Backpacking the Thorofare
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- This was a 9 day trip into the Thorofare, in Yellowstone National Park. I started from the Heart Lake Trailhead, hiked along the southern section of Yellowstone Lake, and followed the South Boundary Trail to exit the Snake River Trailhead.
All featured music owned, written and recorded by me.
0:00 - Day 1 / Intro to Heart Lake
5:16 - Day 2 / Heart Lake to Grouse Creek
13:05 - Day 3 / Yellowstone Lake to Upper Ford
23:51 - Day 4 / Yellowstone River Valley to Three Mile Bend
33:04 - Day 5 / Thorofare Ranger Station to Thorofare Creek
48:49 - Day 6 / Lynx Creek to Plateau Creek
01:00:14 - Day 7 / Big Game Ridge to Harebell Creek
01:07:37 - Day 8 / South Boundary to Snake River Hot Springs
01:24:03 - Day 9 / Out to Snake River TH - บันเทิง
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Thanks for the videos beautiful country
Just started watching your videos, really enjoy them. 😊
Thanks you for putting this together. That one isolated Ranger Cabin would be tremendous to see and experience. A great wilderness area to glimpse from this video. Good work!
I’d cry too how freaking incredible this is! I cannot believe how you do this solo!!! That is amazing to me!
God, it just hit me all at once. Where I was, and how long I’d thought about going out there. Back when I first learned about it & said I’d go one day, it was just some crazy thought I never believed would become a reality.
40 miles one way into the real wilderness? It was just a few years ago, I couldn’t even hike Table Rock!
@@shredhiker6209 I mean I don’t know how you was feeling at that moment but then again… I do… I was in the moment right with you because I get it. I just told my boyfriend one of these days I’m gonna get you on board with doing this with me lol he always “says” yeah ok I’m cool with that but I haven’t seen it YET lol I’m gonna keep trying! I couldn’t begin to imagine that feeling of being out there alone. Like, what! 💚🌲
Very nice, understated video. Appreciate your obvious respect for the land. I'll be making my fourth trip up the Thorofare in September, and I recognized quite a few spots where I've camped and fished. Thank you!
Great trip! Excellent video work. I liked your music, not overbearing but just enough. Making it to the Thorofare Ranger Station...that was amazing.
Thanks so much. I did my best to have music that added something to the video, without stepping on the calm & quiet aspect of the hike.
A very nice backpacking video. Yellowstone is so wild and wonderful. Keep exploring and making videos!!
Amazing channel have binge watched and liked your vids Thank you
Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed them!
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing
Also i love that you don’t use music
It's been almost 20 years since I've been out there, I did virtually the exact trip that you did in this video. That is some deep in the middle of nowhere country when you are all alone, it definitely gets your senses on edge. You've really brought back some memories. Thanks for the great video!
IMHO, this is one of if not the best hikes in all of Yellowstone. Solitude makes the trip for me. What a great video bro!!! The moment you had at the Thorofare Ranger Station... I had the same moment there two years ago in mid October. Something about that place, it just draws it out of you. You're 100% right, we're lucky to still have that place. We need to protect it as best we can. When I stayed at 3 mile bend a few years ago there were bear tacks, grizzly mostly, through every open area of that campsite. The dirt around the fire and the clear spot going toward the beach had tracks 8-10" wide, so a monster had been there recently. They were about as fresh as I'd ever seen. Just insane. It made for a 'sleep with one eye open' kind of night. I also stayed at Plateau Creek, but it started snowing on me around 6 PM and didn't stop really until the next day around noon. The morning I woke up at Plateau Creek and got out of my tent finally, there was a literal herd of deer moving through. Probably 30 of them. I've never seen a herd that big up there. I hate to admit it, but I also rucked out a GIANT glass whiskey bottler form there as well. Some people... I am jealous of your weather! That's awesome to see Amber at the end. SUPER proud of you!!! It's a mental game out there. I've been freaked out a few times over the years as well. That bear, WOW! They love to jump scare ya! Again, IMHO this is one of the best hikes someone can do in all of Yellowstone. I HIGHLY suggest it to anyone who is OK being by themselves in their own headspace for a week at least. Thank you for sharing!
