Anatomy of an Arctic River Trip
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2024
- This is a movie of my trip through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the Sheenjek River with my college buddy, Neil Bass in Summer of 2013. We encountered wildlife and wild weather. Expect the unexpected. I wanted to see a part of the world that is changing rapidly due to climate change.
Great video. Thank you for sharing the trip with us
U GUYS R DA BEST. Great story . A wonderfull trip wish I was there .YA Got me Thinkin. WOW Way Cool Thanks
Thx for the armchair adventure. Just finished reading Adam Shoalts 'Beyond the Trees' and I was craving more from this pristine arctic wilderness.
Fantastic video. Enjoyed every second.
Great video. Cinematograpgically (is that a word??), the best such video I’ve seen. Thanks
Very nice view! 🙏
Thanks for this. We used to live in Kaktovik, where my husband was a bush pilot and this was a grand review of our younger years.
Thanks for the comment.
I've known a few Kroekers growing up in Kansas and Oklahoma. My mother was from a mennonite family which were Funks and Wiebes
complete wilderness paddler, classic book. I read it before paddling the Moisie
Thanks for this film. The unexpected for me were the little things, like how long it took to put a canoe together and barefoot on a glacier. And found food. And how close to the edge you came. Canoeing a river in flood. Dumped in icy water. How much harder physically the trip was than you anticipated. And that long shot of the bush plane leaving you in the middle of wilderness. And especially putting all of this within the context of your life. Thanks again, Bert Haverkate-Ens
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it
I finally got around to watching this video, which has been on my “to do” list for many months and I’m very glad I did. While I will never do a trip like this myself, it was great to experience it vicariously. A big thanks to William for making it available.
Thank you for the kind comment, glad to share my experience
thanks for sharing!
You deserve way more views. What an adventure
Terrific video!
Thank you
Great video! Wolf pups were neatvto see! What an adventure!
What a great experience. Thanks for sharing it and all the inner workings.
Amazing beauty, great adventure , lifetime trip.... Thx for sharing. Jim
This was awesome.
What an awesome video!! Really professional job. Thanks so much. Its on the bucket list!!
Wow. Great movie! Thanks for sharing
Awesome trip, awesome vid, thanks for bringing us along!
William and Neil you have undertaken and recorded what looks to have been a truly arduous and hopefully a really enjoyable and challenging expedition. Both of you are blessed to have had such a compliant and knowledgeable support team (family, friends, etc.). Your video has allowed me to visit a place that otherwise I would have not be able to do. Climate change: bad then, worse now.
Thanks for sharing this amazing adventure!
How special to see the wolves...looks like some of them were singing their "first song"!!
An awesome film that puts so much in perspective for me -- a City dweller. Thanks, Bill!
Ty for sharing this.
Awesome adventure, you did a great job with the documentation! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Very well done, Thank you!
I rafted down the Sheenjek for 2 weeks way back in 1990. Wish I could go back.....
We heard wolfs every night, the wolf cubs in your video brought back some great memories ! The river was very low when we were there and looks very different in your video. Thanks for posting this :-)
well done !!! You will remember that trip forever
I wanted to thank you for your film. I am thinking of doing a Northern Alaska trip and you give a feel of the planning and overall experience in a way that most other explorers have not shown.
watched complete video, very nice. it motivate me to do some thing like you.
Glad you enjoyed it thanks for the comment
Dear, sir! A very big THANK to you for sharing this your epic journey through the vast and huge ANWR using the Sheenjek River as your route! I am so inspired! Best Regards, and all the very Best with all blessings to you from Europe and Sweden!
Good. 👍.
It's Very great tour.
So inspiring! Another Item for my bucket list.
Why has this great movie, so little views?, I just don't get it. It's brilliant, magnificent, it would be an adventure for me to end where you started. Thanks for sharing.
go look at Jim or Ted Baird. They live what they video and they don't have an agenda.
@@gr8whitenorth589 Will do, thank you.
@@gr8whitenorth589 agreed. Real adventurers. No agenda
Adventure obviously well deserved.
Beautiful and inspiring!
