Canoeing the Mad River in Ohio 4K

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Robby and I hit up a canoe spot near Columbus along the Mad River in Western Ohio. It's an easy and simple canoe spot with camping sites available.

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on a late summer afternoon we decided to spend the last of the warm weather paddling down the Mad River so we decided to relive the trauma a little bit here nice River loaded from the serene water to the sounds of the insects and the towering trees we were immediately overcome with a sense of peace and relaxation so have you been canoeing on rivers like this before I've been good on rivers but this is actually one of the more narrower rivers I feel like I've been I have been on several Ohio rivers before but none of them were this pretty this is great this is like the beginning of predator or something like the boat man takes you through to the jungle it's like the predator resides deep in the jungle

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a lot of the rivers I've been on in Ohio are like surrounded by farms and stuff so you can actually see like cornfields from the river but this just looks like you're basically hiking through the woods oh yeah it's just surrounded by all these trees super pretty

so are you even having this deer or is it mostly just guiding you I'm sitting a little bit here in there just to keep it straight but it's mostly when the water gets slightly bumpier where we get pushed around a little more and have to do some more work there's all sorts of trees growing here and a bunch of honeysuckle bushes but the trees I'm noticing the most are the Sycamores and cottonwoods and those are two trees that always love to be next to rivers they're really water loving trees I'm also seeing some Hickory I saw a walnut earlier it's definitely part of me that would love to go on like a long-distance canoe trip even more than long-distance hiking I think a lot more actually but like Bill Mason shows himself going all around Lake Superior and how I'm doing something like that would be so cool is that something we could do probably somewhere we should do that where did you first hear about Bill Mason I think I was just you tubing all sorts of nature videos and I just stumbled across it one of his films called water Walker oh man it's so it seems so peaceful I remember there is a period of time we're just like every month or so you tell me about a new nature person you found on YouTube [Music]

I keep seeing all these shelf fungi growing on these logs here and there and most of those are in the genus Ganoderma which is where you'll find a lot of these of sort of woody hard mushrooms and I think at least one of those was Ganoderma a from Adam or the artist conker which has a poor surface that you can draw on just by scraping it away there's all these honeysuckle touches on the banks of the river and it's an invasive plant but you can see why people have grown it because it's just it's really pretty in every season of the year in the spring it's got really pretty little white flowers right now there's these bright red berries and even in the winter the plant stays pretty green for most of the season but it is invasive which is why you see it so prominently here so what does it mean exactly to be invasive and why is it bad so basically it's a species that doesn't grow here natively and on top of that it also causes harm to the system so what that means is like it it makes it harder for native species to grow so usually if you find honeysuckle growing that's a sign that it's a less diverse forest [Music]

oh you can go over this oh really cool [Music]

I feel like the sound of crickets during the day with no other insects sounds it's such a distinctly like early autumn late summer sound I don't it just gets me in the mindset where I'm really excited to see I don't know just the rest of the year then like everytime autumn rolls around you have this feeling of like change is gonna happen I'm just always amazed that I actually look forward to the next season at the end of every season Mike oh yeah I forgot that fall existed yeah in exchange they said that the halfway point is that like a modern-looking bridge that this one looks kind of like not modern as well so can't imagine it yeah this must be just another random bridge

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you knew it you knew it then the river on the bank to our left there was an access point and we decided to get out and stretch our legs for a little bit before continuing on so just a another canoe launch point yeah this must be like maybe this is the five-mile point or something probably not a canoes not floating down the river [Music]

it's funny how quickly a car just reminds you that you're in civilization yeah it's so easy to lose sight of that on the river yeah Carson's by if we remember correctly that was the halfway mark knowing us we could be completely wrong but this is actually fairly long I guess we're doing 10 miles was that longer than you expected yes I think it took longer night time [Music]

we paddled by a sign imploring people not to litter and reminisced about the past there's some things as a kid you think are like really mystical and you'll never get to do them and canoeing and like fishing and riding boats always kind of seem that way to me I was like I may know somebody who's got a lake you got to know someone who has a boat but it never really occurred to me as a kid that you can just go out and do this any time yeah yeah I remember as a kid we'd always go out on paddle boats well not always but just once in a while yeah we never I remember the first time we went kayaking it was like such a strange experience to actually yeah control the belt on your own that way [Music]

above us cottonwoods shivered in the wind and vegetation danced in the water currents below us [Music]

