Stepping out the door on a brisk winter morning, the special sound of the crisp snow under your feet, the sharpness of view as everything has distinct edges and colours, the way sound seems to travel in the cold, the explosive mist as you exhale and the singular bite to your lungs as you inhale. This very singular solitude is difficult to explain.
YES!!!! Crisp crunchy yet fluffy cold snow makes me high!!! If there is hoarfrost the absolute joy of a world that is actually black and white in person. The stillness and sort of silence after a cold snowfall. It's so hard to describe and put into words. I am in the US. So many from Southern states don't know what I am talking about. They think all snow is cold. The difference between warm and cold snowy weather is striking. Wet snow doesn't give that special feeling of cold dry crisp snow.
Dear Tash. I first started to fall in love with you when I found your first video about Canada. I have watched every one since then (that I am aware of). But girl... I almost broke down and cried when you said "I've never tasted lobster". That's it. You need to come to Canada. And even though I was born and raised in Alberta (the most beautiful place on earth, 5800 km from our friends in Newfoundland), I would advise you to entice the Newfies to join "Team Tash". Because the people of the maritimes (4 provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island [PEI] and especially Newfoundland are the masters of friendship, happiness, humour, good times, beer drinking and especially lobster. Those people in Newfoundland (and the rest of the Maritimes for that matter) are absolutely the most lovable living things in the entire universe. EVERYBODY in Canada loves the Maritimers. And girl... if you want to enjoy a week or a month or 4 years of enjoyment eating lobster, with a few hundred beers and a million laughs... Newfoundland is your destiny. Remember Gander? Yes... those are the same people I'm talking about! Lobster is absolutely delicious. "Steak & Lobster" is offered at most restaurants all across Canada... but definitely in the Maritimes. I would just love to hug you and your husband some day, as you make your trek across Canada. I was born in Alberta 74 years ago and I have only seen 10% of Canada. And that's A LOT. So clearly, I have a lot of work to do before I hit 110. A helpful hint: If you want to see all of Canada you must be born 300 years ago. The country is so damned big with so many incredible vistas that no Canadian has ever seen "it all". 👊💗
On her needing more clothes....our winter clothing is made with high tech stuff like Thinsulate. The fabrics allow for lightweight, non-bulky gear for ease of movement.
Ice Hotel, extreme tobogganing and ice canoe race across St-Laurence river, all three are in Québec city! A must to visit for a true winter experience.
That toboggan run is on Dufferin Terrace beside the Chateau Frontenac over looks the St. Lawrence River it was built in 1884. I remember going down on it as a child my Mom would toboggan there as a child as well. The ice Hotel is in Val Cartier which is about 30km away. If you ever come to Canada in the winter, and you should, you must go to the Winter Carnival in Quebec City & Ottawa.
When i was a kid, my older brothers and their friends would load up all the neighbourhood kids in their 4x4's and go tobogganing down some remote logging road. We would cram 7 or 8 people on an 8 foot long toboggan and race down hill till we had a wreck, then trudge back up the hill and do it again! Those were the days!!!!
Growing up in Northern Ontario, my friends and I did many things to pass the time away. Tobogganing, snowshoeing camping on the weekends or Christmas holidays for a night or two. As a younger kid, we always had a rink in our backyard. In my teens, my friends and I would clear off a rink on the swamp near my house and maintain it for as long as we can. Saturday night, there was always a bonfire with tea, hot chocolate and marshmallows. One Saturday night, someone brought music and there must have been about 30 or so people there! It got so loud that the cops came and told us to shut it down! My friends and I also carved out snow forts in the snow banks and often spend hours in there, reading, and planning extensions to it. Good memories! Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong!
I live in western Alberta right tight to the mountains we Canadians have special clothing so you aren’t packing around 50 pounds of clothing and can’t move lol
Never seen a very small version of horse drawn sled like the Eskimoes use....looks like fun. ❤Have tried Sydney, part great dane/greyhound dog pull me on my cross-country skies. He was tethered a distance away from me thanks to my double Dutch skipping rope tied into a proper harness for him. What a memorable experience❤😊Also skated on the mighty frozen Rideau Canal in Ottawa, ON, Canada with Sydney...only a leash distance away from me while I glided on my skates. 😊 Sydney pulled me effortlessly and fast..what a thrill for both of us❤
Canadians will always find a way to enjoy the outdoors, regardless of the conditions. Would not want to live anywhere else as I do enjoy the 4 seasons. 🥰🇨🇦
I think i'd go a bit crazy without experiencing 4 seasons every year. Also having the sun only setting after 10pm, in summer, or setting in the afternoon in winter. Its part of what makes summer feel like summer and winter feel like winter for me.
When I was a kid, we used to go out to a friend of the family's farm in the wintertime. I went snowmobiling and one of the parents pulled us kids on sleds behind it. We also went ice-skating which one of them created in their yard with a water truck. I also used to walk 15 minutes to the outdoor community rinks and skate and play hockey for 8+ hours and then put my frozen boots on after and walk home. I have also tried being on an innertube being pulled by an ATV 4x4 in the winter. I've also done tobogganing and asked on a pod at a park before. I've tried cross-country skiing once when I was a kid. We would also build snowmen and build winter forts in our backyard as kids.
@@aussietashreacts Yeah out at the lake my cousin had an ATV 4x4 Grizzly. He attached a tow line to an intertube and drove down the snow-packed roadway. That was highly illegal as you cannot drive on the roads with an ATV but still fun. We were basically out in the country. I remember when he turned a corner by the cabin and I saw what happened and bailed. My friend who was on it for the first time ever did not know what was about to happen. He slid up the snowbank, flew up in the air, smacked his forehead halfway up the stop sign pole, and dropped. I couldn't stop laughing. We checked on him and then went into the Cabin. He came in 2 minutes later all made saying he would never do this again. I told him it was just a matter of reading the situation and knowing when to bail. He had a big bruise on his forehead for a week.
Hi Tash. One thing you learn in Winter is layering. That is, depending on how cold it is outside and what your level of exertion is going to be. Once you figure that out, you're golden and Winter becomes a laugh!
Toboganing was my fav as a kid. Every kid had a Tobogan ( which is actually a tool or piece of equipment ) essential to hauling firewood and other supplies around on snow an indigenous invention. Europeans kids realized quite quickly how fun it could be, by watching indigenous kids use it for work and if they encountered a hill would save walking time by jumping on and pushing down the hill for faster travel. BOOM! now you have an activity that gets the work done with a bit of play to break up the monotony.
This is going to sound bad but, it was so fun! Did your dad ever tie your toboggan to the trailer hitch on the car? My mum still scolds him but that was one of the best days of my childhood! Even the dog rode the tobaggan! I think he pulled us maybe 10 miles an hour but it was pretty great!
Tash, U think BBQing in the winter is funny, wait until u see us BBQing after the sun sets at 16h30 in the afternoon. We get real creative with flash lights strapped to our tuques or being held with our mouths. A porch light never seems to be enough, lol.😅
In Ottawa, we have a winter festival called WINTERLUDE. Most everything is done outside in February. Ice carving, skating on the Rideau Canal, ice sliding in Jacques Cartier parc in Gatineau. There’s too many things to list here. You’ll just have to come and experience it for yourself. WE ARE NOT COLD FOR 9 MONTHS IF THE YEAR!!
We LOVE coming to Ottawa for Winterlude, and skating on the Rideau River. Particularly beautiful when the used Christmas trees are frozen into the ice and people can skate around them. So pretty! ❤
When I lived in Ottawa, I loved skating on the canal! My boyhood friends would come for a weekend and have a reunion and drink beer, skate on the canal and drink beer! It was always a great weekend! Stay safe,stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
It’s amazing how many Australians get work visas for Canada to also enjoy the winters working at various ski resorts , some say for example Whistler is run by Aussies
I live in Hamilton, Ontario and we an escarpment (we call it the Mountain - I have been to west seen the 'real mountains' )running through it that is approximately 100 meters tall. We are also at the western end of Lake Ontario. We have many waterfalls coming over the mountain edge and over 140 are named. Some like Albion Falls are very accessible for everyone to view, others are a little more difficult to get to. The city promotes the waterfalls and wants to keep as natural as possible. Most can be visited every single day and they look different every day too. From storm boosted flow after rains to ice in winter and fall colours in autumn.
