Virtual Park Walk in Montana's Biggest City - Virtual Walking Trails for Treadmill - City Walks - 4K

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hello walkers and welcome to billings montana
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um we are at the john h dover memorial park today
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and it is super windy i'm in the lee a little bit and it's actually calmed down just a tad
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so i don't know how much i'm going to speak i may do some sweetening after the fact in the
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audio department in the post-production it is about one o'clock it's calling for a hundred
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percent chance of rain at two so we're going to go ahead and start walking here uh might get a little wet later but
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hopefully we'll be back to the car uh by the time that kicks in
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it's uh when i say it's one o'clock it's probably i think it's 60 degrees fahrenheit um i'm not sure how that
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translates to uh centigrade let me look that up
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we are on the um east side of billings and uh
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look this up here along and this park is along the yellowstone river it's actually 55
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degrees it's dropped a lot just in the last 10 minutes 13 degrees celsius
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this is one of the newest parks in billings but it's not a city park and it's not a county park as the sign
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entrance says it's the it's owned by the yellowstone
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parks river association and uh it's got all the
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amenities of a public park and it is open to the public during daytime hours but it's privately
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owned which is kind of a neat thing where private interests
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donate public donations have raised money to acquire develop and maintain a public
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space rather than having to go through all the
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necessary steps that a public park would have to go through as
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part of the you know our democracy excuse me so we're gonna walk around um we
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actually i actually found out about this park on a trip with traveling mel much like the recent walk i did over in
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columbus great park if you're ever in billings and need to get the kids out i don't know what the dog
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rules are here for pets but there's it's some easy trails you can see how
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well developed it is i'm go ahead and give you some
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housekeeping here my name is henry i am your proxy walker your virtual travel guide as i take you
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around um this park here and uh
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and uh what else oh yeah leave me comments i love getting
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comments and um hearing your thoughts and your connections to these places
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any corrections or additional information is always welcome please keep your comments respectful and
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positive i appreciate that as well as the other viewers and other people that read the comments this is a really cool
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excuse me suspension bridge funded by the harry l willith
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foundation and it's named jim i'm not sure what the story is on that it's kind of a neat thing here great view
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you can hear it creaking i don't know if you can see it moving around under my weight
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i'm going to try and talk throughout this video my voice is getting a little raspy um
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the uh someone recently said i was called me the uh oh geez now i've
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forgotten it anyway i'll tell if i remember it also
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i'll say it later but uh there's a fun comment that i got do enjoy reading your comments
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um i have i did want to mention one thing youtube has this in the in the creator side the
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back end the youtube studio uh they will auto filter out things they
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think are spam or they've all put it under now and you're held for review but i haven't been having issues in that
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nothing appears under my held for review even though i used to get tons of things marked as
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spam that i would then approve because i didn't think they were spam
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and now some of those just aren't appearing at all and then all of a sudden they'll appear
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even though they were put in weeks before or days before so if i
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don't immediately get to your comment um that could be it or maybe i am
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well i'm busy and i haven't had a chance to look at the get online yet that day but i do read
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your comments all the ones that appear for me so please do reach out let me know what you're
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thinking um let me know what you think of these channel
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this channel uh because i i it's it's become one of the
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primary motivations for doing this uh channel you can see they're doing a lot
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of construction over here i don't know what that is um could be a gravel pit
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it could be a subdivision i'm not sure um but look at this great view well there's
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a refinery in the background that's not that great but you've got a creek coming through here and then you've got the river down
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below that out there is mostly not rain
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uh the wind's actually calmed down it was 40 miles an hour the app said but it
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seemed a lot harder could barely uh see because of the
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actual it was dust flying around and uh you it was pretty it's really
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impressive a little eerie a little uh not scary but you know a little thrilling
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excuse me i drove below the rim rock where the airport is and i was thinking wondering how they're
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going to land up in there i guess they're used to that sort of thing
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and you i was thinking you know the wind out here in the prairie because livingston they the wind blew over a uh semi this
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morning on the highway uh every year there's two or three of those that get to try and think they know better than
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the highway authorities and try to press their luck to save a few minutes
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and over they go but uh i was thinking you know this wind
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out here in the prairies and i had read something i think it was a book about ideas or
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something anyway it was um a it had a section about teepees and how
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the teepee which is the portable abode of traditional boat of planes
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indians in the uh plains native peoples here in the americas is actually a fairly
