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hi fellow humans that you're about to
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watch is pregnant with
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meaning I call it the hike because this
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is a place that has very deep meaning
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for me that I haven't been to in a very
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long
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time there are layers of messages in
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this thing for those who want to Bear
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witness it was not easy I
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struggled at the end of the video
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there's actually four miles more of
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hiking because I got on the got on a
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trail that did not take me back to my
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chief it took me back up to the Natural
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Bridge all the way back up the mountain
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then I had to go back down it by the
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time I was done I was so sore and
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questioning my ability to
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even even move but I kept
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moving got back to my gam I sat in there
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for 10 minutes just let the air
[0:54]
conditioner
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go came back to the cabin and I crashed
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for 2 hours immediately when I got here
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I feel
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wonderful I needed to know I could do
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this this is a place I had been visiting
[1:07]
for 20 years but in the past 10 years
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I'm not sure that I might have been
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there only once or twice I used to go
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there every
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weekend when I first moved to Kentucky
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20 years ago I discovered that place and
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it just has a very deep special meaning
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to
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me and I needed to reconnect with it I
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needed to I needed to know that I could
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quite a lot
[1:33]
happened I'm sorry there aren't any time
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stamps I just don't have the time for
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that honestly I have to start packing up
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here at the cabin so I can go back to my
[1:44]
RV tomorrow
[1:46]
morning but I will try to do that in the
[1:48]
future and just put it in the
[1:50]
description so check there if you're
[1:51]
watching this
[1:53]
later there are especially in the third
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part there are a lot of um silent
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moments I
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just let the camera run while I was
[2:02]
hiking through the rain it's very
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pleasant and
[2:06]
meditative um I met a turtle it was a
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very special
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Turtle it was a special experience
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it I didn't just pass by this turtle
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that turtle and I had a little
[2:22]
conversation there are layers of meaning
[2:25]
in this thing that
[2:27]
you may or may not pick up on if really
[2:30]
depends how long you've been following
[2:32]
my journey because for 5 months I have
[2:35]
been deconstructing and reconstructing
[2:38]
my identity and evolving on a personal
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level and this is the culmination of
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that I hope you enjoy
[2:46]
this good morning fellow humans I
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apologize for the lighting just bear
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with me this will be a short intro and
[2:54]
then you know the video keep going on
[2:56]
and will'll be somewhere else so but
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it's 3:00 in the morning and I just
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wanted to say good
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morning and
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I've had a new
[3:08]
realization I was thinking that my
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trouble sleeping
[3:14]
was product of being in that RV but
[3:16]
that's clearly not the case cuz I'm
[3:18]
still not
[3:20]
sleeping I came to this cabin hoping
[3:22]
that I'd finally get some real sleep
[3:24]
some deep sleep and I'm not getting that
[3:27]
so I have to conclude something else I
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think it's just
[3:33]
this stage of my life that I'm in right
[3:36]
now
[3:37]
because um I went to bed at 10:00 it
[3:40]
took me a while to fall asleep but then
[3:42]
I was dreaming and my conscious mind was
[3:45]
still active like it knew I was
[3:47]
streaming
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so
[3:51]
um I guess I'm just going to have to
[3:54]
