hey guys I'm in the backcountry as usual and I thought I'd be really fun to do a
quick backcountry Q&A because you got time in the backcountry these are some
of the questions that I get asked and just I thought would be fun to answer so
let's jump right into it so I got into backpacking when I moved to South Lake
Tahoe California where I lived for a couple years and prior to that I had
actually done the Camino de Santiago in Spain and that's just a walk across
Spain and then I'd also ridden my bicycle across the United States and so
I had like some gear from those two things and then I had done a ton of
hiking once I moved out there and I just loved to hike and I wanted to make that
jump from hiking to backpacking and at the time I had a co-worker who was into
it and I think he just said he was going on a trip and I was like can I go with
you and that was kind of my first trip I went out and I bought some of the gear
that I didn't have and then I just kind of went for it I was pretty unprepared I
packed way too much and I didn't know what I was doing and that's just kind of
part of the experience is you're gonna learn as you go but after that first
trip I was totally hooked and I did some solo trips and I moved to Utah and I
started backpacking in the mountains and in the desert and I just fell in love
with this activity and that's why I absolutely love sharing this with you if
you are in that boat if you love to hike and you want to actually make that jump
to backpacking I have a ton of resources for you here so you're not alone and I
hope that you find this channel helpful it's one of the reasons that I love to
make these videos oh how could you ask me that question this is really hard to
choose I think if I have to choose I would say desert but they are so
different that they're really hard to compare and I love backpacking in both
but I think the desert slightly wins out for me I would actually love to know
your answer to this question so comment below with desert or mountains mm okay so
this is actually really hard because we did so much backpacking so I'm gonna
give you top three one is the Alice-Toxaway Loop in the Sawtooth Mountains up
in Idaho that was amazing I have a little vlog video I'll link to that in
the description below and then number two would probably
be Great Basin National Park it actually blew me away like it was so
beautiful and I highly recommend that I also have a trip guide to that I'll link
to that below we did a one night backpacking trip there and then we
explored some caves and it was just it was phenomenal and then trip number
three is actually where I am right now in this beautiful place this is
Chesler Park in Canyonlands National Park and I this is my second time
backpacking here because I just truly love it and I do have a trip guide vlog
to that as well so I'll link to that in the description below okay so I love
breakfast like love breakfast it's my favorite meal of the day and I used to
just have oatmeal and be pretty content with that but since I've been
doing so much backpacking this year we wanted to up our breakfast game so now I
actually have pancakes and eggs and that's my go-to breakfast and I know
that sounds really extravagant for the backcountry I would have agreed with you
until I started making that and then I was like this is so easy so now that's
definitely my go-to breakfast and I have a video on how to make backcountry
pancakes I'll link to that below it's really not that hard and it is so good
alright so that is it for this backcountry Q&A I would love to hear
your answers to all of these questions in the comments below say hi and if you
have any other questions that you would like me to answer in an upcoming Q&A
video just let me know make sure to subscribe to my channel for more
backpacking resources and inspirational backpacking vlogs I would love to hear
from you and I'll catch you in the next video peace why would a fly just
fly right into my mouth that seems like a bad place to fly