Our Center group of seniors met you today on the AT near Calf Mountain. You looked GREAT!! Thanks for talking with us and sharing your plan for the year. Happy to offer you any support while you are in VA. Let us know!
This is all courage. I am in awe of what you are doing, how brave you are to fight through the pain and keep moving forward. I am rooting for you every day. You have total strangers who are invested in your safety, so be careful. You have nothing to prove except that you are having a great walk in the woods and you will finish alive. Much love.
36:23. He is on Big Bald mountain. Great views. , he isn’t exaggerating. The downhill on the back side,of the smaller ,mountain next to it can have some of the most slickest mud anywhere. Hike over in the leaves and grass. I damaged my knee there.
Crazy week! I skipped week 2. Watching in hindsight Dec 2024. - and the only reason I can, is cuz I know that you survived. Gorgeous scenery there at the end.
Sunday, March 10th: Sorry you are experiencing knee problems. Good attitude, poor trail conditions. Glad you made it to the shelter. Good luck! Happy Trails! Ross08
Loving your style of filming your hike! Trekking poles have saved me so many times... I really don't see how people hike without them. Just saw you show up in Stanimals post today! Was hoping I might catch you in PA, but I'm heading to Virginia to hike right about the time you will fly through. :D
Enjoyed the video, especially your overnight at Uncle Johnny's with the wood stove, the appreciation for being warm and indoors in a heavy rainstorm. Cool photo at the end of the video at Station 19 of your name listed with the other through hikers who have passed through so far this year. You all are ahead of the bubble.
Still watchin from the west coast! ❤ I feel ya on the knee pain. My right knee is bad these days and the constant pain will grind your spirit. Glad you found the silver lining views in the end. Love your videos and look forward to watching each week. Keep smiling and snoring! 😉 See ya next week.
Seeing that date of 2/15 at the end of the video makes me feel a lot happier for you. I was thinking this was contemporary to this week, and I was really worried about you completing the CYTC if you were still in TN/NC in mid-March. Pulling for you, will be watching!!
Thanks! I am way down the trail, it is just incredibly difficult to get the videos out while hiking the miles and hiking self-supported. As my mileage increases I will eventuallly get caught up with posting to where I am actually at on trail. I am actually currently hiker #5 nobo out of the 1000+ people on trail right now.
Hey, great to meet you on trail today, Nightshift! I'm bedded down in my Subaru Outback now at a Cracker Barrel restaurant parking lot, so can't watch this whole video now but was dismayed to see you were having such knee trouble. I'm guessing you were much better when I saw you today and I'll go back and watch the rest of this video when I get home to Boston. As I mentioned, Captain Jack was super happy that his knee issue seemingly disappeared but I haven't watched his latest videos to see if that was sustained. But I hope that offers optimism for your knee. Happy, healthy hiking in your ambitious itinerary for 2024! -MP3
I left part of the story out because it was to hard to edit, but I will fill you in. That morning where it was raining outside and I explain I have to walk into the rain at 5 am and hiked a 30 mile day. The real reason I hiked the 30 mile day was because that same guy sh*t directly on the trail, literally on the pebble trail, TWICE. I tracked his size 12 military tread boot prints for 1.5 days over 30 miles before I saw that he hopped off at a road junction to a hostel. Because he left at 3 am, he was 7 hours ahead of me and I never caught him on trail before I passed him. However, I did give him the trail name shit-&-run. And told the other people on trail his trail name is shit & run, and to the watch out for the guy with the blue sleeping bag. Sorry to all the other innocent people out there who have a blue sleeping bag but the collateral damage is worth it m 😂
I love the rant. I see you grabbed a new head lamp. I have the blackdiamond also and hate the charging situation as well. It's very hard to hike with a bad knee or ankle. It's all you think about every step. It's no fun. I hope it's better now so you can enjoy your hike. Could you do quick gear rundown? Thanks from Connecticut
I’m going to give that headlamp a proper review at some point and rip it apart. I hate it so much I have already replaced it with the nitecore 350 lumens.
I will do a gear review before the whites once I have 1800 miles walked with it. A gear review before the gear is intimately known is worthless; all these UA-camrs are out here talking about gear they never hiked with to manipulate you into buying stuff you don’t neeed because they make money off of it. In my review i will emphasize all the things I mailed home and how very few things are actually necessary. Will make sure to post one for you!