Even in Vancouver we get a "Canadian" winter about 1 in 20(or used to). Snow was fun, especially if it was cold enough for dry snow, people would get out the skis to go along the streets. Even saw the odd impromptu dog sled going across to the West End whichbiscthecwarmest part of the city. I think it was the winter before the Olympics when all of Canada had a white Christmas so it was kind of a celebration. We've been having the Northern Lights recently in Vancouver, strong enough even for some pink in the green, plus the Perseid meteor shower, just have to get away from the city light pollution.
Horse sledding... is really just classic transport. In summer people used a horse and cart, with wheels, and in winter you replace the wheels with "skis" - granted in the modern world we don't really use horses so "sleigh rides" are a novel winter experience.
Growing up it was either tobogganing or skating, practically all the parents in the neighbourhood built ice rinks in their backyard. The most fun is getting all the neighbourhood kids and having à snowball fight.
Canadains love the outdoors so much we have the Trans Canada Trail. It's stretches 28.000 kms from coast to coast to coast and can be used all year. We also have dedicated snowmobile trails that are maintained by local volunteers.
Tash, our mother would bundle us up in our pram in the afternoon and we would nap outside on the porch. We lived outside the city limits and there was a pond out back in the field so we skated and played hockey and jumped barrels afer school. Our dad would build us a ramp in the backyard for sliding on crazy carpets, The downside: us kids had to shovel the driveway every time it snowed but even that could be fun.
I haven't been to the ice hotel in Quebec City, but I know of a couple from California who got married in that hotel and all of their guests thought it was awesome!
Hey Tash! I grew up in a town called Timmins which is in Northern Ontario, about 400 miles south of the Arctic Circle. My friends and I would go tobogganing in January after supper when the Sun was long gone. We'd go crashing to the bottom of the hill, then just lie there gazing up at the Northern Lights. It really looked like someone had poured gasoline on the atmosphere and set it alight. I hope one day you get to see them for yourself! Love your videos!
Have an off-topic question for you I hope you’ll answer for me. There have been (so far) 29 comments on this current Aussie Tash video, but I’m not seeing ‘leave comment’ on it, or a number of other of her videos either. I get it if commenting is off after 100’s of comments, but 29? Are you having the same issue, re. Some of Tasha’s videos? I’d just wanted to mention to her that Canadian winter clothing has evolved to much less bulk; is light and streamlined, but exceedingly warm. And depending on where you live in Canada determines how many months it’s WINTER-cold! Where we are it’s end of Dec to early March. PLUS that blogger who said she lives in Woodbridge, Ontario and has to ‘suffer winter 9 months of the year’ is so full of it. Absolutely not so and bad branding. Thanks for your poor, defenceless ear! 🤣🇨🇦🩷
@@judes1948 I'm with you on that "9 months of the year" comment! Actually it sort of makes me angry when I see statements like that. Our winters are no longer and no colder than those in the Northern US. Some of these bloggers make it sound as if it's -40 degrees year round, when those temperatures only occur occasionally and usually only last a few days, between late November or early December to March or early April. Talk about misrepresentation!
Yes, exactly, although it's "Timmins" , not "Timmons". I was vaguely acquainted with Shania back then, but her real name was Eileen. She's had a rough ride, so it's cool to see her having such success. @@wjdietrich
Wow. A couple of things. First Ice Fishing. The days of sitting on the ice and freezing your butt off to fish are long gone. Now when you go ice fishing. You drive out to your hut. Throw some wood on the fire and take your winter coat off. I was really freaked out by this as a kid. Thought of it as an extreme sport to be honest. Until you realize they heat rises. Which as a child means your sitting in the warm. However, you have to chip away ice every once in awhile cause still freezing. Snow Tubing was fun when I was a kid. Of course we didn’t go to the store to get our tubes. We went to the junk yard and got them from tires. Now they stopped putting tubes in tires. Around the same time they started making tubes for snow. BTW. They are also a blast when pulled behind a boat on the water. When she was climbing walls freaked me out. I thought everyone knew to get better fitting gloves than that. If she is extending her hand in front of her. Coat should not come away from glove that much exposing bare skin. I hope you will keep that in mind when coming to Canada. As for Barbecue. Great video. However you don’t run a barbecue that close to any wall. Well you shouldn’t. People do. Have seen burnt brick. Melted siding, warped siding. And all kinds of other damage. P.S. The beauty of winter sports. Is you skin your knee/elbows less often.
Yes, that Woodbridge woman needs lessons on SAFETY WITH GAS BARBEQUES. Also correct her math. If an e a r l y winter sets in:-- November.......dec.jan.feb.mar.and if a l a t e r spring ..which would happen end of apr...... HELLO S I X MONTHS😮😮 [Woodbridge is LESS THAN TWO HRS AWAY FROM TORONTO or just 63 miles north of Kitchener].
Being from Nova Scotia, ,Lobster is the sea. I have eaten hundreds. North Atlantic, no other meat on earth compares. Salty yet sweet. My father fished them, his father so on, I worked in the industry. North Atlantic lobster, is a treasure.
when we were kids we would get large inner tubes from transport trucks,when pumped up they would be 6ft round,we would pile a bunch of us the tube and slide down the hill and in the summer you can use the same tube to go floating in the lake/river
Morning Tash I’ve done most of them. Winter can be fun if dressed appropriately.. I haven’t tried the lobster beer doesn’t sound appealing, but I bet the Easterners love it. Fun to watch your reactions, liking your T shirt! Have a super day🫶
Good Morning Tash: I grew up skating and toboganning in rural Manitoba. I have skiied once, but that was it. On another note, I have heard of a new sport that I believe was "invented" in Edmonton. It is Winter Tennis. Basically, it is tennis on ice and the players where skates. An outdoor tennis court is cleared of snow, flooded with water to freeze (scraped a la hockey rink), and people where skates to play tennis outdoors.
64 year-old here in Hamilton, Ontario. Never heard of horse-sledding until just now. But to reassure you, Tash, did you notice how thick the coats on those horses/ponies were? Plus being that active keeps them well warm!
I'm a lifelong Canadian, but have live/worked all over the world. Live about 100 kilometres North-West of Ottawa Ontario. Canadian winters are only half of life here, summers are quite warm normally with 25C-30C+ days. Combine that with approximately 50% of the world's fresh water, and you have in my opinion paradise! Back to winter try snowshoeing, icefishing, skating (Ottawa has world's longest skate way, 17Km.), hockey, skiing (cross country/downhill), snowmobiling (1000's of kilometres of groomed trails), snowmobile dragracing, snowmobile speed runs (local police use their radar), toboganning (in my younger years used a crazy carpet (hard plastic sheet)), that's just a few things. Probably the best are all the local winter festivals in almost every city, town, village, and hamlet with some unique challenges like building a bonfire in snow with no matches, many more. Don't forget our New Years polar bear swims in a hole in the ice usually for charity, or stupidity! There's more it just escapes!
LOL!!!! Yes!!! Been there!!! How to Play in the snow and ice--- great video choice :) :) :) Nice new shirt and pendant :) :) Those spike-shoes are Crampons for Ice Climbing; lol Lobster Beer and Gelato ... a new thing from Clamato foodies :)
Canada has 5 distinct geographic regions with completely different weather, depending on where you are in the country things can be very different on the same day. Much of Canada has a 'continental climate’ that only exists in the Northern Hemisphere. Having four seasons is what makes Nordic countries like Canada unique, it can be -30 in winter and + 30 in summer. In the dead of winter (December) Ottawa gets less than 9 hours of daylight, in June we have 15 hours. You need to experience winter to truly appreciate spring. Many of these scenes were from the Ottawa winter carnival (Winterlude) and the winter carnival in Québec City. BTW there are many types of snow, the Inuit have dozens of words describing the types of snow. Snow can be light and fluffy or wet and heavy (good for snow ball fights). With modern clothing, winter tires, snow removal equipment and Global Warming winter is much easier now than when I was a kid in the 1950s.
@@aussietashreacts May and June are the best months in Ottawa, life starts again, days getting longer, the birds have returned, flowers blooming, low humidity, hot days, warm nights peeeerfect! after the long winter spring is amazing.... the Tulip Festival marks the beginning of the summer festivals here in Ottawa.
