11 Days Solo Camping in the Yukon Wilderness - E.9 Quest for Floatplane Pick-Up, Strainers & Rapids

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11 Days Solo Camping in the Yukon Wilderness - E.9 - Quest for Floatplane Pick-Up, Strainers & Rapids: The last stretch of the Yukon's Bonnet Plume River is over 2km wide and consists of a tangled mess of braids where the water is moving very quickly, ripping around ever-changing islands where small channels see trees fallen into the river on either side. I had to make quick decisions to stay in the main channel as best I could and it felt like I was in a constant rapid for hours. I waved the Bonnet Plume goodby as I finally reached the Peel but then I had some nasty headwinds to deal with as I made my way through a beautiful canyon. Beat, I finally made camp after paddling 95kms and ate a tin of smoked mussels for dinner. I needed to reach my float plane pick up location the next day.

The Yukon is a place where dreams are made and where adventurers have been going to follow their dreams since the Klondike gold rush in the 1880s. As much as anyone, I went there to follow my dreams and they became a reality…..but, like the Robert Service poem the Spell of the Yukon says: I wanted to go back, and I did. This film series covers my second big solo adventure in the Yukon.

To check out my first one, click the link here:    • 14 Days Solo Camping in the Yukon Wilderne...  

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Here's a full doc covering the time I spent living in an off-grid log cabin in the Yukon with my family:    • Living in an Off-Grid Log Cabin in the Yuk...  

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Chapters:

0:00 Intro
0:41 Camping Coffee Press, Map Case, Weather & Breaking Camp
5:08 Werner Paddles, Swift Current & Braided River
9:11 Tricky Currents, Boils & Strainers
14:56 Filtering water in silted rivers
16:09 Way too Far to one Side of Braids
19:08 Finished the Bonnet Plume & Recap on the River
20:49 On the Peel River! Headwinds & Canyons
26:54 Getting to Camp
22:20 Advanced Bushcrafting
30:26 Next Episode




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