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[Music] fairly circumpolar if you will
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design that sort of originated where they think is a development from
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the in places that have huge winds so they have a version of a tp up in the tundra
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they have various types of tvs around different parts of the planes
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all of which they think or adapted to deal with the wind because it's
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they've done tests where they it's uniquely um i don't know uniquely but it's it's
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very well constructed to handle wind and to insulate and to not just just not
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blow over and you can see why they would need that
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in a place like this i'm going to zip up this because it's clanking around sorry for
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the audio issue here i'm gonna try to get that sorted
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maybe maybe that'll stick there for a second maybe not um
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anyway that's one of the things i was thinking about today another thing i was thinking about
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was when i was looking on the map and this doesn't show up as a
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like a green section on google maps because it's not a city or county park or maybe because they just haven't
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done that yet it just shows up as as if it were private land which it is
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but it is again open to the public and it's however there are a couple other parks
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as you look back two moon park which that might be those trees all those willows down there
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um not sure uh hold on here gonna drop pan google
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situation come on google you can do it
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um anyway um i'm trying to find the names
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of the parts here
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and now i can't two moon park and
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colson park that was it and between some of those parks there's a lot of uh seems to be and i don't know the extent
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of them some bike paths jogging paths walking paths which is really cool
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infrastructure for a community to have in my opinion
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we've got a pit toilet a second pit toilet here at the far end of the park i don't know exactly where the borders
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are but it looks like there's a path over here so we're gonna go explore what that's all about
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although it might be private property and what looks like uh art might just be
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junk i the hul the holder i guess
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again i apologize for the audio if it sounds muffled or a lot of wind noise um
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it's under two the microphone's under at least one jacket
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and that's going to lead to some extraneous noise as a
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price of getting out of the wind oh this looks like an old plow
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and a sign up here see some old rims and stuff
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little blades kinda neat
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this is called lois's point looks like a poem
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oh look and they're making i forgot they were making a bridge down here i think i think that's what they're doing uh
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that's what this all this must be another access point from i-90 which is
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i'll be honest here a little bit of a shame to have this natural area and have a highway but you know
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people have to get around and we always have to make compromises as we develop our public
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spaces see the gray clouds that it was sunny
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just 30 minutes ago
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it's really kind of blowing the camera around too super windy
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zoinks
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little rabbit don't get them too scared sorry to whip
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around like that but i wanted to show you a little friend kind of startled me
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[Music]
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little picnic table up here for days when it's not quite so windy
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and uh we've got a interpretive sign for birds of the riparian zone here
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i've probably said this before but the yellowstone river is the longest undammed river
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in the lower 48
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with the small caveat that there is a big diversion dam downstream but it's not a true dam
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whatever that means
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so hopefully you can still hear me here
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i'm going to cut down here i don't think this is an actual trail and probably contributing a little bit
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to erosion my apologies i'm hoping we'll get a little bit out of the wind if we can get
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down here in the base
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[Music] i guess my point before that wind sort of really
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came up no idea hear me or not um was that uh
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it'd be interesting to see you can see the willow those big logs up there cottonwood trees willow trees
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those get swept down every year during high water runoff and be interesting to see this
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section this area at that time water probably comes up into these other lower
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cottonwoods at times during really high water
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maybe we'll go down there real quick and that looks like we got battery and
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length of card i think i mentioned my last one i got a new card i'm kind of excited about
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256 gigabytes that uh it should be enough for five hours
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almost five hours of recording time now obviously we're not going to do that much today
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but before i had these 64 good cards and they would do about one and a half
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walks which is not enough whereas this will do uh should do five or six
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uh i've only the most walks i've ever done in a day is five and i was pretty tired after that
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done it a couple times but you know you're doing i have a fitbit and
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i get like end up getting 20 25 000 steps which i think it's like 10 to 12 miles
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look at these cliffs kind of cool in this beautiful color golden grasses
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love it
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i think that uh that's a little bit much of a drop for me maybe we'll find another access point
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down here [Music] uh billings of course i've said this and
