Favorite Hiking Gear

Thanks to Public Lands for sponsoring this portion of this video. Public Lands is a new kind of outdoor store that empowers everyone to get outside with the latest gear, rentals, and expert advice. I checked out their website and found plenty of things to help me on my hikes with my wife here in Colorado. Mika's first hiking boots were these Salomon Outpulses. Public Lands has a bunch of the big name brands like Patagonia, so Mika picked up her first rain shell for the hike as well. I've been keeping cozy this winter with this nice Public Lands sweatshirt. I've taken these Salomon shorts out for a nice run or two. And these Public Lands sandals have been really cozy to wear around the apartment. But my favorite thing from Public Lands has been this Nemo Hornet two-person tent for Mika and I because it has been backlogged everywhere. I've been looking and trying to get this thing for months. Join Public Lands Hub to earn points and rewards on your purchases, plus receive exclusive discount. Thanks to Public Lands for sponsoring that part of the video, and now back to regular content. What's up, y'all? It is the annual favorite gear video. In 2022, I hiked over 660 miles or a thousand kilometers, so it's been a big year. Some gear has changed, some has remained. But regardless, hello, Craig Adams here. I've been hiking and traveling for the last three years and sharing them on my YouTube channel, Instagram, and TikTok. I'm a minimalist, and on trail, I like to sacrifice comfort for speed and ease. So I'm going to talk about the gear and tools that I use to hike and make YouTube videos. And links to everything I mention will be in the description with timestamps as chapters. So let's get into it. This Hyperlite Southwest pack has seen some days. I've hiked a lot of miles in this thing, and right now it's the biggest pack that I own. And the biggest shift for this year has been getting smaller packs. This is an Arterix 15 liter, and this is a Salomon 30 liter. It's been really fun testing smaller day packs because I want to be able to trail run with them every so often, pack fewer things, and just have a lighter pack on my back. And I've really enjoyed this Arterix because it's kind of a mix between a day pack and a running vest. The front connects like this, and it hugs my body a bit more. And then it has these two pockets in front. And I'm sure I'll do more multiple day hikes and use the bigger Hyperlite. But for next year, I'm kind of focused on doing day hikes, maybe an overnight, and just seeing what I can get away with with these smaller packs. Let's talk about shoes. If you're a subscriber, you probably expect to see Brooks Cascadia's on my feet. I'm a fan of trail runners over hiking boots because I like to go fast. I just want less weight. I don't need the protection. I just want nice grip, light, easy to use shoes. So I tried out some Salomon trail runners, the baby blue ones. They stand out a bit. So I got the black ones. And these are my new favorites. These are great. You know, they're very quick with these laces. They just have like drawstring laces. Great grip. They're almost like cleats, to be honest. Like the first couple of times you wear these, it's hard to walk on pavement. So they grind down, and they get better, and they last longer than the Brooks. And yes, I'm still walking through water with my shoes on because it's fast. And sometimes rocks hurt. You don't want to step on a rock and fall into a river. So yeah. Also trying out these Salomon Gore-Tex Impulses. But I feel like these are more of my running shoes. So I've been using those around Denver. And I also tried out these Allbirds trail runners. I think these are like brand new, but the grip isn't as good. They're technically like slip-ons with fake laces. They're good. They're easy. But I don't know if I'd want to take this on a big hike. People socks were my socks. I love them. I had their merino wool athletic compression socks. I had a bunch of them. But they stopped selling them. And I can't get any inventory from the website. I can't buy them anywhere. So I tried out these Allbirds merino compression athletic socks. And I go through them so quickly. Like these disintegrate on my feet. So I need to find a new sock. This year I've switched to Hyperlite for sleeping bags. And I've got a warm one and a not so warm one. They're quilts. They're very lightweight. I keep them in these bags when I'm at my home. But I have like little compression waterproof bags for when I'm hiking. For clothing, I've been testing out a couple different pieces from different brands. Like Patagonia, Arterix, and North Face. Arterix sent me this bougie shell. And I've been loving it. It's great against the wind and the rain. And it looks cool. I'm still using the Patagonia joggers. And they continue to rip on the butt. In their defense, they're very thin. And that's why I like them. But I've probably ripped them four or five times. Gotten repaired. This is actually a new pair from Patagonia. I eventually sent in the