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Today we are in the Pine Creek area but following the George Lake Trail and looping over to the Pine creek Campground and back.
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hello Walkers and welcome back to City walks I'm uh doing a new walk today and
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I'm going to tell you about that in just a minute but first I want to tell you why um we were actually up here the day
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after American Thanksgiving and we came up and had some friend uh met some friends and we had a
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came up to get Christmas trees and uh had a nice fire and I was looking at
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this mountain and it was soow it was cloudy and snow and that the snow was in
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the rocks and it was just astounding and I had forgotten what a good view this is
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up here and I decided I wanted to come back here and share it with you because also my wife traveling Mill um did a
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little Loop walk that I was uh I had forgotten about was in existence um we
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are up well we're up the Pine Creek drainage and I've hiked the Pine Creek
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Falls Trail a couple times I'm going to flip you around here uh that's not how I do that I'm going to do it this
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way okay my name is Henry I'll be your proxy Walker today your virtual travel
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guide and your co-discoverer I'm going to flip you around again here in a second um and on
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City walks I take you on these little walks sometimes in cities mostly in cities sometimes on nature trails and uh
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that's what we're going to do today today uh and I give you a little chitchat along the way on nature trails
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I try and talk a little less it does take some effort um this is actually we
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are starting out at the George Lake Trail head as you can see from the signage um it is a last day of hunting
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season and I'm not wearing the brightest of colors today so I feel a little foolish but we're going to make some
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noise and let people know that we're walking and not antler to animals um I
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am wearing a blue hat of course it is 23° this morning Fahrenheit I think it's
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-5 Celsius it's about 10:30 in the morning very last days of
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November and I'm going to tell you a little bit about this and then we'll let the oh look at this and then we'll just
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let the nature speak for itself I think
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um am going to be breathing a little heavy as we make up our way up this incline so here in the US especially in
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the west uh public lands you can um get a permit special permit to
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get a Christmas tree I think for us it was to get it
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online was $5 for the permit and 250 for the processing
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fee so um very very affordable
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um that said you cannot there are some rules you can't cut you can't leave
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above a 6in stump you can only take a tree from 1 to 12T
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tall and you can only take a tree I think it's 50 ft or something
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like that away from the trail away from roads and campgrounds
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and that sort of thing um and that's about
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it you have to display your you're supposed to display your permit on the dashboard which is kind of a hassle if
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you don't have a
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printer all right so George Lake is a prettyy steep Trail up to an Alpine Lake
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that I've never actually been to look at the light
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um but people ride their bikes up there cuz unlike the Pine
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Creek Trail uh I think the Pine Creek goes into the Wilderness Area and George
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Lake does
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not I love the contrast
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of the light and the snow
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and the brown of the of the shrubs here and the green of the trees it's just lovely
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got to put my gloves on and now I got to do that with my teeth so pardon
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me here we
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go you can see the frost down here still have a we had
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a dusting of snow on Friday when we were out here and uh
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this little Valley here doesn't see a whole lot of sunshine throughout the day and
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winter and so uh the snow sticks around pretty well look at this little
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Ravine down in here it's pretty
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steep is
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it we're getting some use back in here I'm going to try and adress
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that I've got a little polarizer adapter on here now pretty excited
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about I also am carrying some bear
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spray just in case I run into a
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bear another good reason to make a little bit of noise you
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noise just so you don't surprise them they don't want anything to do with us for the most part
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but sometimes we inadvertently get in their space and
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they don't like it I don't really either to be honest with you I want to be in a
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bare space something's clicking
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somebody with a dog or is that a deer that's a deer tail
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waging up
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ahead little I believe a white tail deer
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that's what that is I've got all these zipper pools on this jacket sorry
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about the angle
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there and the mic is so sensitive that it picks up the the tapping of that or
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the tapping of the headphone wires against another wire
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look at this so they had a fire up here a few years quite a few years ago
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it's a lot of the Dead Timber got burnt out
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then a lot of it has fallen over the years that's a real
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thing to be aware of when you are in the woods wind blown Deadfall
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maybe it wasn't no white tail maybe it was a maybe it was a dog here are some kids up
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ahead somebody's having a good time lights's coming out hit that
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mountain side