There’s still so much of the GYE I’ve not seen yet, but it’s hard to imagine another route where you could experience the essence of the Yellowstone wilderness more. Thanks so much.
@@shredhiker6209 Yea dude, I've done the Lamar, the Bechler, and so much inbetween. The Thorofare by far has stolen my heart. Next year I'm trying something new, hopefully. I'm headed for the BWCA for a 10 night canoe trip. A whole new set of challenges and adventures. Have you ever been up there?
I've never been up there or done a real canoe trip, just some casual flat water paddling on some of the SC lakes close to home. @@longwildernesswalks
Yeah when I climbed out of the Thorofare on the trail along Lynx Creek, I started seeing an uncomfortable amount of bear tracks, and that whole stretch was oddly quiet. Something about it had me on edge for a large portion of the day, I was still seeing tracks on the trail right up to the Plateau Creek campsite. I was still a little jumpy from the grizzly encounter I'd had a few weeks prior. I can't help but wonder how long the sow & cubs up near big game ridge were watching me from the tree line, or if it was me stopping to catch my breath that made her decide to announce her presence?
I left a comment a few weeks back when this premiered, but I gotta be honest… I clicked as soon as it hit but it was after work and I fell asleep after about 15 minutes. I only got around to finishing it up now.
Man, I gotta say… you stepped up your game some levels on this one! I know I’ve chatted with you before, and I know you’re an experienced backpacker, but this is some Joey Coconato level shit. The Thorofare is no joke. Soloing it?? That’s a whole different animal. If you know you know.
I’ve got a few years under my belt now in Grizzly country, as I know you do as well. And I’ve modeled a lot of trips after some of the select few channels that are legit. As in “people know what they’re doing out there… how to do it… and put their money where their mouth is” kind of channels. Imo, your channel was one of them before this video. Now… I have even more mad respect brother. You deserve a SHIT TON more subs. If this video doesn’t get you there, I don’t know what the hell will. I guess you’d have to post 29 sleeping pad reviews to every night out in the “backyard” to get there (as it seems a lot of our fellow corporate shill channels resort to). Unfortunately though… this is the kind of content that belongs in people sub lists and playlists. Not that crap!
I know it’s a long comment, but I just wanted you to know (as a fellow creator who does it for the right reasons, and for the people who search for and find the important content) that your hard work and adventurous spirit is appreciated.
This is what honest and true wilderness content shout be. Thanks for putting it out there.
As a side note, I also saw about 4 CDT hikers on the way into Heart Lake. They’re the only people I saw. For me, our channel was created so that people could see that. So they could understand that a few miles into the backcountry can turn a million visitor park into your own personal playground if you take a leap of faith, step off of the boardwalks, and search for the adventure. I wish more people took that leap. Keep creating content, and you’ll change people lives. Because that’s how it started for us. East Coasters with no backcountry experience who took that leap because of a 7 day backcountry TH-cam video in Glacier that put a fire in our souls. Now we’re 5 years, 10+ Parks, and about 12 different states into our journey. All because of that one dude’s video.
And I didn’t make that Coconato comparison lightly. He was the one who did that for us.
This video reminded me of that one. Nicely done man
Thank you so much for the kind words, that really means a lot, seriously.
We did our first Yellowstone road trip 5 years ago, and just driving through that vast wilderness, something called to me that I had to experience more of it. We came back the following year doing our first few 3-4 mile one night trips, and just wanted to go deeper & deeper in with every passing year.
I’ve been very fortunate to be able to go back the past few summers & see some really amazing places. I don’t worry too much when it comes to views or subs, I just try to make the best content I can that shares my experiences in a way that’s authentic. It’s a good feeling when I connect with folks who understand & appreciate that.
i agree, i love myownfrontier and miss Joey’s videos on youtube! Love this style of video, the narration, & the no music!
