morning everyone do you hear the birds i am out here in
nature guys holy holy this video is being uploaded
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i am loving this guys look at my campsite here
no service of any kind this is my first time here to fish trap lake
hog lake uh property of the department of natural resources here in washington
state which is reopening not all of them not all 72 campgrounds
but i've never been here before i did have to get my 35
discover pass i've got my department of fish and wildlife vehicle pass
and i've also got a fishing license a non-resident
fishing license fresh water for the summer so
some of the campgrounds aren't quite open like over on the west side of the
state lyre river my favorite campground in the whole country not not quite open
but not a whole lot of people out here using this area and i got a really
nice cool campsite here it wasn't easy to get level but i did get level
and uh another little treat just like my last video at lolo national forest
somebody had intentions of camping and enjoying a nice fire here and left a
bunch of wood i'll i'll definitely burn a couple of
those pieces and leave some for the next people
look how huge this campsite is though and i know people have pulled all the
way down between that big boulder i just didn't want to take the chance plus i'm
level right there i'm happy so there should be
a lake let's go walk to the water i won't get
much solar for the rest of the evening but
you might be able to hear my ac on the roof probably not
anyway i'm going to keep the ac on for jax it's a little warm it's now
77 degrees outside it's a little warm for me not complaining just pointing out
a fact it's warm for me hey are these
huckleberries or salmon berries i can't remember i think they're
huckleberries
that was a really weird tasting huckleberry i don't know eric
um it's a little hike not not too bad
there's your discover pass required sign here with a lot of bullet holes in
that sign wow okay this is kind of strange but the
gate to the lake to park for day use
is closed and i'm assuming locked as well
otherwise it wouldn't be closed yeah they have locked it so you you can't
currently drive down and use it for day use but you can
camp here and walk to the lake i'm guessing it doesn't say i can't walk
past this i think it's mainly meant for for driving so i don't know what to
expect i don't even know what this place looks
like but we're gonna go on a hike i can kind of see water
through the trees over there i smell water
i know we gotta be close to water because i hear i smell mosquitoes oh
wait a minute oh oh my gosh guys
we found the lake get a load of that
oh my gosh don't go too close to the edge here eric
okay oh my are you seeing this guys that's real
life
nobody's out here
the only ones that like graffiti over they kidding me guys
sick puppies and you know the water is not too clear
i wouldn't swim in that would you swim in that
no i don't know disgustingly beautiful what are you
gonna do with that eric we can do with it enjoy it
man i love it i love the state i don't like the
politics and current events
and everything else going on in this particular state but
let you guys can take over downtown and do whatever you got to do to get your
point across if it's that important to you go for it
for me
let me camp out here by the lake if that's all right with y'all
and share it with you yeah i'll put some gps coordinates in the video description
below in case you want to come out here to fishtrap hog
lake hog lake oh man okay i totally missed this trail the
first time i didn't even see this little trail and
we're just gonna hug the lake there
cool nice wow this is really pretty through here actually
not too many people get to see this beauty guys
i love getting out there and exploring oh man it's kind of jackety through here
yeah definitely not a wheelchair accessible trail oh my
all kinds of walking trails it's actually getting really dense
with shrubbery why couldn't they just make the trail
like along the bank of the lake down there why do we have to go
up so high around it because nature eric because nature is
you know what i absolutely have not been thinking about
rattlesnakes there's two rattlesnake holes right there right
on the trail and yeah they are here okay be careful
let's take another break and actually look around this lake because there
aren't too many places in the country this is a pretty decent sized lake right
all around the banks it's all natural there's no homes
there's no hotels or anything it's just all
natural beauty it's pretty amazing i love it
i hear something i hear something all right we are now on the other side
of hog lake we started way around the corner on the
other end of the lake guys
okay we're gonna get closer hang on okay we're almost as far as we can go
would you have guessed that we would stumble upon
a waterfall in a lake it's a small lake and i really did not expect to see a
waterfall at the other end but yeah that's probably why the water's
actually so clean is because this beautiful flowing water is just
constantly adding new fresh mountain water to it so that is gorgeous
the sun has not quite set it is over on the other side of the mountain so it's
uh it's getting a little darker here at my
campsite i've decided to start up the fire a little earlier than i was gonna
start it up because i'll be honest with you this
place slightly slightly creeps me out all alone i
almost feel like i i would feel safer about it if
somebody was camping nearby i'm not saying right next to me but
in the campsite next like the one up the hill maybe or down the hill or something
if one other person was camping here but you know this is this bear country
there's obviously rattlesnakes and other things and and um
it's i don't know i'm just i'm probably not
gonna be out here once it gets pitch black
but i do have some wood to burn so i put some cardboard underneath some of these
uh small smaller pieces here and i think
we're gonna be good to go
got that side lit over there and light that side
tp i'm using all this extra tp to burn start a fire it'll work i think it'll
work
and maybe a little bit right there too oh yeah that's what it needed right
there we got a smoker guys a lot of garbage in
