National Park we are about to embark on a backpacking trip a two-night trip I've
got my friend Jilly here got Tony in the back we're ready to head up the road to
the trailhead and head out for two nights it should be awesome should be a fun trip
before
Joey why don't you tell them where we're headed we are
redwoods National Park Northwest California we are at the tall trees special access trailhead
and we're gonna hike down Redwood Creek we have two nights on our permit three days
it's about 4 P.M right now so getting a late start gets dark about six and all we have to do is hike
in a few miles and we have to stay a quarter mile away from the tall trees Grove and we're going
to Camp I guess on the creek tonight and then tomorrow we're just gonna head down Redwood Creek
and we'll spend one more night out and then hike out third day whatever day that is
thank you
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the Redwood National and state parks are a complex of One National Park and three state
parks the four Parks together protect 45 of all remaining Coast redwoods these trees are
the tallest among the oldest and one of the most massive tree species on Earth foreign
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this is Redwood Creek and we're basically going to be following this all the way back to the car
and now we're just going to go down maybe half a mile and then we can start looking for a camp
we got across here too I think normally there's a bridge but they just took it out for the season
all right
all right we have reached the trail Junction
where we can start camping so we're headed up the Redwood Creek Trail
and I think we're gonna find camps as we go down the creek so we can start looking for camp
we got a bit of a late start today I don't think we started hiking until four so it's
about six o'clock now and we are going to try to find Camp somewhere along the creek
well it got dark on us so we are hiking in the dark trying to uh backtrack now
get back down to the creek because we are way above the creek which we didn't know that and
we have to camp on the creek so we didn't know the trail was through the forest above the creek
um anyway yeah we're gonna hike back and uh find a place to camp we backtracked to where
we had done our Creek Crossing earlier and went a little further down the creek where
we found a really great campsite on the sand we set up camp in the dark and called it a night
thank you
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good morning it's day two and we are just chilling here at Camp it's an overcast
morning a little chilly and we're just relaxing it is a very low mileage trip so we don't have
a lot of miles to go today we may go back to the uh tree the old growth forest and check
it out because we it was getting dark last night we didn't get to spend a lot of time
in there so I think the plan is to check out the trees a little more and then start
heading down the trail when Tony got here he parked his truck down at where we shuttled
some cars so he's down at the bottom of the the mountain and we parked at the top so we
will head down to Tony's truck and that will be the end of the trip but yeah we have one
more night and all of today and portion of tomorrow so still have a lot of trip left
it's the morning of day two cats attempting this very challenging
and dangerous crit Crossing this morning
if she were to fall in
she possibly could get sucked Downstream into the large rocks you see to the left there
and so what cat is doing she may have already told you this but if she hasn't our group is going to
leave our tent set up along Redwood Creek and we're retracing our steps back to the tall trees
section of redwoods we're gonna go check them out for a little bit
and we're waiting on all of that clear up and the sun to come out so
we can have a nice sunny fabulous day Cat made it safely
I relished more time among these massive and Majestic trees you
really cannot grasp the enormity of them through
photos and video it's something that you definitely have to see in person
mystery
and it keeps on going I just
Addison
and then we were back on the trail
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hiking for a little over two miles about two and a half miles and we only have
about probably maybe four and a half miles to the trailhead so we're debating on whether we
should just head to the trail heading back to the car but we have not made
that decision yet approximate age of this tree right here 750 years
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here's another big Redwood we're not seeing nearly as many as we did when we started
these guys aren't quite as wide but pretty tall
perspective you can see how little cat is
Mr trees
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well it's probably obvious by the fact that I'm talking to you from my trailer that we did not
stay out another night we wound up hiking and hiking and looking for a spot that maybe wowed
us and called to us and made us want to spend another night out there however by the time that
we got to an area where there was more camping we were almost to the trailhead so we just decided
to hike on out we thought that there would be more access points to the creek from the trail however
there weren't that many a lot of times you were hiking well above the trail with a big slope that
was just thickly covered in vegetation so yeah there weren't as many opportunities to get down
to the creek as we had originally imagined that was actually part of the issue you on
the previous night because we had assumed that when we continued hiking we would find camping
however it got dark and again we were well above the creek the guys wanted to just bushwhack down
to the creek at one point I didn't think that was a good idea that vegetation was extremely thick
it was dark I just felt like it was dangerous we all decided the best thing to do was to turn
around and go back to the camp that we wound up camping at which was amazing as you saw it
was dark when we got there I actually saw eyes glowing some creature with glowing eyes as we
were getting close to camp and at first I did not know what they were but they turned out to be deer
thankfully but it was a very pleasant night I thought that was a great Camp actually if
I were to do it again I would just go ahead and start at the same Trailhead that we started at
go down to the camp that we wound up camping at set up camp and just do an overnight with that
being our camp it would be a great trip for I think anyone who's a beginner Backpacker or
just starting out uh you know for an overnight it's pretty easy and it's very beautiful one
thing that I think is very difficult to convey on camera is the absolute majesty and enormity
of these trees they are so impressive they are in the Sequoia family the redwood trees
however they are bigger than the Sequoia they are taller than the Sequoia the Sequoia is bigger in
circumference and diameter but the redwood tree is the tallest tree and you really just can't grasp
that on camera there's no way to fully understand it in person it's just absolutely incredible
it's jaw dropping I would definitely recommend anyone go see them if you have a chance if you
wanted to do the trip point to point like we did it was just under 10 miles it's an easy trip not
a lot of elevation gain or loss and yeah it was a fun trip I'm really glad that we did it there
is wildlife in the park black bear we did see some bear scat elk I believe there are mountain
lions as well deer we didn't see any elk while we were in the park however as we were driving
out through the town of Orrick there is a local herd and they happen to be in the street blocking
the road there were a ton of them they were so beautiful and I'm so excited that we got
to see that it was an awesome little overnight adventure with Tony and Joey we had a lot of fun
a lot of laughs and we have Caravan together down to another Camp it's been fun hanging
out with the guys I hope you enjoyed coming along stay tuned for the next adventure as
always I appreciate you all I love you all and I'll see you on the next one see you soon bye