Across the Arctic Wild: 20-Days Wilderness Camping Through the Barrens to the Arctic Ocean - E.9

[@Karen-dq8nw]

The north without caribou and wolves would be sad indeed. Such beautiful country!

[@montanamott3397]

I just LOVE the way you see and explore everything that is interesting. Small, large, don't matter--it's cool! You got an eye, Jim!!

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

Cool, thanks!

[@Highway22-td9wf]

I appreciate the knowledge and research that goes behind your adventures. The history we get as you travel each point makes your videos that much more meaningful.

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

I’m glad you like that aspect as it’s all stuff that fascinates me.

[@loriecorona8316]

Another great video! Thank you for sharing footage of relics from the past, animals that could go extinct and showing us beautiful countryside . What a beautiful trout ! The color of its fins were so striking!

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@sandywatson6520]

The bugs! Crazy

[@ronin36963]

Nice find on that giant boulder

[@carolwilson9341]

I think your morning coffee was so yummy was related to the number of blackflies in it.

[@KMLifeadventure]

Glad you stopped to look at that boulder that was really cool. I think your observation was right. Wolf was good to see as well. Cheers

[@robmatthews2128]

Awsome where you are headed with the new member group i will continue to support you as much as i can liking and viewing commercials im on a very limited budget but i will always be lifting you and your entire family up in prayer. Thank you for the opportunity to join life from your perspective.

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

All my regular programming will still be free, that’s just some bonus stuff available if you sign up

[@pacificbushcraftandfirecra6358]

To walk the land of such magnitude... to exist in a place of such timeless beauty. Absolutely epic JB! Thanks for sharing with us all!

[@deborahparnell8862]

What could I possibly say that you don't already know..like..this one that you created was soooo magnanimous and heavenly to all my senses and senses I've never experienced..extremely healing to my sadness of this world..I just let go and let the blessing happen..damn!!! That there video is gold to me..ty..xoxo blessings to y'all in every way ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@marygordon3032]

Hey Jim and Ted, love the white water and the way you get the explorations in! 👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯

[@dyannejohnson6184]

Yes , I loved Farley Mowat’s I had all the books at one time…even at my age I’m a rolling stone….it’s just now I’m spinning my wheels and getting nowhere….thank goodness for this adventure!

[@Alsatiagent-zu1rx]

Wolves do not like to be seen. That was a good catch! Ted really has to dodge those rocks in his collapsable. You both look too calm running those rapids. I don't know why this chsnnel doesn't have more subs. It's so no nonsense and hardcore yet the curiosity remains high.

[@NickRayLifeAfloat]

I’ve often wondered Jim, how you cope with the challenges on the wild environment and the potential loss of wilderness. You must worry about this a lot! Here in Scotland I find I worry about fish farms and over development. However, the loss of wilderness for you in Canada must be even more keenly felt. I’m a huge fan of your films and thank you.

[@kccox3446]

😂😂😂sitting here with my finger on the start button and jim pops up YAY!!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ZieqF]

Let's go!

[@margaretmacinnis1781]

The second half of this trip is really top notch!

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

Ya, I should have just done one video of all the lakes together and gotten into this part

[@luluwan5212]

Caribou and an Arctic Wolf! And Whitewater...Love this Series.

[@Vickyscampingobsession]

That Arctic wolf was epic! The idea that a road of any kind going through the barrens is pretty disturbing….pray for the caribou herds🙏🏻

[@sofy38455]

Penemuan yang sangat mengagumkan

[@leanesmith7581]

Hope Ted had a headache free trip

[@Goldwaschen-mit-Tom]

Hello you two, what an awesome video. Very nice scenes. The drone shots are great. Thank you. You gave me a happy time with coffee and liverwurst bread. Thank you. Greetings Goldwaschen mit Tom🤗

[@throughmysails]

Tremendous episode, Jim. Melodic in your philosophy of travel/explore/live in harmony with the North 🛶

[@alariaesculenta8177]

Great ! 🛶 I feared you had abandoned the Arctic Series 🏕🌌 Amazing land, I can picture some of Farley Mowat's stories like Farfarers

[@ericdanielson4177]

I loved those Mowat stories as a kid. Now I get to see the Barren Grounds thru this series.

[@tyleroneill2636]

He is running two different series at the same time.

[@Geoff321]

People sure do learn alot from your videos. At least I do. Keep it up!

[@tigersbaseball1989]

I gotta say the music on some of the rapid runs really added to the vibe. Another awesome vid Jim! Much love!