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other things but i'll say it again is one of the biggest cities in montana it's
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a little i think it's a hundred some odd thousand people apparently they've got more hotel rooms
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here than the most hotel rooms within four states i don't know exactly how they're
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measuring that but it's a convention center an economic center for the state in the region
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big oil and gas processing here feels my first raindrop
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and then a lot of banking and other commercial type stuff the uh a lot of great restaurants
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actually they're downtown's really coming back so check out a couple of those walks that i've done if you're feeling up to it
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and it's really kind of a cool town for a long time it i think it had a rough an era of
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rough times but uh i'm it's we've started coming over here
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a little bit more and we really like it it's a great place to stop if you're on a road trip
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and then you've got a good they call it montana's trailhead is their marketing slogan
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and it really kind of is a great place you can head north to the plains and like the central
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montana area you can go to the american prairie reserve over to glacier or you can go south to
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yellowstone cody's within reach bozeman's a couple hours away
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and of course you've got a lot of great things to do locally a lot of like
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stuff for families to do too trampoline parks climbing gyms water slides got a great cabela's store
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here rei and then a lot of
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other things so it's a cool place to come and visit and a lot of great breweries we love
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a good brewery it's i don't know if you can see but there's lots of raindrops
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on the rocks down here
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but it's not really raining that hard yet i think i told you 100 chance at 2 p.m
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so we'll see how accurate that weather forecast is
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i can kind of see a line of rain coming i guess it's kind of already here
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but we'll come down to the water before we head back and then we've got a whole other half of
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the parks to look at so stay with us i like this this is kind of a nice gentle
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stretch of river you got a little bit of a riffle over here we have been actually our family
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starting to think about what rivers we want to float on our raft this year and we're getting kind of
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excited about that one things i kind of like to do i think some of our friends had mentioned
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is to do some of these lower sections we're we're we float paradise valley a lot
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um but it'd be fun we were thinking or one of them suggested floating from gardiner down to big
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timber on a multi-day float i think that's probably
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120 or more miles so depending on what time of year you do
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it it could uh it could be a problem
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i mean it's not a problem it could be a long time or it could be a few days
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several lots of people have floated from the park boundary all the way to where it joins the
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missouri over north dakota and that apparently takes about 30 days
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we're not going to take that long and honestly rafting from
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much further east in here down here comes the rain that would be quite the challenge i'm
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going to swing over here and just show you these this little creek and these rocks and cold bluffs again
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we'll continue on you can see how high up this says navigation restriction ahead referring to that dam
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they put it up here because of high water i assumed
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hopefully we won't get too much rain drops on the screen
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but i can't make too many promises because i'm actually going to be walking back into the wind
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excuse me as we go
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it's like a lot of clay deposits i'm actually gonna see if i can adjust
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this microphone
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my apologies again come on
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hopefully oh that's not going to do it
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fell right off take a look you can see that bridge down there as i try to
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clip this on and move up multiple layers again my apologies for
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that brief uh technical fix
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you can hear how more muffled how much more muffled it is i'm under another layer of jacket it's
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not particularly cold but i'm just trying to keep you from having to listen to the wind there
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and see the uh hear the popping of the rain on my jacket
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as well
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hopefully this the lens isn't getting too wet i've cut my hand over it but the lens of
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these gopros are so wide it's hard to do that without getting in
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the frame and that's actually one of the reasons i like the gopro is the wide angle just especially in tight cities like
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in europe where you got these narrow narrow streets or big tall buildings here in the u.s you just get a much
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better view than the narrower lenses of like a phone
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without an adapter or the original osmo the osmo pocket 2 apparently has a wider
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lens pretty close to this as well as an adapter i don't have one of those yet
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up ahead on that hillside you can see the bridge we went over they called jim and
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i think the other one was gina there's two spans uh i assume that has to do with sponsors or
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memorials it's kind of fun but this is a great little park in this
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bottomland and uh you know it's just nice to have
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access to nature even in a well what we in montana would call big city most people would call a
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small town to have access to this yellowstone
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river have access to a little natural space where you can
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watch birds and see plants and just let the anxieties of your day
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fade away so kudos to the yellow yellowstone river parks association
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and to the community of buildings this one's named lisa hold on i'm going to wipe away a droplet
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try to there we go
