Outdoor Adventure YouTube draws on 2 hours of podcast episodes and a brand video, all horizontal. Cut 30 to 50 second moments from the 33 found, such as Black flies swarm on the lake and How Do You Pee in a Canoe, for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
A solo canoeist battles headwinds above 60° latitude and finds bears have wrecked the Narrows LodgePODCAST15m of 31m readHORIZONTAL83HIGH
A solo paddler pulls on full rain gear, calling it hypothermia insurance if the canoe flips, then crosses from the mainland to a small island and on to Nepal Island, studying the maps for a route through the Narrows. A north-northwest headwind pushes against roughly 500 pounds of canoe, gear and body from 9 AM to 7 PM, and a west wind blows the canoe about a kilometre off course on a three-kilometre crossing, forcing a switch to a white water paddle.
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The paddler mixes freeze-dried hummus with smashed cracker crumbs and calls it delicious, and says a warm layer under tightly cinched rain gear works like a wetsuit, buying many more minutes in cold water before severe hypothermia. At the abandoned Narrows Lodge the paddler finds bears have broken into every cabin, eaten the foam roof insulation and left bite marks on cans of mosquito spray.
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The bears have mauled the abandoned Narrows Lodge, tearing foam insulation from the roof and leaving bite marks on cans of mosquito spray, and the speaker says they have even been found denning in such lodges.
A solo canoeist rigs a rock-and-cord perimeter alarm around his tent and paddles toward Portage RapidsPODCAST15m of 31m readHORIZONTAL83HIGH
In the first 15 minutes, the solo canoeist strings monofilament line and cord between rocks to arm a tripwire perimeter alarm around his tent, then moves the reinforcing patch higher on his spray deck and patches his water shoes with Shoe Goo and silicone putty. He ties all his gear into the canoe for whitewater, finds an abandoned hunting cabin and looks inside, and switches from hat to helmet before the first real rapids, admitting he resisted a helmet for decades.
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He says the alarm works, having been set off by caribou, birds, and himself, and that his spray deck was designed for a narrower canoe so the fabric is wearing through.
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He builds a perimeter alarm from rocks, cord, and monofilament to protect his tent in the tundra, and reluctantly becomes a helmet convert after decades, calling it cheap insurance for high-consequence head injuries.
A solo paddler lights fires against black flies and runs a rapid he calls a big nothing burgerEDITED VIDEO15m of 26m readHORIZONTAL82HIGH
In the first 15 minutes, a solo paddler lights a fire so he can eat while black flies swarm him, then suits up in helmet, life jacket, raincoat and bug net at the outlet of Adihan Lake and runs the rapid below it. He calls the rapid a big nothing burger and says it dropped only three to five feet, not the 15 foot drop his map showed between the lakes.
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He points out boulder fences that spring ice pushed up hundreds of feet back from the river, then compares his topo map with his GPS and finds they disagree completely about the islands in the lake, blaming surveys made at different water levels. He sews a hole in his bug net, spots a rainbow and says he is two or three days from Hudson Bay, which he calls terrifying because of the tides, storms and bears.
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After a 14-hour day that left him smashed, he questions where the 15 foot drop the map promised went after a rapid he calls a big nothing burger, and his paper map and GPS disagree completely about the islands in the lake.
A solo paddler snaps his paddle in his first strokes and loads a shotgun for bears on Newton LakePODCAST15m of 30m readHORIZONTAL81HIGH
In the first 15 minutes, a solo paddler helps the new owner of Newton Lake Lodge build a dock in exchange for a free dinner, then loads a shotgun with buckshot, a slug and rubber rounds to deal with bears before paddling north. His paddle handle shears clean off within his first ten strokes, and he switches to a backup, one of three paddles he says he brings because you might lose one and break another.
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When the wind swings from southwest to west, he cuts hard east along the protected Eastern Shore. He camps on an esker, an ancient riverbed of sand, gravel and rounded cobbles that he says formed under a mile or more of ice about 10,000 years ago.
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The paddle handle snaps right off in the first ten strokes, forcing him onto a backup paddle on day one.
