hello and welcome back to my channel I'm Amanda and today I am in Great Basin
National Park and in this vlog I'm going to share with you all the things we did
on our trip and why you're gonna want to add this to your bucket list
so the first thing that we did was go on a backpacking trip of course so we did a
really awesome loop hike the first day we hiked in about six or so miles to
Baker Lake and it was a pretty steady uphill beautiful hike the lake was
really pretty it was definitely a lot lower than I think it is and other times
of the year but there was just these grand towering walls and we camped and
have nice night it was super windy but overall really beautiful woke up the
second day and started what turned out to be a very long day hike out to the
truck so it started off with a ton of uphill to get to the top of a pass and
that was just a straight up grind it was long we were being battered by wind and
it was steep and we were at high elevation and so just kind of had our
head down got through it we were not expecting the hike for the second day to
be as long as it was then we got to the top of the pass saw the beautiful
views and decided to drop our packs and hike to the top of Pyramid Peak that was
pretty cool I'm glad we did it we almost didn't want to do it because we were
just tired from hiking up a pass but it was awesome
after we peaked pyramid peak we had to hike down the other side of the path and
this was treacherous we just came down from up there insane it was a very
steep slippery downhill to Johnson Lake which was also very beautiful we got
down to Johnson Lake and we saw what was the remains of an old mining town it
seemed so there was a lot of rusted equipment and some really cool log
cabins that you were able to walk around and explore and so that was kind of an
unexpected cool little feature to this very long hike so then we continued
downhill and then had to go up and over another pass which was also very
beautiful like it is mid-september right now and I don't know about the other
times of the year here but I think this is the prime time because all of these
aspens were just especially at the higher elevation we're just changing
color and it looks so beautiful on the mountainside and so while we were
grinding uphill it was definitely worth of the views and it's just good to do
something that's hard you know like I like when my backpacking trips challenge
me and so that was definitely the case with the hike out so we finally made it
back to the truck and then we just had dinner had some wine just still a little
car camping and that was so relaxing the next morning we woke up and went to the
visitors center first thing and we're lucky enough to get tickets to explore
the caves here and I was seriously shocked like I've been in a couple caves
throughout my life and I think this is definitely my favorite one and I was
just shocked at how crazy cool it was down there so like if you come here you
have to make it a point to take a tour of the caves there are two different
types of tours that you can take and we did the Grand Palace one which is just
the whole cave the other one is only part of it and just a side note here I
think that if you know you're gonna come here definitely try and get your tickets
in advance you can buy them online up to six months in advance because I think it
does fill up really fast and that we were really lucky to actually get the
spots that we did and I feel like if you come here you really don't want to miss
out so make sure you grab your tickets for those caves and make a point to go
down because the history is really cool the tour I'm not really like a big tour
person but this one was really well done and it was just such a crazy cool world
down there and definitely a must-see if you come here after we explored the
caves and our eyes readjusted to the light we went on a little afternoon hike
up to the Bristlecone pine grove and it's about a three mile round trip hike
and you got to see just tons of Bristlecone pines now if you don't know
this Bristlecone pines can be up to 5,000 years old like that's insane can
we just take a moment to think about that it was so cool you can touch them
and you can take pictures with them and they're just really cool to appreciate
these amazing trees that have been growing through all sorts of adversity
and so we did that it was amazing and now we are getting ready to head home so
I hope you enjoyed this little peek into my trip and if you have any questions if
you want to plan a trip or whatever just let me know in the comments below
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you and I'll see you in the next video