tolerate whatever I'm going through you
[3:56]
know
[3:57]
and let the process out cuz there's
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really nothing else to be done in my
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opinion um I did get more sleep
[4:07]
yesterday because I was able to take a
[4:09]
nap after um between like some of my
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videos I I made quite a few yesterday I
[4:17]
I was able to take a nap so hopefully
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that's enough I'm just going to get up
[4:22]
now I'm going to make some eggs
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and um prepare my backpack for our hike
[4:29]
today and then and we've got a whole day
[4:31]
of
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hiking all right time to make some
[4:35]
breakfast I'm going to just paced up on
[4:38]
the screen what the weather is going to
[4:39]
be today because it's going to be
[4:41]
challenging and I just want to note that
[4:43]
I know that uh the trail is going to be
[4:47]
challenging to already to begin with cuz
[4:49]
it is a difficult Trail and I'm not sure
[4:52]
how long it's been I think it could be
[4:54]
10 years since I've been on this Trail
[4:56]
but I used to hike this Trail every
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weekend I've gotten lost on that trail
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with a friend once it was dark by the
[5:03]
time we got out I broke my camera back
[5:05]
then falling into a creek cuz I didn't
[5:07]
see it
[5:08]
there um it's not a well-marked trail
[5:12]
it's very rugged it goes up into the
[5:14]
mountains there's some very beautiful
[5:16]
views
[5:17]
so and I think that this just
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um
[5:24]
it it's kind of like my internal state
[5:27]
right now I'm in a very turbulent state
[5:29]
where I'm just going through this
[5:31]
intense Evolution
[5:33]
and um my external world is going to
[5:36]
match my internal world today so let's
[5:38]
see where that takes us I guess I should
[5:41]
just note so you know there's going to
[5:43]
be rain and thunderstorms all day I
[5:44]
didn't bring my GoPro stuff didn't bring
[5:47]
my new camera cuz I don't know how to
[5:49]
use it yet it's got so many buttons and
[5:51]
things on it it is not a point and click
[5:52]
thing so um just got my phone I'm going
[5:55]
to try to you know I got to keep my
[5:57]
stuff from getting too wet
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um but I'm going to do my best I really
[6:04]
want to document this Ba's over here
[6:06]
playing he doesn't play that much these
[6:09]
days it's not his
[6:11]
style but he's look at him you're so
[6:14]
cute
[6:15]
Bailey you're so cute you're cute so I'm
[6:19]
making coffee and I'm going to make eggs
[6:21]
and toast and maybe just warm up some
[6:23]
ham with it don't have any sugar I only
[6:27]
got one packet he didn't you know they
[6:30]
left some of these here um for you know
[6:32]
but there weren't very many I had coffee
[6:34]
yesterday I didn't think to get sugar
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but I'm just going to make do still
[6:39]
waking up normally I have three eggs
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when I make them um but I'm going for
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four today because you know I got a long
[6:47]
day ahead of me I don't I won't have
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anything on the trail with me I don't
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think unless I can find something um on
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the way which that's not very
[6:56]
likely um I haven't had fried eggs since
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I marked on this journey because I don't
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have any way to cook them so I always
[7:03]
have to scramble them in the microwave
[7:06]
and um that's pretty much it so I'm
[7:08]
going to try to make scrambled eggs wait
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I'm not trying I'm trying to make fried
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eggs I don't know why yeah I'm I'm not
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awake all right this is the closest
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thing I could find to a
[7:19]
spatula probably not wise to do this
[7:22]
with with one hand um well I could only
[7:26]
use one hand anyways I'm just you know
[7:28]
while holding my camera here but we're
[7:30]
going to give this a try and I'm no
[7:33]
expert but we're going to give this a
[7:40]
try meing stop
[7:44]
that J that
[7:46]
cat all right that's okay they're still
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you know they are what they are those
[7:51]
ones weren't cooking so well
[7:54]
so um they're still basically fried so
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I'm going to enjoy these all right don't
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look so bad get some ham going now I'll
[8:02]
get my toast going cooking is not a
[8:04]
skill I ever developed but I'll keep
[8:06]
trying you know for however many years
[8:08]
it takes cuz I'm not doing a whole lot
[8:10]
of cooking my RV either but
[8:14]
um didn't think to take butter out and
[8:16]
melt that like overnight or something so
[8:18]
I probably won't have any butter on my
[8:20]
toast
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but H that's okay I'd say we ought to
[8:26]
try that toast again guess whoever was
[8:29]
here last legs burnt toast so I got my
[8:32]
coffee it's actually pretty
[8:36]
good one sugar one Stevia cuz I need a
[8:39]
little bit more sweet in there
[8:42]
this um this is what they just had here
[8:46]
that's really good Duncan original blend
[8:48]
like I don't need Starbucks this is
[8:51]
really good I had it yesterday I really
[8:53]
liked the yesterday too
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so yeah all right breakfast is served
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I'm going to try to um get a little bit
[9:02]
