Great place! I spent a Christmas at Gunflint Lodge years ago, went dog sledding and walked across that lake to Canada and had a beer. A huge bull moose walked in front of our car on the way there and took over a half hour before he decided to mosey on into the forest. Kinda cool for a California native!
For several years straight in the late 80s and early 90s, I went to the BWCA with a group of 8 to 10 people for 10 days each time as a part of a youth group. The last year I went, I went as a chaperone to give back to the organization that planned the trips. Back then, we didn't filter water...it was just clean and we could drink it straight out of the lakes. We all had cups on leather strings we wore around our necks that we could dip into the lake while we were paddling if we needed a drink. This video brings back a LOT of memories! Thanks for this!
That sounds so awesome. About the water? Can relate. As kids here on a farm we used to drink water straight from a fresh water spring near a creek. The water was cold as ice. Lol.
@@jacobhupp5409 🤔. I'd be concerned about Giardia, among other things. Perhaps, each to their own. Speaking of change, though, as kids we rarely saw wood ticks of any kind. Scads of sandburs, though! Now, never, ever see sandburs.
It's as beautiful as I recall. Not been up there since 77 and started going back in 69 as a pre teen. Well into my 60s now with bad knees. I loved portaging the boundary waters, shore cooked fresh fish, and camping with my parents back then. Thanks for sharing and puttin a smile.on my face. 🤙
I live up here in Duluth and my friends and I do a trip up to the Boundry Waters every year. You are lucky to have had the opportunity to spend some time up there. Its a unique place.
@@biowerks Fishing off the piers a few times back then are good memories too. Though I don't envy anyone traversing the streets there when icy in winter 😉...
I was up in Bwca in 76, and 77 78, did you stop for rootbeer with Dorothy molter, aka the rootbeer lady. We stopped, she was still fighting getting eviction.
I camped in that same spot 40 years ago as a 16 year old Boy Scout! Seeing you portage and be on those lakes brings back memories… Thanks for sharing… As for your MRE dinner on the second night, I ate more of those than I care to remember as a infantry officer…
Never done that spot, but I did spend 2 weeks on the Hungry Horse Reservoir near Flathead Lake Montana. It was some of the most fun packing I've ever had because I could bring heavier supplies that if backpacking, and canoeing from one campground to another is so tranquil. Although, my 2 weeks were cut a little short when a few days before haul out, we had a huge storm come out of nowhere. I swear 50 mph winds. After securing the campsite from the wind, went down to the shore to check on the canoes only to see 2 of them flying about 30 feet in the air. The 3rd one was out in the middle of the lake completely swamped. That pretty much ended our little excursion early. Still had a great time.
My grandfather used to do this. He’d load his one man canoe drive from Seattle to Minnesota. Then grab his canoe, 100 pound sack and portage for a month or two at a time then drive home. Did this every summer for 15 to 20 years. He was a great photographer so there are tons of great photos from his trips.
Mav, dude, you got to get a satellite phone with an emergency beacon on it. When your out there alone dude the military sat phones we use need to just be beeped every twelve hours when in use and at a moments notice if it isn't clicked then the sat company calls the nearest search and rescue as well as your family to alert them that you have not checked in. Its worth the money and you can write it off on your business. Dude, it could save your life one day. Excellent video as always, cheers
Mav, so excited to see you paddling & camping in some of the most beautiful wilderness ❤ would love to see you do more of this! Thanks for taking us along with you 😊
As a minnesotan...this is my place or rest and place to meet God away from it all! I appreciate your content so I can live vicariously through you when I'm not up there. Ha. Thanks and God bless...love it up there.
Your six days of camping in the deep wilderness and catching and cooking your dinner is truly adventurous and inspiring! It's a perfect blend of survival skills, nature appreciation, and culinary creativity. And I am floating village life.
Hey Mav ima fan from Houston Texas! Love watching your videos bc I own a camper and camp out a lot whenever I work. It seems like you been down a little man. Hope I’m just seeing things and everything’s going good with you. Love your content man, keep it up!
I enjoy you Mav! I've been to the boundary waters 3 times as a teen. As already stated you took me back there. Been 30 years. I'm a life long angler of all species and just wanted to Thank You for sharing your life experience in the woods and on the water. I relate to you!
I have so much respect for you. I went on a 3-day canoe trip in Sweden 2 months ago, had an amazing time but was NOT expecting the canoe to be so heavy. Props for everything you do.
