u/Extreme-Owl5773

I've been uploading since late December of 2025. Usually 2-4 long-form videos a month and around 3-5 shorts a week. (Camping and Kayaking channel).

Not that I'm necessarily in a position to give advice, but I've found that remixing my long-form content into multiple shorts and linking the long-form video to those shorts has greatly increased my repeat viewership and general views.

I upload shorts around 11am on any given day and my long-form is released at 8am on Saturdays. This seems to work best for me.

My views and watch time is slightly down this month because I recycled all of my long-form videos into shorts for the month of April so this is my first month doing hybrid short and long-form from brand new material rather than being able to extract from older long-form videos, thus being a bit more realistic with my content and viewership.

If you're into camping and outdoor adventures, check it out!

While I've kayaked the river before, I've never camped on a river and that posed a lot of challenges. Finding a suitable campsite was difficult as we had to find islands to avoid private property. Also, once we left a potential site, there was no turning back due to the current.

While we were there, EMS surrounded my vehicle in search of some missing kayakers. We saw multiple young kayakers out that day and they were obviously drinking and without PFDs. I'm no authority but I did kindly recommend they consider lifejackets, especially if they were drinking. 😬 rant over.

I caught a couple fish! (I never fish so thats pretty big for me) I ate dehydrated and shelf stable meals and purified all of my drinking and cooking water through a sawyer squeeze.

All in all, 10/10 would definitely go again! But I must say that I prefer the lake. Less human encounters and there are much more viable campsites at the lake.

Video above if you're interested.

I hit 100 subs!

First River Camping Experience