First Time Soloing Whitewater | Petawawa River: Traverse to McManus
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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The classic whitewater run from Traverse to McManus along the Petawawa River in Algonquin Park has been on my bucket list since I got into whitewater canoe trips. Adding a little twist to this trip, it was also going to be my first time running the whitewater solo in my own canoe. The nerves were high, but I had a great group of friends to do it with. This section of Algonquin Park is unlike any other area and is now one of my favourite sections of the park.
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Sweet buddy, love this river!
That was a lot of fun. What an exceptional campsite. So annoying when you realize the gopro was on timelapse hahah but it worked
The first two sets were good ones too...was so mad at myself haha. Thanks for watching man
Fished Traverse for 5 days 2 weeks ago. So much fun catching Musky on frogs in the pads !
Oh man....wish I had more time to fish while I was there. Would have much preferred a Musky on my line than a Catfish lol
Glad you shared bet you will remember that awesome trip for ever
You bet! Thanks Craig
Wonderful campsites and equally wonderful food, wow! The rapids would scare the crap out of me but everything else would make it worth the scare! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the video Alex. My wife and I did this exact same trip 30 years ago (July 1990) in our 16ft Trailhead Prospector. You brought back great memories and captured the spirit of this river. I remember that same epic campsite and the hike to the top of the cliffs at the Natch. Just the two of us and the confidence of youth. Thanks for sharing this!
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing Doug and glad it brought back some memories. Cheers!
The Petawawa has definitely eaten some canoes.
Haha yes it has!
Congrats on another great trip! Such amazing dogs
Great trip and great job! Thanks for letting us tag along! It makes me look forward to my upcoming canoe trip.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Alex, your smile was infectious as you did the bottom part of the first big rapids. Loved it...
The scenery is amazing and y'all's video quality has gotten fantastic. Both you and Noah are doing great stuff, just material from different environments now, which by is interesting. I did wonder why you haven't installed the kneepads that Noah demonstrated recently?
Thanks Tammy! Funny enough this canoe does have knee pads now but they are installed in a tandem position! I just didn't have them in at this point. And even now, when I solo my canoe I actually paddle it backwards so would need to install another set backwards off the front seat. So might just wear a loose set of knee pads when soloing. Hope that makes sense!
Regarding the portaging of Rollway; it might be time to learn how to back-ferry.
Back-ferrying is a great skill for whitewater and one we are getting more comfortable using now! That being said I'm still not sure we would have run this just because of the tree that was down.
@@NorthernScavenger Nobody ever drowned on a portage.
Xander Budnick walked Rollway as well. The same strainer still being there.
Sick trip!
Cheers!
Rapids with a Prospector 16" wowww!!🛶🍀🚣🇧🇷
Great stuff, man!
Glad you liked it!
Traverse is my second favorite lake in Ontario...after little sandbar near Ignace. Ever been? Just off sandbar lake pp
My buddy and I did this same trip solo about 20 yrs ago in 16 ft. Mad River Explorers. An absolute classic ww trip, we came from Nova Scotia to do this, we also did the Barren while in the park.
That is awesome! Yeah it is an amazing part of the park (Both Barron and Petawawa). Thanks for watching
Incredible! The scenery was gorgeous, especially from the rock cliff.
Awesome trip
Awesome video 👍
I can see why your looking forward to your next solo trip.
Thanks Paul
Great trip
I recognised the opening scene from Bill Masons water walker. Great view of the cliffs
Yes, the opening scene in Waterwalker was filmed from that campsite at The Natch.
looks like a great trip. thanks for sharing it!
Thanks for watching!
Great upload. Looks like a lot of fun (and a lot of work). All you Scavengers seem to have the right mix when putting these videos together. Love the positive energy. And you are right when you say "it doesn't get any better than this."
Awesome trip. Great video! Chapeau!
Thanks!
This is so awesome, wish I was there on this exact trip right now! Really one of the best canoe trip vids I've seen. Good call on the tree hazard, those scare the poop out of me. I got close to a strainer in Alberta's Sturgeon River this spring and I've never been more afraid of anything in my life! A strainer makes a grizzly bear look like a puppy dog.
Thanks for watching. and yes strainers are not something to be messed with. Cheers
Great filming job! The scenery was beautiful! That was a lot of long stretches of fast water, too! Nice solo run! You and Noah are always surrounded by fantastic people! Cheers my friends!
Alex- great video! Always good to push past the 'comfort zone'!
Those Prospectors are superb! Nice material, Alex!
These trips look like so much fun. One day we will venture into whitewater...