old pair and got a new one. This year I've been getting way more into trail running. And any opportunity going downhill, I'm usually jogging or running. Trail running 100 miles on the Tour de Mont Blanc was fantastic. And getting to just have a trail running vest and keeping it even lighter than just a day pack is fantastic. I've been happy with my Salomon running vest. I would like to get one with like a zipper back with a little bit more storage. But having the water bottles on the front is fantastic. And a recent purchase was this filter for the top of one of these Salomon running water bladders. So I can just scoop water in a stream somewhere. And then just sip it and be on my way. Apple sent me this ultra watch. And I'm excited to try it on trail. And if we're running, hiking, I can track with Strava. AllTrails or just the Apple workout app. And there were of course a few items that didn't change from last year. And that proves how much they work. My BeFree water bottle filter allows me to get unlimited water pretty much anywhere, anytime. Gooder sunglasses are much cheaper than Warby Parker or Ray-Bans. And they are just great for hiking. My Nemo Hornet tent is just still going strong. Love it. It's just so fast, small, easy to set up, lightweight. And I got the two-person tent finally. So excited to use that with Sasha and Mika on like a local hike somewhere. Snagged a few more of these Sea to Summit Vue dry bags. All different liters, different size for electronics. Keeps everything dry and organized. I even keep my Nemo Hornet tent in here. For longer hikes with multiple people, this chessboard has been awesome. It's magnetic. It's mini. It's very easy. And on the Nepal hike, we did lose one of the white ponds. So this rock from Nepal has been a stand-in. And I'm gonna keep it as long as I can. The Amazon Basics sun hoodie is still here and still going strong. Such a staple of my hiking outfit. Keeps the sun off my skin. Keeping me warm and dry at different points. Love this thing. I've been using the gray version of this Versa hat from Western Rise. Finally got the black one. Excited to use this as my main hat for the year. And my shorts for hiking are also from Western Rise. These are fantastic. They have a single zipper. Lightweight. Very soft. Very comfortable. Straightforward. My Jetboil is still going strong. I added a flint starter because it's just more fun to do that instead of using a Zippo. Thermarest sleeping pad is still doing great. I thought there might be a hole, but yeah. It was just like temperature changes and pressure changes overnight. So still keeping me warm at night. Still very comfortable in my tent. And my headlamp. It's a simple one. I don't even know the brand, but it's still going strong. For filmmaking, obviously some changes. I've gotten iPhone only. Gotten rid of the Sony camera. The lenses. The microphones. I'm still using a tripod for some shots. And because there's the magnet, I can use this magnet on the top of my tripod here. All of this just lightens my load. Makes the production easier. Obviously there's a drop in video quality, especially in low light. But I'm excited in 2023 just to like see what I can do with this setup. And I think mobile photography is just going to keep getting better and better. So I'm placing some bets on that. This is my current drone. This is the DJI Mini 3. I made a switch from the Mavic Air S2 to this. This is so much lighter. So much easier. The batteries are so much better. And I think the quality is even better than the previous drone. Like here's some footage with the old Mavic Air S2. And here's some footage with the new Mini 3. And let me tell you, the Mini has these long duration batteries. I'm legit getting 30 to 40 minutes of flight time with these. Look how small this is. This is crazy. Just the drone itself is just so much smaller. So much lighter. And the quality, there's really no drop in quality. I will say strong wind may cause this camera to vibrate and become unusable. But you shouldn't be flying in strong wind anyway. And I got this controller. It's much easier just to have this and not have to hook up my iPhone. It helps to save battery as well. And speaking of battery, I can charge my iPhone from this with a cable. If I've got depleted batteries that I'm not going to fly with. And I can also plug a portable battery into this to charge. So my entire setup can be charged by like one of these big batteries. I think this is a 40,000 battery. And I charge my headlamp, my Apple Watch, my phone, my battery. Like everything can be charged with this. So I'm really happy about that. So I do have some questions that you asked on Instagram. So I'm going to answer those. But first, I just want to say thank you for watching. You know, I've got some big plans for 2023. I'm going to continue hiking, traveling, making videos. But I'm also planning the launch of an audio-only solo podcast. More information coming soon. I'm going to be making more of an effort to make short content for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels. As