No Experience Required - A Kayak Journey through the Inside Passage
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- 5 Friends. 5 Weeks. 500 Miles.
A kayak journey from Vancouver Island to Alaska through the Inside Passage that took place from June-July 2010.
Proof that anyone with dedication, regardless of initial skill level, can enjoy the world's wild spaces.
Original score, developed specifically for the film; created and preformed by Gary Pereira.
Want to paddle the Inside Passage? Dam Good Logistics arranges self-guided trips so you can get out there and have your own adventures. Visit damgoodtrips.com.
I just took up kayaking and this is so inspirational. I live in Cowichan Bay on a sailboat, and the kayak is a great way to see all the little spots the big boat can't get to.
I've been doing paddling trips all my adult life. Always with groups of friends, not guided. I'm 69. You guys get what its all about. It was wonderful to see you all go through it. There are those days when you are getting into the groove. The days when you have it down. And then the re-entry. You had a wonderful trip. Takes me at least a week or two to get re-adjusted to life in civilization after re-entry. There is a period of depression. I've been worried recently that maybe I've been on my last trip. But, watching you all makes me know I will be at it again before long. Just got to get this US Canadian border opened up again. I do agree with comment below about taking risks. Sometimes we don't even realize the risks we take. But, you did great and you managed to avoid disaster. You had the trip of a lifetime. For others watching this - consider building up to a trip like this by doing smaller stuff and developing skills first. The dangers of sea kayaking on open water, or canoe tripping in wild places, are quite real. I little more prep could help you avoid real disaster.
Beautiful.. I'm a retired military veteran, because of issues beyond my control finding gainful employment is difficult. But, now I intend on taking control back. My intention and plan is to guide kayak/canoe expositions on rivers and waterways in my area. There will be a focus on wounded vets to help heal and find their center again. This video didn't plant the seed for adventure but it is a source of inspiration... Good job
im still in the service. where are you at out of curiosity?
+David C near Winston Salem NC..
+David C I'm in the early stages of planning a trip from the head waters of the Yadkin river to where it leads out into the internists water ways of NC to raise donations for Fisher House and other local Vet charities...
Bravo to you sir. Army Combat Vet here as well. Iraq 2006-2007. 4th ID
This is what life is about, not status, not things, not money,................this. Good friends, good times, great memories for a life time.
Dunno if anyone gives a shit but if you are bored like me atm then you can stream pretty much all the new movies on InstaFlixxer. I've been watching with my gf recently :)
@Alec Ethan Definitely, I've been using instaflixxer for years myself =)
@Alec Ethan definitely, I have been watching on InstaFlixxer for since december myself :)
I love when people share these videos. Kayaking while sea sick is just so miserable, you can't explain it to people who haven't experienced it... Good on you for pushing through. Most people would just give up after that. One item at the top of my bucket list is to paddle the inside passage.Thanks for sharing.
I'm so in love with this, thank you for sharing your trip, the struggles and the joy.
Are you Canadians kidding me? No experience required for almost 2 months of kayaking expedition? I’m truly impressed by your adventurous spirit to do such heavy lifting trip, you guys did great, amazing! I’m an adventurous person having many outdoors canoeing journeys in BWCA, Minnesota, and many other hiking camping trips in Alaska and Washington state, but have never done a trip to wilderness longer than 7 days. Anyway, hats off to you all. Thank you for sharing your happy journey filled with laughters. My next adventure with girlfriend and a coworker is a kayaking trip to Glacier Bay, Alaska, in a month or so. It’s exciting, but very anxious too on the planning and the outside factors that are out of our control. Anyway, kudos to you all for an incredible journey! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Found this video just after being laid off. Thank you for showing me that paddling will be a great way to spend some "time off".
I was impressed by how expensive all their gear was. The drysuits alone cost a small fortune.
Most excellent documentary worthy of public TV. Thanks for sharing this adventure with us.
as a long time sea kayak guide and now an office guy, I loved seeing your film. thanks!