Assuming you're much farther down the trail by now and already know this, but you're probably entering some really cruisy parts of VA and will be able to up the mileage substantially. Have a great hike!
Your videos are some of my favorite! Thanks for sharing. I hope you achieve your goal! I know a lot of ppl are all about, "hike your own hike! Don't worry about miles, focus on the smiles! All that matters is that you're happy!" Etc. Personally not a fan of that mentality. Im planning a thru hike for 2026. I absolutely plan to have fun, but im doing it bc i want to do something hard. I want to achieve something great. I want to see how far i can push myself. Stay strong, listen to your body, and go for it! As for the jerk in the shelter... if you're willing to take two cents from a stranger on the Internet, my understanding of trail etiquette is that if you are coming in past hiker midnight, set up a tent instead of crashing the shelter. I know in some sections you're required to stay in the shelter and maybe that's where you are. Either way, he was out of line being such a grouch.
Yes, i think most people have an image in their head that im camping and not hiking. Camping is walking 5 miles and cooking ribeye steak with rosemary potatoes. Hiking is moving long distances thru nature where you see everything. For me, hiking is the destination. It’s fascinating, when I tell people in normal life of the dangers and challenges I faced on the Arizona trail, they get uncomfortable and break eye contact because they were imagining I somehow cooked steak moving 5 miles a day across the desert. No, I became nature for 45 days. Anyone who thinks I’m arrogant for saying that, please go hike the Arizona trail in 45 days without a tent and come back and talk to me. As far as the hiker midnight, I don’t think that is true, but I will actually ask around to see if I’m wrong about that. I’ll let you know if I hear differently. And that is awesome, you are going to have a blast in 2026.
It sounds like you’re in a lot of pain. Hope the knee starts feeling better! Maybe that guy was huffy because he’s dealing with pain too??? I really wish things start getting betterfor ya! you remind me of me wanting to push through it. I walked on abroken ankle for 4 wks. before i saw a dr. Then I needed surgery. Whatever you decide..cheering for you!
Trekking poles have saved my ass more than once on trail…especially here in PA on the really rocky sections. It’s important to hold them the correct way too though-so you can brace yourself IF you do crash.
100% true, trekking poles held properly are not the even held, they hang off your wrist and catch you if you fall. Anyone who isn’t sure how to use them should watch a video on it. Yesterday I slipped on an iced log and fell sideways so quickly I could have broken an arm, but my trekking pole caught my wrist and literally peopled me up, I did not even grab the handle, it just held me up. This what you are talking about.
@@JaruWalksthis 100%! I found out the hard way last Sunday when I was lax w how I held them. Slipped on a wet log and before I had any chance to react I crashed into a bunch of rocks. Finished the hike but followed up w an X-ray the next morning. Consider myself lucky I didn’t break my arm or worse!
I was so happy to hear you bitch about the headlamp. I have the same one and I also hate it. Not only the lack of usb-c but also too many light options. Safe travels.
F that headlamp. It is a POS and the outfitters who sell it need to be spoken to, and trust me I’m letting them know they need to ditch them. They just nod their heads, shame on them.
@@JaruWalks shame indeed. I got clued in on the RovyVon 4th Aurora A5 though I haven’t ordered it yet. It looks right up my alley, maybe yours. It’s a basic keychain flashlight with a clip, usb-c, led and red light, and it is tiny.
@@misterbuckets the go to headlamp is the nitecore 350 lumens. It’s usbc and weighs effectively nothing. If you do more than 3 hrs night hiking per day I would buy and carry two. Costs $35z
@@JaruWalksgreat to know. For some reason I thought they were micro-usb. And like $5 cheaper than the light I mentioned. Ordering one today. Appreciate the response and tips. I’m thankful I found your channel. 90% of hiking videos are garbage that make hiking look beautiful, leisurely, and joyous. It IS all of those things but let’s be real…most of it is monotonous, dirty, and painful…but it’s there that the true love of hiking lives. I paid close attention to your explanation of dealing with pain. Spot on. Sending the best wishes. Keep it up dude.
Thanks! Yeah, I’m so confused by how seemingly 98% of other channels portray hiking in a way that is nothing like how I experience it, which is mostly pain, exhaustion, with brief moments of the highest highs.
