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Livingston, Montana - Virtual Walk and Treadmill Scenery - Small Town Montana Charm - City Walks
Mar 17, 2025
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Well, we are back to walking in Montana for a few weeks until we can get out on the road again. I'm recovering from a bout of Covid and kept it local today. The temps are getting ready to drop and it's snowing as I write this but we Love Livingston and I'm always happy to share it with you. We seem to find something a bit different on every walk. I hope you enjoy this one. Thanks to our Patreon Supporters and if you like 360/VR type stuff, I've posted a Sleigh Ride, Dog Sledding, and Horseback Riding over on the City Walks 360 channel (link below) -H
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hello walkers and welcome back to livingston montana uh i was sort of in
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my head here thinking about the road trip that i just
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the videos of which i just finished up um my name is henry i'll be your proxy
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walker today your virtual travel guide on city walks where we wander around and explore
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and notice and uh just kind of wonder about finding things i do talk a lot on
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this channel so be forewarned on that um a couple little news items here one i
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did just post the last of our east coast road trip
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videos such a cool trip for us so much fun i didn't get to do all the videos i
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wanted to do but i did a lot and it was uh it was really cool so i hope you guys have enjoyed those um
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we are back in montana now as you would guessed um i haven't done a livingston
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walk uh in a long time so i thought i'd do that it's a little strange actually to
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be filming again after two months or so
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as i hustle past this gentleman issuing his mail it is 10 a.m on a
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sunday so it's going to be a quiet day around livingston it is mid-february
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mid to late february it is 40 degrees fahrenheit 4 degrees celsius
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i want to thank our patreon supporters it's a lot of fun
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interacting with you guys on the patreon uh platform and i really do appreciate
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all your support um it's really encouraging and it actually does help so
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uh that is awesome and i appreciate it we are currently walking down calendar street
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it's uh technically west calendar i think a bit more of heading south
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because we're on a diagonal um anyways a couple little updates here one this is not going to be a
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particularly long video uh because i had covered last week
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and i'm not quite feeling 100 um i'm not gonna talk a lot about that except to say uh i would not have wanted
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to have that uh at all but surely not without having all my shots and boosters and that's all
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i'm gonna say on that because it's a controversial topic and that's not this is not the forum
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so i hope you guys are all healthy and safe out there and stay healthy and safe
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um oh look at this i want if you go back and look at some of our other videos
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there used to be a house here and i have not noticed that they've torn it out
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um i know the owner i think he still owns this of this this used to be a hospital
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he's an architect and as he said like the cobbler's kids have no shoes
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he works on this when he gets a chance and it's a really cool old building and he has done quite a bit
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with it and i can't wait to see it when it's finished someday we're going to cross yellowstone here
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[Music] that is the siren song of livingston as i call it
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it's pervasive the railroad sounds here [Music]
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you tend to i tend to drown it out but
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little kids can't always do that i think i've mentioned in the past
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you mentioned in the past how frustrating that would get with that when my little my kids were little and
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they'd be trying to take a nap we'd get a couple an hour a piece and then almost down and
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that thing would go off um we're going to go up here to 5th street
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partly because i want to show you some other things we haven't we don't usually come down this way
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i love these motion sculptures here um
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you see an erla landmark sign up here it's a real estate sign this is a former school
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now turned into condos it's pretty nice in there i've been in there in years but
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it was pretty nice when i looked last this house over here is finally finished
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been working on that for a while i think it's owned by a
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builder and again i think folks like that they do the work
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themselves and they they get to it when they can when they're not busy earning a living
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so totally understand why that might take a while
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i love these old victorian-esque homes craftsman style homes
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one of the things i wanted to do was point out um
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this gray house up here on the left with the flags it is owned by some friends of ours
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named mick and donald and they run a bed and breakfast
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and they had some financing issues they had to sort out so they
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went offline for a year or so and they're back and they
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the the inside of this place is absolutely amazing they've done an amazing job they sort of designed and
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with but themselves and with help from their artist friends and they're great guys they have music on the porch
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sometimes they have great food and it's just a really nice place and
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here's where my ego comes i like those planters too here's where my ego comes in
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and this was so flattering they had a guest come
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and say tell them that she just had to see livingston
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because she'd seen one of these walks and thought it was such a cute town and
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i cannot tell you how good that makes me feel i'm getting a little tingle just thinking about it
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now so i love the fact that i uh
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sung the praises of our little town here i love the fact that um somebody loved
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this little town enough to come visit and i love the fact they stayed at the stone's throw bed and breakfast
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that's a win-win-win-win-win so anyway i thought i'd share that with you
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guys that's a big positive for the day um
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we the weather this year has been um fine you know it's pretty dry
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you could use some more snow for sure uh it has not been particularly cold
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we've had a couple cold snaps and we're gonna have one starting tomorrow like for two days i think
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it's gonna get down to zero as a a high of zero degrees fahrenheit
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and that's pretty cool but it's two days and we had some earlier in the year but
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not really too bad uh i'm not sure what the snowpack is but i
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think in this area it's pretty low for and they do that as a percentage of