Great movie, it could even be longer, I wanted to keep watching it!
Im off to buy my first Kayak. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi Joshua,
Thanks so much for taking the time to watch it. I would definitely encourage you to get up there. It is a life changing part of the world.
You should get all your friends together and make another movie vid of you guys in another adventure, seriously! I really enjoyed watching this, You need a part 2.
Hi, i`m a keen kayaker from N.Ireland i just do day trips locally i was just
going to watch about 10 mins of your film before i went to bed but when
i started watching your well planned and beautifully shot video i was hooked
and compelled to watch it all!
Well done guys,more please!
What a fantastic plan you had with the five of you! Nice little documentary.
you guys have been some super inspiration for me. I've kayaked the Yukon river from whitehorse to dawson city twice. i currently live in whitehorse yukon and i will be paddling from skagway to sechelt bc summer 2016. thanks for the amazing video!!
Thank you so much! Well done! AMAZING!! I just a finished a 6 week adventure, kayaking, biking, hiking, and sleeping in my car from Colorado, through 5 provinces, Acadia, Vermont, New York. Definitely not wanting it to be over! Inspired to plan the next trip!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
This is one of my go to inspiration films when I need a jolt of enthusiasm.
~Barry
What a brilliant feel good video good views, good experiences, and good friends perfect recipe for a great adventure.
Totally amazing! Great bunch of friends and an exiting adventure this is a recipe for good time... Or time of our life!
Slowly Falling in love with sea kayaking.
I am watching your video for the third time. I have been planning this same trip for five years, and have finally booked the time off from work to do this solo starting June 2017. You have made a fantastic video encompassing all the aspects of this life changing adventure. Thank you!
Great trip, you really inspire me to hit the water. It was really neat watching how much all your skill level and confidence grew throughout the trip. Truly a life changing trip.
Thanks for taking the time to check it out and to share in our journey. It was a life changing trip, in an incredible corner of our planet. I hope you do hit the water and explore the big backyard closest to you.
Wonderful video and so inspiring. I'm just getting into kayaking and this has given me even more inspiration. Well done and thanks for sharing, it put a smile on my face and gave me goosebumps, it's what it's all about!
This just came up in my RUclips feed for the first time. My brother and I paddled the inside passage in 1974, and dreamed of making a similar movie to this. We were limited by technology and money back then but this movie did a great job of bringing back many memories. Excellent job of capturing a lot of the emotions, transitions, and team dynamics of the journey. Last year (2017) my brother and I along with my two sons returned to complete the Ketchikan to Juneau segment. This time my son, Nathan, ( a professional film maker with Days Edge Productions) was able to capture some of the trip in a 25 minute film called "The Passage".
What I love about the movie he made is how the work, toil. exposure, and prolonged paddling . i.e. just an adventure canoe trip, can transcend into themes that's universal in all our lives.
Your film is an enjoyable and unvarnished look at the passage. Our version of "the Passage" is a little bit about what happens 43 years after such trips and how these trips shape who we become.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and for your lovely comments. I'll check out "The Passage" thanks for the link. And how wonderful to be able to return and have that experience with your sons. Every spring I do a 7-10 day trip with friends and keep exploring all the incredible corners of our coast. I feel so privileged to live in a place where this is our Big Backyard.
Your journey made me very happy and inspired 🙂
Thank you Wonderful people for sharing a little piece of your magical life.
Great video and very inspirational! I'm a sea kayaker but never done a trip like this but I'd like to one day. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Amazing! Great video, very well narrated! Thank you for sharing this, you have inspired me! I had a good time watching it and don't understand how you don't have more views!??
Well done. You captured the reality and essence of an expedition brilliantly.
What an adventure! Thanks so much for sharing this. I'm gonna share it too!
Well done Christina! Thanks for taking us along with you on your wilderness paddling adventure. Well filmed, narrated and edited. Loved your banter and humour, even when challenges arose. Watching from Australia in December 2021. Who else is watching now?
