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00:00It was a freak accident. One second changed my entire life.
00:30I'm feeling a little bit anxious before we head out. Since my accident, I've been a lot
00:44more cautious and I realized my own mortality. I don't know what's going to happen. I haven't
00:54been out in a little bit. I really hope that it feels the way it used to feel.
01:05Okay, so I'm on the bush today. It's very wet. You can probably hear the rain behind me or all
01:12around me. Okay, hello everybody. Today we have an awesome guest. This is friend and fellow
01:19canoeing savant YouTuber Joe Robinette. Hey folks, Joe here. Joe here. Joe here. Joe and Wolfie here.
01:27He is a survival bushcraft guy but more so just a backcountry camper. He's built some amazing
01:34shelters and he's an OG when it comes to the outdoor YouTube world. I've only got a small
01:41backpack on and inside that I only have four pieces of gear. It's a beautiful day, a little
01:46bit overcast, a little chilly. Oh, hey guys, how you doing? Joe here. I'm super excited for
01:57this video, for this project. This is something I've wanted to do for a really, really long
02:01time camping off of a bike.
02:20I don't remember much from my accident. I don't remember much at all from the days leading up or
02:26the accident day. It was just a normal day, a Friday afternoon and we were having friends
02:31over and he decided he wanted to get on his bike. I didn't put my helmet on because I was
02:40just going around the block and I never made it back. I waited for about three hours before they
02:49let me in to see him. And they already had him completely sedated.
02:55My first thought was, this can't be happening. This cannot be happening. The doctor said to me,
03:03because I was positive, and he said to me, you act like you're expecting a miracle.
03:09And I said, I am expecting a miracle.
03:12Three weeks in a coma, airlifted to multiple hospitals, and permanent nerve damage in my hand.
03:24It was just a year prior that my youngest son had passed away. Joey didn't remember anything. He,
03:32you know, he would think that he heard Isaac out in the hallway and that was very difficult.
03:38To make my mom even go through that again herself and to relive it myself, it was really bad.
03:48I could have easily died. I could have easily been a vegetable and I'm very blessed. I'm very lucky to
03:54be here. Once I woke up and was home for a couple of days, I started really focusing on my career,
04:01my life, what I could be losing, what I needed to do and stuff. And not only that, the use of my hand,
04:07the use of protecting my family, the use of providing for my family, playing with my children,
04:12it has changed my life completely.
04:17Rehab sucked. There's no getting around it.
04:20I have to do things that feel uncomfortable.
04:24But I understand the outcome. If I don't use it, I lose it type thing, right?
04:29So, I have been busting my ass, doing as much stuff for my hand as I possibly can.
04:36The plan for this week is I have a small bushcraft style backpack loaded to the gills, but I only have one backpack.
04:55We're going to fly in on a float plane, me and the pup, and we're going to stay up for six nights.
05:00I have minimal gear, minimal camping gear, so I'm going to supplement that with natural materials
05:05and natural resources and food from the lake and wherever else I can find it, but mainly from the lake.
05:10The problem on going on a solo trip like this is like whether or not I'm going to be able to hack it.
05:16Can I paddle all day long? Can I set up a tarp? Can I build a shelter?
05:21It takes a lot of nimble, intricate stuff with your fingers. Can I even do that?
05:25I'm nervous. I'm a little nervous. I feel like I'm more nervous now when he goes out than I would have been before.
05:35I just think he needs to prove to himself that he's capable of doing what he used to be able to do.
05:40That he can stay out there for a week long.
05:44I try not to let on how worried I am because I don't want that to discourage him, but it worries me.
05:50It worries me how hard he's going to push himself and if he's going to know when he needs to take a break.
05:55Returning to the wild, being outside with a disability means that I have to adapt things.
06:06I do have a worry that I'm not going to get back into the same rhythm that I used to have.
06:10That is a big concern for me.
06:25We took a bush plane to get into this location.
06:43There's no roads, no access any other way.
06:45We're about 300 clicks from civilization in the middle of the wilderness.
06:48Good boy.
07:04Right here looks good, buddy.
07:06It's a little chilly.
07:07I can feel my hands starting to cramp up and ache up a little bit.
07:10I might even need to boil some water in my pot and then keep it next to me while I'm laying down.
07:15Because warmth really, really does help quite a bit.
