Leaving Snow Camp - Arizona VanLife
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I spent my last days at my snow camp in the Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. This was my best camp experience ever! I head towards Show Low, Arizona to shower and resupply. I ended up meeting a subscriber Brad who is from Show Low. thanks for hanging out Brad!! Then I head towards Glob, Arizona on Hwy 60 through Salt River Canyon which is an epic drive. I find a camp at Jones Water Campground, a free camp in the Tonto National Forest. I grill up some chicken on the camp grill and spend the night video editing.
Thank you for being here.
*My name is Brian. I started living full time in a self built camper van in 2014 in my hometown of San Diego, CA. I hit the road full-time in 2015 to pursue seasonal work and travel around the U.S. I find free camping on public land and enjoy photography, hiking, biking, and kayaking in nature. Join me on my adventures.
Thanks for watching!
**Follow Your Dreams*
#arizona #snowcamp #vanlife
The rest of us are completely stressed out, and here you are in a zen-like journey from one little slice of heaven to another. If ever you run into a spot of trouble, just remember that millions would gladly trade places with you.
Brian, like your dad would say, we're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time!
Sometimes what we see as an obstacle is natures way of getting us to slow down long enough to get back in sync.
I constantly think what a BEAUTIFUL country we live in.
The best in the world.
Brian says:
Thank you for being here.
I say:
Thank you for being there!
Amazing. Brad helps you and you help Brian at the roadside. What a wonderful world.
Thanks for the tip about the green onions, i keep asparagus the same way.
I'm happy everything went okay when you assisted a complete stranger, on the side of the road, all alone, in the middle of nowhere! I admit I would not be that brave! Stay safe & careful always!
I was camping by myself for several days in a camp site near Mount Langley’s trail head to acclimate to altitude. It was tranquil. I didn’t do much except cooking, reading, and sleeping. I still remember that experience.
While the scenery is great, the people who engineered/ built the roads needs a shout out!
You should do a meet up with Foresty Forest some time .. I think you two have the same relaxed vibe
Wow, Brian..those shots of the canyons we're absolutely awesome. 💯% better I bet in person! Good thing your drone knows how to fly! 😆 TY
Excellent Brian. Life is good when you can be so at peace with the nature :)
Loving that Drive Brian, thank you for all your hard work.🙏❤️
That drone footage was epic… Beautiful canyon, perfect weather!
Good Karma help with that breakdown too 👍🏽
You didn’t say how long you were sequestered all by yourself in the snowy woods! Absolutely gorgeous drone footage. Beautiful and peaceful video! Thanks for sharing.
The snow camp is quiet and peaceful and clears your mind of all the stresses in the world.
Northern Arizona is beautiful. Snow looked like it melted fast at the high elevations. Thank you.
Brian thanks for giving us all the chance to enjoy the terrain with the drone footage.... Breath taking brother ! ✌️
....and now....AWAY WE GOOOO....
Hey Brian, I couldn't agree more with you about the trees being our friends. Great video dude.
Brian watching you carving spoons reminds me of Richard Proenneke. I am sure you know who he is. You seem to find peace in nature the same way except with a modern twist. Its so cool. Thank you.
I wonder what type of wood he uses
Hey Brian, May I know the title of the guitar music you have in this video, I really like it . Nice episode !
Great area you’ve found Brian. Really enjoying the new way of filming your travels. So good to see you so happy. Stay safe
Hello 👋 dear, how are you doing?
Good stuff. The enlightenment when you get that sense of nature - the noise yet silence of the snow falling in the forest, the smells, the realization that you're alone and yet you're not in the grand scheme - nothing like it. Keep up the good work!
Mardi gras today and the weather is perfect. Im running the fan and ac to make sure I'm comfortable.
💖 that 🔥. God bless.
Geaux Tigers and Laissez les bons temps rouler!
@@TXMEDRGR They can roll them good times I'm safe at home.
