- Welcome to story time.
Today's a special day.
(chill guitar music)
It's November 28th.
Usually at this point of the year,
there is a ton of snow.
People are shoveling their driveways.
There's ice everywhere.
Everyone is wearing 16 layers of clothing
because it is too cold to do anything else.
Not what happened yesterday.
The weather was 17 degrees.
(suspenseful music)
It's 17 degrees today,
which is absolutely ridiculous
because it's almost December first.
That's unheard of.
It is like a summertime day.
I'm gonna take full advantage.
This is what we're doing.
My sister has been telling me about all of these trails.
This massive trail system that she has
behind her house that is uninhabited.
It is acres and acres and acres long.
Runs beside the highway
and it just goes and goes and goes,
and she was like,
you've got to bring your ATV over here.
It would be great to make a video.
Get some GoPros. Fly the drone.
Just make a dope little sequence for the vlog.
So I said hundred percent.
On my way.
But you know how the day goes.
You get caught up doing something.
I was editing a video.
I put up a two minute Tuesday,
and next thing you know it was two o'clock,
and I thought to myself,
(gasp) I gotta go to my sister's
cause I want to ride the ATV.
I wanna take advantage of this beautiful weather.
You guys know this might be
the last nice day I get until 2018 in May.
I had to get it done.
I run downstairs,
and I start to throw the ATV in the truck.
(upbeat music)
(ramp banging)
(ATV engine humming)
Alright, side one looks good.
Side two lookin good.
Okay, mission success.
Now, for anybody that owns any kind of
power sports, or machinery, or anything like this,
You know that the whole process,
I guess you get faster as you go,
but the whole process, it's not two minutes.
It takes a good 35 minutes.
I wanted to make sure it was strapped down.
It was done properly.
By the time I was actually able
to get the ATV on the truck
and start heading towards my sister's house,
it was nearly three o'clock.
We're talking one hour until
golden hour commences, because, again,
it's nearly December first, daylight savings.
The sun is almost completely set come five o'clock.
I throw the GoPro on the back of the truck.
It's lookin good.
It's lookin amazing.
Head off to my sister's.
She lives about 45 minutes away.
I finally pull up as the sun is beginning to set.
It is full-blown golden hour right now.
The shadows are long.
It looks incredible,
but that means I don't have much time to ride,
and I don't have much time to set up vlog shots,
and kinda come up with a story,
and get the drone in the air.
I'm a one man band.
I don't have any help.
Mattie, where are you?
Mattie.
Where is Mattie when you need him, okay?
I unload everything off the truck.
I bring down the ATV.
I get ready.
My sister shows me where the entrance to the trails begins.
- [Peter] I don't know.
(laughter)
I brought a change of clothes.
- [Woman] You might need a shower (laughs).
- [Peter] Wish me luck.
- [Woman] Good luck.
- [Peter] Bye.
(upbeat music)
(ATV engine hums)
One of the last times I'm gonna get to go out this year,
and just shred through the trails.
I was super excited,
and my sister says,
"It's just straight through there."
And I look, and I see this giant well of mud,
and I know, you know, with an ATV,
half the fun is just plowing through.
I didn't know how deep those puddles were.
There wasn't any trees close by
where I could winch myself out if I got stuck,
and I just kinda didn't feel
like getting plastered in mud.
So, I went for it anyway.
(upbeat music)
(ATV engine revs)
Needless to say, it was much deeper than I thought,
and straight off the front-end of the ATV just,
boom boom, crashes right down into the mud.
You can see it on this GoPro footage.
It just sinks straight down.
(suspenseful music)
I started givin it some gas.
Back tires were spinning,
It managed to wiggle itself out in four-wheel drive.
Good to go.
Headed into the trails.
(upbeat music)
(ATV engine noise)
And once you emerge from this clearing,
it is like motocross heaven.
There are moguls, and jumps, and ridges,
and turns, and figure-eights.
It goes left. It goes right.
It goes straight.
It goes off to the side.
It comes back around.
It loops forward.
It is an incredible trail system,
and I didn't even think about where I was.
I just started bombing right through.
It wasn't until about 10 minutes into it,
at a good speed, flying through the woods,
and all these different clearings that
I stopped and thought to myself,
I have no idea where I am right now.
Yeah, totally lost right now.
I'm currently lost.
The sun is setting, and...
There are so many trails back here,
and I've never been back here.
I don't have a map.
This is just like my sister's backyard,
but there's hundreds of acres of trails.
I was just having so much fun
just mobbin back here that
I don't actually know where to go from here.
I was gonna take the drone out, but...
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
I have no idea which way is back.
And then I thought to myself,
I didn't bring water.
I don't have a first-aid kit.
I don't have anybody here with me.
The sun, it's starting to
go down faster and faster.
Mind you, I was able to compensate
my ISO to make it not look so dark.
The day was coming to an end quite fast,
and I had no idea where I was.
Obviously, I could plug her address into Google Maps,
or whatever, and find my way back,
but the trail system was quite intricate.
It was my first time riding,
so I thought to myself,
maybe I should start making my way back now
before something bad happens,
but first, I should fly my drone.
I really wanted a good cutaway sequence
of me mobbing through this really sandy clearing.
For the people that own drones,
you know right when you see a good spot to fly the drone,
you have to do it.
I took it out.
I got it all set up and sent it up in the air.
What I wanted to do was initiate
the active track that DJI has within their apps
so that it would track me on the ATV
because I didn't have Mattie there to fly the drone for me.
I figured it would just fly itself.
Now you see this massive clearing.
I just wanted to warp speed through that.
Get a top down shot.
Get an establishing side shot.
Maybe a backwards shot.
Maybe a head-on shot with the drone moving backwards.