Was up late last night and your channel popped up in my feed, which is strange because I usually only get movie and game related content. Your videos pulled me out of a stressful day and placed my smack dab in the wilderness and I just wanted to say thank you and subbed :)
You have to go late August . I cherish that trip, some of the most beautiful moments in my life in nature-easily. His route was nothing compared to ours. We stayed on tiny beautiful islands, some beautiful streams between lakes. Eventually the pinnacle reach ing our own secluded lake completely secluded medium to small sized lake with just tiny camping spot in the center on one side overlooking gorgeous high rock cliffs to the right of the opposing shoreline parrallel running a bit straight like ours. My brother and I taking a dip in the dropoff and tiny pebbled beach of our camp. Prior to that lake there was another lake with a wooded shoreline also, this one had trees right up the edge. My little brother and I watched a moose and calf sipping water in the water half up to their knees up close but trees saving us if she charged. Another moose crossing btween lakes swimming. This was mostly in Quetico, the Canada side. Our pro outfitters were called Jack and Toni, sadly probably long gone. We started in Basswood Lake. We even saw trout in the stream and another moose on the marshy edgeline of this wide inlet stream of the one of the lakes. We stayed on one small island in the center of a medium to larged sized idyylic lake that had curves, bends, inlets etc. Sunny and not a sound, lake was glass, just drifted and paddled alone around the island and then stopped on the side where my brother and dad were, I was about thirty or forty yards out. We had finished breakfast. I cast a couple but mostly just wanted to sit back and take in this moment in life, finally free of worry. Just a lazy, perfect, quiet moment in paradise
A little is overly cautious about hanging your food at the end of every portage. It's the campsite you have to worry about. More than once, my bag was used as a bear pinata. In fact, two year-old cubs showed up at my spot on Duncan Lake a few years back. I had to chase them up a tree with a canoe paddle. Somehow they managed to untie the line, get the bag down low enough to get into it... they got the slow decay bread and peanut butter.
Love your videos Mav! I’d also love to see you take a trip to the southern Appalachian mountains. Awesome trout fishing and really beautiful landscape across North Georgia and Western North Carolina. Year around trout fishing in our mountains and it might be a nice break from Minnesota this winter. Super abundance of rivers and streams and breathtaking mountain views
You definitely don't want to go looking too far for firewood at night in the boundary waters. Showing my age here but one time back in the very early eighties we found a young boy at a portage who was with Outward Bound and was out on what they called a solo by himself who had gotten lost while looking for fire wood.He had no idea where he was camped at. We brought him back to where we were camped at,left him with other members of our group and took off as fast as we could to try and find the park rangers we had talked to earlier. We found them and they took him to a ranger cabin, they called in a float plane to take him out and as the plane was taking off with him some members of his group paddled up and the rangers called the plane back. The rangers stopped by and thanked us. We found out the young boy was about five miles from his camp site when we found him. And thats five straight line miles in pitch black darkness. So many ways this could have ended tragically.
Mav your videos have always been cool. I lived in a camper van for 8+ years and now have an F150 camper setup, similar to yours. I’d say the key feature is a pass-thru window from cab to camper and back. 👍 Comes in real handy when stealth camping. I finally posted a full tour video. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Mav, gorgeous camping scenery! FYI for your next trip, GHEE is a clarified butter that doesn't need to be refrigerated & tastes delicious, use like you would butter as it IS butter just heated until water has been evaporated out, now cooks at a high heat, just thinking it would be great with your french toast & fish, potatoes, whatever, everything tastes better with butter aka GHEE! 😉 Thanks for sharing your trip! 😊
Caught a 9 lbs northern on a Zebco snoopy pole in pagami lake with my dad when I was 8. Never forget how hard my heart was pounding during that fight. My dad yelling “keep the tip up don’t horse em!” Great memories with my father up there. Need to get back with my kids.
I went camping and canoeing in the boundary waters with my mom, brother, uncle, cousin, and great uncle about 15 years ago. It was such a fun week. We were actually told not to hang out food and to just put it away from the rest of our camp. A couple of rangers came by and knocked down a post that had a bunch of old ropes tied to it from other people hanging their food from it.
@suezaple4950 yeah, not sure how to even spell it the way we pronounce it. I'm not saying his pronunciation is wrong, I'm just not used to hearing it that way.
