LITTLE NORTH: Ep. I The Lakes | 450km Canoe Expedition (Adventure Documentary)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- LITTLE NORTH chronicles a 450km canoe journey across Canada's Little North, a vast wilderness sprawling for over a million square kilometers in the northern reaches of Ontario and Manitoba. The adventure is centered on the Cat and Throat River watersheds of Northwestern Ontario. In an attempt to retrace portions of a long forgotten fur trade route, we paddle upstream on the Cat, cross the seldom travelled height of land and then descend the Throat from its headwaters to confluence.
The area is steeped in first nation use and some sections are still traveled to access hunting and fishing grounds. Other sections have been lost to the ravages of time, and retracing these historic routes is no easy task. Few travel the remote waterways that crisscross this expansive wilderness, but those who do, are rewarded with unparalleled solitude and seclusion.
Episode I covers the first third of our journey. Join us as we paddle through the large, windswept lakes of the Cat River watershed.
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You guys are my new favorite Canadian canoe camping channel!
Great episode! Your filmmaking and narration gets better all the time. Can't wait for part two.
Thanks Walt!! Always trying new things with the edits. Tedious, yet fun. Glad it's slowly paying off and you've enjoyed the lasted video!
Agree with most commenters - unreal quality videography & narration. Brad & Leah are living their best lives, role models for us all.
My goodness Brad, you and Leah have become great film makers! I've watched most all you have done for canoe routes since you and your dad started and you've gone from doing excellent informative canoe route video's to movie quality journey films! Leah also adds great input to make you guys a super team! Really looking forward to the next episode.
Awesome job! Can't wait for the next one! Inspiring journey!
Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed it. Such an amazing area to journey through. Love our north!
I don't understand how you don't get a netflix deal, I recently watched a doco on there and I have to say the production quality and content of this video is just as good!
Haha! Thanks!! Now I'm just imagining what I could do with a Netflix budget vs my fun money pocket change
Great work. Big paddeling and great chili.
One of the best put together serious canoe trips, you folks do a great show
Thanks Lisa!! We try!
Amazing amazing amazing! Thanks for sharing B & L, looking forward to more!
You two certainly know how to capture the heart of the Canadian wilderness. Look forward to E.2.
Awesome E1 Brad and Leah... looking forward to E2 and E3
Thanks Dennis!! Coming soon! Hope you enjoy!
They sure did a great job with this video!
All i can say is WOW!!! Beautiful video.
Absolutely incredible scenery. Heaven on earth.
We love it up there. Just an amazing place to paddle!
What a marvelous video episode very interesting thank you for sharing so very much I am confident your future episodes will be every bit as inspiring. All the very best.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it Paul!! Next one coming up shortly!
Those almost looked like partridge berries. Great episode! Can't wait to watch the rest.
God we love your trips. ❤️ It's good to be watching you again.
Great trip, my friends did that trip 30 years ago, back then it was super 8 film, they wiped out in the Blue Chute. Well done
Great work you two
What an amazing paddle, so well filmed, well done to you both, a Five Star Film ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thanks so much!! Glad you enjoyed it!
Oh man that Mac and cheese with beef looked amazing !!!!! Cheers from northeastern Ontario !!!!
It was! A staple for our longer trips. Just packs the calories on in the best way possible! Cheers to a fellow Northy!
Nice adventure so far, beautiful area. 👍🏻
Todos tus vídeos son increíbles, gracias por compartir. Saludos desde Montevideo Uruguay 🇺🇾
I'm sure the planning stages were long and studied. Adventures like this kind are hard enough to take on. The fact that you both could manage such an excellent result with all the technology required is Amazing to me. Thanks for doing this!!
The planning portion is half the fun. We love to pour over maps, satellite imagery etc., and get excited about the upcoming journey. Maps are already scattered about for adventures in 2022!
First episode I've watched So glad I found your channel thank guys
Thank you for watching!! The final episode will be up shortly! (Rural internet 😜)
Fantastic. Must be great to have wilderness like that on your doorstep, looking forward to the next episode 👍🛶
Really is amazing how much there is. Could honestly spend a lifetime paddling through the Little North and not see it all!
I just subscribed to your channel. Watched this first episode and I'm hooked. Now going to watch the second video of this trip and start watching the rest of your videos. Thanks for sharing your adventures 👊👊👊
Quality video guy's... narration, flow, edit, colour grading all next level. Can't wait for part 2!
Thanks!!! I wondered if anyone would notice the grading and if it was worth the effort. An extra day or two of work, but this confirms it's worth it!
