Finding camp near Castle Crags | Swimming holes & mountain views
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
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This is a continuation of our previous episode where we explore Mt Shasta's back roads on a small overland trip in Northern California. Castle Crags Wilderness is an easily accessible place with stunning scenery of granite mountain crags towering over the pine and deciduous forests surrounding it. We find a quaint little creekside camp spot, but unfortunately it's filled with trash.
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Yaks on the 5 hamburger joint in Dunsmuir is a real treat. Love your travels!
Thanks David! We’ll bookmark that one for our next trip down there 🤘🏻
Always in awe spotting Castle Crags driving along I5.
No doubt, glad we finally stopped to check it out
Ha ha the leg hair combing was hilarious! Definitely worthy of an entire episode! Great video!
😂 thanks Jon!
Thanks for every time you both have picked up the trash. You're good campers.
Thanks Tyler. It's the very least we can do, and I hope it inspires more folks to even just pick up a little bit.
“You should always be trying not to get murdered. All the time.”
Truly sage words of wisdom, Kim!
Love y’all, thanks for picking up some trash out there.
We are expert murder avoiders! Kim has gotten us this far haha
And cheers, we appreciate ya!
Just wanted to say you guys are such an inspiration. I just moved back to Oregon from Arkansas and my wife and I are seriously considering starting our own channel! And seeing you guys having such success and fun makes me excited to get out in our Subaru and hit some dispersed spots and start filming!
I noticed you talking about gumbo being food from back home... I grew up in Texas but all of my family is from southern Louisiana and we would visit New Orleans all the time for family visits and Saints/LSU games.
Thank you, Greyson! Really appreciate that. And hell yeah, get out there 😄🤘🏻
Love that. Miss going to Tigers games, we’ve been meaning to get down there for one. New Orleans is such a great city
You guys are good people.
Enjoyed the video. So right about the yellow jackets. I hate those little a-holes!
They are truly awful 😅
just discovered you. I would like to go camping and hopefully I can also acquire a land cruiser. keep making your videos because you are also very funny
We are adding the Crags to our list!
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I drove to Bend in 2020 from the city and almost drove off the road cuz I was stunned by the crags!
They’re so cool
I am so digging your rig. I am originally from Seattle so hope to show me some amazing trails in that area. Just love your channel. Thanks.
Cheers! Appreciate it 🤙🏼 we unfortunately haven’t explored much around Seattle, hoping to get up there sooner than later
I just experienced this yesterday. There was so much I couldn’t get it all
It really sucks because we’d love to pick it all up, but when it’s THAT much, it just isn’t possible. We don’t even really have the space to bring it all
Found your channel in the last couple of weeks and have been meaining to ask if you've thought about joining in on a Gambler 500 event, and here you are plugging the Sons of Smokey app. Biggest reason I want a place to mount my spare on the back of my rig is I have a good spot to hang one of their trashbags (well that and I don't want it on the roof and it won't fit underneath).
I camped out on my road trip at the castle campground . pretty fun little campsite 25 bucks a night or something.
The campground was definitely plan B for us! I'm glad we found some dispersed spots
@@ScaleofTwo I was on a 12-hour straight drive and needed a place to sleep comfortably so I stopped and camped. I prefer going to non-camping spots. Disperse camping off grid etc. But I like to go back there and spend some time it's a pretty cool area.
What camera gear are you using? Your videos are very good. Thank you for continuing this venture and sharing it with all of us. We are continuing to enjoy your content. We look forward to watching more.🎉
Hey thank ya! We’ve got a few cameras, a canon m50, m200, and we use our iPhones. We’ve got an 11-22mm on the m50 and a 50mm prime lens on the m200
Castle Crags has been one of my favorite camping & hiking destinations since 1985, but I found out a long time ago that a lot of people in these small towns don't like "out of towners" or strangers or campers and treat them with contempt and disrespect. Even some of the park employees & park rangers have treated me like a criminal for no good reason, they think everyone is suspicious if you are camping in the National Forest or "boondocking" instead of paying high fees in crowded campgrounds where you are under surveillance. I camped in the Shasta Trinity Nat. Forest just past the State Park and was constantly harassed by townspeople, park rangers and other campers. I stayed for 30 days in a class c rv in the shade near a cool swimming hole during a summer heat wave and my much needed vacation was turned into a nightmare. I love Castle Crags and Castella/Dunsmuir/Mt. Shasta City/Weed and will keep going back but I will always have to watch my back. I've gotten lost in the Castle Crags Wilderness when I couldn't find the trail back down and was unprepared for an overnight stay in the wilderness. I've also had some close calls with rattlesnakes, both way up in the Crags and down near the creeks, they can pop out of nowhere and all of a sudden be right in front of you, or hiding under your vehicle. Always need to be looking out for them around there.
Thanks for another great journey guys!
Hey thanks for coming along! Cheers 🍻
Be assured, their are ppl that are glad ur aware of always trying not to be murdered. Mostly ur MOTHERS . Also be aware and glad that they care in an extreme protective way if u actually are in danger.
Bummer about the trash, so frustrating. Looks like an awesome area otherwise.
Indeed. Otherwise it was a great spot to hang. And it’s so close to the interstate, a very easy road trip stop if you’re headed south
The people that trashed have trash for minds. Believe it or not maybe some that don't belong in this country did it ... they want to curse this land. moving on now
making this trip soon along burney,redding,crags,etc..but in a rental car. What would you say was the highlight and where would you stay? Mind you not 4x4
Lots of really cool places up there. Castle crags is definitely a great stop. Lassen national park is beautiful and worth a detour. Some good campgrounds around lake Shasta. Honestly can’t go wrong anywhere in the area!
Sweltering summer heat? Trashed campsites? Yellow jacket swarms? The constant struggle to not get murderer? Dried up waterfalls??? Really felt for you guys through this one, a lot of that does not sound fun 😭
😂😂 maybe award for best UA-cam comment so far
Did you know about the Castle Crags "Petroglyphs"? Very hard to find unless you know where to look. About a mile & a half from the Castle Crags Railroad Park Campground, right by Little Castle Creek on several boulders are carved "Mystic Symbols", some say are from "Lemurians". They became known when two people found them in the '40s and the Forest Service and Stanford University examined them and wrote articles about them. There are Egyptian, Hindu and other "Symbols" and even handprints with symbols, about 13 total.
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Did you know about the "Treasure of Castle Crags?" Gold coins robbed from an Army mule train in 1848 near the Crags and buried in it's recesses. I have been there searching for it and believe I found the right location. A certain treasure hunting magazine in 1965 had an article on it and gave several locations where it might be, which they had searched and not found it. My location is a different one and I believe it is the right one but I haven't found it yet either. Some say $40,000, others say $200,000 in Gold Coins were stolen and hidden up in the Crags, and a native American woman local knew where it was and would make trips into the Crags and bring back Gold Coins. Others tried to follow her but they never found the location and treasure hunters are still looking for it.
Really feel for you guys with yellow jackets. I’ve had to abandon a beautiful site before due to discovering it’s a wasp hive😢 Think I’ve got something to help you out on the air down department. Check your dm on Instagram.
They really are out to get ya. Sometimes we just set up a piece of lunch meat away from our car while we're cooking. And sweet, thank you! I'm a big ole dummy