well as focusing on my gaming channel in the next few months. So you can check that out if you want to support me there. Okay, hello. This is going to be a Q&A. I got a bunch of questions on Instagram and YouTube community. And I'm going to try to answer as many as I can. So let's get into it. Personally, compared to like my friends and family who aren't creators at all. I have a different relationship with social media. And just the ability to share what I'm doing. Just the fact that I'm monetizing, you know, my life and what I do and share. That's just way different than most people. It's funny because I never really had like an office experience. So I don't have that expertise. I'm pretty short. I'm like not very good at working with like a team. I've been pretty solo my whole life. And I really value my own freedom creatively and just like in every way. So I guess that's different about YouTube creators in general. Some people have teams, but I try to be as solo as possible. I work from home. Basically, kind of. I chill and relax at home. I mainly work these days when I travel, I guess. So I feel pretty good, you know. I have a very relaxing, carefree schedule. And I try to make videos that I want to make and go to places that I want to go. So yeah, I'm pretty good. I'm pretty happy doing what I'm doing. And there's growth. I'd say that's most important. The big back and forth in my life right now is like because of growth. I'm able to make more money by working more. Or I could make the same amount of money I'm making right now. And like work less and be more efficient with how I work. And like make better decisions. Like do more of what I want to do versus what brands are asking me to do. And what is expected of me. So that's always like the back and forth. And I think that's a really good place to be, you know. I like that. Kevin is asking about travel life balance. Yeah, I would say my travel life balance is a bit different than most people. Most people go on a trip to take a break from work. You know, escape daily routine of normal everyday life. I go to work. So I've, you know, tried the best I could to make money with what I already love to do. So I try to merge those two things instead of keeping them separate. That can be a good thing, bad thing, you know. Causes more anxiety and stress, I guess, on my trips instead of relaxing. But I still really enjoy the work that I do. And I think what's most important is that I continue to first and foremost go where I want to go and do what I want to do and then monetize and make money on top of that. I recently switched to the iPhone 14 for filmmaking. I sold all of my Sony gear and all the lenses and all the microphones and stuff. So obviously the image quality isn't as good on this just in general. And especially low light. The audio isn't as good, but it's still very good for like a smartphone that's always in my pocket. The convenience of just always having the camera with me. It's fantastic. I'm really enjoying it. Doing way more handheld stuff in a group setting. But you know, I can still shoot tripod lockdown, traditional silent hiking stuff if I want to. And I think it's more for when I'm alone and solo. It's more of a solo thing. I finance my trips through probably three places, Google, Amazon, and then just like third party sponsorships. Basically, you know, Attention Economy 101. I make videos and content that captures people's attention. And then I either use that attention to monetize my own products, whether it's following me on different social media posts or clicking on links from affiliate gear on Amazon that I recommend. Or, you know, renting out that attention that I've captured to other brands and sponsors through sponsorship deals. Mainly on YouTube, but you know, I'm on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube these days, and all three are starting to make more money. Yeah, most people starting out, I would say just overexpose everything. Even on this iPhone, like the first thing that I did when I started shooting video with it was I locked in minus one third stop for exposure. Like the auto exposure just overexposes everything. Most people just make the images way too bright. It's easier to like raise up than lower down once you've blown out an image. So stop overexposing. And also chill out with the drone shots. Everyone's got all these crazy shots and they like twitch and like have little movements. It's like there's, I think personally it should be A to B, A to B. There should be no A, B, C, and especially no A, B, C, D. Like there should be a single movement. And I just love the locked forward movement with the drone shots, but it drives me crazy when I see all this craziness. Yeah, hard to say what extreme minimalism exactly would be. It's different. I never did minimalism just for the sake of it. It was always to solve a problem. Like selling things, spending less helps me to save money. Having fewer items allows me to pack up and move easier. Having fewer distractions