hello from wyoming we are crossing the border from colorado to wyoming and we are heading
to medicine bow national forest to do some hiking and sightseeing
all right you guys we just got to medicine bow we're standing by nearly this is
incredible and there's nobody here so we are by the sugarloaf area which is the lower area
of medicine bow so if you were to put it on a map where medicine bow in wyoming is you're
going to see a whole bunch of areas but we're in the lower one kind of right outside of laramie
wyoming so this is where we're going to be hanging today and hiking so right behind me is the tallest
mountain here in western bow and we're going to be hiking to the top of that at 12:000 feet the
trail we're actually hiking is called medicine bow peak and it is a loop that goes around three lakes
here mirror lake lookout and maria lake the trail is 6.7 miles long and an elevation gain of over
1700 feet it's gonna be a good day look at the skies it's blue clear calm no wind and these views
absolutely gorgeous so let's get started on our morning hike we're at
the west lake a trail head and this is how many cars that are in the parking lot there
is one two three four five six cars including us because this is a loop trail we will be doing it
clockwise um i heard it's easier going clockwise than counter so that's what
we're doing it is exactly 7:30 in the morning as we are starting this night here
it's amazing how much different the landscape is here in wyoming from colorado two hours difference
and it's like way different it's absolutely gorgeous yeah you know good climb right there
so it is a friday july 9th as we are doing this hike and just on monday the 5th
we did a chasm lake in rocky mount national park which was 8.8 so lots of big hikes
going on this week brown hike in july beautiful time to be in the mountains
nice and rocky the rocks are like white so cool
again just like a really quick break here on the trail mosquitoes so they're loving my legs so
gonna spray it up here before we continue on wow this is a straight rock trail now
all right so we're about a mile and a half in and now we're like on the other side of the
mountains and it's like total views on the other side it's just wide open rocky trail from here
we're getting there all right time to get real serious now it's going to be climbing time we
have a 0.9 miles to the summit we are about 2.7 miles in on this hike so we're getting there
we're gonna get some water in us and get ready to make the climb hydrated when you're hiking
you guys we are getting almost to the summit so right there is the summit almost there
you're all about the views like me it's definitely like this view
we're prepping for the rock scramble that's right behind us
let the scramble begin we made it we are at 1291 feet
we made it to the summit of medicine bow pink wow this is amazing amazing look at that
sure stamp so we reached the summit at 10 15 so it was about two hours 45 minutes to get up here
from way down there another one on the books we did it good job hon
snow here at the summit
oh gosh
time to make our way back down so we are currently at about 3.6 miles on the trail as we are checking
out these views and before we head back down so a little over halfway but now it should be easier
hopefully because we're going down so on the way down here let's switch backs back and forth
this is the rockiest trail we have ever done
by far by far like this is some serious rock crazy crazy going up and going down and at
the summit like crazy but the bee is worth it all the things you do for the view right
we're almost sit down now so now it's going to level out good or the rock here is just
yeah very rocky to put this in perspective that's where we just were isn't that crazy yeah but now
we still have to hike all the way to the other side get back to our car so we have a 2.4 miles
and it's extremely windy i had to put my hair up
it's sitting rock so we're gonna sit here and we brought some beef jerky with us we're gonna
have a little snack and enjoy this view in front of us this is like going through the lakes now
and it's so pretty our breakfast we have any breakfast all morning
we don't eat breakfast right away so we hike on an empty stomach good mountain food right here
this west lakes trail is absolutely gorgeous like if you're gonna do anything
do this little trail down here it gives you so many amazing views you don't want
to do that big climb and do that elevation at least to this lakes trail it's gorgeous
we're almost back to the trailhead not quite but almost um so awesome hike
absolutely loved it it was the rockiest hike we've ever done like our feet hurt so bad and
it took us way longer than we expected it because it's like you're going through an obstacle course
and yeah it was crazy but amazing i'm so glad we did it it was awesome we did the summit and i do
recommend if you're gonna do the whole loop definitely go clockwise because if you do
counter you're gonna be doing way more climbing so yeah awesome though awesome day i want to give you
perspective because the trailhead is like right there so we walked all the way behind the mountain
down over there and then back and that was 6.7 miles so we got all angles of the mountain
we're officially at the trailhead it is 12 45. so we started at 7 30. 6.7 miles later
to climb in mountains running rocks and coming down the mountain we made it back to the challenge
so what is that that's a total of five hours 15 minutes i think if it did the math right so pretty
good with an injury yeah he scratched his arm oh yeah now it's time to find a spot for lunch and
check out the rest of the medical do after a hike is take off our shoes and then put on flip-flops
you guys here's our lunch spot nice little area a little bit of mountain views right there
just having a chicken salad there's some grapes here and then vince is having a wrap
i also bought some of these sun chips the chili and lime they're actually really good
they do have a little spice on them um but it's it's really good so our plan was to go explore
medicine bowl a little bit more but the clouds rolled in it got very windy now it's raining
so i guess we're headed home um it's like 1 40. got here at 7 30. i had an awesome awesome hike
today um but i think that's probably all we're gonna do here we're not far away two hours away
so we can always come back and explore more later on on another time this area is really pretty like
extremely beautiful so um if you're traveling and you see this area on the map don't just drive past
like go and check it out because like it's gorgeous as you saw obviously so thank you guys
so much for watching if you have any questions of course let me know down in the comments and
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we'll see you guys in the next vlog bye guys oh my god he can barely open the doors
whoa it's very windy you guys