07:17That's the time I have the most grip strength is when my hand is warm.
07:26Alright, so we're in the middle of the tarp there.
07:29Make some toggles up.
07:30Alright.
07:41Oh boy.
07:43Alright, we have a problem.
07:46I need to do everything again, I think.
07:50Yeah, it's going to take me a minute to get back into the groove of the swing of things.
07:55Alright, so the other cord is probably, the problem is, it's too slippy, not grippy.
08:04Too slip, no grip.
08:08Ooh.
08:09Toggle down.
08:12Touch.
08:13I think I'm going to lay right here.
08:14I'll be nice and covered.
08:15There's room for Wolfie.
08:17Freaking Joe's your uncle, buddy.
08:25I know how to camp.
08:35Shelter's a bit small, but we're one backpacking it up.
08:40We're going to build one, that's the plan.
08:41Build a big shelter, but not tonight.
08:43We just have to get set up tonight.
08:46Wolfie!
08:46I'm super happy to spend time with my dog outside.
08:51He brings a lot.
08:53Good job, buddy.
08:54Good job today.
08:56You good boy.
08:58Hey.
09:05Certainly no way that I've dealt with everything yet that's happened to me, even as far back
09:09as two years ago.
09:10Everything kind of just compounded on me, and I wasn't doing the right thing either.
09:17So this trip is going to be me getting over a lot of that.
09:20I hope I want that from this trip.
09:26All right.
09:27We hooked into a fish.
09:30Well, I decided to go out for a little paddle, see if I can catch anything.
09:34I hooked into a decent laker.
09:36I want to say like that big.
09:37This is probably about that big.
09:39But for real, good size laker.
09:42And slipped out of my hand.
09:44And now the rest of the fish are eating the laker.
09:49There's a little bit of a massacre on my boat.
09:52We've got to clean up.
09:52But that's just proof that I did actually do what I said.
10:00It's been a very long day.
10:02Got up super early in anticipation for this trip.
10:05Now we're here.
10:06I'm freaking ready to go to bed, though.
10:08I'm tired.
10:09I'm hungry.
10:11We couldn't pay for this experience, honestly.
10:14Eating freeze-dried chili.
10:16It's a little hot, buddy.
10:17Looking at what I'm looking at.
10:18This view.
10:25Six-star restaurant.
10:26Ten-star restaurant.
10:28Gordon Ramsay's got nothing on me.
10:29Slept real good last night.
10:38It was pretty cold.
10:40I have a one-degree bag, and it used every little inch of that.
10:45I'll have to find a good spot to make a permanent camp for like four nights.
10:48Pretty excited about that.
10:50Battling this wind with a single blade and a fully loaded canoe is not something I'm very used to.
11:11Mossy.
11:11That's good.
11:13Very good.
11:15Yeah, mossy.
11:16It's got lots of building material.
11:18Cool.
11:21I think this is where we're going to call home.
11:25So what I have to do is remove a couple little trees near me so that I have a clear, open sky above.
11:31The smoke can escape.
11:32No worries.
11:33I'm going to have a fire inside my shelter.
11:35The water's right there.
11:36It's very mossy, very wet.
11:38So it'll be good.
11:39I have to make a flat bed, so I'm going to use some boughs and some extra moss and some logs and stuff to make that.
11:46And it won't get done tonight.
11:49There's no way.
11:50But it'll be somewhat done and I'll still sleep in it.
11:52There's no way.
12:08I do have to put gloves on. It's hurting touching any stick at all. I brought gloves, little
12:28thin gloves for working with, and I really need to put them on. I'm going to do that
12:31right now. Every time I touch anything, even these needles off the spruce, it's just like
12:37nails. It's like glass shards all on my skin everywhere. It's just a horrible feeling.
12:42It's not the end of the world. I know the pain won't last or anything like that. It's just
12:46if I have gloves on, I don't feel that. So I'm going to wear them.
12:58I like touching things. I like walking on barefoot. I like having my shirt off. I like touching
13:02things on my hand. I like my skin touching nature. So it's like I don't really want to wear gloves
13:06all the time, but I don't want a shitty hand feeling all the time either. So a small price
13:15to pay.
13:21My idea about just sleeping under the stars tonight probably isn't a great idea considering
13:26it keeps raining on and off all day. I had to cover up my bowels for my bed because they're
13:31going to get soaking wet.
