Part 1. Backpacking The Wind River Range In Wyoming.

Good morning. So we're heading out you guys. This is our backpacking series. The beginning. We got up early this morning. Left at like 5am. We've been on the road for over an hour. So we had a great time with Annette's family. She rafted, and hiked, and hanged. It was really fun. So we're heading to Wyoming Wind River. We'll start hiking tomorrow. We're going to take you guys with us. Okay you guys, we were here when we hiked the CDT. The CDT comes right through here. And we are shuttling trucks. We're leaving my brother's truck here. We'll start over near Pinedale and we're going to walk and we're going to end up hiking part of the CDT that we had missed. Just a section of it, and we're going to do more than that. But anyway, we'll come back here in six days. I'm excited. It's so beautiful. It's got a little bit hazy because there's fires all over the place. That right there, Square Top Mountain. So here's our campsite. About, I don't know, half a mile from the trail. Just hanging out. Kerry's got his tent right over here. It's a big site. Here we are. We're starting our trail. Kerry's with us. We're excited. Yippee! Here we go. Six days. Give it a go. There's Kerry having technical difficulties. Switching out socks. That's it. Kerry's in. Yeah. Yeehee! Perfect. Doing a cold soak. So this is our campsite for the night on Seneca Lake. It's beautiful. Kerry is right down here. There's his tent right down there. It's awesome up here. Hey, hey. Hi. We finished our first day of hiking. It was awesome. It was beautiful. We're all tired. The jumping in the water revived us because we were all hurting. But anyway, it was an awesome day. Kerry's down there fishing right now. He brought his pole so he's fishing. He's fly fishing. We had a couple of weird things. When we started the trail this morning there was a sign saying dead mule on the trail near this lake. And to watch out for bears. Might attract bears. But we did see the dead mule laying right there. I smelled something. I said, oh my gosh, something's dead right here. And then we saw the big old mule as we came around the corner. It's so sad. Nothing has gotten to that yet. But that's not something you see every day. Oof. Thank God. And Kristi became the hero of the day. One guy. So you guys, I'm up here at the camp and I had to go to the bathroom. And we're kind of in these rocks so I had to... Oh, a bug just went in my mouth. Ugh. So I had to walk around just kind of searching for a place to go to the bathroom out of the way. The trail's over there and everything else. So I'm just kind of wandering around and I reached down and picked up a phone. I was like, what is that? And I picked up a phone. I just... I picked it up and looked at it. And I hear a voice go, Hey. And I was like, where did that come from? And I was like, yeah? And I'm looking and I walked back a ways. I had no idea where it even came from. And there's this guy coming towards me and he said, Gosh, I have... I took a break here with my friends today and I'm trying to find my... And I held up the phone and he went, Oh my God! Couldn't believe it. He said I walked back five miles to find my phone. And then he asked me my name. And he said, Kristi, you saved my life. You saved my life. He's a hero. And we heard him all the way over there hooting and hollering. He's so happy. Rejoicing and celebrating. I find that odd that he came five miles and as soon as he got right here, I just happened to pick up the phone right at that same moment. It's so weird. So weird. I told him, I said, I just picked it up. Would have heard your voice. But, so we... We're in the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming. I know. Look at this. Look at our lake. We're camped right up here. Seneca Lake. It's really beautiful. Can you go... Can you show that way? Yeah, look at that. Isn't that just beauty? Kerry is right down there. I'll have to get a video of him fishing. Yeah. So we've had a good day. Tiring. I mean, you know, it's a... Throw on that pack you haven't been wearing for a while and of course you're tired. You're like, Oh my gosh! It's true. We took a... It started raining just sprinkling and we went in the tent and we were all all of us crashed. You hear snowing coming from every quadrant. You're like, Oh! Anyway, tomorrow we're going to head over to Peak Lake and we're going to stay there a couple of nights I think and maybe do a day hike up Knapsack Cove and this part of the trail we've done before when we go out on the last three days will be the CDT. Part of the CDT that we missed because of snow. We went around. We did an alternate. So the Highline Trail out to Green River will be part of the CDT. It's about 20 miles I think of it. So anyway, alright. We'll take you guys with us. Okay. Bugs are bugging us. Bugs, yes. Beautiful morning. Deep within here we go but somehow I'm caught in the middle. Is this the end before we've even begun? Should