Packrafting & Hiking Vancouver Island: 30 Days Solo

This video shows highlights from my month-long, 775 km (480 miles), solo packrafting+hiking trip from one end of Vancouver Island to the other in the summer of 2020. I've posted a write-up about this trip (including maps and a gear list) here: https://www.diypackraft.com/matts-vancouver-island-traverse-2020/

0:00 Oak Bay (Victoria, BC, Canada)
0:15 Gonzales Point
0:38 Fort Rodd Hill
0:50 Hatley Castle & Royal Roads University
1:26 Trans Canada Trail (a.k.a. The Great Trail)
1:59 Malahat First Nation
2:17 Bears on the Trans Canada Trail
2:39 Shawnigan Lake
2:55 Kinsol Trestle (Trans Canada Trail)
3:17 Slug and Frogs
3:51 Cowichan Valley Trail
3:57 Owl
4:11 Cowichan River
4:47 Squirrel
4:52 Cowichan Lake
6:14 Bushwhacking (Cowichan Lake to Nitinat River)
6:37 Nitinat River
9:29 Bears on the Nitinat River
10:23 Roosevelt Elk bull
10:30 Thimbleberries
10:35 Bushwhacking between Nitinat River and Alberni Inlet
11:10 An Unplanned Detour
11:41 Baby seal hiding in a crevice
11:48 Crossing Alberni Inlet
12:42 The floating post office at Kildonan, BC
12:44 Bear at Elhlateese
12:53 Intense Bushwhack to Henderson Lake
13:29 Henderson Lake
13:44 Cedar
13:50 Nahmint Lake
15:03 Nahmint River
15:20 Sproat Lake
16:27 Doran Lake
17:23 Bushwhack to Great Central Lake
18:04 Great Central Lake
18:27 Della Falls Trail (Strathcona Provincial Park)
19:19 Bushwhacking & Scrambling up the Drinkwater Valley
21:14 Little Jim Lake
21:26 Cream Lake Trail
21:38 Bedwell Lake Trail
21:50 Arnica Lake Trail
22:19 Phillips Ridge
26:56 Carter Lake route from Phillips Ridge
27:34 Schjelderup Lake
28:02 Burman Ridge
28:22 Burman Lake
29:09 Bushwhack from Burman Lake to unnamed lake
30:11 Unnamed lake
30:23 Bushwhack from unnamed lake to Donner Lake
32:10 Donner Lake
32:28 Hiking from Donner Lake to Vernon Lake
33:21 Vernon Lake
34:30 Sebelhall River & Nimpkish River
37:20 Woss Falls
37:26 Bear
37:28 Magnetite & Pyrrhotite
37:49 Little Huson Caves
38:33 Huson Lake
38:39 Atluck Lake
38:51 Doe & fawn
38:56 Tahsish Valley
39:40 Fossils & Disappearing River
40:18 Steller's jays
40:20 Benson River
40:27 Devil's Bath cenote
40:33 Alice Lake
41:03 Marble River Provincial Park
42:01 Salmon run (Marble River)
42:47 Varney Bay
43:00 Crossing Quatsino Narrows
43:08 Holberg Inlet
43:48 Seal
43:51 Bear
44:03 Seal
44:09 Sea Otter (endangered species)
44:33 Rain on Holberg Inlet
44:47 Another Bear
45:05 Another Bear
45:24 Another Bear
45:31 Holberg - The Scarlet Ibis Pub
45:34 Cape Scott Trail
46:11 Nels Bight
46:29 A four-letter word
46:50 To the Lighthouse
47:10 Fresh bear poop and bear tracks
48:24 Fresh wolf tracks
49:14 Cape Scott Lighthouse
49:52 Guise Bay
50:04 Giant wolf prints
50:52 Experiment Bight
51:08 Sea Lions
51:22 Shore birds
51:57 Nels Bight
52:19 Cape Scott Trail (return)

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