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now this is what I should have on as some blaze
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orange like some clearing out
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here yeah here we go little sign
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caution tree filling and Equipment operation
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sorry about the spin there and here move
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forward hi there how are you that's all
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right no worries you guys out having a good day
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good pleas take care
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well that child's having a good time love
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it looks like they come in and maybe doesn't look like they took it for
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wood but maybe they did um probably just did some cleanup to
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avoid or to reduce the fire risk all this Deadfall is
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fuel of course
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I want to give a quick shout out to photo Luke Hawaii um he's does another walking channel
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from Hawaii as you might have guess anyway he sent me a comment the other day it
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really really made me feel good he was complimenting the walks we do here and
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I uh I get busy making the walks doing other things and I forget sometimes
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to I get off of YouTube watching stuff but I went back and watched a couple of his and one of which is from Diamond
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Head and it is stunning just beautiful beautiful so highly recommend you check
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out that and then uh I also want to thank our patreon
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supporters I tried to do that at the beginning but uh all the all the specialist quote unquote say
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you shouldn't uh do all that stuff at the beginning so but thank you guys really
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appreciate your support you can of course of course find links to how to become
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a patreon supporter down in the description but certainly not
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required appreciate it though oh and if you want to do it one time there's Kofi or coffee and then
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uh hope I'm going the right direction here here we go um and then uh
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PayPal this is the split
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I don't want to go all the way up to George
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Lake which I think is what happens if you make a right turn
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here oh it's only well the trail head is half mile that way behind
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us uh Pine Creek Trail that's where we want to go make our way over to
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number 47 look at the light streaming down
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hitting the mountains
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now you can find other walks by walk time so the amount of the length of the
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walk and uh location on the website CityWalk virtual tours.com
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oh look at that oh man isn't that
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beautiful I love getting to share this with you guys
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oh look how beautiful that is I wonder what this button does
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Boop yeah I don't know probably not the best time to figure that
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out what do we got here now someone asked uh a couple weeks
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ago about whether I wear Yak truck track s and the reason that comes to mind at
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the moment is because this is the trail which is actually kind of fine but
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couple more weeks another snow and uh it could be a little sketch
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um but so yak tracks the answer is yes I do when I remember them um or think to
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bring them and yak tracks are these sort of uh rubberized they're these rubber
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nety things that have metal coils on them on the tread you put them over the
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bottom of your shoe and they give you traction you can get other versions with spikes or cleats um but they basically
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like snow tires for your shoes and they they work pretty well and can make the difference
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between uh a good hike and a stressful hike
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so with the battery on my DJI wireless
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receiver is about to go now I've this time I have uh remembered to record on
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the actual microphone the wireless uh mic that it has that ability
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which is pretty cool uh so hopefully when that goes I'm going to unplug the
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receiver and hopefully the uh mic will continue to
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record adequately if not we will have the uh the phone microphone it's not windy
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so that should be okay got all this down timber
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look at the Lykan and the the snow though beautiful
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colors love it
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it's kind of a steep little slope here isn't it
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there's not a lot of sounds in the forest this morning which is interesting I can start to hear the Rushing Water of
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Pine Creek ahead and heard some birds earlier but
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it's pretty still it's nice
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so I like to talk about the plant sometimes too and I think we're into a
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lot of I don't know what these deciduous are but we're into do a lot of Doug fur
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in here and a little bit of spruce maybe I think that's what we're seeing
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maybe some Lodge pole you can see some different bark on
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different trees it's one way to tell almost look like
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some Hemlock but that's not what that is um not these trees but in the background
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here with the really thin needles
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there I'm not as good of plant identification as I probably should be
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to be trying to identify plants on a YouTube
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channel I want to thank you guys for your feedback that you've been giving me uh upon
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request um I do read your comments I do try to com comment back to everybody um
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it's one of the best parts of doing these things surprisingly to me um it's fun to hear
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your personal memories your personal thoughts or personal stories uh okay hold on here I'm going
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to take a break because my mic went out and we are back I do have to put my
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glove back on um hopefully this is all recording the way it's supposed to if