Love cross country skiing, especially in the more remote parks. Just the sound of the crisp snow under your feet. Otherwise the silence is deafening. Not as many birds around in winter. Nature is so quiet and still in the winter. It's not expensive because you can cross country ski with very little equipment and don't have to go to a resort. Any farmer's field or woods will do or even in the town where the roads and sidewalks are yet to be cleaned. The outdoor activity warms you up and you actually often shed a few layers of clothes. Great, invigorating exercise that anyone can do.
Yes I made the switch from downhill skiing to cross- country skiing....Why examples. Always froze my thumbs, touche, toes also while waiting in long lineups to take the tows or chairlifts to the various ski hills. ✅ cross-country: Mother Nature: Time to hear whispering pine trees, birds; see tracks in the snow made by deer, rabbit's, squirrels, birds, etc. All parts of your body are kept warm with natural movement in sliding walks and coordinated movement of your ski poles. Quiet trails in forests protect from the biting cold wind. Natural environment less costlier apparels. Downhill skiers have an expensive hobby with ever increasing costs of tow lifts to top of the high hills/mountains be it rope tow, t-tow, chairlifts, gondolas😂including elite equipment and apparels😢😢
I grew up in the country about a 45 minute drive from Toronto, across the road from me was this 100 acre farm which was used for raising cattle, but in the winter time they were all gone and they had this hill I used to toboggan on all the time. The one thing that sucked about that was I had a wooden sled and after a few times of dragging it back up the hill your arms would get tired and you always had to make sure the toboggan was waxed. There was a bigger hill across from it but it had this big huge tree right in the middle of it, so I never attempted to toboggan down that hill. In between the two hills was a little river that divided the two.
You would be surprised how little clothing is needed when you're being active. Most of the time when im outside as working and its -40c with the windchill. My "jacket" is in reality a heavy wool sweater, with a lighter closer knit sweater under it, no gloves or toque. Hope everyone is taking care
I live in Montreal and it's usually cold starting around the beginning of October till March. Not every day is -40*. If you dress properly you can have lots of fun in the winter. You have to experience the Canadian winter. Some hockey players who are American stay in Montreal year round after the hockey season is over.
My two younger brothers, a sister, and myself would go tubing every once in awhile. It was a two hour drive, but we would spend a couple hours or so tubing. There was a tow rope for those who didn't want to walk up the hill, and there were two hills; a steep one and another a bit more gradual. Lots of fun. Growing up we mostly seemed to live near a hill, and tobogganing was our main sport in winter.
I grew up in Northern Ontario, we had a rink right down the hill from my house, every kid in town was on that rink, we would skate until the lights went out, then skate in the dark, even when my toes were frozen I didn’t want to get off the ice, I played on the broom ball team also ringette, my brother was on the hockey team. We embraced winter, still some of my best memories ❤
i know what you mean. i grew up just north of winnipeg, and had a dugout on our property plus an outdoor rink 500m from my house and lake manitoba just 1km from my front door. lights out at the rink meant go back to my place and continue on our dugout. summertime we came home when the sun set, so that meant around 10:30-11:00pm. we had our cottage no more than 5km from our place so summer or winter, you could find us at our cottage for weekends. thats when we would snowshoe or cross country ski or go ice fishing. we kept a fishing shack on the lake for most of the winter. and snowmobiling just goes without saying.
@@amateurastronomer9463 yes, Manitiba is very much like Northern Ontario with all the lakes, I live in Toronto now, go home every summer to visit, my brother was in Flin Flon recently on a fishing trip, said he couldn't believe how much it reminded him of home, winters are much different here in Toronto than my hometown just west of Sudbury, I go back in summer mostly.
I live in the middle of the country and have never heard of lobster beer. It doesn't surprise me the Maritimers would find a way to combine the two, though.
Ice fishing, skying (wasn't good at it), snowshoeing, skating (not good at it but fun), cross country sky, toboganning with real wood toboggan or on a crazy carpet, horse sleighting, dog sleighting, I did al that... plus went to the Ice Hotel, haven't slept there but would have loved to. Impressive work there... assist to the ice canoe race. It's a tradition in Québec in particular can't speak for the other places that does it... for a long while, it was the only way for the people living on Ile d'Orléans to keep contact with people in Québec City, you have to cross the river and during winter time, the river don't freeze enough to ensure a safe passage on foot so they took their canoe, would push it when on ice, and navigate it when in water... it was rather dangerous to do on a daily basis. Nowadays, there's a lot of security all around to assist in case of "accident". Winter can be fun!
We had an airliner inner tube of a jet engine tire. About 8 to 10 people could get on while on top of tire and head down a very steep hill that would cause us to cross the road and up the other side of the hill. We used to have road watchers to keep it as safe as possible for us, but tobogganing on highways is not considered safe but it was some of the best tobogganing we could do.
In Yukon with snow 8 months of the year, winter sports are pretty big. Dog sledding, and ski jouring are big up here. In March we have "Thaw-di-Gras," when we are sick of winter, and go out, and have fun. It might be -25, or -3C, but we have fun anyway. One event is the snowmobile drop, where numbered stakes are put in the ice on the river, and an old snowmobile is dropped by helicopter. We bet by trying to guess the number of the stake closest to where the sled lands. We also bet on when the river will, break up, which usually happens in May. Curling is probably the most popular participation sport in Canada, with over 2 million curlers. The video is right that almost every family has a toboggan. People here use them to get groceries back to the house from the store, as well as sliding down hills. At the school in town, kids are sent out to play at recess, and lunch down to -35C, and many kids will play on swings, slides, etc., in the cold, and dark before school. It does not begin to get light until after 10:30, and it might be -40C when the kids get to school. They play anyway!
Wow, I would think it would stop you right away like earth appearing suddenly out of the snow. What equipment do you use to slide down it in the Prince George BC [found in the centre of the whole mighty Province of British Columbia] (My husband after his motorcycle trip there mentioned it was very much like Haliburton Highlands in Ontario....area that has outcroppings of rock and mixed coniferous and deciduous forests!❤
Good morning, Tash some of us here in Canada doesn't get the snow like we used to and deep freeze temperatures so we can run out to our barbies to cook in a hoodie, but yes we barbecue all year long. I remember as a kid skating on a pond plus a creek playing hockey ,it's hard to do it now depends on the temperatures to freeze the water plus need aleast 2 feet ice thickness. I haven't done any snowboarding or downhill skiing but done a little snowshoeing and cross country skiing. I'm only 15 mins away from a tube slide business for the winter. If anyone get a chance hit Niagara Falls in the winter the mist turns to ice grates a ice wall up the sides of the gorge and with the coloured light at night looks awesome. I think the toboggan ride they showed was in Quebec if I'm correct, plus Ottawa has a long ice trail you can skat on depending if it too freezes over .
I don’t know how that lady is getting 9 months of cold weather in Woodbridge Ontario, I grew up 300 miles north of there and we had more than 3 months of nice weather
Morning Tash, great video today. As for BBQing in the winter, in 1977 I was in Alert Nunuvit (NWT back then) we had a BBQ for sunup(first time seeing the sun in 4 months. The sun was only up for about 1/2 hour, and while cooking the steaks on the BBQ, one side would cook and the other side would freeze, yes this is true.
We used to bbq all winter too. I still do, though the temps are rather milder than where I was raised. Dad used to make backyard rinks every winter. One winter we were able to convince the next door neighbours on both sides to allow us to have a rink across the three yards. It was amazing. We could play a proper hockey game. Kept us all tired out enough fir early bed times. Our parents were smart.
Tash: The person near the end of the video who was talking about doing BBQ in the winter I delusional! She lives in Woodbridge on the outskirts of Toronto, not Nunavut. Even Northernmost Ontario doesn’t get 9 months of winter. Is she imagining she lives at Canadian Forces Base Alert at the north end of Ellesmere Island?
Judging by your responses it seems that unlike a lot of RUclipsrs, you read most of the comments on your videos! Thank you for your interest and engagement.
