Hoosier National Forest in 4K | Winter Camping, Hiking, and Wilderness Travel

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when winter first arrives and the first snowfalls were filled with joy and anticipation of holidays times spent with families and change but a few months in after we've scraped our windshields and stared at the drab emptiness around us for the umpteenth time winter can seem to drag on but sometimes all it takes is a stroll through the woods to remember what makes this time of year so special [Music]

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it was a cold drab winter day the kind of day that usually makes me want to stay inside but sometimes those are the best days to get out and today we were headed back to a familiar place the Charles C Dean wilderness in Hoosier National Forest forest full of bare trees and empty farm fields began surrounding us as we neared our destination

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at the trailhead an imposing fire tower loomed above us but for now we had other plans on our mind from the Hickory Ridge lookout tower we would make our way east on the Sycamore trail after camping one night we would continue north and set up camp again before exploring the taro Ridge Trail on the last day and hiking out now whose time to get hiking [Music]

we had arrived in the late afternoon daylight would soon dwindle into darkness the first portion of the trail took us on a wide gravel road the some parts of it were fairly muddy but soon we fear deeper into the woods when I like take a deep breath here you can smell like all the leaves and all the trees just a very sort of woodsy almost sappy forest smelling it's really nostalgic smell and I think a lot of people who live in to the eastern US are really familiar with this sort of like looking landscape smelling landscape just it sort of looks bleak and barren but it's also very comforting in a lot of ways this was open bare forest so great we pass by a campsite not far from the trailhead but we wanted to cover much more distance before stopping tonight it had been a long time since we felt the nostalgic winter air all around us and we pause to reflect a bit on our past winter outings when was the last time we winter camp well kuma torii yeah December 2016 so is over a year ago listen right now and how quiet it is even without any of the snow muffling the sounds yeah it's like no birds no insects no wind each season has its own like sound and winters it's just silence yeah I always used to appreciate when like the first heavy snow would come down and you'd go outside and it was just the snow would muffle everything yeah say what you will about bleak Midwest winters but there's something appealing to it there's something mesmerizing about the silence that surrounds us during gray overcast days like this it's bleak and cold

yes but somewhere deeper there's a warmth in it all every winter I come out into the forest and I see these beautiful beech trees and it's about this time when the leaves have turned from like sort of a golden orange into more of like a platinum silvery color almost it's especially cool in the evening when you see all the leaves just standing out really bright against the gray tree trunks and the gray clouds adds a little bit of color to the winter maybe it's the flashes of color or nostalgia that make days like this so strangely comforting night soon fell and although we reached a decent campsite we wanted to keep making progress so we're still really close to the trailhead so I think what we've decided is that we're gonna try to make a lot more progress to get to one of those established campsites

so that tomorrow we don't have to have some yeah shouldn't be too bad [Music]

we continued winding on and on in the dark and then reach the junction leading towards the campsite but we still didn't see anything wonder if they're put there on purpose

oh nice well this is great dude pines holy cow dude what a campsite feels like we just entered like a different world yeah no this doesn't feel like the rest of the trailer at all huh gonna be a good night oh my god yes now it was time to set up camp and relax [Music]

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so rather foolishly I forgot my Ferro rod and my lighter somewhere and none of us have anything to start fires with except for these camping stoves so we're gonna use this to ignite all our tinder [Music]

just kind of wetting the tinder ignited without a hitch as expected but much of the firewood was wet so the struggle to keep the fire going wasn't over just yet [Music]

and do like the best job of sorting out all the really tiny twigs from the slightly bigger ones but it seems to be working okay today we've got more gnocchi but I'm gonna prepare it a little differently just pretty much just fry it in oil I think it's like a legitimate pasta strategy this is good cold weather because it's cold but it's not so cold that unbearable yeah looks pretty good yeah I mean I've eaten it like this before I'm not promising Italy up to your standards it'll be up to mine for sure as we all know very less I like to think of my standards less is low and Juarez open some of them are definitely a little more I'm still a little underdone Oh someone decided to leave this here so might as well take advantage of it right okay these are it's hard to get things evenly cooked on a fire actually like it I mean I don't know I feel like one of us should taste before Andy says the expectations properly

I brought a pre-made roast beef sandwich if you're wondering at home what this tastes like

remember that the ingredients used were anchovies and yoky and it's pretty much that it's got a bit of like a charred taste to from the fire anything it just tastes like salty fishy dough balls what was this episode where somebody ate spicy dough balls I made this I intended it to be my own personal meal because you know I thought the first night we do our own things which is why I put zero effort in

