CDT Thru Hike Ep 5: Pie Town to Grants - "My Volcanic Playground"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- My Volcanic Playground - In this episode of my Continental Divide Trail Thru Hike Documentary, I hike from Pie Town to Grants. It's a 4 day, 108 mile hike with the highlight being El Malpais National Monument. It's a massive old lava flow. The Spanish explorers who first passed through the area walked around it, and called it El Malpais, "the badlands". A hostile terrain like no other, yet so interesting and alluring. Here, I discovered some lava tubes that I explored underground for a while. I also walked the rim of an old volcano with elk running around inside! There's also La Ventana natural arch which was pretty neat on it's own. This section is a great example of how you choose your own adventure on the CDT... seek out the cool stuff along the way, or take the easy way and road walk around it all. You can guess what I chose to do!
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I found your channel this morning and subscribed. I have watched many CDT through hikes and I will have to say yours captures a awesome perspective of the trail. Great job!
Wow thanks, I really appreciate that!
I feel the same his videos are the best. He does a wonderful job videotaping and explaining what he's hiking through ❤😊
Thanks for showing us the El Malpais National Park.
I love the way you stop and smell the roses
Love your videos they are inspiring
Love your video style and narration !
Great footage! Thanks from Munich 😄
Thank you D X!
I like your style sightseeing and trekking. Great videos. Binge watching them. Between yours, Dixie’s, Basket and Darwin they are all different views of the trail. Thank you.
Thanks, I appreciate that. I do like to see me some sights :) If you're gonna hike across the country, might as well see the most you can along the way!
I love the way you vlog your hike! Thank you for sharing your journey with us.
Thank you Blanca!
Thx for taking ur time to show us the lava tubes.. Pretty neat & u spent a lot of ur time enlightening us… I see u took ur backpack off, so I hope u were always able to get back to ur pack easily
This channel is right up there with the best. Many thanks
Just found your channel....epic hike, I’m subscribed. You did a great job narrating. Time to watch more CDT vids of your....
Hey thanks jarhead, I really appreciate that!
Love the old house you stayed at. Wish I could a place like that for hikers. Beautiful hike too. Like how you explore your areas that you hike through puts an added touch on the videos so cool
Thank you! Looking back on the hike, I really enjoyed the early days when I wasn't so pressured to make it to Canada before winter sets in. I could stop what I was doing and explore for a while without feeling too guilty about eating up time, since I had so much left. Of course, that all changed closer to the end. And yes, the Toaster House is generally up there among a CDT hiker's favorite town stops I think. I was blown away the way that works, basically on the honor system. That would NOT work in Detroit!
Seeking lost are you from Detroit I pegged you from being from Arizona
Wow, I just stumbled across your video. We purchased the Thomas Ranch, now called TLC Ranch. We still provide water, camping and most of the time a home cooked meal with the hikers. We are new to this area, thank you for showing me what is out here in our neck of the woods. This video made it fun following your adventure. Thank you for sharing it!
I've heard the ranch changed hands, congrats on your purchase! It's really awesome that you guys are carrying on the tradition of helping CDT hikers. Folks like you make a lasting impression on us hikers... the kindness and generosity of people I met along the trail are some of the things I cherish most about the whole journey. So thank YOU for making the CDT the amazing experience that it is!
Seeking Lost welcome! We have really enjoyed the guests Coming by and sharing their journeys with us. If you ever decide to make the CDT hike again, plan on stopping by!
I love your style of voiceover recording. It makes it sound like I'm on a sightseeing tour with the Mandalorian.
Road walking those distances would bore me shitless.
It may not be the most exciting, but to me it's all part of it. Gotta take the good with the bad!
Awesome videos!
Love your style
Even living here in Colorado I am still amazed at the wide open spaces of New Mexico
This has to be the best cdt doc on youtube love your approach to it and the way u are hiking ur own hike walking paths most don't awesome caves
Thanks so much! I'm glad I got to do all these little side adventures in the beginning, because I didn't have as much time at the end. No regrets though!
Its a great route into Grants. Much better than the usual and shorter way from Pie Town.
Sure beats that paved road walk the whole way
I second Preston Beasley's comment also, I thought I'd add personally with the music you put to entering the cave I had to fast forward it! I was so scared how can I ever get the courage to on a through hike! ahhhh
Thanks Catherine :) I think you can do a thru-hike, if you commit to it you will overcome any fears you have before hand. If you ever choose to hit the trail, I'll be rooting for you!
@@SeekingLost coming from someone like you, that really encouraged me. Funny how far some kind words go! I'm gathering/collecting my gear💗
Gorgeous views.