While world governments go gestapo, trying to inject everyone on the planet numerous times with experimental fast-tracked liability free drugs that don't work, all the more reason to get out there. Leave the madness behind. Push off on outdoor adventures. Good on you Christina and crew!
Great adventure. And nice job Christina putting it together!
It isn’t about the destination but about the journey. Thanks
Like your trip, I wish the film was longer.
Thanks for sharing your experiences, good and bad!
William
Beautiful trip and great video--I had never heard of anyone doing this and I feel inspired to make the trip myself. Someday I will do with my sons.
very inspirational. anything is possible with motivation and planning. I look forward to the spring for mine and my husbands first time kayaking. we have joined a club so we can get some skills ahead of spring.
I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for making it.
Very inspirational!!! Thanks. Soon I'll take a journey too.
Awesome. Guys! Loved it thanks for sharing your experince
Absolutely great video!! I just watched this after beginning to kayak some weeks ago and now... I want to go to Canada. ;-)
great film! I smiled at so many moments and i can only imagine how much you guys would laugh and smile along watching these clips! so wonderful and inspiring!
I like that it was filmed on location.
More than a trip, journey id say,some plain luck and dangers along the way. comments were great, get along, great groupe, love the songs love the view
skuze mon français Patrice.
Inspirational, WOW! Thanks for making this video, I enjoyed every minute of it.
Bloody brilliant, I enjoyed every minute. Good luck to you all.
Hello Band of 5. Loved your video and liked the Adventure in it. Like all adventures it always has a learning curve. Glad everyone stayed safe. The waves look crazy from you camera view and keeping you all in view. Thanks for making the video. I have been looking at kayaks and can't make up my mind weather a sea kayak or a cross over. Well Around Seattle out.
AWESOME!!! Love trips like this. Great job on the vid.
Awesome video! What a great trip.
brilliant video. Well done to you all you look look like you had an amazing time and created memories to last a lifetime.
Nice job! Very enjoyable!! Looking forward to your next one.
All the best from a Polish lad enjoing this video. I hope Christina you know that you have a gread Polish genes. All the best.
great video, live life or let life pass you by. life is fragile, live every day.
Congrats as new kayaker in BC myself it was inspiring
This is a fantastic short film!
Thank you for this awesome video. I wish I could go with you. Very inspirational. Thanks.
Fantastic adventure! 'Just do it' attitude all the way! Thanks for sharing, makes me wanna plan my next adventure, paddling somewhere in Sweden, we'll see
Simply awesome video. Must have been amazing. I live in nyc, heading to orcas WA thursday to take a 3 day lesson. Then coming back home and practicing in and around the hudson. Watching you all helped me to realize I can plan some great trips this summer. The best parts for me are the fact that you got off the treadmill of life and your relationship with each other. Thank you cheers
Sounds like body boat blade.
Great movie, assume adventure, I have enjoyed watching!
Wow, thoroughly enjoyed this video.
really enjoyed your video, your adventure and your people , thankyou... and well done
Well done people. Well done.
I absolutely loved your film.
Congratulations on a beautiful adventure . Congratulations on doing something few do and many dream of doing. 👍
Amazing video! 100% jealous!!!
Great Experience!! So funny..
Thank for shearing!!
Love your idea from conception to the final day paddling. Maybe a stronger single malt would have calmed the wind. ‘Balvenie’ is a nice dram but I feel an ‘Ardbeg Corryvreckan’ would have had an affect on the weather gods 😬
Thanks for posting 👍
What a great adventure! I'm considering a similar trip and this definitely is swaying me towards going. Thanks!
l Love the whole video. Very inspirational!!! You guys are so funny. I love your humor and I envy your amazing trip. Thank YOU for sharing this with everyone! :-)
Hi Barry. Thank you so much for checking it out!
very cool this made my weekend!
Beautifully done.
