Jim Baird documents the "true wilderness" experience of a 14-day, 300-km canoe expedition through the Canadian sub-Arctic in this four-part series. Episode 2 follows the crew's first days exploring the Northwest Territories' rugged Mountain River, from riverside moonscape scenes to breathtaking natural springs, as well as some surprise plans.
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00:00So here we are on the mountain river at Cachet Creek, you guys are doing a little bit of
00:07fishing.
00:08Yeah!
00:09We've got an arctic grayling, beautiful fish.
00:10It's beautiful.
00:11Ted's caught another fish!
00:12Woo!
00:13It's a beautiful Dolly Varden trout.
00:14Gorgeous.
00:15That's a Dolly Varden char caught on a number one net spinner.
00:38I am going to do a little bit of a Dolly Varden barbecue.
00:42Caught a nice Dolly Varden char, butterflied it, and now I'm going to splay it out using
00:47a special method that's used by the natives of the Pacific Northwest, and I'm going to
00:51roast it over the fire.
00:57Oh, that's delicious.
01:09So today is day six.
01:11Last night we camped at what is marked on the map as Great Campsite Island.
01:16Camping itself was not so great, we had to move a bunch of boulders, however, the view
01:20is amazing.
01:21I haven't told anyone yet, we're not planning on proposing to Heather this trip.
01:28We're just on the show alone, and we won, and so we got a big check coming our way.
01:36Yeah!
01:37I'm not exactly sure where it's going to go down, I'm going to try to find that little
01:41like perfect threshold where she's feeling happy and I'm feeling happy, and it's like
01:46a special moment, and that's when I'm going to do it.
01:54Oh no, this is it, Tad!
02:11Let's pull over.
02:12We are at the very cool moonscape on the mountain river here in the spectacular Northwest Territories.
02:21We just pulled over, had lunch, and we're going to explore this moonscape because that's
02:26what it really looks like, it's a moonscape, it's unbelievable.
02:29I can't really explain it, it just feels like you're on the moon.
02:32We're going to check it out, hike around for a bit, pack up, get in the boat, rip another
02:3620 click.
02:37Look at this!
02:38This is just absolutely spectacular.
02:39We're here on the mountain river in the Mackenzie Mountains, we just pulled up to one of the
02:56canyons.
02:57We got Tupa Springs here, beautiful creek with awesome fishing, a mind-blowing canyon,
03:04and man is it mind-blowingly beautiful.
03:14This has got to be the coolest thing I've ever seen.
03:18This is so cool.
03:22Yes!
03:26Amazing!
03:33Wow!
04:04Oh my god, we have some unbelievable news.
04:08And I just see them like hugging and kissing and it seems very like emotional and romantic.
04:13I realize Heather's crying and she's wiping away tears and I was just like, they're standing
04:18in front of this beautiful waterfall and like he must have asked her to marry him.
04:22Oh my god.
04:23That's the only explanation.
04:24I don't even know, let's go find out though.
04:26Let's see that rock.
04:27My dirty finger.
04:28Holy shit, look at that thing.
04:30Me and Spaghetti Moose are engaged.
04:32Yay!
04:35But seriously, yay.
04:37I love you.
04:38I love you.
04:39Yay!
04:40It's very exciting.
04:41Yay!
04:42Yay!
04:43It's Heather!
04:44Yay!
04:45Heather and I.
04:46Heather.
04:47Yay!
04:48The mountain river.