Wheeler Peak: New Mexico's Highest Peak
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- Another awesome Mediocre Subscriber suggestion. Hadn't even considered this area until two subscribers suggested I go. Hats off to them and everyone else who has suggested an adventure. My list grows longer by the day. On this episode I travel solo to New Mexico to climb the states tallest mountain, Wheeler peak. As a bonus I pieced together a traverse I'm calling the Taos Traverse even though I'm positive it has another name. In the end I got to enjoy 16 miles of some of New Mexicos finest terrain.
Now in my old age with a severely damaged heart, I can only enjoy the wilderness via people like you. I cannot thank you enough for creating such outstanding, informative and professional videos of your adventure. May you live long and prosper.
He's also an inspiration for us young and lazy folks. God bless you Dennis!
I'm middle aged (if I live to 100), these vids are great for a lot of us that may never make it to some of these parts. I would love to hit all these places Danny takes us to, so I'll just say maybe someday. BUT I'm planning to make it AZ's highest point next weekend, Humphrey's Peak. Wish me luck~!
15 miles and 7,000 feet of elevation - "an easy day" LOLOLOL #iamfat
Seems not too bad to me, but it would probably take me 14 hours rather than 7.
Miss be thr
The Virtual Sherpa you do some great videos as well but these guys are BEASTS.
Me too brother, I could barely drag myself up Mt. Ida.
15 miles isn't horrible but 7,000 is a lot in a day... Yea
Awesome place to be. Those aren't domesticated sheep. They are wild but don't have many worries because there are very few big horn sheep hunts here so they don't get too spooked by humans. They have recently re-established heards all over NM. The heards in the Wheeler area are growing fast so many have been taken from there and re-introduced into other natural big horn sheep habitat across NM. On a side note, Wheeler Peak was one of the best hiking trips I've ever had to date!
THANK YOU FOR SUCH AN AWESOME VIDEO OF NEW MEXICO!!! This one stands out as one of the best and highlights why I love hiking in New Mexico! I love the alone-ness, the oneness with nature, the beautiful sky and the awesome scenery!!!
I love nm great show
I hope you know all the extra work you put in to get great shots and make the filming top notch is appreciated and noticed. Keep it up!
I’m just in awe.
Of course, you’re much younger than me too. But you are amazing.
That was impressive trekking.
I’m glad you explained your filming by yourself, because that is a lot of extra time and energy.
Just amazing.
I love hiking and climbing, but after several injuries, it’s not as easy at nearly 64, but I still get out there.
Thanks for the journey with you.
This was my first time watching you. I’ll be checking out your other vids too.
Be safe.
Production value 11/10. Always good, keep em coming.
Welcome to NM! Great video! How about a short gear review sometime? It would interesting to see what you carry and camera equipment you used
Yes!
def would like a gear & nutrition list
Plus some training tips!
Also a Time Date stamp so we know what the weather is like at certain times of the month, I can only assume when the video was published is the time date
They have a channel for that. Extra Mediocre.
Great quality, funny, informative, and just a great channel. Thanks for making these sweet videos!
Holy shit.. I never see videos about NM haha! What a trip
Thanks for showing off NM
Love me some Taos and you have done it justice.
Thank you emphatically! In my 20s, I climbed Mt. Adams, Rainier, Baker, Mt. St. Helens, Glacier Peak. Seeing you hike/climb peaks I had on my list but have not accomplished is wonderful!
Absolutely pumped to look up climbing videos in my home state and who pops up but YOU!! Cheers
Thanks for the video… I’ve been going to Red River & Taos since childhood and have completed 2/3 of this route and didn’t even know about the western ridge trail over Twin Forks Peak. Will be headed back!
I've been missing New Mexico - I love this area! Nice video :)
Let’s go in October Maren ;) 👍
This channel is sick, so underrated. The footage from that drone is incredible! Makes me wanna get out there, keep up the good work!!
Thanks for bringing us along! Excellent production value and quality filming!
Wonderful, fun to watch videos Danny! I love the camera work, editing, music, humor and lots of adventure and fun. Keep up the great adventures and I really appreciate you documenting them.
You inspired me to try mountain running/climbing etc. Just attempted this route in November and it was pretty tricky, you make it look like cake. Thanks for inspiring others to do what you do
Know it must be tedious to keep backtracking to retrieve your camera but the views you capture are AMAZING 🤩. Let’s us enjoy the ridges with you safely from our IPhones. GREAT JOB! 👍🏻
Great camera work, good production, amazing subject matter. Thanks I really enjoyed it!
Cool video.. i with you could have hiked the Truchas peaks in New Mexico.. also 13k elevation but way more extreme than wheeler and there's 4 peaks in the region
Just climbed Elbert yesterday! Leaving tomorrow, wish we would have seen you out there. You’re a lot of my inspiration for going! Keep up the great work! 👍
From NM and have known climbers in the past who talked about Wheeler. Great to actually see it after all these years. I have a friend who is climbing Wheeler this weekend, good timing for the video.
