The Columbia River Canoe Project follows cousins Robert Lester and Braxton Mitchell as they attempt a 1,300-mile canoe e | dG1fLVd0QmZvTXpmbWM
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00:00I originally thought of this when I was a little kid.
00:07We're going from Butte, Montana, at the Continental Divide, down the Clark Fork of the Columbia
00:13River all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
00:15It'll be around 1,300 miles.
00:18We're going to canoe human powered the whole way, so we'll either walk, paddle, or float
00:24the entire distance.
00:31I've actually never canoed before.
00:34I heard that Robert was doing it, and I thought it was crazy.
00:37I was like, yeah, I'm in trouble.
00:38I'm really digging deep to find somebody to come.
00:42Braxton said, I'll go, and I looked at him, and I said, are you sure?
00:46I thought, you know, I'll just learn how to do it.
00:48How hard can it be?
01:04If I was going to do this trip, I wanted to try and see if we could have the biggest positive
01:08impact we could.
01:10We have to protect what's left of our planet's rivers, because only with healthy rivers can
01:16we have healthy ecosystems.
01:19One domino falls in one of these ecosystems changes everything.
01:28I think it's going to take a while.
01:29I think it's like 40 to 60 days.
01:32We'll get through the miles.
01:34It's a little long.
01:35I've actually never been this sore before.
01:36Well, it's still just crazy windy.
01:41Robert's comfortable in whitewater, but I'm not.
01:43The rapid was a little bit bigger than I thought it was going to be.
01:47I kind of panicked.
01:48Like, I was really scared.
01:49Like, I thought I was going to drown, for sure.
01:55I think this expedition to canoe from the continental divide all the way through the
02:01Columbia system and out into the Pacific, like, that's badass.