gdt ep. 5 - scared by places like these (and grizzlies) [2017]
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2017
- camera - Panasonic G6 (amzn.to/2xYXYqu)
lens - 20mm f/1.7 (amzn.to/2ysAInZ)
mic - Rode VideoMicro (amzn.to/2zkaZeE)
what is the Great Divide Trail? - www.greatdividetrail.com/
music by RUMTUM - rumtum.bandcamp.com/
and Options - optionstheband.bandcamp.com
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One of my favourite thing about your video's is the way you capture the vastness of the areas you are in. It's always BIG SCENERY and little John. That's what hooked me from the first time I saw your intro video to the CDT. I've noticed in this last series you've been standing back from the camera more to do a sort of monologue format and I'm really digging it. Keep them big mountains coming!
John is the Caspar David Friedrich of UA-cam Hiking vloggers.
Based off my extensive knowledge of just reading Caspar David Friedrich's wikipedia entry; I would have to agree with you.
The true adventurer of UA-cam
In all my life I haven't even seen pictures of the places on this trail. Thank you for giving me a new dream!
"Hey ge...get outta'ere mang!"
Love your videos, man! The aesthetics of the videos and your editing style help highlight the beautiful scenery without being obnoxious or over-powering. Hope to do my own thru-hike soon, but until then I'll keep hiking vicariously through you.
I always look forward to your videos John. Thanks, you've added yet another trail to the list.
Appreciate you John. thank you for bringing light to my morning.
Love the atmosphere in your videos. Beautiful
no words for that BIG SCENERY !thank you Mr Z
"So I'm just trying to crush it right nooow, ooooh **big yawn** I'm tired" (';
Super great video work. I really appreciate the way you relate to the experience. Very cool.
Some of the best hiking videos I've seen. Excellent commentary, editing, music. Well done. I can't help wondering how many extra miles you must do to get those great shots walking away or approaching the camera. Whenever I see one all I can think is, "dang, for every step away, that's another step back to the camera, plus the steps to head back out."
“hey! hey get outta here man!” Nbd black bears looool
Cotezi Hikes meng*
By far the best music in a long time.👍
Love these videos!
✌🏻🌤😊!! I must say I got very excited to see you wearing PANTS......I have seen tons of great views in your videos but the rare sighing of pants was super cool!!
enjoying the now....u r awesome! thanks for sharing!
Nicely done
Hey John. Do you carry bear spray when hiking by yourself? Especially in northern areas and Canada? Thanks a lot. Stay safe.
Great video, as always true artist 👍🏽👣👣👣👣🏔
I watched this 4 times.
Great video! On your time lapses, have you tried playing with the shutter shutter speed? If you set it so that the shutter is open for half of the time lapse period it should make things look much smoother. (For example, if you’re taking a picture every 5 seconds, then the shutter should be open for 2.5 seconds)
i should try this. i have just been doing sped up video and kind of like the freedom of choosing the speed later but ya that would be the better way to do it
John Z., can you make a vid describing the permitting process?
Stunning, as usual.
hey john, what type of hoodie / jacket are you wearing? the one with (what looks like) a drawstring hood. looks comfy and warm.
Nice video. Sure you were tempted to cuddle one of the grizzly cubs
Awesome views again. With regards to running out of food, do you just not ration food and when you are slowed down by terrain figure it's better to go without on the final day rather than have less food for 2 or 3 days?
i got wayyyy slowed down just in that one spot and didn't anticipate that. but whenever i run out food, i've already been hungry for a while. the section after this was worse since my resupply was a $9 bag of chips situation so i just accepted the hunger and rationed the whole way since i just couldn't afford a super expensive resupply.
Several years ago I lived in north, central Washington and I was out one night trying to lure in some coyotes with this new game call that I had bought. It was pitch black outside and all I had was my headlamp and a little .22 rifle. After about half an hour I heard some sticks breaking off in the distance so I kept hitting this game call trying to see if these coyotes would come in a little closer so that I could take a good shot when I turned on my headlamp. Another few minutes went by and I could hear something about 50 feet in front of me, so I got my rifle ready and when I turned on my headlamp I seen this HUGE-ASS grizzly bear staring right at me!!! I know that you're not supposed to run from a bear, but my house was down the side of the hill I was on and only about 150 feet away, so I got up and ran faster than I ever thought humanly possible and straight down this steep hill! From the time I first seen the bear to the time I was diving through the door of my house was no more than ten seconds (or at least it felt like that)! The next morning I followed the tracks and seen that the bear went the opposite direction after I got up and ran, so I probably scared him as much as he scared me, although I doubt that the bear pooped his pants! Just sayin' ...
Hey John! I was wondering if you would ever consider making a simple pack with a hip belt? I know that’s kindve against the whole Brandi and everything but I just can’t stand carrying 25 pounds with no belt!
yes
John Zahorian Thanks. I’ll by tf outta that thing!
Dude, you stress me out with the running out of food thing!!
Kelli Rustin He does break a lot of "rules". Even though vast experience in something means we know how breaking the rules can work to our advantage, no food here does seem particularly foolhardy (to put it nicely).
Thanks again for these great videos! Do you have a tripod for your camera? If not, where does it sit? On a rock or something? The pics with moving water you posted on Instagram were the shiznit. Were those made post hike, or is it some built in function of your camera? Thanks.
i brought a tiny lil tripod thing for this trip. in the past have always used rocks and stuff. those posts were made post hike, just screengrabbed and cut out the element i wanted in motion and overlayed it on the video
John Zahorian OK. At first I thought those were some kind of iPhone "live photos" type thing.