of butter on there you know um maybe
[9:05]
it's Essence will get on there you guys
[9:08]
have advice on how
[9:10]
to you know do something like this the
[9:12]
butter situation I didn't want to put in
[9:14]
the microwave cuz there aren't any
[9:15]
plates here so um maybe there's some
[9:19]
secret maybe you can put it in like hot
[9:23]
water or something I don't
[9:25]
know I don't
[9:27]
know that's Bailey in the window that's
[9:29]
a little cabin it's very dark can't even
[9:32]
show you the Stars on this thing so
[9:37]
really ah there I
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am so I just want to acknowledge I'm a
[9:41]
little nervous I haven't done anything
[9:44]
like this in quite a long time and I
[9:45]
just need to know if I
[9:47]
can I'm trying to be as prepared as I
[9:50]
can and
[9:51]
just EMB RAC this we're not far from
[9:55]
where I'm going so and it looks like
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it's 15 minutes away
[9:59]
and the sun rises in an hour so we're
[10:02]
going to be a little bit early but I'll
[10:04]
just hang out there so I think what's
[10:07]
making me nervous is just cuz I know
[10:09]
there's going to be thunderstorms today
[10:11]
they are later in the day and we might
[10:12]
actually be close to the end of the
[10:14]
trail by the time they happen but it's
[10:16]
going to be raining all day I've never
[10:18]
hiked the trail in those conditions and
[10:21]
I'm just more acutely aware of weather
[10:23]
now since moving into my RV I know the
[10:26]
tree branches fall all over the place
[10:28]
like they're constantly
[10:30]
I mean it's just I don't need that stuff
[10:32]
falling on me right so you got to be
[10:34]
real aware of your surroundings
[10:37]
and
[10:40]
um why I'm here and I want to do this I
[10:43]
need to do this so I'm just going to be
[10:46]
cautious
[10:47]
and you know
[10:50]
just just going to be cautious we're
[10:53]
just going to head down to the lake
[10:54]
while we wait for
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Sunrise we have a little Lake here
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it's been a while since I've been down
[11:02]
there I don't remember how to get down
[11:03]
there so we got to go find
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it spent many times at this
[11:08]
Lodge I always love this rock wall here
[11:11]
it's very pretty um generally this is
[11:14]
where you start you just go past the
[11:16]
lodge and there's the original Trails
[11:18]
back there I think that might be how you
[11:21]
get down to the lake too though those
[11:23]
are the rooms
[11:25]
there um they're not anything special
[11:28]
nothing to write home about but it's a
[11:29]
place to stay at the Natural
[11:31]
Bridge it's coming up we're just going
[11:34]
to hang out here until the sun comes it
[11:36]
wouldn't be me without the Mountain Dew
[11:38]
but I did bring plenty of water got my
[11:40]
backpack so I'm prepared let me just
[11:44]
show you what we're doing today so we're
[11:46]
here we're going to take the original
[11:49]
Trail to here and then we're going to
[11:50]
get onto this Trail called The Rock
[11:52]
Garden Trail I'm sorry let me try this
[11:53]
again so here's the hemlock Lodge we're
[11:56]
going to get on the original Trail then
[11:57]
we're going to go to the rock garden
[11:59]
Trail and then we're going to take this
[12:01]
Trail called the sand capap
[12:03]
Trail um The Rock Garden Trail is about
[12:06]
2 miles and the sand Gap trail is 7 and
[12:09]
1/2 miles that's going to bring us out
[12:11]
over here on the road and we're going to
[12:13]
have to go walk back to the Jeeps that's
[12:16]
probably another I don't know maybe a
[12:17]
half a mile so I'm thinking around 10
[12:20]
miles
[12:21]
today it's 6:30 in the
[12:24]
morning and the sun is coming up so I
[12:27]
think it's time to go Trails start right
[12:34]
here doesn't take long to get to the
[12:36]
Rock Garden trail from here and that's
[12:37]
one of my favorites I do love the
[12:40]
original Trail because it's just nice
[12:43]
you can see they put a lot of work into
[12:45]
it it's a nice little
[12:49]
Trail I had forgotten how steep it is
[12:54]
already i' had forgotten you had to take
[12:57]
the battleship Rock Trail to the Rock
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Garden
[13:01]
Trail
[13:03]
so might be a little bit
[13:07]
more um longer than I
[13:09]
thought I did I forgot how steep this
[13:12]
stuff
[13:13]
is it's been a while since I did this
[13:17]
it's impossible to show the scale on my
[13:19]
phone but we're going way up there and
[13:23]
that's where you'll find the Natural
[13:25]
Bridge the namesake of this place then
[13:28]
we're going to a whole lot further so
[13:32]
most people come here to see the Natural
[13:33]
Bridge it's you know we'll go up there
[13:35]
and we'll check it out but that's not
[13:37]
why I come here I don't know I love I've
[13:41]
always loved the intersection between
[13:43]
trees and geology but I'm not like a big
[13:46]
fan of like rocks don't really inspire
[13:50]
me which is why I don't think I would
[13:52]
like
[13:54]
um being out west but
[13:59]
um I don't hate it either I do like it
[14:02]
when they're when they blend together
[14:04]
there's so much depth here that it is
[14:06]
impossible to show you but that's why I
[14:10]
love this place features like this are
[14:13]
why they caught the rock garden Trail we
[14:15]
already passed
[14:16]
one but there's they're all
[14:20]
over we're going to encounter a lot of
[14:22]
obstacles like this on the sand Gap
[14:24]
trail only much worse I definitely
[14:28]
remember that
[14:30]
so that should be
[14:44]
interesting we're still waiting for
[14:46]
daylight pretty much
[15:09]
so we got one and a/4 miles to go to get
[15:11]
to the top of the Natural Bridge that's
[15:14]
where the sand gap tra starts
[15:58]
got a about the low Gap trail I've taken
[16:00]
that taking all the trails here though
[16:03]
now we're
[16:05]
climbing to rock garden
[16:35]
I remember the spot um me and my nephew
[16:37]
took a break
[16:38]
here I had a little
[16:55]
chat we climb up that little slit there
[17:01]
my mother hiked this with me
[17:03]
once actually