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not little shimy in the if not well hopefully the phone's
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recording um a little shimmy in the balance
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there oh that's why so it needs to
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go it should be better there we go uh when I took the receiver off it
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changed the balance of the camera on this uh DJI I think it's a osmo 5 mobile
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gimbal uh it's a handy dandy little deal it's a generation or so back the six is
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pretty cool too cuz it has a extendable selfie stick
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deal um but I've given that to my wife to use and I'm using the five
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was I saying something oh yeah about your comments um I love getting the comments hearing your
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stories and Corrections um those are actually appreciated when they're put
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kindly kindly intended um I have had a couple folks comment
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recently telling me that I should do things differently which came across less than
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kind and more entitled um but you know what it's it's fine I typically when I
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get those I just recommend other channels they might like um not worth the effort
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to uh get riled up about it and honestly
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they're so shockingly rare that it's um it's a nice reminder
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of how wonderful the viewers of this channel are in terms of
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positivity and appreciation and you know Spirit of community so I really value
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that too all right we are coming back we're about to join up with the oh look at
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that with the Pine Creek Trail oh look at that light can almost feel the warmth over
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there we're going to keep loop we're going to make a big loop I don't know if I said said that I don't think I did so
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we're not going up to the falls we're actually going to go uh back to where we started but we're
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going to go a different way as as the term Loop would imply I
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guess pardon my sniffles look at that
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okay I just want to point one thing out like this would be a this is kind of the tree type of tree you would get you
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wouldn't be able to cut this cuz it's next to the trail and it's you know it's pretty small but it's we call them
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Charlie Brown Christmas trees because the special from the 1960s or
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70s they're pretty sparse they're not like a farmed Christmas tree which are
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typically uh you know they've been tended to and and encourag to have lots
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of branches and that sort of thing and I think that's why you pay the extra money uh which is great
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um but we like our little little sparse
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ones uh Senator Penelope fluffy pants check her out on Instagram at senator.
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Penelope uh is our new kitten and we actually are not going to
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decorate our tree this year because she is an agent of chaos and we
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love her dearly but um she's spent about 30 minutes this morning basically just
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attacking our Christmas tree which is kind of what we expected fun to
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watch but probably not worth putting on all the ornaments and that sort of
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thing so we just went I'm sorry we went uh the trail
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Junction right there go up there you hit Pine Creek Falls if you keep going you
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get another four miles or so past the Falls you will get to Pine Creek Lake
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it's pretty steep Trail sorry about the swerving and woring there I try to give you a heads up before I do that but I
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didn't so where we end up in in a few minutes here as we'll go down to the parking lot and we will walk back
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through the campground area and then a little bit of Road and then we'll head up the um path
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to the the the parking lot where we started and that should be about 15 or 20
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minutes more I'm guessing maybe more we'll see that's part of the
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fun one of the first first walks I did up Pine Creek along this Trail this
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there's a lot of the stuff that had not been cleared out all this deadall
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and uh it was all good it was fine except for I was crossing you had to go off the trail and around an obstacle and
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I was stepping on logs and whoop feet went right out from under me um quite a
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quite a spill I wasn't hurt or anything just just my ego um I don't think I'm not sure if I
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kept that in or not but anyway the trials and
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travails you can see right these ones without branches or anything on them are
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dead and you can imagine the wind gets going and looks like one one over here
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that tilty one is just barely being held up by some branches of its neighbor here
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we go so the wind gets going and that could tumble down and as you can see
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from what's been cut to clear the trail a lot of that stuff has already blown over the
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trail so be aware
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the hike to the falls is an extremely popular hike in the area and you'll see
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from the parking lot that there's not a ton of parking it's pretty good parking lot for trail head National Forest Trail head but around here anyway
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um but it can get really busy so highly recommend in the Summers coming in the
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morning or in the evening
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also I meant to mention I don't know if I did or not I am carrying bear spray because even though it's cold and
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winter the Bears aren't necessarily in their dens right now it's not a matter of temperature or even light it's a
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matter of food availability from what I understand and uh in hunting season
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there's a lot of I'm going to be a little graphic here uh a lot of carcasses and gut piles and that sort of
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thing around that can give them some extra calories for the winter so
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wouldn't surprise me at all if there were some wandering
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about and it's best to be prepared love love