13:32I remembered today's Isaac's anniversary while I was doing this. And it kind of just hit
13:38me.
13:39My brother Isaac passed away on May 24th, two years ago. And it kind of just hit me. My brother
13:43Isaac passed away on May 24th, two years ago. Almost a year later, on May 17th, I got knocked
13:50out unconscious unconscious. And I was asleep for three weeks. So I was definitely asleep for
13:57his one year. And I got knocked out unconscious. And I was asleep for three weeks. So I was definitely
14:05asleep for his one year anniversary passing. I feel like I should have done more. I raised
14:12that kid like my son. And I got knocked out unconscious by the way. And I got knocked out unconscious.
14:18I was asleep for his one year anniversary passing. I just feel like I should have done more.
14:25I raised that kid like my son.
14:35He didn't have a dad, just like I didn't have a dad.
14:40I just feel bad for my mom.
14:47Isaac was my baby.
14:49He was a very kind, very generous person.
15:07It's important for me to spread his ashes today.
15:12To me, it's important.
15:13I was hoping for a nice sunset.
15:20I might still get that.
15:23I don't think it'll be like yesterday, but that's okay.
15:29I asked for him at the hospital.
15:31I got asked to talk to him, and they wouldn't let me.
15:37Then I got home, and they still wouldn't let me.
15:39Let me call Isaac.
15:40What's going on?
15:40Where is Isaac?
15:41Let me call him.
15:42Why can't I call him?
15:43I started getting angry.
15:44And my mom and my wife had to come in and tell me,
15:48two days after I woke up from my coma,
15:50that my brother had actually died.
15:56My brain didn't let me remember that.
16:00It was such...
16:02So I had to learn it for a second time,
16:05which hurt a lot again.
16:10Oh, Isaac.
16:11Isaac.
16:13Isaac.
16:17Isaac, I hope I never forget you, man.
16:21I hope the memory never fades at all.
16:26I hope the feeling never fades either.
16:29You're worth it.
16:30I hope he's...
16:49I hope he's...
16:51I hope he's...
16:53I hope he's...
16:55I hope he's...
16:59I hope he has peace.
17:01I hope he has peace.
17:02So today, I really wanted to restructure my shelter.
17:19I really needed to fix the floor,
17:22make it a level bed.
17:23I even contemplated just using a tarp
17:26and not even doing the natural shelter thing,
17:28just putting the tarp around it
17:30for a couple different reasons.
17:32But, like, that's the reason that I came here.
17:34And there's enough materials right around.
17:37No problem.
17:38I can do it.
17:39So I'm going to do it.
17:41It's a lot of work.
17:42And it's a nice day.
17:43I'm feeling very good.
17:45It's a good feeling.
17:45It is coming back to me.
17:46It's a good feeling.
18:16I'm going to take a break.
18:22After that, I'm going to gather some more moss
18:23and patch in the holes that I can really see that need it.
18:26But as far as the shelter, it's like 99% done.
18:30It's basically just a tripod tied together,
18:33raised up,
18:34some support pieces on top of it.
18:44Pretty cool.
18:46Last night, I spread the ashes that I had with me
18:53into the water
18:54and just kind of had a good cry out there.
18:58The worst thing I can imagine is forgetting him.
19:07So I just want to keep...
19:09I talk to him all the time.
19:13I just want to keep doing that.
19:15I don't know how to get over it.
19:29How's that for dexterity?
19:46I'm hooked into a fish.
19:59Pretty happy with that.
20:00Nice little egg trout.
20:01Oh, third time's a charm.
20:17Oh, that was my fault.
20:18Sorry.
20:19So we got basically a finished shelter
20:22all in one and a half days, I'd say.
20:24Not even.
20:24I've never built one of these before
20:26and I'm pretty pleased with the progress.
20:31I cannot lie.
20:32At the beginning of the day, it was daunting.
20:35I feel very accomplished, which is nice.
20:38I haven't had that feeling in a long time.
20:41Sitting at home for the past year was really bad.
20:44I just felt like a loser, like I was worthless.
20:49And now being out here,
20:52even though it's just something as silly
20:53as just building a fort in the woods,
20:55you know what I mean?
20:56It's like, it's one thing I'm good at.
20:58I thrive at it.
21:14Okay.
21:32Come on.
21:33Yes.
21:34Up, up, up, up.
