Watching your KZread video on my TV but have to comment on my phone. Awesome to see a young couple living their dreams. Someday I'm hoping to get up right but rite now taking care of my mom with Alzheimer's and babysitting 2 grandkids full time. Watching videos like this is my relaxing time.

Use whole yellow kernel corn to fish 🐟with THEY love it!!!!

JODI I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOUR WILDERNESS VIDEOS TO START AGAIN!! ❤️ I just enjoy these videos so much!

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! We hope to make another BWCA video soon ☺️.

@rochellklegstad3600

Жыл бұрын

Me too!!!! My favorite! I was camping near Nisswa this weekend!

Love y’all like what you do

Omg I miss the boundary waters so much thanks for the video

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

I hope you have a chance to make it back someday!

Props to you! Been watching your vids preparing for my first trip in 30 years to the BWCA. Thanks for all of the helpful information 👍🏼 I’m able to go with my sons and I’m so excited 🎉

So good to see you back in BWCA! I started following you because of your videos about BWCA years ago only to find out that you are from the same part of the state that I grew up! It’s been fun to watch your cabin build, but a revisit to BWCA is refreshing!!

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes, I also feel refreshed making these videos and doing these trips. My truest passion is BWCA camping. I am taking summer classes in my graduate program, so this summer might not be as BWCA focused. But I already am looking forward to another trip. ☺️☺️

great adventure love wilderness thank you for the video 👍👍👍

Nice to see you back in BWCAW

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

It felt nice to be back!

Great video!! Those bugs look like a honey bee swarm!

These videos are my favorite!

Congrats on 10000 subscribers ! Keep up the awesome videos

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

beautifully shot video great watch thoroughly enjoyed this adventure classsssssssss

Loved this video! Thanks for sharing. You guys are too cute. Don't you hate showing up somewhere that is supposed to be the middle of nowhere to find trashy people have left their garbage?! We are constantly picking up cans and garbage when we go out on our quads too. Thank you for cleaning up! :)

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

Yes it is tough. I don’t want to complain and be a downer in these videos but I figure it is part of the experience! Thank you for doing your part in cleaning up too ☺️☺️

Yeah I hate campfire bans, I would never go there now during a ban. It’s just not the same!

Always a treat when one of your BWCA videos comes out 😁

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! We are hoping to do a few trips this summer. We will film at least one more of them ☺️.

@tracyelsinger1088

Жыл бұрын

@jodimiddendorf how busy is the BWCA around the 4th of July? I'm considering a last-minute trip for that week, but am worried it'll be super crowded. But there are quite a few available permits so maybe not?

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

In the past it has been super busy around that time. At least on the Grand Marais side. But if you take a permit on a lake with lots of available permits you might have a quiet experience!

@tracyelsinger1088

Жыл бұрын

@@jodimiddendorf thank you for the feedback! Much appreciated :)

Think I've mentioned it before on one of your other videos. Maybe not. But you and Corey could get yourselves a Thermacell. Can get them for about $20-25 bucks at Walmart. Kind of looks like a beefy tv remote. It's got butane cartridges that go in the bottom. Then these blue pads. You flip the switch on, press the button until the little heat filament lights up. That'll heat the pad. Takes a few minutes and the thing will create approximately a 15' barrier that'll keep mosquitos away. The pads & butane cartridges are supposed to last about 4 hours. We can usually get more than that out of them. Lot of times, once the blue pad goes almost completely pale, you can flip it over and get a few more hours out of it. I have friends that hunt, fish and camp in the deepest woods in Canada and won't go out without a Thermacell. They work great, but if it's good and breezy, it's fairly useless. But, almost everyone I've shown them to and we've used it at get togethers has been impressed enough to go get one.

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

Yes! We do have a Thermacell. We do use it and like it. On this trip we pre-treated all clothing with permethrin, wore bug nets, sprayed 25% deet bug spray daily, and ran our thermacell when sitting outside at camp. With all of that, we found bugs to be manageable. Except those pesky mayflies. Hah I agree about the Thermacell. I think it is great!

@nahnotsomuch2292

Жыл бұрын

@@jodimiddendorf We were up at Leech Lake this past weekend for a fishing trip. The mayflies were ridiculous. They're absolutely repulsive.

Great video. My mom and I tried that creek from Snowbank to Parent Lake about 40 years ago when I was a teenager. We finally gave up about half way. I am so impressed you stuck with it and made it.

Love it there!

Would have been so cool to see the moose cross on video!

How fun! I am watching and thinking about how much I miss camping.. i used to take my horse to a State natural area (in Texas) and I’d pitch a tent, and then ride the miles and miles of trails, coming back to cook on my camp stove, rub down and feed my horse, and rest up to try a different trail the next day…. We’ve retired now and moved out of state. We have more livestock now that can’t be left unattended while we go away for several days to a week…. I’d love to go on a canoeing and camping fishing trip. Ya’ll need a net!