Nice trip report . I solo backpacked for a number of years and have been in and out of the Thorofare 5 different times. Weather can be a crap shoot after Labor Day but looked like you made out pretty good. 6Y6 at Three mile Bend was always a favorite campsite for me. Had a sow black with a cub cross the river and start up towards the camp one morning but they turned around and departed down river as soon as I made my presence known. Nice shot there of Hawks Rest that you got. Thanks for your report on my favorite place!
6Y6 just might be my favorite campsite of anywhere I've been. Hopefully I can make it back out there in another year or two, maybe coming in from Nine Mile or the Teton Wilderness side.
Great video! Respect!
Enjoyed the adventure.
At minute mark 27:54ish, it looks as if an angel or spirit flies out of the mountain range. It's such a beautiful place I spent some time out there over the summer.
haven’t been to Yellowstone since i was 17 and did my NOLS course…loved watching this!
Awesome as always!
Nice work on this video! That Bull liked you lol! 🫎🌲 love love love this!
I made it all the way through the video this morning lol it’s what I woke up too! Happy Birthday to Amber! I’m out! 🌲 thanks for such a cool wake up video!!!
Had a permit for this hike one year, but found out from the rangers just a few days prior to our arrival that the Yellowstone river was still uncrossable. Would’ve been real disappointing to have walked the difficult south boundary trail and have to turn around and hike over the mountains again. Our start point was at the snake river trailhead.Looks like you had an excellent trip!! And beautiful weather too !
Yep ! That cabin is a place where I’d like to spend a day. I think it’s the farthest that you can be from any type of road in the lower US.
Something about hearing a wolf howl…..you know it’s a wolf!! There’s no mistaking it, and it’s not like anything you’ve heard on tv or in the movies.
I was shocked at how wet & muddy a lot of the trail was, even into September!! I didn’t get a chance to film it, but the trail was flooded in a few spots because of beaver dams as well! I think that’s part of what makes it special, is there’s only a few weeks a year where you can really get out there.
That’s the same area my boys and I saw a sow and her cubs.
Great trip! Nice footage! Brings back memories of that country when I worked down there. I was the Thorofare Ranger for a few years and the Heart Lake Ranger for 8 years
Thanks for watching & the kind words. I can only imagine what it must have been like, being out there year after year!
Great video man, I did thorofare last late summer first time. Incredible place, want to go back. Watching videos like yours lets me relive it again.
Also, I brought some cigars for every night along with some scotch.
What were you smoking and having for whiskey?
Super good video! Thanks for sharing. I would like to start at 9 mile TH and end at South Entrance one of these years. Was it difficult to find a camping spot in the Teton Wilderness for that one night?
Another hiker had given me a pretty good idea where to find a decent camp spot along that stretch. The section along Harebell Creek only has a couple of suitable spots that I saw, but it’s enough to make due if you need to be between Fox Park & the Snake River.
How did you get your permits for a 9 day hike? How far ahead did you get them? I have not camped within Yellowstone for a few years because it seems to be getting more crowded and the permit system seems kind of difficult.
For this trip I entered the backcountry lottery, and to my surprise, I was able to get most of the backcountry campsites I wanted for the days I would be there. I think the lottery opened in March & I was selected to choose my campsites sometime in April.
I've had pretty good luck getting walk up permits for 1-2 night trips, just showing up at the backcountry office & being flexible with what was open. For longer trips though, we've always entered whatever lottery or mail-in system they had in place at the time & just hoped for the best.
Where is that campsite along Harebell on day seven? Above or below the pond you photographed the next morning? How far? Thanks. Great video.
It’s about 2.5 trail miles east of the Harebell patrol cabin. If you’re looking at a trail map, it’s the last little section of trail that drops south of the NP boundary headed west.
Thanks. @@shredhiker6209
What vidoe camera are you using? DJI or GoPro?
Just an iPhone 12 on this one.