21:35Today was an exploration day.
21:38Got me on the water a little bit more
21:40than I was in the past.
21:42Exploring, I also needed to get rocks
21:44and I got the rocks.
21:45So that happened.
21:45I explored, I found where the portage was.
21:53Wolfie got to run quite a bit,
21:55which is awesome
21:55because he slept the whole day away
21:57the previous day.
21:58Oh, I figured today, day four,
22:15I should build myself a chair.
22:17So I whipped up a little tripod
22:18and I carry this little tiny piece of material.
22:21It's so thin, it's still nylon.
22:23It's just literally like a bag
22:25tired of sitting in the dirt.
22:26No more dirt merchant Joe.
22:28I was thinking to myself today
22:30how lucky I am
22:31to be able to jump right back
22:34in the swing of things.
22:35I do feel like my old self again.
22:38There's been a few hurdles since the accident.
22:41I was hung up on pain pills.
22:45I was drinking.
22:46I was depressed beyond belief.
22:48I thought everything was taken from me
22:50and I thought I couldn't do what I loved anymore
22:53or provide for my family anymore.
22:56A bad day is where I'm holed up in bed crying
23:00because the pain is so much
23:01and I'm depressed beyond belief.
23:04I put my family through bullshit,
23:08crazy nonsense.
23:09the main goal is to be a father to my kids.
23:12Like that's the driving force.
23:14I don't want to be an absentee father
23:16in any single way.
23:18My family gave me a journal.
23:22The adventure begins here
23:24and they wrote me all a lovely note
23:27for my birthday before I left
23:29and I didn't read it until I came out here
23:32and in an Emerald's note it said
23:34make sure you bring a fire starter
23:35and you didn't even read it
23:36and they brought it.
23:37It's not even a fire starter.
23:39She didn't even put Vaseline on it.
23:40It was just a thing.
23:40Just a thing we had.
23:42I love her.
23:42I love my kids
23:43and I wanted to keep something
23:45that reminded me of her.
23:51That sunset behind me is crazy.
23:54Oh my God.
23:56This is crazy in person.
23:58This is crazy.
24:01Holy smokes.
24:02This is an epic night.
24:15So today I had a lot of time to think.
24:16I woke up in my shelter,
24:18had a fire,
24:18had some tea,
24:19made some breakfast,
24:20just chilled out,
24:21went for a paddle with Wolfie.
24:22My head's very clear.
24:23It's like day five I think.
24:25I'm not only comfortable,
24:26I'm like I'm where I need to be right now.
24:28My mind always starts to work properly out here.
24:31It starts to give me good ideas and thoughts
24:32and I figured what's a little pain?
24:37I think that I can condition my hand
24:40to not feel like it's touching hot shards of glass
24:43when I'm touching things that are a little bit bumpy.
24:45I find myself grabbing things with my right hand always
24:48instead of my bad hand
24:49and overcompensating
24:51and that's going to do two things.
24:53It's going to keep my bad hand bad
24:54and it's going to overwork my other arm
24:56and my other hand
24:57and I don't want to do that.
24:59It's not why I want to be here
25:00out here doing things
25:01because it's like I want to just use it
25:03as much as possible
25:04and I feel like it's only going to get better with use.
25:07I want to try to get a Beaudrill fire going today.
25:10What I need to do is get
25:11eastern white cedar,
25:13hearthboard and spindle.
25:14Oh precarious.
25:20Yeah, that's bone dry.
25:22Sweet.
25:24I'm going to make my bearing block
25:28out of birch wood
25:30and I'm going to make my bow
25:32out of a birch sapling.
25:51I have made fire!
25:52I'm shaking.
25:54I'm so excited.
25:55I'm shaking.
25:58Man, today couldn't have went better.
26:01Still got it.
26:02Still got it.
26:08My hand was pretty good today.
26:10I made the decision
26:11to stop babying it at all.
26:14I feel like my grip strength
26:15might be getting a bit better too
26:16and I didn't lose my passion,
26:18my creativity in the outdoors.
26:21Oh boy.
26:23The shelter, man.
26:23I can't even wait to get into it.
26:25Like, I just love spending time in there.
26:27It's sad that it's the last night in it,
26:30but I'm very happy that
26:31I was able to do it in the time frame that I had
26:33and it's really cool.
26:35And it looks pretty sweet too.
