Backpacking in Algonquin Park | High Falls & Eastern Pines Backpacking Trail

Join us for 3 days of adventure in Algonquin Park as we explore High Falls and hike the Eastern Pines Backpacking Trail before the backcountry closes. It's our first time backpacking on the east side of Algonquin and we enjoy prime early spring trail conditions along with having the park to ourselves.

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[TwoPacksandaPup]

We really enjoyed coming along with you on this one. Sorry about Lucy being sick. We’ve had this situation with Emma before. We weren’t on a trip thank goodness.. we were walking her along the beach and she picked something up around an area where a group had been having a fire previously. Whatever she picked up, she ate it before we could get to her. We didn’t think much of it (she was a puppy and ate still does 😅) but soon afterwards she was completely wobbly and had trouble walking. She would sway while sitting and staring into space. If you nudged her she would sway and fall over. We took her to an emergency clink after hours on a Sunday - of course. After spending many hours in the clinic in the middle of the night we were told it was marijuana. Could have been a discarded roach or an edible. She was able to sleep it off and was fine by morning, maybe because she was home she slept better than Lucy that night. I imagine if this spot is wild with visitors most of the summer then it could have been someone’s discarded leftover drugs 👎

[ervinslens]

This looks and sounds beautiful my friend, outstanding presentation! Shots are great 👏👏

[jacqueline]

Poor Lucy, glad she recovered quickly. She is a such beautiful gal! The trail seemed excellent and quite nice for a trot with heavy packs. Thanks for sharing and I hope people reading this will keep their recreational substance leftovers in their waste bags and pack them out so pets or wildlife don't snack on them.

[alexs]

Great advance exercise for portaging .

[ChrisRembKFL]

Getting very excited for ice-out in the park! Fingers crossed for the fishing this year!

[donwilcox-outdoorsmore]

Thanks for sharing the trip video! I love that entire trail, have visited it several times the past few years. Even being on the east side of the park, where there's a lot less traffic overall, it's a very popular summer area. Getting out in the shoulder seasons is definitely the way to go if you like it to be more quiet and peaceful. It is also a really wonderful winter snowshoe hike, either via the Cheater Trail if it's a day trip or Eastern Pines through Achray - though it's a 5km trek in because the road to the campground is not winter maintained. But if you're gonna do a winter overnight visit then you'll almost always have the place entirely to yourself. Glad pup recovered quickly, too.

[dwrivers]

Strange winter this year for sure. Nice to live close enough to get in a weekend trip with the park to yourself 😊

[bernkondret]

Here in Southeast Texas we do not have wolves, yet, but plenty of coyotes. We had Brittney hunting dogs. When the coyotes yipped and howled in the late evening, they became quiet and very unsettled. Then into their kennels. Not sure how they slept. The "call of the wild", not necessarily what our oh so domesticated canines want to hear at bed time. Nice film.

[llaus]

0405!! Lucy could be thinking, how come Mom stopped scratching my shoulder spot?

[TelosBudo]

Glad Lucy is feeling better. Must be scary when your dog isn't feeling well out in the park. Glad it turned out okay

[jaysway]

Very rare to get a chance to see high falls with no people, in the summer that place can be packed. One of the benefits of getting out at this time.

[Bryank]

Expired coffee is still good coffee! Our Nescafé instant is way expired also as we go back forth from brewing to instant weekly. Nothing goes to waste in our household!

[RickJalbert-ysjk]

Hi Alec love your videos. I am looking to start dehydrating my tripping food would you recommend and specific dehydrator?

[alanbierhoff]

I would guess that it’s much more like that Lucy ate a mushroom that affected her. At this time of year, the odds of her coming across a joint/roach that was still potent enough to affect her that much is minimal.
I could be wrong though. It happened once before 😎

Pro tip: always carry a binder clip or two incase the zip closure on your meal bag fails to work for whatever reason 😊
I keep one on the visor of my cap and one or two in my cook kit. They’re very handy to have around.

[CanadianSledDog]

My gut feeling is that a roach doesn't have enough thc to have much effect on a dog of that size but maybe it just made her sleepy. Definitely could've been a mushroom or a toad or a decomposing rodent carcass. Are you using Nexgard Spectra? I ask because she could pick up tapeworms if she ate a rodent carcass, and Spectra works on everything including fleas, ticks, heartworm (from mosquitoes), and tapeworm (from rodent carcasses).