11 Days Solo Camping in the Yukon Wilderness E.3 a Moose Visits Camp, Rapids & Portage, all Alone

11 Days Solo Camping in the Yukon Wilderness – E.3 – a Moose Visits Camp, Solo Rapids & Portage All Alone in the Wild:

In this episode, I wake up to driving rain and hear a large animal outside my tent. I later discover that it was Bull Moose and that I’d captured it on my trail cam! I soon discover that my camping stove is broken and have to collect firewood and light a fire in wet conditions to boil water over the fire for breakfast. I then share some of what my float plane pilot told me about the Bonnet Plume River – that’s it’s exteramly remote and not traveled often, meaning I’m truly alone in the wilderness. After instant oats and camp coffee, I load the canoe and spend about an hour panning a creek for gold before pushing off. I then solo many technical whitewater rapids before I reach the head of a portage trail around a dangerous whitewater canyon that would be deadly to attempt running. Because water levels in the river were so high, I couldn’t run much of the canyon at all and had to portage to the very end. It was a long portage, and when I finished, it was 10pm! I was then faced with more rapids and didn’t find a place to camp until quite late. I found a caribou antler at camp and cut some firewood and got a fire going, I then rigged up a quick drying rack to dry out my sweater.

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Chapters:

0:00 Intro – What to Expect from this Episode
0:50 Moose Visits While I’m in the Tent, Rain Outdoors
1:45 Getting Water & Camping Stove is Broken
4:20 Lighting a Fire & Boiling Water
4:43 Taking Down Tent & Alone in the Wilderness
6:09 Camp Coffee & Instant Oatmeal
7:50 Loading the Canoe & Trimming
9:08 Panning for Gold
11:10 Traveling on the Bonnet Plume
11:56 Tips For Reading Topographic Maps
12:44 Solo Rapids & Bradded Channel Sweeper
21:15 Running, Scouting Rapids, Class 3
31:56 Portage Around Canyon Class 5 Rapids
36:54 Running Rapids Late at Night
38:56 Scouting Rapid & Explaining About Safety, Looking for Campsite
40:13 Setting Up Camping Tent & Caribou Antler
42:15 Finding Firewood & Lighting Fire, Drying Rack
44:15 Cooking Dinner
45:37 Recap on the Day
47:14 Coming Up!

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