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  • Опубліковано 7 жов 2023
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    Carnarvon Lake, nestled within Kananaskis Country in Alberta, Canada, is a picturesque alpine destination that offers an enchanting hiking and camping experience. This 22-kilometer trail provides adventurers with breathtaking vistas of the Canadian Rockies while also posing certain challenges and dangers.
    The hike to Carnarvon Lake begins at the Cat Creek trailhead, where you'll be immediately greeted by lush forests and the melodic sounds of babbling creeks. As you ascend, the trail opens up to vast meadows adorned with wildflowers during the summer months. It's a moderately difficult hike, yet hikers should be prepared for the serious chain climb to ascend up to the lake.
    All drone shots were done legally with the proper licenses/permits from legal take off and landing locations.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 56

  • @TC-le8ov
    @TC-le8ov Місяць тому

    A little piece of heaven. Beautiful scenery with beautiful music. I absolutely love your channel. Thank you!

  • @JohnnyPilooeu
    @JohnnyPilooeu 9 місяців тому +3

    Thank you for risking your life to bring us this footage.

  • @mightycats4098
    @mightycats4098 9 місяців тому +4

    Your adventures are incredible. Spectacular scenery.

  • @andaroocomedy
    @andaroocomedy 9 місяців тому +7

    Incredible hike and drone shots. Thank you for risking your life and for bringing us along with you

    • @IdRatherBeHiking
      @IdRatherBeHiking  9 місяців тому +2

      I guess there is a reason I'm the first person ever to film this place professionally, first ever drone shots up there too. My gift to all of you haha.

  • @StrongBengal
    @StrongBengal 9 місяців тому +2

    This was incredible, youtube front page worthy

  • @nancyneyedly4587
    @nancyneyedly4587 9 місяців тому +4

    Oh my! 😨 My hands were sweating just watching you do that!! Good for you, hoo boy, that was certainly a challenge. Thanks for sharing the beautiful images⛰

    • @IdRatherBeHiking
      @IdRatherBeHiking  9 місяців тому +1

      Haha my hands were sweating doing that lol

  • @JadedBelle
    @JadedBelle 29 днів тому

    So happy to have found your channel! You are a brave and beautiful person. I admire your drive to break your chains. ❤

  • @TWYYC
    @TWYYC 9 місяців тому +4

    Your drone shots always blow me away… thanks for taking me back to carnarvon. 😊

    • @IdRatherBeHiking
      @IdRatherBeHiking  9 місяців тому

      My pleasure, I'm not sure I"ll go back haha I'll have to look back in a couple years and enjoy the experience again through my own video. That chain section is something else.

  • @amycole8974
    @amycole8974 2 місяці тому

    I was on the edge of my seat.

  • @durehko
    @durehko 5 місяців тому +1

    Dude. That is nuts.

    • @IdRatherBeHiking
      @IdRatherBeHiking  5 місяців тому

      it really was, it was harder than pharaoh peak but was able to get it done. Pharaoh i folded like a house of cards.

  • @nolacoolsim384
    @nolacoolsim384 9 місяців тому +4

    Fantastic video. The views are stunning and your shots are so beautiful. I’m glad you made it back safely. Way too scary for me!

  • @mikeboston421
    @mikeboston421 2 місяці тому

    sitting here trying to work and then looking over at the incredible footage you have, INCREDIBLE, thanks again

  • @sheripacori2097
    @sheripacori2097 4 місяці тому

    Awesome! Thank you for taking us with you. Love Alberta and B. C.
    Bless you for cleaning up and keeping the area pristine.

  • @ervinslens
    @ervinslens 9 місяців тому +2

    Omg, stunning work my friend! This looks spectacular, absolutely spectacular!

  • @therockymountaintrails
    @therockymountaintrails 5 місяців тому +2

    Hey David! Don't feel too bad about stopping when your gut told you to. It is disappointing to not make the summit but better to err on the side of caution. I had to stop about 250 meters from the top of Caldron Peak in Banff a few years ago as I was out of gas and had to retrace the route back over a crazy traverse that I was dreading. Like you, I probably could have summited but I wanted something left in the tank for the traverse because one slip and it would be game over. Good vids!

    • @IdRatherBeHiking
      @IdRatherBeHiking  4 місяці тому +1

      Cheers buddy, I think it was the chain descent pushing my stress levels. If it were a simple hike out I probably would have taken 15 minutes to chill then crawled up to the diagonal line you can see in the drone shots which would have gotten me up. Better to live another day, enjoy another day

    • @therockymountaintrails
      @therockymountaintrails 4 місяці тому +1

      @@IdRatherBeHiking You got it! Better a live donkey than a dead lion as Ernest Shackleton said after turning 93 km from the South Pole in 1909. Hit me up if you want when you're in the Calgary area...I'll climb with ya! Thoroughly enjoying your other channel as well...the Moose is Loose alright...keep on hammering those knuckleheads! 👍

    • @IdRatherBeHiking
      @IdRatherBeHiking  4 місяці тому

      @@therockymountaintrailshaha Cheers buddy

  • @lighthealerastrid1465
    @lighthealerastrid1465 4 місяці тому

    David, your photography is impossibly beautiful. Glad that boulder missed you (or you missed it). I am loving this channel! 🙏 so much.

