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#jimbairdadventurer #outdoors #wiltercamping The Winter Trail - 10 Days Winter Camping in the Northern Forest - E.3 -Dodging Open Water After bushwhacking our freight toboggans from an old skidder trail to the canoe portage trail we started hauling them through deep snow along the sketchy trail. The sloping hill means a runaway toboggan may end up in the rapids that lay below. More open water at the top of the rapid was concerning too so we had to haul our gear around it and I checked the ice with my axe in between two sections of open water, crossing the Chinaguchi river and bushwhacking over a point to finally reach Sylvester Lake. So far, it had taken us a long time to get here and we'd made little distance. Crossing Sylvester, we passed some beautiful cliffs that were laden with icicles before another bushwhack around open water finally put us on Wolf Lake and I let out a howl in celebration. However, we really didn't have much to celebrate about. We were trying to make it 10 to 12 km per day but we'd only made it about 13 km in total and it was the end of Day 3. Open water conditions and slush on the lakes caused by the warm temps were making it unlikely that we'd be able to safely make it to our desired end point in Gowganda before in the 12 days we'd allotted for the adventure. Please like this video, subscribe to my channel, and click the bell icon to receive a notification whenever I upload a new video. Follow me on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ ​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jbadventurer/​ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jbadventurer?​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JBadventurer​ My website: https://www.theadventurer.ca​ Check out @XanderBudnick ’s YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCDoJIpPvtEwFvfNXsZvCqKw Check out @maximbudnick ’s YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCpnsSqIHYLB5mds5URCNhFg Check out Nate’s Instagram and YT page @nate_muskoka https://www.instagram.com/natemuskoka/?hl=en Check out this documentary from an 18-day solo winter trek I did in the Arctic with my dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IqgRE_cyAQ&t=300s Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:14 Open Water & Sketchy Ice - Hauling Along a Tough Portage Trail 2:41 World's Largest Old Growth Red Pine Forest 3:23 More Opean Water, Probing Sketchy Ice & Bushwhacking 8:43 Crossing Sylvester Lake & Bushwhacking to Avoid More Open Water 11:48 Cool Drone Shots 12:32 Cutting Firewood & Setting up Hot Tent & Woodstove 13:29 Dinnertime for my Dog North! FirstMate Pet Food High Performance 14:14 Eerie Mist Over Wolf Lake 14:50 Augering a Hole in the Ice for Water & Getting the Hot Tent Set up 16:56 Jim Talks About the Effects of Acid Rain & Goes Over the Challenges of the Day 20:17 Nate Burns His Boot Liner 21:22 Coming Up