the pit i should have cleaned that out but i'm just
using this one side right here is it going to start come on
catch some of that wood
oh it's very slow going in there we go maybe
come on get the wood i want to hear some crackling crack-a-lacklin
i'm always a little cautious about starting fires and
you know when there's stuff in there that i don't you never know
somebody put a lighter or an aerosol can or
some kind of flame accelerant or or ammo i mean uh for me i'm just
i'm a little more i'm a little more careful when i can literally see weird
stuff in there i still don't hear any wood crackling
yet come on it wants to boy scout nomadic fanatic
here we go i think she's gonna go i think she can
go
so in order for me to hit my target date arrival to the
the pacific ocean for the fourth of july the big fireworks spectacular on the
beach i do have to put on some miles tomorrow
morning though about a five and a half hour drive farther i'm
gonna actually cross the cascade mountains tomorrow you guys
come with me i gotta check in and dump the tanks and
do a couple things so yeah i i am planning to uh really enjoy
the fourth of july on the beach it's supposed to be open
and fireworks are allowed so i've been there before it's a it's a lot of fun
wish everybody happy fourth of july i'm out here at ocean shores
on the uh washington state coast
it's pretty awesome out here you want to bring your own fireworks because it's
literally like go all the way around the beach where
the fire works everywhere
nothing but campers and and pickup trucks and
music and and uh fireworks and it's good times good times so i'll
definitely be uh showing some video once i get to the
ocean too but i enjoyed the free wood and i'm leaving some for the next person
that's at this campsite i'm gonna listen to some tunes here and
then uh i'll catch you guys in the morning all right
sounds good all right i wasn't listening to taylor swift
it's not oh that's not what i was saying i was listening to something totally
better than that
morning everyone i had a really nice time lapse set up last night uh
unfortunately i didn't make it very far into the night as
people just continually kept coming through past midnight and i think i
figured it out it's like people come here even though the lake
part is closed to overnight parking and camping and
everything i think people still have been sneaking in here in the past
so everybody was coming down here and shining light on the rv and ruining my
night laps my star lapse that was supposed to be
perfect and they go down there back in park in front of my rv for like five
minutes think about what to do next and then leave and that happened like eight
times overnight and before i even came out to grab my
camera and said no i'm not leaving my time-lapse camera
outside there's way too much traffic and it shouldn't have been that way but it
is what it is didn't get the shots i wanted to we got to get on the road
don't pack it up we're gonna go west today now i will probably
highly regret this decision to move on today
because i have never camped on the natchez river
but today it's open natchez river camp you saw where my rv's
at look at the river oh man it's got that green
clear tint to it from the mountains thing is there are no services or
facilities here and i'm my tank's full i have to dump my
tank i had to get drinking water uh
so i do have to go utilize a thousand trails
maybe i'll come back here we'll see we'll see how things go
i'm really glad to see some of these national forest campgrounds opening back
up though ah yeah i'll remember this spot
and welcome to paradise it's kind of a joke however
this place is called paradise uh this is the first thousand trails i've been able
to go to since march in florida the other corner of the
country before covet hit and they shut them all down uh what's thousand
trails like postcovid well uh besides busy and full
as far as camping here let's go a little walk so while i can't speak for
every thousand trails in the country or even every thousand trails here in
washington i will let you know how this first
thousand trails i've been to has responded to postcoded life
reopening they have made the decision to close up every single amenity
for the rest of the year everything's closed and i'm talking the pool
the hot tub the clubhouse the pool house bingo
the laundry room the tennis courts the basketball hoop
the horseshoe pit the volleyball courts the bathrooms
and showers i'm not allowed to put my own kayak in the lake and i can't fish
everything is closed for the end of the year
is that a little rash possibly yeah i mean a lot can change in a couple days
or even a couple weeks let alone an entire year
this this could be the new norm for thousand trails yeah the pool
and the hot tub have both been drained as if they may
never be reopened again also i feel like i should probably address to my viewers
because i know this is going to keep coming up
yes i am aware of what the washington state face mask thing it's
there's several of these around the country however
like i keep pointing out in the comments uh
washington state uh governor inslee said that face masks are required in
public where social distancing is not possible it literally says in the
mandate that if you are by yourself and you're
six feet away from people you do not have to wear a mask
so guys i'm not gonna wear a mask when i'm by myself
period i'm not gonna argue with you about it if you can't handle that
leave now like seriously i can't i can't handle the ignorance and hate right now
i just can't okay there's nobody near me relax
guys if i go into the store or i go hang out with people and i can't maintain six
feet of distance that's when i wear a mask that's how it works guys
so again stop look i uh i've emptied the tanks i've got water
they also told me on the phone when i got here to to
limit my time outside my rv they want us to stay in our rv
stare at the wall
it is what it is right just letting you know so i'm gonna get back on the road
i'm gonna go back to the woods where i'm happy because i'm not really happy here
better videos coming though sorry for the rough ending there just uh
i don't know nobody else has shared what thousand trails is really like so
i wanted wanted to do that and all right i guess
bye