If you enjoy these canoe trips Mav, you need to check out the Bowron Lakes in BC Canada. My dad and I did it for my 18th birthday. Absolutely amazing. We took 10 days but you can do it in a week if you hurry, although I’d recommend taking your time. Amazing fishing, scenery and wildlife. We saw bears, moose, tons of bald eagles and much more. I’d recommend bringing a buddy for this one as 10 days alone might get a bit boring. Also safer in case something happens.
Totally enjoyed this outing, Mav. You know how to live and just getting to watch brings back some wonderful memories of days and nights gone by. Never seen so many smallies.
There's been quite a few mishaps in the BWCA this year. Few drownings and some lost canoers. It's extreme wilderness and going it alone always adds a level of danger to it. One thing to maximize safety when canoeing alone is wearing a life vest instead of storing it. If you capsize, you won't drown while you're looking for your preserver.
Finally a real camping trip, Complete with unedited misery! In the old days , that was half the fun of going camping! It gave you something to talk about when you got back to civilization.
Here I R ( in Portage La Prairie , Mb. ) watching Mav stumbling thru the woods ... Hope he don't run into the Big Bad Wolf or the Three Bears . P.S. him hiding his food bag , LOL pretty sure even Teddy Ruxpin or Paddington wouldn't have any issues snackin' away .
I was cringing when i saw the unstable oil and your mates feet in flip flops right there. Thank god he wasnt standing there when the pan went over. Please be safe Mav. That could have easily been life altering
@@jegnur It rains constantly up there too. One could always do a clean and rinse with soap and water too b4 putting the wood in there if u didn't bring your own grate
Please wear a life jacket. Absolutely unacceptable you fell into the lake and still didn’t put one on, let alone the fact you’re traveling solo in spring with cold water.
Gorgeous camp spot awesome adventure love your little visitor their always searching out food .Nice catch of fish Mav , was nice to see Murray and Brandon join you always nice when friends are along on an adventure. Thank's for bring us with you .
One of the better recent videos for sure- Crazy how loud the line is now. I put some one my ross and was like... wth is that noise. Great content , Mav!
I've been up when I was 13. I can't wait to go back to up there. I'm from Minneapolis but live on the east Coast. It is beautiful up there. I went to a camp up there too when I was younger
Copepods AKA: Fish Fleas, don't affect the fish and are only skin deep nevertheless and you could totally eat fish them without any issues. In fact you can even eat raw fish with them. The main things you need to watch for are puffy eyes or super swollen bellies or other areas of fish to stay away from. Also, why does it seem that you are always going camping/packing with brand new equipment? Do you throw away your equipment after your first use? I know I feel more comfortable using equipment Im familiar with when going packing. Just curious.
suddenly we wanna go camping 🏕
my boy made it if ur commenting
Why does youtube's comment have only 4 likes?
Omg it really is youtube HAHAHAHAHA
@@cooperludwig3842 yea after blatantly copying outdoor boys, he could just make it a little bit unique
@@soggybeanie bro stuff the outdoor boys does. is not unique either. People tend to do just stuff like that. Its not unique. they just film it lol
Great place! I spent a Christmas at Gunflint Lodge years ago, went dog sledding and walked across that lake to Canada and had a beer. A huge bull moose walked in front of our car on the way there and took over a half hour before he decided to mosey on into the forest. Kinda cool for a California native!
Mav, you gotta do more of this exact type of content. This is gold.
Totally
Since he started dropping those after the video with Outdoor Boys I am pretty sure he will keep doing those more often!
More similar to joe robinet
My thoughts exactly!
It seems like that's all he does. I love doing that myself but watching somebody else do it time after time gets boring.
For several years straight in the late 80s and early 90s, I went to the BWCA with a group of 8 to 10 people for 10 days each time as a part of a youth group. The last year I went, I went as a chaperone to give back to the organization that planned the trips. Back then, we didn't filter water...it was just clean and we could drink it straight out of the lakes. We all had cups on leather strings we wore around our necks that we could dip into the lake while we were paddling if we needed a drink. This video brings back a LOT of memories! Thanks for this!
That sounds so awesome. About the water? Can relate. As kids here on a farm we used to drink water straight from a fresh water spring near a creek. The water was cold as ice. Lol.
You still can drink the water straight from the lakes. This has not changed.
@@jacobhupp5409 🤔. I'd be concerned about Giardia, among other things. Perhaps, each to their own. Speaking of change, though, as kids we rarely saw wood ticks of any kind. Scads of sandburs, though! Now, never, ever see sandburs.