As a very light sleeper, I will confirm that being sleep deprived makes me very unreasonable.😅 Hiking a trail like the AT seems to carry the opposite aspects of what I personally seek out when choosing a hike. But everyones goals are different. I seek natural beauty and challenges in solitude (for the most part). Others seek different things. Crush those miles dawg.
So pleased to see an update, your vlogs are very unique. I think that's because, although you have a lot going on (knee, weather, repetitive trail) you notice things and are very reflective. The shot of the sunset on the snow was stunning and waiting to see the owl fly and being honest about your difficulties. And there's action shots of falls!!! Every sympathy for the knee pain, I have done similar to myself and only recently do I actually feel like it's healing after months, (but I'm much older so don't think that's a prediction for you). It's just so annoying and kind of pathetic, just why won't the bugger stop hurting? One can keep going but why does it have to hurt so much? It's just wasting my time here. Enjoyed the story about the grumpy camper, the AT does seem to be a lot about "tramilies" and sociability. But sometimes the "happy hikers" narrative is a bit tiresome, some people are just a'holes. And why so many mountains? In the UK, trails/paths/routes are to get you from A to B, not detour up a mountain every five minutes. Shame the Romans never got to the US, they would have sorted that out straight away. Anyway, good luck for the next portion of the trail. Looking forward to you seeing 5stack, it makes so much sense that the two of you got on so well.
I was worried I’d sound too negative. It seems every other blogger takes the approach of highlighting the beauty. But I find myself mostly in bad moods, so that’s what I’m showing because it’s real. That being said, just because I’m in a bad mood and uncomfortable does not at all mean I regret doing this or that I will regret doing this once looking back kn it. As hot wheels once explained to me, hiking taught him that it is possible to be uncomfortable and still be happy. In fact, the discomfort frames the intensity of the joy when you are seated in front of the wood burning stove. And 5stack is awesome.
@@JaruWalks I don't think it comes across that you are in a bad mood, more that you don't put up a front. And "highlighting the beauty" hmmm, can't help but think that sometimes for some hikers that's more for the "engagement" or lack of anything else to say. You can tell, IMO, which are genuine though.
@@excession3076 you are absolutely right. I’m not critiquing all the other vloggers. Some show the beauty and it is sincere, for example 5stack is my favorite UA-camr on trail right now and he shows the natural beauty and in a thoughtful and sincere way. He’s a very positive person and is just the same in person as he is on channel.
I mention toward the end, I put them on. But also it’s too time consuming constantly putting them on and taking them off since the ice came in patches, so they mostly stayed in my bag.
@@lenoredisman3192I understand but if you leave them on and hike 25 miles every day you’re going to break bones in your feet after a few weeks. Because of the time of year, I’m not walking through miles of ice, it is solid ice for 300 yards, then gravel, then back to 500 yards of ice, then mud, then 70 yard of ice, repeat all day for 25 miles. It’s really not possible for me to leave them on all day.
I wouldn't be able to fall asleep after such a conversation or even fall asleep in the first place after the first interaction. Just wouldn't feel save next to such a person who searches for every small detail to make it into a drama. Just another example that sadly walking does not fix anything Also for these kind of trail conditions there are shoes with more aggressive threads up to 12mm. The normal trail runner only has 4mm
On the Arizona trail there were multiple nights where coyotes surrounded me howling right at from 20 feet away, louder than a marching band, howls so loud they echoed off the mountains. The first night was one of the most horrifying experiences of my life, I did not sleep. But i soon realized the consequence of not sleeping is also highly destructive. Something in me eventually snapped, and I said if they actually do come attack me, i welcome them with open arms. But when they find my body, there will be at least five of those assholes bodies found around mine. That same attitude i take into the AT shelter. If you want to kill me or a bear wants to kill me, i welcome you with open arms to try, and you probably will succeed, but I’m going to take at least one of your eye sockets out before you get me. As gruesome as it is, that is how I sleep. Try me.
@@JaruWalks That's probably highly genetic. Like some people fall asleep in 5 Minutes everywhere and some need up to an hour. Probably sleeping with one eye open but still better than no sleep. Knowing that this is how i function i would very likely avoid the shelters.
