we're heading over to los nevados national park
hoping to catch a glimpse of the volcano ruiz up close it's going to be a long drive though
the fan turned on so we're gonna let some heat out for a second this is a super high
high altitude place that we're going 13 000 feet so we're gonna have to do this quite a few times
because it's gonna be quite the process to get up but we wanna see this national park we wanna see
the volcanoes and the mountains it turned off so we're making our way again
frailejones! haven't seen them in so long
do
we went to the end of the road as far as we can drive up here to the national park entrance
and we're going to do it another day actually they close at 2 p.m is the last you can enter
but the earliest is 8 a.m when we're gonna spend the night you should be able to see it too
hopefully we'll get a majestic beautiful mountain view it's kind of weird you actually take your own
car but you need a guide so the guide can either go in your cat or he can go ahead of you so i
think if we got here at 8 00 a.m if we can't take a hike or anything and we stocked up food
water gas everything we even have cell reception up here so i think we're gonna try and stay put
up here in the beautiful beautiful paramo i think we'll have plenty to do up here it's gonna be epic
when we come up to good camps like this we gotta scout our spot out what are you thinking danny
this i think is the main event for sure i think that's going to be the mountain right there
so we want to maximize our views right here it's pretty good but it's not hidden you know
well i'm fairly happy with this spot for the night over here through the
clouds there should be an epic mountain waiting to be seen up here at 13 000 feet
i'm thinking about leveling the van for once i don't know if anyone will
miss this wood but look there's a frog under it
Grahamy you want to go outside
oh boy
emily's cutting up some food all the doors open up here in nature i love it and it's free too
i had to get the guitar out to get the chairs out so might as well play
i'll bring over the snack board
so we made a nice snack board up at 13 000
feet here hi handsome are you ready for some cuddles some high alpine cuddles
let's get the most out of these free oranges it's been really hard to find spots just in the middle
of nowhere here in Colombia we're really happy right now you can see the view out here has gotten
very cloudy all of a sudden but i'm gonna try the middle of the night early morning see if we can
see that big old snow cap volcano yeah let's get up early we're gonna watch a nice tv show
together on our projector yeah we carry this thing around yeah it hides pretty easily down
here but we always have this projector mount here which i had to convince emily to install
wow how great waking up out here with this view it's clear today like exceptionally
clear clouds have been just rolling by no problem it was nice and cold last night
love it up here whoa change of plans look at these clouds can roll in fast up here 13 000. so we're
gonna take these animals for a little walk so tomorrow we're probably gonna do that but yeah
we're gonna check out the side road here a little ways there's some epic frailejones over here
just feels so good waking up in this beautiful wild campsite i feel like we're back in the
us going for a walk off leash with our with our pets and oh actually the thing is locked
let's just
whoop whoop
well it looks like this little hike that we did over here goes over to a farm we think
we decided we're going to hang out here for the day and enjoy
our wild campsite we're gonna work we're gonna go in and out take the pets for some walks and
just enjoy our time at our beautiful free wild campsite that we have here in Colombia
that we're super excited about feels good to be stocked up to be in a free spot
and have plenty of things that we're going to be able to do in the next couple days
i feel so lucky to be able to work up here just working on my apps emily's working on the videos
and we're just super comfy here with the doors open
enjoying the view and we got up here graham in his little hiding spot hey buddy
hey
good boy grammy
oh we're off to a good start this morning decently clear
it looks like it's still closed
heading up to the mountain
so we're some of the first people up here we gotta wait for the guides to get here
they're supposed to be here at 8 and it's 7:55. so no big deal and now we're up here at
4,100 meters above sea level so we're talking 13,500 feet ish
what do you think emily they said we gotta wait for the guides
so we're just hoping it doesn't get cloudy
man so last minute they spotted the cat and they said we can't drive up
we were able to go in their transport at least which was a fine compromise to me for another
five bucks and oh yes but it is getting cloudy after the introductory talk was like super long
but you know it's beautiful up here at least we can come and we'll see what happens up ahead
we were surprised to see that there used to be a ski resort up here
we're not sure when the skiing ended but in 1985 the glaciers were completely melted by a volcanic
here's the map that of the area that's threatened by the volcano and this was in 1985 mostly it
comes down these rivers as a pyroclastic flow or lahar and here 25,000 people died next we're
gonna go check out this area with the van so we'll show you guys what this volcano can do
and over here 3,000 people died so 28,000 people died in 1985 due to this volcano
come on clouds give us a break now it's raining a little bit but
maybe the mountain will have snow on it tomorrow if it's raining here we're at 4
500 meters which i'd have to do the math but we must be at 14 000 or more feet here and even with
these clouds it is an epic landscape being up here yeah it looks like we're on the moon
danny's basically on the moon right now we thought we were going up to a different part of colombia
but we ended up in a different planet we can't see the car that we came from we can't see anything
except for this canyon that's down here we're hoping and waiting we're gonna have to come back
because yesterday morning was like not a cloud and i decided to sleep and i learned my lesson
this is still really good yeah i guess it's not a busy season but we can't really go everywhere at
the right time i'm glad they didn't let us drive because the road is pretty gnarly and also there
was a sandy bit that i don't think we would have made it up it's actually hailing a little bit
wow you can just see the crater there oh my gosh that's the edge of the crater we've
been seeing from the van and then over here will be the main crater hopefully
these clouds keep going away well at least it stopped raining and it's
it is starting to clear up this is awesome much better than just a moment ago
so maybe we'll have to be happy with this view here but i'm pretty stoked about it and you can
see there too the road that goes up farther kind of next to that rock to the left of it she said
16 switchbacks to get up to the next level and you used to be able to drive up there to go skiing
well at least we can see this canyon like way better now oh my gosh and so there's a bridge
over it up here that at any moment could get washed out so that's why you're not allowed to
drive farther but yeah we're getting to see a bit more we couldn't see over there when we got here
and still no main crater up there that might be some snow huh good eye babe
oh there it is now we're seeing the main crater up there the sun came out cleared off some of these
clouds it's such a good view i'm super stoked she told us that we have to leave yeah the guide is
is trying to get us to leave right now wow there's definitely some snow way up there at the crater
oh feels good to be back home cooking up here at 13,000 feet
gonna make some potato tacos we're hoping we might see the top of this mountain from here
it was fun going way up there i'm still curious if that is a main
crater
yes we finally got to see the top there is snow and steam wow
it's just behind a hill from where we've been sleeping
so stoked to finally see the mountain and sombrita's getting some outside time
i'm kind of getting outside time wow so we're gonna have to leave it with that view there
pretty epic to finally see the mountain but there's some other things we want to explore
up here at this altitude thank you guys so much for joining us if you like this video
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