It's as beautiful as I recall. Not been up there since 77 and started going back in 69 as a pre teen. Well into my 60s now with bad knees. I loved portaging the boundary waters, shore cooked fresh fish, and camping with my parents back then. Thanks for sharing and puttin a smile.on my face. 🤙
I live up here in Duluth and my friends and I do a trip up to the Boundry Waters every year. You are lucky to have had the opportunity to spend some time up there. Its a unique place.
@@biowerks Fishing off the piers a few times back then are good memories too. Though I don't envy anyone traversing the streets there when icy in winter 😉...
I was up in Bwca in 76, and 77 78, did you stop for rootbeer with Dorothy molter, aka the rootbeer lady. We stopped, she was still fighting getting eviction.
Me too
Unc you get them perc 15s don't u?
There’s literally no better feeling than a good meal after a long day of trekking! Minnesota is so magical ❤
I camped in that same spot 40 years ago as a 16 year old Boy Scout! Seeing you portage and be on those lakes brings back memories… Thanks for sharing… As for your MRE dinner on the second night, I ate more of those than I care to remember as a infantry officer…
Ah. Back when they WERE boys. Now you don’t know.
@@kjewell91we sure have lost our way haven’t we!
@@kjewell91 oh give me a break.
Never done that spot, but I did spend 2 weeks on the Hungry Horse Reservoir near Flathead Lake Montana. It was some of the most fun packing I've ever had because I could bring heavier supplies that if backpacking, and canoeing from one campground to another is so tranquil. Although, my 2 weeks were cut a little short when a few days before haul out, we had a huge storm come out of nowhere. I swear 50 mph winds. After securing the campsite from the wind, went down to the shore to check on the canoes only to see 2 of them flying about 30 feet in the air. The 3rd one was out in the middle of the lake completely swamped. That pretty much ended our little excursion early. Still had a great time.
@@Phushywillow bummer on the canoes bro
That visit with the outdoor boys changed Mav’s game up! He needed some new type of content.
Man needs some kids now only😂
Waiting 2 weeks for an hour long vid is so worth it, love the new style of video
That Outdoor Boys method
Your production is amazing. Travel, winter camping, cooking, fishing. Filming, and you’re awesome
My grandfather used to do this. He’d load his one man canoe drive from Seattle to Minnesota. Then grab his canoe, 100 pound sack and portage for a month or two at a time then drive home. Did this every summer for 15 to 20 years. He was a great photographer so there are tons of great photos from his trips.
Update..my grandfather passed away a week ago this coming Sunday. He was 95. He had a good run and I’ll miss him dearly!
@@mike407r Sounds like a good man.
It was nice to see Brandon take his son out for a nice relaxing trip!
Mav, dude, you got to get a satellite phone with an emergency beacon on it. When your out there alone dude the military sat phones we use need to just be beeped every twelve hours when in use and at a moments notice if it isn't clicked then the sat company calls the nearest search and rescue as well as your family to alert them that you have not checked in. Its worth the money and you can write it off on your business. Dude, it could save your life one day. Excellent video as always, cheers
It looked like he was wearing a satellite phone clipped to his shoulder in one of the early portage shots.
@@keanmeyer7877 yep he has one its seen in a few vids
Mav, so excited to see you paddling & camping in some of the most beautiful wilderness ❤ would love to see you do more of this! Thanks for taking us along with you 😊
Mav’s facial hair makes him look like an evil villain. 😂
or a wholesome meth dealer
He hit puberty!
Butt Pirate
Butt Pirate
Whack. Def keep it!
As a minnesotan...this is my place or rest and place to meet God away from it all! I appreciate your content so I can live vicariously through you when I'm not up there. Ha. Thanks and God bless...love it up there.
Falling in the water within the first 10 minutes of the video was gold 🤣😂 got a good laugh from that
Your six days of camping in the deep wilderness and catching and cooking your dinner is truly adventurous and inspiring! It's a perfect blend of survival skills, nature appreciation, and culinary creativity.
And I am floating village life.
Hey Mav ima fan from Houston Texas! Love watching your videos bc I own a camper and camp out a lot whenever I work. It seems like you been down a little man. Hope I’m just seeing things and everything’s going good with you. Love your content man, keep it up!
Husband and I lived 18 years in Minnesota. Camped many a times in the Boundary Waters and North Shore areas. Miss those wonderfully beautiful places.
