Would a homie livestream be jumping the shark?
At the end of the month, Hopalicious, TheWhitePine, BettysPiez, and myself are doing a Numbers-adjacent trip to what I've been calling the "Wilder Chain" of Horseshoe, Brewis, Harbor, North Wilder, and South Wilder. There isn't a lot of information on these lakes, and many maps are in disagreement, and this has been a personal goal of mine to get out there and set the story straight regarding sites, portages, and other current conditions of the area (info gathered to be shared with Paddle Planner).
As it is adjacent to the Aluminum Highway, I keep having silly ideas, and one was, cell service permitting, livestreaming on Saturday, May 30. I have zero idea what the heck we'd even do or talk about and personally have the charisma of a half-popped kernel of popcorn, but for me the absurdity of streaming from the BWCA to the homies is enough reason to try. If service isn't good enough, what about some voice channel shenanigans on the Discord? Is this Rex behavior? Is this as stupid as SOS from the numbers because of a bad mushroom trip? Or is this next-level big-brain genius?
I won't force any of the other guys to participate if they don't want to. This is my stupidity, and if they want to social distance from it, that's probably wise. Feel free to apply light peer pressure to them if you want to though.
P.S. What should we use to stream if we even have the service to do so? I don't have enough YouTube subs to be allowed to use YT, so....Insta? Twitch? Obviously I'm NOT a streamer, and this might be a failure before it has even begun. I highly doubt we will have the kind of service to make it possible anyway.