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Sheepdog Hikes
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 21 พ.ค. 2014
I section hiked the Appalachian Trail over a period of 15 years and summited Katahdin on September 16th, 2021. My Australian Shepherd, Angus "The Adventure Dog", hiked about 1000 miles of the AT with me. Join us as we continue to hike trails like the Foothills Trail. I began the PCT in 2023. Stay tuned!
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PCT 2024 Day 63 Kennedy Meadows South!
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PCT 2024 Day 63 Kennedy Meadows South!
PCT 2024 Day 61 Fueled by McDonald's
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PCT 2024 Day 61 Fueled by McDonald's
PCT 2024 Day 60 The end of the Sierras
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PCT 2024 Day 60 The end of the Sierras
PCT 2024 Day 59 Mount Whitney Summit Day!
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PCT 2024 Day 59 Mount Whitney Summit Day!
PCT 2024 Day 58 Forester Pass and High Altitude Sickness
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PCT 2024 Day 58 Forester Pass and High Altitude Sickness
PCT 2024 Day 57 Glen Pass and the effects of high altitude
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PCT 2024 Day 57 Glen Pass and the effects of high altitude
PCT 2024 Day 54 Back over Bishop Pass
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PCT 2024 Day 54 Back over Bishop Pass
PCT 2024 Day 52 and 53 Double ZERO in Bishop
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PCT 2024 Day 52 and 53 Double ZERO in Bishop
PCT 2024 Day 50 Evolution Valley and Muir Pass
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PCT 2024 Day 50 Evolution Valley and Muir Pass
PCT 2024 Day 49 Crossing the San Joaquin River
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PCT 2024 Day 49 Crossing the San Joaquin River
PCT 2024 Day 48 Duck, Duck, my GOOSE is cold! 🥶
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PCT 2024 Day 48 Duck, Duck, my GOOSE is cold! 🥶
PCT 2024 Days 44 and 45 Mammoth Lakes Pass. There and back.
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PCT 2024 Days 44 and 45 Mammoth Lakes Pass. There and back.
PCT 2024 Day 43 Devils Postpile National Monument
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PCT 2024 Day 43 Devils Postpile National Monument
PCT 2024 Day 42 Ansel Adams Wilderness 😍
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PCT 2024 Day 42 Ansel Adams Wilderness 😍
PCT 2024 Day 41 I'm awestruck by Yosemite
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PCT 2024 Day 41 I'm awestruck by Yosemite
PCT 2024 DAY 40 Tuolumne Meadows! I'm going to town!
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PCT 2024 DAY 40 Tuolumne Meadows! I'm going to town!
PCT 2024 Day 38 Life in the Yosemite Wilderness
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PCT 2024 Day 38 Life in the Yosemite Wilderness
PCT 2024 Day 37 Yosemite National Park!
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PCT 2024 Day 37 Yosemite National Park!
PCT 2024 Day 35 ZERO Day at Kennedy Meadows North
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PCT 2024 Day 35 ZERO Day at Kennedy Meadows North
PCT 2024 Day 33 Riding the Struggle Bus
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PCT 2024 Day 33 Riding the Struggle Bus
Well-deserved rest! Love the kitty on your lap!
@shutterbugsadventures1951 thanks! Eastside Guesthouse was absolutely my favorite!
A bed - a well-deserved luxury!
Wow! The blue in the lakes! Gorgeous! Woohoo, Muir hut!
Nice, thank you. My son, in his 30’s and I hiked the JMT NOBO, at the hut, we took photos and both decided that, well…if I had to…as far as staying in there. Met some 20 something’s going up and they asked if I thought it was creepy and yes it was. They were going up to spend the night with ouigi board. :)
@kristymoore7052 Yeah, it was beautiful but kind of gross with the foul smell and all the flies. Not sure I'd consider it haunted though 😊
Woohoo! High 5!
@@mjirving29 high 5 back at you! 🙏
Congratulations! Looking forward to what’s next
👏👏👏. Until next year. ❤
Congrats on the finish!
@mjirving29 thank you! Same to you Goal Tech!
It was great to hike with you! Congrats on the big section finish. I totally agree about the iconic nature of that bridge.
@@mjirving29 hiking with you guys was a highlight of my trip! I enjoyed it very much!
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🎉🤗👏. Congratulations! I hope this isn’t your last video. I love seeing how hikers make it back home and what your future hiking plans might be. Thanks for taking me along. Enjoyed your journey. ❤️
@kathygalofski6154 stay tuned! There's two more in this series, and a couple more in the works.
Glad our time stamps motivated you to chase us! Mountain lion scat is pinched off on the end like the picture you showed. 😊 It was quite remarkable for the faucet of hikers to shut off! I agree!
@mjirving29 it was a fun and interesting day! Good to know the Mountain Lion details 🫣 yikes. It was so weird leaving the steady stream of hikers!
Incredible. God provides.
@@aandpforme amen!
Glad you didn't have to ford that river. How fortunate they put up a bridge just the day before! Cool campsite!
So many lakes! Beautiful!