@@ambulowanI entirely agree. I’m just explaining how I rationalize it. If I felt different; I would do exactly as you do, avoid shelters. That’s the next best option because not sleeping does not work.
I'm very late to your party. Just found you and getting caught up on your videos. I think it's very disrespectful to get into camp late and wake up other hikers. Many people are very light sleepers and when woken it's difficult for us to get back to sleep. You need to to sleep as far away as possible from others if your going to night hike. Like your vids so far, but disagree with your stance on this issue.
@@boblacourse1430Think about it- there are people who hike late, and people who wake up early. When the early risers get up, they wake everybody up just like the late arrivers do. My point is, to insist that everybody hike on your schedule when using a public shelter is clearly a dysfunctional mindset. The public shelter culture on the AT runs on a rule of: live and let live, but generally keep the noise level down while anybody sleeps. It couldn’t function any other way.
To add to it, in the 100+ AT shelters I’ve slept in, I’ve only once had somebody tell me I shouldn’t sleep in a lean-to while night hiking. It was this guy, who subsequently dropped two bowel movements on the trail for me the next morning. The guy was clearly dysfunctional.
Oops, one correction - Laughing Heart Hostel is in Hot Springs, not Franklin.
Our Center group of seniors met you today on the AT near Calf Mountain. You looked GREAT!! Thanks for talking with us and sharing your plan for the year. Happy to offer you any support while you are in VA. Let us know!
Awesome to meet you guys!
Jaru, you're fast becoming my favorite thru hiker I'm following. Great videos.
This is all courage. I am in awe of what you are doing, how brave you are to fight through the pain and keep moving forward. I am rooting for you every day. You have total strangers who are invested in your safety, so be careful. You have nothing to prove except that you are having a great walk in the woods and you will finish alive. Much love.
36:23. He is on Big Bald mountain. Great views. , he isn’t exaggerating. The downhill on the back side,of the smaller ,mountain next to it can have some of the most slickest mud anywhere. Hike over in the leaves and grass. I damaged my knee there.
Crazy week! I skipped week 2. Watching in hindsight Dec 2024. - and the only reason I can, is cuz I know that you survived.
Gorgeous scenery there at the end.
Sunday, March 10th: Sorry you are experiencing knee problems. Good attitude, poor trail conditions. Glad you made it to the shelter. Good luck! Happy Trails! Ross08
Dude, this episode was pure struggle bus. Highly impressive mental and physical fortitude. Keep it up!🎉
Wishing you better weather and warmer temps !!! Be careful out there!!
Loving your style of filming your hike! Trekking poles have saved me so many times... I really don't see how people hike without them. Just saw you show up in Stanimals post today! Was hoping I might catch you in PA, but I'm heading to Virginia to hike right about the time you will fly through. :D
KEEP WALKING 💕 KEEP TALKING 💕 KEEP GOING
Enjoyed the video, especially your overnight at Uncle Johnny's with the wood stove, the appreciation for being warm and indoors in a heavy rainstorm. Cool photo at the end of the video at Station 19 of your name listed with the other through hikers who have passed through so far this year. You all are ahead of the bubble.
Excellent he got to uncle Johnny’s in Erwin tn. During that rain storm. 👍🏽🥾 good place to be.
Pumped to see your update! I hope your knee gets better soon. Based on your cameo in 5 stacks video, it seemed better!
Good work Jaru! I'm glad you are soldering on. I like you no nonsense attitude and great planning!
I love my trekking poles and don't like hiking in the woods without them. Saved me a bunch of times. Take care and hope your knee feels better soon.
Love the rant! Thanks for sharing your adventures ✌️
Still watchin from the west coast! ❤
I feel ya on the knee pain. My right knee is bad these days and the constant pain will grind your spirit. Glad you found the silver lining views in the end.
Love your videos and look forward to watching each week.
Keep smiling and snoring! 😉
See ya next week.
Let's go! Get that triple crown. I'll be watching and rooting for you to complete your goals.
Seeing that date of 2/15 at the end of the video makes me feel a lot happier for you. I was thinking this was contemporary to this week, and I was really worried about you completing the CYTC if you were still in TN/NC in mid-March. Pulling for you, will be watching!!