Brian you seem to really make great choices that lead to your “ life experiences” . I love that you recognize the truly wonderful ones and share the joy of them with us . I can say I know when a special event or location just hits that magic spot. It can be as simple as a walk in the backyard but when it’s great it’s great. Solitude certainly helps. Thanks for your work you put in.
Agreed 👍 😊
Hi Brian, the thoughts you share are very uplifting about nature and how it affects you and how it’s changed your life. That was very kind of you helping “Brian” out. I would have done the same, safe travels….🙏🏼🦅🙋🏻♂️🪶✌🏼
Sometimes ya just love a place so much that it's very hard to leave.
If you ever get a chance to “float down the salt” in May or June DO IT! It is fun, relaxing and pretty (maybe skip The Weeknd parties
Hi 👋 dear, how are you doing?
Brian, the drive through the canyon and the drone shots that you took were breathtaking!! What a gorgeous area!
And as always, you make me smile with your appreciative whistles!
✌🏼😊
Your love your adventures Brian
What a great one this was! I’ve been watching for over 3 years now and it was so nice to see you smile with true and beautiful happiness here.
I learned in my Navy days, be comfortable being uncomfortable! It has served me well all my life and journey through it! Sounds like you got to experience it, and ain't it great! Happy travels my friend!
Sounds like a mountaineering saying
this whole video was a. gift from G O D
Loved your snow camp! I also very much enjoyed your travels to the next camp. And your drone shots were amazing. 😄👍
You lived thru the “fear” of being in the middle of the STORM with the ice & snow. You should be proud of yourself. God Bless you!!!!
Hello 👋 dear, how are you doing?
Thanks for taking me along for the ride God bless and be safe 😀 🙏 ❤
Hey Brian, we watch you all the time. We really enjoy your videos. Keep it up. David and Juanita aka grey goose adventures
Nice video. Your chicken, spinach pasta dinner looked delicious.
Yes Highway 89A between Flagstaff and Sedona has some serious switchbacks, but so does that section of the 60 through the Salt River Canyon. Both are beautiful drives!
The Salt River canyon there is an underrated spot in AZ. It's always something you drive through on your way to somewhere else, but it's really gorgeous. Glad Brian captured the canyon with the drone, beautiful!
Thanks for the beta.
that whole area was beautiful. I loved the drone shots. I envy you. your life is so peaceful. keep on keeping on Brian. and please be safe.
Used to watch you so much, would wake up early before school and watch your videos, I just somehow stopped watching and just stumbled across your channel again, it had been awhile didn’t even know you had a new set up! Missed it, I’m back now!!
I absolutely LOVE your videos! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Beautiful, beautiful canyon footage.
Love the drone footage through the canyon. I love geology. Thanks.
Beautiful country. My favorite TH-cam chef calls that very useful kitchen tool a spoonula.
Every video just gets better and better. I really enjoy the drone footage and seeing the beauty all around you. You are phenomenal with videography and editing. Can’t wait till the next one comes out! Peace
Hi 👋 sherry , how are you doing?
I visited the gran canon in Arizona in 2018 for the first time it was cool great view from where I stood if u haven't been there it's worth seeing the clip of what u shared in the video reminds me of it
You find the perfect place..time and time again 🏕✌🏿
Hi Brian, thanks so much for the beautiful aerial views - it's just breathtaking! Thanks for all you do, be safe and have fun!
Great life fantastic views to 👍👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
I'll be safe when you try to go out of there don't get yourself stuck be careful going back to the main road
Smart man. Take some good "fungus" with you while you're out in the middle of nowhere.
It's definitely life-changing
Brian, thank you for the trip down memory lane for me , I spent many summers in the Lakeside area I miss it so much.
