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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- Backpacking the Loon Lake Loop near McCall Idaho. On this adventure we're following the Secesh River to Loon Lake, a stunning mountain lake in the Payette National Forest near McCall Idaho. Loon Lake is worth the trip with its beautiful hike and stunning view, but for an added bonus Loon Lake holds the skeleton of old WWII Dragon Bomber, taken down by a snowstorm in 1943. If you're able to cross the marshy bank of Loon, you can explore the bomber yourself. Going in the fall season we had the lake to ourself, giving the crash site an eerie, ghostly feeling. The perfect hike for the Halloween season!
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TIMECODES:
0:00 Hiking to Loon Lake
7:01 The Story of the Dragon Bomber at Loon Lake
11:12 Idaho Steak Dinner
13:27 Look Lake Sunrise
14:53 Hiking Out
15:47 Outro
Questions about Loon Lake or exploring Idaho? Leave it here! All the gear we used is in the description of the video. Support the channel by sharing liking, subscribing, and sharing. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next time!
Great video, holy crap! I will be on a solo trip in the Sawtooths early to mid August and I got a lot of info from your videos, thank you! Also headed up to Sandpoint and Priest lake in September with my wife.
@@The800Dragon o sweet! We just did Priest Lake in the winter. Beautiful area
That’s amazing
Thank you
awesome e scenes
Thanks
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome!
Amazing!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Sweet edit...great ideas! Thanks!
Thanks for watching Cesar!
For such a small channel I’m impressed with the Quality
Thanks. I think that's a compliment 😂
Only watched two of your videos and I can’t stop lmao
Hittin up this spot this coming weekend. Great vid!
It'll be muddy, take an extra pair of kicks!
Steak Dinner!...with some mash...mmmm good
That has to be the most Idaho backpacking dinner possible right?
@@JonConti for sure 👍
Great cinematography synchronized to music. Especially the footage on metal bridge.
Comments like this make my day. Because it took us about an hour to shoot the bridge 😂 so hearing someone appreciate it reaffirms my belief it was worth it!
Steak is tough as shoe leather
My Great Uncle, James Virgil Kelley, (Warren, AR) was one of the survivors of this crash.
Is he still alive?
Saw this on Google earth and I was very concerned
Lol nicely done
Wow what an experience! thanks for taking us along.
You're welcome thanks for watching!
AWESOME VIDEO! Well done! Music with video is spot on.
Thanks Jeremy! I took some risks with the music so for the first comment to be complimentary of it makes me breathe a sigh of relief.
CURSES!!!!! Now that I’ve stumbled onto your channel I’m getting nothing done at work!!! Good thing I’m self-employed and can binge-watch without getting fired!!!
And I’m following your trails... one at a time... heading up near Lowman this weekend. :)
That’s awesome Mike! Thanks for watching, I’m glad the videos are helping get you out!
Wife and I were there three years ago. Got " held up " by a cow moose and a young calf maybe 50 yards from the wreckage. It took her almost an hour to decide we were no threat. Then she and her calf wondered off. Stayed in that exact camp spot from the video. At about 2 in the morning heard footsteps in the water. Another Moose walked in the shallows from west to east. Past the outlet. That woke us up. Beautiful area. Great video Awesome History!!
Wow that's awesome! I had a similar experience around McCall a few years back. But it was at North Beach which is a pretty popular spot. Cow and calf hanging out in the marshy area near the beach. That would've been awesome seeing something out in the wild like that.
@@JonConti I grew up in McCall. Have seen lots of Moose in the area of North Beach
Best backpacking video i have seen yet. Loved the historical story telling side along with the journey, it really gave the video depth. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Alex, thanks for watching!
Dying to get to Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana.. Being an east coaster is brutal man. 😞
It’s a beautiful lake and a great hike.. I’ve been there. And I wonder when they will make a movie out of that whole ‘Hansel & Gretel’ winter rescue.
Lol that’s a great idea, I should make that movie 😀
You ever spend any time in the Adirondak Wilderness?
Great video, backpacked into Loon lake back in the summer of 1980. You guys camped in the same spot I did. I remember the rock
It was a great spot! In the summer it probably sees a fair amount of day hikers but we didn't see a soul.
Very Very well done! such a cool perspective.... Another place I love dearly.
Also goes to show your videography and editing skill. What music platform do you use to put these together?
Perfection!!
Thanks Lacey!
Great Video! We biked to Loon Lake this summer but missed the plane. Have to go back.
Ya it's a mucky hike to the plane so bring an extra pair of shoes.
