Thanks! First time I heard it was John McCutcheon performing it live in a tiny theater, accompanied only by a Tibetan singing bowl. Check out his rendition on his "Celebration of Pete Seeger" album--truly magical.
Wow that was great! Nice improvisation with the bike. I just got into cross country skiing and I’ve been planning a multi day camping trip around my local lake in Maine. This was a nice boost to my plans
Great video. Can you tell us about your pulk setup? What sled and cover are you using? I am looking to build one for showshoeing the Sierr and want to know if a brake and fins are worthwhile additions. Thanks!
It's a skipulk.com "clipper" model with their cover designed for it. A cover that will keep things solidly held down is pretty critical. Fins are very useful. If there's any sideslope, the pulk's going to want to slide down it, and fins are the only thing that will help it track straight. The fins on this one can be folded up for flat terrain, which is nice, but I'd rather always have them than never. I don't have a brake and am unfamiliar with how those tend to work, but in concept it could be useful. In situations like where I'm describing how tough day 4 was, the slope was very steep on descent and I had to take off my skis and let the pulk slide down ahead of me; with a brake, the potential for building up unsafe levels of speed and momentum could've been mitigated. That said, with snowshoes, 'building up speed' isn't really an issue. I'm not sure a brake would be useful except on skis. If I had to do this trip over, my small, light snowshoes are the most useful bit of equipment I wish I'd brought, for the sketchy terrain bits.
This is such a good, fully sensational video! I particularly love your night time lapse shots with the glowing tent. Curious about your ski setup. I also got into backcountry skiing with the idea of doing multiday trips but it seems like your skis work differently than my tech binding setup
They do. These are something of a different branch of the ski binding evolutionary tree--Telemark bindings. If I had to buy my whole setup over again, I'd likely go with AT bindings, though, so don't feel like you backed the wrong horse.
Great video...what an adventure! I'm curious - how did you have your camera mounted from @4:14 through @5:16? Was it attached to hip-belt? Love the time-lapses and drone footage. What were you using? How much did your pulk weigh? Sorry for all the questions... 😆 PS - those lenticular clouds @20:30 were awesome!
Congrats for being the first to notice my magic floating second-person camera! It's a 360° camera mounted on a carbon fiber rod with its lower end braced against my belt buckle. The rod is stabilized by two pieces of braided fishing line that run from my shoulders to a point on the rod a little below the camera. The rod itself falls into the camera's blind spot, so it appears unsupported-- unless you notice the shadow or the faint V-shaped lines converging from my shoulders. The one problem is that it sways too much when I walk. Need some sort of dampener/stabilizer for it... The drone is a first-gen Mavic Air and I use a mirrorless micro 4/3 DSLR for timelapses, with a 7.5mm f2 lens on it. The pulk weighed 55lbs/25kg.
@@TheRamblingShepherd - LOL! I had to watch that section with your shadow a couple times to see where it was mounted. I have the Max 360 and have yet to figure out a way to be ‘hands free’ with it. Fishing line is brilliant! I have the same drone. 😁 what carbon fiber rod are you using? The one I have has a tripod on the bottom, but it weighs a freakin ton! In the market for something lighter. I built my own pulk, and love how it pulls with a crapton of weight. Some day, I will look into skis, but for now, snowshoes will be good enough. Looking forward to watching your other content. Especially with the goats!
@@MaryannHazel I just got some carbon fiber tubing off of Amazon and 3D-printed spacers to mount a 1/4-20 stud in one end to screw the camera onto. The other end has a 3D-printed "foot" to keep it from digging into my stomach, though I need to redesign that somehow to keep it from swaying side-to-side as much.
Nope! There were only 2 drone clips, a total of 1 minute, 17 seconds. The drone I used for those was a first-gen Mavic Air. A lot of the other clips you might be mistaking for drone footage are shot with a 360° camera. For example, the high angle shots I took of setting up camp just had the camera mounted on top of my avalanche probe.
💛...loved the song...
So cool!!! Thanks for making this.
Wow, that's actually my favorite rendition of that song. You have a great singing voice!
Thanks! First time I heard it was John McCutcheon performing it live in a tiny theater, accompanied only by a Tibetan singing bowl. Check out his rendition on his "Celebration of Pete Seeger" album--truly magical.
