180) Home Sweet Algonquin Home!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2023
- On Friday, September 22nd, 2023, I left straight after work and drove up north to some Crown Land where I had a fire and car camped for the night. The next morning, I drove even further to Canada’s first and famous Provincial park, Algonquin (established in 1893). There, I hiked 16.2 kilometres to a pristine and tranquil backcountry camp spot on Harness Lake. I immediately inflated my Alpacka Pack Raft and paddled around amid the serenity and silence. Thankfully, there were plenty of dry sticks and branches and I was able to enjoy a roaring fire while watching the sun set. The next day, I went for another paddle amid the early morning fog and rolling mist on the water. It was heavenly! Then, I hiked 16.9 kilometres back to my car and drove three hours back to Toronto. Join me on this beautiful adventure back on Canadian soil!
I returned home to Canada on September 1st; this is actually my 4th adventure since completing the incredibly challenging and stunningly beautiful 956-kilometre GR10 trail through the Pyrenees Mountains in the south of France over 47 days this summer. I will publish these four videos…at some point! If you haven’t watched my 12-part GR10 series, you really should! Check it out, found in the playlist tab.
It’s grrrrrrrrreat to be home! Thank you for watching!
Absolutely fantastic....another greatest camping hit....top of the charts
Papa ❤
Hi, Daddy! Glad you are enjoying some “daughter TV” time, haha! Love and miss you and always really enjoy seeing a comment from you! Means the world to me that you watch! 🥰🙏🏼
Home swee home forsure welcome back home ....
Merci beaucoup, Jay! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
Love the animal sounds. Thanks. Loon and coyotes I imagine.
Loons, yes. Didn’t hear any coyotes but I wish I had! Love their haunting howling! 🥰
Wonderful sharing here be safe always take care see you soon
I'm very happy to have come across your videos, they are certainly well made and very inspirational!
Yay! Welcome to my channel, Robert! Happy to have you along! How did you come across my channel, if I may ask? 🥰✌🏼
I believe I came across your channel watching " Stealth Camping with Steve Wallis", who's channel I also been watching nightly. I love the outdoors and spend as much time as possible out in but yet to take an planned hiking route and hope to do so this coming spring. I'm in S.E. Pennsylvania ( U.S.) and I will find some trails to hike that I'm sure of.
Welcome home and looking forward to your next video!
Thank you, Teresa! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
Just discovered your channel! You are an inspiration lady! I’ll be back for more.😊💫
Yay! I’m thrilled! Thank you! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
I like camping
Me, too. 😂
Great video! Been watching it while getting ready for work this morning. Will watch the last part this evening with a "cold Drink" in my hand. Algonquin looks great, I'd love to be up there hiking/ canoe camping right now myself. Thanks for the awesome video my friend.
Joe! Long time no communicate! So nice to hear from you, my friend. 🥰
@@Womaninthewoods13 Yeah, i got too busy with day to day life for awhile and fell behind on my TH-cam friends. But yeah...I'm back. I've got a lot of videos from you to catch up on :)
Just like John Denver sang: hey it’s good to be back home again
Looking forward to your GR10 gear video! 😊
😬😬😬Sorry I haven’t made that! I will be doing a livestream in November and will include a “what’s in my backpack” during an upcoming trip, as I always do from time to time. I did show what’s in my backpack in part one of the GR10 series. Did you see that?
@@Womaninthewoods13 sure did! I hope 🤞🏻 I’ll be off work when you do the live stream
@@20657parks Me, too! 🥰
I was on Maggie 3 on the 20th and ramona 2 on the 21st. Was perfect weather. Hiked out from ramona on the 22nd.
Perfect weather, indeed! I’m glad you were there to enjoy it, too! 🥰✌🏼
Hi, I am new here, and I am a fan of Steve Wallis. Cool! 😊
Thank you for giving my channel a try! I hope you’ll enjoy my videos and subscribe! 🥰✌🏼
Hey there. I saw your channel on a Camping with Steve video so saying hi with a like and a subscribe. Great content!