[17:06]
surprised that was difficult for her I
[17:09]
think it was on the way down though I
[17:12]
don't think she climbed up it that would
[17:14]
have been was on the way
[17:17]
down this
[17:20]
is
[17:21]
um a little treacherous it's a little
[17:24]
bit wet I have to put this down 7 in the
[17:28]
morning up up up we
[17:31]
go we got quite a way to go
[17:36]
still these
[17:38]
TRS they are not for the Fain of heart
[17:42]
we're just going to rest for a minute
[17:44]
I'm
[17:45]
older definitely older I didn't take
[17:48]
breaks before that's okay though do what
[17:51]
you have to do layers and
[17:54]
layers going down it's hard to see in
[17:57]
the camera but
[17:59]
that's a long hike
[18:00]
up you can feel the temperature
[18:02]
difference down there it's quite nice
[18:05]
very
[18:06]
cool pretty hot and sweaty up here
[18:09]
already um you know part of a but part
[18:12]
of it to my age but I don't think that's
[18:15]
the main thing I think it's just that
[18:16]
I've been
[18:18]
inactive
[18:19]
I I've seen men a lot older than me and
[18:25]
women
[18:26]
um I said men cuz there's one in in
[18:28]
particular I'm thinking about saw him on
[18:30]
a mountain once that man was
[18:36]
inspiring still is do absolutely love
[18:39]
this
[18:41]
place with any luck we left early enough
[18:44]
that we'll be the only ones at the
[18:46]
Natural Bridge so might be a nice little
[18:54]
experience imagine this place in the
[18:56]
Autumn it's so beautiful
[19:01]
spider
[19:06]
we should be
[19:21]
close looks like we still got ways to
[19:25]
go y we do we still got to get up quite
[19:28]
a
[19:29]
Bo
[19:31]
oo yeah we're about to do some climbing
[19:36]
again go away
[19:41]
Bean not that
[19:48]
interesting all right
[19:50]
oh what's happened here oh
[19:56]
nothing up up up up we
[20:00]
go this is a geologist
[20:03]
Paradise I've always thought
[20:07]
that we're not even close I don't know
[20:10]
what I was thinking wish for thinking
[20:42]
Everything feels the same here
[20:44]
still this place is timeless
[21:09]
those are some expans of
[21:12]
rocks see if I can get a good view for
[21:14]
you
[21:38]
this always looked like a man to me and
[21:45]
outside gave up
[21:48]
there maybe
[22:21]
we getting to all the interesting bits
[25:11]
I guess where that's
[25:17]
leading
[25:20]
yeah up and up and up
[25:33]
dripping
[25:37]
waterfall it's just dripping right now
[25:40]
it's crying I guess
[26:59]
we found the sky
[27:03]
left take you all the way up there to
[27:06]
the Natural
[27:08]
Bridge I've taken it once with my mom
[27:13]
I'm so afraid of heights I right here
[27:17]
contemplated jumping off of that thing I
[27:20]
was like I think I can make that jump
[27:23]
thing scared the crap out of
[27:25]
me almost took it with my last boyfriend
[27:27]
too like 15 years
[27:30]
ago contemplated it and contemplated it
[27:33]
just looking at it finally took another
[27:35]
CL of pin and I was like let's do it we
[27:40]
didn't have enough money to get on it so
[27:43]
didn't work
[27:46]
out yeah Miss is quite a trail
[28:05]
we're getting there we're getting
[28:08]
there this isn't going to be an
[28:10]
introspective hike it's not what today
[28:12]
was
[28:14]
about I'm in a Lial state where I
[28:18]
just I need to push myself physically
[28:21]
I'm kind of mentally
[28:23]
drained and I wanted to experience this
[28:25]
place I haven't been here in so long I
[28:27]
love it
[28:29]
here
[28:31]
so different kind of video for you
[28:53]
today I'll probably be over on those
[28:56]
Ridge lines if we take the sand gap
[28:58]
go that's what it's like up on the ridge
[29:02]
line got some fog over there very
[29:20]
pretty still got a ways to go
[29:42]
my younger self never noticed they don't
[29:44]
put any park punches on these
[29:46]
things oh we're
[29:49]
here there it is
[30:59]
fortunately we're not the only one I saw
[31:00]
someone just walking up
[31:02]
here it's always a tight squeeze
[31:20]
here yeah a vot of me being Spider-Man
[31:23]
between these
[31:25]
things that was a long time ago
[31:31]
the valy of
[31:35]
[Music]
[31:45]
Youth many pictures there in my youth of
[31:48]
course like every kid
[31:51]
probably keep off here's my picture
[32:46]
closed what's this I thought the problem
[32:50]
taking
[32:51]
though wild fire damage
[33:01]
oh you can take it if you want to get to
[33:02]
this s Gap tra we do have to go that
[33:05]
way okay
[33:08]
cool yeah I'm forgetting how long that
[33:10]
tra is there's all these other TRS you
[33:11]
have to take to get to
[33:18]
it there someone out there hang on this
[33:22]
tree he's getting bigger too I love that
[33:25]
tree
[33:28]
10
[33:34]
years nice nice
[33:38]
Sunrise
[33:40]
fog very
[33:45]
beautiful but yeah I know that
[33:48]
tree I know
[33:50]
you I know all of you
[34:00]
yeah it's
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beautiful
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wow that is
[34:12]
beautiful there's a Overlook over there
[34:15]
where you can see the bridge
[34:19]
from very far down
[34:42]
wish my camera could show you the depth
[34:43]
that is incredible
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he told me he took the original Trail S
[35:03]
I beat me up here I didn't tell him I
[35:05]
took the long
[35:06]
one this is
[35:13]
wonderful this is why people come here
[35:31]
well we pked maybe 20% of what I had
[35:37]
planned we are up on top of the ridge
[35:40]
now though so it shouldn't be too
[35:42]
bad I think I'll
[35:49]
go I want my old self
[35:54]
back I have to push myself
[36:08]
we have much further to go my fellow
[36:10]
humans
[36:38]
right up here marks the
[36:50]
beginning I always love this
[36:53]
sign allow 5 hours to hike this Trail
[36:59]
it's like don't be
[37:07]
stupid okay we got 9 and a/4 miles to
[37:10]
get back to where my Jeep is
[37:13]
at all
[37:22]
right you ready for this
[37:29]
we're just getting started the Natural
[37:32]
Bridge is right there you can't really
[37:34]
tell um from my camera well maybe can
[37:37]
see a small piece of it over
[37:41]
there we got n and a quar miles to
[37:44]
go so I wasn't kidding this
[37:48]
Trail has its challenges I mean we're
[37:51]
just getting started