allows me to focus in and understand like what's important and prioritize things in my life. But I guess it's a selfish life. So I've been gaining responsibilities with Mika, my wife, and my puppy. And eventually, you know, having a house and just more and more responsibilities called children. So I think that'll definitely, you know, move me away from extreme minimalism, I guess. Yeah, this year's been crazy. I feel like I overcommitted a bit on the long distance traveling, you know. So next year, way fewer ultra long flights, like the 60 hour round trip flights. I did too many of them. I have a short list of places I'd like to visit, but just as always, more with less. So get more out of each trip I go on and just, you know, work less and just enjoy myself, my friends, my family, puppy, you know, try buying a house, figure out where I want to live. Starting out, you really have to go above and beyond and work more than you expect to capture attention. You have to really reverse engineer who your audience is, what they expect when they click off. And you have to front load your videos with just as much value as possible. So if you're a hiking YouTuber, focus on the guides. Focus on, you know, helping people collect information and confidence to go do these hikes. They should be more guides than experiences like it's pretty low value for people to like see you walking around and stuff and like the beautiful shots. It's more helpful for people to like see the trail, the dollar amounts, the itineraries and stuff like that, I would say. So typically stay away from vlogs, try to do more how to's, tutorials, you know, more value because starting out, you know, nobody really cares who you are. They just care about what they can get from watching your video. And then once you have enough people watching your stuff, you start gaining a following of people who have been following your journey and care about you. And then you can start maybe shooting vlogs, but don't shoot vlogs to start out. Yeah, at one point I considered the PCT, the Pacific Crest Trail, which is like a four month long hike from Mexico to Canada or Canada, Mexico. At this point, it just doesn't seem fun. If I was younger and single, yeah, this would totally be something I would be more interested in. But right now I can barely stomach like a two week trip, let alone like a week of hiking. So yeah, I don't have any plans to do ultra long distance through hiking anytime soon. Yeah, the biggest thing I'm going to miss about my Sony is probably just the low light. There's something special about being able to shoot crisp, good images at any point during the day or night. And most people don't get good stuff at night, especially like sunset and twilight and dusk, like when there's still some color in the sky, but it's dark. And yeah, I guess I just miss that. Yeah, some slight changes. Once I have all the clips I need from a project like Manaslu, I will plug the iPhone into my MacBook Air, open Final Cut 10, import the videos from the phone to the computer and start editing. And then at that point, you know, I can delete the video clips off of my iPhone like iCloud. I'm not keeping video for my iCloud storage. I just keep photos and exported videos. I keep archived in YouTube. You know, they stay there. The beginning of my career, I was making almost all of my money through freelance filmmaking, a hired camera for crews and people, especially weddings. But as I started shooting more videos on YouTube for wedding film school, and then eventually vlogs and travel stuff and then hiking stuff, it just shifted over towards making more money from YouTube and my own videos than renting out my expertise and my time for other people. It was way more fun and way more lucrative just to shoot my own thing and build my own portfolio, which is, you know, my Instagram and my YouTube channel. There's some kind of residual royalties coming in just from, you know, people constantly watching the videos that I just keep building. You know, it's like a portfolio that I build over time. So I didn't like quit my job as a freelance filmmaker until I shifted that wealth. You know, that's what I recommend. I don't think people should like quit their day job to pursue YouTube. It should be once it's justified. You know, just put in some extra time and work into the new thing you want to do until it just, you know, shifts. Music. So I guess I could just show you like my liked songs on Spotify. Some TayTay, Carolina Rose, Joji, of course. You can follow my Spotify. If you just like Google Craig Adams Spotify, you can probably find it. I don't really train for hikes. I don't really work out either. Like I've got one of those pull-up bars over the doorway to my bathroom. So every time I go in and out of that, you know, entryway, I try to do some pull-ups, chin-ups, whatever they are called. I don't, I'm not a workout guy at all. I'll run occasionally. I'm not doing it as much as I did in the past, but I would like to. I briefly mentioned shooting weddings and