V7E4: Navigating the North Maine Woods
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2019
- There are no paved roads in this episode. This week, I explore the North Maine Woods from south to north, and experience numerous secluded tracks and some lesser known campsites along lakes and waterways. Wildlife is abundant here, and the going gets tough as some of the logging roads are long-forgotten!
I'm Mexican, from Guadalajara and I was in these places in 1996 working for a forestry company making brush cutting. It was a dream. I really enjoy your video and I wish a lot to come back some time there. Greetings and prayings for you.
This is my back yard, enjoy its endless sites and beauty. Amazes me most people only know Maine for its coast.
I live on the coazt, my maine vacations are always north.
I've been vacationing near Houlton every October for 15 years.
It’s one of the only places in the NE with real dispersed camping and backcountry public land travel as well
Growing up in the west coast I can tell you no one here ever mentions that area for its coast lol.
Only time you hear Maine talked about, is for fall foilage
@@tinahammond4438 "coazt" ??
U sure about that?
All I can think about while watching your videos is how you have to come back to get your camera each time the shot cuts.
I grew up in Millinocket, Maine ..traveled all those roads many times..Penn. Mass and especially NJ about as welcome as a baby ruth in a swimming pool..LOL
I always love seeing people expl my beautiful home state i hope you liked it. God bless
I was fishing on [you can't find it pond] two days before you drove in there.The yellow canoe you pictured is mine. I do take exception to your comment about abandoned canoes .These canoes are left there by folks like me [Mainers] who don't mind others using their boats.
But there is always some out of stater who doesn't know or is to lazy to flip them back over [upside down] so they do not fill with water.
The North Maine Woods is a treasure of private land that we have access to.Please take care of it and be careful ,no houses ,no electricity ,no paved roads just thousands of miles of woods ,some bridges are abandoned so use caution crossing them. Remember that logging trucks have the right of way Herb
Herb Hewlett you should learn take you junk out of the woods so other don’t have to look at your canoe.
@@allenrobbins9138 You are right ,so from now on I am going to lock up my canoe and not let anyone else use it.I will put a big sign on it saying Allen Robbins is not allowed to use my canoe.
Real fishermen don’t lug boats around
Herb Hewlett Remove your canoe - lazy bums like you ruin the natural settings.
Maine is so beautiful!
Wow! Northern Maine is stunningly beautiful! Look forward to your adventure every Friday!
I love at 4:40 that you used your blinker. I was commenting to my dad in a similar situation years ago how weird it was to be 20 miles from the nearest person, and I used my blinker and was uneasy driving down benign country roads with no seatbelt.
"The City of Caribou" -- you are a generous man.
Booming metropolis of Caribou
I've watched this video like 4 times...way too good
I love and appreciate your calm demeanor but you’re so cute when you’re mad! This kept me on the edge of my seat hoping you wouldn’t run out of gas. Love love your videos Chris! I always look forward to the next! PS, I also enjoyed your specialty egg and cheese sandwich today for breakfast! ❤️😉
So I was traveling for work this week and decided to pick up a Sandwich in Sandwich, MA. While I’m at the visitors center learning about the area, a lovely couple pull up in a sand colored Rubicon. I say “nice Jeep” and we start up a conversation about Jeeping. We end up talking about how much we LOVE your videos and how we’ve both met you (he met you at Ok4WD a few weeks ago, I met you at EJS a few years ago) fun to connect with fellow fans!
The only part of your comment I care about is that you got a sandwich in sandwich mass, that is absolutely legendary
Really nice as usual.love the moose shot! Next time you make spaghetti, just add the noodles to the sauce to cook together.no boiling and draining needed.noodles will soak up excess water in the sauce,become more flavorful and if it looks too thick as it cooks,add a dab of water.
Just found you on UA-cam. Am really enjoying the trips you are sharing. I am from Maine and you've given me some excellent ideas on some trips to take in Maine. Please keep up the good work!
Iam from Northern Maine and enjoy watching this so much. Been to many of the same places. Thank you.
Got to say helo from 1 old Maniac to another. I left Maine back in the 1960's and went into the military for over 20 years. Now I live on the west coast. I am going to add your channel to my list of favorites.
Always nice to be in Maine during Black Fly season......
Over the months and as my year clicks over, I have come to find your clips strangely addictive. Of course I don't love everything, dry sandwiches for one :-O and of course as a dedicated angler, the fact that you don't fish irks me to the core whenever I see you on a beautiful stretch of water lol, but seriously, there is a serenity and continuity to your vids that keep me coming back for more and looking forward to your next adventure. I am mostly astounded by the variety and beauty of your great countryside and wild places right across the US of A and each area has it's own unique beauty once you find it, and find it you do.
Please keep up the good work, here's to the next one. atvb ODJ.
Amazing, that’s how I feel exactly, I’ve been binge watching since V2 over the last three weeks. But I keep coming back
Condiments bro, condiments. get on it!!!! I will send you some if required!!!! thanks for allowing us on your journey!
One of my favorite place to camp out! Miss camping up there it been 15 yrs..sense I been there!
