Thirsty in the Desert - the Hayduke: part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Hello!
Welcome to the first episode of our 800+ mile hike across Utah (and Arizona) on the Hayduke Trail.
This first episode spans the first 90+ miles of the route from Arches National Park to the Needles Outpost outside of Canyonlands National Park. We seemed to experience all the emotions during this section: excitement to start a new trail, the challenges that come with hiking in the desert, and the joy of making it to a refrigerator filled with cold drinks after encountering a lot of undrinkable, alkaline (sulphur) water.
It's been fun revisiting the footage captured from the Hayduke because it was truly a breathtaking trail. It beat us up. But we came out the other side with a deeper appreciation for wilderness, public land, and the amazing people who recreate along it.
New episodes coming this summer. Thanks for watching!
**Special thanks to Caleb and Kelli for giving us a bed to rest and agreeing to be interviewed. Your love for the desert is inspiring.
hayduketrail.org
favorite gear:
Shelter: zpacks.com
Pack: palantepacks.com
tiny e-pump: amzn.to/3WtIWWL
I was so happy when they found the birthday water!!
Not shown: me eating a pop tart to celebrate afterwards, very content and happy (and relieved!)
What an adventure! Sheesh. Chronically dehydrated.
But I’m LIVING for this content! I’m obsessed! “One of these cracks is our way out! …. Found our crack!” I am LOLing frequently, cause you two are perfect hiking duo! Thanks for sharing the raw and real footage. And the history. And landscapes and locals! This is SO GOOD! 🫶❣️👏
And I miss these vibes with you two!!
We miss hiking with you too 😭😭😭. We gotta bring the #AZT2021 squad back. PLEASE. - Dirty A
Just found your channel, loving it. Read Edward Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang & Hayduke Lives. In fact I have all his books. That's what got me started on your quest. Spent many weeks since 1992 hiking/ camping (tent) in the Four Corners general areas. Passionate about the desert. Now 80 yrs old, so following you guys is so much fun. Looking forward to next episode. Oldtimer Englishman reliving my adventures thru you.
That’s awesome. The hayduke trail is very much a celebration of our public lands. We were in awe with the wilderness of southern Utah and what a special place it is for people to recreate in. It’s cool to connect with people like yourself who also share a love for the desert. Hayduke Lives!
Found you guys through a comment on a @jupiterhikes video. Cool to watch the both of you do the same trail and see the differences. Thanks for sharing your adventure!
Nice! We like watching jupiters videos too! It’s fun to see their adventure and all the familiar hayduke places.
I love your narration style. The pace is just right!
Nice! Love that
💕 !! slurps up !! 💕 happy bornday ! thanks for takin the time to record ya hike in the gorgina inbetween!!
💕🥤🥤💕
Yay this documentary style video was so well made! Can’t wait for the next episodes, on the hayduke trail.
Not everybody is bad*** enough to do these kind of hikes or has the mental capacity to not go insane seeing this water sources. Video is again incredibly nice, with a defining style to rule most of the others and some of the greatest hiker-trash individuals in it.
Personally I stick to the AT. Not that much to write home about compared to the Hayduke but in every "dry stretch" you pass 3 gas stations, 4 restaurants and 10 times trail magic. If you are lucky enough you get Norovirus for free.
We definitely felt a low vibration of insanity after tasting that water source, but maybe the adrenaline helped us keep pushing haha. It caught us off guard more than anything based on our research. I guess a lot of water in Utah falls on the more alkaline side. Even when it tasted ok later down the trail, it had the tendency to dry us out, leaving us even thirstier. The refrigerator of drinks at Needles Outpost was definitely heaven. Long live hiker trash!
Excellent! Absolutely excellent.
Great video
Hey thanks :)
randomly came here, beautiful couple. amazing video. keep it up guys
That’s very nice of you to say. We will keep on chasing that desert sunset 🏜️
This is some well-done storytelling. Very much looking forward to the whole series! 🎉
That's awesome :) the desert tugs at the heart and we're excited to share
"....gets there in the least straightforward way possible..." 😂
Y'alls series of the Hayduke is very different than the other one I've been following. I really like the interview style of yours. Both very good.
Hey that’s really nice! We love all the other hayduke videos too.
can't wait for the next one :))))
Y'all are hardcore! Getting to a store with cold drinks is top notch after hiking and drinking room temp water for days on end. I can't wait for the next vid!
such a cool video!! Congrats to you both!
