good morning
my friend Martina had flown out from Cape Cod to join me for the
next couple of weeks of Adventure she was invited into the trailer to stay
but she opted to stay in her tent to be a little more one with nature
good morning everyone from California I am back in California and specifically in the Eastern
Sierra I left uh West Yellowstone a couple of days ago I drove here to meet up with
my friend Martina who came in from the east coast and we will also be meeting up with my
friends Kim and Steven Reeves and their friend Terry my friend Terry also from North Carolina
we are all planning on going on a backpacking trip in a couple of days we've actually had to
modify our trip due to weather it's going to be snowing at the higher elevations we don't
want to get caught in a snowstorm up there we decided to play it safe and push our trip back
by a couple of days and shorten it unfortunately by a couple of days but the weather here in the
mammoth lakes area likes very favorable so we'll be able to do some day hikes in the meantime
so that's what we're gonna do Martina and I plan on doing a hike today which should
be awesome but first i'm gonna go ahead and make some breakfast Martina has requested one
of my famous breakfast sandwiches for breakfast today so of course she's a guest and I'm going to
do whatever I can to please my guests so here we go these are the ingredients for breakfast
this morning since I don't have a toaster I am toasting our English muffins Martina
wanted English muffins in the pan with butter it works really well these are looking good
all right I've got the bacon going it's almost done I'm almost burning
it and then Martina is over here slicing the orange I put her to work
all right so now I'm going to add some pepper jack cheese might need a little
more cheese this one's Martinez it's the bigger egg so let me give it to her
ta-da here you go Martina thank you so much I love it enjoy thank you
you might be wondering why I have drawings of hawks taped to the window we were having birds
fly right into the window so Martina and I colored these and taped them as a deterrent and so far it
seems to have worked but it was very traumatizing so uh yeah I thought I'd put a little predator on
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the next few days we're going to be something of a trip down memory lane the trails that I was going
to hike over the next couple of days were going to be trails that I hiked when I first discovered the
mountains and first discovered my love of the mountains here in the Eastern Sierra foreign
I did my second ever backpacking trip here starting at the McGee Creek Trailhead we
hiked up to Steelhead Lake and had the place to ourselves it was a magical experience
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we witnessed the first signs of fall in the Eastern Sierra on this hike
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so you all have already seen Martina and now my other special guests have arrived in town
you might know these three from a previous Wind River range video last year and then also Kim
and Steve went on the trip with me this year it was their trip actually I went with them yeah
so now we are headed out to do some sightseeing right let's go North Carolina yeah straight up
you want to get to the top not even switchbacks right first stop Mono Lake
Mono Lake is a saline soda Lake formed at least 760 000 years ago the lack of an outlet causes
high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake which makes its water alkaline the desert lake has
an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine shrimp which thrive in its Waters and provides
critical habitat for 2 million annual migratory birds that feed on the shrimp and The Alkali flies
many columns of limestone rise above the surface of Mono Lake these Limestone Towers
consist primarily of calcium carbonate this type of limestone rock is referred to as tufa
where are we guys I have no idea
Parker Lake yes we are getting ready to do about a three mile round trip hike I forgot my down
jacket which I did on my last backpacking trip so I don't know what's with me that's for sure
yeah so Martino is kind enough to give me her windbreaker the day has been saved anyway this
is a beautiful hike I've done it several times on the channel but it's never it's never old
noodle yeah and these guys are here from the east coast and everybody's feeling good right let's go
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of snow last night the first snow of the season
the Parker Lake Trail indeed holds a special place in my heart it's where
I first conjured up the courage to do a solo backpacking trip you never forget
your first time and there would be many more solo backpacking trips in my future
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activities we went to grab a bite at the Double
Eagle Lodge in the June Lake loop I like you it's gonna be so quick
I hope you've enjoyed coming along with the gang and I on this little Adventure camping
here in this beautiful dispersed camping area in the national forest and uh stay
tuned for that backpacking trip it should be absolutely stunning that will be coming
to you next week as always I appreciate you joining me I appreciate your support if you
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up and I'll see you all on the next adventure love you all see you soon bye-bye foreign
on here is packing up for a backpacking trip Martina is outside packing her things and I'm
in here next is food oh yeah getting ready to head out tomorrow foreign