Thanks! I am way down the trail, it is just incredibly difficult to get the videos out while hiking the miles and hiking self-supported. As my mileage increases I will eventuallly get caught up with posting to where I am actually at on trail. I am actually currently hiker #5 nobo out of the 1000+ people on trail right now.
Hey, great to meet you on trail today, Nightshift! I'm bedded down in my Subaru Outback now at a Cracker Barrel restaurant parking lot, so can't watch this whole video now but was dismayed to see you were having such knee trouble. I'm guessing you were much better when I saw you today and I'll go back and watch the rest of this video when I get home to Boston. As I mentioned, Captain Jack was super happy that his knee issue seemingly disappeared but I haven't watched his latest videos to see if that was sustained. But I hope that offers optimism for your knee. Happy, healthy hiking in your ambitious itinerary for 2024! -MP3
The major knee issue is 98% good now. Great to meet you mp3, and thanks for watching!
Pro tip for the special fragile flowers… bring some foam earplugs and deal with it.
Thank you, appreciate you taking the time to upload as well as dealing with trail life. Dying to know if saw that douche again.. 🤭
I left part of the story out because it was to hard to edit, but I will fill you in. That morning where it was raining outside and I explain I have to walk into the rain at 5 am and hiked a 30 mile day. The real reason I hiked the 30 mile day was because that same guy sh*t directly on the trail, literally on the pebble trail, TWICE. I tracked his size 12 military tread boot prints for 1.5 days over 30 miles before I saw that he hopped off at a road junction to a hostel. Because he left at 3 am, he was 7 hours ahead of me and I never caught him on trail before I passed him. However, I did give him the trail name shit-&-run. And told the other people on trail his trail name is shit & run, and to the watch out for the guy with the blue sleeping bag. Sorry to all the other innocent people out there who have a blue sleeping bag but the collateral damage is worth it m 😂
You are doing great!
I love the rant. I see you grabbed a new head lamp. I have the blackdiamond also and hate the charging situation as well. It's very hard to hike with a bad knee or ankle. It's all you think about every step. It's no fun. I hope it's better now so you can enjoy your hike. Could you do quick gear rundown? Thanks from Connecticut
I’m going to give that headlamp a proper review at some point and rip it apart. I hate it so much I have already replaced it with the nitecore 350 lumens.
I will do a gear review before the whites once I have 1800 miles walked with it. A gear review before the gear is intimately known is worthless; all these UA-camrs are out here talking about gear they never hiked with to manipulate you into buying stuff you don’t neeed because they make money off of it. In my review i will emphasize all the things I mailed home and how very few things are actually necessary. Will make sure to post one for you!
Assuming you're much farther down the trail by now and already know this, but you're probably entering some really cruisy parts of VA and will be able to up the mileage substantially. Have a great hike!
Just hit that spot yesterday and am as of today trying to hit my true daily mileage potential. Excited to see how it goes.
Your videos are some of my favorite! Thanks for sharing. I hope you achieve your goal! I know a lot of ppl are all about, "hike your own hike! Don't worry about miles, focus on the smiles! All that matters is that you're happy!" Etc. Personally not a fan of that mentality. Im planning a thru hike for 2026. I absolutely plan to have fun, but im doing it bc i want to do something hard. I want to achieve something great. I want to see how far i can push myself. Stay strong, listen to your body, and go for it!
As for the jerk in the shelter... if you're willing to take two cents from a stranger on the Internet, my understanding of trail etiquette is that if you are coming in past hiker midnight, set up a tent instead of crashing the shelter. I know in some sections you're required to stay in the shelter and maybe that's where you are. Either way, he was out of line being such a grouch.
Yes, i think most people have an image in their head that im camping and not hiking. Camping is walking 5 miles and cooking ribeye steak with rosemary potatoes. Hiking is moving long distances thru nature where you see everything. For me, hiking is the destination. It’s fascinating, when I tell people in normal life of the dangers and challenges I faced on the Arizona trail, they get uncomfortable and break eye contact because they were imagining I somehow cooked steak moving 5 miles a day across the desert. No, I became nature for 45 days. Anyone who thinks I’m arrogant for saying that, please go hike the Arizona trail in 45 days without a tent and come back and talk to me.
As far as the hiker midnight, I don’t think that is true, but I will actually ask around to see if I’m wrong about that. I’ll let you know if I hear differently.
And that is awesome, you are going to have a blast in 2026.