Almost thinking of quitting Grade 13 when my parents took me out on Christmas Break to ski at an Indiginous owned ski hills throughout the week. The hotel we stayed at had a sauna [wooden encased room with two levels of benches surrounding a pile of rocks.] A pail filled with water had a ladle so we could ladle up water and spread evenly over the rocks which would produce steam...if put on too much you could feel discomfort in the nose. A few tourists I got to know who challenged each other after the sauna to run out into the snow and roll in it before jumping into the heated indoor pool. Several of us including me tried this. Wow what a great tingly experience.😮😮😊😊😊 I guess those from Sweden attempt this regularly, eh! Well, both of these activities and having some quality time with my parents caused me to have a positive shift in thought towards completing my school year. Yes, I submitted this in the school yearbook: "Replace your complaints with a gratitude attitude and then you will find school won't be as bad ! 😅
I am Canadian and I learned a very good lesson from my friends the bears. Just hibernate for 5 months and I hate having to unthaw my socks in the morning when winter camping. Does not smell like bacon.
Sigh! Those of us who live in Vancouver usually have to drive somewhere like Whistler or Cypress or Grouse Mountain to have any kind of major winter fun. Hardly ever snows here and when it does, it’s heavy, wet and messy. Last year it started snowing on December 17 and we actually had a white Christmas but on Christmas night the rain started and by the 26th, all gone…
Hey Tash! If you’re brave enough to come to Winnipeg in the winter, I’ll take you to the Forks for ice skating! I don’t know if I could do that myself anymore as I’m easily old enough to be your mother! But I might give it a try.
@Aussie Tash Reacts Those lobsters didn't look mean to me... they looked delicious!😉Nothing better than Atlantic Lobster when it comes to lobsters. Mmmmm!
Lobsters are naturally gray colour. After pressure boiling or steamed, the come out looking pinkish red. How long should they be submerged in the boiling pot of water?
i just remembered a televisionn shiow- the hillarious house of frightenstein and as a result - athe actor villy van. vincent prince did appearances. loved the show. billy van did i guess about 98% of the characters.
Toboganing was one the best things we did in the winter living in east Toronto as kid we had the Don Valley and it has some big hills to zip down we also use a plastic sheet called a crazy carpet and those would hurt you butt going over bumps but you got some good speed on on those. The best tobgans were made out of aluminium they went mach 1 on the snow but if you got them on ice they really went fast we would be out all day doing this. Then came snowmobiles as we got older we would go trail riding and I still do that today in cottage country in Ontario. Of course hockey was a big part of winter as well from playing in the MTHL from the age of 9 till my mid teens then trying out for Jr. A but getting to play Jr. B
I've worked in the forest in the winter. Used snowshoes and snowmobiles. Caught in a snowstorm and etc. Can be interesting or even fun, or deadly if you make a mistake r your vehiclebreaks down or fuel line freezes. I grew up in this stuff, but for me it was serious stuff. Bad mistakes can be risky.
I was in Nova Scotia in the 80's... went to a pier party all you can eat . You could buy lobster anywhere even d gas stations were selling it at 99 cents a pound
Boats on the ice is a challenge meant to emulate the brave lifesavers who went out on the ice to get to the drowning people. They have to switch between actual paddling in the water and pushing the lifeboat across the ice - in and out of the boat multiple times. There is a wonderful phenomenon in the middle of winter where the sky is sepia coloured and sound travels so far. You are hereby commanded to take a second trip to Canada in the winter to experience all these wacky sports.
Just to add in terms of clothing and how to dress for a Canadian winter... Most foreigners or tourists usually get it backwards. Don't just wear a t-shirt and the BIGGEST winter coat you can find. That's the worse thing you could do. Seriously! Instead, use a layered approach of 3-4 layers of light materials that insulate, are waterproof, are wind resistant and offer flexibility. This way you can add or take off layers as you get hot or cold. Flexibility is the key. Trapping air between layers is the best insulator, not big coats. And you would be surprised as to how hot or sweaty you actually get when moving around in -20C temperatures. Bonus tip for non-Canadians... Understand that it's NOT the cold that kills you. It's the heat escaping from your body. Think of your body as an oven that's trying to heat the outside world. So, heat escapes from your chest, neck and head primarily. Dress accordingly. Extra bonus tip... Always protect your extremities! That's hands & feet. Cannot be overstated. Very little heat gets to those areas. Again, use the layered approach if you can and use materials that actually insulate. All this to say... A person who looks like they don't seem to be wearing enough clothes is probably Canadian, lol. 😆
Tobogganing, sledding, sliding is kind of a thing pretty much ALL Canadians do at least once in their life. Especially if you're a kid. All you need is snow and a hill. And I'm old enough to remember when "crazy carpets" first came out. Now that was insane! Those were the good old days, you know, when parents just sent you outside and didn't really care if you killed yourself, lol. 😁 😁 😁
We use to do both cross country skiing and downhill skiing with our school when I was kid our class trips would take us to Blue Mountain in Collingwood Ontario for downhill and for X-country we just stayed in the city and used one of the big parks in Toronto now mind you this was like 40+ years ago yes I am old 🙄🙄😆😆😆
Extra, extra bonus tip when it comes to winter clothing... Use buttons or zippers on as many of your layers as you can. Don't wear a turtleneck, for example. This way you can easily regulate the heat escaping from your chest. And even your neck. Too hot? Starting to sweat? Open the zipper. Too cold? Starting to freeze? Close the zipper. Sounds like common sense and pretty obvious. But it's NOT always the case, that's for sure. Unless you're Canadian, of course... 😁 😁 😁
Tash, you should look for a video about Ice Boat sailing/racing. Because of the low resistance of the steel blades on ice they are very fast, 5 to 6 times the speed of the wind.
Stepping out the door on a brisk winter morning, the special sound of the crisp snow under your feet, the sharpness of view as everything has distinct edges and colours, the way sound seems to travel in the cold, the explosive mist as you exhale and the singular bite to your lungs as you inhale. This very singular solitude is difficult to explain.
amazing, I beat :)
YES!!!! Crisp crunchy yet fluffy cold snow makes me high!!! If there is hoarfrost the absolute joy of a world that is actually black and white in person. The stillness and sort of silence after a cold snowfall. It's so hard to describe and put into words.
I am in the US. So many from Southern states don't know what I am talking about. They think all snow is cold. The difference between warm and cold snowy weather is striking. Wet snow doesn't give that special feeling of cold dry crisp snow.
as a senior Canadian I want to thank you and other podcasters for showing the beauty and greatness of Canada. we are underestimated.
Dear Tash. I first started to fall in love with you when I found your first video about Canada. I have watched every one since then (that I am aware of). But girl... I almost broke down and cried when you said "I've never tasted lobster". That's it. You need to come to Canada. And even though I was born and raised in Alberta (the most beautiful place on earth, 5800 km from our friends in Newfoundland), I would advise you to entice the Newfies to join "Team Tash". Because the people of the maritimes (4 provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island [PEI] and especially Newfoundland are the masters of friendship, happiness, humour, good times, beer drinking and especially lobster.
Those people in Newfoundland (and the rest of the Maritimes for that matter) are absolutely the most lovable living things in the entire universe. EVERYBODY in Canada loves the Maritimers. And girl... if you want to enjoy a week or a month or 4 years of enjoyment eating lobster, with a few hundred beers and a million laughs... Newfoundland is your destiny. Remember Gander? Yes... those are the same people I'm talking about!
Lobster is absolutely delicious. "Steak & Lobster" is offered at most restaurants all across Canada... but definitely in the Maritimes. I would just love to hug you and your husband some day, as you make your trek across Canada. I was born in Alberta 74 years ago and I have only seen 10% of Canada. And that's A LOT. So clearly, I have a lot of work to do before I hit 110. A helpful hint: If you want to see all of Canada you must be born 300 years ago. The country is so damned big with so many incredible vistas that no Canadian has ever seen "it all". 👊💗
Cheers mate, thanks for the support. Hoping to get there in 2024 xx
On her needing more clothes....our winter clothing is made with high tech stuff like Thinsulate. The fabrics allow for lightweight, non-bulky gear for ease of movement.
Ice Hotel, extreme tobogganing and ice canoe race across St-Laurence river, all three are in Québec city! A must to visit for a true winter experience.