[@thewagonwitch]

You guys! Respect to both of you and what you are doing. You inspire me to get out there and live life to the fullest possible. You also promote respect for Nature and the wilderness.... a noble cause. I shall be binge watching! Yeeeaaahhhhh!

[@kimvanderlaan4120]

Jim another gorgeous video! Watching your videos is heaven. But, I’m still laughing at Hudson putting your sunglasses on and saying “ I’m Jim Baird” 😂😂

[@EYES2seeEARS2hear78]

The beautiful elusive arctic wolf. Excellent find gentlemen.

[@janicecraig2364]

How is Ted’s canoe holding up? The drone footage following behind him was awesome.

[@clearlyepic9958]

Always go full screen for Jim, Ted, John and Xander… better than anything on Discovery or NatGeo!

[@adrianlois6284]

Great video of the whole Artic series🎣🎣🐟🫎🚣 I love it 👋

[@aannddiiffeerroouuss]

Perfect timing! Let's go!

[@BuckMckawtheotherone]

Always rewarding to watch. Fun, exciting, informative, inspirational. Thank you Jim.

[@tawandanozama4403]

Baird Brothers❣❣

[@rfraser8752]

Cool find on that boulder. Would be cool if one of your viewers happened to be an Inuit historian and confirmed your thoughts (or corrected…)!

[@richardplunk3910]

Thanks again for a great trip 🍺👍safe travels

[@evanpicotte9193]

Wow so amazing ! How you deal whit those flies, what are you using to keep them away.

[@asimally9468]

AWESOME BROTHERS DUO ADVENTURE... WHAT A PLACE THE WOLF TAKES MY BREATH AWAY ..

[@jerrydague]

Great adventure guy's Cheers👍😎👍

[@jorgedomena9443]

Another good video like always, thanks 👍

[@AChildofLightHEATHER]

Keep the wild places wild! No to the road! Man needs to have respect for nature like the natives do, drives me crazy how people think they can just do whatever the heck they want😢God bless

[@alancall5113]

good times great memories🎉

[@manuelwebe]

Well done, speaking against an Arctic road. Jim, you must rise your voice more often on conservation issues. Not only the caribou are struggling against development, climate change, oil and mine exploration and many other anthropogenic negative affects, but the whole arctic is in urgent need of more conservation ambassadors.

[@sherrierifenberg2199]

Always love your adventures!TY!

[@lemottes]

I've seen caribou in my area disappear from wilderness areas after resource roads have been put through the country. The moose here will live in your back yard but from my observation, Caribou need their space and want nothing to do with human presence, even in the form of a low traffic resource road.

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

It definitely seems to be the case

[@dedwin8930]

Thanks for another great video!!!

[@Nextdoorneighbor625]

Glad you are back with the rest of the story great job

[@pacificbushcraftandfirecra6358]

Beautiful wster and land! A road just isn't nessesary. Thanks for sharing JB!

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

You bet

[@Notellemkrik1776]

Phenomenal sharing , thanks 😅

[@CanadianSledDog]

That road project sends chills down my spine - you're in one of the last strongholds of the natural world right there! One might go so far as to say this place is one of the last good things we haven't wrecked yet in this world!

[@tonyupham2340]

Sensational footage of a truly remote wilderness, awesome!!

[@soupy107]

The big boulder.. maybe a place to store their catch. High up and covered in rocks

[@Lance-vd2fo]

Happy halloween jim and ted

[@kevinfoley7704]

Great video.

[@adamlovelee7596]

Thank you for another great video. And Hello from Australia, myself and my family I really enjoy your videos. Keep doing what you're doing, I hope they never build that road, thoughs caribou and magnificent 👏

[@ralphwatten2426]

Franklin must have lost all his fishing tackle because I think an expedition could survive quite well on the Lakers and Grayling, ya think? Jim, I hate to disagree with you but I'm pretty sure the Swedes make the best and probably first pea soup. They probably imported the peas from France...just sayin'. Maybe you could address any issues Ted had with his folding canoe. Damage, weaknesses, that kind of thing. Again another fine wilderness/arctic video. Thanks so much!

[@brendaguthrie2994]

Be safe! We don’t want Ted to have to cannibalize you!

[@LeeEttaWells]

❤❤😊

[@TroyBourque-eh1er]

The Qamanirjuaq caribou heard is doing well.

[@michaelreid819]

yyyeeeeaaaahhhhh!!!!

