Where are we at April? I don't want to talk. She's not happy with me
We're about to do the Precipice trail that's what we're very beginning here in Acadia National Park
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usually fine with the up part on this help help me with what do you need you want me to help you more
mentally or yes okay you know you have this you've done Angels Landing you just got done doing the
Beehive you are an excellent hiker you've been on kind of all kinds of trails all over the world
yeah but my balance sucks your balances always suck but yeah i know you got a
little vertigo but you don't actually fall i fall more than you do look at these colors the
anticipation is high you got a little bit of butterflies in your stomach not knowing--gonna punch you in that stomach--
not knowing what to expect all the signs on the trail are warning you to be an expert hiker so
and the line starts what do you think okay i'm with you i'm right there okay hang on and then
put your left leg up there instead yeah no kind of walk where just put your foot against the wall and
just no it doesn't stay put yourself up on your upper body i can't you got it thank you you got it
you got it this is the place that you turn around if you're gonna turn around April turn around no
why are you trying to do it okay here take the keys i forgot go ahead guys i want to do it you
don't have to though i don't want you to do this i'm gonna i'm gonna just go finish it up i started
i'm gonna finish it i'll see you at the car two hours just come back and get me in two hours
see in two hours well unfortunately April bailed i give her props that the first one that you come to
is in any indication of what's up ahead this is going to be one crazy hard trail
you guys can go i use you as a guinea pig oh i see one oh yeah show off let's keep up with that right
if he if he falls don't go that way April's so mad at me for doing this hike
she didn't want to come on it at all she had super anxiety over it and that is the path see all the
blue dots blue dots tell you stay on the trail this is uh absolutely amazing this one before uh
that's my first time on this trail i have never done this one and and honestly i wish i would
have because April could do this all day long but she just didn't know and that first steps a doozy
watch out for that first step it's a doozy first one i think they do that on purpose to
if anyone can't do that one if you can't do that one you're not going to make it anywhere else
all right here we go give yourself lots of room to slide just not off because that would suck
i know that didn't look scary on tv but--on YouTube--that was. i've been here at Schooner Cove
i believe it is getting some ocean therapy while Wayne's off doing precipice without me
i tried but i wonder if i maybe didn't try hard enough i've been feeling pretty pitiful
i kind of feel like a failure but i'll come to terms with it eventually
hopefully it hasn't robbed me too much of my glory from doing Beehive.
i know that doesn't look graceful
it's just accomplishing that's all it is can i accomplish this it's all in your head
right the death part needs to stay out the heavily seriously injured needs to stay out as well
my gimbal is messed up i give my gimbal and my camera hell easy section about time
wow absolutely amazing we went hunting mushrooms yesterday oh there you go
no we had a guide link below but we had a guide willow that uh took us out mushroom foraging that
was awesome yeah i always wanted to do that she was uh very knowledgeable i didn't understand
a quarter of what she was saying it was mostly in latin but it was really cool to see the different
types of mushrooms i was talking to somebody on the trail i didn't realize that you couldn't do
this year round about doing the Precipice Hike and i did not know this and i don't know if it's
true or not you need to check to see what time of year you're coming to do the Precipice it's not
open year round i guess there's some falcons that live up there and they get territorial
obviously you got to leave nature alone okay this is getting a little crazy
it gets even crazier yeah needless to say i had to put the gimbal in the
camera there's no way i was doing this one-handed go across the slick stuff
this is like stuff's the scary stuff but you can't tell these bars are slick they're wet dirty
look at that that's crazy that doesn't make you feel good when you see a broken slatter oops
what was that made of steel it is working oh my god are you okay here man what's this [ __ ] made
out of anyway uh steel still climbing up it's okay sheer drop down my opinion
if you want to know if you can handle the Precipice Hike my suggestion is start out
with the Beehive Hike if you can do the Beehive Hike you can do this one it will take you longer
it will be more endurance and it will challenge you mentally a lot more than the Beehive but
that's a good warm-up hike and it keeps on going every bend i'm going to end yes hey ball buster
leg buster back buster mentally are you up for this challenge you do have to be mentally ready
for this and now i feel really bad for not letting April know in advance but to be honest with you
i think it was good because she didn't come
stopping at that first part was the smartest thing she could have done
feels like my backpack's coming undone that's my gimbal popping out of my camel bag bouncing
off every rock hell of a bad time for it to do that i'm on top edge trying to fix my backpack
someone needs to make a backpack for videographers that do crazy stuff where
you can camel bag where you get some water and and if you can fit a laptop in there as
well oh yeah and it'd be able to fit under a seat in an airplane how far is the hike back
yeah that's still not much of a hike i'd rather do that than come down this we've been
on the road for 20 something days and hiking everywhere i didn't realize that i have wore
the soles off my hiking boots already those are nice stairs perfect for coming down
i think a lot of people make the mistake of trying to go down backwards you're much better
off to actually go forward because then you can use your shoes to grip to the rock better you can
see where you're going if you go down backwards you're not as comfortable going backwards
whoa yeah good thing that was there that could have stopped
how many photographers are freaking out about my camera not being in a case not machine on a strap
woohoo i can feel it the summit's in my reach.