Thanks! We miss being out there. It’s always good to spend time in wild places 🌿
@@dirtyjarhikes Highly agree! I just got back from a packrafting trip here in Canada, and I am not well haha
@kimhikes haha that’s awesome. Congrats on your packrafting trip. What was the best part?
@@dirtyjarhikes the views... and the chips I packed while looking at the views haha
@downdirtroads yessss chips are everything and more!
Wow, that house was amazing what a great home to live in and be able to still feel apart of nature. Thanks for sharing, and your content is amazing too 😉🤙🏽
We love that perspective. Any chance to incorporate nature into a home is special. Even if it’s something simple. Thanks for watching 😄🌿
Such a great video! Thanks for making it and taking us along!
The worst thing about Thirstday night is Fryday morning...
Great video! Wow! What an intense adventure! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks we had a good time out there in the rocks 🏜️!
Thanks for sharing your adventure! I'm glad the Algorithm directed me here, it must be because I'm following Jupiter's hiking blog and he also just started posting videos on the Hayduke trail.
Very cool! Jupiters videos are great.
I see at 9:24 someone's lifted a metal PCT sign sticker !
Looks like a blast.
This amazing! Thanks for sharing the hike
Thanks for watching :) the desert is a good place to be in the spring
Very cool adventure!
I can’t believe it was cold in April, just a month later it would get so hot!!
Absolutely. The sun definitely hit differently out there. We wore a lot of sun protection. Even if the temperature was 75 degrees, the full sun drained us.
This is so well done, thanks for sharing your adventure! I hope a lot of people get to see the series. BTW, Celeb wearing alpha on the lounger was pretty hardcore. :)
Caleb ran a 100mile ultramarathon recently so we would say he is certified 10000% hardcore. The alpha just seals the deal lol :)
YESSS 🔥🔥🔥
gnuhr on the Hayduke!! 🫶🙌💪
Awwww yeah looking good with gnuhr
This cool place❤
A cool place to explore ❤️
At 21:03 I do believe that rainwater you found in a depression is called a Tinaja (got that one from all Edward Abbey Books I have read). Having said that, this is fantastic video. A little Dream-Time. Amazing pictures, video, and narration. Thanks guys. Truly. And such great shots of the Hoodoos.
Tinaja! That’s a cool word. We were very thankful for that rainwater. I listened to “All The Wild That Remains” on trail about Abbey and that was entertaining.
@@dirtyjarhikes Great book! And it includes Stegner too--another great writer about the US West and El Desierto in particular. I became a huge Abbey fan (most of his work anyway) when I first read his Desert Solitaire, YOW!
@jhonyermo “A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.” We agree haha!
HARD CORE
I hiked the first 600 miles. We only put out one water cache. The alkaline water didn't bother us. The tinajas are great. I wonder if you took our work around the pour off in Rustler Canyon. We used Li Branfors gps track.
That’s awesome :) what year did you hike? The water in indian creek really threw us and some other hikers off this year because previous reports said it was a good source. Some hikers who went through in March didn’t have a problem, which was odd. We felt like we were going crazy haha. Maybe the mineral leaching was especially bad by April, making it extremely alkaline. Thank god for tinajas haha
You guys rock!!!!
Great job u 2 !!!!- r there no cairns along the way ????😮
What would u recommend for a water info source for this trail ??? ( in hindsight )
Thanks!! 😁 There are some cairns out there, but not much. We definitely spent a lot of time looking at our maps.
For water info, we used Andrew Skurkas water guide, read blogs from past hikers, and talked to other hikers from this year. It’s a combination of things, but in this case it didn’t work out. We carried extra water after that haha.
Ohh waoo stunning shots. Guys I recommended you visit the himalayan mountains k2 and Nangaparbat view point from one place moses peak Gilgit-Baltistan Barah Valley. Add this sound in your bucket list. Moses is open zone. At Barah broq you guys Expolre more peaks more then 6 thousand meter high peaks
That sounds like a wild mountain adventure. Have you spent a lot of time in the Himalayas?
@@dirtyjarhikes yap Moses upstairs from my village. Moses peak is on the top of my village. I am the himalayan boy that's why I recommended you add this amazing sound in your bucket list.