What an awesome place, thanks for introducing us to it! Loved every minute of this.
Glad you enjoyed it! The region is amazing!!! Already scheming up new routes haha
That was really good. Thanks
Nice! Looking forward to watching
Great job Brad and Leah, The scenery is breath taking
What a wonderful Part 1, great campsites and beautiful lakes! The woodland grouse zone, I know it well, always scares the crap out of me too! hahahaha! Looking forward to the 2nd episode, thanks for sharing. :) :)
Great work on this guys! Really enjoyed the episode and looking forward to the next! - Alex
Thanks a lot dude! Glad you enjoyed it!!
Hi, I’m a new subscriber, heard of you through a Baird Bros comment. Really enjoying the photography quality. You must have great cameras and talent for editing. Looking forward to seeing the rest of this series, and going back to view past vlogs.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful country and your adventures.
Man oh man. So friggin' stoked! Lots of hard work and planning goes into all of this, and it shows. Really looking forward to ep 2.
Thanks so much man! Hope you enjoy the next two installments! Hopefully in calmer times we can get out on the water together again!
An excellent video, a great outdoor adventure.
Many thanks!
Thank you I enjoyed
I'm not sure if this is the dawn of the paddling era on TH-cam or the golden age already, but this hits a unique spot that combines an authentic route with good quality video that doesn't get too artsy. this combo is not frequently seen on youtube! and the little north certainly seems to make for good subject matter. it's just so pleasingly obscure, kind of like Labrador I suppose. not sure if jim Baird's and northern scavenger james bay trips count as little north or not, but its all great stuff!
Thanks JB! I try to edit my videos in a way that attempts to blend styles a bit. Glad you enjoy the approach! The James Bay area is part of the Little North so for sure adds to it. It's an area we'll be returning to explore in the near future! Still working away on the one from last summer. Northern Quebec and another obscure little river that captured a piece of our heart and soul for a few weeks.
I’m watching all 3 episodes again today. 😊
It’s amazing how much I missed or forgot in the month since I first watched this video
Awesome episode.
Oh wow, looking forward to this.
I really enjoyed the drone shots down on you all paddling
Glad you liked them! They were recovered footage after we had an incident where we lost ALL out footage from this video and went through literally every means possible to recover. Our drone shots were the worst quality recovered so We are glad you liked them!
Perfect spot for Big Foot...
Still looking....
This was just amazing. The scenery was outstanding along with the narrating. You’s never disappoint. Looking forward to more.😘
14 minutes in and this is fantastic! The videography is awesome and you are both such great hosts taking me on an adventure. Please keep making such awesome videos.
Albert is LEGEND.
That he is! Wealth of knowledge, super friendly and will go out of his way to ensure you have the best trip possible,. Great guy and great company!
Bravo tout les deux super de beau voyage ..continuer a nous faire rêver...merci
Fabulous! Thanks Brad and Leah
beautiful video, I spent a fun filled week west of Cat Lake on a government camping trip--Forest fire fighting. Looking forward to the next episode
We call that cheeseburger mac,but we add tomatoes too.yum
Mmmm! So good after a day of paddling! No Tomatoes here, but we did top it with ketchup!!
This is going to be epic! As someone who has never done white water tripping in 30yr of doing so, I love watching these types of trips. I am so envious!
Only a bit of whitewater in Pt I and II. But part III has all the reallllyy fun sets!
What a great adventure....I enjoyed episode 1.
This is fantastic, reminds me so much of when my dad used to take me and my little brother canoeing around the interior of Algonquin Provincial Park back in the late 1980's. This summer I'm going to make a commitment to get back on the water again even if it means a solo trip. Fantastic production work as well, very well done! :)
Hope you got out on that trip this summer. Time spent in a canoe is time well spent.
Well done!!
Thanks!
Beautiful video and narration 😊 looking forward to the rest of your series!
Great so far! Can’t wait for episode 2
Awesome, stunning, beautiful, so well done.. cheers to you both...
Thank you Jim! Cheers!
Beautiful upload, I love watching nature uploads, so pleasing & relaxing.
Oh my!
Great job with your video! 👍
Many thanks!
Looks like an epic route!
What an amazing journey so far! You guys did an awesome job filming and putting together these videos! Looking forward to the next episode!
Fantastic video! Looking forward to the next part!
Glad you enjoyed it! Aiming for next week!!