That toboggan run is on Dufferin Terrace beside the Chateau Frontenac over looks the St. Lawrence River it was built in 1884. I remember going down on it as a child my Mom would toboggan there as a child as well. The ice Hotel is in Val Cartier which is about 30km away. If you ever come to Canada in the winter, and you should, you must go to the Winter Carnival in Quebec City & Ottawa.
great to know, cheers
When i was a kid, my older brothers and their friends would load up all the neighbourhood kids in their 4x4's and go tobogganing down some remote logging road. We would cram 7 or 8 people on an 8 foot long toboggan and race down hill till we had a wreck, then trudge back up the hill and do it again! Those were the days!!!!
they where the days mate :)
Growing up in Northern Ontario, my friends and I did many things to pass the time away. Tobogganing, snowshoeing camping on the weekends or Christmas holidays for a night or two.
As a younger kid, we always had a rink in our backyard. In my teens, my friends and I would clear off a rink on the swamp near my house and maintain it for as long as we can. Saturday night, there was always a bonfire with tea, hot chocolate and marshmallows.
One Saturday night, someone brought music and there must have been about 30 or so people there! It got so loud that the cops came and told us to shut it down!
My friends and I also carved out snow forts in the snow banks and often spend hours in there, reading, and planning extensions to it.
Good memories!
Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong!
I live in western Alberta right tight to the mountains we Canadians have special clothing so you aren’t packing around 50 pounds of clothing and can’t move lol
horses and dogs love the cool weather. They get frisky. Huskies, samoyeds, big dogs in general go crazy fun in the cold.
Never seen a very small version of horse drawn sled like the Eskimoes use....looks like fun. ❤Have tried Sydney, part great dane/greyhound dog pull me on my cross-country skies. He was tethered a distance away from me thanks to my double Dutch skipping rope tied into a proper harness for him. What a memorable experience❤😊Also skated on the mighty frozen Rideau Canal in Ottawa, ON, Canada with Sydney...only a leash distance away from me while I glided on my skates. 😊 Sydney pulled me effortlessly and fast..what a thrill for both of us❤
Canadians will always find a way to enjoy the outdoors, regardless of the conditions. Would not want to live anywhere else as I do enjoy the 4 seasons. 🥰🇨🇦
I think i'd go a bit crazy without experiencing 4 seasons every year.
Also having the sun only setting after 10pm, in summer, or setting in the afternoon in winter. Its part of what makes summer feel like summer and winter feel like winter for me.
@@phantomstarlight1366 My sentiments exactly. 🇨🇦
Tash - It's weird to see you so mesmerized by the winter, when we are so used to it.
we don't see snow, ever
we have neighbours that have skating rinks in their backyards during the winter.. its fairly common to build rinks in our yards
When I was a kid, we used to go out to a friend of the family's farm in the wintertime. I went snowmobiling and one of the parents pulled us kids on sleds behind it. We also went ice-skating which one of them created in their yard with a water truck. I also used to walk 15 minutes to the outdoor community rinks and skate and play hockey for 8+ hours and then put my frozen boots on after and walk home. I have also tried being on an innertube being pulled by an ATV 4x4 in the winter. I've also done tobogganing and asked on a pod at a park before. I've tried cross-country skiing once when I was a kid. We would also build snowmen and build winter forts in our backyard as kids.
did you say being pulled on the snow/ice by a 4X4, that's awesome mate
@@aussietashreacts Yeah out at the lake my cousin had an ATV 4x4 Grizzly. He attached a tow line to an intertube and drove down the snow-packed roadway. That was highly illegal as you cannot drive on the roads with an ATV but still fun. We were basically out in the country. I remember when he turned a corner by the cabin and I saw what happened and bailed. My friend who was on it for the first time ever did not know what was about to happen. He slid up the snowbank, flew up in the air, smacked his forehead halfway up the stop sign pole, and dropped. I couldn't stop laughing. We checked on him and then went into the Cabin. He came in 2 minutes later all made saying he would never do this again. I told him it was just a matter of reading the situation and knowing when to bail. He had a big bruise on his forehead for a week.
@@Unstoppabletravel just checking out your channel, love it. We have a 4X4 and are looking to drive to Uluru :)
Hi Tash. One thing you learn in Winter is layering. That is, depending on how cold it is outside and what your level of exertion is going to be. Once you figure that out, you're golden and Winter becomes a laugh!
So expertly and verily said 😊
Toboganing was my fav as a kid. Every kid had a Tobogan ( which is actually a tool or piece of equipment ) essential to hauling firewood and other supplies around on snow an indigenous invention. Europeans kids realized quite quickly how fun it could be, by watching indigenous kids use it for work and if they encountered a hill would save walking time by jumping on and pushing down the hill for faster travel. BOOM! now you have an activity that gets the work done with a bit of play to break up the monotony.
This is going to sound bad but, it was so fun! Did your dad ever tie your toboggan to the trailer hitch on the car? My mum still scolds him but that was one of the best days of my childhood! Even the dog rode the tobaggan! I think he pulled us maybe 10 miles an hour but it was pretty great!
Canadian winters .......... it’s “mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” 😊
put that on a t-shirt and sell it, you will make millions mate :)
Tash, U think BBQing in the winter is funny, wait until u see us BBQing after the sun sets at 16h30 in the afternoon. We get real creative with flash lights strapped to our tuques or being held with our mouths. A porch light never seems to be enough, lol.😅
In Ottawa, we have a winter festival called WINTERLUDE. Most everything is done outside in February. Ice carving, skating on the Rideau Canal, ice sliding in Jacques Cartier parc in Gatineau. There’s too many things to list here. You’ll just have to come and experience it for yourself. WE ARE NOT COLD FOR 9 MONTHS IF THE YEAR!!
We LOVE coming to Ottawa for Winterlude, and skating on the Rideau River. Particularly beautiful when the used Christmas trees are frozen into the ice and people can skate around them. So pretty! ❤
just found a great family video to react to at Winterlude from a few years ago :)
When I lived in Ottawa, I loved skating on the canal! My boyhood friends would come for a weekend and have a reunion and drink beer, skate on the canal and drink beer! It was always a great weekend!
Stay safe,stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
It’s amazing how many Australians get work visas for Canada to also enjoy the winters working at various ski resorts , some say for example Whistler is run by Aussies
I live in Hamilton, Ontario and we an escarpment (we call it the Mountain - I have been to west seen the 'real mountains' )running through it that is approximately 100 meters tall. We are also at the western end of Lake Ontario. We have many waterfalls coming over the mountain edge and over 140 are named. Some like Albion Falls are very accessible for everyone to view, others are a little more difficult to get to. The city promotes the waterfalls and wants to keep as natural as possible.
Most can be visited every single day and they look different every day too. From storm boosted flow after rains to ice in winter and fall colours in autumn.
Even in Vancouver we get a "Canadian" winter about 1 in 20(or used to). Snow was fun, especially if it was cold enough for dry snow, people would get out the skis to go along the streets. Even saw the odd impromptu dog sled going across to the West End whichbiscthecwarmest part of the city.
I think it was the winter before the Olympics when all of Canada had a white Christmas so it was kind of a celebration.
We've been having the Northern Lights recently in Vancouver, strong enough even for some pink in the green, plus the Perseid meteor shower, just have to get away from the city light pollution.
Horse sledding... is really just classic transport. In summer people used a horse and cart, with wheels, and in winter you replace the wheels with "skis" - granted in the modern world we don't really use horses so "sleigh rides" are a novel winter experience.
That fast tobaggan run is in Quebec City at the bottom of the Hotel Frontenac during the winter Carnival
Growing up it was either tobogganing or skating, practically all the parents in the neighbourhood built ice rinks in their backyard. The most fun is getting all the neighbourhood kids and having à snowball fight.
Canadains love the outdoors so much we have the Trans Canada Trail. It's stretches 28.000 kms from coast to coast to coast and can be used all year. We also have dedicated snowmobile trails that are maintained by local volunteers.
We do the winter stuff to keep our sanity and get out into the fresh air 😂🇨🇦
Tash, our mother would bundle us up in our pram in the afternoon and we would nap outside on the porch.
We lived outside the city limits and there was a pond out back in the field so we skated and played hockey and jumped barrels afer school.
Our dad would build us a ramp in the backyard for sliding on crazy carpets, The downside: us kids had to shovel the driveway every time it snowed but even that could be fun.
Nice, heaps of fun :)
I haven't been to the ice hotel in Quebec City, but I know of a couple from California who got married in that hotel and all of their guests thought it was awesome!