26:36and it's really cool.
27:15Being able to be out here and do everything on my own, and being independent again, even
27:30as far as taking care of Wolfie, I feel back to the old Joe.
27:45I'm going to sleep up on a rock above the water, which is so awesome, and I can have a little
28:06tiny smoky fire next to me until I fall asleep, and I think that will be sufficient enough
28:11for me to just cowboy camp, not worry about a shelter overhead.
28:18Boom!
28:25Yeah, boy!
28:29Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
28:36Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
28:41Peace!
28:46I'm going to get an early bedtime, you know, sundown's around 10 o'clock out here, so about
28:55then, and get up pretty early tomorrow morning.
28:58I've got a decent paddle and a few portages that are unknown.
29:02Oh, and the wind is supposed to kick up like crazy tomorrow, and I'm paddling right into
29:06it with a single blade, so I'd like to get out on the water as early as possible for that
29:10too.
29:37I was scared, I was apprehensive, and I was nervous about this.
29:53There's a lot of unknowns going into it.
29:55Man, every day was a surprise out there.
30:00Come on.
30:05Standing back and looking at that completed shelter, spending night after night in it,
30:09having a fire in there with my dog, man, it's just like choice.
30:12It's exactly, exactly what I needed.
30:14Dogs hold a special place in my heart.
30:25They've been super impactful, super important to me.
30:28Wolfie, he was one of the reasons I woke up from my coma.
30:45Every time they would lower down all the sedations and everything, she would have me talk to him a lot to try to see what we could get out of him before they would have to put him back under.
30:54And one of the last times that they had to do that, I was playing sounds of Wolfie.
31:00I heard him wooing, like I heard him doing his call.
31:12He actually said something back to us, like Wolfie or something.
31:16I can't even remember what the words, but it was just so much excitement that like, he knew that sound.
31:22I could have died, man.
31:26I could be dead right now.
31:29But here you are.
31:32Yeah, thank God.
31:36It's really weird.
31:37I can't explain being in the coma or anything.
31:39It's such a crazy feeling.
31:41I have a feeling.
31:42I lived a whole other life.
31:43I remember my wife just saying nice words.
31:45I remember just soothing energy from my wife.
31:49The doctors in the hospital, they were telling me I was hopeful, too hopeful.
31:52I needed to, and I said, you have no idea how stubborn this man is.
31:57And I think the best therapy is actually him being out there and doing these things that gives him that strength back.
32:04When he is out in the bush, he is more able to think straight.
32:10And I think he gets a lot of inspiration.
32:19It always happens that when I'm out there for an extended time by myself with a dog, what have you, I start to think clearly.
32:26The worst times of my life always, always, always have led to something out of this world. Phenomenal.
32:33I think that wallowing in your self-defeat and your own bullshit is never going to help anything.
32:42All the bad things I was doing, all the pain pills I was doing, the life I was living, it's done.
32:49And the wilderness is my savior.
32:55Come. Come.
32:57I feel like this was both a closing of a chapter and a beginning of something new.
33:01Looking forward, all I want to do is be very healthy.
33:06I want to be very healthy for a few different reasons.
33:08Camping is a huge part of it.
33:10My kids, my wife is a huge part of it.
33:13But like, I'm never going to go down that road again.
33:16And even the depression thing, I'm not fully over it.
33:19I'm very upset about my brother.
33:21I have some of his ashes right here too.
33:24But I can see improvement as well.
33:29I feel like the old Joe.
33:33I feel like strong.
33:34I feel healthy.
33:36And I want to stay that way.
33:37I think that other people can find the same exact enjoyment and fulfillment in other things.
33:42And finding your wilderness should be a main part of your life.
33:59And have some other stories I come back to you.
34:02You and I listen weekends nevermind.
34:03And know you lloven if you drive.
34:05And know that old Joe can be for oneasse of the romances.
34:08Are you under the mountain of the romances or the spits?
34:10Over the Mosaic Appeal of the House.
34:13Are they stepping onto the sunrise when you are near the river?
34:15Or are they other people of the river?
34:16That are themutters?
34:17That's nature.
34:18If we're all tierras of the ocean,
34:19the south force is in the south.
34:20After it happens because of the rocks trees may end up being down.
34:22Since the odd wineладire includes all the my old races.
34:23When you think about sports trees in the valley.
34:24With this day,
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