Another fun video. When you mentioned portaging it reminded me of a Canadian Reality show from 20+ years ago. It recreated the boatmen bringing furs out od the great white north. They had a horrendous portage with the heavy boats and the cargo. Have fun. Good Luck, Rick
Beautiful scenery. Just watched a guy do the Hayduke Trail (which isn’t a trail !!!)which goes through that area. You likely know it . Really enjoyed it (Wilderness Mindset). Cheers from Northern Ontario.
Constantine and Z? I ran into them (separately) on the FT last year early on during the whole Key West to Canada thing. It’s also high on my list to do but scheduling it is going to be tricky with my volunteer commitments
Ah ok, sounds like there’s a few people doing in this season considering I just saw 2 folks from the PCT 2020 crowd started it as well. It really looks like my kind of trail
That's real pretty Utah scenery I can fell the solitude, .really like your vedio ,an your boats , an the green river beautiful also thnx again for the exceptional work I'm still watching an enjoying missed episodes of your ECT trip !
That is the kind of weather my wife and I were hoping for one year on a canoe trip from Mineral bottom put-out to the Confluence. Turned into the trip from hell though. Gorgeous first day and evening, but right when putting out next morning, an upstream wind came up, not too bad at first, but the gale was on the way. My wife went from cranking a Coors tall boy while we were just letting the canoe slowly spin round and round, to literally crying in a half hour flat. 4 foot standing waves with a high profile, loaded up canoe is a bad combination. To add to the misery, they upped the flow out of Flaming Gorge to the point of no beaches whatsoever, and having to crawl out of the canoe and up embankments with our gear to camp, which did not go well either, as it was too windy to cook. Next day was spent parked on the side of the river hanging on to tamarisk branches, with power bars for dinner once again. The only respite from the wind was going around protected sections of goosenecks, only to see what looked and felt like the open ocean just around the bend. The wind finally died on the fourth day, and we actually made it to the Confluence in time to meet up with the jetboat for the trip up the Colorado back to Moab. Lesson learned - do not try this in April during a barely moving cut-off low pressure out of SoCal and across Southern Utah, perfectly positioned to catch the NE quadrant of the low, much like the worst part of a hurricane during landfall. Obviously it's not like one can decide we aren't having fun anymore and load up and go home. That section of the Green is a commitment! Dinner out and a nice bed in Moab never seemed more luxurious! We were beat to hell.
Wow, that does sound rough. We had one day of bad winds but I think the hard sided touring kayaks manage that a bit better than the canoes. We had some issues getting into a few of the high water camps but we generally managed
Too many miles too fast? Rookie question: when backpacking / kayaking whatever they call what you're doing right now, do folks ever take a zero like when they're hiking?
I never took a zero before doing the PCT. On something short ish like the JMT there never seemed to be a need. We did joke about taking the windy day off on this trip just to let us do longer days but ah well
Sadly since we didn’t know exactly how much space we would have in the kayaks we were a bit sparse on the whole wine and food thing. The canoe folks around us seemed to have brought a lot more stuff
Another fun video. When you mentioned portaging it reminded me of a Canadian Reality show from 20+ years ago. It recreated the boatmen bringing furs out od the great white north. They had a horrendous portage with the heavy boats and the cargo. Have fun. Good Luck, Rick
Beautiful scenery. Just watched a guy do the Hayduke Trail (which isn’t a trail !!!)which goes through that area. You likely know it . Really enjoyed it (Wilderness Mindset). Cheers from Northern Ontario.
Constantine and Z? I ran into them (separately) on the FT last year early on during the whole Key West to Canada thing. It’s also high on my list to do but scheduling it is going to be tricky with my volunteer commitments
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes No, his name is Alex Maier. I followed you for that Key West to Canada hike . it was just fantastic.
Ah ok, sounds like there’s a few people doing in this season considering I just saw 2 folks from the PCT 2020 crowd started it as well. It really looks like my kind of trail
That's real pretty Utah scenery I can fell the solitude, .really like your vedio ,an your boats , an the green river beautiful also thnx again for the exceptional work I'm still watching an enjoying missed episodes of your ECT trip !
That is the kind of weather my wife and I were hoping for one year on a canoe trip from Mineral bottom put-out to the Confluence. Turned into the trip from hell though. Gorgeous first day and evening, but right when putting out next morning, an upstream wind came up, not too bad at first, but the gale was on the way. My wife went from cranking a Coors tall boy while we were just letting the canoe slowly spin round and round, to literally crying in a half hour flat. 4 foot standing waves with a high profile, loaded up canoe is a bad combination. To add to the misery, they upped the flow out of Flaming Gorge to the point of no beaches whatsoever, and having to crawl out of the canoe and up embankments with our gear to camp, which did not go well either, as it was too windy to cook. Next day was spent parked on the side of the river hanging on to tamarisk branches, with power bars for dinner once again. The only respite from the wind was going around protected sections of goosenecks, only to see what looked and felt like the open ocean just around the bend. The wind finally died on the fourth day, and we actually made it to the Confluence in time to meet up with the jetboat for the trip up the Colorado back to Moab. Lesson learned - do not try this in April during a barely moving cut-off low pressure out of SoCal and across Southern Utah, perfectly positioned to catch the NE quadrant of the low, much like the worst part of a hurricane during landfall. Obviously it's not like one can decide we aren't having fun anymore and load up and go home. That section of the Green is a commitment! Dinner out and a nice bed in Moab never seemed more luxurious! We were beat to hell.
Wow, that does sound rough. We had one day of bad winds but I think the hard sided touring kayaks manage that a bit better than the canoes. We had some issues getting into a few of the high water camps but we generally managed
That was fun thanks. ✌🏻👊
Matt could you have done some rock climbing?
On this trip? Not with what we had with us. Since we had to fit everything in Jen’s little Mazda 2 and the boats we basically just had what we needed
@@FirstChurchofTheMasochistHikes thank you.
seems like fun !!! 🚣🚣♀️
Too many miles too fast? Rookie question: when backpacking / kayaking whatever they call what you're doing right now, do folks ever take a zero like when they're hiking?
I never took a zero before doing the PCT. On something short ish like the JMT there never seemed to be a need. We did joke about taking the windy day off on this trip just to let us do longer days but ah well
I am quite fine with “distressingly peaceful”. Two box wines would have done the trick. The bladders float quite well tied off to the stern.
Sadly since we didn’t know exactly how much space we would have in the kayaks we were a bit sparse on the whole wine and food thing. The canoe folks around us seemed to have brought a lot more stuff
That was fun thanks. ✌🏻👊