We just got on the beehive trail and it is marked as difficult
the start of it isn't easy right out the gate lots of the boulders
Hey you guys! We're in Acadia
National Park in Maine. If you're new to the channel this is April and I'm Wayne. So sit
back, relax and enjoy the journey! and the climb starts what do you think about this so far April
she's about to kill me and we just started do you know about Friends of Acadia no i don't so most
sort of national parks big served lands have some sort of a friends group that just like friends of
Acadia provides anywhere from like 20 to 70 percent of the funding for maintenance in the
park a year they provide additional employees like me and since the national park is federal
organization they do all the political lobbying or i'm a Summit Steward they're a group that is
employed by Friends of Acadia we're basically very similar to the interpretation rangers except our
shirts are tan instead of gray and we hike a lot more we do a lot of pop-up sort of education about
leave no trace we help out with search and rescues we do like trail maintenance especially when it's
raining um and we give a lot of directions so are you publicly funded or a donation funded
by donations yeah donationally funded okay perfect i'll uh put a link below for you guys
thank you yeah
oh look you can actually see sand beach and that leads us into a travel tip for here obviously
you need to take lots of water it's not summer it's like 39 degrees and i'm sweating like a
fat pig need help look freaked out you freaked out April can we help you
April's got a little bit of vertigo you got it you got it you can do it
there you go good job she had the same problem when we were at Angels Landing in Zion
National Park check out the card above for that you want me get in front ladies April's a badass
oh look at this it's ladders this is what i was looking for guys
looking for the ladders you want me to go in front of you let me go behind behind okay all right
April's at the gymnasium or the uh playground now climbing the slide
what do you think so far
ohh!
it's freaky especially that one part where it was
an open grate and my hiking shoe felt like it was sliding it was sliding mine slid on that grate
and it was open with you know like that much in between we checked online with
the national park services to find out what we were supposed to do a month ago right and
they they said there was no restrictions and we went online and said there was no reservations
it was empty for uh like a month or something we finally we came in i was like i gotta find
out there's another way to get a ticket for this thing i'm doing it i came all this way to do it
you did it yeah we called into the reservation number and they had some tickets left
you might need to have a reservation we didn't get that far so today when we pulled in we learned a
little bit that we needed to we were able to they said i can get like the last the last one
yeah so April is terrified right now we're a good chunk up as you can see she's got vertigo and
these rocks actually are a little slick they're not as okay be quiet i'm sorry be quiet Wayne please
sorry i gots to focus and i don't need to be hearing your--my blah ble blab--you're making it more dramatic
grab that put your right foot up here put your right foot up
there you go as you can tell there's a little bit of mountain climbing involved here
i like mountain huggers i'm a mountain hugger i'm
made it to the summit it's worth every minute of the climb it's not easy
but you gotta do it
and that is the sounds of nature a bunch of teenagers singing Neil Diamond
doing good i made it to the top
that was a big deal for me i'm sorry i hope i'm not holding you back if you want to go do
Precipice but no no you're fine this was good enough for me i don't know how i could do it
with uh having the camera yeah you wouldn't be able to it sounds like it sounds like yeah
slap on the GoPro Precipice would have been cool but it's supposed to be way harder than
the Beehive that we just did yeah it's uh and trying to hold a camera and a gimbal and April hey
you know it's not too many national parks that have views like this no i mean every national park
is amazing in its own way oh yeah but i'm saying with the water i'm thinking about it and yeah
we're in Utah a lot so we we see national parks but these are different hey we featured your singing in our video
we can hear it over here clear as day you guys are the Neil Diamond group
it was awesome well done what i'm surprised is i mean like how old are you guys
19. okay so i said teenagers and you're singing Neil Diamond out in the woods on top of a mountain
that's pretty cool my dad listened to that when i was a kid
look at this on the back side of the trail once you get to the summit you get some
magnificent views like this and it's a little bit easier trail so far it's not crazy insane
remember the song i used to think was so sexy i would have some guy take me home tonight
oh yeah i was like i don't know i don't know how old i was but i was like
i remember thinking this is a sexy song and you know ooh taboo that i was thinking sexy thoughts
my shoes are slipping just a little bit you remember when i said it was easy
it's getting harder again to get back down and you know i'm trying to do this without leaning on you
and i appreciate that and so does my back we do have another little travel tip for you
this granite is incredibly slick and you definitely don't want to be in tennis shoes
doing this you want to get yourself a good pair of hiking boots you don't need to spend
$200 but get a good pair of hiking boots it will make the difference on this trail
i guess we made it to the end yep this is where we started this is the starting point
or at this place the ending point looped us right back around yep. So we want to thank
you guys for watching our video all the way to the end. If you would, hit that subscribe button,
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and that's a wrap