Really enjoyed this, great video and looks like a great trip!
Wow that was great! Nice improvisation with the bike. I just got into cross country skiing and I’ve been planning a multi day camping trip around my local lake in Maine. This was a nice boost to my plans
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing this trip. Looks like it would have been so peaceful!
It was!
Great video. Can you tell us about your pulk setup? What sled and cover are you using? I am looking to build one for showshoeing the Sierr and want to know if a brake and fins are worthwhile additions. Thanks!
It's a skipulk.com "clipper" model with their cover designed for it. A cover that will keep things solidly held down is pretty critical.
Fins are very useful. If there's any sideslope, the pulk's going to want to slide down it, and fins are the only thing that will help it track straight. The fins on this one can be folded up for flat terrain, which is nice, but I'd rather always have them than never.
I don't have a brake and am unfamiliar with how those tend to work, but in concept it could be useful. In situations like where I'm describing how tough day 4 was, the slope was very steep on descent and I had to take off my skis and let the pulk slide down ahead of me; with a brake, the potential for building up unsafe levels of speed and momentum could've been mitigated.
That said, with snowshoes, 'building up speed' isn't really an issue. I'm not sure a brake would be useful except on skis.
If I had to do this trip over, my small, light snowshoes are the most useful bit of equipment I wish I'd brought, for the sketchy terrain bits.
This is such a good, fully sensational video! I particularly love your night time lapse shots with the glowing tent. Curious about your ski setup. I also got into backcountry skiing with the idea of doing multiday trips but it seems like your skis work differently than my tech binding setup
They do. These are something of a different branch of the ski binding evolutionary tree--Telemark bindings. If I had to buy my whole setup over again, I'd likely go with AT bindings, though, so don't feel like you backed the wrong horse.
Great video...what an adventure! I'm curious - how did you have your camera mounted from @4:14 through @5:16? Was it attached to hip-belt? Love the time-lapses and drone footage. What were you using? How much did your pulk weigh? Sorry for all the questions... 😆 PS - those lenticular clouds @20:30 were awesome!
Congrats for being the first to notice my magic floating second-person camera! It's a 360° camera mounted on a carbon fiber rod with its lower end braced against my belt buckle. The rod is stabilized by two pieces of braided fishing line that run from my shoulders to a point on the rod a little below the camera. The rod itself falls into the camera's blind spot, so it appears unsupported-- unless you notice the shadow or the faint V-shaped lines converging from my shoulders.
The one problem is that it sways too much when I walk. Need some sort of dampener/stabilizer for it...
The drone is a first-gen Mavic Air and I use a mirrorless micro 4/3 DSLR for timelapses, with a 7.5mm f2 lens on it.
The pulk weighed 55lbs/25kg.
@@TheRamblingShepherd - LOL! I had to watch that section with your shadow a couple times to see where it was mounted. I have the Max 360 and have yet to figure out a way to be ‘hands free’ with it. Fishing line is brilliant! I have the same drone. 😁 what carbon fiber rod are you using? The one I have has a tripod on the bottom, but it weighs a freakin ton! In the market for something lighter. I built my own pulk, and love how it pulls with a crapton of weight. Some day, I will look into skis, but for now, snowshoes will be good enough. Looking forward to watching your other content. Especially with the goats!
@@MaryannHazel I just got some carbon fiber tubing off of Amazon and 3D-printed spacers to mount a 1/4-20 stud in one end to screw the camera onto. The other end has a 3D-printed "foot" to keep it from digging into my stomach, though I need to redesign that somehow to keep it from swaying side-to-side as much.
@The Rambling Shepherd You should do some "How-To" videos! 😀
What an accomplishment! What was the hardest thing to deal with?
Long-term, melting enough water to drink and making time to let my boots dry. Short-term, the climb up to Frog Lake was a MONSTER.
awesome trip! the footage is stellar. really cool drone videos. what kind of drone is that? (i'm assuming most of the video was the drone)?
Nope! There were only 2 drone clips, a total of 1 minute, 17 seconds. The drone I used for those was a first-gen Mavic Air. A lot of the other clips you might be mistaking for drone footage are shot with a 360° camera. For example, the high angle shots I took of setting up camp just had the camera mounted on top of my avalanche probe.