Hi from Holland, really enjoying your CDT journey!
Hey thanks so much! Hope all is well in Holland :)
@@SeekingLost Yes it is, still watching your playlist I'm at episode 14 now :)
Haha...discovering that phone based navigation works through GPS is a joyous occasion in many a hikers life. Just showed a friend this 2 days ago.
And those lava tubes were something! That footage was great!!
Haha yes it is! It blew my mind that the GPS would work in airplane mode but man that makes life so much easier.
Loving the journey so far! When I saw Seeking Lost, I didn't remember the channel name, but I thought that I recognized your video style. Then I looked back through your older videos and it hit me "Metal Backpacker"!
Hey thanks! I switched names about a year ago. But I'm still a metalhead! Hopefully these videos are a bit more refined than my old ones :)
Just had a chance to scan through your channel, I like what I see so far! I just subbed. Looking forward to watching a few on the big screen before bed.
@@SeekingLost Right on! There is nothing as epic in our videos as your usual hikes, not to mention a thru-hike. Hopefully someday!
great videos.
Northern Ca near lassen has tubes. . . .lava beds national monument in NE Ca. Always cool to find these.
Heck yeah they were so much fun to walk around in! Craters of the Moon also has some tubes
This looks JUST like the south of Chile's volcanic areas!!
I want to go to Chile someday! To walk the Andes would be nice
My wife is Chilean, I've been there several times! The Andes are incredible!
Wife and I just subscribed started binge watching your channel on this snowy seattle day! Great channel ....cheers
Haha nice, a snowy binge day sounds amazing! Hope you can get out and enjoy the snow. I went out ice fishing today but came up empty. New CDT videos tomorrow and Monday! Thanks for watching :)
Green Chilli!
And don't you forget it! Haha
Wow! The Badlands were very desolate!
New Mexico is...
Wow 17 lbs down by Pie Town and 90 miles of road walking in this section... crazy days. Good to know about the ice caves. Were the lava tubes and volcano rim on trail or a side trip?
I think I was doing pretty good keeping my weight up until the Doc Campbell's to pie Town section. It was a long hike and I was rationing food by the end. But after this section my weight stabilized for much of the rest of the trail. Losing a ton of weight was one of my biggest "fears" before hiking the CDT. I once lost 15+ pounds in 7 days hiking a high route in the Wind River Range. I only brought 13 pounds of food, should have had 18+!
The lava tubes are right along the actual CDT. However, it seems like few people hiked this section. The volcano was way off the actual CDT and is a route few hikers would take. But, there are other volcanoes along the actual CDT route in the Chain of Craters area. I didn't hike that section either but you can see them on the map. I can give you a more precise location of the tubes if you're interested.
Really enjoying your videos, very well done. I wonder how many extra miles you hiked going back to get your camera on the views of you hiking?
Thank you! Haha no kidding... Not to mention the extra time involved, no wonder everyone was faster than me 😁
The ladder over the fence is called a stile.
Yup I learned that eventually and pointed that out in a later video. Everyone has their first encounter with a stile at some point haha.
@@SeekingLost They are awesome. I did see you call it that later on. I'm partway through the journey.
Agreed. Nothing beats a well placed stile!
El Malpais translated literally means "The Bad Country"..
Wtf you put the beer 🍺 back ... you did know it’s 12 o’clock somewhere...the lava tubes were cool
I should have drank the beer in the lava tube. Not many times you can do that in your life
Seeking Lost that was really cool your the first person I’ve seen to show those tubes
I'm curious if somewhere along the journey, someone shared how Malpais is pronounced? It sounds like mal-PIE. I had to learn that the hard way (I absolutely butcher names on the regular). >_____>
Yellow blazers will skip 200 miles then not even mention it lol
then for their lives they will regret not doing a few more miles ahaha
I wish you didn't cuss in your videos. They are amazing... except for that. God bless you.
Just don't like the music all through the video. You do could cut it down by half - how about the sound of your foots steps or random bird sounds , even the wind ? This is a nice
Hey I appreciate your feedback! Honestly, the wind noise had a lot to do with my decision to go heavy on the music. It's almost always windy on the CDT, and I wasn't able to figure out a good mic setup with my gopro mounted on a gimbal before the hike so I just used the built in mic on the gopro.
But the biggest issue from an editing standpoint is that often times, every other clip is silent and every other one is loud with wind noise. So it makes it hard to have extended scenes of nature noises, at least if you are trying to keep the clips in chronological order like I did.