I wanted to just kind of have fun with it and mix it up,
but I figured I would start with the drone up high.
I started the ATV.
Looked up.
Saw that it was following me,
which was one of the first times I've actually
managed to make it work,
and I started driving.
Now, I didn't go too fast
because I didn't want it to lose its signal,
but then this happened.
(melancholy music)
Now I didn't want to go too fast
because I didn't want the drone to lose its target,
as you guys know who've done active track before.
You gotta draw a little box over the target.
So I did that.
I started to just kind of moderate speed,
and the drone started following me just fine,
and then suddenly it slows down
and just kind of hovers.
I'm still going,
and then it's almost like it remembered
that it needed to track me,
and it sped up on the last part of that clip,
and then, wouldn't you know,
started to go towards a tree,
closer to a tree,
closer to the tree,
(mimics collision)
straight into the tree.
(melancholy music)
Thank you, obstacle avoidance.
That was amazing.
I don't know how it happened,
but the drone crashed.
I crashed my Phantom 4 Pro+.
That is the first time that I have
ever actually straight up crashed a drone.
I just crashed the drone.
Oh no, this isn't going well.
(stepping on branches and melancholy music)
It's not stuck in a tree, is it?
Guys, I just crashed the drone,
and I can't find it,
and the sun is setting.
Oh, this is just a disaster.
It's not stuck in a tree, is it?
How can I not find the drone?
(melancholy music)
(ding)
Alright, here's the set up.
Lost the drone.
Crashed it into these trees.
Can't find it anywhere.
I don't see it in the trees.
I don't see it on the ground.
There's nowhere else it could be,
so I'm going to ride back over to the controller.
See if it's still putting up a signal.
I'm trying to find it.
(ATV engine humming)
Oh my goodness, it's stuck in a tree.
Yo, you guys.
It's stuck in a tree.
This was fun. This was a great outing,
and now it's a very not great outing,
and the sun's going down.
I still don't know how to get back.
Okay.
You can see me circle around on the ATV
trying to see where it was.
I couldn't find it anywhere.
I looked for 30 minutes.
I didn't see anything fall,
but I looked through the forest.
There was lots of brush.
It was hard to kinda make out where it could have been,
and I left the remote on the case
back at the beginning of that clearing,
because I didn't want to ride with it.
Drove back over there to, hopefully,
see if the camera was still on,
and I could make out where the drone was.
Luckily, that was exactly what happened.
The drone was still on.
It was still operational,
and I was able to actually move the gimbal
and see a small patch of land,
and I figured if I position myself
in that small patch of land,
I might actually be able to find this drone.
I found it.
(melancholy music)
See it up there?
How am I gonna get that down?
I can't even get into the woods, it's so thick.
(branches cracking)
Please, don't hit me in the head.
How am I gonna get this down?
I went over to the tree, started shaking it.
I was kicking the tree,
shaking the tree like a madman.
Just give me back my drone.
Nothing. It was just swaying.
It was perfectly cradled in the top there.
It was not coming down.
I started throwing rocks at it.
I started throwing sticks at it.
I called my sister with the one bar of service that I had,
and I said, "What do I do?"
And she was like, grab a big stick.
And I was like, what do you mean, grab like a tree?
I would have to hold an actual tree to reach that.
And I was like, do I come back tomorrow?
Do I go get a ladder?
And I was like, oh, I'll attach my winch to the tree,
and I'll just start to pull the tree and bend it.
Maybe I'll just pull it out of the ground.
I need my drone back,
but obviously, that doesn't work,
and it just pulled me into the tree
because, come on, that's not how it works.
Exhausted with options, I sat there not knowing what to do.
I decided to just climb a little bit higher,
and just shake it until I had no energy,
and wouldn't you know...
(tree rustling)
I got it.
Got it.
Oh, I got it.
I got it. I got it.
(laughs)
Yes.
I got it, oh.
Oh, I got it.
Oh my goodness.
Just in time.
(sigh)
I got it just in time.
I don't know if it still works, but...
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I was getting stressed there.
Sun is nearly gone.
I don't know where I am.
Drone is stuck in a tree where I can see it.
Worst case scenario.
I guess we should see if it still flies.
Oh, ho, ho.
Oh, she works. (drone humming)
Oh.
It works. (laughs)
It works.
Did not think I was getting it back,
I'll tell you that much.
Did not think I was getting it back.
Oh man, am I pumped.
I got my drone back, and,
and it still flies.
Managed to fly it up in the air
and make sure everything was still okay,
and I thought, okay, I'll try this one more time.
This time I'll have the remote on my lap.
I'll just have one hand on the throttle,
and I'll have one hand on the remote,
and I'll just fly the drone as I drive the ATV,
but wouldn't you know,
I started driving it, started flying it,
couldn't see it anywhere,
but looking back at this footage,
I almost crashed it again.
It was going the complete wrong direction.
Good thing I was in the middle of nowhere,
and there was nobody around,
and I was in these trails,
but I figured at that point I should just cut my losses,
and put the drone back in its case.
Now, at this point the sun is getting super low.
I found my drone.
I need to make my way back before it gets dark,
and I get completely lost in the woods.
I stated my way back through the trails.
Sun is officially down.
It's time to head back.
Gotta go now.
(upbeat electronic music)
(ATV engine humming)
Managed to get back through the trails.
Everything was fine.
Just as the sun was below the horizon,
and the sky was beautifully pink,
I loaded it back up onto the truck.
Drove it home for a successful fun filled day.
Mind you, I did crash the drone,
but we got the footage,
and the drone itself is okay.
All of this to say, I hope you enjoyed story time.
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and I will see you guy's next week.
(sucks in air)
(exhales)
(upbeat electronic music)