@@shutterbugsadventures1951 it was so gorgeous! Loved the whole Sierra Range!
Nice place for a day off!
We did go swimming in Chicken Spring Lake. I got chilled to the core though as I stayed in a fair bit and then it was a bit breezy. Nice lake though. There was a trail crew there too. We camped in a saddle on the other side of the pass. The Sierra was definitely transitioning to the end.
It was super nice to meet you coming down from Bishop Pass.
Just beautiful
@@richardh.5404 it really was a gorgeous day.
the lamas are georgeous!🥺
@agnieszkas7238 I know! I about melted. I've never gotten to pet one, and they are so soft 🥰
Wow, that scenery! Beautiful! It’s got marmots; it’s gotta be a 10 out of 10!😂
@@shutterbugsadventures1951 Marmots make everything better 😁
The struggle bus is real! Glad you had a lakeside campsite at the end.
@@shutterbugsadventures1951 it sure was hard to shake! But that scenery was well worth it 😊
Well done! I didn’t realize your fear of heights was that much so great job working through it. We took a 3-hour nap and then hiked to stay in the flats on the other side of Guyot Pass a couple miles before Rock Creek. What a great day!
@mjirving29 oh yeah, my self-preservation mode is pretty high when it comes to heights, and it's much better than it used to be even. I don't want to miss a thing.
Congratulations - looks amazing out there. Thanks for sharing
@@shades1959 thank you! It was amazing!
👏 congratulations 🎉 Very well done. Scenery beautiful.
@kathygalofski6154 thank you! It was stunning!
That was in fact Whitney that you pointed out on the plateau. I’m glad the meds helped so much! I took the exact same pic of Whitney on the plateau on the dark clouds with the sunny plateau in the foreground. We hiked in the rain for a couple hours I think. We camped up top where the trail went through at Crabtree as the camps doe the slope toward the ranger station were crowded and waterlogged. I saw Taylor in one of your shots (with her husband Stephan). I don’t suppose you have their contact info? I forgot to ask them before we parted ways.
@mjirving29 my trip those two days would have been miserable without the meds! Thank you so much! I remember seeing you guys camping there and it was your headlamps I saw when I left camp. I'll see if I have their contact info.
Is Mt Whitney on the PCT or a side trail?
@kathygalofski6154 Mount Whitney is on a side trail. It is about 8 miles or so from the PCT.
Maybe you’ll meet someone who has extra high altitude medication! 😊
@@mjirving29 that's would be a miracle! 😉
I’m jealous of your perfect reflecting pools for pics at Rae Lakes as it was ripply in the slight breeze when we were there mid day the day prior. Although you might be jealous of our mid day warm swim in the sun. We did cannonballs off the short rock cliffs near the south end.
@mjirving29 I loved the still waters in the mornings along the lakes, but I'm definitely jealous you got to swim in Rae Lakes! It looked so inviting!
Nothing worse than miles you weren’t counting on, especially heading into town. Glad you got to see Devil’s Postpile; and got a ride to Mammoth. Now for some rest and FOOD!
We stayed at Woods Creek bridge the night before and were glad to tackle that avalanche mess in the morning. We had breakfast at Dollar Lake on this day and camped at Flower Lake on the other side of Kearsarge Pass. A 2-pass day for us.
My grandmother’s name was Marjorie so that lake was a special spot for me to stop. We had lunch there the day before. It was a little breezy by then though so it’s neat to see your glassy shots of it.
My feet slipped off crossing the creek at the low point between Mather and Pinchot. Is that where you camped? Is that where you got your feet wet too? Of course mountain goat crossed dry.
Wow Nice from Algeria 🇩🇿
@@brahimchico6568 thank you!
Wow! What a day of stunning scenery and challenging terrain!
@OnTrailTime although challenging, it was one of my favorite days on trail.
So weird about the smoke comments from that other hiker. I don’t recall any smoke and we were barely sprinkled on for like 20 minutes.
You may know this but the golden staircase was the last piece of the JMT that was constructed. So in railroad terms, it was the golden spike, or in this case, the golden staircase.
We swam at Palisades Lake. Was that a duck lake? Mountain Goat hit his 1,000 mile mark there on the PCT.
I thought the Mather Pass climb was the hardest climb of our hike. We camped at the lakes on the south side basin. I cowboy camped that night and it was amazing.
We camped at the ponds just over Mather Pass on this night.
I wonder if you are experiencing symptoms from the altitude. Stay safe! Absolutely gorgeous scenery!
@@shutterbugsadventures1951 it seems I was looking back on it now.
A view, a waterfall, a lake AND a marmot! Sounds like a great day on the trail!
@@shutterbugsadventures1951 I love the marmots!
This place is my favorite place on earth! The beauty is amazing! Thanks for taking me back there! I know you loved that sunrise and the waterfall!
@@shutterbugsadventures1951 it is absolutely stunning! I can see why you love it so much.
We went to that bakery on our drive from LAX to Mammoth. Yum! Nice place you stayed at, very cool with the bagpipes. Fortunately we only got sprinkled on just after entering Kings Canyon NP for a few minutes, but there were dark clouds for most of the day.