[@kjames8299]

White wolf cool.My dog white..like buck but more leggy and thin

[@coreyactor]

@JimBairdAdventurer Hey Jim have you possibly looked into the energy generators that use a turbine that you drop in the water they would be perfect to charge up batteries along with solar when you're in non rapid water as you're constant movement would keep the turbine spinning therefore charging up any battery even when there is no sun available to use any solar charge would be potentially useful for a lot of different type of trek.

[@alariaesculenta8177]

@coreyactor Very interesting "concept, great idea ! Do you have any leads, any one who make these ? Also wind energy, micro turbines is a good option, I think there's a company in Ottawa for this

[@coreyactor]

​@@alariaesculenta8177I posted a couple of posts with some few products one even a KZbin video and I guess you can't even post other KZbin videos on this comment section so so much for sharing product ideas with other people

[@lindacsmith13]

you and your boys should do a collab with Luke of the outdoor boys and his sons. I'd watch that!

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

That’s would be pretty cool for sure. His channel has really blown up. I’m probably small potatoes for him.

[@kccox3446]

🎉🎉🎉yay im 3rd

[@Brendanno100]

You'd have thought they would've carried the equipment to catch fish on that expedition, loved the terror TV series, not as good as this one though lol 👍

[@davemayers9342]

Ever heard of Mount Edziza Park in Telegraph Creek, BC?? Originally 104,000 hectares, it has slowly and quietly been reduced to just 5000 hectares because it is believed to contain a lot of gold. Profit over nature wins again.

[@curtissnyder9818]

You need to recognize, on camera, how great is your brother.

[@justinlake7232]

I can only speak for caribou Labrador but I have no reason to doubt this can apply elsewhere as well. There is a well established roughly 80 year population cycle (partly confirmed through HBC records) that likely has to do with food availibility. However as the herds in Labrador have reached the bottom of the cycle (George River herd was several hundred thousand in mid 1990s, now 5000 ), numbers have not recovered. Habitat is intact and food should be available but calf survival is extremely low. It may be climate change bringing more ice in winter that may prevent caribou from being able to dig through to moss ice below. It is also well documented in at last some places there are a lot more shrubs as temperatures become warmer so there are changes happening that caribou may be struggling to adapt to.

[@donaldreinholz3745]

Hopefully, they never build a road through there , extremely beautiful country wish I was there

[@DimensionalHorse]

We need more predator control, that's what's happening to our wild life food source!!! Great video!

[@PRINCESSDREAMYLYN]

Well if Canada is anything like the U.S. Fish and Wild Life controllers they have been harming the wild animals for a very long time. Culling deer and elk and wolves and many other animals. Some state's have even fed rabbits food to sterilize them so they can't reproduce therefore coyotes have little to no natural food and the farmers and ranchers kill the coyotes and so yeah. Men are the worst predators on Earth. The herd animals keep the grass lands mowed and then if there are wild fires they burn and fertilize the ground bring back lush vegetation. The eco system has suffered at the hands of men playing god to the detriment of all life even ours.

[@thegreatoutdoors2272]

another great video! Just curious where you guys got your hats from? Teds and yours, really nice looking lids!

[@TroyBourque-eh1er]

Caribou are curious, you don’t need a blind to hunt them, let them see you, sit still, and they’ll come to you.

[@jeffwisemiller3590]

What if you weighed your food prior to & after drying? Then you would know how much water to add to reconstitute your meal. Metric makes it simple since 1 gram = 1 ml.

[@limerick1316]

Hey Jim- Did you ever ask an expert to look at the stuff on that big boulder that appeared to be left by humans? Wondering what the cross on the rock was symbolic of. Thx- Nancy

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

I just did. We will see. I asked her to be on my podcast too

[@tommurphy6972]

you seem yo handle that canoe well for a single paddles. I can tell it's a nova, but what size is it. the set up on top and those things

[@SullivanBrice13]

What waterproof solar charging device are you using? Great series!

[@BillStaton-sm4nw]

Teddy Poo was leading because of the much larger coffee cup.

[@jasonlynch2919]

Another great video. A shame if the develope the north. Let's do everything for humans and not worry about wildlife and habitat.

[@steveh994]

Do you and Ted share a tent?

[@sam249344]

Hey Jim, I notice you carry bear spray and have a rifle plus you put your food barrel away at night. Is it wolves or bears or polar bears you are concerned with?

