starting to get to me the wind is hitting Us in the face winter hiking things can change
so quickly [Music]
good morning we are going on a little Adventure in the snow we're hiking up to a yurt for
the night and this is just one of my favorite winter activities because you kind of get
to hike and backpack and then not really camp but sort of you get to be in the year and
have a nice fire in the wood printing stove so it's going to be so cozy and just a fun
little getaway from the city the first thing I noticed when we got out here is just it
is so quiet and I love it so we got a seven mile hike that away and that's what we're
up to well let's get going [Music] the snow is just sparkling but look at this this is
the coolest thing I don't even know how this happens I think it has to be pretty cold all
right wow that is so cool can you see the detail in this [Music] I'm already taking
layers off a lot of stuff a lot of stuff for one night a lot of extra layers in case the
weather changes you really never know in the mountains like it is supposed to snow so I
want to make sure I have you know the gear to adjust for that but whoo Hassan is strong
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we're more than halfway over four miles in so we're gonna take a little break for lunch
oh yeah so I brought some sandwiches made these this morning at home it's one of the
fun things about hiking in the winter like this is you just don't really have to worry
about keeping things cold because it's like hovering around freezing out here the last
hour all I could think about was this sandwich
um
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took off my outer layer of pants because it's not windy and it's not wet so I really don't
need those right now and uh I think this will be good it's crazy how how warm you get when
you're hiking and just like regulating my temperature is just a fine Balancing Act okay
so I don't know if you can see the way over there there's a Hill and that's where we're
going remember
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way down more and
more and more more more [Music] this is the first time we see it we're you know roughly
a mile or so there the base of that Hill
I cannot wait to get there
Let's Roll [Music] this here I'm going to start a new chapter ignore the tears and only
write down the laughter
[Music] I'm not gonna lie that last mile starting to get to me when I could see the yurt let's
get in there I'll give you a tour I'm gonna show you the whole thing [Music]
we got some some height to it wow [Music] foreign I love this it's such a fun way to
enjoy the winter
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foreign
I know you've been waiting for this let's go get a tour of the Outhouse before it gets
dark to the Outhouse we go
so one of the things with the Yurts especially is more of a challenge in the winter is that
you gotta go put your boots on your jackets and walk over to the Outhouse which right
now is actually not that bad because it's it's cold and it's going to get cold as the
night goes on but at least it's not snowing last year when we went to a year it was so
cold full on blizzard windy snowy and you had to like trudge through snow to get to
the Outhouse but it's just over here foreign
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no open flames
crucial warning
all right oh that stinks
okay it's also got it's a nice little pee pulse there you have it foreign
trip right I guess that's all I really gotta show you for now yurt where you go poop and
that's the deal that's what it's like [Music]
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let's get some more girl look at this thing hot [Music] now we're just going to unpack
and I do have quite a lot of stuff here for one night but I want to show you something
that is a bit ridiculous to bring backpacking however I have come to enough Yurts in the
winter to know that this is an essential thing to bring it is slippers these are a bit excessive
but they are so nice to have in the year because you don't want to wear your boots all the
time also this year they're very adamant that you do not wear your boots in here and so
it's nice just to have something warm to put on your feet so that is one of my luxury items
on this trip I did bring a pot every year that I've been to has different stuff and
is in different conditions so I just brought my own pot just to be safe got lots of snacks
lots of cheese and salami that's the fun stuff really the rest of this is just kind of clothing
and whatnot [Music] yeah this is the life
height there [Music] off to get some water or snow I'm looking for the yellow snow because
that's the best drinking water
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huh
[Music] this is gonna melt down to like
not a whole lot
[Music] my beef for later dinner sour cream there it is just above freezing in here now
so slowly warming up we're gonna do some crossword puzzles can we do easy [Music] time for dinner
we have the pot that we're gonna cook in and the stove this is going to be so easy I'm
really excited about this meal because I'm just doing dirty rice it's so nice because
it just comes with everything you need to have like a nice flavorful meal but I'm going
to add in some diced onion and pepper and I just did this at home yesterday so again
I don't have to take out a cutting board or a knife like it's just going to be so easy
and then I also packed in a pound of beef which has just been sitting in the snow out
there as you saw earlier and some sour cream Nick really love sour cream we buy the big
Costco ones and go through it really quickly so I knew I had to pack in a little bit of
that for him let's get going
oil in here and my veggies [Music] so I'm just gonna cook the veggies this is just an
extra step but I do feel like it really yeah after the meal this is gonna be really good
I got my beef in here it's been Browning already smells and looks amazing and then now we're
gonna get the rice in there right in there
two and a half cups of water and as usual my pot is barely going to be big enough but
I think it'll it'll work and then I'm going to cover it with a plate and let it simmer
for about 20 minutes [Music]
it's done take a look at this [Music] that is so good
[Music] tiny gargantuan is such a funny word which is cute to end out the day I packed
in a Tony's chocoloony bar this is my favorite chocolate so good so I always buy it when
it's on sale so we're going to snack on that while we do a crossword puzzle it's kind of
funny that this is my idea of a good time it's just sitting by a fire and doing a crossword
puzzle eating some chocolate so we're gonna enjoy the rest of the night and then I think
that's it I'll see you in the morning right [Music]
all right
[Music] foreign [Music] morning
[Music] oh man it's just below freezing in here it actually that sounds like really cool
it's not that cold in here but I do want to go outside check out the views see what the
weather's like foreign [Music]
we are packed up just like that and now we're gonna start hiking it's definitely a little
bit colder than it was yesterday because the sun is is not out as much starting with some
more layers we'll see if I should take these off but yeah ready for the Seven Mile Trek
Back to the park foreign [Music]
[Music] quite a bit colder and windier than yesterday and we're hiking this way and the
wind is hitting Us in the face so it's just crazy like winter hiking things can change
so quickly overall I I feel pretty warm my cheeks are kind of cold but um I'm feeling
pretty good it's just hiking into the wind is so it's a little bit harder so we got a
ways to go I don't know if it's better or worse that you can see the road like for Miles
Ahead I don't know off we go
[Music] my bar is like Frozen foreign
[Music] um my sunglasses keep fogging up
[Music] that was a hill there's like a pretty long uphill but now I see the car [Music]
there's some snowmobilers at this path that would have been so much easier [Music] okay
we are back at the car we just made some bone broth to warm us up because like the second
I stopped moving I get cold so we're gonna head home now overall this is such a fun trip
that's not my favorite yurt that I've ever been to I don't think I would go back to that
one but it was still a really fun trip and Nick and I have been talking for years about
building a year one day so it's really fun for us to go to these different Yurts and
see and experience them and kind of you know talk about things that we would do differently
or whatnot so it's it was really fun I'm really tired and uh ready to get home my favorite
part was honestly seeing the ice at the very beginning when we were hiking yesterday that
was one of my highlights of this whole trip because that is pretty rare to see it's completely
gone now as we were getting back to the car there's no evidence of that what was your
favorite part dinner Nick's favorite part was dinner is anyone surprised that dinner
was really good and really easy so overall yeah just such a fun trip I feel so happy
got some exercise some time outside and it was really good last year's year was so epic
it was so cold like single digits a snowstorm came through the yurt was so cool the stove
was awesome and it was really big and we got it's so hot in that year I was wearing like
a t-shirt so that video is here if you want to check that one out and I'll see you in
the next one [Music]