Hey Tash! I grew up in a town called Timmins which is in Northern Ontario, about 400 miles south of the Arctic Circle. My friends and I would go tobogganing in January after supper when the Sun was long gone. We'd go crashing to the bottom of the hill, then just lie there gazing up at the Northern Lights. It really looked like someone had poured gasoline on the atmosphere and set it alight. I hope one day you get to see them for yourself! Love your videos!
Have an off-topic question for you I hope you’ll answer for me. There have been (so far) 29 comments on this current Aussie Tash video, but I’m not seeing ‘leave comment’ on it, or a number of other of her videos either. I get it if commenting is off after 100’s of comments, but 29? Are you having the same issue, re. Some of Tasha’s videos? I’d just wanted to mention to her that Canadian winter clothing has evolved to much less bulk; is light and streamlined, but exceedingly warm. And depending on where you live in Canada determines how many months it’s WINTER-cold! Where we are it’s end of Dec to early March. PLUS that blogger who said she lives in Woodbridge, Ontario and has to ‘suffer winter 9 months of the year’ is so full of it. Absolutely not so and bad branding. Thanks for your poor, defenceless ear! 🤣🇨🇦🩷
@@judes1948 I'm with you on that "9 months of the year" comment! Actually it sort of makes me angry when I see statements like that. Our winters are no longer and no colder than those in the Northern US. Some of these bloggers make it sound as if it's -40 degrees year round, when those temperatures only occur occasionally and usually only last a few days, between late November or early December to March or early April. Talk about misrepresentation!
Timmons where Shania Twain grew up!
loving all these stories :)
Yes, exactly, although it's "Timmins" , not "Timmons". I was vaguely acquainted with Shania back then, but her real name was Eileen. She's had a rough ride, so it's cool to see her having such success. @@wjdietrich
That Ice Hotel is in Quebec City, in the Province of Quebec.
Wow. A couple of things.
First Ice Fishing. The days of sitting on the ice and freezing your butt off to fish are long gone.
Now when you go ice fishing. You drive out to your hut. Throw some wood on the fire and take your winter coat off.
I was really freaked out by this as a kid. Thought of it as an extreme sport to be honest. Until you realize they heat rises.
Which as a child means your sitting in the warm. However, you have to chip away ice every once in awhile cause still freezing.
Snow Tubing was fun when I was a kid. Of course we didn’t go to the store to get our tubes.
We went to the junk yard and got them from tires.
Now they stopped putting tubes in tires. Around the same time they started making tubes for snow.
BTW. They are also a blast when pulled behind a boat on the water.
When she was climbing walls freaked me out. I thought everyone knew to get better fitting gloves than that.
If she is extending her hand in front of her. Coat should not come away from glove that much exposing bare skin.
I hope you will keep that in mind when coming to Canada.
As for Barbecue. Great video. However you don’t run a barbecue that close to any wall.
Well you shouldn’t. People do. Have seen burnt brick. Melted siding, warped siding. And all kinds of other damage.
P.S. The beauty of winter sports. Is you skin your knee/elbows less often.
cheers for all the info, glad you enjoyed the video :)
Yes, that Woodbridge woman needs lessons on SAFETY WITH GAS BARBEQUES. Also correct her math. If an e a r l y winter sets in:-- November.......dec.jan.feb.mar.and if a l a t e r spring ..which would happen end of apr...... HELLO S I X MONTHS😮😮 [Woodbridge is LESS THAN TWO HRS AWAY FROM TORONTO or just 63 miles north of Kitchener].
We don't have COLD weather for 9 months a year! We have 4 seasons. Some seem shorter sometimes.
Being from Nova Scotia, ,Lobster is the sea. I have eaten hundreds. North Atlantic, no other meat on earth compares. Salty yet sweet. My father fished them, his father so on, I worked in the industry. North Atlantic lobster, is a treasure.
I am from Australia, we eat Kangaroos lol
when we were kids we would get large inner tubes from transport trucks,when pumped up they would be 6ft round,we would pile a bunch of us the tube and slide down the hill and in the summer you can use the same tube to go floating in the lake/river
That toboggan slide in Quebec City goes back to the 1800s.
Morning Tash I’ve done most of them. Winter can be fun if dressed appropriately.. I haven’t tried the lobster beer doesn’t sound appealing, but I bet the Easterners love it. Fun to watch your reactions, liking your T shirt! Have a super day🫶
you to :)
Good Morning Tash: I grew up skating and toboganning in rural Manitoba. I have skiied once, but that was it. On another note, I have heard of a new sport that I believe was "invented" in Edmonton. It is Winter Tennis. Basically, it is tennis on ice and the players where skates. An outdoor tennis court is cleared of snow, flooded with water to freeze (scraped a la hockey rink), and people where skates to play tennis outdoors.
64 year-old here in Hamilton, Ontario. Never heard of horse-sledding until just now. But to reassure you, Tash, did you notice how thick the coats on those horses/ponies were? Plus being that active keeps them well warm!
I use to live on Cannon St. E by Ottawa St.
I'm a lifelong Canadian, but have live/worked all over the world. Live about 100 kilometres North-West of Ottawa Ontario. Canadian winters are only half of life here, summers are quite warm normally with 25C-30C+ days. Combine that with approximately 50% of the world's fresh water, and you have in my opinion paradise! Back to winter try snowshoeing, icefishing, skating (Ottawa has world's longest skate way, 17Km.), hockey, skiing (cross country/downhill), snowmobiling (1000's of kilometres of groomed trails), snowmobile dragracing, snowmobile speed runs (local police use their radar), toboganning (in my younger years used a crazy carpet (hard plastic sheet)), that's just a few things. Probably the best are all the local winter festivals in almost every city, town, village, and hamlet with some unique challenges like building a bonfire in snow with no matches, many more. Don't forget our New Years polar bear swims in a hole in the ice usually for charity, or stupidity! There's more it just escapes!
your summers look really cool as well :)
I really enjoyed your videos and comments plus learning more about the world around me
Glad you enjoyed it!
LOL!!!! Yes!!! Been there!!! How to Play in the snow and ice--- great video choice :) :) :) Nice new shirt and pendant :) :) Those spike-shoes are Crampons for Ice Climbing; lol Lobster Beer and Gelato ... a new thing from Clamato foodies :)
Canada has 5 distinct geographic regions with completely different weather, depending on where you are in the country things can be very different on the same day. Much of Canada has a 'continental climate’ that only exists in the Northern Hemisphere. Having four seasons is what makes Nordic countries like Canada unique, it can be -30 in winter and + 30 in summer. In the dead of winter (December) Ottawa gets less than 9 hours of daylight, in June we have 15 hours. You need to experience winter to truly appreciate spring. Many of these scenes were from the Ottawa winter carnival (Winterlude) and the winter carnival in Québec City. BTW there are many types of snow, the Inuit have dozens of words describing the types of snow. Snow can be light and fluffy or wet and heavy (good for snow ball fights). With modern clothing, winter tires, snow removal equipment and Global Warming winter is much easier now than when I was a kid in the 1950s.
Spring in Canada, looks beautiful :)
@@aussietashreacts May and June are the best months in Ottawa, life starts again, days getting longer, the birds have returned, flowers blooming, low humidity, hot days, warm nights peeeerfect! after the long winter spring is amazing.... the Tulip Festival marks the beginning of the summer festivals here in Ottawa.
Those animals walking were Caribou.
Love cross country skiing, especially in the more remote parks. Just the sound of the crisp snow under your feet. Otherwise the silence is deafening. Not as many birds around in winter. Nature is so quiet and still in the winter. It's not expensive because you can cross country ski with very little equipment and don't have to go to a resort. Any farmer's field or woods will do or even in the town where the roads and sidewalks are yet to be cleaned. The outdoor activity warms you up and you actually often shed a few layers of clothes. Great, invigorating exercise that anyone can do.
Yes I made the switch from downhill skiing to cross- country skiing....Why examples. Always froze my thumbs, touche, toes also while waiting in long lineups to take the tows or chairlifts to the various ski hills. ✅ cross-country: Mother Nature: Time to hear whispering pine trees, birds; see tracks in the snow made by deer, rabbit's, squirrels, birds, etc. All parts of your body are kept warm with natural movement in sliding walks and coordinated movement of your ski poles. Quiet trails in forests protect from the biting cold wind.
Natural environment less costlier apparels.