Wow bro !! I’ve been here 4 times and went back end of May and couldn’t make it up you were super blessed for the snowmelt since then! Amazing video thanks for taking me along 💯👌🏽
It’s so cool to see the true New Mexico great job thanks wonderful video
Thanks for sharing this! Gets me excited for the snow to melt here in SW Montana. Looking forward to backpacking season. Great job!
Love your videos Danny. My favorite TH-cam channel by far. The effort you put into production is insane and inspiring.
Wow, this video made my week! You hit the weather perfectly & the footage looks spectacular. When I recommended this I fully expected you to park higher and follow Kachina Lift to Kachina Peak, ridge the cirque to Wheeler, descend to Lake Williams and take the 1 mile trail back... You went the long way & in only 6 hours while self-filming... Incredible video.
This is the most underrated channel on youtube
Frigin amazing ♥︎ Misadventurous NM grandma here, thinking about doing the easy, well-defined part this summer. Hope I get good weather.
8:04 little creature pops its head out from the chairlift
Great vids lovem!
More than entertaining than avengers endgame!!!
Awesome editing, and sick shots!! Thank you for this killer video of my home state
I just want to say thank you. Being a youtuber and doing all those camera shots was not easy and might be a little unsafe to climb those ridges, place your camera, then climb it and go back to get the camera. If only they made a camera we could place down, pass by it, then it would come back to us 🤔. Great work on this one. Appreciated big time.
Love n respect from the UK dude..love your videos..really make interesting watching..keep em coming!
The east side has an excellent couple of variations that are great . Climbed both side and bull hill when 6 w/ father and older bro.
I am learning a lot from your channel and it's inspiring future climbs. I am pretty focused on technical ascents right now. These summits/peaks you are tagging make for great training. The speed and efficiency in which you are able to knock them out is incredible. I wish you would add some of your packing list for each adventure to your description. Videos showcasing your training would be awesome too.
Man I love your videos! I live up in Summit, CO and the videos have definitely been motivating me to crush peaks.
Just what I needed this morning. Thank you
Great job! I've spent some time in LaCal Basin. Got chased off the ridge by hail storm. Quite a day! Thanks for sharing your adventure!
Pretty mountain scenery, drone footage, nothing real hard. Thanks for sharing.
I did the trail version of this hike from the ski area to the peak and back. There is a nice camping area near the treeline in a nice forest with the final creek crossing before climbing to the peak. We stayed there overnight on the first day, then came down, broke camp and hiked out.
When we first set up our tent in that camping area we could just barely see the top of a thunderhead over the ridge to the east. The sky was 95% blue sky with the exception of the top of the thunderhead. All of a sudden this thunderhead threw out some lightning that went over the ridge and hit a tree about 200 feet from where we were standing. We were talking to the other folks setting up camp there. We high tailed it to our tent, which was a Frostline Kit, a company younger hikers have no knowledge of. Unfortunately it had metal poles, which didn't make me feel real safe. Within a half hour thunderheads built above us and we got a hard rainstorm for an hour or two.
Dude your videos have motivated me to get my butt back climbing mountains again! Love these!
Great video and good job. If you’re ever in the Los Angeles area look up the San Antonio Ridge Traverse. Iron Mountain to Mt Baldy.
The other name for this route (at least for the Wheeler > Kachina leg) is the Wheeler Cirque. I did a shorter version of this hike last summer, by taking the Williams Lake trail to the summit of Wheeler, and then the Class 2-3 traverse of all the peaks to Kachina. Once at Kachina I ran into the first other hikers I'd seen for hours, a couple of Indian tourists. We all ended up hiking/sliding down Kachina to a ski lift, which we rode back to the Bavarian. Good times!
The Trinity Alps in Northern California via Mount Thompson is beautiful.lots of granite rock
Where has Blake been? Thanks for making these videos, I am so jealous of your production value.
We all need more Blake in our lives. Also, we knocked out wheeler via bull of the woods last winter. The rest of the traverse looks pretty exciting.
He made a statement in a prior video that Christoph and he were old high school friends that reconnected. That happened just as Blake's schedule changed making him less available for these adventures. I agree though, I miss Blake too.
I think I saw an angel in the clouds up above you on wheeler peak, probably the angel of no wind😇
You guys should come and do Mt Borah in Idaho. It isn't too large with a summit level of 12,667ft. The trail is just over 3 miles long one way so the elevation gain is kinda severe with close to 5,200ft gain. I loved every moment I spent on the mountain. I would highly recommend it to you guys.
Ski Time they did Borah already, search for it. They took a gnarly way up
There's a nice little loop that starts at the Santa Fe ski basin. Goes to Lake Peak, Penitente Peak, Santa Fe Baldy and back to the ski basin. You can always do it twice if it's not enough!
Love New Mexico.
Glad you had a wind free traverse, when my friends and I were there a few years back it was crazy windy and freaking cold. Good on you
Inspirational as usual!
Awesome video, especially flying solo.
Really awesome stuff - thanks for the video. I frequent this area often and have always wondered about doing this traverse. I will definitely give it a go next time I'm there! Thanks again.
Thanks for bringing us along to these amazing places. Great scenery.