Sweet!!! I have been camping in the mountains of NW Washington State now for 3 weeks. Love it here so much! Stay safe 🙏
You are my favorite TH-camr. Please never stop your awesome journeys
I enjoy you Mav! I've been to the boundary waters 3 times as a teen. As already stated you took me back there. Been 30 years. I'm a life long angler of all species and just wanted to Thank You for sharing your life experience in the woods and on the water. I relate to you!
Little Stalekracker reference too, I love it
I have so much respect for you. I went on a 3-day canoe trip in Sweden 2 months ago, had an amazing time but was NOT expecting the canoe to be so heavy. Props for everything you do.
33:10 Murray "I ain't going to cap that looks crazy" 😂😂😂
Mav… please continue with bushcraft/minimal equipment camping videos we love them!
Love a Murray and Mav collab. The underwater footage was cool
is muarry a trans man?
Is Murray boy or girl?
@@Elgonzalez411 boy
@@Elgonzalez411 We're still tryin to figure that out. 🙂🙂😎
@@Elgonzalez411 a boy and annoying kid,
Was up late last night and your channel popped up in my feed, which is strange because I usually only get movie and game related content. Your videos pulled me out of a stressful day and placed my smack dab in the wilderness and I just wanted to say thank you and subbed :)
The only things I remember from my only trip to the Boundary Waters are: mosquitoes, rain, and wet clothes. It rained 6 out of 7 days.
You have to go late August . I cherish that trip, some of the most beautiful moments in my life in nature-easily. His route was nothing compared to ours. We stayed on tiny beautiful islands, some beautiful streams between lakes. Eventually the pinnacle reach ing our own secluded lake completely secluded medium to small sized lake with just tiny camping spot in the center on one side overlooking gorgeous high rock cliffs to the right of the opposing shoreline parrallel running a bit straight like ours. My brother and I taking a dip in the dropoff and tiny pebbled beach of our camp. Prior to that lake there was another lake with a wooded shoreline also, this one had trees right up the edge. My little brother and I watched a moose and calf sipping water in the water half up to their knees up close but trees saving us if she charged. Another moose crossing btween lakes swimming. This was mostly in Quetico, the Canada side. Our pro outfitters were called Jack and Toni, sadly probably long gone. We started in Basswood Lake. We even saw trout in the stream and another moose on the marshy edgeline of this wide inlet stream of the one of the lakes. We stayed on one small island in the center of a medium to larged sized idyylic lake that had curves, bends, inlets etc. Sunny and not a sound, lake was glass, just drifted and paddled alone around the island and then stopped on the side where my brother and dad were, I was about thirty or forty yards out. We had finished breakfast. I cast a couple but mostly just wanted to sit back and take in this moment in life, finally free of worry. Just a lazy, perfect, quiet moment in paradise
A little is overly cautious about hanging your food at the end of every portage. It's the campsite you have to worry about. More than once, my bag was used as a bear pinata. In fact, two year-old cubs showed up at my spot on Duncan Lake a few years back. I had to chase them up a tree with a canoe paddle. Somehow they managed to untie the line, get the bag down low enough to get into it... they got the slow decay bread and peanut butter.
Love your videos Mav! I’d also love to see you take a trip to the southern Appalachian mountains. Awesome trout fishing and really beautiful landscape across North Georgia and Western North Carolina. Year around trout fishing in our mountains and it might be a nice break from Minnesota this winter. Super abundance of rivers and streams and breathtaking mountain views
You definitely don't want to go looking too far for firewood at night in the boundary waters. Showing my age here but one time back in the very early eighties we found a young boy at a portage who was with Outward Bound and was out on what they called a solo by himself who had gotten lost while looking for fire wood.He had no idea where he was camped at. We brought him back to where we were camped at,left him with other members of our group and took off as fast as we could to try and find the park rangers we had talked to earlier. We found them and they took him to a ranger cabin, they called in a float plane to take him out and as the plane was taking off with him some members of his group paddled up and the rangers called the plane back. The rangers stopped by and thanked us. We found out the young boy was about five miles from his camp site when we found him. And thats five straight line miles in pitch black darkness. So many ways this could have ended tragically.