Downhill skiers have an expensive hobby with ever increasing costs of tow lifts to top of the high hills/mountains be it rope tow, t-tow, chairlifts, gondolas😂including elite equipment and apparels😢😢
I grew up in the country about a 45 minute drive from Toronto, across the road from me was this 100 acre farm which was used for raising cattle, but in the winter time they were all gone and they had this hill I used to toboggan on all the time. The one thing that sucked about that was I had a wooden sled and after a few times of dragging it back up the hill your arms would get tired and you always had to make sure the toboggan was waxed. There was a bigger hill across from it but it had this big huge tree right in the middle of it, so I never attempted to toboggan down that hill. In between the two hills was a little river that divided the two.
You would be surprised how little clothing is needed when you're being active. Most of the time when im outside as working and its -40c with the windchill. My "jacket" is in reality a heavy wool sweater, with a lighter closer knit sweater under it, no gloves or toque.
Hope everyone is taking care
You just sort of get used to the cold to be bonest.
When ice canoeing, you are not breaking through the ice. They push the canoe over the ice patches and then paddle when they can get back in the water.
Canada cold ? 27° C - 82° F @ 10:00 AM in Southern Alberta right now ! 👍✌🖖🍁🌻
27, that's hot mate
The ice hotel is all ice. The toilet seats can be a little chilly.
When we were kids we were always out 365 days of the year. Sunshine, rain and snow.
they forgot to show Hard Water Racing. aka - Ice Racing. we race cars and bikes and sleds on frozen lakes. also race sleds up mountains too
I live in Montreal and it's usually cold starting around the beginning of October till March. Not every day is -40*. If you dress properly you can have lots of fun in the winter. You have to experience the Canadian winter. Some hockey players who are American stay in Montreal year round after the hockey season is over.
I think the ice hotel provides caribou rugs for bedding. You won't freeze and if you enjoy sleeping cool, you'd probably enjoy it
My two younger brothers, a sister, and myself would go tubing every once in awhile. It was a two hour drive, but we would spend a couple hours or so tubing. There was a tow rope for those who didn't want to walk up the hill, and there were two hills; a steep one and another a bit more gradual. Lots of fun. Growing up we mostly seemed to live near a hill, and tobogganing was our main sport in winter.
tubing looks cool :)
"Chasing waterfalls"? Never heard that before. Just a hike to a waterfall.
I grew up in Northern Ontario, we had a rink right down the hill from my house, every kid in town was on that rink, we would skate until the lights went out, then skate in the dark, even when my toes were frozen I didn’t want to get off the ice, I played on the broom ball team also ringette, my brother was on the hockey team. We embraced winter, still some of my best memories ❤
We play as kids riding our bikes and as soon as street lights turned on, time to ridev😀😃
i know what you mean. i grew up just north of winnipeg, and had a dugout on our property plus an outdoor rink 500m from my house and lake manitoba just 1km from my front door. lights out at the rink meant go back to my place and continue on our dugout. summertime we came home when the sun set, so that meant around 10:30-11:00pm. we had our cottage no more than 5km from our place so summer or winter, you could find us at our cottage for weekends. thats when we would snowshoe or cross country ski or go ice fishing. we kept a fishing shack on the lake for most of the winter. and snowmobiling just goes without saying.
@@amateurastronomer9463 yes, Manitiba is very much like Northern Ontario with all the lakes, I live in Toronto now, go home every summer to visit, my brother was in Flin Flon recently on a fishing trip, said he couldn't believe how much it reminded him of home, winters are much different here in Toronto than my hometown just west of Sudbury, I go back in summer mostly.
I live in the middle of the country and have never heard of lobster beer. It doesn't surprise me the Maritimers would find a way to combine the two, though.
Ice fishing, skying (wasn't good at it), snowshoeing, skating (not good at it but fun), cross country sky, toboganning with real wood toboggan or on a crazy carpet, horse sleighting, dog sleighting, I did al that... plus went to the Ice Hotel, haven't slept there but would have loved to. Impressive work there... assist to the ice canoe race. It's a tradition in Québec in particular can't speak for the other places that does it... for a long while, it was the only way for the people living on Ile d'Orléans to keep contact with people in Québec City, you have to cross the river and during winter time, the river don't freeze enough to ensure a safe passage on foot so they took their canoe, would push it when on ice, and navigate it when in water... it was rather dangerous to do on a daily basis. Nowadays, there's a lot of security all around to assist in case of "accident". Winter can be fun!
we will try them all :)
@@aussietashreacts can't wait to see you here. ❤️
We had an airliner inner tube of a jet engine tire. About 8 to 10 people could get on while on top of tire and head down a very steep hill that would cause us to cross the road and up the other side of the hill. We used to have road watchers to keep it as safe as possible for us, but tobogganing on highways is not considered safe but it was some of the best tobogganing we could do.
sounds awesome mate
In Yukon with snow 8 months of the year, winter sports are pretty big. Dog sledding, and ski jouring are big up here. In March we have "Thaw-di-Gras," when we are sick of winter, and go out, and have fun. It might be -25, or -3C, but we have fun anyway. One event is the snowmobile drop, where numbered stakes are put in the ice on the river, and an old snowmobile is dropped by helicopter. We bet by trying to guess the number of the stake closest to where the sled lands. We also bet on when the river will, break up, which usually happens in May. Curling is probably the most popular participation sport in Canada, with over 2 million curlers. The video is right that almost every family has a toboggan. People here use them to get groceries back to the house from the store, as well as sliding down hills. At the school in town, kids are sent out to play at recess, and lunch down to -35C, and many kids will play on swings, slides, etc., in the cold, and dark before school. It does not begin to get light until after 10:30, and it might be -40C when the kids get to school. They play anyway!
As Kids We would Sled and build Snow Forts..for Hours! Can't do that any more though...I love My Temperate Rain Forest..West Coast
Sand Blasting - - summer time skiing down sand hills in Prince George BC.
Wow, I would think it would stop you right away like earth appearing suddenly out of the snow. What equipment do you use to slide down it in the Prince George BC [found in the centre of the whole mighty Province of British Columbia] (My husband after his motorcycle trip there mentioned it was very much like Haliburton Highlands in Ontario....area that has outcroppings of rock and mixed coniferous and deciduous forests!❤
I used to enjoy winter, now I just hibernate, lol
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Good morning, Tash some of us here in Canada doesn't get the snow like we used to and deep freeze temperatures so we can run out to our barbies to cook in a hoodie, but yes we barbecue all year long. I remember as a kid skating on a pond plus a creek playing hockey ,it's hard to do it now depends on the temperatures to freeze the water plus need aleast 2 feet ice thickness. I haven't done any snowboarding or downhill skiing but done a little snowshoeing and cross country skiing. I'm only 15 mins away from a tube slide business for the winter.
If anyone get a chance hit Niagara Falls in the winter the mist turns to ice grates a ice wall up the sides of the gorge and with the coloured light at night looks awesome.
I think the toboggan ride they showed was in Quebec if I'm correct, plus Ottawa has a long ice trail you can skat on depending if it too freezes over .
great memories :)
I don’t know how that lady is getting 9 months of cold weather in Woodbridge Ontario, I grew up 300 miles north of there and we had more than 3 months of nice weather
Toboggan scene was taken in Québec city next to the Château Frontenac hôtel. The speed is 70Km/h which is 44M/h.
Should one wear face covering to prevent frostbite going down that toboggan run in front of Chateau Frontenac at Quebec City at wow 70km/hr😢😢😮?
@@sueshow401 There is no need to do so.
2:30 PM in Southern Alberta . 35°C-95°F in the SHADE ! Talk to you later , have to go to the Mountains to get some SNOW as to fix my roof !! 😉😏😎 👍✌🖖🍁🌻
Stay safe mate :)
Morning Tash, great video today. As for BBQing in the winter, in 1977 I was in Alert Nunuvit (NWT back then) we had a BBQ for sunup(first time seeing the sun in 4 months. The sun was only up for about 1/2 hour, and while cooking the steaks on the BBQ, one side would cook and the other side would freeze, yes this is true.
We used to bbq all winter too. I still do, though the temps are rather milder than where I was raised. Dad used to make backyard rinks every winter. One winter we were able to convince the next door neighbours on both sides to allow us to have a rink across the three yards. It was amazing. We could play a proper hockey game. Kept us all tired out enough fir early bed times. Our parents were smart.