doing freelance before making like a full-time income with my own YouTube channel. But before that, I never really had a job. I did an internship at MTV and that brought me to New York City from college in Buffalo. But you know, I never, never worked for anybody. I was always freelance before YouTube. I guess I could show you my subscriptions. You can see what I've been watching. Mika definitely watches some stuff with me, but of course we got Phil DeFranco. I've been watching him for a very long time. What we call the YouTube boys like Drew Gooden and Curtis Conner and all of them. Video game Dunkey. Dunkey's the best. Love him. I've been watching PewDiePie since day one. Casey Neistat, big fan. A couple gaming channels like Game It Out and just like some random ones. Of course, like all of the logistics channels that everyone watches like Wendover and Real Life Lore and things like that. All In Podcast is the podcast I listen to. Sam Harris is another one. Waking Up. I'm a big fan of Emma Chamberlain. My stuff is definitely inspired by her a bit. Colin and Samir. Cody Ko. I think all of this is public, so you can see what I'm watching kind of and subscribing to on YouTube. Over the last three years, hiking has changed for me a bit and I pretty much started hiking with Peru back then. You know, going by myself and being responsible for the hike to have a fun time and be safe. But I've gotten better. You know, I've seen a lot of the world. I've seen Everest. I've seen all different types of climates, multiple different countries, multiple times. I've done, you know, thousands of miles. So my perspective has changed. Maybe I'm a little burnt out just because it's the end of the hiking season. Maybe I'll feel a little bit more excited come spring of next year. But yeah, I'm, you know, I'm just chilling. Not that crazy excited about hiking in general. I'd like to see more cities and food and different cultures and, you know, just mix it up. I'm not like dying to go hike a trail. I still enjoy it, but I need to find the right balance. Yeah, COVID changed a lot for me as a creator. In New York City before COVID, constantly meeting up with other creators, making podcasts with each other, hanging out. It was just way more social and in-person and just fun and dynamic. Post-COVID, you know, I've grown up a little bit. You know, I've got more grown up responsibilities with a wife and a dog and moving around and figuring out where I want to live. But I definitely miss like the New York City hustle a little bit. Like I miss running into everybody all the time and just, you know, working on projects together and just having more creator friends. So maybe in some way I need to recapture that and put some effort into making friends wherever I am, new friends, reconnecting with old friends, making more long distance relationships work. Maybe planning group trips with other creators in the future might be more fun. But like I mentioned before, I'm going to try to do more with less, go back and forth with this, you know, making more money and doing the same amount of work versus making more money by doing more work. It's just figuring out that balance. The Mavic Mini 3 Pro is my favorite drone so far. It's very lightweight, still does the job. The image quality is fantastic. Like I don't really see any downgrade from my previous drone. And they have two types of batteries, like normal batteries and then ultra duration batteries. I'm talking like 30 to 40 minutes of flight time. It's insane. Like I ditched all of the small batteries. They're the same size, but I ditched all the short duration batteries for the long duration ones. And I feel like with such a small kit, you know, I can get so many more shots. It's a great drone. I really don't have any fitness goals. I'm not training for anything. The technical stuff is a bit scary for me. I get nervous. I'm slowly progressing in a healthy way, I would say, with getting more experience with technical stuff. But I really don't have any plans for like the big summits. It's just a lot of work and very scary and very dangerous. Yeah, I've been reconnecting with Apple, doing a little bit of work with them. Hopefully more in the future. You know, my whole workflow is basically Apple based. So I'm more than happy to sing praises about their products and software. I've tried Apple Watches before in the past, and the minimalism in me said that I could just use an iPhone. So I got the Apple Watch Ultra and I look forward to using it on trail. I think that'll be where it's most useful for tracking exercise and being in nature. So you should see that more in the future. I would say smart YouTubers have like a diverse pie chart of their income streams. I would say 50% of my income comes from sponsorship deals. Maybe 25% comes from AdSense. Maybe 10% comes from Amazon affiliate. And then the rest is like little tiny chunks of individual affiliate programs, whether for Hyperlite or Musicbed or, you know, different individual companies. Annual income has been over six figures