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a little worried that might be a bit chilly tonight like my down jacket on three layers of long like my pants and I've got my neck scarf here too I also used an extra down jacket to try and add a bit more insulation to my under quilt it is snug as a bug in a rug right now what do you mean we're gonna be warm oh yeah

right now I've got tights pants a merino t-shirt arena shirt a merino hoody a down jacket and a down sleeping bag I think I'm gonna be good the only thing is that in Japan when we first got in our tents I was convinced that I was gonna be like warm and then the next morning we awoke to rain we stayed in our shelters for as long as we could but I've really got a pee and I've got to suck it up no I don't want it I mean I do what happened last night how I wish I had feels a lot better of it that was a lot of trouble also sounds very much like the rain is died down it was almost noon when the rain finally led up and we found the we'll step outside

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now he was breakfast time how'd you sleep I actually had a dream about it being so hard that tent is so small and our sleeping bags are so poofy that is basically just like everything was filled that was one of the best sleeps I've had in the winter time camping provider or if only we slept in quite a bit always slept in a lot a bit but hey if winter days like these are good for anything it's sleeping in and enjoying the slow mornings we shared some breakfast and talk some more about our night I don't think I was comfortable because I heard you talking you're like oh I dreamed it was so warm like I instinctively slept the whole night like this no it was like not to rub it in or anything I'm glad it worked out unfortunately my underquilt wasn't quite enough to keep me comfortably warm and I found myself waking up several times during the night and everything around our campsite was glazed and ice from the morning's rain

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but we broke camp packed everything up and followed the crystalline rocks back to the trail Junction [Music]

back on the trail I saw some scoria spongey OSA a strange fungus that grows on beech trees so this fungus grows when woolly aphids that make their home on the street secrete honeydew which is like sort of a sweet liquid that they expel after eating stuff and the fungus grows right on top of that and it turns out of this weird black crusty looking stuff and you always see these on beech trees it's not gonna kill the tree but it's also probably not the best thing for it to have but it's really funky looking we also saw up some false turkey tail and further ahead was a very familiar specimen this is a fungus that by now all three of us know this is the wood your fungus one of the few mushrooms that you can still see growing in the winter and it's edible delicious could you just like straight up eat that right off of the stick you know I'm sure you could and it'd be fine but in general people say that you should cook all wild mushrooms and I'm not gonna risk it I don't think it tastes very good

we hiked through mud and across streams today the trails were even wetter and messier than before but above the leaves in the twigs were covered in droplets that had been frozen in place they dotted the branches of trees like holiday decorations

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not long into our hike we came across another campsite how many fires must have had we're all these geodes coming from people are either picking them up and realizing that they're not gonna carry them camp Schneider I mean I like rolling down from the hills or something like Smokies and stuff and seen similar sort of rocks but not exactly sure how it's the poison ivy growing here yeah I feel like we actually have an encounter poison ivy all that much while we've been camping yes sure it seems obvious but it's important to learn how to identify Harry poison ivy vines so that you can avoid them while on a hike so I was talking about the beach freeze last night and there's another tree that's growing around here that looks kind of similar it's this which is called muscle wood or also Ironwood and it's called muscle wood because it has these sort of rippley looking texture growing throughout it and but it's also called Ironwood because of what it's supposed to be really hard it's also we got a wood for fire and for constructing things and also last night we were staying in pine groves like this and I'm pretty sure that these are Virginia white pine and one way you can tell a lot of times the green needles will fall on the ground like this and if you look closely the needles are growing in separate clumps and each clump has about five needles coming out of it and usually Virginia white pine it's got like four to five needles in each clump there's another species that only have like two or three for example yeah we cross another stream and almost veered off the trail and onto an old riverbed feels like an old river and it's probably not the trail the trail continued leading us through sections of hardwood forests and evergreens but on the forest floor the flora was even more fascinating

so these cute little plants that are growing out of this leaf litter that we've got sort of like this beautiful fractal pattern the way their leaves are growing but these are called stonecrop and it's one of the only succulents that grows natively in this Midwestern sort of region and when you feel the leaves you can feel that they have like sort of a plump juiciness to them I mean they're still kind of thin but it's it's akin to like squeezing an aloe vera or a plant like that that grows in the desert but it's cool because it grows out here where it's cold and wet most of the time when you guys see this isn't this like the quintessential forests like when you think of like going to play in the woods this is the type of image that you have in mind yeah kind of like the force that you'd have to kind of climb up yeah and then you reach the top and you look around where to go next well [Music]

