I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen this youtube video? It's four young Canadian guys who do a far north trip from Pickle L. ( i think it's the one near the northwestern corner of Wabakimi) up to Fort Severn on Hudson Bay.

Absolutely epic.

One of the guys interviewed said essentially, "I love being out here but I'll never come back here and do this (set of) river(s) again!". It was brutally hard portaging and paddling upstream for perhaps half the trip.

Looked like fun though. :) NINE RIVERS

Really well filmed and edited too.

Yes,
Saw it some years back and have watched it many times. Excellent canoe tripping film. I only wish it was longer. Favorite quote:" There was a time when we had a lot of smokes, now we have three smokes." I would also suggest Broadback by David Hartman as well.

Broadback

Yes, I remember that quote! I was impressed at how hard they were working and still able to smoke :) I would've thought that their lungs would be burning. One guy (actually nearly all four of them) looked particularly burned-out by the time they were only a quarter of the way through the journey.

They were bushwhacking portages where there weren't any...impressive paddling mileage...going upstream a good portion of the way.

I'll check out the link. If there are other videos of far north river travels, feel free to suggest. Thanks!

Robert Perkins films, some of far north solo trips. As I recall, they were done some years ago. I saw them on PBS years ago.

Thanks deerfoot. I'll check them out.

The latest Jim Baird solo on a Yukon river is really good. He releases an episode (day of the trip) every thursday evening. Ep. #8 was put out last week.


Eleven day solo yukon wilderness EP. 1

YouTubers who have excellent wilderness canoe tripping videos include:

Justin Barbour (Newfoundland and Labrador) has a great backlog of videos to watch, but probably won’t have much new for months as he is out on a 4-season expedition up in northern Quebec at the moment.
Jim Baird as already mentioned
Canoe the North - Keenan and Ashley plus his dogs BettyLou and Hugo
Jonathan Kelly and Erin ? on Lost Lakes, especially for fishing while tripping
Brad and Leah Jennings on Explore the Backcountry.
And several others. Just by chance the ones I mentioned above all happen to be Canadian. And for winter dreaming of long expeditions, check out Northern Scavenger. They post single videos of smaller trips, and multi-part sagas on month-long epic adventures.