@BaltistaniBoys we looked at photos of Moses peak on google and it is very beautiful. Thank you for the recommendation 🙏
@@dirtyjarhikes yes Moses peak is open zone. Didn't pay any Royalty fee. Its family zone. Its route is up to my village Barah Valley. That's why I recommended Moses. Any way thanks for your reply. Me and himalayan sounds always welcome you guys when you want to visit Gilgit-Baltistan. Thank you
This hike is 3,200 laps around a High school track.
Hahaha that’s a very interesting unit of measurement
Hey cool video! Love this sort of content. ❤What are you guys using to film?
We used a Sony zv1. It’s small enough to fit in our fanny packs haha! It’s pretty powerful for being so compact.
Dang. Tough hike! What’s next for you guys?
Always dreaming haha! Hopefully some hiking in the high sierra. We would like to hike from the lowest point in the US, Death Valley, to the highest point, Mount Whitney :)
@@dirtyjarhikesthat would be awesome! I’m living about 3 hours from Moab - think I could get a 4Runner in to put a water cache for hikers in that dry stretch next spring?
I don’t know if a 4Runner could get back into Lockhart Basin where the hayduke goes through…we saw two ohvs back there and it looked rough. But, the place to cache would be along Lockhart Road
Gps coordinates 38.30890, -109.71424
If you lived near HYW95 near Hite Marina that would also be a good place to cache water.
That’s nice of you to offer to help haydukers!
Holy Shit.....I followed yall on instagram and knew this was serious but damn. Water is all I care about on trail. I'm not gonna lie, I was worried about yall and Jupiter and Sprocket on this trail when I was following along. Saw Utah for the first time last year and I get it though.
I think the biggest problem was we were not expecting so much sulfur water (it was our first time in Utah too). We’ve never experienced that before. We had beta from other hikers about the water and they didn’t have a problem in early March, but by the time we got there in April it was pretty bad. We wish we knew the scientific reason for it haha. We heard that a group of rancher control the water rights up canyon and they decide to release the water or not, so they affects things.
Where did you go in Utah?! The whole state kinda blew us away.
@@dirtyjarhikes I was in Torrey for a few days with a deceased friend's family for his celebration of life. So did tourist stuff in Capitol Reef and rode up in the alpine forests in a friend's Jeep. Then me and a family member went to Goblin Valley for a day. Could have spent another day there actually. Went back up to Salt Lake before going separate ways and saw a tad of the mountains there. The state is awesome to me. Then I went to the Gila in NM on my way home. That place is magical which I think you went through there on the CDT right?
@paxtianodirtfrog8947 the jeep sounds fun. We saw some pretty sweet ohv maneuvering out there. Just looked at some photos of goblin valley and holy cow that’s the spot to visit next time. Crazy landscape. We hiked through the gila on the grand enchantment trail. Hoping to go back next year on the cdt! It’s a very special place. We love the little breakfast spot in the tiny town of Alma NM outside the gila. Perfect for a hungry hiker.
@@dirtyjarhikes Sweet! Happy hiking!
When we met you said your longest water carry was 31 mi, but it looks like it's closer to 51 miles. For the next person could they cache water in this stretch?
hey again! it was nice running into you guys at jacob’s lake. the longest carry on the section was 35 miles. it would be tough to cache water because of the rough dirt roads around lockhart canyon. it would have been closer to 45 miles if the “hope so” water wasn’t there. it’s tough anyway you slice it, but not impossible!
what app are you using as navigation? Im getting more and more hooked on this trail now, and was dissapointed to see that Farout doesnt have the trail yet.
Hey! That’s super cool. It sounds like you have hayduke in your heart.
We used Gaia gps and downloaded a couple gpx files to make decisions off of. We also referenced a couple of blogs from people who hiked before us to help during the tricky parts.
www.acrossutah.com is an excellent source for all things hayduke. The creator Jamal is a cool dude.
The navigation is fairly straightforward. Hike a dirt road, exit into a wash/drainage, follow it, climb out of the wash (can be tricky), then hike another dirt road or across a mesa till you drop into another canyon. It’s definitely approachable if you’re familiar with Gaia and comfortable with going really slow sometimes.
We hope farout never gets the hayduke. It’s more fun and more aligned with a hayduke philosophy to stay free from that.
@@dirtyjarhikesthank you!!
Y’all are cool as fuck.
Back at ya
16:09 How would 2017 Dirty feel about this comment lol
2017 Dirty was famished and roughly 20 lbs underweight! But also the happiest 💖