McCall idaho is my favorite place!! I have done this hike many times, a lot of childhood memories there!! I took my daughter there last year, it was her first time. That is now her favorite hike :) thx for the trip down memory lane:)
Thanks Brandon! What a cool experience to share with your daughter. When I told Chad I did the hike he launched into a story about him and his dad exploring this area when he was a kid. A lot of good family memories to be made around McCall.
Ok, being an outdoor/backpacking/hiking YT creator as well, what do you figure your average pack weight is? I absolutely love your content. What the hell don't you have more subscribers? If you ever come up or over to the NW part of Washington hit me up, I know a few little hidden gems. Great work! Thanks for sharing...
It just depends on what I need. If it's a multi day trip it can get close to 50 pounds. For this one I was around 36.. It's all the camera gear. You might find this interesting as someone that does this yourself. th-cam.com/video/FS9FA9RQT98/w-d-xo.html that's my pack. Let me know where you'd cut weight! I'm looking at Northwest Washington right now actually for end of July/beginning of August. Maybe we can collab?
@@JonConti I would be down for that. I have a flexible schedule and can pretty much take off anytime. I am also heading to Idaho in the fall to do a hike with Danny Schaefer.
I enjoy how the contrast looks in this video. Btw , I was wondering if you can make some videos with your lady friend in the future as well.❣️🤗
Haha, that's up to her! She is not a fan of social media. She doesn't have Instagram, or Facebook, she doesn't even watch my videos. She supports what I do but when we adventure together, she doesn't feel the need to share it. She wants to live in the moment and that's why I love her. The one thing she says she'll do is make a video with me if she gets an awesome fly fishing trip out of it and a bunch of free fishing gear, so I'm working on that!
With out a dought my favorite video you have done so far. it willl be a while before i can edit that awesome. just started learing final cut coming from iMovie on the good ol iPad. cheers to you!!!!
Thanks! Edit a video every week for your channel and you'll figure it out real quick.
With proper gear and attire for the cold weather (including waders for the river), is this trip doable in April?
No because the road back in there will be closed. You probably have to wait until June depending on the year
Because of snow
@@JonConti got it. Huge thanks, Jon. Both for the video, and the info!
@@beyond_civilization You're welcome! Thanks for watching :)
In reality they had to travel twice the distance cus for every shot where they are both walking by to get the sense of the journey they have to go back and pick up the camera.
Going the extra mile!
When you got to the lake, did you walk around to the left or the right to get to the plane?
Left. Cross the outlet creek which can be waist high early in the season and follow the shoreline.
That would be a fun trip for my son and I, since he enjoys hikes. Question though on my behalf, is the hike relatively easy?
The hike to the lake is pretty easy. We did the loop, but you can do an out and back. The trail we took back to the car that you see in the video is the trail a lot of people take. It's 4.4 miles to the lake on this trail but it's pretty easy. The hike from the beach to the plane is another mile and that's tough. It's marshy and you're climbing over stuff, under stuff, through stuff. Many people take an extra pair of shoes for it.
@@JonConti Thank you, I am pretty physical, sounds like it will be a great adventure.🙂
@@chrystalynnkelly5325 if you go in spring or early summer the inlet may be too deep to cross. You may be able to access wreckage from the East side of the lake ( no trail [that we could find} in, under, around tons of blow down) We did a loop around lake. Had a really hard time crossing inlet due to water. Trail to lake is in great shape lots of Mt bikers use it.
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Sweet, thanks Christine!
Alright we need more people seeing these videos!! You can tell you put so much love and work into them
Haha, hit that share button! I'm stoked anyone watches them honestly.
story of the aviators walking out makes you think about a more challenging adventure? instead of a trail hike - plotting a path using only a compass and a topo map - they still put compass in survival equipment and you did have some map lessons when you were 8 yrs old and your mother was able to do a high Sierra summer multi day hike@ 11k ELV and an a overnight winter X/C trip in the high Sierra 12K ELV
Did she create a short film from her adventure and get paid for it? That's the hard part, walking is easy.
@@JonConti She followed me I blazed the trail
Lots of people have climbed EL CAP and had films made of the climb bur only one gathered an Oscar
Just commented this to get to 69 comments
Lol
you lost all the vegans on this one
Lol, I’m ok with that 🤷♂️
In my view, the music ruins the beauty of the solitude. I don't hear music when I am in the mountains, except the music OF the mountains. Adding music to a great video, such as this, is like finding trash littering the landscape. I appreciate what you do, but the music made me move on. This should be seen as an opportunity to share your experience not seen as an opportunity to share your choice of music. No sub.
Lol 😂 thanks for stopping by ✌️