This the kind of stuff I’d love to get out of the city and enjoy with my boyz
Mav your videos have always been cool. I lived in a camper van for 8+ years and now have an F150 camper setup, similar to yours. I’d say the key feature is a pass-thru window from cab to camper and back. 👍 Comes in real handy when stealth camping. I finally posted a full tour video. Thanks for sharing.
Our man Mav does this for those who can't do it like me, thanks for this gift Mav🤜🏻🤛🏻🔥
Hell yeah!
Agree
Hey Mav, gorgeous camping scenery! FYI for your next trip, GHEE is a clarified butter that doesn't need to be refrigerated & tastes delicious, use like you would butter as it IS butter just heated until water has been evaporated out, now cooks at a high heat, just thinking it would be great with your french toast & fish, potatoes, whatever, everything tastes better with butter aka GHEE! 😉
Thanks for sharing your trip! 😊
Caught a 9 lbs northern on a Zebco snoopy pole in pagami lake with my dad when I was 8. Never forget how hard my heart was pounding during that fight. My dad yelling “keep the tip up don’t horse em!” Great memories with my father up there. Need to get back with my kids.
I went camping and canoeing in the boundary waters with my mom, brother, uncle, cousin, and great uncle about 15 years ago. It was such a fun week. We were actually told not to hang out food and to just put it away from the rest of our camp. A couple of rangers came by and knocked down a post that had a bunch of old ropes tied to it from other people hanging their food from it.
Mav as a Minnesotn who lives near the cities but also goes to the same place to camp.
These are by far my fav videos
Thank you for these!!!!
Love how much you love your life and new chapter with your new certification!!
Awesome Mav, your looking happy and healthy 😀
Bless you son
Nice adventure!
Is there anyone else from Canada that cringed each time Mav says "portage"?
Lol
yup he used two T's Porttidge , not Portage as we here say it in Canada lol
Cringing away here…
@suezaple4950 yeah, not sure how to even spell it the way we pronounce it. I'm not saying his pronunciation is wrong, I'm just not used to hearing it that way.
the way we pronounce it is the way you spelled it Portage .
@@RedsFishin por-taj
Let's go a mav upload! Sunday just got much better.
If you enjoy these canoe trips Mav, you need to check out the Bowron Lakes in BC Canada. My dad and I did it for my 18th birthday. Absolutely amazing. We took 10 days but you can do it in a week if you hurry, although I’d recommend taking your time. Amazing fishing, scenery and wildlife. We saw bears, moose, tons of bald eagles and much more. I’d recommend bringing a buddy for this one as 10 days alone might get a bit boring. Also safer in case something happens.
Brandon always strikes me as the Silent Bob of the crew 😂
Exactly what I was thinking lol
Totally enjoyed this outing, Mav. You know how to live and just getting to watch brings back some wonderful memories of days and nights gone by. Never seen so many smallies.
That hop in the lake was entertaining 🤣
just after waitin' for the rain to subside. Woh, dude!
There's been quite a few mishaps in the BWCA this year. Few drownings and some lost canoers. It's extreme wilderness and going it alone always adds a level of danger to it. One thing to maximize safety when canoeing alone is wearing a life vest instead of storing it. If you capsize, you won't drown while you're looking for your preserver.
BWCA is rad - nice lakes you went on, been there too and had a great time. Please wear a PFD/Life Jacket, especially in a solo
Awesome video! It is so peaceful in the middle of the lake! The white noise from the water fall… soothing
Awesome video Mav👍
16:05 oh yeah, very nice
" you are un coordinated " killed me that one-liner slapped!
Finally a real camping trip, Complete with unedited misery! In the old days , that was half the fun of going camping! It gave you something to talk about when you got back to civilization.
Here I R ( in Portage La Prairie , Mb. ) watching Mav stumbling thru the woods ... Hope he don't run into the Big Bad Wolf or the Three Bears .
P.S. him hiding his food bag , LOL pretty sure even Teddy Ruxpin or Paddington wouldn't have any issues snackin' away .
Mav, your videos always brighten my day. Keep them coming.
Loving the long videos. Keep up the great work Mav :)
Getting me hyped for our trip this year. Stoked to get a preview of the woods this year off the Gunflint!
Been waiting for a drop! missed ya Mav!
Nice! I love doing boundary waters, enjoying nature and fishing! And out in the wild, most calming thing ever!
@33:46 MURRAY JUST LAUGHING IN THE BACKGROUND. WHAT A GOOFY GOOBER 😂😂😂
Is Murray a boy or girl?