[37:53]
and we are going to have some challenges
[37:56]
it's not super well marked
[37:59]
Trail there's going to be debris
[38:03]
everywhere and we're going to want to be
[38:06]
a little
[38:08]
cautious but we got
[38:11]
this we got
[38:13]
this I mean this
[38:15]
is definitely a sign of what's to
[38:22]
come going to be navigating some
[38:25]
challenges these are my old stopping
[38:28]
grounds I'm not giving up it's been so
[38:30]
long I can't remember what that sign
[38:32]
means um it's a different Trail I just
[38:34]
forget the name of it and it's got
[38:36]
something to do
[38:38]
with
[38:39]
um I don't think it's just the Red River
[38:42]
Gorge I think it is a it might be a
[38:44]
National Trail it goes quite
[38:52]
far I think they Mark the trails better
[38:55]
than they used to
[38:57]
those orange triangles are on a lot of
[39:00]
trees maybe it's a little more Mar but
[39:03]
marked better than it used to
[39:04]
be we'll find
[39:17]
out so I've been hiking for 2 and a half
[39:20]
miles through the forest just Forest
[39:23]
hiking
[39:27]
that's a third of the
[39:29]
way I always like the spot it feels kind
[39:32]
of like a
[39:42]
jungle we are deep in the woods
[40:56]
for
[41:26]
for for
[42:15]
there it
[42:26]
comes for
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I know that tree
[43:58]
maybe TR pry
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for
[46:34]
for
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for
[50:34]
for
[52:34]
for
[54:26]
e
[55:34]
for
[57:56]
for
[58:34]
for
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for
[60:33]
for
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for
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for
[73:39]
there's a site you don't see every
[73:42]
day think I might have heard that
[74:04]
there's a turle over
[74:15]
here hey buddy
[74:25]
I don't want to bother you to keep
[74:30]
going I don't want to scare
[74:34]
you we pretty
[74:38]
markings you can go
[75:11]
is
[75:29]
over
[75:36]
here
[75:50]
right it takes a lot of effort those
[75:53]
guys
[76:06]
there's the
[76:22]
tree there it goes oh
[76:26]
T
[76:29]
down okay he's all
[76:39]
right you're not stuck there
[76:44]
buddy hope you're not stuck there yeah
[76:46]
you'll be fine you go make your way out
[76:48]
I can see a
[76:51]
PA you have a good life okay
[77:05]
big
[77:11]
spider I know this F pretty sure I broke
[77:16]
the camera here
[77:27]
okay
[77:41]
[Applause]
[78:56]
oh we still haven't made it to a ridge
[78:59]
line that's what I'm hoping to get
[79:04]
to my favorite spot is
[79:08]
that I haven't rested yet it has
[79:12]
been I don't even know 5 and 1 12 miles
[79:16]
maybe I'm
[79:20]
lucky quite
[79:22]
exhausted physically
[79:29]
um I'm in some pain my back
[79:36]
hurts but I'm
[79:51]
fine there's SP that's quite a big one
[79:57]
all
[80:00]
right do remember
[80:23]
these Miss s of the weather that's hours
[80:28]
away we'll be out of here before that
[80:34]
happens probably have another hour hour
[80:36]
and a half to
[80:46]
go maybe longer if I take a break when I
[80:49]
get to the ridge line which I'm probably
[80:52]
going to do
[80:54]
think CH there for a
[80:56]
while I don't know if I'll ever see it
[81:02]
again got to be
[81:16]
close think you might be up
[81:21]
here I've said that before though so
[81:27]
this Trail runs
[81:29]
through the middle of this area there is
[81:33]
a ridge line it's
[81:34]
just not where the trail is
[81:40]
at yeah I'm moving away from it again
[82:10]
oh H still end in
[82:14]
oops my bad
[82:31]
definely get my stamina
[82:34]
back another month or two
[82:37]
and that I feel a lot
[82:41]
younger maybe I feel my age or
[82:51]
something say I feel older than my age
[83:54]
I have philosophy is to just push ahead
[83:56]
always push
[83:58]
ahead don't sit down you sit down you
[84:00]
might not get back
[84:04]
up can go at any Pace you need to
[84:07]
go keep
[84:16]
going eventually you'll get out
[84:25]
this is a very meditative Trail it's
[84:28]
long and it
[84:30]
will Center you in your
[84:33]
body and that's where your focus will be
[84:38]
instead of in your
[84:40]
mind your head
[84:44]
and it's just a meditative state
[85:01]
for someone like me I need
[85:03]
that it's not very often my brain shuts
[85:07]
off but it definitely does out
[85:10]
here it says okay I get
[85:13]
it you want me to shut
[85:16]
up here's some back
[85:19]
pain not how to do it
[85:28]
my feet are sore too guess I haven't
[85:31]
really been paying attention to what my
[85:33]
body feels like right
[85:35]
now I never used to get back
[85:39]
but haven't slept one so
[85:42]
long and I'm wearing a backpack which I
[85:45]
don't often do that on a Day
[85:48]
hike but I wanted to be prepared I
[85:51]
didn't know what I'd encounter
[85:55]
it been so
[85:57]
long you know I used to just come out
[86:00]
here single bottle Mountain Dew that's
[86:04]
it for years I did
[86:07]
that it's amazing when you think about
[86:09]
it
[86:49]
it would be nice to see a mile
[86:51]
marker I have some idea where I'm at
[86:55]
that but you just keep
[86:58]
walking you don't
[87:00]
stop and eventually you'll get out
[87:35]
in reality they could have made this St
[87:37]
a lot more difficult if they wanted to
[87:41]
we should make an alternate Trail for
[87:45]
that and this one's difficult
[87:49]
but I think only because it's long you
[87:54]
it's quite a hike just to get up to this
[87:57]
Trail by the time you get here you've
[88:00]
had a full
[88:14]
workout I think the trail is a little
[88:16]
more difficult going the other way I
[88:18]
used to do that
[88:21]
too it's not a circular Trail
[88:30]
it's a little more uphill if you go the
[88:31]
other
[88:33]
way a lot more
[88:45]
actually I do enjoy this
[88:49]
though all my life
[88:54]
all the way back to the Boy
[89:01]
Scouts that was something I wanted for
[89:06]
myself my father joined as an assistant
[89:08]
scout
[89:10]
master
[89:11]
[Music]
[89:13]
which didn't really mind
[89:17]
but I don't know I think that
[89:22]
that's it's kind of self
[89:30]
fish deserve to have my own experiences
[89:33]
without my father
[89:41]
there not part of growing up
[89:57]
my socks are soing
[89:59]