Howzit! If I ever get the chance to travel the mainland you have given me great ideas for where I would like to go! Mahalo✌🤙
Brian that drone footage was top notch !! Glad you made it out of your snow camp safely! I love all of your tips like the spatula technique. Safe Travels Amigo 👊🏼
Loved the drone footage! Really beautiful scenery. I didn't care for the snow though. I live in Michigan and I'm done with winter. I didn't realize that it got so cold in Arizona. You were up in elevation so I guess it's expected. I like what I see of the current camp that you are at.
Fantastic views sir, awesome video Brian
That sky at 15:43 was amazing.
Awesome shots & cool vibes.
The adventure continues.
That look like an amazing spot to go camping. Thanks for sharing we enjoy your videos.
Robert (teardrop trailer)
Always nice to see another video. We have had two whole days of above 50 degrees here in Des Moines. I even took my guitar outside for a quick strum. Awesome.
Spectacular views. 👍👍✌️
What An Amazing Drive Absolutely Beautiful
Giving a Helping hand 👌❤️ Wood carving exquisite, yummy dinner 🍴. Thank you ✌️
Lol! What a wonderful world to live in...when you genuinely don't know if it is Sunday or Monday.
Beautiful area. You always find the nicest places.
There is so much to love here. Your inspiring attitude towards life invites these fortuitous experiences.
Peace, and safe travels.
If you get a chance when you're out there you should go to Camp Verde I don't remember when it is but I'm sure it's not around this time but they have a corn festival that people come from all over the world because the corn in that area supposed to be world-renowned but they do have a free campsite outside of Camp Verde that's along the river
God bless the kindness of strangers and also looking to always pay it forward when the opportunity arises.
That really looks like it'd be a good place if you had more feel for your heater in a lot more food you could kick back to all the snow is gone
Some of that scenery is truly epic!
Great video!
👍👊😎
Square off the edge of one of your spoons and bevel the edge and you'll never need the silicone one again, loved flying thru the canyon.
You just cannot beat the breadth and beauty of the entire Northern AZ area. I grew up in Flag. I love it so. I know it like the back of my hand. Dad was a geologist and we camped and did field work growing up. Enjoy! Thanks for the pics.
It got down to 46 last night in the mountains of Michoacán in central Mexico. My wife was complaining. I said for some people that’s the day’s high temperature. She wasn’t impressed I’m impressed by your toughness. If we had to drive our van to snow country we’d both curl up and freeze.
Our western states have much to appreciate from the snow topped Rocky Mountains, colorful canyon lands, tall grasses and beautiful prairie land flowers, crystal clear mountain lakes, streams and rivers, old time mining areas and ghost towns, etc. I thoroughly enjoyed my twenty years of living out yonder as I’d imagine you are as well. Thank you for sharing areas I’d yet to have explored. 🏕
Hello from Colorado
Amazing drone footage Brian. Glad you had no issues with the snow. Happy trails🌻
I am so familiar with all of where you were! We camp a lot by Forest Lakes and in the White Mountains. We live in the south east valley, I would rather take the 60 than 87 any day, the drive up 60 is so beautiful and in many ways more peaceful. You are pretty much the first TH-camr that has highlighted my home state!
Agreed! I'm a native of Mesa, and I was stoked to see him in all the great places we camp and visit! Forest lakes, FR 300, heber, overgaard, showlow, globe 😁😁😁
@@tammywestern5816 It’s getting pretty crowded up there in the summer now. I just wish people would learn to respect the forest more! Can’t count the times, that I have had to clean up a camp site before we could use it. Safe travels to you Tammy!
@@davevoorhees5994 you as well Dave, happy camping 🏕 😁
This was wonderful to see and feel. I traveled those roads many many years ago in another time of my life. So thank you for bringing back the memory!
WOW.... great video and again some memories.... I lived in the Phoenix are way back in the 70s, and worked for Salt River Project... both electric and irrigation divisions... left in '76. remember tubing down the Salt closer to Saguaro lake down in the valley. and Show Low... spent a night in that very wally world by the hospital... yep a bit of noise. Thanks for taking me back in time... safe travels...