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a nice little creek
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and i think i can't remember which way i go here
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i think maybe i can go either way let's try either way there's another solid bridge off to the
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right but we're going to go this way
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if i had time or maybe another day when they open it back up but
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east of here is a national park or reserve or historical point
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called pompei's pillar pompey being the son of sacagawea sacagawea
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on the lewis and clark expedition and there is some stone etchings
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of one of the i can't remember which one but from the expedition either lewis or clark or both
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on the sandstone there and a great little walk up to the top of this sort of
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small spur rock spur overlooking the river it's really kind of a cool place with a
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neat little interpretive center it's another great place to stop
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if you're traveling through montana i think i can't remember if that's after 1990
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splits into 1994 or if it is after
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little christmas decorations
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[Music] there's a statue of a longhorn cow upon the horizon you probably can't see in
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this wide angle but it's reminding me that uh
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that uh maybe it's a real cow next to a fence
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it's silhouetted so i can't really tell um there's some longhorns down in paradise
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valley that i've been wanting to film they're really impressive they've got
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these just massive uh horns the horns are just so so wide
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it's hard to imagine how those could be useful but they were apparently
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we're gonna come down here and cross the creek again before we loop back hopefully we'll be
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in the lee of this hill a little bit here comes some more rain not too bad
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though phone says it's 135
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it's a little weird to be in montana in january and have it be raining and
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not snowing pretty unusual i'm gonna wipe this lens again
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sorry about that
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it's interesting how they've named all these bridges there seems to be a name up here as well this isn't a swinging bridge but uh our
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suspension bridge
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and i have to give them kudos for the maintain the maintenance of this it's
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really well maintained really well laid out really accessible which is nice
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this is donette
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d-o-n-n-e-t-t-e
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i was looking at real estate prices just because they've been going crazy in montana recently and i think billings
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has gone up but it hasn't gone up by the crazy amounts that places like bozeman have
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nor has columbus where i was earlier
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[Music] again if you have any connection to
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billings or this park or you have any additional information that i missed or things that i should have shown please
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feel free to let me know in the youtube comments i say youtube comments
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because i've partnered with this other couple guys to put up a
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amazon fire tv channel and a roku channel
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that is up but it's not i'm not putting up new videos for some reason they haven't gotten that
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quite figured out yet uh but there are a bunch of videos on there
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and if i say the comments below people people on those venues
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you wonder how they're supposed to do that channels are the same name citywalks if
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you're looking for them or if you want to watch new tv you can also just go to the youtube app
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on those services pretty sure amazon has one as well as i know roku does i know most
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smart tvs do it's a crazy technical world these days
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i think even live sports is going online now so
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cable other than providing access to internet cable tv is
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kind of cratering these days
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we'll go up here and we'll see the flag and how it's really whipping around up here you
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can see the blue sky is coming back that's good it's very welcome at least while i'm
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outside the car [Music]
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this is a great little park and uh we were turned on to it by
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the folks at visit billings when we did some work with them
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and uh we were spent the night downtown great night come out here in the morning
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get the kids running around then go to a museum or a you know trampoline park or
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something like that or the zoo the zoo i mean for it's a little zoo but
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they've done a great job with it and it's uh kind of all about they focusing on
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animals that would live at this degree of latitude
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with a few exceptions inside so they don't have elephants or hippopotamuses or
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penguins but they have red pandas wolves bison
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some antelope they've got a couple grizzly bears wolverines mountain goats bigger bighorn sheep
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and uh and something else that i'm omitting there
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some eagles of course um that's really cool and they've got a botanical garden
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they've got otters they just did get a sloth that's one of their inside things they have a small
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thing with some tropical birds and reptiles and i think i assume the sloth lives
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inside as well anyway that doesn't really have anything to do with this park but it's just another reason to come hang
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out in buildings or to stop if you're on a road trip across the country
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all right we calling birds at dover park uh you can look that up uh i want to
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thank you guys for joining us this is a shorter walk well i don't know 30 some odd minutes that's not too bad
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everybody but i will try to please as many of you as i can so we will see you again very soon hang
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in there everybody i know times are tough but we can do it together so we'll see you next time until then
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