[@SeriousPoems]

First

[@Booyahh77]

Jim do you have more information on this proposed road? How serious is this proposal?

[@benweir665]

Hot damn

[@EYES2seeEARS2hear78]

Jim! U need some Chapstick! 23:42 Can’t fathom dealing with the insects. In this scenario men are definitely stronger than women. Just saying

[@PRINCESSDREAMYLYN]

I hope Canada doesn't make a highway through that beautiful wilderness. Man does nothing but ruin things when money is involved.

[@kjames8299]

Monarch butterflies go pretty far

[@Will-fu3pp]

Wayyyy too many ads, wtf back to back minute long ads?

[@fedorp4713]

We don't live in a utopia. If they have to build a road and a bridge that's what they will do to keep people that watch your videos working. Not everyone can adventure around and make money off KZbin. Sometimes, mostly environmentalists, say things that aren't grounded in reality.

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

True enough, unfortunately though, many of these things are short sighted and the clean up falls on tax payer dollars. Personally, I don’t consider myself to be an environmentalist. I’m definitely a conservationist though.

[@fedorp4713]

@@JimBairdAdventurerThat's not any better. I've been to a CPAWS meeting and it's batshit crazy conservation militants. Nature will do it's thing and everything will recover eventually. Trying to steer nature and think that humans know best is almost always a disaster. Humans are a relatively new thing to the Earth.

[@GratefulTrekker]

Certain places need to remain removed from society keep the government bungling away from these places

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

I think so

[@wb2989]

Tourists lol.. One road to the arctic ocean would not ruin anything, but it would greatly help the Inuit communities get provisions easier and more affordable, not to mention jobs... its their choice man. You are on a fishing trip, living up there is very difficult and unbelievably expensive.

[@JimBairdAdventurer]

There actually is a road to the Arctic Ocean the Dempster which ends at Tuk. I do see where you’re coming from on your point here though and I respect that, it’s a good argument, I’m not sure it really applies in the context of this road however. Consider that, unfortunately Inuit people don’t have enough of a say in a lot of these types of thing, these decisions are largely driven by big mining companies who often use nefarious means to persuade local indigenous people…however most Inuit would likely be against this and that has something to do with why the project was scrapped, (or postponed) in the past. The road would not come near any actual communities. It would just be a way to transport resources excavated from mines along its route to the Arctic coast to then be shipped away to processing plants in China. Also, as a tax paying Canadian where much of my taxes go to the north, (the vast amount of federal tax dollars spent in the territory of Nunavut actually come from the Province I live in), and as someone who had a connection to these lands and also depends on them for my business to an extent (like many outfitters also do, not it to mention Inuit who relay on them for their food), I think I should at least have a say in one of my KZbin videos no? I do respect that there are other viewpoints that hold merit.

[@wb2989]

@JimBairdAdventurer that is fair.. the Dempster is to far west to help really any amount of communities. I too have a connection as I have friends in almost every community from Rankin to Bloody falls. The Nunasi Corp of companies has almost all the say up there. In fact to even work there you have to be 51 percent inuk hire rstio. The proposed Contwoyto lake road would be a God send to central and eastern Nunavut as right now NTCL sail times from hay River to Robert's Bay is 14 days and comes at great expense, if you can even book a barge. All of the mining companies up there work in very close proximity with the local Inuit, been there and built the longest road in Nunavut and it is most certainly appreciated and well used. Will it ever happen.. I doubt it, not because of the impact to the fish but because of the investment to build said road as all weather and not an ice road is unfathomably massive and It still also needs a sea port at the end of it. As for Chinese meddling, it was the Inuit who stopped the purchase of the Hope Bay project, I'm sure the NDP would have let it go thru. Good thing for the Inuktitut people hey! Cheers

[@wb2989]

@@JimBairdAdventurer Thats fair Mr B, but the Dempster is too far west to be of any real help. Logistics and investment are the problem to build and maintain an all weather road that long up there, not fish as there are plenty of lakes. NTCL sail times are up to 2 weeks and very costly, if you can even book a barge. BTW the Nunasi group and Kitikmeot assoc have almost all the say up as to what is and is not allowed, to even work there companies have strict hiring protocols to follow. They have even blocked the sale of the Hope Bay project, so i would say the Inuit are certainly not without a voice. and thats great, because the choice is theirs alone. I personally have many good friends in almost every community from Rankin Inlet to Coppermine, so I too have a connection to the Arctic and believe it should be left to those who depend on it.