Yay! Thank you for checking me out! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
Oh down 11 lbs on the GR10. 😮. I was actually wondering how your body reacted after finishing and if it was hard to wind down, or a welcome break. Nice misty water paddle, just awesome. Lucky guys to meet a Canadian Celebrity!!
Down another 4! “Celebrity” 😂😂😂
Hi Miss Christina! Great to see you back home from the awesome gr10 adventure. I highly recommend the gr10 series to everyone who hasn't seen it! It's awful how people had trashed up that road into this area. Nice weekend adventure. Until next time, take care and god bless
Thanks, Dan. I’ll try to clean it up, bit by bit. Maybe if they start losing their targets they’ll think twice about leaving them behind. 🤞🏼
Wow 3k subscribers good for you
Hey, you! Long time!! How was your summer?
Hey was busy working and moving a couple times. How have you been ms Christina
The early morning mist is always beautiful. Thank you for capturing the magic.
My pleasure, Robert! 😊✌🏼
Beautiful scenery despite the trash. I am looking forward to the canoe camping. What is that fancy new water bottle you used? Congratulations on the new shoes.
New boots thanks to @20657parks !
Do you mean the water filter I used? It’s BeFree.
Nice to hear from you, Linda! 🥰✌🏼
@@Womaninthewoods13 👍
There's a section on my local trail that always has trash on it too. It's right by the road where the hunters go. Real similar to what you were showing. Then you get to places like that lake with all the pristine reflective shots and you realize why you're trying to get away from all those people. I bet there wasn't any trash where you camped by the lake. Someone would have to hike there, and care.
Exactly. And, you’re right, there was no garbage at my backcountry camp spot. I have found “garbage “at these backcountry camp spots before, but it was normally in the form of people leaving things behind that they thought, would be helpful for the next camper like rope or a tarp. However, I have found a broken frying pan, empty, food, cans, etc., too. The best we can do is keep leaving our camp spots better than we found it and spreading the word of leave no trace Thank you, as always, for watching, Mister Brewer! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
Thanks for sharing another adventure Christina. Love the loons!
Yessssssssss! Love the loons!
Well it has been awhile but I’m back to watching your videos after getting my eyes fixed I have barely come down from Mt Taylor
Hello, again! Welcome back! So you had eye surgery? I hope you are recovering well! Mount Taylor? Is that in New Mexico or in Australia? Is that where you live?
@@Womaninthewoods13 it’s in New Mexico have a fav to ask I never did get to read your book could you send me the link so I can reorder I can’t find the first one I ordered
@@Womaninthewoods13 yes had cataracts really bad but now no glasses and colors are so bright it’s great
@@hijodelallorona4209 Oh, that’s amazing! I’m so happy for you! 🥰
@@hijodelallorona4209 My pleasure! Here are the links to my two books…
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Trashed Crown Land is all too common, unfortunately.
Great to see you back in wonderful Algonquin.
Eat!Eat! You’re skin and bones 😊
I’m sure our long Canadian winter will put meat back on my bones, haha! Thanks so much for watching and commenting, Kelley! 🥰🙏🏼
Glad you’re back safe and sound! And as an outdoorsman I feel your pain with the litter of others! Ugh! Beautiful hike and camp for you in spite of all that!
If we let other people’s litter get us down, almost every weekend would be ruined, unfortunately. So, you try to clean it up a bit and keep your chin up and move on. Thanks for watching, as always, Monsieur Grand Chat! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
Hi Christina
Amazing weekend, stunning scenery. Beautiful video. Love the early morning mist over the open water.
Cheers
Lucia
"Hiking Nature's Beauty"
Thanks, Lucia! Yes, that mist was surreal, boating right into it was very cool! Nice to hear from you. I hope you had a great summer! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
Good morning Christina great video to wake up to this morning sorry about the slobs that made such a mess at the beginning. Will be watching for whatever is next till next time
Hi, Phillip! Nice to hear from you! How was YOUR summer? 🥰
Steve brought me here.