@mjirving29 that bakery was amazing! They had great made to order sandwiches. It was amazing the art work they put into the cookies. I loved Eastside Guesthouse ❤️ I was fortunate to have heard about on trail. It's a place I would definitely go out of my way to visit again! I was so fortunate to have the beautiful weather I had in the Sierras and had not heard of the impending weather beforehand, so it was nice to have been in town when it hit.
There was a lot of fear mongering about the coming weather and I kept checking it on my inReach and it said it wouldn’t be bad. It wasn’t bad. Common sense wins again. Haha.
@mjirving29 it's crazy the amount of fear mongering that goes on on trail. Not just weather but trail conditions. I know I listened to quite a bit of it, and when I got there, it wasn't as bad as anticipated. I guess it's all a matter of perspective.
That lodging was the best! Glad you took 2 zeros.
Condolences for the loss of your boy. Rest easy Angus.💔🥀🐾
@@Swimdeep thank you so much.
Great spot off trail. So it seems we left the monster site when you came back on trail. Then you passed us when we took 24 hours to go out and back to resupply at Kearsarge.
@mjirving29 we just missed each other the whole way till the end!
Did you know that Wanda and Helen Lakes on each side of Muir Pass are named after John Muir’s daughters? Goat and I camped at the “monster” campsite. That was a fun rock.
@mjirving29 it was a cool rock! I did know Helen Lake was named after his daughter but I wasn't 100% on who Wanda Lake was named after. I wasn't sure if it was his wife or a daughter. Thank you for clearing that information up for me!
Beautiful river! The bridge is nice! When is the best season to hike John Muir Trail? I need to plan my trip!
I was on this section in July and it seemed perfect 😊
Also, interesting that you use sobo miles on your Far Out. I had to switch the setting in my app to confirm that we were at the same site mileage wise.
Yes I switched to SOBO in the app. It was just easier for me.
Nice work. It looks like we stayed at the exact same site you did on this day too! We did drop down to MTR for a resupply though as we mailed a 5-gallon bucket to ourselves with 5-days of food for each of us. Regarding Paiute Pass, the pass is going up and over it to get off the JMT going east. The pass is not on the PCT itself. We were thankful for the bridge too. I thought it had been in a week (before we left on the trip) but I’m not positive. I think I saw a picture of it on Facebook before we left. Regardless, we were thankful for it. We got some rain on this section so it was nice to see the blue skies in your video. The workers were in camp when we went by too, so we weren’t able to talk to them.
It was nice to have the bridge but I think I could have easily forded the river during that time. The construction workers were very nice!
Totally agree. We weren’t worried about it either.
I’m loving your videos! Thanks for taking us along.
@shutterbugsadventures1951 thank you for following along! I'm so glad you're enjoying the hike!
Well done on the swims! That took courage late in the day. We too had planned to camp at Heart Lake but couldn’t find a spot, so we camped exactly where you did. I’m pretty sure Mountain Goat’s tent was where yours was. We arrived at 7:45 to Sallie Keyes which is right around when you did. That was so generous to have your tab paid at VVR as it ain’t cheap! Particularly with a zero! I think this was the COLD night tonight at Sallie Keyes. I also love how you usually don’t get the names of things quite exactly right. 😂 You don’t have your friend along to correct you anymore! 😊 I too took a picture of that stunning Sierra Columbine near Heart Lake. That was amazing.
@mjirving29 that's so cool that you guys were right in my tracks! There are some generous people in this world! Yeah 😂 I have a terrible time keeping names of things straight without BooBoo helping me out!!!
Whatever on your plate looks so delicious! I hope you had a wonderful relaxing day!
@@Chiemikaneko it was amazing! It was a taco salad with chicken!
@ ooohhh! Taco salad!! Yum!
Looks like a great day! What was the date of this day? I think you must have been two days ahead of us if you took a zero here. Or maybe we were there on your second night and we didn’t even know it????
@mjirving29 I was there July 28-30.
Ok, we were there the evening of the 31st and left the morning of the 1st. So we started the late afternoon of your zero day. 👍
@mjirving29 just missed you guys.
Mountain goat ALMOST managed to rock hop the inlets at Virginia Lake without getting his feet wet. We were fortunate that it wasn’t windy. We had a glassy lake in the morning. I’m impressed that you’re a duck lake swimmer! We don’t do them all, but many we do!
@mjirving29 "Almost" to funny! I bet that was a sight to behold, seeing Virginia Lake with no wind. I love seeing the reflections in the lakes when they are like glass. It was a dream to swim in one beautiful Sierra lake, so when I heard about the duck challenge, I was totally on board! It was an amazing experience!
This was our travel day down to LAX from Portland. Then we drove to Mammoth and left from Horseshoe Lake too! Only much later in the day. We hiked out to the trail and camped just south of the junction a very short bit. It was COLD that night! So crazy! The next night we too camped at Virginia Lake just over Virginia Pass that you were commenting was nameless. I did find that name after studying for it.
@@mjirving29 oh okay that makes better sense.