovely couple pull up in a sand colored Rubicon. I say “nice Jeep” and we start up a conversation about Jeeping. We end up talking about how much we LOVE your videos and how we’ve both met you (he met you at Ok4WD a few weeks ago, I met you at EJS a few years ago) fun to connect with fellow fans!

You have a great rig for the north woods , bud. The whole set up is perfect for fun in the Maine woods.

Really nice as usual.love the moose shot! Next time you make spaghetti, just add the noodles to the sauce to cook together.no boiling and draining needed.noodles will soak up excess water in the sauce,become more flavorful and if it looks too thick as it cooks,add a dab of water.

Wow! Northern Maine is stunningly beautiful! Look forward to your adventure every Friday!

Looks like that bug hat was money well spent! 😜👍🏼

Always nice to be in Maine during Black Fly season......

Beautiful area, great video. Thank you!

Great vid! Hope your travels are grand, have a happy 4th of July. Can’t wait until your next vid, living a dream through your vids. Thank you so much for sharing your life in the back country with us. Take care and be safe! Need to get my Jeep out in the woods.

In one of your shots, I saw a black bear. Nice menu....lots of cheese, salsa, sandwich meat and to top it off---->PIZZA! I love my state and nice video, great job. Also, thanks for killing some of our mosquitoes while you were here.

Great vid as usual thanks for the share from new Zealand

Hello Chris. I would like to thank you very much for your films. You show them how beautiful America is. My name is Radek, I am Polish, but I live in Germany. Sometimes I manage to pack my jeep and go somewhere in the mountains, unfortunately in Western Europe overland is illegal. greetings

One of my favorite place to camp out! Miss camping up there it been 15 yrs..sense I been there! Great. Place to be

Great videos Chris. Your adventures are interesting and fun to watch. You do a great job!!

I just got back from Maine and I can say that I will always go back. I love it there.

This was so nice to watch! Thank you! I miss my kayak and my pond. I can't wait to get back to Maine!!

genuine and perfect footage and filming skills, and good length for outdoors

Condiments bro, condiments. get on it!!!! I will send you some if required!!!! thanks for allowing us on your journey!

Keep up the great work. Looks like a beautiful area and you seem to have enjoyed it. Staying longer in an area seems to help you more.

Real nice area to drive thrue love the way you make the vlogs, keep on traveling Chris, greetings from Holland.

Best episode yet. Thx.

I live in Maine and have canoed the Alligash Waterway twice, I love it there. This is a great video, you got some great equipment! It looks like you had a really good time, although I think your crazy for going out in the wilderness alone lol. Thanks for documenting and uploading your journey I really enjoyed it.

Great video by far one of the better ones

I like how you used a signal light to make a turn out there in no man's land. lol

lived here my whole life every summer the battle of the bugs up north wow but it is so worth it rock on looks like fun

Love it when you use your turn signal out there!!

Best thing on my tv!!!!!thank you !!

Very rarely do you need 4wd on NMW roads. Save the gas. I do a lot of truck camping and fishing up there. I always have spare gas , tire patch kit , dc air compressor. Come alongs tow chains and jumpers. Pulled many people out , met a couple from Connecticut at Telos gate . They didn’t do their homework and went in on a half tank of gas expecting gas stations in the NMW. I let them have 5 gallons of my spare and suggested they go to Abol and fill up. NMW is a lot bigger and more remote than most people know. Good luck and keep exploring!

Thanks Chris. Maine is beautiful that was a lake you could spend many days on it looked like great shots

Wow,,such beautiful country ❤ great rig too!

Awesome trip. I grew up just south of Fort Kent in Portage Lake. Aroostook County is awesome for sure. I’m currently living in San Diego but I have fond memories of my youth in Portage.

Hi Chris! You NEED some fishing gear to partner with that Kayak Your videos are first class enjoy your adventures.

It's beautiful in the summer. Just bring your deep woods off or you'll be miserable. I did a three day canoe trip years ago with a friend. It was the most peaceful experience in my life. It was early September and we basically had the rice to ourselves. Blessed with good weather, it was probably the best outdoors experience I ever had, and I've done a lot of wilderness hiking in the east and west. The amount of wildlife up there is amazing. It's hard to believe we were still on the east coast.

👋 CHRIS ! THE MOOSE WAS REAL COOL 😎 THE WEATHER SKY & WATER WAS GORGEOUS !

another outstanding video.

As a resident of Fort Kent, the NMW is our backyard. Outstanding country and might I add, you've done well, chum.

WOW! Impressive channel , you do great work with your content . NMW is our happy place! Your rig is super cool.

Good to see you using the kayak. Love the Maine experience as I have never seen that area, being from California. Other than being buggy, it looks beautiful.

Really glad I stumbled upon your video, I had no idea this was there.