Your video is great. It really uplifted my day. I'm an Italian paddler. With a small group of friends, we usually travel long rivers in Europe, and sometimes far away waterways in Mongolia, North America and Patagonia. We'd like to switch to foldable canoes (until now we used inflatables, Grabner and Gumotex), we are in doubt between Ally and Packboat models. Could you tell us an opinion? Our average trip is one, two weeks on the water. Thanks, Valentina
Glad you enjoyed my video, as far as the difference between Ally and Pakboat I would say that the Pakboat is easier to put together but the Ally tracks better in the water and is faster becauseof the keeled shape. Although these models were from a decade ago, so things may be a little different today
Really liked the video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I hope we can leave some room for the wild things.
Those caribou were on their way north, not south that time of year. You don't get them coming south through the sheenjek/coleen/chandlar until August/Sept. And I'm not remotely surprised you didn't see any in the river bottom that time of year either. Too many mosquitoes, too warm.
I would guess this trip was in June?
End of June, did you spend a lot of time up there
@@MrKansas69 I have and continue to spend time up there in the summers. Usually a multi week flying trip and on occasion we'll go up that way for a hunt in the fall. I've been to that spot you guys put in at, but in July.
Sounds like the voicetrack from Dances with Wolves
Great video, I loved the wolf Cubs.. and you need a drone
Yeah one more thing I need to get
@@MrKansas69 It makes a HUGE difference. Imagine the video footage you could’ve taken of you guys paddling down the river. And the country you paddled in is too big and grand not to get aerial footage. The DJI Mini 2 Is the perfect small drone to take on camping trips. And you would have great fun In the beautiful area that you call home in northern Oregon...
Anyone ever hear if the Norwegians are ok? Beautiful trip man!
After they were evacuated they decided to regroup and try another expedition on another river for a shorter time. Supposedly their camp was raided by a Grizzly part way through and they had to evacuate again and abandon their second attempt!
@@MrKansas69 Wow! That sounds totally intense! Glad they are ok.
Very nice, I wanna do this myself one day !
William, really well done! I really appreciate that you made a cohesive, engaging film out of this journey. So many videos are just "GoPro set to music". Not yours. Well done, and great adventure! See you on trail.
I will be starting where you did on the Sheenjek in 3 months but will packraft my way to Kaktovik. Thanks for sharing!
good video! something i gotta do some day!
Great film. Thanks for making it! Curious why you each travelled in separate boats. Did you have that much gear?
We did have a lot of gear, me especially with my camera gear, and we both enjoyed padding our own boat because you can adventure on your own terms
Awesome... well done. It was way cool that you caught the hardships as well as the beauty. I was deep in the Wind River range and took this most beautiful photograph of the land scape. After the trip I showed my mom and said “it looks beautiful, but every step was uneven, the trees would reach out to cut the back of my hands and every slight breeze was a relief from the mosquitoes, it looks beautiful and it is, but the land is rugged and unforgiving”. BTW, baring your ass to a swarm of mosquitoes is ... the words escape me :-)
Yes, I'll have to agree, taking a dump in mosquito infested country is quite unpleasant. We learned rather quickly to seek out large barren gravel bars and windy places...
We finally figured out how to hook the computer up to the tv and watch it on a big screen. Totally awesome! Thanks for putting this together and sharing it. I didn't know it was such an impressive production! Seth and Aaron are visiting and watched it too.
That was pretty amazing mate 👍
Good video thanks for Sharing , Stephan Bayley songwriter what’s the name of the song ?
Sonrise
Thank You
Great adventure, and a professionell docu you made. Thanks for this film. :) Where can I get these online maps you hold in 3.15? Planning a similar trip this summer and can't find these maps on internet. Best regards
those weren't online maps, they were from a National Geographic CD-Rom that I bought from REI and downloaded to my computer to make a flip map for the trip
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Great adventure and great videoography! May I ask how did you make the path trace on the map? Thank you! My channel is shrimpsoutdoors 🙂
How much did this expedition cost?
in the $5 to 10K range if I remember right
@@MrKansas69 thx!
first comment love the video
Well done. Too bad about the Norwegians.
this could have been about 3 times more exciting and adventuresome. strange to see two people so detached from the natural environment...
Hasn't changed much in a few million years. Won't change much in a few million more.
So unfortunate and sad for the Norwegians
Yes, I would say they had some bad luck
Couldn’t watch, front loaded with POLITICAL BS.
The arctic is freezing and ice caps are growing. You lost me with your global warming from the get go. Bye.
The planet is and always has been in flux, turned this off before the canoe even hit the water, stay in portland were you belong, lol
More climate change propaganda .....