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This is the Bob Ross of paddling

We watched all of these movies, and the outtakes too, during High School English... Because Ken Buck (the cameraman) was our English Teacher!! I remember Bill Mason and Ken Buck far better than Shakespeare 🙂Go Merivale! It's incredible to realize the original head-cam was a monstrous reel-to-reel camera.... how spectacular it is now, with drones and GoPros 😲 (thank you, Becky Mason)

From an time that living in Canada would have been good

Happy new year 2023

I love these videos. They started me on my canoeing journey 50 years ago

One of the great canoeists. I've seen his films and read his books. Clear and concise. He was to born to canoe.

What make and exterior material is the canoe Bill is paddling in this Video.

awesome !

Easy enough

That boy sure is a paddlin fool....

My dad wrote the music

My type of guy. We passed him at the Natch when i was a 17 year old doing the May 24 run. Came from the similar YMCA ccamp backgrounds. I still run my rapids witha slower than water technique and its served me well.

wow, who knew.

Well HOLY wow, I'm swept back to grade 5 in public school in Canada..we went to the library and watched this on the ole film reel! Bill emblemized what it is to canoe to us back then...it was really rare to see in person someone's adventures recorded if you could imagine!

Lose the music!

If we all had fathers like that, the world would be such a wonderful place to be.

Bill Mason was quite a small fellow at only 165 cm. Even so, he whips that 16 feet wood and canvas prospector around rocks and in and out of eddies like it's nothing. What a great hero.

I met Bill when he was in Salt Lake City on a booksigning tour and showing the Path of the Paddle films back in the early '80's. I was new into solo WW paddling and I was able to corner Bill at a reception where we talked about doing enders in our open boats. I went on to paddle many rivers including the Middle Fork of the Salmon, the Snake, the Green, and best of all the Colorado through Westwater Canyon and the Grand Canyon. Thank you Bill for your inspiration!

Anyone know what river this is?

I don’t know it looks pretty tricky

A canoeing technique that must be learned by younger generations

Those are high quality canoeing tips and I love the old school film, very nostalgic.

I grew up paddling in muskoka area , doing canoe trips first there then elsewhere . I watch Bill Mason films every summer at camp queen elizabeth in the 70's and 80's. I am a canoeist of 44 years because of Bill Mason , Omer stringer , ray kettlewell and Anne Mcknight who i got to learn from in my youth. I love style paddling the most ..

Can you imagine? Most of this would be suicidal for anybody but Bill. And this was only what was filmed.

Bill was a MASTER

What a river is he on?

"The hole is on my end, so dont worry about it..." Yeah ok, I'll try that one with my paddeling partner... :-D

That was so helpful! Thank you to whomever helped to upload and create! Curious where this was filmed.

Canoe Top Gear .... brilliant film.. learnt so much.. planning ro get out ASAP ..

Loved this, what a great father/son adventure, and educational too.

If you're watching this on a larger screen, a much better version is avalable at www.nfb.ca/film/path_of_the_paddle_solo_whitewater/

Right off the bat, a "boat" load of paddling knowledge and technique. Nice.

how long is that paddle

I like at the end he sead lieng i call it taking boat for a walk haha

22:09 Mr. Canoehead is spotted! Also, in the second movie, on doubles white water, nice to see that Blake James was involved in this project.

How many of us learned to canoe from Bill? I still use the Canadian stroke.

I don`t believe Bill was a bad man of gay. He tried to live like he would

noice!

Totally inspired.

many canoes where hurt inthe making of this film

what a great film. Wish my kids loved the outdoors as much as I. Made me a bit jealous. Great dad!

U can't beat a father & son get away together trip

Thanks loads for posting this. I would have loved to have met Bill in person. We had nice correspondence before he left us. I lament that. However, oddly enough, I have a friend who now lives in Chelsea.

Beautiful!

I first saw this film 27 years ago. I'm still learning from it.

i was about 6 when this was filmed.. but i grew up to be this guy. (except i don't sound like a robot,,,and don't cut my hair)

I am lucky. I just got off the phone with Blake James.

Another film that my father wrote the music for, and probably my favourite! He gets the acoustic guitar going bonkers right off the top as soon as the water gets heavy! Wooohooooo!

Glad I stumbled on this one, it's a gem!

This guy is a lot braver than I am. My dad and I are veterans of 20+ trips into the BWCA. We've paddled some of the bigger lakes along the border and a few in Quetico; we always played it safe and traveled early in the morning on these bigger waters and stayed lee of the islands out of the wind if necessary. A few times we were windbound on the last day of the trip, but sometimes we'd leave right before sunup to make it to the landing. Seemed like once afternoon hit, it was time to be off the big water. We always portaged around rapids, especially after I nearly drowned running some class 2 water that "looked" pretty harmless. Good thing I was with a group (Boy Scouts), and one of the dads with us was able to pry me off a rock I was pinned to. Lesson learned.....and I would do these trips all over again!