Jon sighs
He takes in the world around him, covered in smoke.
O look there are lakes down there.
He makes a stupid noise with his mouth
and says the coolest $^!# he can think of...
What is the best way to start this video?
I mean do i do the same thing do i just start
with the truck and the hike and to here and the campsite and
all that. Probably the best place to start is here. Yeah here. So...
Here we are.
This is the top of Red Mountain, and i'm at some old fire lookout station which is obviously gone
but the foundation is still here and that's fitting because it looks like the world is on fire.
Supposedly this view is spectacular and you can see all the way to the Sawtooths but
nope, not this year. We didn't even have a summer there was no summer. Things have just
thawed out like we are just into July and usually you have some time through the summer until right
about the fall is when this starts to happen. But not this year. There wasn't much snow up in the mountains
it got hotter quicker, it thawed what little snow was up here, dried it out, set it on fire, and now
we have this. Such a shame. Yet eerily poetic that i'm sitting up here at this fire lookout in a
pretty recently burned forest, covered in smoke. The duality of this area between the lush vibrant
wildflower trickled landscape with its lakes and green foliage to the severely burned
douglas fir forest here. Combined with the atmosphere of gray smoke
it's like something out of the apocalypse. I came up here for a view. I kind of got one, i can see
all these these lakes down here that would make this place super cool. I'm sure there's some fish
in them or something so not all is lost. But now which one to stay at because i'm seeing several.
So this is the first lake. All these lakes in this basin don't have names so
this is like 7,800 feet. It's only four o'clock, there's another lake i think the
biggest lake in the basin is 300 feet higher so i'm just gonna scramble over there real quick.
Side note, i realized just now that i didn't bring my chair and that is really bumming me out.
Not having my chair is making me realize how much i like having a chair out here.
All right this spot has a lot to be desired, a bench, a nice little creek here
right next to the water. It's cool in the shade, but now that i'm over here i can see back closer
to where i came from and i think i see the primo spot over there. I'm kind of thinking about
doing the full circle around this lake, and heading over there, and grabbing that spot. Ah come here man.
Oh you're bouncing now, oh you're so fast, you're so fast, come here, i got you.
Oh look i got a toad! Oh you mad, i'm sorry. Look at that thing.
What a fish. Oh what a big, what a fish! Come here buddy.
Come here.
Oh look at that fish. Oh easy buddy, okay put him back in the water.
All right, that's enough that. Well that was interesting. A smoky yet successful
fishing trip to Red Mountain and the Red Mountain Lakes.
First off if you're like "Wow Jon you're still shamelessly rocking that tank top, did you just
get back from a hike?" Uh yeah no this is just how i come to work now. There were so many fun details
and little things that i learned in this hiking video and the last hiking video at Curtis Lake
that really didn't fit the narrative of the story, so i'm gonna do something a little different.
In an hour i'm gonna have a live stream. I'm gonna talk about Curtis Lake and Red Mountain Lakes.
I'm gonna get into GPS and the Garmin iN Reach and how that thing works. I'm gonna talk about Tenkara rods.
What is a tenkara rod, what is tenkara fishing, how to do it, how to be successful at it. And i'm
also going to go into some of the filmmaking decisions i made and just little behind the
scenes stuff with the camera like how i made 15 time lapses in one evening and how i built the
creepy song at the end of the Red Mountain Lake video. If you haven't already, go back and check
out the Curtis Lake video it is right here. Join us for the live stream which is right here there's
also a link in the description below. And then if you still want more Idaho hiking and backpacking
check out this playlist right here. So as always thank you for watching, and i'll see you soon.