The Sawtooths are just special.
Being from idaho it adds another level to it. They they represent us,
they represent what we're all about.
This is the outdoors, things happen. You know, a couple falls,
the bear spray, we did have a bear spray incident. My bear spray works.
If you're prepared, you get through it when things,
when things don't quite go your way. No thunderstorms in the forecast
all of a sudden it's raining and we got lightning
and thunder. Hopefully it's a nice easy climb, but I doubt it.
Is it worth the trip?
Yeah it's worth the trip.
All right so here we are, finally. My favorite place on planet earth.
Stanley Idaho, and the Sawtooth Wilderness.
And this week we're doing a number of hikes.
Obviously this place has tons of hiking, it's a hiking mecca.
Quick update on the youtube channel. This is still the Adventures of Jon and Chad
but you might have noticed that Chad's been coming in and going out.
When we started this youtube channel it was
my idea, and Chad's been super supportive. But he's at a different place in his
life, a different place in his career. So you
will see Chad for some of the bigger projects that we
do on the channel, and then for some of this smaller stuff
I'll be doing it solo, and sometimes I'll have an assistant with me.
So on this trip I brought my buddy Brett. Old rugby
pal, someone that's worked with Chad and I before. He's younger than me which I
don't like at all. So today we're doing probably the
most popular hike in Stanley and that is the Redfish
Trailhead to Fishhook Meadow. This is a really
easy 4.2 out and back. There's about 300 feet in elevation gained
so it's easy, and it's also something that you can do early in the season like
in June, and to find this place it's also really
easy. Head over to Redfish Lodge, the turn to Redfish
Lodge right after that turn is a big parking
lot. You park there and then about 300 feet northeast of you
is this trailhead marked by this big sign
that says the Redfish Trailhead. I'm super excited, this is the crown jewel of
Idaho. Should we get started brett? Let's do it.
All right.
What did you do? I dropped it in the water. You're gonna speed ramp into it.
We have found one little dispersed camp site right here, right in front of
the meadow. So brett and I are going to go explore
we got plenty of time, and then we'll come back here, we'll
relax, we'll watch a beautiful sunset
over the Sawtooth Mountains. Sounds a little,
a little too romantic for my liking. Yeah I like alliteration. All right
let's go check out that side hike.
When you're just out here, and you're just, you have a camera in your hand you
just can't stop shooting. You just, it's like I just
shot the same scene, well shoot it again.
It's definitely a cool place to watch the sunset.
I uh, I totally filmed an ending and all that with the please
subscribe and the instagram handle and after putting the
video together, it just didn't feel right.
I don't know, I just wanted to make something about the Sawtooths for so
long and to tell the story of the Sawtooths
the way I wanted to tell it. Finally sitting down and
looking at it and you know completing the first episode and just
leaning back and seeing it. I don't know I just, I mean
I got emotional. Yeah so thank you for watching and uh
we'll see you on episode two.