What's that thing on the back of the arc haul
Grizzlies scare the bejeezus out of me-to an irrational degree (thanks a lot, Revenant). Seriously reluctant to even consider hikes through grizz country. Advice to overcome that trepidation?
sim1tti I have the same issue. Whenever I’m in a heavy brown bear area I’m always on edge a little. It usually gets better the longer lm out there though.
Slippery Storm- "bring someone slower than you." Ha!!
Thanks, guys. I'm fairly well informed about practices to mitigate the risks, though more advice is always welcome. Black bears don't trouble me so much. Specifically, it's the psychological aspect of Grizzlies that I grapple with. Rationally speaking, I know the concern is legitimate but my fear is disproportionate to the risk. Love to hear more about how others deal with it. Exposure to the environment and bringing someone slower (ha) are both tips I find helpful.
The worst part is that the Revenant was based on the true story of Hugh Glass. Yikes.
Yeah. Jedediah Smith survived and attack, too. A surprisingly high proportion of those early frontiersmen were mauled by grizzlies--six known deaths and a many more less than fatal. Part of why we killed them off in parts of the west, along with wolves and other "nuisance" predators. Hard to imagine that the Sierra once had a sizable grizzly population. We know more about their behavior now and how to coexist, but man oh man! Those things are gnarly!
Towering mountains ! Look like pyramids
Gonna ask the question every one wants answered but is too afraid to ask... do you wear those tights over your shorts or do you get bare assed on trail and switcheroo?
What’s the song playing for the first 30 seconds? I’m digging through the linked artists’ work, but can’t pinpoint it.
Hey john, I was wondering how do you deal with wet feet? I hiked in Norway a couple of months ago and it rained quite alot which we could handle but there were so much swampy areas which got our feet soaked and they remained wet with no chance of drying due to the rain and cold. Our feet hurt quite alot because of this and the smell was even worse.
Hope you dont mind if I answer, well...there is no way to keep dry feet in long distance hiking! I did also some hiking in the Scandinavian Wilderness (Sarek,Padjelanta). I just suck it up, two pairs of socks, changing during the day, using vaseline over night after I let the feet dry out in camp and hope the socks are dry in the next morning. Putting them under the sleeping pad (or in a plastic bag between pad and bag helps a bit to dry them out because of body warmth.
Ha! I totally agree with Matthias - especially on the GDT, keeping your feet dry is impossible. On my first GDT hike, I tried in vain to keep my feet dry for 750 km before I finally gave up and went with trail runners. Two and a half GDT thru-hikes later, I'm still wearing trail runners and happily and quickly walking through puddles and creeks, fording rivers, and plowing through car wash veg. without really worrying about my feet getting wet. They will get wet... but they'll also get dry.
The question shouldn't be "how do you keep your feet dry", but rather "what footwear dries quickly?"
Thanks for bringing us here, seriously appreciate it..............always do you......I feel like your style of ultralight backpacking is like a religion and every time you run out of food or are super cold I wonder why you're so devoted to something thats letting you down in real world situations.....
i welcome discomfort
Running out of food and being cold have nothing to do with ultralight backpacking.
I like that......reminds me of Rambo.....I ain't got time to bleed either..
his style of UL does...
How did you like that 9 k fire road into Jasper? 😜
At least it was downhill for him! We passed a surprising number hiking up that slog last summer.
Is there any specific reason why you hiked in tights? Was it just cold or is there something else i didn't think about?
with the GDT being wet is a big thing and i thought that a really cold morning pushing through overgrown trail where all the plants were drenched would be one of the colder scenarios to plan for and windpants don't do much for warmth when wet (probably make me colder) so i brought along running tights to give me some extra leg insulation
Quick question. What was the green hooded jumper called please?
I walk alone ok melanzana hoodie
Melanzana micro grid hoodie. Not available online until spring 2018 while the company focuses on production and in-store sales.
Mittencamper oh that's useful to know! I have been checking their stock online, noticing they are just waiting to sell out. I assumed they were planning to restock for Xmas! Thanks for the info
They've been low on stock because of limited supply of materials and demand. There is a post up on their site about it.
Thanks guys
What song is playing in the beginning?
Pros/Cons using the Panasonic G6?
gonna compare to the rx100. pros: mic input (this is the main one), more robust, better IQ. cons : less accessible, i need a different lens (autofocus was terrible and manual focus was awkward with no hard stops) and a variable ND filter (i wasn't motivated enough to remove my fixed ND filter whenever i wanted more depth of field so it's all shot too wide open). also any decent zoom lens would make it too big/heavy but i like primes so it works.
overall, glad i brought it. wish i had more trail experience with it beforehand to work out some of the issues. i was also thinking about getting a G7 right before the trail and that probably would have been nice but what would have been nicer is a wider lens with a marked/stopped manual focus ring.
overall part 2 gear doesn't matter that much really and i don't think there would have a been a significant difference in the quality of the end product using an RX100. lack of mic in and durability is the main thing that makes me not want to use compact cameras as much in the future
thx for the intel. don't stop until you drop
no food.lol wtf.go light yah.um pack some food and take some fishing gear.rat traps are great to.peace