whoa Kari thumping this red-tailed hawk had caught something in its talons perhaps a squirrel [Music]

as far as birds of prey go these Hawks are fairly common and their distinctive screech is often misattributed to Bald Eagles thanks to popular media [Music]

we watched the hawk intently for quite a while but eventually we meandered back onto the trail and continued our hike [Music]

after our bird sighting we came along another campsite along the stream Bank entered the Stone Age Wow did you move that that must be really heavy this is a straight up picnic table yeah actually pretty successful I mean it's funny when people run out of firewood so they literally start burning things that are probably meant to be things for people to sit on so they're just like a fungus the scientific name for Turkey Tail is versicolor which means like different colors because sometimes it's blue sometimes it's this color sometimes it's black and white it's calcite doesn't have any outer it looks like a macaroon or something like a cow patty Thomas to tell us more about it after searching around and resting at the campsite we continued along the icy trail like yesterday today was another typical Midwest winter day bleak gray and silent but when you look closer you start to realize that even in the middle of winter the forest is bristling with life like this orange mock oyster and even the dormant plants give signs of things to come this is something that I really wouldn't expect to find in the forest it is a native plant but I usually just don't see a growing in forest like these but it's raspberry in the rubric genus so it grows wild black raspberries and you can see it's got this very sort of lavender purple color and it's got sort of this powdery milky substance on it that you can rub off and that's one of the distinct characteristics of this plant it's also quite thorny so be careful when you're handling it

and it wasn't just plant life that surrounded us

what sounded like the howls of coyotes drowned out the Silence of the forest for a brief special moment we hiked uphill following the trail to the top of the ridge this is this look just like when we came up from our campsite at bücher yeah and that's just like this yeah member when we we were at the campsite yeah and then we went up that really steep hill yeah goes just like this okay let's continue there's something freeing about being at the top of a ridge everything feels expansive and open here everything was even more encrusted in ice you could ship frozen flakes off at the dangling Beach leaves so if you look closely at the ground you'll see all these little weird looking plants sticking up out of the leaf litter and it makes sense because all around us there's a bunch of beech trees and these are called beech drop plants so these are our parasitic plant that basically siphoned nutrients from beech trees from the root system using like a network of fungi to nourish themselves which is why they don't have any sort of green color anytime that you'll see them during the year because instead of gain their energy from the Sun they just get it from the trees nearby

the trail took us back down the hill as we looked around we saw more and more signs of life plants poking up from the leaf litter and moss growing on the trees before long we found another campsite and decided to call it a day here there was a nice fire pit and a frozen body of water like a marshy bog it probably is more I could see this drying out the light in summer so it's probably not even that notable of a body of water most of the time now it was time to unpack I was hoping to start a fire tonight but before that I would have to process some tinder so I found all this to a poplar bark the other night it was already wet but very stupidly I forgot to take it into the tent with me so it got rained on when I did first learn to use this sort of bark we would shred it up and it was a very wet day and sort of just the process of shredding it and processing it helps dry it out you're creating more surface area so it can dry off easier so I'm hoping that'll happen the way it's kind of therapeutic so after setting up camp dinner time [Music]

today we would be making fried rice you [Music]

guys heard of that Scandinavian word like Hyuga yeah Oh like the coziness yeah yeah it started snowing [Applause]

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unfortunately cooking rice is much harder when you're using a camping stove okay so unlike a stove at home because this pot is so much bigger than the flame it's cooking unevenly so we are transferring it to a smaller pot in hindsight you guys are probably right I probably should have made the rice beforehand because the best fried rice does use day old rice anyway but regardless we're now gonna fry it in some oil and in that oil would go some fresh sliced garlic [Music]

once the oil was sizzling we mixed in the rights to that we added some spam [Applause]