Great. Place to be
Looks like that bug hat was money well spent! 😜👍🏼
Love it when you use your turn signal out there!!
This was so nice to watch! Thank you! I miss my kayak and my pond. I can't wait to get back to Maine!!
Best episode yet. Thx.
Great videos Chris. Your adventures are interesting and fun to watch. You do a great job!!
I just got back from Maine and I can say that I will always go back. I love it there.
Beautiful area, great video. Thank you!
Real nice area to drive thrue love the way you make the vlogs, keep on traveling Chris, greetings from Holland.
Best thing on my tv!!!!!thank you !!
Great vid as usual thanks for the share from new Zealand
4:32 the sure sign of a disciplined driver… putting the blinker on in the middle of nowhere with no one in sight.
I also do that, at 67, its automatic.
Great video by far one of the better ones
Great vid! Hope your travels are grand, have a happy 4th of July. Can’t wait until your next vid, living a dream through your vids. Thank you so much for sharing your life in the back country with us. Take care and be safe! Need to get my Jeep out in the woods.
Thanks Chris. Maine is beautiful that was a lake you could spend many days on it looked like great shots
genuine and perfect footage and filming skills, and good length for outdoors
You have a great rig for the north woods , bud. The whole set up is perfect for fun in the Maine woods.
Thanks Chris, have a great week.
Hello Chris.
I would like to thank you very much for your films. You show them how beautiful America is. My name is Radek, I am Polish, but I live in Germany. Sometimes I manage to pack my jeep and go somewhere in the mountains, unfortunately in Western Europe overland is illegal. greetings
Why is it illegal
Great video thank you!
Awesome trip. I grew up just south of Fort Kent in Portage Lake. Aroostook County is awesome for sure. I’m currently living in San Diego but I have fond memories of my youth in Portage.
Wow,,such beautiful country ❤ great rig too!
Maine also has a large portion of conservation and preserved lands, very similar to the Northwoods. I would recommend starting with Nahmakanta. Those boats were not a graveyard, people leave boats at remote locations to save wear on their boat trailer. Lots of native brook trout and LL Salmon in those ponds.
Keep up the great work. Looks like a beautiful area and you seem to have enjoyed it. Staying longer in an area seems to help you more.
I live in Maine and have canoed the Alligash Waterway twice, I love it there. This is a great video, you got some great equipment! It looks like you had a really good time, although I think your crazy for going out in the wilderness alone lol. Thanks for documenting and uploading your journey I really enjoyed it.
Beautiful!!!
I like how you used a signal light to make a turn out there in no man's land. lol
another outstanding video.
Leadbetter falls. Spent my summers there as my Dad worked for the northern at Comstock camps
Chris , thank u for motivating and inspiring me. You’ve helped me find direction too a path too a hopefully earlier retirement ( by investing more money) so I can do similar things that u are doing. Exploring and seeing the country that too many of us don’t get too see first hand. And happy too see u met someone. Adventure is always more enjoyable with a companion. Keep up the great work.
WOW! Impressive channel , you do great work with your content . NMW is our happy place!
Your rig is super cool.
As a resident of Fort Kent, the NMW is our backyard. Outstanding country and might I add, you've done well, chum.
Can’t wait for next week!
Hi Chris! You NEED some fishing gear to partner with that Kayak Your videos are first class enjoy your adventures.
Beautiful area. Damn the skeeters!
It's beautiful in the summer. Just bring your deep woods off or you'll be miserable. I did a three day canoe trip years ago with a friend. It was the most peaceful experience in my life. It was early September and we basically had the rice to ourselves. Blessed with good weather, it was probably the best outdoors experience I ever had, and I've done a lot of wilderness hiking in the east and west. The amount of wildlife up there is amazing. It's hard to believe we were still on the east coast.
Super 👍 Video, as always!
Welcome to Maine!!! From a local!!
Very rarely do you need 4wd on NMW roads. Save the gas. I do a lot of truck camping and fishing up there. I always have spare gas , tire patch kit , dc air compressor. Come alongs tow chains and jumpers. Pulled many people out , met a couple from Connecticut at Telos gate . They didn’t do their homework and went in on a half tank of gas expecting gas stations in the NMW. I let them have 5 gallons of my spare and suggested they go to Abol and fill up. NMW is a lot bigger and more remote than most people know. Good luck and keep exploring!
👋 CHRIS !
THE MOOSE WAS REAL COOL 😎 THE WEATHER SKY & WATER WAS GORGEOUS !
Very nicely done.
the turn signal on the logging road is a nice touch
Haha thanks!
Always look forward to your videos Chris. I lived in the Maine woods for eight years. One thing I found is dark colored clothing attracts Black Flies and Mosquitoes more than lighter colored clothing. Cheers
And eat uncooked onion and garlic. Maine is amazing.
Do the mosquitos let up in October?
Openyoureyes39 only if they have gotten enough blood from us during the summer months.. 😜
LMAO But I feel like you guys have less of a tick problem.@@swkohnle08
Really glad I stumbled upon your video, I had no idea this was there.
lived here my whole life every summer the battle of the bugs up north wow but it is so worth it rock on looks like fun
Eu gosto de café, mas pela quantidade de café que você toma de uma única vez, deve ser apaixonado por ele.