Tash:
The person near the end of the video who was talking about doing BBQ in the winter I delusional! She lives in Woodbridge on the outskirts of Toronto, not Nunavut. Even Northernmost Ontario doesn’t get 9 months of winter. Is she imagining she lives at Canadian Forces Base Alert at the north end of Ellesmere Island?
Thanks for sharing!!
Judging by your responses it seems that unlike a lot of RUclipsrs, you read most of the comments on your videos! Thank you for your interest and engagement.
My cousins Inuit husband taught us to put eggshells across the water (ice hole 😂) the fish will shadow under the shells
I live in Québec and my favorite season is winter
Almost thinking of quitting Grade 13 when my parents took me out on Christmas Break to ski at an Indiginous owned ski hills throughout the week.
The hotel we stayed at had a sauna [wooden encased room with two levels of benches surrounding a pile of rocks.] A pail filled with water had a ladle so we could ladle up water and spread evenly over the rocks which would produce steam...if put on too much you could feel discomfort in the nose. A few tourists I got to know who challenged each other after the sauna to run out into the snow and roll in it before jumping into the heated indoor pool. Several of us including me tried this. Wow what a great tingly experience.😮😮😊😊😊 I guess those from Sweden attempt this regularly, eh! Well, both of these activities and having some quality time with my parents caused me to have a positive shift in thought towards completing my school year. Yes, I submitted this in the school yearbook: "Replace your complaints with a gratitude attitude and then you will find school won't be as bad ! 😅
I am Canadian and I learned a very good lesson from my friends the bears. Just hibernate for 5 months and I hate having to unthaw my socks in the morning when winter camping. Does not smell like bacon.
Love it 😀
in my hometown we have where you can skate inside a bush on a frozen trail
Sigh! Those of us who live in Vancouver usually have to drive somewhere like Whistler or Cypress or Grouse Mountain to have any kind of major winter fun. Hardly ever snows here and when it does, it’s heavy, wet and messy. Last year it started snowing on December 17 and we actually had a white Christmas but on Christmas night the rain started and by the 26th, all gone…
Hey Tash! If you’re brave enough to come to Winnipeg in the winter, I’ll take you to the Forks for ice skating! I don’t know if I could do that myself anymore as I’m easily old enough to be your mother! But I might give it a try.
sounds like a plan :)
Thanks!
WoW, cheers for the Super Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video 😀😃
New subscriber here from Canada and also part Australian.
Thanks for subbing, what part of Australia where you from?
@@aussietashreacts I am born and raised in Canada but my dad is from Sydney Australia.
i grew up in a little community in newfoundland Canada called codroy valley. we used to use car bonnets to slide on
The first 7min was at Québec city, province of Québec. My city. Bonjour à toi...(Australie)
@Aussie Tash Reacts Those lobsters didn't look mean to me... they looked delicious!😉Nothing better than Atlantic Lobster when it comes to lobsters. Mmmmm!
"mean" is Aussie slang for "big", we are strange lol
@@aussietashreacts No stranger than Canucks. Let's just say we're alike, but different....LOL. Love your channel(s).
Lobsters are naturally gray colour. After pressure boiling or steamed, the come out looking pinkish red. How long should they be submerged in the boiling pot of water?
The extreme tobogganing is done in Quebec City, I believe, along the Rideau Canal.
You are probably right about the tobogganing being near Quebec City, but the Rideau Canal is in Ottawa.
But does it reach Quebec in any way? You are making me look bad in front of that Ausie Lady if she reads this!@@SnowmanN49
i just remembered a televisionn shiow- the hillarious house of frightenstein and as a result - athe actor villy van. vincent prince did appearances. loved the show. billy van did i guess about 98% of the characters.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hilarious_House_of_Frightenstein
can't believe i have started watching it again
Toboganing was one the best things we did in the winter living in east Toronto as kid we had the Don Valley and it has some big hills to zip down we also use a plastic sheet called a crazy carpet and those would hurt you butt going over bumps but you got some good speed on on those. The best tobgans were made out of aluminium they went mach 1 on the snow but if you got them on ice they really went fast we would be out all day doing this. Then came snowmobiles as we got older we would go trail riding and I still do that today in cottage country in Ontario. Of course hockey was a big part of winter as well from playing in the MTHL from the age of 9 till my mid teens then trying out for Jr. A but getting to play Jr. B
just like kids in cali made skateboards to street surf, Burton made snowboards to get skate feels in winter. Canada is just chilly Australia really.
I've worked in the forest in the winter. Used snowshoes and snowmobiles. Caught in a snowstorm and etc. Can be interesting or even fun, or deadly if you make a mistake r your vehiclebreaks down or fuel line freezes. I grew up in this stuff, but for me it was serious stuff. Bad mistakes can be risky.
Hi Aussie, lobster is absolutely delicious, sure white sweet meat. I think you would love it. ❤️🇨🇦🌹
Sounds great!
I've never had lobster either, Tash. My older brother claimed it tasted like dirty gym socks.
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I was in Nova Scotia in the 80's... went to a pier party all you can eat . You could buy lobster anywhere even d gas stations were selling it at 99 cents a pound
Two pound lobster is the very best..
Boats on the ice is a challenge meant to emulate the brave lifesavers who went out on the ice to get to the drowning people. They have to switch between actual paddling in the water and pushing the lifeboat across the ice - in and out of the boat multiple times. There is a wonderful phenomenon in the middle of winter where the sky is sepia coloured and sound travels so far. You are hereby commanded to take a second trip to Canada in the winter to experience all these wacky sports.
Just to add in terms of clothing and how to dress for a Canadian winter...
Most foreigners or tourists usually get it backwards. Don't just wear a t-shirt and the BIGGEST winter coat you can find. That's the worse thing you could do. Seriously!
Instead, use a layered approach of 3-4 layers of light materials that insulate, are waterproof, are wind resistant and offer flexibility.
This way you can add or take off layers as you get hot or cold. Flexibility is the key. Trapping air between layers is the best insulator, not big coats. And you would be surprised as to how hot or sweaty you actually get when moving around in -20C temperatures.
Bonus tip for non-Canadians... Understand that it's NOT the cold that kills you. It's the heat escaping from your body. Think of your body as an oven that's trying to heat the outside world. So, heat escapes from your chest, neck and head primarily. Dress accordingly.
Extra bonus tip... Always protect your extremities! That's hands & feet. Cannot be overstated. Very little heat gets to those areas. Again, use the layered approach if you can and use materials that actually insulate.
All this to say... A person who looks like they don't seem to be wearing enough clothes is probably Canadian, lol. 😆
Tobogganing, sledding, sliding is kind of a thing pretty much ALL Canadians do at least once in their life. Especially if you're a kid. All you need is snow and a hill.
And I'm old enough to remember when "crazy carpets" first came out. Now that was insane! Those were the good old days, you know, when parents just sent you outside and didn't really care if you killed yourself, lol. 😁 😁 😁
We use to do both cross country skiing and downhill skiing with our school when I was kid our class trips would take us to Blue Mountain in Collingwood Ontario for downhill and for X-country we just stayed in the city and used one of the big parks in Toronto now mind you this was like 40+ years ago yes I am old 🙄🙄😆😆😆
Extra, extra bonus tip when it comes to winter clothing... Use buttons or zippers on as many of your layers as you can. Don't wear a turtleneck, for example.
This way you can easily regulate the heat escaping from your chest. And even your neck.
Too hot? Starting to sweat? Open the zipper. Too cold? Starting to freeze? Close the zipper.
Sounds like common sense and pretty obvious. But it's NOT always the case, that's for sure. Unless you're Canadian, of course... 😁 😁 😁
Tash, you should look for a video about Ice Boat sailing/racing. Because of the low resistance of the steel blades on ice they are very fast, 5 to 6 times the speed of the wind.
ive got to do the niagara falls helicopter tour the only time i was in a helicopter i was being airlifted to a hospital
Would have been cheaper. Last time I took it, it was @$150.
Tiffany falls is where I live! Hamilton, Ontario is the waterfall capital of the world.
I'll have to try the Lobster Beer, I'll find some, and I'll report back Aussie Tash. I'm gonna stay away from that Lobster Ice Cream though
I was thinking of you, when I seen that part of the video :)
Extrene tobboganning = poor man's bobsled / luge lol