Glad you finally got to do the cirque on Wheeler. Elbert will be like a rest day unless you turn it into a loop somehow. It seems unlikely you've missed it since it is in Utah, but if you haven't done Tuk and Peale that's a worthwhile loop hike/ridge scramble to take a look at. The middle section has a special name, and it was definitely worth the climb.
Les Stroud would be proud of your camera work!
Great video once again Lean Vascular D. Can't wait for Elbert.
There is a peak in Great Basin national park in Nevada that is also called wheeler peak and is the tallest peak in Nevada and only a couple hundred feet higher. You should hike it. it is just as beautiful and there is a glacier there. :)
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Incredible video I want to hike it next year
Do Mt Shuksan in WA
Or The Enchantments (Leavenworth, WA). An otherworldly hike, and a challenge if you do it all in one day.
Looks BEAUTIFUL!!!
I think Enchantments would be too easy and too crowded. Maybe if they bag all of the Enchantment Peaks as well. I hope their next trek out to the PNW is the Three Sisters traverse, or making it 5 by throwing in Bachelor and Broken Top.
As always great video, and motivation to get out and explore....👍🏽👣👣👣👣🏔 standing by for your next adventure
The scenery was wonderful, impressed with all you did in one day.
Glad you were able to avoid the thunderstorm.
Have subscribed and will look forward to more adventures!
God Bless...
Can you ascend Wheeler Peak in June normally? Or do most people wait until July?
Done the same traverse but in the opposite direction. The scrambling was fun and saw an amazing ram. Make sure you will have clear weather, you're on an exposed ridge for quite a while.
Nice! It was great to see what the conditions are like up there. I am planning to hit Wheeler later this month. Never done it before. Great stuff, man!
Nice footage. Scheduled to do Taos traverse (weather permitting) next week. Did the Taos Up and Over ace a few weeks ago, fun.
Those are Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, some people will never have the chance to see them in the wild!
Great video. You definitely deserve the gorgeous weather!
Awesome as usual. I'm actually planning on doing a weekend trip with my boys to wheeler peak soon. So good timing. Thanks for sharing. Hey if you ever come to Texas you should check out the Guadalupe mountain national park. It's pretty rugged and you could do a cool ridge traverse there. They have some awesome trails and views.
Looked like there was not a single soul there. Love that.
Beautiful area, love those grassy ridge areas. Look forward to your next video:)
Spectacular! Thanks for sharing the adventure!
Nice, NM is getting some love lately. I also hadn't even considered that area before stumbling on a different video. I just got back from a week in the Gila Wilderness NM and posted up a video of it. No joke it rivals places like the Escalante river canyons. You could do what I did and loop two rivers by traversing the high mesa in between them or you could do what you do and climb whitewater baldy peak close to 12k ft I think.
That's the route I've planned for July 4th. Great video.
The 3 Truches peaks to the south are also great , one of them has a 4000 ft mixed wal ( snow ,rock ,ice )
In the Pecos wilderness
Great video graphics and editing
Great drone shots
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That was a terrific video.
Did the same route last October good stuff! Awesome footage as usual !!
Great video man! Love the drone shots! Wheeler Peak has been on my list forever, but I still haven't gotten to it! I've been close at Angel Fire on my bike!
You’ll love it! I ran it with a buddy a few years back but it was in a blinding rainstorm. Visibility was low but it was one hell of a trip. I’m trying to catch it again on a less cloudy day. If you can you should definitely hit it sometime!!
You guys should check out the Pemi Loop in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
Zach Ritenour as a northeasterner, I would second this. But honestly think pemi loop would be way too easy of a day for these guys and feel like it would be boring for them. We just dont have the same exposure and scrambling like they have out west :(
*Literally just finished the highest peak in New Mexico*
"Gonna pack up my stuff and climb the highest peak in Colorado tomorrow morning"
Awesome.
Just found you and just figured out what I'm doing this weekend. :) Thanks for sharing!!
Great videos, you put a lot of effort into making them, thanks!
Hey, who are you calling a mediocre subscriber! I feel offended! ;) I love watching these vlogs of your adventures! Keep having fun and I'll keep watching!
🤘🏼nice video!
Nice one Danny. Looking forward to that Elbert climb!
Excellent Video!
I fkn love your videos man. You’re making me want to return my mountaineering boots for some trail runners lol. Also if you ever come to Southern California climb our highest peak Mount San Gorgonio 11,500 feet. Most of the routes are 16+ miles RT with 5,000 + in elevation gain or Cactus To Clouds trail to San Jacinto 11 miles with 10,400 feet of elevation gain.
That’s a a lot of work filming yourself. Always having to do certain spots twice just to get the shot. 💪🏽
Ha Ha I actually wrote my comment right before 3 Min so i wouldn’t forget and then you started talking about it.
My favorite youtube channel!
Thx for discovering my hometown...great video
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Fantastic those are wild sheep!
I'd race you.....but you'd win. Your vids are awesome.
I remember doing this when I was 10, but I didn’t go to Simpson’s peak, I just went down Williams Lake trail
Dude. Amazing hike. That is not easy at all!