Brilliant! Thank you.
fantastic documentation of a fantastic adventure :) very inspiring :)
Great video. Thanks for sharing
Great movie! Thanks for sharing!!!!
Awesome trip and great filming
Wonderfully told!
Recently took to kayaking and been wondering if I can really do it with my modest stamina level-your video is inspiring. Well done.
good for you guys,cheers!!!
Awesome video! What a great trip.
Simply Awesome!
Loved this.
Enjoyed your video!
Inspiring video, thank you!
nice video, no, great video, we are kayaking the whole coast of florida presently,been on the water 5 weeks
Nice movie. Really enjoyed it! :-)
Great efforts awesome video, hats off!
Amazing trip!
your commentary is great. strait faced big bang theory mixed with steve irwin . very funny
great trip.
I am planing on doing a river trip with a canoe next year from the big horn dam to edmonton alberta
Wow, you guys really seem to have done a good job on this journey. Was surprised about the whole group dynamic thing that is mentioned. No leader? Really? just everyone getting along super well without anyone just being a little bossy from time to time? Not often to see that, must have been amazing :) Thanks for the video.
outstanding film
I loved watching the movie of your adventures, I live in Poole, Dorset, in the UK where we have some wonderful sea kayaking. I am keen to fit a sail to my own boat and wondered if you could give me some details of the system you guys all used on your trip?
Inspirational.
so ballsy to not start with smaller trips first but awesome that you just did it
This is Fucking Amazing!! you're an inspiration!
I love this, you should have more views!
change the title and you would have much more traffic!
Years ago I gave a talk on sea kayaking to a very upscale group of sea kayakers in NYC. I began my talk by asking for a show of hands as to how many in the audience had a college degree. Nearly every hand went up. I then asked how many had a masters or were working on one. Lot of hands went up. Finally I asked how many had doctorates or were working one one. Surprisingly, a fair number of hands went up. I then added, I am here today to introduce you to the University of The Sea where all tests are pass or fail, no makeups allowed. Please be aware that the first test you fail may be the last one you get to take! My point was that while our educational system encourages us to be willing to take risks and make mistakes the sea, the mountains, the rivers, the out of doors in general, are not very forgiving. You screw up, you pay for it! So rule #1 for sea kayakers is Don't tip over! Rule #2 is Stay within your competency level! and rule #3 is Don't count on getting help if you do screw up!
All that said this group of young people took a big risk in tackling a trip like this without any real sea kayaking experience. Happily they were very fortunate and thus survived their "learning experience" at the University of The Sea. A religious person might conclude that "someone" was watching over them. A poker player might just say they had "good luck." But make no mistake about it this trip could easily have ended with a much less happy ending.
I'm glad that didn't happen and I am pleased that these youngsters survived the trip and seemed to learn a lot in the process. But with more than 65 years on the sea in various watercraft and thousands of miles of sea kayaking if they'd asked for my advice before setting off I'd probably have advised against it because while some people survive their ignorance others do not...
Intention are good, the route seems awesome and you seem to have tried to get ready... what's missing is maybe at the very least one person with real experience as it seems you were just very lucky in many many misadventures. Things can go bad very quickly in and around sea. I've known people with great experience get in serious trouble in that area. And there's many thing I've wouldn't had done even with the experience I have (e.i. using sails mostly for the level of experience of the crew). All in all my 2 cents is although you guys had a happy ending I would recommend anyone watching and wanting to do this kind of journey to find someone of experience. Though I prefer now to go with other of similar or greater experience, other experienced Kayakers will always be there to bring people that are starting off. There's also guides and courses. I would never recommend a bunch of beginners to go together. Anyone had wilderness first aid? knew how to read charts? understood tides?
Relying on luck is not they way to go when you are in the wilderness.
You are right but they knew that they were taking risks and chose to accept it. They did not have an option to take a more experienced paddler with them, or if they did, it would have been someone they didn't know and would have sucked some of the fun out of their trip. They acknowledge their own lack of experience. How does one gain experience? By doing!
Great video