Trekking poles are my saviors 😂
It sounds like you’re in a lot of pain. Hope the knee starts feeling better! Maybe that guy was huffy because he’s dealing with pain too??? I really wish things start getting betterfor ya! you remind me of me wanting to push through it. I walked on abroken ankle for 4 wks. before i saw a dr. Then I needed surgery. Whatever you decide..cheering for you!
My knee is pretty much healed now. You are probably right about the guy.
Trekking poles have saved my ass more than once on trail…especially here in PA on the really rocky sections. It’s important to hold them the correct way too though-so you can brace yourself IF you do crash.
100% true, trekking poles held properly are not the even held, they hang off your wrist and catch you if you fall. Anyone who isn’t sure how to use them should watch a video on it. Yesterday I slipped on an iced log and fell sideways so quickly I could have broken an arm, but my trekking pole caught my wrist and literally peopled me up, I did not even grab the handle, it just held me up. This what you are talking about.
@@JaruWalksthis 100%! I found out the hard way last Sunday when I was lax w how I held them. Slipped on a wet log and before I had any chance to react I crashed into a bunch of rocks. Finished the hike but followed up w an X-ray the next morning. Consider myself lucky I didn’t break my arm or worse!
Hope u feel better, and wear your spikes.
I was so happy to hear you bitch about the headlamp. I have the same one and I also hate it. Not only the lack of usb-c but also too many light options. Safe travels.
F that headlamp. It is a POS and the outfitters who sell it need to be spoken to, and trust me I’m letting them know they need to ditch them. They just nod their heads, shame on them.
@@JaruWalks shame indeed.
I got clued in on the RovyVon 4th Aurora A5 though I haven’t ordered it yet. It looks right up my alley, maybe yours. It’s a basic keychain flashlight with a clip, usb-c, led and red light, and it is tiny.
@@misterbuckets the go to headlamp is the nitecore 350 lumens. It’s usbc and weighs effectively nothing. If you do more than 3 hrs night hiking per day I would buy and carry two. Costs $35z
@@JaruWalksgreat to know. For some reason I thought they were micro-usb. And like $5 cheaper than the light I mentioned. Ordering one today. Appreciate the response and tips.
I’m thankful I found your channel. 90% of hiking videos are garbage that make hiking look beautiful, leisurely, and joyous. It IS all of those things but let’s be real…most of it is monotonous, dirty, and painful…but it’s there that the true love of hiking lives.
I paid close attention to your explanation of dealing with pain. Spot on.
Sending the best wishes. Keep it up dude.
Thanks! Yeah, I’m so confused by how seemingly 98% of other channels portray hiking in a way that is nothing like how I experience it, which is mostly pain,
exhaustion, with brief moments of the highest highs.
As a very light sleeper, I will confirm that being sleep deprived makes me very unreasonable.😅
Hiking a trail like the AT seems to carry the opposite aspects of what I personally seek out when choosing a hike. But everyones goals are different. I seek natural beauty and challenges in solitude (for the most part). Others seek different things.
Crush those miles dawg.
Snoring, always fun to be around those who want you to know how upset they get at something that is uncontrollable!
Big fish is an awesome movie. If you like it check out Second Hand Lion. Happy travels and good health!
Will do
So pleased to see an update, your vlogs are very unique. I think that's because, although you have a lot going on (knee, weather, repetitive trail) you notice things and are very reflective. The shot of the sunset on the snow was stunning and waiting to see the owl fly and being honest about your difficulties. And there's action shots of falls!!!
Every sympathy for the knee pain, I have done similar to myself and only recently do I actually feel like it's healing after months, (but I'm much older so don't think that's a prediction for you). It's just so annoying and kind of pathetic, just why won't the bugger stop hurting? One can keep going but why does it have to hurt so much? It's just wasting my time here.
Enjoyed the story about the grumpy camper, the AT does seem to be a lot about "tramilies" and sociability. But sometimes the "happy hikers" narrative is a bit tiresome, some people are just a'holes.
And why so many mountains?
In the UK, trails/paths/routes are to get you from A to B, not detour up a mountain every five minutes. Shame the Romans never got to the US, they would have sorted that out straight away.
Anyway, good luck for the next portion of the trail. Looking forward to you seeing 5stack, it makes so much sense that the two of you got on so well.
