My yearly canoeing adventures across to Widgeon Creek to the Fall's. True to portage to the Fall's but ran into a Beaver Dam. My son's father lost his expensive knife in the River in 83 & every year would look for it. After he passed in 2016, my son took a pal up & was showing him the spot, amazingly the sun shone on it & now sits on his fireplace. We camped one night only & experienced a rough night.

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

the river taketh and the river giveth back. that place is changing a lot these days, BC Parks has weird cage style lockers and about a thousand plastic picnic tables there now.

@nickiewilson6985

2 жыл бұрын

@@TrueCanoe Had an old miner friend we called Uncle Henry, he was a geologist & had many mines at the River. His whole downstairs was filled with 1000 of varitys & was a well known man in Vancouver. Can't remember the last name now but passed 20 yrs ago. My husband got to know the Canoe Rental Guy, didn't have to pack ours, a case of beer would do for at least 16 yrs. Can't wait to go again as I'm in Naniamo now and thank you for my best memories in my life with my son growing up & now 40. 😃

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickiewilson6985 the geology of the lake and river is very interesting. Very varied. I havent found anything really cool yet except diorite and some decent samples of olivine, but im going to keep looking. Do you know what kind of rocks Uncle Henry found in the Pitt area?

Thanks for sharing your adventures! You certainly were exposed to all the elements that's for sure!! What a beautiful piece of paradise, if only I was 20 years younger...... Keep on sharing!!

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

thank you Ramona

Cool video! Found it on Reddit

@TrueCanoe

Жыл бұрын

thank you!

Oh to be young and have that endless energy! Soloing canoes, wet heavy cloths and gumboots full of water I would have not lasted long like that lol. Great job, so cool to see some more of the upper Pitt. I have an old pdf of a study on the Pitt area Pictographs with maps, and an old map of local place names, cool stuff. I was suprised to not see salmon jumping at all too

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for watching. I'm very interested in your documents, would you share them? my email is truecanoebc@gmail.com

Enjoyed the trip. Made me appreciate being indoors for much of the adventure. Good job guys. I enjoyed the slow pace, the music and narration.

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

thank you uncle Mike

This was so amazing! Great video, littered with amazing information. There is an awesome series of posts from a user on ClubTread Forum who went and tried to PackRaft down the upper pit river to Pitt lake from Garibaldi Provincial Park. I recommend to look that up if you haven't already!

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. I haven’t seen that thread, Clubtread banned me for posting my videos there. Did you hear about the French girl Nouria who brought a kayak over from Garibaldi and paddled it down the upper Pitt?

I have paddled to the logging camp twice to get to the hotsprings, and agree whole heartedly that this journey should be made by the power of the paddle. In a time where people just drop the money to fly or power boat in, I feel these people have missed the wonder of the journey. I was very curious how you guys were going to paddle up the river as there are very few areas that are slow, if any, and rapids and waterfalls abound, now I see. I did consider paddling down but was warned it was not safe with a single boat, even if skilled(which I am not). Congratulations on your trip

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I think the river changes a lot regarding danger. It came up quick when it rained, but in times of drought i think it would be pretty safe for most people.

i know of a couple places in the lower mainland if interested 79 creek is still producing 100 years later but its unclaimable for placer mining

First comment woot woot been waiting for this bro! Hiya from Seattle.

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

Hey buddy thanks for watching! Looking forward to getting out again once all this class PNW rain quits eh.

Great video, thanks for sharing. To bad you didn't find any gold. And that saw , painful to watch. Lol.

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. We didn’t really try that hard to find gold. The old Swede saw is how come my muscles are so big

To correct a mistake: I think the tracks we found at 29:00 are wolf tracks, not cougar. Not certain though.

Wow just wow. Me n my buddy just did asimilar 3 day trip. We kayak from grand narrows to the upper pitt lake and hiked to the hotsprings. Its doable for sure but it was too cold for us and gets dark prettry fast and temperature drops upto -10 when the sun goes down. How do you guys managed to get soaked and cold at the same time? Also sleeping in bivy would not be comfortable.. any tricks and tips? I loved that trip and would want to do more, except getting soaked and cold part. Thanks great video

@TrueCanoe

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Nice work on your kayak and hike trip. It's definitely austere out there in the autumn and winter, but worth it. I guess the way I deal with the cold and wet is mental toughness. I just really wanted to keep going and that outweighed the discomfort. Also, acclimatization. I'm just used to it from doing it so much. About bivying, I think I lose most of my heat to the ground, so I try and insulate myself off the ground well. I have a good air mattress, and sometimes i put my rucksack between the ground and that even. Anyway thanks for watching my video my friend.

@frankiebe4818

Жыл бұрын

@@TrueCanoe youre an inspiration. At first. We thought that the cold and wetness was so tought, but after seeing you and your vids, im inspired for sure and do alot of this!

@frankiebe4818

Жыл бұрын

@@TrueCanoe kzread.info/dash/bejne/mZV1xMyzhNrUZag.html

Beautiful documentary about my place of work. The only thing I can nitpick about it is that there's Black, Cinnamon and Brown bears a plenty up here in the 11+ yrs I've been here but no Grizzlies for over 30yrs here. Our RPFs, local residents and timber crews would have seen or found one by now if there was one. The salmon runs alone would draw him or her out for certain. So to say it's home to Grizzlies is actually quite inaccurate unless you have documentation or proof that we haven't seen. 10 months a year for 11yrs is a long time to not see something like that. Believe me, I'd be taking pics and bragging about it if that was the case. Love the shots otherwise. Nice work.

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Mike, thank you for the kind words. I definitely believe you about the Grizzlies. I've never seen sign there either. The reason I said there are Grizzlies in the Upper Pitt is because of this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Za6Nj6WOkcm1eto.html I also remember reading something about UBC people seeing Grizzlies (maybe on a trail cam, or maybe just sign) in a valley around Tingle Lake, which made me think they might roam to the river too. I do trust your long experience though. Thank you for watching the video.

I thought because its a water shed its heavily guarded and no panning or anything is allowed up there

@TrueCanoe

Жыл бұрын

you're thinking of the coquitlam river and coquitlam lake.

Pitt River? What country, province, state?

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

British Columbia, Canada. Not far from Vancouver.

@nickiewilson6985

2 жыл бұрын

It's in Pitt Meadows outside of Vancouver and it's the best place to go canoeing & swimming. Have been going yearly since 1979. But retired to Vancouver Island but will still go. ❤ We tried to Portage to the Fall's a few times & once ran into a Beaver Dam, so walk was also very enjoyable. But scary at night camping. 😆

Pitt lake is non tidal. The pitt river tidal boundary is waaaaaaaay lower than the lake. Its the cp bridge just up from were it meets the fraser … but cool video.

@kenryder6217

2 жыл бұрын

I guess its still considered tidal, witch is contradicting to the tidal boundary on the pitt river lol 😆

@TrueCanoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenryder6217 i guess its tidal for DFO. Water still goes up and down twice a day though. But for fishing i guess its considered non-tidal. way she goes.

@reverendaljones45

3 ай бұрын

@@kenryder6217 pitt lake is tidal, the given boundary on the pitt river is a boundary used for reference, it does not mean the tide ends there, on any given day there is approximately a three foot rise or drop in lake water elevation, if i was to the north of the boat launch by several kilometers headed southbound trying to get back to the launch in a zodiac with a five horse motor barely able to gain ground fighting the current its tidal all the way into the lake.