for a couple of years now. So things are good. I take my dog for a walk and get an everything toasted with cream cheese and sometimes a croissant and a latte as well. And I always want Chipotle when I get back home to the States, especially when traveling abroad. Like the first thing I want back home is like Chipotle for lunch. Scariest moment that I did not document in any way, which tells you how scary it was, was descending the switchbacks from Whitney. This was before they issued the permits. So it was still wintry, very snowy. And I thought I could just slide down the snow to skip the switchbacks. But no, it was very icy and very steep. And I quickly realized that I had to kick steps the entire way. So, you know, it took hours for me to get down a ski slope. Basically, I've been doing a lot of like solo hikes. So I haven't really interacted with the hiking community. And other than just like on social media, replying to stuff, like I haven't got to meet y'all other than this year, which I started doing group trips and sold tickets, probably five or six trips. Some more hiking, some more sightseeing. And it was fascinating just letting a company like book the itinerary. I just show up for a trip and then just hang out with subscribers who bought tickets. So I'm just like a solo kind of person. I'm an introvert. I make solo videos, hiking. So shouldn't be that much of a surprise that it was like out of my comfort zone to interact with people and to do these group treks, especially with multiple people at different experience levels. It's really challenging for me to like slow down and go someone else's speed. So definitely in the future, I would like to do some group trips, not as many. And I would like to hand select exactly where we go, what we do, the itinerary, and make sure that everyone is going, you know, more to my speed, I guess. So I will always just do whatever I want. That comes first and foremost. If I need to make a little bit more money or, you know, get more bang for my buck and views and attention from my videos, I may do something that is expected of me, something more trendy. I may do more work in that regard. But for me, the freedom of just doing what I want and documenting the things that I do and going to the places that I want and making the types of videos that I want to make is always, always priority. So if it seems like I'm doing less silent hiking, that's probably just because I've been doing a lot of group hikes and hiking and traveling with my brother and friends and subscribers who bought tickets this year. That's a new thing, so it may seem like that. But, you know, I will probably still make, you know, videos of me traveling alone, which I still am interested in. It's hard to take myself out of the perspective of doing this for like over a decade. But at this point, like the Nepal video I just shot was handheld with the iPhone. I have an idea of the video I want, but it's like a chronological documentation of my experience. So it's like mostly POV. I think that's interesting. So I shoot that. I just edit those clips together with some music, some sound editing so that it sounds, you know, connected. And that's about it. It's not that complicated. I don't really do any grading. I don't do any storyboarding. I kind of shoot for the edit in my mind. And I just have like a sense of what's interesting, like what would work, what the pace, like this shot informs that, but then follows with this. But in general, switching to iPhone is just made things even more simple. Like it's so easy to shoot these videos and I'm loving it. I could put way more effort into shooting bigger, crazier, more complicated videos. Like there's a whole spectrum, but I'd rather just like do the easiest thing. I'm definitely making an updated annual favorite gear video for December this year. Again, I think for the third or fourth time, I can't remember. I have a bunch of different pieces of gear, but I'm getting a better idea of like what I actually need. And I would like to start doing more exclusive deals with brands, like maybe North Face. I feel like I've made some Colorado vlogs, so maybe more. Yeah, I plan on making more, whatever I'm up to in Colorado, especially with the iPhone, it's super easy to shoot vlogs. I kind of just stick to where tourists go. Like I don't really go out of my way to go to dangerous places. And hiking is mostly farmland. And it's not that bad. I've never ever run into a situation that was like scary or dangerous when traveling, to be honest. Hiking in the winter. Yeah, I will ski in the winter, but it's too cold for me to sleep out there and do stuff. I can't be bothered. My early career, the first year of hiking was just so crazy. Like doing Hornstrand deer was so out of my comfort zone. So amazing. I followed that up with Tour de Mont Blanc, which was just so lovely. Like getting to do big miles every day and backpacking, truly, you know, truly backpacking. But Picos de Europa was such a pleasure. You know, I did not expect the culture, the food, the