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normal for this time of year so usually they'll be like 80 percent of
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normal or 90 of normal or 110 of normal i guess normal would be
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100 of normal uh i love these houses um
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so you want to go out here on the street so we get a better view [Music]
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we're gonna walk down to the river again just because i do oh cute little dog i do like going
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down the river we have such a beautiful
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spot here in livingston and the river makes is a big part of that
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got some kids out here riding their bicycles
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and i love the fact that and on skates this car
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slowed down i look like they might cross people are going slow here and
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taking their time and uh
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i don't focus on i don't film kids on here so i'm gonna direct the camera up clark
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here which is louis clark geysers how the
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streets go down here across
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folks are going to let me do that and then we've got this
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house over here
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that's that's all i'm gonna say on that
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i love this little neighborhood
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well okay then um
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so we're on fifth and we're what else can i tell you guys oh yeah
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leave me a comment if you guys uh are into it um
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i love hearing your thoughts i love hearing your questions and trying to answer them
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love hearing your memories and even your corrections and clarifications and
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additions i don't do a ton of research on these
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walks i don't really have to on livingston because i live here
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but and i like to discover things myself so
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i don't always have a full amount of info and i always appreciate getting
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additional info
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so we're gonna jog left here on geyser
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i've gotten two comments recently telling me i should stop talking
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which i get that that's uh a lot of people a lot of almost all the other channels
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don't have walking i think um johnny strides talks
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he's up in toronto he does so great great videos up there uh and i think action kid
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tv out of new york city and wherever else he travels he's kind of a big heavyweight in the
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youtube walking world i find that funny um anyway he does a great job too and
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has some great videos of new york city so check those out and um
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photo luke hawaii does walking videos as well as other videos
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now from hawaii and he does a great job too so check those out
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all interesting hi there pop a little one-eyed dog
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this is back on yellowstone here this is sort of a big broad
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uh street with a lot of historic homes and it's kind of where the money was back in
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the railroad days
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we're gonna come up here to the lagoon oh anyway um
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i've thought a lot about um do going silent
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um i'd love to be able to do both um but i think
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one it's hard for me to keep my mouth shut and two it's uh
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a lot of people like have said repeatedly uh how much they like the talking so
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in fact somebody early on called me the bob ross of walking videos which i thought was great that just tickles me
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um so anyway i'm gonna keep talking that's the plan anyway
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uh the exception of that is nature walks so we are going to do some traveling soon
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not soon next month and we're gonna go do some more cities but in the meantime
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probably gonna do another walk over in bozeman at some point and then
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um uh i think we might have time to do red lodge
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uh and then again and then it'll be some nature walks i'm
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gonna go find some nature trails and on those walks i did a little talking at the beginning and then
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i uh i like to just go quiet and listen to the ambient
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nature sounds and find that a little more relaxing i think i think people appreciate that it adds a
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little variety to the mix we are coming up on the lagoon
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again it is a sunday so it's really quiet today
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it's not too cold as i mentioned so you can see this is all fairly shallow this is kind of the fleshman
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creek of the lagoon um and it's
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several feet deep in the steepest you can see a little island there usually a lot of ducks and geese in there
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looking for food and then over here is the main part of the lagoon
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and when it is colder uh and the ice is looks pretty solid right now um
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is gets nice and thick they people will skate out there they'll shovel off snow maybe set up some hockey that sort of
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thing although this year they have uh through some volunteer
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efforts set aside on the county fairgrounds an indoor
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skating rink it's pretty small it's not a full-sized hockey rink or anything but it is plenty big for people to get
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out there and enjoy the ice
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and since we homeschool we can get down there pardon me and uh
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when nobody else is around we just have to make sure one of the volunteers is there
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to oversee us which is nice and uh
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then one of our home school parents has volunteered to do that
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so that's pretty cool
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love these ducks flying in here
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ducks on ice are incredibly silly looks like some folks are going to come
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down here and maybe feed the ducks they're getting all lined up
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it's always fun i'm not sure as long as you don't i
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think if you feed them seeds and that sort of thing it's probably all right
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but uh you don't want to feed them bread i know that
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a couple of big geese on top there
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hi there
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oh even got a pigeon in there trying to pretend like it's a duck
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look how happy they are i love those mallard heads
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ducks are so ridiculously silly i think
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they are so colorful right now a lot of times in the spring and summer
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you can see maybe one down there starting to molt just a little bit they lose that winter plumage
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uh in the spring and then i think they lose their summer plumage in in the fall early fall
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and they can get a little ratty looking but man they sure were pretty looking there
