good morning I am headed out on a very unexpected adventure
decision last minute plans and that's the beauty of this lifestyle just going with
the blow uh leaving the Eastern Sierra and headed towards Lassen National Park today
going to be a tour we've done the Squatch tour and uh yeah we're gonna head up to
the Pacific Northwest and we don't even know exactly what we're gonna do we have some some
plans but uh we'll see how it all unfolds and joining me on this Adventures my
friend Joey coconado we're road tripping together it's going to be it's gonna blast
growing up I first visited national parks via road trips with my grandparents and I
have loved them ever since both national parks and road trips
we're 99 miles outside of Lassen National Park we've driven out of California into
Nevada through Carson City through Reno back back into California now we only have 99 miles to go
we had made it to Lassen Volcanic National Park
the dominant feature of the park is Lassen Peak the largest plugged dome volcano in
the world and the southernmost volcano in the Cascade Range
foreign Volcanic National Park is one of the few areas in the world where all four
types of volcano can be found plug Dome Shield cinder cone and strato volcano in 2021 the Dixie
fire burned large portions of the national park becoming the largest wildfire in park history
thank you
good morning we are already on the road this morning so Lassen was just kind of a pit stop
along our route we just wanted to check it out get a little taste of it and uh we are headed
towards Shasta now and may make a little stop at some waterfalls we're at the Bernie Creek
rim trail we have to hike a little bit further because we have the trailer so we had to park a
little further out we have a one and a half mile hike to the falls and then one and a half back
Bernie Falls is located within MacArthur Bernie Falls Memorial
state park in Shasta County California called The Eighth Wonder of the World
by President Theodore Roosevelt The Falls are at their most intense during the Spring
from early April through October when the snow melt is at its peak
The Falls were declared in national natural landmark in December 1954.
Mount Shasta is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range at
an elevation of 14 179 feet it is the second highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth
highest in the state and speaking of States we were now entering Oregon
made it to our camp here on the Oregon coast we would have never thought that we'd be here tonight
but it was so hot Inland we were driving up to five we decided to make a beeline and head for the
coast and I think it was a really good decision because it's so much cooler here almost even cold
we found an awesome campsite at a forest service campsite I believe it's called Sutton campsite
and we got here and there was a bunch of feral cats running around chasing a rabbit it's in the
forest I'll show it to you tomorrow because it was pretty dark when we got here and tonight I'm just
making a makeshift dinner out of some stuff I had lying around a pretty pretty beat from the drive
today but it was beautiful starting the day with the Bernie Falls hike and then the drive here was
or some parts of it were just absolutely gorgeous tomorrow the plan is is to continue up the coast
and I think we're going to go ahead and head up to Washington uh the furthest point first because
there is some weather on the way but I think we have about a little over a week of good weather
before that shows up so we're gonna head there hopefully do some Adventures there and then head
back down the coast make our way back down to the Oregon coast and that's the plan for now anything
could change it's just uh calling it flying by the seat of our pants and calling it as it goes
makeshift dinner and cheddar cheese sticks that I've cut up making a quesadilla and tomato soup
good morning this was camp for night number two we are getting everything packed up and
getting ready to continue our drive up North so we're hoping to find a nice
Camp somewhere like maybe on the beach is what we're hoping anyhow that is the plan
little Seaside towns along the way
and along with the Charming Seaside towns we crossed many bridges many many bridges
the Astoria megler Bridge is a steel cantilever through truss bridge that spans the Lower Columbia
River between Astoria Oregon and point Elise near megler Washington opened in 1966 it is the longest
continuous truss bridge in North America the bridge is 14 miles from the mouth of the river at
the Pacific Ocean and it was super cool entering the state of Washington on a bridge over the water
foreign
disappointment to see if we can find some camping
Joey what's up what do you think of our campsite here a cake
close to the beach it's nice we made it to our camp here at Cape Disappointment and let me
just say I'm pretty tired at the end of these days because it's been three days of driving
so I don't do a lot of filming but it has been really nice to experience each of these camps
and tomorrow we head on to what will be probably I think our destination for at
least a little while might leave the trailer somewhere and go on an adventure we shall see
Cape Disappointment was named on July 6 1788 by British fur trader John Mears who was sailing
south from New Island Canada in search of trade he mistook the mouth of the Columbia River for
a bay which the ship could not enter due to a shallow Shoal just missing the discovery of the
river mentioned by Francisco Antonio Morrell he named them Cape Disappointment and deception Bay
a little time at the ocean we headed back to Camp to make a quick dinner we've already been
down to the beach but we came back to the camper we were going to make some food and take it to the
beach for the sunset but we decided just to eat right there at the camper because it was salad
so we've had our dinner and a cookie for dessert and getting ready to walk down to the beach to see
the sunset this is a really nice State Park I'm uh stoked on our spot here if you've been around the
channel for a while you know that before hitting the road full time I lived at the ocean I had
an apartment with a 180 degree view of the ocean and shot many hundreds of sunsets from that view
just dipped below the Horizon and it was a gorgeous sunset feels like uh memories of the
past being on the beach for many many many many hours of my life many days many nights feels good
morning it is day four on the road we are headed on the 1
probably be home base for the next little bit hopefully and it's only
going to take us about three hours to get there
epic campsite here on the Olympic Coast I'm getting ready to take this guy
to a Trailhead where you will be backpacking trip where are you headed Olympic Coast yeah
yeah stuff that way we're gonna be spending the night on the beach awesome so will I right here
well that was pretty darn cool having a bald eagle perched literally right above my trailer
when I got back to greet me and then it flew right over the ocean and that was really awesome
to see I definitely could have joined Joey on the backpacking trip however my mind and body
were both saying that I needed a little bit of a break I've been going pretty much non-stop
for the last couple of months now and the idea of just chilling here and the ocean out my door was
pretty appealing so I decided just to hang back because I will have more opportunity for some
backpacking before the Squatch tour has completed the Squatch tour of the Pacific Northwest because
this area is definitely very squatchy I do have a little bit of fomo though now that uh I've dropped
him off and kind of wishing I would have gone but you have to listen to your body that's for sure I
will be exploring this area on my own probably after just a day of rest and I'll get out and
see what there is around here to see and there's a lot around here to see for sure definitely stay
tuned for that I hope that you enjoyed coming along on the road trip it was really awesome
to see some places I've never seen before Lassen National Park was very cool and then Bernie Falls
wow that was absolutely amazing we didn't spend a whole lot of time in each place because we
just wanted to get up here there is some weather coming here in the Pacific Northwest so we kind
of wanted to beat that and get a little bit of a nice weather window to enjoy our time up here
and uh yeah we made it up here in pretty good time I really do appreciate you coming along
as always stay tuned for what Adventures are to come here in the Pacific Northwest we don't
have all the plans made yet so it's going to just be as we go and it's going to be awesome I love
Washington Oregon and the Pacific Northwest and I didn't have a chance to make it up here last
year so it feels really good to be here stay tuned for the adventures to come as always I
appreciate your support I love you all and I'll see you on the next one see you soon bye-bye