wet I did bring in extra
[90:03]
pair this backpack is not
[90:06]
waterproof not sure what the condition
[90:08]
of my clothes in there
[90:11]
are um I wasn't totally prepared I you
[90:14]
know I did my best
[90:27]
pole never know it's hiding in something
[90:30]
like
[90:52]
that all right feel like a lot of
[90:54]
switchbacks
[91:04]
really
[91:07]
spider difficult to get around this
[91:11]
one there is no spider there
[91:15]
though all
[91:19]
right oh I am sore
[91:24]
very sore
[91:28]
sorry got to get through
[91:57]
the rain is
[91:59]
nice it's
[92:04]
Pleasant kind of want
[92:06]
to um here some Thunder see some
[92:12]
Thunder disappointed I'll be out of here
[92:15]
before that happens
[92:47]
challing
[92:55]
that's what I came here
[93:00]
for and it delivered
[94:10]
this not pleasant I don't
[94:21]
think as here
[94:26]
oh
[94:28]
oh I have hiking Roots
[94:32]
WR I need to wash these
[94:36]
off all
[94:38]
right rest I could do
[95:08]
all right
[95:53]
ohly yeah challenge
[95:55]
yourself there's growth and
[96:17]
challenge you won't even see it like
[96:19]
right away
[96:20]
it's doesn't really work that way
[96:25]
this
[96:27]
hike leave me if I'm pretty exhausted
[96:30]
and sore
[96:32]
but I what it's doing for me as far as
[96:35]
my fitness and my mental
[96:37]
health those are all aspects that come
[96:48]
later this was worth it
[96:55]
there was a time this was not a very
[96:57]
difficult hike for me but it was still
[97:01]
challenging
[97:03]
and I can see myself getting there
[97:07]
again this is not killing me
[97:11]
it's
[97:14]
um it's really not that
[97:20]
bad we're capable of so much more than
[97:22]
we think we are
[97:25]
we have these self-limiting
[97:28]
beliefs that we tell ourselves the
[97:31]
society tells
[97:33]
us I'm 47 I'm not supposed to be doing
[97:42]
this that's what they tell
[97:47]
us you're not supposed to hike alone
[97:50]
that's what they tell us
[98:05]
I never felt like mob opinion is very
[98:13]
useful it's like the opinion of lowest
[98:16]
common
[98:17]
denominator that's what my opinion is
[98:27]
that's exactly why if TRS come to my
[98:30]
channel start spamming it I'm like okay
[98:33]
my mentality
[98:35]
here most common
[98:38]
denominator I see that all the
[98:42]
time all kinds of
[98:47]
contexts it's not worth listening
[98:49]
to it's not worth engaging with
[98:53]
it is worth
[98:57]
criticizing shine a light on it and call
[99:00]
it what it
[99:20]
is I like trails that have all the pine
[99:23]
needles old pine
[99:30]
needles I don't know there's just
[99:32]
something nice about
[99:40]
it I really do love
[99:44]
trees they're so
[99:52]
special for
[100:40]
just keep
[100:50]
moving eventually you find your way out
[101:14]
all these places have memories for
[101:17]
me I remember them all
[102:27]
I just remembered why the large is 9 and
[102:29]
12 miles from the TR for 7 and a half
[102:33]
think you have to take another tra to
[102:35]
get back to
[102:37]
itot about
[102:40]
that extra two miles
[103:29]
park ranger does maintain this trout
[103:30]
pretty
[103:32]
well they
[103:34]
always clear the
[103:39]
trees there's a couple though that you
[103:42]
have
[103:43]
to make your way
[103:46]
around we haven't ENC well I guess we
[103:49]
have encountered a
[103:51]
few I'm not sure
[104:00]
recording part of life in the forest
[105:01]
for
[105:58]
do have an Impulse to
[106:01]
stop but I'm not doing that
[106:04]
until I get to the ridge
[106:09]
line I'll just take it
[106:13]
slowly keep
[106:15]
moving eventually you will get out
[106:31]
what is a switch back
[107:04]
thought it
[107:11]
was
[107:13]
definely
[107:16]
traversing down the mountain
[108:14]
keep
[108:16]
moving eventually you'll get out
[108:25]
Supply so many
[108:29]
things supplies for my
[108:35]
life I don't
[108:38]
have I don't have a solid Direction yet
[108:42]
I just have to keep
[108:44]
moving and eventually I'll figure it
[108:50]
out you know the are are
[108:54]
here it's usually quite
[109:00]
pretty I'm
[109:05]
right just slippery out here even with
[109:08]
hiking
[109:10]
boots
[109:12]
um wonder if I need some new
[109:20]
ones like let's see that tree there and
[109:23]
just put a little sign on
[109:27]
it go this way under the
[109:32]
tree Yep this is the
[109:35]
area it's a
[109:38]
creek quite dry
[109:41]
now it's a whole point to rain though
[109:43]
right
[110:42]
I need a better fitting
[110:45]
backpack that would certainly help
[110:57]
and my upright device I want to make
[110:59]
sure I'm working on my Pock
[111:04]
here there in Hikes like this
[111:15]
one I'd say I'm ready
[111:18]
for some of the more advanced trails
[111:21]
that are near where my RV is
[111:24]
at explore some new
[111:32]
places certainly like to find some
[111:36]
near Cumberland
[111:39]
Lake do love that
[111:42]
place that's the place to be
[112:01]
keep
[112:03]
moving and eventually you'll get
[112:17]
out I got to deal with this um table
[112:21]
from char charging my phone I found a
[112:29]
bridge doesn't look particularly sturdy
[112:32]
like what is going on
[112:39]
there I was thinking I'd take a break
[112:43]
here it's just so wet
[112:46]
everywhere hey I'm
[112:51]
exhausted water sounds
[112:59]
nice we better keep going I
[113:07]
guess oh no you know what we're taking a
[113:10]
break that's quite
[113:14]
uphill need a break to get this backpack
[113:17]
off of
[113:19]
me gu we will hang out here for a minut
[113:26]
that's
[113:28]
nice I don't have to sit
[113:31]
down just need like this there something
[113:34]
up with my camera it's got there GD
[113:35]
Vines I know what it's
[113:39]
doing still doing it I don't know what
[113:41]
that's
[113:42]
about be some kind of
[113:44]
[Music]
[113:46]
setting oh it's been a long hike no
[113:50]
doubt about that
[113:58]
that feels that sounds
[114:01]
nice let's keep the mosquitoes away from
[114:05]
me because boy are they nasty out
[114:11]
here I have been spraying myself with
[114:14]
until it started raining then it got
[114:16]
better
[114:17]
so but they're still out about
[114:25]
it's only 11 did I tell you
[114:29]
that
[114:32]
so I guess I've been hiking for 5
[114:35]
hours of course not just this Trail oh I
[114:38]