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some peace and some cashews finally dinner was ready I would say despite all the shortcomings visually it resembles fried rice apologies to my ancestors I know it's actually it's not that bad it's pretty good it's not what I'd call fried rice but it's tasty even the burnt rice gives it kind of like a smoky flavor okay sure keep making excuses Andrew did you get a whole Angela it's very thick I'm bad at all man it's a rice dish but it's definitely not fried rice it's rice that's been fried I think that's why they say day-old rice is better because what time you meet yeah I need time to let that moisture out otherwise it's really sticky up thick like this that's really good that's great yeah even the spam is kind of tasty it has nice and filling for a cold day like this actually I think I'm feeling warmer now because of that I've got extra rice after a surprisingly tasty dinner we went to check out the frozen pond

chillin it feels like someone's built just mound around it or something these leaves are just like covered in ice and like the whole thing just crinkles when you shake it so um do not fall in that face come back please come back

yeah please come in okay just like I'm stopping the obviously I had slowly tested the ice one step at a time before moonwalking on it and I only wandered a couple feet from the ponds edge but Brian and Robbie we're still pretty justifiably paranoid about me falling in regardless it soon became dark and we set up our sleeping arrangements and packed up our cookware we had decided to not bother starting a fire tonight but we still wanted to stay out and enjoy the campsite a bit longer what are your thoughts about camping in this kind of weather

like do you enjoy it or like do you just do it you know kind of bear with it if we could just not camp in the winter would you just be like I'm okay with completely and eliminating winter camping from my life this is uncomfortable

sometimes but most of the time it's really fun to be like in the cold and then be as long as you're warm you know yeah it's like being under warm blankets but the cold air outside yeah so as long as you're equipped I enjoy it yeah I feel like the feeling of being out here there's ups and downs to it obviously but like sleeping in the cold weather when you've got enough stuff to keep yourself warm it's really just like a whole new level of coziness it's like really I don't know this is super comforting and yeah you get nature to me when I go camping it's either something that feels super familiar or super new and I feel like no matter where we went when he first started camping everything we saw was like this completely eye-opening world changing yeah yeah and now there are still experiences like that that we have when we go camping but there's also times like this where it just feels like very familiar kind of nostalgic feeling yeah it's like you're getting different things from that like with a new experience you're gaining you're you're opening your mind and your worldview like if you're someone who's lived in the city or the suburbs all your life suddenly you realize there's all these different things out there in the world but this sort of experience is just like very relaxing and sort of comforting yet the other thing I like about winter camping a lot is that it's so quiet that you really get a sense of being in the season or so I mean are you not more so than the other seasons but it's very distinct that you only get that in the winter when it's this quiet yeah I was talking with Andrew earlier and it's kind of funny how when you do winter camping a lot of the amenities that you'd like to have like fire are just so much more difficult yeah I think the biggest thing about winter trips is that it's hard to get a consistency out of them because the temperature fluctuation can really change how comfortable you are yeah I want to get to the point where if we go winter camping I just know that everything will be perfectly good at night well actually that's I mean this is your first time using a hammock in the winters yeah it's kind of a unknown variable being thrown in the mix I meant to test my underquilt in some cold weather at home but I never got around to it just cuz it's just so difficult to be like oh I'm at home but I'm gonna go sleep out in the cold just to test this like you can't really cooks yourself to do that very easily okay it does feel like a good way to like reset and like your you're out here in the cold night there's nothing you can do but just like follow I can guarantee you it's warm in a tent yeah last night is any indication anybody was sleeping my hammock tonight Tracy yeah I think it's funny that neither of you have yet to try a night in hammock yeah I've never even been in your hand yeah good times yeah so since last night I was feeling the cold seeping in and tonight's supposed to be colder so now I've got an extra hat to kind of like put around my feet try Andres you know sock thing and I've got a foam mat underneath me in the hammock to kind of give me a little extra insulation and now Andrew was using this mat last night but he says he's been fine before without it so we're gonna see if it was worth his sacrifice we'll just see how it goes because it's kind of cold in these rhinos do you remember so back in the day my dad and my dad's brother so our uncle and your uncle whenever would be going to sleep at night if I could just pretend that you're in a spaceship yeah yeah we're going like this is like this is exactly eight hundred light years since Brian has the foam mat I added an extra shirt and an extra you can't really see it but an extra pair of pants I've got a secret weapon I've got one of those pocket warmers in my box it's funny when it's cold out you don't get claustrophobic we shall see yeah I'll survive really I'm sure Robbie and I had fallen asleep around 8:00

we woke up again at 10 o clock and had a hankering for a nighttime snack we went to bed really early I still feel like I'm wide-awake AUVs and yeah my god earlier to use the bathroom I came back and we're talking and I'm like we're just both like hungry luckily we swirled it up and that's because snowing lightly out there earlier it was very hue good so actually I think that's uh pretty well it is a big motor without the format but mmm man yeah full Matt being cloud9 like