Hello! Welcome! I hope you’ll enjoy my videos and subscribe! Thanks for giving me a chance! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
@@Womaninthewoods13 1 "Subscribe" coming up. Cheering you on. 👍
Love your shoes (runners)! And new boots! Well done on the cookies. I was known as the cookie queen. Homemade anything is best! Have you tried Killarney or Killbear or Manitoulin Island?
I’m making more this week! So fun! 🥰
I’ve done The Crack in Killarney (there’s a video of it somewhere here on my channel). So many trails, not enough time! 🥰✌🏼
I know you love your raft --- but when you consider upgrading, if you get something longer you will eliminate the back and forth tracking and it will be much more efficient for you. Just something to keep in mind if you don't know already
Thank you for this info! I will keep it in mind if I can ever afford to upgrade to a new raft, haha. And thank you for watching and commenting! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
Seen your name on steve wallis's channel!
Thank you for checking me out! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
34:25 where I hail from we call those “Canadian Geese”. Do y’all just them “geese” or what?!
We call them Canadian Geese, too. 🥰
If you eat too lean of a diet on these hikes you can have serious health issues, so while you eat healthy don't forget to have some fat in your diet too ! The cookies are a good idea! Rhabdo I think they call it when you lack fat in your diet vs the amount of exercise, gotta have some fat~cheers🥾
I use olive oil and sesame oil in my salad, butter in the cookies, hmmmm…you might be onto something here. Oh! I make a spicy peanut Thai sauce and eat that with air-fried broccoli. But, yeah, perhaps more fat is a good idea. Thanks, Mister Rox! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
I got a Chevrolet spark as well I was just kind of wondering how did you get the luggage box on a top to hook onto the roof? I watch your videos I'm one of your new subscriber so keep up the good videos
Yay! Welcome, new subscriber! The Thule compartment on top of my car was installed by a company called Rack Attack. I have no idea how it’s done! Here is the link to their website…perhaps give them a call and ask them? Good luck with it! With a car as small as ours, the compartment is definitely handy!
www.rackattack.com/store/toronto/
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Thank you so much for the information I'll definitely check them out. When you ever can't alone like you do do you ever get kind of scared sometimes?
No need to apologize for saying "it's amazing" so much Christina. The obvious reason that you are saying "it's amazing" so often is because you are outdoors viewing the beauty and wonderment of nature so much. There is no other word to replace amazing other than breathtaking or stunning maybe. You have a free pass on how you are describing it. And I think that Algonquin Park is now my favorite spot in the world and I have never even actually been there (thanks to your fantastic videos.) The trash and destruction that we are seeing out in the public nature areas is happening pretty much everywhere now days unfortunately. Down here in the U.S. it is getting so bad that a lot of the public nature areas are even being considered for being closed for the public use. Total disrespect and disregard from a small segment of the population is ruining it for us all. Such a shame. Anyway, thank you for allowing us to join you on another "AMAZING" adventure. See you on the next one
Mister Campfire! Hello! I still haven’t caught up on all the comments from the summer, and I am now working my way backward, haha. I’m glad you have fallen in love with Algonquin Park! Me, too! You’ll have to visit it one day! I’ll meet you there! 🥰✌🏼
The way we humans trash this earth is so upsetting. I used to pick up trash by the lake where I live in order to clean it up. A few days later it was littered again. That happened again and again. I gave up. There is no point.
Why not leave a nice note and explain your efforts, inviting campers to be part of the cause? And leave a garbage pail? Don’t give up, Gary! BE THE CHANGE! 🥰
@@Womaninthewoods13 Thanks, Christina, for the little push. I will let you know what I do.
@@MrGaryCampanella Please do! 🥰👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Can you stop spamming the beer donations with attempts to promote your channel, its cringe
Nope! Have a great day! 😊✌🏼
@@Womaninthewoods13 Ha! Good for you, @Womaninthewoods13. Trolls just can't find enough good things to do with themselves or to think about lol.
@@DorHBoomer 😂🥰🙏🏼✌🏼
@@Womaninthewoods13 you do you but you just seem sad and desperate trying to constantly promote your channel on someone else's channel, especially a person who's gone through immense loss and pain lately. Tacky.