- Poop, poop pant poop, poop poop.
Getting it out my system.
What's up friends?
My name is Miranda.
I am a backpacker and a rock climber
and a lover of slugs
and weird plants.
I wasn't always an outdoorsy kid,
but after a decade of working in the outdoor industry
I have become a tree hugging, dirt-worshiper!
Yeah!
A lot of you said that I should have my own show,
and now, I do!
(hand claps)
oh, you okay?
- [Sky] Yeah.
- This show is gonna be a lot of me doing stuff outside.
What are some things that we're gonna do?
- [Sky] Running maybe.
- (surprised noise) Running?
Come on with me while we go backpacking,
while we do challenges, and quests.
This is really very vague.
I hope you will join me in giving suggestions for
what I should do.
- [Sky] Trail running?
- No trail running! Stop suggesting running!
There will be no running in this show!
I will answer questions and talk about my gear,
and just like, generally share my love
of the outdoor lifestyle.
With you all!
I'm psyched you're here!
Nervous armpit sweats.
- [Sky] Oh my God, people are not ready for you.
- (laughs)
(upbeat music)
- [Miranda Voiceover] This is my show gosh darn.
- So cool!
I'm excited!
This is gonna go so well.
We re going wildflower hunting.
Dude. These are awesome.
(Miranda gasps)
Wow, this is very cool.
This is not going to be hard at all!
Good morning my friends! We are on our way
to look at wildflowers.
This I snot going to be a typical
hike for me.
Like something really challenging,
or something with some like, beautiful destination,
or lookout, or whatever.
But it is going to be really fun, and really different.
We're gonna go find some flowers.
Hooray.
I've given myself the goal of finding and identifying
ten different wildflowers species.
And I thought that I did a pretty good job,
because I found this little yellow flower,
and this white flower,
but it turned out that one of them is a dandelion
and the other one is a white daisy.
Which don't actually count as wildflowers.
Or do they??
So we had a couple different wildflower books
but the main one the we have is this one,
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest.
You can actually get this book at REI.
It's got a handy, ruler, on the back
and then you can identify them based on color.
Oh, so lets find out if a daisy counts as a wildflower!
Oh my God.
Look at all these.
These all look exactly the same.
Okay, all right.
That one.
Oh, oh, oh wait.
Here we go.
Hey, this one.
It's a daisy.
Look at this ridiculous amount of daisies.
Can we just agree that this counts as a wildflower
because there's like 9 billion
different daisies in this book?
That's one down!
One wildflower found!
So, I've identified my first wildflower, which is great,
because I barely left the van.
And with that have set some criteria for this.
Which is, as long as it is in the book, it counts.
Oh, wait, oh!
Oh my gosh!
Sky, I found another flower!
Oh my gosh, two more!
There's this little white flower,
which is different than the other one,
and then there's this one
which is totally different!
We're gonna consult the book!
Okay, there's like a bunch of little petals.
It's some type of pussy toe.
it's one of these guys,
you can see like all the different ones.
There's so many.
So far I've found a daisy, and a pussy toe.
Neither of which I think are particularly interesting.
Amal would hate me for saying that.
So, one of the things I'm realizing about this,
is that I will see a bunch of little pink flowers,
a bunch of little white flowers,
and think that they're the same
as another bunch of white or pink flowers.
And it turns out they're different.
So there's actually way more different
types of flowers than I think I was expecting to see.
Yeah, we're gonna keep walking.
- [Sky] Lets do it.
- Look! All these guys!
This pink flower has yet to be identified.
It is identification time.
This'll be my third identified flower.
And it is Plectritis Congesta.
Or Seablush, I think is what it's called.
And we're off.
We found another little flower.
This hike is gonna go so slowly.
Okay, this one I feel like should be easy to identify.
Because it's tiny and it's pink.
Okay, so, another tiny flower that I
don't find in my book.
I'm not sure if I'm using the book wrong,
or if this is not a wildflower.
I just don't know.
I'm having a little bit of an existential crisis about it.
Is it even a flower?
So we have more little yellow tiny flowers
and these ones are actually really cool.
You've got like a,
God, I wish I knew anything about flowers.
Wow, they're so cool!
This might be my favorite so far.
It's a Monkey Flower.
- [Sky] Oh, cool!
- Done. Checked it off.
I'm a pro now.
Okay, onward.
Watch out for the flowers baby.
All right.
So we have a tiny yellow flower that kind of just looks
like a little yellow daisy.
Oh, it's not a daisy!
It's a buttercup!
Of course it's a buttercup!
Oh, I think its a western buttercup.
So, we've been on this hike for exactly an hour
and we've gone basically nowhere.
But, I found and identified five flowers.
Which means I'm half way there to getting ten.
Which is really cool.
It's a little bit different.
Keeping my head down and looking at flowers.
But, I'm definitely finding a different
sort of appreciation for being out here.
(jazzy music)
It's like a coral reef!
We should do a moss identification video.
- [Sky] Yeah, that'll really get the views.
- Moss. Moss. Moss. Moss.
I took a little turn into the shadows
and just saw this random flower sticking up.
I think it's like, yellowish white.
So, I think that this is an Asphodel.
A western false asphodel.
It's really hard to tell with some of these.
That's number six.
Onward.
I saw a little teeny tiny purple flower.
It's really small.
But I wanna try and identify it.
Is that too tiny for you?
This is my first purple one.
So we're going to see if we can figure out what it is.
Yay flowers!
After only like a minute of searching in this book,
I realize there's no way I'm going to
find out what this flower is.
Probably in a few weeks
it'll maybe have bloomed more,
and be easier to identify.
But right now I have no idea what it is.
Still at six.
Found what we're really here for.
And that's a banana slug.
Probably, I don't know.
I'm questioning everything with this video.
Are these even flowers?
Are these even plants?
Am I even Miranda?
We just found this guy.
Little tiny purple-y dude.
And it is a Common Camas.
- [Sky] Beautiful.
So that's seven flowers.
So Sky pointed out that one of the tiny white flowers
that I kept calling a daisy,
was actually different than the daisy that we found
at the very beginning of our hike.
And it's actually, we think,
either Chickweed or a Starwort of some kind.
It's one of those two.
That is our eighth flower, which means there's only two more
and then I will have completed my
ten wildflower hunting extravaganza.
So, this might be cheating.
Sky pointed out what we think is Miner's Lettuce.
So let me show it to you.
That little dude.
We looked in the book
and it's pretty similar,
so I'm counting this as number nine.
One flower left!
Very exciting!
Oh, cool!
More little white flowers!
What do we think it is?
Wait.
It's a Blackberry bush!
- [Sky] This is a blackberry bush?
- Yeah!
That's totally it!
- [Sky] Yeah, you're right.
- That's number ten!
- [Sky] That's number ten, wow.
- We did it! Ten wildflowers!
- [Sky] That's actually really fast.
- We did it! All with the help of this book!
- [Sky] Wow, that's awesome!
- So we are back in Vincent, our lovely van.
And I did manage to find
and identify ten different wildflowers.
If you have any of your favorite wildflowers
go ahead and let me know
what they are in the comments below.
If you haven't already,
obviously subscribe to REI's channel.
We have lots of awesome videos out.
And that's it.
Stay safe y'all, and I will see you in the wild.
- ♪ we're sitting in our van. We're sitting in our van. ♪
♪ And the temperature is mild. We do not need a fan. ♪
(both laugh)