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love this view look at that mountain back there I don't even know what that one's called
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called I don't know what any of these are called looks like it's still a popular hike
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here even in winter
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somebody's got their pups decided for a
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run you can see kind of the the map here and uh info about that stuff um see
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some what's available for parking there's another little section across the way it'll take six or seven cars I'm
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going spin you keep spinning you here and then there's this section here which has
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plenty pretty much room so it's not it's not small but um in the summer it gets
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busy and uh it can fill up we'll keep going along
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here because I want to go do I want to do
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that yeah we'll go to Pine Creek I'm go over to the creek
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here this is that other little parking station so may be more than seven
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somebody's excited to go okay here's this there's an informal
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path back
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here for
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that ice
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it's down right Pleasant pardon me
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we're just following this Trail along the creek I'm not sure exactly where it goes but I
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believe at one point H it will lead back to the road or a
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dayuse
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area I just want to go back here real quick cuz I see
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something is probably just
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Moss but I want to check it
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out oh yeah
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okay a chunk up there had the vague shape of an
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owl oh well got to check these things out if you're going to be a co-discoverer
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right I think normally I would just take this Trail and see where it ends up
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but I think it's going to end up at a church
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camp down there and I don't want to go to the church camp as cool as it is
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unbelievably Pleasant in
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here we going to take this other little Trail and see where it
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goes sorry for the noise
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just Loops us back to our other little informal Trail so maybe we should have gone on that other one any well this is
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good
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so I think what that thing leads back to that other Trail would be down this way which is I believe the
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day use area uh and there's a pit toilet and fire rings and tables down there little
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extra bit of parking that fills up in the summer and not too far along we have
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parking down here so now that I'm looking at there's plenty of parking but
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you could I've seen it full completely full so just be aware
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and this is actually a really cool place to come Camp as well um this
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Campground you can see it's kind of in this Valley in this Canyon at the head of it and lots of trees and lots of
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shade uh The Creeks right there there's a I think there's another little nature path you can
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take um so and there's some more pit toilets and stuff down here at the actual camping area which we'll see in a
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little bit bit that's a spruce isn't
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it I think it
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is those are
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not I'm also going to show you this Pavilion up here on the right
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little uh I don't know if that's a utility path or a cut
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through or what looks like a four-wheeler track ATV
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track um I believe these roads up here are non-motorized these Trails sorry
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uh the reason I want to show you this Pavilion is it's pretty cool architecturally
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um and you can rent it uh or reserve it I think there's probably a fee
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associated with it from the forest service um and it's got some remnants I believe
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I believe these are remnants of an older Pavilion and then they've uh the
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architecture students from MSU which has a pretty good architecture program from what I understand uh built this sort of
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uh structure over here and built up uh this stuff I mean this is probably 15
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years ago see that bench has seen a little bit of abuse but it's got a
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picnic table it's got a fire pit it's got a grill it's got several picnic tables all kind of a modernist design
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which I like I'm going to give you another uh View VI along
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here it's kind of cut that can't delevered asymmetrical roof
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design well it's it's artistic it's cool it's not something you normally see in a national forest or government entity
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public lands entity I should phrase that differently um cuz these are public
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lands they belong to all of us ooh uh rehash of one of my perambulation
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pontifications um public lands belong to every citizen of the United States US
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public lands I should specify um we hold them together and they are managed by
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government agencies for the public in not just Recreation but also
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for financial reasons for instance Mining and Timber operations But
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ultimately for the public good and I think that is fantastic and
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we have a ton of it around where we live and it really does add to Quality of
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Life ability to recreate um and uh get outside in nature huge
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huge benefit and I'm going to show you something kind of cool here
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a little Nest somebody built in previous years raised
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a family of course this would all be sheltered by leaves in the summer and spring so little safe spot probably
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hopefully they were hoping oh my gosh you guys look at the
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light oh so nice I'm going to adjust the uh polarizer here see if I can
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maybe I don't know I can't really tell if it's making a difference or