I was worried I’d sound too negative. It seems every other blogger takes the approach of highlighting the beauty. But I find myself mostly in bad moods, so that’s what I’m showing because it’s real. That being said, just because I’m in a bad mood and uncomfortable does not at all mean I regret doing this or that I will regret doing this once looking back kn it. As hot wheels once explained to me, hiking taught him that it is possible to be uncomfortable and still be happy. In fact, the discomfort frames the intensity of the joy when you are seated in front of the wood burning stove. And 5stack is awesome.
@@JaruWalks
I don't think it comes across that you are in a bad mood, more that you don't put up a front. And "highlighting the beauty" hmmm, can't help but think that sometimes for some hikers that's more for the "engagement" or lack of anything else to say. You can tell, IMO, which are genuine though.
@@excession3076 you are absolutely right. I’m not critiquing all the other vloggers. Some show the beauty and it is sincere, for example 5stack is my favorite UA-camr on trail right now and he shows the natural beauty and in a thoughtful and sincere way. He’s a very positive person and is just the same in person as he is on channel.
Where is your spikes, so u don't slip?
I mention toward the end, I put them on. But also it’s too time consuming constantly putting them on and taking them off since the ice came in patches, so they mostly stayed in my bag.
I just leave on, especially in high elevation where there's is Ice then no Ice
@@lenoredisman3192I understand but if you leave them on and hike 25 miles every day you’re going to break bones in your feet after a few weeks. Because of the time of year, I’m not walking through miles of ice, it is solid ice for 300 yards, then gravel, then back to 500 yards of ice, then mud, then 70 yard of ice, repeat all day for 25 miles. It’s really not possible for me to leave them on all day.
Reach out to Blazephysio! You've got a long way to go...
I am my own doctor for now, but I will if I have an injury that puts me off trail!
💪🏼
I wouldn't be able to fall asleep after such a conversation or even fall asleep in the first place after the first interaction. Just wouldn't feel save next to such a person who searches for every small detail to make it into a drama.
Just another example that sadly walking does not fix anything
Also for these kind of trail conditions there are shoes with more aggressive threads up to 12mm. The normal trail runner only has 4mm
On the Arizona trail there were multiple nights where coyotes surrounded me howling right at from 20 feet away, louder than a marching band, howls so loud they echoed off the mountains. The first night was one of the most horrifying experiences of my life, I did not sleep. But i soon realized the consequence of not sleeping is also highly destructive. Something in me eventually snapped, and I said if they actually do come attack me, i welcome them with open arms. But when they find my body, there will be at least five of those assholes bodies found around mine. That same attitude i take into the AT shelter. If you want to kill me or a bear wants to kill me, i welcome you with open arms to try, and you probably will succeed, but I’m going to take at least one of your eye sockets out before you get me. As gruesome as it is, that is how I sleep. Try me.
@@JaruWalks That's probably highly genetic. Like some people fall asleep in 5 Minutes everywhere and some need up to an hour.
Probably sleeping with one eye open but still better than no sleep.
Knowing that this is how i function i would very likely avoid the shelters.
@@ambulowanI entirely agree. I’m just explaining how I rationalize it. If I felt different; I would do exactly as you do, avoid shelters. That’s the next best option because not sleeping does not work.
Reminder: Drink more water
I'm very late to your party. Just found you and getting caught up on your videos. I think it's very disrespectful to get into camp late and wake up other hikers. Many people are very light sleepers and when woken it's difficult for us to get back to sleep. You need to to sleep as far away as possible from others if your going to night hike. Like your vids so far, but disagree with your stance on this issue.
@@boblacourse1430Think about it- there are people who hike late, and people who wake up early. When the early risers get up, they wake everybody up just like the late arrivers do. My point is, to insist that everybody hike on your schedule when using a public shelter is clearly a dysfunctional mindset. The public shelter culture on the AT runs on a rule of: live and let live, but generally keep the noise level down while anybody sleeps. It couldn’t function any other way.
To add to it, in the 100+ AT shelters I’ve slept in, I’ve only once had somebody tell me I shouldn’t sleep in a lean-to while night hiking. It was this guy, who subsequently dropped two bowel movements on the trail for me the next morning. The guy was clearly dysfunctional.