Thanks for watching! I see a lot of petroglyphs in the desert southwest, but it's interesting to see them up North as well.

Thanks! Need to get back to Quetico one of these years...

Thanks! I appreciate the comments! Nothing like freshly caught fish.

It is a very special place. This was my first trip to the Quetico, but now I definitely want to return. Much less traffic than the BWCAW, so you aren't fighting other paddlers for campsites.

Kurt Papke I've been to BWCA twice about 15 years apart and noticed that traffic is much worse now. It's much more poplar than it was 20 years ago.

Yes. It used to be that after Labor Day the BWCAW was deserted, now it doesn't taper off until the weather gets bad.

Thanks for watching and commenting. This trip is one of the best in that part of the country.

Quetico is worth the extra cost. Lots fewer people than the BWCAW. I'll have to check out Proenneke, not familiar with him. I narrate audiobooks on the side :-)

The Richard Proenneke Cabin he built by hand and lived in for 30 years in Alaska is a national treasure. You will love the video. Btw. Must be two Lake Agnes’s. Paddled the BWCAW one several times but it doesn’t reach the Quetico best I remember.

And I try so hard to keep my videos short! I had lots more footage from the trip, but I try to edit them so they end up under 10 minutes. I get that some people like extended/long form videos. Maybe I need to consider doing a "directors cut" of some of them in addition to the short version?

@@KurtPapke I hope you didn't leave video of someone portaging a canoe over "THE ROCK" at Silver Falls portage on the cutting room floor . Yes, I have been over that rock many times. In fact. On my honeymoon. My wife, a former rower . Portage a 74lbs alumicraft up that portage without stopping. She did have tears in her eyes at the end. Then we paddled sw across cache bay with a tail wind. It got very dicy the last 1/3 of the way across. I have many stories of that part of Quetico. My last time there in 2012 . We packed up camp the last morning just before the rain started at 6am. The rain started as we paddled for Deadmans portage. After 5 hours of paddling and portaging in the rain. We arrived at Hook Island. We were cold and wet and out of energy. We found the last of our dry clothing and bundled up as warm and dry as we could. But then had to wait 2 hours for the boat to arrive. They don't go out when lighting is in the area. It would have been miserable if we didn't have dry clothes

@@golfish8589 What a great story! Thanks for taking the time to tell it :-)

Urban Boatbuilders, St. Paul MN

Depending on the model they are 35-40lbs. We take them because we like them :-) Also, two of the guys on the trip are on the board of Urban Boatbuilders, the non-profit that makes them. Kevlar is a lot heavier.

September 3-10. The portages varied in difficulty. Some were trivial, some were pretty taxing. None of the portages had route finding issues or anything like that. But a couple were pretty long with steep grades.

Yep, we hope to return to Quetico in September. Fingers crossed everything is back open by then!

I know exactly what you are talking about. I did not want to cross that way. Ferring across is the best way. But I was over ruled. The water did not actually pin us against the wall. But we were right next to it. And we did have to do a back bend under those branches. The water was at a 60 year high. Yah, that and the first falls on the Falls chain can get dicy real quick

Great question. Many fewer people, better fishing. We did the Falls Chain, and you just don't see that many waterfalls in the BWCAW.

@@KurtPapke thanks for the reply! All these reasons make sense. I have plans to see Johnson Falls in BWCAW, this Summer.

@@KurtPapke check out Curtain and Rebecca Falls at the other end of the park next year. Get a 2 hour high speed boat ride from Crane Lake to the edge of Quetico by Anderson O.utfitters

@@golfish8589 Thanks for the tip!

We've had them out in *serious* weather and they hold up very well. A lot tougher than they look.

@@KurtPapke i find that hard to believe...last year we had a kevlar one and mistakenly rowed in whitecaps on pickeral lake and we tipped these canoes look worse... and if you've ever been on pickeral lake you'll know how big they'd get.

Why would they use Kevlar for bulletproof vests if it wasn't strong?

@@rustyshackleford1091 have you ever even been remotely close to a kevlar canoe? if not id suggest you not comment they are extremely light and built for speed not stability they are like a plastic ..seem more like plastic ....i can seem them cracking or breaking if hitting a rock or eventual wear and tare...you can use your kevlar one there Andrew ill stick to the coleman they are much more durable

Sonny c. The kevlar canoes have high density foam in the floor. We purchased a beat up kevlar canoe from an outfitter 15 years ago. After many trips and a little care . It's not much worse for ware. It also the shape of the canoe. Not the material it is made of that gives it it's stability. Flat bottom canoes have great initial stability . But secondary stability is poor. Once they get tipped so far, they go over. Rounded bottom canoes have less initial stability, feels a little tippy. But great secondary stability. They can roll on there side and not tip