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not and this is kind of off to the right here uh you got some campsites uh
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there's a pit toilet back in there and of course we got a pit toilet by the
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road here and some more campsites off to the left oh my gosh you guys
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seriously I can't can't
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even oh love it oh that's interesting there's
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a satellite dish over there I think that must be where the maybe where the host
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stays somewhere around here Campground host and uh maybe
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they maybe it's a weather station right you can see some uh
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looks like 27 campsites up here closed for the
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season so looking this way we is heading east pretty much and uh very vaguely and
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uh it goes down into Paradise Valley
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look at this view guys oh this is this is why you come
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visit Montana am I right walks like
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this and there's a ton of of them I will say that and I I don't know
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if I said this before there's a big difference between visiting a place and living in a place one I've spoken
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numerous times about the cost of housing out here it's a significant issue in
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terms of especially over Boseman and Missoula where people just can't afford to live um and they're living in RVs on
48:54
the streets if they're Lu uh and you know it's just ridiculous
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second of all is the weather it's nice to come out here and experience this for a week uh it is a
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whole different ball game when you are in month six of snowstorms and 30 mph
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winds and clouds and darkness and all that stuff so you definitely need to
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consider that um cuz you're going to get it if
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you move out here you hear that oh come on Mr
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squirrel anyway there was an angry squirrel cheering at us at
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me uh you can see this road section of the road is paved and it is paved
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I think all the way back down to East River Road um that said it also gets
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covered in snow in the winter and people do come up to ice climb on the Falls um but it can
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be a tricky Wicket to get back in
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here came up one time and there was a big tree across the
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road had to back up quite a ways in the
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snow so I mentioned a church camp and uh I don't know exactly where it starts
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probably just past this gate up here on the road down in there is uh I think
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it's a Methodist Church has a camp been there forever not forever but for
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decades and decades and decades and one year they had a blue Grass Festival in
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there and it was fantastic it was just the perfect venue unfortunately I think
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the festival lost a significant amount of money and they never did it again but man was it
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cool it was a fun
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day yeah luck Park Church camp
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um so we're going to keep on going up here to the uh road that goes up to the parking
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lot we'll go up to the parking lot and get some more of those epic views with looks like some brighter light than we
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had earlier so we'll check that out as
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well look at all these little little pine trees trying to make a go of it
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I guess these are willow trees I don't think
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they're I don't think they're Aspen pretty sure they're not that one
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might
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be and you got this big guy over here big gal
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there's something fun about seeing these big
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mature beasts of trees even though I know out in the Pacific Northwest they
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these would be tiny compared to some of the big Spruce out there and the Redwoods and the hemlocks they have but
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it's fun to see the the granddaddies grandmas
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um so I'm going to give you an idea of what this little section is like and if it's if we've had snow if we
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had had snow this can get super icy and it's kind of a lose course down
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to the paved section and then you've got all these bumps and rivets that's not
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the right word divots oh my gosh look at this View
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this is a Sunday last night we went up in Livingston they had the light up
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Livingston thing where Santa comes in and they have carols and hot cocoa and
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uh raffle and uh crafts and stuff and they
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light up all the lights in one of the parks it's pretty cool I I
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think hopefully I'll do it today I took some footage and I'll make a little
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Instagram reel or something oh my gosh you
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guys just beautiful just Epic
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there's a mag pie flying
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across oh my
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gosh even this grass contrasting with the snow is nice get a little Sparkle
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off the frost
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so I mentioned a fire um I mean we had a fire up here a couple of them actually
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and we brought these solo stoves cuz we just love the lack of
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smoke and uh
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so it doesn't leave a mark um there is a mark of somebody's fire but
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not ours over there yeah our's over here and uh doesn't leave a mark doesn't
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leave a bunch of charred Ash or anything and it doesn't have much smoke so they're really
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nice and while I wish I was sponsored by them I am not look at that guys I want
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to thank you guys for coming out with me on this walk oh so beautiful this is a
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recommendation of traveling mail uh I think I mentioned that at the beginning so thanks to her too good
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choice all right we will see you guys again soon not sure from whence we will be filming or walking but until then as
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always keep on stepping
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