Beautiful sunny day in a pristine area. Hate the horseflies, black flies and mosquitoes! 🤪🙄😄

Thanks Chris, have a great week.

Maine also has a large portion of conservation and preserved lands, very similar to the Northwoods. I would recommend starting with Nahmakanta. Those boats were not a graveyard, people leave boats at remote locations to save wear on their boat trailer. Lots of native brook trout and LL Salmon in those ponds.

Great video thank you!

Chris , thank u for motivating and inspiring me. You’ve helped me find direction too a path too a hopefully earlier retirement ( by investing more money) so I can do similar things that u are doing. Exploring and seeing the country that too many of us don’t get too see first hand. And happy too see u met someone. Adventure is always more enjoyable with a companion. Keep up the great work.

That's home for me, I live in the Midwest now but will retire somewhere @ there in a camp on a lake soon enough. Thx for taking us along, brings back great memories. Surprised I haven't seen u get pushed over by a lumber truck going 60mph 😆

Always look forward to your videos Chris. I lived in the Maine woods for eight years. One thing I found is dark colored clothing attracts Black Flies and Mosquitoes more than lighter colored clothing. Cheers

4:32 the sure sign of a disciplined driver… putting the blinker on in the middle of nowhere with no one in sight.

the turn signal on the logging road is a nice touch

Super 👍 Video, as always!

Leadbetter falls. Spent my summers there as my Dad worked for the northern at Comstock camps

Eu gosto de café, mas pela quantidade de café que você toma de uma única vez, deve ser apaixonado por ele. Mais um excelente vídeo.

Beautiful!!!

Beautiful area. Damn the skeeters!

Your winch recovery kit should have three snatch blocks, three tree straps, two thirty foot recovery straps, and several adequate shackles. With this you can reverse winch. Awesome video, I love northern Maine!

Hi Chris, Mainer here, up here the bug situation eases up by the end of July

Can’t wait for next week!

this makes me so pumped to save up for a jeep and to go camping in a few weeks

Very nicely done.

Awesome footage and great trip thank you for sharing 👍 The Vermonter

As always another great watch :), Please, invest in some maxtrax's or something similar, there more likely to save you than the winch. Great for levelling the car and bridging gaps. As always looking for to the next vid :)

Glad to see you made it out, was worried for ya! Bravo👏👍 on your cooking this week!🍝🥫 Looks like that spatula is beginning to serve you well!😉🍞🍳 Treat yourself to some eggs and 🥓 with your ☕ the next campsite you set your stay for another few nights! What awesome footage of the volunteer flowers that we tend to purposely grow for their beauty. Thanks for taking us along once again. Keep on rolling, safe travels! See ya next Friday📷💻👍

Dude you actually warmed the spaghetti sauce..i think thats the first time I've seen you do that..bravo! Add some ground turkey to that sauce..brown the turkey first before adding in the sauce please. Good luck. Hey, and good job btw. Thanks for sharing Chris.

Got to north woods every year .that place is awesome, got check out the abandoned trains. Some of gated roads are cabins that are on leased land.

I have a camp in Sherman and we wander the North Woods alot.

Great video!

Welcome to Maine!!! From a local!!

Brotha man a set of Maxtrax is something you need. Especially being solo 99% of the time.

Between Chamberlain lake and Eagle lake there are two old steam locomotives that were abandoned by early logging companies. There is a log tram that connects the two lakes. It’s pretty odd to see two trains in the middle of the woods.

i drove my jeep to Maine.spent a couple of weeks prowling. i love Maine

Beautiful place.

I have noticed that you use your commode as a table. I have the same one, just make me laugh. Good content keep up the good work.

I see you’re in Maine! My wife and I live in Freeport, three miles from L. L. Bean. If you make it to this area I’d love to meet you say hello and check out your Jeep. You’re living my Jeep dream.

I was just camping there for four days from july 5-9 that’s sweet

This one felt very immersive. Great angles and audio. Thanks!

Maine is by far my favorite place in the world. When you mention where can you find maps for this area to pre plan.

It's nice to see someone actually putting one of these rigs to use instead of some muscle head townie who bought one for the social status.

Love it my favorite spot.

enjoying your vids...

My next episode is North Maine Woods! We were there mid June , and the bugs were awful! Did you get a chance to see the abandoned locomotives hidden away at Eagle Lake?

why use your blinkers in the middle of the woods? Lol great videos, keep up the great work!

13:16 Gorgeous shot!

love you vids

Amazing video. Maine is the best.

Am enjoying your trip through the northeast. Helpful hint. If you don't put oil on your noodles, the sauce will stick to them a lot better.

that rig is so epic

Wise call Chris not pursuing the overgrown route... Great video...staying ahead of the curve.. Thank you for the adventure..