Thank god Mav wasn't wearing his slides when that oil tipped over 🙏
Use to camp in the boundary waters with my family growing up. This video brings memories of my childhood
Wear a pfd in the backwoods brother. Particularly with your viewership. The inflatables are super light weight.
Don’t be a kook!!! Wear a PFD and understand why.
I spent a month up there in the Boundary Waters about 7 years back. Your adventures bring me back to when I was there.
Love you mav looking good man hope your happy and healthy
Just this summer was there did 75 miles portaging we had to do a 200 rod portage
Am I the only one that watched this then immediately went over to Murray’s channel just to get a different perspective…. Idk I might just be weird 😅
Greatly appreciate the effort you've been putting into providing longer content.
I was cringing when i saw the unstable oil and your mates feet in flip flops right there. Thank god he wasnt standing there when the pan went over. Please be safe Mav. That could have easily been life altering
Sunday evening camp and cooks always hit different. Thanks for helping with the Sunday scarries, once again!
Mav, just an fyi on those fire grates. Guys tend to not use water when they put the fire out. I would advise not to cook directly on them.
It would've all been burned off anyway😅
Fire sanitizes.
@@jegnur It rains constantly up there too. One could always do a clean and rinse with soap and water too b4 putting the wood in there if u didn't bring your own grate
Always good to see a Mav video, I myself love the cooking bits!
Jesus cares ❤
Nope
If anyone lives the real outdoorsman dream it’s definitely our brother Mav. Best video so far for 2024 on TH-cam.
We love you Mav
Mav duuude, you can’t be burning your rubbish. Pack it in, pack it out
Na burn it, just easier. Who would wanna tug a bag a trash the whole time?
You take it to town and they burn it too. Just be sure there isn't any unburnt trash left behind.
Been down for the count, stuck with an injury….miss camping and floating. Needed this! Thanks, Mav
16:03 you should talk to your doctor about that stream buddy 😅 pretty young for prostate problems
😂😂😂
Wow the hour flew by so quickly! love it, thanks for sharing and being real
Please wear a life jacket. Absolutely unacceptable you fell into the lake and still didn’t put one on, let alone the fact you’re traveling solo in spring with cold water.
59:48 !!!!!! Beautiful!
Portage is not pronounced like that. At least where I'm from.
These types of videos are so healing and lovely to watch
why does every youtuber that eats on camera have to put the GoPro right in there throat? Like no1 wants to hear u chew that is so god damn disgusting
Gorgeous camp spot awesome adventure love your little visitor their always searching out food .Nice catch of fish Mav , was nice to see Murray and Brandon join you always nice when friends are along on an adventure. Thank's for bring us with you .
That lake is awesome. I actually ice camped at that same campsite 2 years ago. The views are stunning. Glad you got to enjoy it as well Mav 🤙🏻
Hello Mav I am a 62 year old lady. New to your channel. You are living a lot of people dream. Me for one, love your channel. Stay safe
This is the content we love!! You've given me the courage to go on my first solo trip!
Great trip and great adventure!!! Thanks for taking us along!!!
This guy is so cool, wish all the best ! Camping with Steve, a must watch..
One of the better recent videos for sure- Crazy how loud the line is now. I put some one my ross and was like... wth is that noise. Great content , Mav!
I wanted you to be wearing a life jacket. And when you fell in 😮 I was shook.
I love these Kevin Bacon camping videos! 😁
I noticed that too!
I've been up when I was 13. I can't wait to go back to up there. I'm from Minneapolis but live on the east Coast. It is beautiful up there. I went to a camp up there too when I was younger
I have always loved Mav’s videos just like soo many others!! whenever im super anxious i watch one of many of his videos and its soooo relaxing.
I think, this is my FAVORITE content so far.
PROPER adventure.
Yes man you get it. Leaving the over the side of the canoe clip in. This is the stuff that makes for great videos!
Awesome as always Mav.
KEEP ADVENTURING
SAFE TRAVELS
GOD BLESS YOU
Copepods AKA: Fish Fleas, don't affect the fish and are only skin deep nevertheless and you could totally eat fish them without any issues. In fact you can even eat raw fish with them. The main things you need to watch for are puffy eyes or super swollen bellies or other areas of fish to stay away from.
Also, why does it seem that you are always going camping/packing with brand new equipment? Do you throw away your equipment after your first use? I know I feel more comfortable using equipment Im familiar with when going packing.
Just curious.