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so it's about 8:00 a.m. it's very cold and I'm the first one because well I wasn't particularly comfortable in the hammock well I was pretty good but my feet were really really cold you weren't getting any more so I decided that rather than just kind of lay in my hammock feeling it somewhat visible I'd get up and move around try and warm up and just be active not to mention we got such a late start yesterday so right now I'm just kind of walking up and down a trail near our campsite trying to warm up getting a restful night's sleep during the winter can be challenging to say the least even if you have some decent gear I still covered everything this morning and most of my drinking water had become frozen after a few hours Robbie and I had woken up as we waited for the Sun to warm us up we talked about our night I feel like once your feet get cold they're gonna be cold you're done yeah so my feet got cold at one point really badly last night took forever to fall asleep and then when I finally fell asleep it's like not a restful sleep yeah I'm literally shivering uncontrollably right now I think you should go for like brisk walk yeah I was like the best thing for me there was ice like falling off of the inside of the table he got the 17 last night

I'm glad that it's sunny up doesn't seem to be helping [Music]

the Morning Sun was a beautiful sight to behold but we were still pretty chilly so we all sat down to share some nice hot breakfast soup we had some instant potato cheddar soup that I brought to which we added some fresh kale and some bacon bits last night I had this dream that somehow Bryan had gotten to the campsite before us and had started fire you know what I'm gonna say right not only did he start a fire in my dream you had built this big teepee with cushions and a fire inside and so that I woke up this morning I was like nice greens in there yeah this is the right weather for a creamy soup your broth they're not gonna cut it soups also a really good food for just sharing I'm making so straightforward you cook it and maybe pass around I want to bathe in that we were getting ever so slightly warmer now that we felt a bit more alive we took down camp [Music]

and the other animals seem to have been roused by the sunlight just as we finished packing

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now we headed back onto the trail I guess it's no surprise how much time around yeah every time and it's actually starting to warm up I'm like this morning where you could see the sunlight but you couldn't feel it now that the sky was clear and the Sun was out the ice that covered the tree branches seemed to Sparkle even more brightly than before and in a distance the hills were a beautiful blue hue the frozen mud crunched beneath our feet but it was the ice above that created a magical display

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as scanned at the ground as we walked and saw some signs of the trees that surrounded us while on the ground are these hickory nuts and these ones are a bit too old but these are actually nuts that you can crack open and eat and they taste really good I've had some hickory nuts that tasted almost like sort of maple leaf sweet pea Khan's we can see this is one of the branches of a hickory tree it's got some pretty big buds here it actually all around there's hickory cheese and over there you can actually see one of the the shagbark hickory with its distinctive bark really cool seeing how the four exchanges from like pine to oak hickory and with the variety of trees comes a surprisingly colorful display with orange beech leaves and green pine needles complementing each other so I got a Hickory Nut with intact husk I already pulled it apart the shell from what I can tell has no sort of holes in it that would indicate that some sort of bug got to it so I'm actually going to try to crack this open and see if we can get at the nut meat inside

okay the 14 it looks like this one's too old and all the meats kinda shriveled up if you find fresh ones it's really worth trying because yeah you can't really taste anything but would you find a fresh one it just tastes so sweet sometimes it's really cool even if the hickories were no longer full and sweet there were other signs of life all around us

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the trail took us to another hilltop where flattened out droplets of water fell from the crystalline display and the canopy evolved [Music]

further along the trail verdant club mosses sprouted from the leaf litter and a nearby log was speckled with desiccated puffballs then we reached a fork in the road Jared yeah so I think the plan is we're going to go down check out the ridge before we head back this is just a straight up road yeah is it because horses can be on this yeah probably

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we followed the old forest road wondering what we would see at the end of the Terrill ridge trail [Music]

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when we reached the end we found an old cemetery