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we'll go up here and see the river and we won't walk along the river too long but
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just a little way see what's going on it's ever changing the
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water levels change the channels change
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the wildlife changes
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yeah the water level's really low right now crows down here in the rocks
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some even bathing over here
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you might even see a heron if you can see it right about there
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on that log and then you've got the mountains in the background livingston peak
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just barely visible through the fog ah nice cottonwood so
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this is ninth street island as i point out every time you see there's this
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very faint channel that when i first moved here 15 years ago there was a boat ramp
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down there and you could put your boat in and float all the way down and it has changed considerably this
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whole looks almost like a delta but a secondary island here
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it has expanded and expanded and expanded over the years the point where that boat ramp is no
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longer usable and there's barely any flow through there in the summer
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and then you see this current here gets wider and then
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this is a great place to come swimming the current can be a little tricky and it's hard to get in and out of that rip wrap
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but if you can get across then it slows down down here
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before it joins up with the main current and is a great place to
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cool off when it's 100 degrees down here which it gets to be some days in the summer
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no humidity of course look at this this is the where they have the summer
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farmers market this pink building is the band shell we'll go around the other side but i wanted to see this
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they've obviously trimmed back the branches of the spruce trees but i don't think i've ever seen a
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spruce tree then re-sprout branches like that it's pretty interesting
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this building is primed for a
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is prime candidate for a rejuvenation grant of some sort
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you can also see up just in the eaves there the remnants of
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swallow nests and they'll come and rebuild those in the spring and there's a uh a camera that's the
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first time i've ever noticed that and here's the band shell part
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and of course you got some benches to sit but most people put out blankets around here and sit on
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the ground with their kids mostly young families up front and then the cement is a
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place for everybody to dance if they want and then they'll have booths
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something happened there with my camera and i didn't quite read the message but it stopped
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and i restarted we only lost about four seconds but that's interesting i'm not sure what
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happened there perhaps
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i'm shooting at 4k 60 today so maybe um
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the write speed for cash or whatever didn't really
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couldn't keep up i guess this over here is um
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the civic center and it's an old gym gymnasium inside and they play
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uh basketball and volleyball and that sort of thing in there and then that mural we'll go over see the mural
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is by i believe parks reese uh he's a local famous artist
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um and it has to do with a sister city
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we have and i think china hence the panda bear and the grizzly
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bear cranes in the trout there's another
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camera they have they've always had these signs up about uh
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on video camera or under surveillance i think to deter um
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vandalism but it's the first time i've actually seen cameras we've been up there for a while it looks like
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we don't really have a problem here with vandalism so much i don't think every once in a while somebody will
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cause a problem uh i think five to ten years ago if somebody was
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going around breaking into cars and trying to set them on fire happened
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two or three cars and then they got the guy he was had some mental health issues i think
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uh but we're gonna go over and see the statue of pompey and sacagawea
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and i know there is some alternative
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or variety of pronunciations of those and i do my best
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particularly in foreign languages or non-english languages in this case
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um but it's a neat little statue
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and of course sac lewis and clark came through here
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it's nice and now this little dock which is kind of used to be nice
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but it has another candidate for some uh
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rejuvenation it almost doesn't look safe
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but i can't imagine they'd keep it open if it wasn't it's a challenge i think because of all
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the ice and the freezing and swelling and heaving of the ground when it does that when it
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freezes here's another view of the front of the
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civic center and i think they did get a grant
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i thought they got a grant to do some work on that and maybe they did some
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could use some more i mean that building is
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i don't know how old but it wouldn't surprise me it was 100 years old at this point
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90 i don't i don't know i should look that up
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this over behind this woods in this woods is part of the property i believe is a
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high school and they've recently last year came in here and cleaned out a lot of the underbrush over
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here and i'm not sure exactly what they're going to do it's some with something educational oriented
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and uh i can't really remember what it is
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and then of course the city pool which the i keep hearing they're going to close down and they keep
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opening up every summer which is great you know it's
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a little community like this you need a pool even though we're right next to the river little kids can't
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swim in there too easily and can't teach lessons in the river
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um anyway glad we still have that
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here's the high school
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we're gonna go back up here to main street
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which is we're going to follow fleshman creek along here we're walking into the wind right now
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not much i can do about that other than hold my hand over the microphone
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there's usually up yep there's some ducks down in here usually some ducks hang out
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we got some wood ducks look how pretty they are hi guys i don't want them to think i'm a
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predator mallards and wood ducks
