Backpacking Idaho's Dworshak Reservoir : Canyon Creek
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- Quick overnight trip backpacking and camping near Canyon Creek in Idaho's Dworshak Reservoir. The wildlife was happening this little outing. Cameo from turkeys, North American Porcupine and a pair of Great Horned Owls!
I enjoy seeing all the wildlife!
Epic Porcupine! Such a treat to see, thanks for sharing.
Nice to see a little more of you and Lacy than usual!
I lived up there a year and a half back in the early 2000's. What a fantastic area.
Nice video Andrew! Nice walk into early early spring. Once again you are communing with a multitude of animals. I don't want to know what that porcupine was doing to himself!
The reservoir looks way low for this time of year. And it didn't look like there would be much snow melt in the vicinity.
That looked a bit chilly. Really good looks at the wildlife. My partner and I are fans of your videos, especially the time-lapse panoramas. That trail looked slippery in sections - wouldn't trekking poles be helpful on sketchy stretches and water crossings? We find poles to kind of be a part of our essential equipment - we in our late 60's though. Better than crutches, ya know?
Anyway keep up the wonderful work you two.
A lot of the terrain we tackle in the summer we are on our hands and knees so we find trekking poles getting in the way (especially since I carry a camera tripod around). We decided not to use them in early season backpacking under the unverified assumption it will help build up our ligaments and balance muscles after a winter of soft living before we get into the hard stuff in summer. We also don't want the extra confidence the extra balance a trekking pole can give you under the assumption our risk of injury will go up because we would try sketchier stuff.
My home.
How do you two get so much time off work to do all these trips? Does Joey have a job?
Lacey and I are lucky enough to both have jobs that are 4x10's, four - ten hour days, (M-T), I do roadwork she works for a doctors office. The second it hits 5PM on thursday we are blowing out of town. We also live in Montana so if you are willing to drive 1 to 5 hours every weekend you can get to a lot of great places. This is our only hobby, we love backpacking, and pretty much is the only thing we want to do on our free time. On top of that we get 3-4 weeks of PTO a year, we use that on bigger trips like the Sierra or visiting family. We got all our gear and run our gear into the absolute ground (duct taping stuff together) before replacing which means our only expense is gas which the 2nd gen Colorado gets great MPG for a midsize truck (best in class).
As for joey he doesn't work which gives him the freedom to do 8+ day trips all the time. He used to work seasonally in the winter but not anymore.
@@NorthwestWanderer thanks for replying. I love your videos. I love that your wife goes with you. As a fellow bald man I am rooting for you and your marriage.
@@999montanaguy haha thank you, bald is beautiful!
Does a porcupine ever poke itself? Asking for a friend