animals, the changes in weather and landscape. It was really cool to go up there because I had zero expectations of what that hike was. I did almost zero research before I jumped on trail. I haven't gotten really any updates, but the Everest reality show I think is still being edited and, you know, sold to a channel maybe. Who knows? But as soon as I know what's going on with it and get some update or if I'm able to share a trailer or the show itself, you know, I'll post on Instagram. So just when I know, you'll know. So that about does it for the questions. I do have a couple plans for the rest of this year and I guess I could share just where my mind is and what I think is interesting and like, I guess, problems that I'm trying to solve. I mentioned the favorite gear video, but I might break that into like favorite hiking gear and then favorite filmmaking gear. Maybe, I don't know. But also the idea of those videos like kind of don't make sense to me. It's almost like better if I make a mini version of them after every single trek that I go on. If I want to share that information. I've gone back and forth on this idea of gear, you know, I don't have to talk about gear. It's high value because people are interested in the tools and the services that I use to both make the videos and go on the trips. It is helpful, but it's like, how much work does it take for me to think about these things, put it in the videos, constantly talk about it versus like what value does doing that bring me, in dollar wise or exposure more views. So once again, it's a back and forth of like, should I do more work or should I do the same amount of work and make more money or not make more money. I'm constantly trying to push the boundaries of like my freedom to do what I want to do and just do the bare minimum and make it work. I guess this idea translates to like the number of videos. Like if I could just do seasonal videos, one a season and make the same amount of money as I'm making right now, like why not do that? It's just less work. And then I could go the opposite direction. Like why not make more, a video every week, a trip every other week and just make way more money. Like, do I want to work more for more money? Depends. I'm a big fan of automation and making my life easier and minimalism has helped me not need more money, more money, more problems. So that's, I guess the biggest advice that I could give people. Like just break free of this idea that you just have to constantly like kill yourself with work and stress. Like the focus should be making things easier and giving yourself more freedom. Of course, once you get past, you know, just paying your bills and saving a little bit. I like the idea of a podcast and I kind of miss talking about these things with you. You know, I had a long stint of doing live streams and having a whole podcast channel and doing all of that. But it was just a lot of work for not that much value. And I think it would be better if I focused on videos like this. And once again, like I don't even have to do like a Q and A video like this. Like I could put this information at the end of whenever I upload a video. I don't see it too much on YouTube but I'm a big fan of this idea of just uploading every so often and just, you know, putting the highest value content at the beginning and then just doing a long tail of typically longer and longer pieces, sections, chapters of the video that have less and less value. But it's, you know, the viewership drops off anyway. So it's like, if someone wants to listen to me ramble about my business as a YouTuber, like at the end of a hour long hiking video, you know, that 20% is just gonna be the only people that want that information anyway. So what's the matter? So I am not against putting a podcast at the end of every video. That's like a half an hour long of me talking about things. Cause like, I guess it works. I can do like a nice trailer with drones shots. Then I can do like the perspective of the hike and the trip from the ground with talking or maybe silent. And then I could do ads and then a guide and then a mini gear video about all the tools and services that I use to do this video in this trip. And then I could do like a behind the scenes of how I did it. And then I could end it with like updates in podcast form. All of this could just be one, like upload. Super long, whatever. People can jump around, they're smart. So this is an idea I have. Instead of having like a bunch of shorter content, I'm just gonna keep making longer and longer videos. So I think I'm gonna wrap up here. This has been interesting. You know, what seems like a no brainer to me may be helpful to you. So I tried to like get past my own perspective and answer things honestly. But it is very interesting seeing the questions you ask and getting a window into, you know, this audience's mind. So thank you for asking questions, for watching the video. And yeah, let me know if you're still here at the very end. I would like to know who you are, who are you? Okay, bye.