I work against the flow? A drop in the ocean so endless reaching for our moments miles above I just need one diving in to all this endless space falling stars but still I see you. Sweet escape a lovely start but letting go's the hardest part swimming in this deep, deep blue hold my breath looking up at moves and waves it keeps changing catch a glimpse of what was you and me it's gone again sinking in back on the shore one foot in front of the other eyes if you hold my hand just like you used to back then these hopes dance high like sparks while they go out but in that second you're still mine diving in to all this endless space falling stars but still I see you. Sweet escape a lovely start but letting go's the hardest part swimming in this deep, deep blue I know I'm floating on this dream but soon comes morning embrace our wondrous sea diving in falling stars but still I see you. Sweet escape a lovely start but letting go's the hardest part swimming in this deep, deep blue swimming in the deep Alright, here's our campsite for the night. Right over you can't really see it but there's a lake right under that peak we're just over the hill from it and I'm water running out through over here so we're surrounded by water you can see it a little bit this way so this is Peak Lake and tomorrow we're gonna go up in that valley to Knapsack Cove as a day hike could spend two nights here but look at that beautiful okay gosh we had a big rain last night thunder, lightning we are gonna do a day hike today up to Knapsack Cove and go as far as we can so that's our plan just go up there and wander around a little bit see what's up there. I know it's gonna be fun it's a little bit overcast, it's a little bit cloudy but we've got 360 views here this is amazing, we're in this little bowl it's awesome alright we're gonna take you with us on a little day hike yeah it's right here see the trail right here that's tough beautiful day. Okay that scree slope was pretty tough. That was tough that was really hard okay alright so we're camped in a little bowl right over there and we're up in this little valley and it's beauty look at this beauty we're just gobsmacked we're just like oh my gosh and we're gonna go right up here to Knapsack Cove there's a glacier right there little bit of one we are up here cloudy day a little break here look at our beauty, it's around us, all around us it's amazing it's awesome, beauty so we're pretty much just bushwhacking our way up here can't find a trail anywhere we're just trying to get right up there to that little coal we just found the trail if it's searching around trying to find a carrot is like the proverbial needle in a haystack it's all rock this was hard we're just bouldering up here going towards this saddle up here but we just now found the trail ok, we gotta get to the top you guys we found that trail for a minute and then we lost it and we bouldered all the way up just scrambling above the coal we had to come down, scramble down to it but we're here, we made it it's beautiful, look at this this is the other side we were here about 17 years ago our friend Spence and my sister Melody were with us with a bunch of other people they are no longer with us, we lost Spence in 2010 and my sister in 2015 so we have good memories here we had fun we walked right, we angled down across that glacier see the glacier way over there, and there's one under here too you can see the ice on the side you can kind of see it as you go down we walked down in here to Titcum Gorge and that was a tough tough hike this is an alternate of the CDT it's a pink route that you can take we just saw a CDT hiker coming down wow that was tough wow we're eating lunch at 12,900 feet tuna and tortilla with cheese avocado and cheese making our way down unbelievable you guys were out of breath we got down off of the let me turn it this way so we got down off of that the coal there and down out of that upper bowl and down into the lower valley now so we're almost done, we're going to be back to camp before long we got to check on Kerry, we left him there fishing and relaxing and that was a fun day super fun, that was great because it was hard to find it's hard to find because some trails are still under snow and stuff so you have to really work it, it is hard, that was hard hard hard so I'm going to end this video here because I wanted to there's so much beauty out here that I was trying to show you as much as I could and it makes the video long so when we get back to camp today I'm going to end it here the first 3 days on part 1 and then there will be a part 2 that does the last 3 days it's just so amazing guys you just go like this here I'll spin you around like that, hold on there's another waterfall back there anyway, when I get into town there will probably be a part 1 and part 2 right behind each other but I'm just going to make it a little bit shorter so thanks for coming with us one of our favorite places on the planet, Wynn River Yippee