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they're in full plumage nice
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there's the high school the park county rangers as in park
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rangers
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this is fleshman creek over here by the way
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i was realizing today i think six or
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nine months ago i bought a polarizer filter for this camera
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and uh i did it i used it for something else and i lost the polarizer somehow
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and i just haven't bought another one because it's like thirty dollars and
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i don't really wanna buy something that i'll probably just lose again
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although i should have a more positive attitude a
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more optimistic attitude
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over here is a several medical offices including a dentist
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and you're supposed to have your
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checkups for your kids every six months or so and they are so short-staffed
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that um this isn't just them it's everywhere uh that they can't
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that it's now eight months out before you can get another appointment and
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the reason for that is they can't find people they can't pay enough
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that people can afford to live here it's not this isn't like a minim these
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are this isn't minimum wage jobs right this isn't some company trying to skate by on
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the bare minimum they're paying really well from what i understand but the
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one the prices here are ridiculous not really they're just
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astronomical and two there's no inventory
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there's just there's nothing available um this tall
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building over here is actually low-income housing for seniors
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and they are doing a rehab in there hence all the cubes i believe
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and this is the livingston enterprise over here the newspaper coming back on geyser
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so those cubes are doing floor by floor and they're re
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they're renovating uh the building 4x4 which is
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going to be great i think because i you know same thing i'm not
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sure where those low income seniors would live otherwise
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granite sports medicine across the way look at that fluffy dog uh
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little einsteins preschools it's uh sunday so nobody's here today
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um and then this big white building is actually uh wilcox's ice cream
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we have our very own ice cream factory here it's pretty good ice cream
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the granite sports fitness and then rebel wellness up there uh the blue building is loaves and
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fishes that's they give out free meals to people that need them
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we're on main street by the way i don't think i called that out
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you can see uh the hill i've done a walk up there starting up at the
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cell tower area up there and making my way down most of the way
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so check those out i think i did those this past summer maybe maybe a summer before
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even a couple 360 walks up there i separated out my 360 walks now and
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experiences to a separate channel called city walks 360 should be linked in the description
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this is neptune's tap house and eatery they have sushi which is pretty good uh
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i'm not going to compare it to something out of japan or san francisco but they do a good job
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uh and they're saying something
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i a lot of galleries here a lot of artists
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here in livingston uh
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this used to be an office building i don't know what they're doing now it's it's accelera it's expanded and
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expanded and expanded um this little building they're
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rejuvenated they've been working on it for a long time and first i thought it was just the front
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offices now it seems to be the whole thing
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oh yeah 360. so you might want to check that out that channel uh
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i have posted three non-walking videos over there recently one was a winter sleigh ride up in
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seeley lake at the double arrow lodge up there double aero ranch uh
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hold on out of the blue antiques and betty's bottle shop really cool little store
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quirky fun stuff in there nice wine if you want to get a nice
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bottle of wine that you can't find at the grocery store
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excellent i also on the 360 stuff posted we did a dog sled
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day that was amazing and i shared some 360 footage of that
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pardon me and then also
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i think i mentioned may have mentioned uh we got to go for a week down to a
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dude ranch in arizona in january early january
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and i did about 45 minutes of
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horseback riding various sections of that i think there's six or seven different
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sections that's about 40 minutes long all together but check those out if you're interested
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they're pretty fun you can drag and drop you can drag around the screen with your cursor or if you watch on your phone or tablet
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you can actually just move the tablet around and it will
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follow the viewpoint of that
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so we are between calendar and lewis right now and uh
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uh you see some of these old storefronts this is where parks reese
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and the livingston center for art and culture share a space uh he did that mural we looked at
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earlier
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i find it no small source of amusement there's two banks along this road one we
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saw earlier said 41 degrees the bank up ahead says 36 degrees
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and they're never in sync and they're not constant either oh look at this german short hair in
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here sticking his little nose out
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excuse me this is the kitchen shop if you need
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high-end kitchen stuff
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and we are back at calendar and maine and i think we're going to wrap it
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up here i want to thank you guys for joining us of course you can see the mint
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to the right and you can see camp bione still haven't eaten there i was supposed to go there for
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valentine's day but i got sick and uh so
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i'm gonna give it another couple weeks and try again hope you guys have enjoyed this walk please leave a comment below like thumbs
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up all that fun stuff that you do for youtube uh i appreciate your support i appreciate your comments
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and hope you guys are staying healthy and well and having a great winter from livingston montana
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we'll see you again keep on stepping
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