There are two classes of rapids in my books. There is Class Do and there is Class Ain't Doing Dat One.
Nice job on the solo!
Thanks!
Hey this is my backyard! Great work Alex! Nice channel cat as well 🤟
Reeeaallll nice.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video👍
Thank you Paul
Awesome!
That looked like a lot of fun, Alex. 👍🙂Is there any chance you and Noah will do something together before the snow hits? 🙂👍🛶
Unfortunately I don't know with travel restrictions if we will be able to do much together this year. We of course have plans for the future though! Thanks for watching
great vid, big fan of the fly half connected ready to go when it rains, half the time it does but still worth it
Yeah it would suck to be scrambling in the rain haha. Thanks for watching!
I think you guys need to venture down to North Carolina and run the New River or French Broad, check out the Whitewater Center (usnwc.org/) and sample some of our pulled pork !
Love the music you used for this. Awesome trip! Shame you didn’t blast the old Coleman down then rapids ;)
At 15:37 ALL gear,, that you intend to keep,, is tied in and tied down. I solo white water frequently. I ballast the bow,, gear, water jugs, weights,, rocks if that is what is handy. Bow should be lighter than the stern,, except in head winds. I use a full spray deck with spray skirts. I do not recommend cross paddling, reduced strength, limited strokes,, and when the paddle is dug in hard cross arm,, your ability to knee control the canoe is eliminated. (At least for us old guys that do not bend so easily )
The most basic tenet of white water, I find, is follow the water. The water knows exactly where the deepest clearest passage is. The second tenet is usually, cut to the inside of the corner. The snag, rock, strainer is always hidden beyond the next bend. From the inside, you can do something about it. If in the fast water on the outside,,, not so much. Third tenet is to laugh your a** off. Even if you get thrown out in a roll,, fill the boat and make it a submarine, punch a hole in the bottom and have to pull out the epoxy and glass to fix it,, ,,, Eyes wide open and enjoy. This moment,,this second, the view,, will never come again. Soak it up with greed. And make sure you are breathing air,, that cold wet stuff does not breathe well.
Thanks for watching and for the detailed reply. Some good advice in here and could not agree more with laughing your a** off no matter what the situation. This is what gets us through all of the difficulties that a trip throws our way.
@@NorthernScavenger To toot my own horn,, but mostly to give credence to my suggestions,, I paddled Desolation/Gray Canyons in Utah twice this year,, with Covid,, bagging turned in permits was not hard. I have done the complete Green River, Wyoming to southern Utah where it joins the Colorado,, and the Colorado to Lake Havasu City in southern Arizona,, Cataract Canyon, Grand Canyon, Flaming Gorge, Dinosaur, the Missouri and the Marias rivers through Montana,, not quite all of it,,, but nearly, French River, Algonquin, Kilarney,, all in a canoe,, and nearly all of it solo. I only mention this because learning to read the water,, where the water is going,, and following the water is a years and years long learning process. Get a good spray deck Northwater in Vancouver,, excellent.,, and install in your boat tie downs,, D-rings and the like on the inside bottom, so that all elements can be secured hard to the bottom. My 20' expedition canoe has more than 50 attach points in the hull. On the permit rivers you normally carry all your drinking water,, AG chemicals in the major rivers,, and in the permit sections,, you carry everything out,, everything. True leave no trace. Take pictures,, leave a few footprints, pee in the river only,,,, poop, ash from your fires, all paper, plastic, cans, table scraps,, the strained bits from the dishwater,, (you run your dish wash water through the strainer before pouring out into the river only. A few cracker crumbs feed a generation or two of ants,, that bedevil the next group that uses that campsite.
But you get it,, the laughter is right at the top of the list.
OK the Kayaker has a bit of an advantage...lol Just got my bushwacker - hopefully my Son doesn't steal it from me....!
Awesome thanks for the support!
cool
Another great video! Hey Alex, who makes that sweet paddle you’re using and where can I pick one up? Mine just was put out to pasture after a trip down the Coulonge River. Thanks!
You need more weight in the very front of your canoe (try 10 gallon water jug) for stability and tracking straight.
Yes this was definitely one takeaway from this trip. At times I had more of my bags up front and it was better but a water jug or just some rocks would have been a good idea to level the boat out a little more. Thanks for watching
Have you ever considered sitting towards the middle of the canoe as a solo conoeist?
Nice video!! What time of the year you guys went there?
Thanks
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When did you run the river and do you remember cfs level. Thanks
What month was this?
Nice work ! Get knee pads !
Done! Just got them installed right after this trip haha
@@NorthernScavenger Knew you would ! LOL