don't know what time I started this one
[114:41]
but I can look that
[114:47]
up trying to fix
[114:50]
this there
[114:52]
I decided to just sit
[114:55]
down I will get up so we're all
[115:02]
good very pleasant
[115:10]
day I
[115:13]
just I don't know
[115:16]
I feel listless I I got to figure
[115:20]
something out with my life I can't
[115:25]
can't be this
[115:29]
like there's a bunch of different words
[115:31]
going through my head none of them are
[115:32]
the right ones
[115:35]
so I just need a direction to be moving
[115:44]
in I don't know what that is yet I just
[115:48]
joke it a little
[115:50]
while well my phone's at 18% and I can't
[115:53]
charge it
[115:54]
because
[115:56]
um it's just giving me a moisture
[115:59]
warning so I'm just going to power my
[116:01]
phone down in case I need it so I'm not
[116:04]
going to be able
[116:06]
to well hopefully I'll be able hopefully
[116:09]
it'll get better by the time I get to
[116:10]
the ridge line because I really wanted
[116:12]
to share that with
[116:13]
you so I guess we'll find out it's 12:05
[116:17]
I've been hiking for 6 hours and I'm out
[116:21]
that is the end of the the
[116:23]
trail I did not
[116:26]
find the ridge that I was looking
[116:30]
for no warning there they have to tell
[116:33]
someone how long that is this one might
[116:36]
I
[116:37]
guess but I don't know if they modified
[116:40]
the trail or what I'm very confused cuz
[116:43]
that was my favorite place in
[116:45]
Kentucky and I would not have missed it
[116:48]
I would have known when I was there
[116:50]
there was no rid line
[116:54]
okay
[116:57]
yeah I'm back in
[117:00]
Civilization you can tell you can hear
[117:02]
it
[117:04]
um still have two miles to go to get to
[117:07]
my Jeep
[117:09]
though so which Trail is that I'm
[117:13]
curious Hood's Branch
[117:16]
oh it has been quite a
[117:19]
hike hoods Branch Trail well I'll show
[117:21]
you guys I gu FR you can go that way and
[117:24]
it takes you to the Skylift area I
[117:27]
think um so I guess we're hiking Hood's
[117:31]
Branch now I'll check my um phone
[117:35]
charger once I get to my
[117:37]
Jeep I should have enough power to get
[117:40]
back now plus if anything were to happen
[117:43]
here
[117:44]
it's really not as much of an issue it's
[117:47]
back
[117:48]
there oh that
[117:50]
one that was a hike that was strenuous
[117:53]
but I didn't I I did what I sat out to
[117:56]
do quite proud of
[117:59]
myself um the one conclusion I have from
[118:02]
that hike is I need to keep hiking until
[118:05]
I get back to the physical state I was
[118:08]
in when I used to hike it in the past so
[118:11]
cuz that's important to me and
[118:15]
I that got pretty hard at the end um I
[118:19]
almost had an accident there was a
[118:21]
bridge and and it was very slippery I
[118:23]
slipped thank God there was a railing
[118:25]
there I would have tumbled
[118:27]
down um the bridge right next to it
[118:30]
didn't have one so I'm very
[118:32]
lucky and I'm going to keep that in mind
[118:35]
remember
[118:36]
that St that away in my brain you
[118:42]
know but this was important I needed to
[118:45]
do this it had been so long since I'd
[118:47]
done
[118:48]
it and
[118:50]
moving into my RV was all about
[118:54]
reclaiming the best parts of myself and
[118:58]
shutting all of the things that were
[119:00]
holding me
[119:01]
back this was another marker on that
[119:05]
journey and I did
[119:07]
it I'm very very proud of myself let's
[119:11]
hope this is an easy two
[119:14]
miles I'm pretty
[119:17]
exhausted so that switch back took me
[119:20]
down but then it took me up and then
[119:22]
back down and then up and then back
[119:24]
down that was strenuous there is a no
[119:27]
like it doesn't matter what direction
[119:29]
you go in that thing is going to give
[119:32]
you a
[119:33]
workout so I would say I just beat the
[119:37]
bad weather it's noon I think it starts
[119:40]
around
[119:42]
1 I don't know but this afternoon we're
[119:45]
going to have thunderstorms
[119:48]
and I beat that at least I had to come
[119:52]
today it's the only day I'm going to be
[119:53]
here so just willing to have some
[119:58]
risk um there an
[120:01]
experience I have
[120:04]
to just want to be more Brave
[120:07]
I don't know where this fear comes from
[120:10]
I have sometimes and it's
[120:12]
like I don't want it I just want it to
[120:15]
go away it's not acceptable to
[120:17]
me I think I probably forgot about this
[120:21]
Trail every single time I hi the sand
[120:23]
gap
[120:25]
through up and up and up we
[120:28]
go very pretty though isn't it I love
[120:32]
this
[120:33]
place so
[120:37]
pretty they rent paddle boats
[120:40]
here if I wasn't so tired I would still
[120:43]
do that right now I want to be on the
[120:48]
water I still have dreams did I ever
[120:51]
tell you guys I wanted to live on an
[120:54]
island I just like to buy an island and
[120:56]
live on an
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island and it's a pipe dream
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cuz you know that's hard to
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afford that's what I always wanted I was
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just willing to settle for land
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somewhere I want to live on an
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island by
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myself and fish and we have a boat
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oh you'd have to have a boat if you live
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on an
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island but I just want the
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island
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yeah this is such a long hike oh
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my if there's another Trail after this
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one I'm going to lose my mind
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I don't remember the HUD Branch Trail
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going straight to the parking