Been following for a while now. This is my fave video. Have to ask, how cold was that water that you swam in?

Thank you for your videos!! ❤ I live in the adirondack mountains in upstate NY. Beautiful area. Love to see your beautiful area where you live. So cool.

The worst day I ever spent on water is nothing compared to the drama of everyday life

Awesome BWCA content. I love these kind of videos. Thank you.

Cory looks like a 12 year old boy in the beginning of the video 🤣🤣🤣😭

Oh my goodness! I finally got to see the whole vid! You guys are so cute together!! We want more canoe camping vids!!!😊😊😊. Thank you both so much for picking up that campsite. I try to do what I can as well. I have those exact same darn tough socks that Corey was wearing, colors and all! 😁. I was extremely impressed that you guys were doing all those portages with water shoes as opposed to hiking boots. I think, from what ive seen in other vids from algonquian and quetico, that people wear hiking boots and thick socks and wear tbem into the water. They do it to protect ankles it seems. Anyway…. Good stuff here and take care. NQU

Cute earrings! And I just LOVE your videos. :)

Nice camp out. I was wondering if the canoe rests on the head when you pack it? If so you may be able to make a padded something that sets inside and the boat rests on the shoulders. The neck bones may be stressed unexpetantly.

@nahnotsomuch2292

Жыл бұрын

There is a bar that runs across the top of the canoe. Has two pads for your shoulders when you flip the canoe over to portage it. You'll be able to see them @1:16 of the video.

Maybe you will find the drone you lost a few years ago…or, better yet, that tree has blown down!

👍

I have always gotten an early start on any of my BWCA trips, ( on the water by 6 am). How do you find sites etc that late in the day? I stat to look for a site around noon.

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

I just get lucky and have always found a site. I definitely think it is a good idea to get an early start. I’m not advocating for an evening/afternoon start. BUT, when I used to work at Gunflint Lodge, I would enter the BWCA in the afternoon when I got off work and go for an evening paddle or for a 1-2 night camping trip. Often solo. I guess I just got used to starting a trip at 5, 6, or even 7pm and knowing I just had to take the first campsite I found. Now I live a bit farther away and it takes me 4-6 hours to get from my house to the entry point. Sometimes I prefer to get a late BWCA start rather than getting a hotel or camp spot outside of the BWCA and enter the following morning.

BWCA campsites have well fed snapping turtles. Never put your stringer of fish in the water at camp and walk away.

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

Good point. It was a decent sized turtle!

Did your dad work for Cargill? Crazy your videos just popped up and I said that has to be Marks daughter.

Seriously, couldn’t you guys just have found a nice hotel somewhere?? LOL!!!!

@tracyelsinger1088

Жыл бұрын

Where's the fun in that lol

@craigbfd1

Жыл бұрын

@@tracyelsinger1088 LOL!!

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

Haha we did that the week following this BWCA trip 😉.

@craigbfd1

Жыл бұрын

@@jodimiddendorf LOL!! Good choice! Comfy beds and no bugs😃

@notquiteultralight1701

Жыл бұрын

@@tracyelsinger1088i second that!!

I know that you carried out some trash that you find, but what do you do with the food packages that you use on your campouts? Do you burn the paper in the fire or carry it out?

@jodimiddendorf

9 ай бұрын

Good Question! I carry it all out. Personally, I do not burn any garbage in the fire. Paper is more likely to cause floating embers as it burns. If you're familiar with the Ham Lake Fire in BWCA (I highly recommend the book "Gunflint Burning") It is assumed that the fire started due to paper ember floaters. I think of that every time I have an urge to put paper in the fire.

What did you use to shoot the video? GoPro?

.Love your videos. But you really should lay your packs down in the canoe below the gunwales.

@jodimiddendorf

11 ай бұрын

I never think of that until I’m on the water. I need to get in the habit

@davidwaldrup1021

11 ай бұрын

@@jodimiddendorf want you to stay safe!!!

What lakes were these?

Better you than me. Not my idea of a good time.

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

Haha I get that. It’s definitely not for everyone. ☺️

@carolynberry5465

Жыл бұрын

@@jodimiddendorf I love fishing, but can’t do the camping thing. And I’m scared of snakes and bears. Lol

@jer6162

Жыл бұрын

​@@carolynberry5465I don't think they have snakes in Northern Minnesota if so not venomous.

@carolynberry5465

Жыл бұрын

@@jer6162 yes, there was a snake in the video.

Why didn’t you just turn around and head back out?

@jodimiddendorf

Жыл бұрын

We kept thinking we were almost there. 😅

@notquiteultralight1701

Жыл бұрын

@@jodimiddendorf ooohhh ok… ya.. id have to admit that ive been in similar situations.