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are we going really fast right now is it an optical illusion that's good it feels really fast I feel like it might be an illusion because like you know when you're running like things go by pretty fast yeah but you're only going like five miles per hour so funny how we live a lot of our life doing things to try and get something but a lot of our favorite experiences we got nothing out of it other than the experience oh yeah like this gives us nothing right I'm not gonna go home with more money or more like tangible objects but the experience like that's the type of things that you hold on to and actually remember yeah there's more and more I think the best things to spend money on our experiences oh yeah every time I think I want a material thing it ends up on my shelf collecting done oh my god that's like zero value to my life [Music]

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yes we pass by the canoe livery where we've checked in with them before continuing on to our stopping point okay so this is the final portion they said there's five bridges first bridge no problem second bridge there's gonna be a spillway he says it looks intimidating but as long as we go over it straight we'll be fine he says if you don't you're going over three more bridges after that and then they come pick us up so I mean just keep getting these hints of fall and it makes me real excited for change I'm just wondering like what do you think it is about change that people will control or do Oh like do you think change is something we need regularly in our lives I think it's just like everything else you just need to strike a balance but I feel like if you get too far into a rut and you don't change things up every now and then I just get like bored and angry basically really easily fall into like complacency if you don't shake things up once in a while yeah hey I think about the idea of like a midlife crisis and I've always said that if you don't have a midlife crisis you're either living life really wrong or really right yeah okay either you're so complete that you don't even bother doing that or you've got a good enough life that you don't feel the need to do yes sometimes when your strainer can you you have to like anticipate the next turn you're gonna make so just now I had to drift the canoe a little to the left so I could make a turn right around this log kind of like leading your shots at pail or something on a scale of yes - yes how excited are you about eating this post hike me [Music]

a fleet of helicopters passed this overhead and in the river below Kingfisher's dove into the water [Music]

this area feels a little more like Louisiana now yeah calm water tons of wildlife coming up on the second bridge the wonder super calm right now but we're about to go over that big spill over and I think we get here at the water rushing I guess the spillway must be past the bridge though I don't see it yet

oh no I see it now yeah you could tell cuz that dude he's lower than the water this is like exciting in the same way when you can see a storm coming and you can hear it you know but it's not to you yet okay there's a sign that says danger and man he 100% said though you can go over it yeah okay see what I make sure I remembered correctly

and there you go there we go that was actually a lot more exciting but I insist oh there's more up ahead a bad turnout this week it really looks like a huge drop here from the back as you look behind it doesn't look that impressive we paddled on passing under the third bridge from the end looks like an old railway bridge I don't think it would be in use anymore yeah it's really cool that's the type of place that like like the bridge control who lives under that bridge actually lives over there it's like that sort of visual where you just wonder where it goes yeah

at this point I feel like I've lived my whole life on this canoe and then this is the way I'll spend the rest of my life it's a lot longer than I thought I'd be yeah we're going slower than five miles around

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right 10 miles will take us about four hours going like a little over 2 miles per hour I think [Music]

it's weird yeah it feels faster [Music]

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yeah actually doing like an inner-tube all the way down this river would be really fun just sit there do nothing Lea bouncing off of stuff [Music]

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eventually we reach the end of our journey on the water a nice trip it's kind of fun doing that just in an afternoon and having the rest of the canoeing down the Mad River have been a relaxing way to enjoy one of the last sunny summer afternoons of the season we passed by fields of corn and felt a bit of sentimentality at the coming of summer's end but until then we keep enjoying the warm weather and all the good times that come with it that's what I needed whom first bite after not eating for a long time it's like instant happiness

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was a good trip [Music]