Great video of your adventures. Really like the day by day. Thanks Don
Yep, no doubts physical environment is the icing on the cake, but frame of mind makes or breaks every place/moment for sure! I'm guessing you do, but just in case you don't, I bet Eckhart Tolle's teachings would be/is a nice fit for you. Lot's of free lectures, and such, on TH-cam. As always, I appreciate you Brian!
22:34 the way you delivered the "that's food...." line was just so funny to me. Had a good chuckle at that
Brian, loved this one the drone footage of the canyon was spectacular! Best Regards!
Your last video was quite the cliffhanger - I was waiting on bated breath to see how things ended up for you at Snow Camp, lol! Perhaps it was such a life-changing experience because of the solitude and self-reliance you experienced. It's always magical, hushed and serene after a snowfall, but to be alone in the middle of the woods, expertly taking care of yourself and using all your acquired survival skills, has got to be the most amazing feeling. I love that after your time alone, you were gifted with a disc golf buddy for the day! Your drone footage was spectacular - I really want to drive that stretch of road now! Thanks always for sharing.
I live half a block from a hospital helipad. You get used to it after 20 years, lol. When I first moved here it drove me nuts. I guess it still does sometimes but I think about all the sick and hurt people they are saving. I cherish the moments I can leave in my van to go camping and all I hear is the wind blow, crickets, and frogs. That is actually more my style.
The canyon footage was incredible of course your downhill drive was to. Thanks for sharing your journey with us.
Whatever the power of nature is, I don't know, but it seems to be very closely related to love.
Beautiful area. Wherever you go, there you are.
From one gorgeous place to another, you really find lovely spots Brian. Good idea to help that guy. Some folks are pretty skilled at sizing up danger and some are scammer magnets. If he'd felt at all creepy, you could have offered to suggest he stay with his car and you would make a call for him as soon as you had a signal. Still helpful, but safer. The fact that your choice to give him a ride shows that your judgement skills are finely tuned. Good to see you carving. Very nice.
Brian, this video was epic, it really spoke to me. Thank you for these videos. Your content is not only beautiful but also spiritual. Stay safe and take care.
I enjoy all your videos , especially your cooking , you always seem to make everything you cook look so yummy, keep doing what your doing with great content , thanks for sharing
I have both a 12V and 110V heating blanket. The downside to the 12V blanket is that it is only 50"x60", while the 110V is a twin size. Neither one uses much electricity. Might be a good backup for when you find yourself in another situation like in this video. The 110V uses 144W when it is "on". (About $30 at Walmart) It isn't on all the time. There is a thermostat from 1 to 10. I keep it on 4 overnight and it keeps me toasty warm without using too much power as it cycles on and off. 5 and above will make you sweat even in below freezing temps.
Brian, I have to say, the intro of your last two videos brought images of Alexander Supertramp in the Majic Bus into my mind. Nice video, I will make sure I travel hwy 60 west from Show Low.
Yeah ... Always good to see you Brian ... 🙋🏻✝️🏞️
Awesome drone footage! I actually got to watch this while I was camped!
Hey, enjoy that one great drone shots too. Take care and see you soon. Interesting fact on Show Low legend on how the town got its name. According to a legend, the city's unusual name[5] resulted from a marathon poker game between Corydon E. Cooley and Marion Clark. The two men were equal partners in a 100,000-acre (400 km2) ranch; however, the partners determined that there was not enough room for both of them in their settlement, and agreed to settle the issue over a game of "Seven Up" (with the winner taking the ranch and the loser leaving). After the game seemed to have no winner in sight, Clark said, "If you can show low, you win." In response, Cooley turned up the deuce of clubs (the lowest possible card) and replied, "Show low it is.".[6] As a tribute to the legend, Show Low's main street is named "Deuce of Clubs" in remembrance.[5]
Wow beautiful canyon! I liked your camp in the woods too.
That is without a doubt a glorious spot!!! You again, weathered the storm. 👍
I love the carved utensils u make.