The hanging trap was a nice visual validation of time going by. Narration was well done as well. How quite it must have been. Nicely done.~~~
Thanks Robert! It was eerily quiet at times. Some days you could hear a pin drop in the woods! With some of the cooler weather, the birds and animals seemingly went into hiding and left a still world behind.
Wow, awesome videography & dialogue, some incredibly beautiful shots there too. Really loving this video.
Thanks Paul! Tried a few different things production wise this time, but the land does a good job of presenting herself!
Great video, can't wait for the next one
Excellent episode - your videos are always fantastic for entertainment and insight - great stuff :)
Super trip, I'm jealous.
Great video! Can't wait to see more!
Thank you!! Soon!
Looking forward to this.
Nicely done! The border closure has my Wabakimi adventure postponed 2nd summer in a row. Living vicariously thru your trip. I've often stared at maps of the area to the west of Pickle Lake wondering "what is out there!" Now I know - sorta! Thank you for sharing!
Ah, I know the feeling! This was actually our backup plan, and we put it together relatively quickly. The border closure shut out a lot of folks last year. Hopefully you can get to Wabakimi at some point in the near future. That's an incredible place to paddle!
wonderful video, great narration. This is suprelative content, congrats...and also on the paddling skills!
Great episode! Your filmmaking and editing gets better all the time. Can't wait for part two 👍😊
Thanks so much Ray! All the best!
Great start to the trip guys, looking forward to the next episodes, looks like it gets good!
Ha, if by good you mean sloggish, then yes! :D Things certainly get more interesting at the height of land....
@@ExploreTheBackcountry haha fair enough! It must be the fact that we're not allowed to do this stuff that I would actually love to be doing a 2km bushwack in 30 degree weather with bugs so thick that it's hard to hear and see right now.
So Beautiful 👊🏽
Time for me to get a canoe.
A fine idea! Endless possibilities for exploring await!
Can’t wait😘
New sub. Thanks for sharing this! 👍😏🛶🌲🇨🇦👌🔥
Thanks for the sub!
Ok love the videos but can you write a book with the lost routes? I can read, watch and drink whiskey at the same time.
Brads working on it! Trust me! He has a massive repository of lost routes and he’s plucking away at the boook
Miss you videos!! Hoping that everything is ok.
Oh we're around. New content dropping in a few days!!
Wow. This is well done. You two did a hell of a job with this 1st video. Not to mention your boating and camping skills. No fish to supplement the food stock?
Thanks so much! During the first portion of our trip we didn't have a lot of time to fish. did some fishing during the last third. No spoilers, but the weather didn't really help us then....
Really enjoying you videos. I would like to make a suggestion could you tell us about your gear, make and model of your canoe and paddle and the province you are paddling in thanks!
Hey there! We paddle almost exclusively in Northern Ontario (north of sudbury for reference), our canoe is a Nova Craft, we paddle several models including prospector ( for our all around canoe trips), moise model for when we do white water or big lakes (like when we paddle Lake Superior), and then the Cronji for flat water. Our white water paddles are aqua bond (loveeeee them) and then we have a few different wood paddles from a number of brands but mostly (Grey Owl paddles) and our tent and sleeping bags are Hot Core (another Canadian company who we beta test for) and then a hodge podge of other brands:) hope this helps!!!
This was yalls honeymoon? Lol, looks amazing though.
Ha, no. We got married in the fall, but definitely honeymoon material :D
@ Tammy Vincent, Where did you go on your honey moon?
We went to the Smokies and stayed in a remote cabin. Nothing close to the remoteness of the wilderness in this video.
Great vid with nice comentry, may i ask were you got your spray deck?
We got our spray deck from North Water out of Vancouver:) wonderful quality and service
how many cm is your double blade?
"Land Of The Original People" DOESN'T sound like it was created to help land treaty law cases in court at all....
No fishing at all wow
i prefer lone paddlers...its much more nicer and quieter...two people is just too much noise...
You dont fish??
I do. Didn't have much time on this portion of the trip as we were trying to cover distance to maximize the buffer time we'd have for the headwaters. I fished daily after Whitelaw Lake, but the wonky weather we had wasn't helping land much.
I want to do this
Do it… god knows we cleared all the portages and marked them for you😜
The cat river was beautiful. Perhaps the box of wine should have been broken down into foldable bottles?
Yeah, we bring the smaller ones sometimes too. We just didn't want to carry the extra weight over some of those treks. We were really tired most evenings that half a glass had us headed to the tent for some Zzzz's!
lol..who downvotes this stuff?