In this video we're going to teach you what you need to know about the Alpine Lakes
Loop Trail in Great Basin National Park...
Hey you guys! Thanks for joining us on another journey. Today we're at Great Basin National Park
in Nevada; this place is really cool! If you're new to the channel, this is April--hey--and I'm
Wayne. We do a video every Thursday, so sit back relax and enjoy the journey!
the first thing is 10,000 foot right out the gate
a couple things that are nice about this trail see the markers on the tree
they're every couple hundred feet so it's easy to follow the trail don't get lost
these trees or being in the trees like this it all kind of blends together but you can
clearly see this is the trail oh yeah it's nice and shaded that's nice look how pretty that is
if the footage looks a little shaky today i'm sorry kind of hurt my arm
and had to leave my normal camera rig in the car
so you see the bark that's taken off the tree the deer and the elk rub their antlers
on the tree bark and do that to it i wonder why is it like an itch it's a territorial thing
scratching an itch not sure why they do it look at this scenery it's absolutely amazing stunning
we're at ten thousand feet yet i feel like yeah that's a tiny ants way up there yeah it's like
13,063 or something like that all the way to the peak all the way to the Wheeler Peak yeah
nothing better than seeing the animals up close and personal
so one thing i did read is that this kind of almost cove-like thing is called a cirque
it's just a mountain lake in kind of a cove and it's yeah and it's called a cirque what's
really been great about this hike is the fact that there hasn't been a bunch of people on it
with with all our national parks that sometimes is a problem well especially this season cross
paths with one person and then there's one family here at the lake not bad not bad at all
when you come to the first fork when you're at the Bristlecone Glacier Trail and the Alpine
Lake Loop Trail this is what it kind of looks like if you go to the right and take the Alpine Lakes
Loop Trail it is an easier incline that way versus going the Bristlecone Loop backwards it's a lot
more steep that way so you decide which way you want to go well the Bristlecone to the Lake Loop
is more steep yes you go to the left it's more steep right out the gate yeah so and
at ten thousand feet you want that a little bit more manageable right so according to the sign
basically it's a three mile hike with with only a 450 foot elevation gain if you go to the right we
definitely came down more than 450 feet what does that one say it doesn't tell you 1200 feet one way
that's going all the way to glacier yeah we took a dirt road to see Mather Overlook Mather Overlook
looks like you could just see some Jurassic Park dinosaurs coming out of the woods right there in just a
minute woolly mammoths and bears and i don't know you have different kinds of dinosaurs
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