welcome to the wilderness
desolation wilderness a high altitude wonderland of forests lakes bears
and challenges there's no cell signal no electricity running water grocery stores or
any kind of civilization at all in sight but in such an interconnected world that makes so many
demands on our time and attention how beautiful is it to disconnect and return to our roots
that's what we were hoping to find as we set out into the wilderness for four full days
i gotta say usually at the beginning of a hike like this i'm a lot more like energetic than i
am right now this is by far the least energetic and most sore i've ever been before and it's hot
it's hot today and we've got a pretty ridiculous climb too 2000 feet with a bunch of weight on
great
it's how much the water taxi is it's 18. we're gonna do it though cause yeah
there's the option to look really nerdy to take
the water taxi across and cut off like a mile and a half but you have to wait
for three people or pay the three person price which is like almost 60 bucks fingers crossed
the third person shows up and wants to take this boat or we got a long longer walk ahead of us
well hi hello how's it going hi hugo
all right i think we gotta just go so we're gonna
hike it despite adding some uh to our journey but we just gotta go
yeah it's hot sometimes i'm like why do i even like this
why do i like this why do i do this okay about two miles in
not feeling any more enthusiastic are you
we got 900 feet to go
i kind of wish we'd taken that water taxi
yeah i'm actually getting excited now favorite song on i put my feet up
we got up to the highest point the hard part is over i seriously cannot wait to be at the
lake
i do believe that is some glittering lake right there forever
forever it's so beautiful and i really want to stop and film but
these mosquitoes are relentless no stopping in the shade they don't seem to like the sunshine as
much but they're just brutal right now we could of course just stop and camp like way back there but
we're definitely making this a longer trek because we found the best camp spot last year and we're
hoping we can find it again this year there's not as many people there you think you found
just made it oh you're my hero you're awesome thanks babe wow
why do i love being off the grid well for me it's the feeling that there's nothing that
needs to be done i'm unreachable there's no way to contact me and no way for me to contact you
i'm totally self-reliant i can't just go get more groceries or order delivery but i'm also in one
of the most beautiful and pristine places on earth with nothing between me and nature
our home for the next few days you ready
good morning it's a breezy beautiful day well it appears
from our little friend here and lots of friends in this apple here so ants got into
the bear can last night all right things are getting serious with this bear can situation
maybe if i sit on it and you screw i'm hoping they didn't get into too much belts there's one gross
lesson learned you need to screw on the top all the way so don't bring so much food that that's
not possible if they didn't get into my coffee drink that would've been really sad powdery coffee
it is a gorgeous morning we're the only ones out here there's a trail behind me and people pass by
sometimes but it's pretty secluded out here and i love that about this gorgeous lake and the water
is so crystal clear it's all snow melt and it's just glorious very cold but glorious to look at
and i'm definitely jumping in there later i'm a little concerned about the wildfire smoke being
pushed this way it was super windy last night in a way i haven't experienced out here but fingers
crossed it stays clear because it looks fine up ahead of me right now garrett's still sleeping
though he's not still sleeping come hang out with me hi garrett i think it's like maybe noon
you have to jump in
you're just walking
gonna upgrade your uh your situation i got other plans for mine there you go
upgrade huh i'm gonna test mine in the
water
it kind of works so perfect we have our beachfront property here here's our power grid
an unlimited fresh water moment of truth it actually doesn't smell horrible
yeah i'm scared okay that looks all right
i think you should try oh no with garrett's bad knee he had to sit out the sunrise hike and that
left me with a choice it was going to be the longest night hike i had ever done by myself
and to be honest i was a little bit nervous but i knew i didn't want to miss out on the sunrise
all right i'm up it's more or less what i see okay i think this is where i make my first turn that
way i gotta check my map first okay that's very hard to see but i have about three miles to go
actually really creepy this part in the woods i just feel like i don't know i'm
hearing the wind through the trees but if i were an animal this is where i would hang out
okay it's gotten pretty rocky here it's definitely not always clear to me where the trail is
i think i'm on it now i think i have like about a mile to go
i've lost the trail again i like i don't even know how many times
it's just really not obvious four well marked my app says i'm 15 minutes from the top
so i'll just keep going up i guess i did it oh man i made it
i i'm so proud of myself
watch me
just follow every move
touch
even though i had my moments when i got a little spooked and a little lost standing there watching
the sunrise as the only one on ralston summit was one of the best highs of my life and that moment
i felt empowered capable and like mother nature and i were having this private beautiful moment
together that is where i started my morning i'm shivering and that is where we started our hike
two days ago right over there this is the route we took at the tamarack lake that is of course lake
tahoe my heart that is where we're camped like aloha i have to say i crave these experiences
and this feeling the moment that makes the pursuit of it with all of its ups and downs sweeter and so
worth it hello friends i'm very cold i woke up at 2 30 to start hiking but this is why
now i get to see all the things i couldn't see in the dark and this forest is so beautiful i'm just
in awe and it's nice to see the trail finally oh i got so lost in here wow look at this tree
damn i'm pretty sure i'm surrounded by bristle cone pines right now which are these like crazy
gnarled trees that look like they fell over but they're just trying to survive in this
harsh environment and they are the oldest living organism on earth some of them predate
the pyramids even and i just am mind blown by that i see the tent
i can't believe i did that i can't believe it's been up since 2
30.
sleeping beauty a few moments later
well i'm not even sure i'm like awake right now but i i don't know if you can tell like
the crazy wind it's just been going but don't forget every time we try to sleep so we haven't
really slept in the last two days but it's cool because we don't have anything we gotta do here
that's the fourth time he's won out of four games
so as much as i like love it out there and thought it was so beautiful garrett and i did decide to
come back yesterday and the main reason for that was because of the way that the tent just ch
all night long we could have maybe picked the wrong spot or maybe it just happened
to be a super windy like a couple of days there which i know if you've been
watching my channel there's so many other times when i've been foiled by wind lately
so we just thought instead of spending another sleepless night and another morning there eating
like freeze-dried food why not just like come home order a pizza and wake up in our own beds
so that ended up being the best thing we took the water taxi back which shaped off
a couple of miles because in the end it ended up being like a 16 mile day for me
having done ralston summit and the hike out the boat ride was just so beautiful
the whole hike and the whole experience was just so beautiful and i'm so glad that we did it
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