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Running Whitewater on My Dog’s First Paddling Adventure and a Stop at a Blacksmith’s en Route to Pick Up a New Hudson Bay Axe: Beginning at my homestead, my buddy Kyle and I portaged the canoe and our dry bags down to the river. Our plan was to tandem paddle numerous whitewater rapids on this paddling adventure which would take two days to complete. On the way, we'd stop at Black Smith Chris Johnston's off-grid homestead and forge. Chris lives along the river and operates a small business called Adventure Forge where he fabricates Hudson Bay Axes and Tomahawks among other things (see Chris' links below). Additionally, it was my dog North's first ever canoe trip (North is 8 months old) and this was no ordinary canoe adventure, it's an advanced level whitewater trip! To boot, it was my friend Kyle's first whitewater canoe trip too. Kyle is a northern bush guy who's worked as a prospector and is no stranger to roughing it but he's never paddled serious rapids in a canoe before. Needless to say, things could get interesting on this one as the Upper Magnetawan was flushing at a solid, 60 cubic meters per second.

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Chapters:

0:00 Portaging to the River From My Homestead & Paddling Trip Overview
3:51 Running the First Rapids, Close Call!
5:10 Scouting & Running a Boulder-strewn Rapid, & Training Dog
8:02 Sketchy Take-out, Jim Falls In & Portage
13:27 Dog Jumps Out of Canoe & Swimming Garter Snake
15:33 Solo Rapids, INTENSE Class 3 Ross Rapids!
18:05 Eddy-Out Above a Waterfall, Short Portage & Pemmican
23:18 Dog Does Amazing Job at Running Around Rapids, Fun Run!
27:10 Technical Class 3 Cody's Rapids Awesome Run!
37:07 Suprise Rapids & Paddling Through Long Culvert
31:49 Meeting the Blacksmith, Making Hudson Bay Axe & Working with Anvil & Forge
49:09 Running Rapids With Blacksmith & Ferrying Dogs Across River
54:39 Portaging Upper Burnt Chute
57:40 Scouting & Running a Class 3 Whitewater Canyon!
1:04:21 Arriving at Campsite & Chopping Down Dead Tree With New Hudson Bay Axe
1:06:04 Setting up New MSR Tent
1:07:32 North's New Sponsor First Mate Pet Foods
1:10:06 Over the Fire Cooking Steaks & Potatoes
1:12:41 Recap of the Day's Adventures
1:17:33 Breaking Camp, GSI French Press Coffee & Camp Stove
1:23:18 Finding Cool Waterfall
1:24:18 Portaging Lower Burnt Chute, Beautiful Views
1:31:47 Final Stretches of the River
1:33:21 Wahwashkesh Lake & My Wife & Kids Come to Pick Us Up With a Cold Beer.