i have no idea when he will be finished and no idea where to pick him up exactly as we don't
have cell service working in the park here at Acadia National Park. it's what it feels like to
be at the summit it's a feeling not just a view we just drove over to Cadillac Mountain and the view
was good but i didn't earn it i'm earning this every bloody step hey how you doing you made it to
the summit i don't know i think it's still going isn't it yeah no it's we're on the way down now
i don't think so i was rewarding myself already but this is probably just as good they even
called April to tell her i was at the summit she didn't pick up she was still mad at me
this thing has been throwing every bit of the terrain that it can throw at us it has thrown at us
oh good more ladders every time you think you're done nuh-uh trick for you silly rabbit tricks are for kids
every time you think you're done it just keeps going i was like we're at the summit
what the hell we're still going up
it's better say you're done no this must be
telling us that we're at the summit because it's got another warning don't go down this way
you guys are going the wrong way you do realize this is a loop right i know i was like oh my god
going down no that's dangerous yeah yeah i think that's that's the summit and which way to get to
the car hopefully this hike isn't that bad back to the car so far it's been okay but we'll see
this thing has been throwing every bit of the terrain that it can throw at us it has thrown at us
so far it's been okay but we'll see this is the way down if you go back to the parking lot you can
do it backwards and it is easier than the front it's still a challenge when you're out here hiking
like this you want to go from cairn to cairn that way don't get lost so you got a blue marker here
but there's the cairn so what you're looking at is the blue marker's going
.... but obviously we can't see anything so we're going to go to the cairn
to look for another cairn keep going we didn't see it cairn
but if we don't see a cairn soon we'll have to uh turn around this looks like a trail
still don't see any cairns yep there's a blue marker so we're good
whoa holy [ __ ] that almost sucked whoo definitely you need to pay attention to
the wet stuff when it's wet be extra cautious this stuff's like
sliding down a slide except for you don't want to do it
[ __ ] okay that's twice like i said this stuff is slick slick slick slick good thing
they had made some cairns to put on top of the blue mark because it's really hard to
see where you're going oh man damn snake i hate snakes always a snake i see more snakes
out northeast than i've seen all over no good. i don't know how long it's going to take me to
drive back up and around and back in to the park
because my gps isn't working either. okay i just came across this look at this edge it looks like
this was a rock slide even though that's the trail now oh man could you imagine having
those boulders coming at you no thank you we're on the descent down if you decide to
go up Precipice on the backside it is much easier than the front side it still is a
little bit of a scramble so i can officially say i'm an idiot somehow got on the wrong trail
nowhere near my car just hitched a ride with a nice elderly gentleman that got me back to
town so i can catch another ride or walk back to my car because cell service isn't working to get a
hold of April who is mad at me anyway but the fun of hiking well at least i know i'm walking on the
right road lady walking her dog and she said Sand Beach is that way three miles my national park map
of Acadia is keeping the car nice and safe if i had that i'd have a better idea where
the hell i'm at luckily i got some snacks and water in my bag. this has been helpful though
that that's for sure at least to a very small degree anyway
bye-bye. just got done hitching a second ride getting closer still have no cell service i keep
calling April um now my phone's not even working at all back to the road back to the hitchhiking
i can hear April now she kept telling me the cell phone's not working what if you get lost up there
yep she told me. so even during covid times people are awesome i got to hitch a ride
from college student that was getting ready to jump on the trail he couldn't get me all the way
to Sand Beach because the road's closed but it's supposed to be a half mile down this road which
is to the actual Sand Beach which is not really where i gotta go but it'll get me close the fun of
craziness of getting lost because you weren't prepared definitely wasn't prepared
i have found some friends what's up that they made a detour on the mountain as well
same thing definitely bring a map with you
did you have that on the mountain i did yeah i was too uh distracted by the
the beauty honestly i wouldn't have pulled it out i mean
i was going along and i thought i was still on the trail as far as i was concerned i was on the trail
except for i kept looking down going the ocean's that way and i don't see the ocean anymore exactly
we were distracted by the beauty though it was such a nice detour yeah exactly you can't
go wrong in Acadia no unless you slip and fall that's somewhere over there is where we were at
at the top yeah finally made it back to the parking lot...
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