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lot I think it's close though I am too
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tired to pull the map out of my pocket
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is how tired I am no we have an
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obstacle I'm too tired for obstacles
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that's a big
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one
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what some people just walked through
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here too so how do they do I don't have
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oh
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no
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please
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fine over this big giant
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tree we did it we did
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it we can do anything
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well that's
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new what are
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you what that's that
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thing you have not seen you
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before W be somewhere to rest cuz I
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don't have it in me oh
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no I could rest
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there we
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mustn't we must keep going
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we must keep
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going this is always a pretty
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spot think that we're close
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now right on this little Bridge
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here we are not climbing up there I'll
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tell you that
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much if we have to do that I'm sitting
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down and not getting
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up of course that's a joke
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um please don't have to go up there
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though that would be
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terrible
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terrible I don't think so
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though oh I think we just keep going
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straight and eventually we reached the
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parking
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lot this was quite a day
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these are cute little
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Bridges very tiny though
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wow it's got his
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Stu we used to do stuff like this in the
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voice
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accounts those are good
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times oh it's sad
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that kids don't really do that anymore
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what's going
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here oh all
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right I am having trouble imagining that
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that was a large group of people who
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came
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by he had to have had these obstacles
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too they are probably new
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obstacles I have heard things falling
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down as I've been hiking
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how much
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further must we
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walk oh my socks are so
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wet keep going keep going keep
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going sad I didn't find my favorite
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place they had to have altered the trail
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or
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something super confused confed about
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that I'm going to see if I can figure
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that out though like maybe I have an old
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map and I can compare them
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and
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something something's
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different but it is more wellmaintained
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so they have done work on
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it um not a lot of mile markers like I
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only saw to the whole
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time but that was my favorite place I
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love just hanging out up there
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I'm going to wrap it up now I think my
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battery's pretty close to dead cuz my
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screen's not very bright
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so if you made it this far thanks for
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following along