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they were head stones inscribed with names that had come to be so familiar to us after spending time in these forests names like Axum Terrell and Grubb but like the plants and animals that persist on a drab winter day they live on through their legacy in this forest and it was this forest where we created our own memories and our own traditions [Music]

figured since we are visiting revisiting the nice classic area I'd have our classic pine needle tea this is a Bear Grylls special or as he might say speciality let's hope these pine needles actually have taste so it smells like a furniture store no you haven't piney woods smell hopefully it tastes like one day it's mostly smell but it's good smell let's definitely got some fragrance in the flavor itself - it's pretty good pretty refreshing yeah it does have a really strong smell there's some sort of aftertaste yeah that's kind of like that it's refreshing in a sense it's like a subtle sort of fragrance but I mean that's that's what a lot of tea is tea straight from nature smells like the lumber yard at Lowe's probably cut wood smells like a like a candle section so nice though to like have hot water [Music]

every year people complain about the winter they complain about the cold and the snow and the drab dark days [Music]

let's be honest it's easy to see why people are less than fond of the season [Music]

but out on the trail where there are no roads to be salted or windshields to be thawed you start to gain an appreciation of the season the silence the peace the solitude

and when you look a little closer you realize that not everything is as drab and lifeless as it seems there's a warmth to winter hiding just beneath the surface there are mushrooms sprouting from decaying logs plants growing out of the detritus and animals scurrying all about but beyond that there's a sort of nostalgic familiarity about winter maybe winter conjures up childhood memories of holidays and family gatherings or maybe it's the fact that when it's cold and gray out we look to each other for warmth and vitality [Music]

Wow it windy up here [Music]

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this look at place looks much more secure I like this I like it a lot oh man okay that's great dude and getting up here this feels really secure and safe which I wouldn't be a half bad place to sleep you to see if you like my dad's gonna be worse [Music]

there are times when cold drab days can seem to drag on for too long but it's those days that give us a different perspective

it's those days that best remind us of the joys of gathering together and sharing and all that life has to offer [Music]

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so I've been eating at this restaurant since I was in preschool so that was like three or four years old I'm turning 34 this year that means I've been eating at this restaurant for 30 years it is my favorite restaurant maybe second favorite oh yeah how regularly have you just every time I come here special shout-out to T Bryce Ryan who wants to remind everybody keep on sharing and caring gluten ebin since we forgot them last time a very special shout out from my hikes org to Jason Sarah and Tom for adding trails to the site and providing suggestions and feedback also a shout out to trails we hike on YouTube be sure to check out season 2 out now and Jason bourgeois would like to give a shout out to presidents in art and mother nature also a shout out from Stephen to his boys Tucker and Cooper there's loosen in my shop the big swig also shoutouts to expedition research LLC Jacob Millican Yuki and chase and Griffin Philip and Jessica Lou

John and Lisa treu it and last but not least son Jan Palach and an McBride would like to give a shout out to her daughter Kylie de hey-zeus at Stevenson school

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yeah it's like the other person Joe fender would like to give a shout out to all outdoor lovers continues spread care and happiness throughout our world and recenter wants to give a shout out to his daughter Sophia finally a shout out to Charlie Joe home long break crib and gym pots 1 2 3 [Music]

like you know that's good it's just Fontanella cheese with brandy and the brandy like being on fire like makes it really crispy on top and then I put it out with lemons and the limit is really good on the cheese so [Music]

it's actually funny because every time I go to you guys this house we have Greek I'm good at the Greek restaurant down the street what is it this is saganaki sort of cheese and pour brandy on top of it like the brandy you can chase the brandy actually and as good Kenan take the smell of the brandy the lemon in the G yeah they put it out with lemon it's like kind of this nice pungent

the cheese is really strong it's like a really interesting combination of flavors between the branding the lemon and the cheese really good it's likeif soaked in a yummy cocktail it's tyrone lights we have like four only in the sense that like you've got the punches to the fish sauce with the line we want to say happy birthday to my dad a lot of this wouldn't be possible for me and Andrew without his support behind us so and also without him bringing us up in the parks and stuff yeah yes oh he has a really strong passion for nature him and Andrew and him have shared a lot of mutual interesting mushrooms and things of that sort so happy birthday many more trips to hi banks but you're gonna cheer v-ball yeah be like dad you just let a genie raise my cup and no one else waffle taco and the burger with everything I've got a fish death on a pork taco fries and I've got something else thank you and I got a new classic hero

you said it before but I'll say it again the post tank mail is essential to the camping experience that's that's a new tip actually if you're beginner backpacker or something you must do the post time

there's mandatory wholeheartedly agreed that

bottoms up it's like that thing that you see that's what they do it every time yeah I think it's the same thing marinated Stuart

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we're back this is the after bad we're gonna warm up as much as I can oh man I can't wait you like everything man so hot in here yes that's a camera that's a paddle how are you doing [Laughter]