Mountain River Adventure — Part 2 - video Dailymotion

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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.

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