Mais um excelente vídeo.
Hi Chris, Mainer here, up here the bug situation eases up by the end of July
Beautiful sunny day in a pristine area. Hate the horseflies, black flies and mosquitoes! 🤪🙄😄
Good to see you using the kayak. Love the Maine experience as I have never seen that area, being from California. Other than being buggy, it looks beautiful.
Awesome footage and great trip thank you for sharing 👍
The Vermonter
That's home for me, I live in the Midwest now but will retire somewhere @ there in a camp on a lake soon enough. Thx for taking us along, brings back great memories. Surprised I haven't seen u get pushed over by a lumber truck going 60mph 😆
Beautiful place.
Great video!
Glad to see you made it out, was worried for ya! Bravo👏👍 on your cooking this week!🍝🥫 Looks like that spatula is beginning to serve you well!😉🍞🍳 Treat yourself to some eggs and 🥓 with your ☕ the next campsite you set your stay for another few nights! What awesome footage of the volunteer flowers that we tend to purposely grow for their beauty. Thanks for taking us along once again. Keep on rolling, safe travels! See ya next Friday📷💻👍
Ya..... it's pretty out there. Hey Chris, can you recall When it happened, what trip, when, what
Was going on , when you realized you had become One With your Jeep. You and your best friend. Meeting the trail together ? You do so well alone, and some people just do. But do you ever consider a co-pilot like a dog ?☆☆☆☆
Your winch recovery kit should have three snatch blocks, three tree straps, two thirty foot recovery straps, and several adequate shackles. With this you can reverse winch. Awesome video, I love northern Maine!
Love it my favorite spot.
this makes me so pumped to save up for a jeep and to go camping in a few weeks
I have a camp in Sherman and we wander the North Woods alot.
Got to north woods every year .that place is awesome, got check out the abandoned trains. Some of gated roads are cabins that are on leased land.
It’s just too bad the NE has no real extensive national forest backcountry that’s completely public like the West. Coming from the west watching this it’s almost maddening that a place so wild and vast is still largely controlled by private and industrial interests and you have to tiptoe around. Out in the mountain west you can traverse 100 miles off pavement + without disturbance or a single gate
@@turkey4957 yea I believe 7 logging companies own the land and manage it. Most gates are for private camps. It does cost access it but being on the east coast its worth it. We drive over 10 hours to go.
i drove my jeep to Maine.spent a couple of weeks prowling.
i love Maine
Brotha man a set of Maxtrax is something you need. Especially being solo 99% of the time.
Maxtrax and more then 1 extra fuel canister.
Totally agree 👍
And they colour match the jeep 😁
Between Chamberlain lake and Eagle lake there are two old steam locomotives that were abandoned by early logging companies. There is a log tram that connects the two lakes. It’s pretty odd to see two trains in the middle of the woods.
amazing thanks!
that rig is so epic
In one of your shots, I saw a black bear. Nice menu....lots of cheese, salsa, sandwich meat and to top it off---->PIZZA! I love my state and nice video, great job. Also, thanks for killing some of our mosquitoes while you were here.
Amazing video. Maine is the best.
enjoying your vids...
13:16 Gorgeous shot!
As always another great watch :), Please, invest in some maxtrax's or something similar, there more likely to save you than the winch. Great for levelling the car and bridging gaps. As always looking for to the next vid :)
The best bit of gear is his bug net. For June.
Dude you actually warmed the spaghetti sauce..i think thats the first time I've seen you do that..bravo! Add some ground turkey to that sauce..brown the turkey first before adding in the sauce please. Good luck. Hey, and good job btw. Thanks for sharing Chris.
love you vids
I was just camping there for four days from july 5-9 that’s sweet
I see you’re in Maine! My wife and I live in Freeport, three miles from L. L. Bean. If you make it to this area I’d love to meet you say hello and check out your Jeep. You’re living my Jeep dream.
The lands are privately owned, the owners logging companies to come harvest the timber.
The logging companies in turn maintain and improve the roads, they repair bridges, cutting back brush, haul in gravel, anything needed to make them passable again.
The roads or bridges won't be repaired or replaced until the logging company needs that stretch of road to access the wood lot they are about to harvest.
Chris, I hope you head up to Allagash, ME and try to find the 1976 UFO site.
This one felt very immersive. Great angles and audio. Thanks!
It's nice to see someone actually putting one of these rigs to use instead of some muscle head townie who bought one for the social status.
That would be me.. muscle head townie 😊 But seeing this video of venture4wd in Maine.. where I live in New England has me wondering about taking my Jeep off-road a couple of times a month.. maybe start with some basic camping next spring.
I have one (almost the same set up - Smittybuilt) and we put it to HARDCORE use along the East Coast. Lol
@@johnmottshaw4302 any clips?
@@mooseknuckle8334 yes. I recently explored the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. I have to figure out how to download pictures to this forum…
We plan to explore The North Maine Woods for 9 days starting the last week of July that ends into the 1st week of August.
its beautiful up here
ahhhhhh the sound of a tent zipper..I miss camping