  • @chrisgreene1715
    @chrisgreene1715 9 місяців тому +1

    Awesome Video David!

  • @danielfegley2735
    @danielfegley2735 9 місяців тому +1

    That's beyond hiking that's rock climbing 👍

  • @AuTheExplorer1129
    @AuTheExplorer1129 23 дні тому

    Keep safe

  • @PedalsNPetals
    @PedalsNPetals 2 місяці тому +1

    You filmed everything but somehow didn't capture the rock falling 🤔

  • @monicamather796
    @monicamather796 9 місяців тому +1

    Stunning! Want to go!

  • @HoneyandMe
    @HoneyandMe 9 місяців тому +2

    Oh my gosh, David!!!!!! I shudder to think if you'd been hit by that freaking rock. This video would never have been made! I can imagine your anger! And respect your ability to take it down and not use it to take down the silly women who pushed the rock down. How stupid of them. Kind of an idiot move to push rocks down, or if it was an accident, to not call it to lower climbers. Tragedy averted.
    After that 'edge of my seat' climb the views were amazing. Thank you for capturing them for us so we don't have to climb up that cliff to see them! Eek! I think you were wise in the choices you made. Like the lottery corp says " Know your limits, stay within it." lol! I'll stick to hikes where I don't need to use a chain to get up a hill! Great video, David! Thanks!

    • @IdRatherBeHiking
      @IdRatherBeHiking  9 місяців тому +1

      Haha ya there would be a only half the footage on my camera laying on the ground at the bottom.

    • @HoneyandMe
      @HoneyandMe 9 місяців тому

      @@IdRatherBeHiking 💀📷

    • @chrisallen2005
      @chrisallen2005 День тому

      Pushed the rock down is an inaccurate statement to use in the Alberts Rockies. Most of those mountains are chossy limestone that is always falling down. True, a bit of trail etiquette such as yelling ROCK is approppriate.

  • @Miderguy_
    @Miderguy_ 9 місяців тому +1

    Pretty sweet hike. I'm surprised they let you camp up there.

    • @IdRatherBeHiking
      @IdRatherBeHiking  9 місяців тому

      Random wild camping is allowed in Don Getty Wildland Provincial park which is the side between the mountains, at the ridge is BC which is crown land and camping is also allowed.

  • @andybiker-hiker4343
    @andybiker-hiker4343 9 місяців тому +2

    Okay... Now that really looked quite dodgy. Kudos to the dudes and dudettes who dragged that chain all the way up there
    Good you avoided the rock smash on the head
    Well done video

    • @IdRatherBeHiking
      @IdRatherBeHiking  9 місяців тому +1

      It would be great if they bolted a couple of anchors to step on something or chistle in a few footsteps which I know people don't like that stuff. Ya the rock was... wow.. ninja reflexes.

    • @andybiker-hiker4343
      @andybiker-hiker4343 9 місяців тому

      @@IdRatherBeHiking the things we do for adventure, putting our lives into the hands of ... a length of chain. ;-) ... good on ya, I'd have done the same

  • @amyrobinson3119
    @amyrobinson3119 9 місяців тому +1

    Glad you didn’t get hurt.

  • @Nic_Chy
    @Nic_Chy 26 днів тому

    Hey dude im just curious how you got permission to use drone on the east side of the lake in don getty?

    • @IdRatherBeHiking
      @IdRatherBeHiking  11 днів тому +1

      the boundry is right there at the lake, I did have permission though, I provide a metric tons of free toursim videos sometimes that comes back to bless me.

    • @Nic_Chy
      @Nic_Chy 11 днів тому

      @@IdRatherBeHiking Nice dude yea thought so, I made some vids for fun, although wah less subs. I'd been there twice before and wanted to make a vid, just uploaded. Some guys I going after me in the comments. People don't get it

    • @Nic_Chy
      @Nic_Chy 11 днів тому

      @@IdRatherBeHiking whered you ask for permission. If I get more subs maybe I'll have to try my luck with that too one day

  • @user-di2by9bd7j
    @user-di2by9bd7j 9 місяців тому

    Dude Carnarvon Lake is in Don Getty Wildland Provincial Park. Please research/respect the rules and stop flying your drone illegally

    • @IdRatherBeHiking
      @IdRatherBeHiking  9 місяців тому +2

      1. Don Getty ends just past the lake, 2. I have a permit to film in Don Getty. Stop making assumptions you don't know my life, also look at the map.

    • @StrongBengal
      @StrongBengal 9 місяців тому +2

      Dude you can clearly see he is outside of Don Getty and flying in BC, maybe you should research the rules.

  • @mikeboston421
    @mikeboston421 2 місяці тому

    just more awesomeness, story of my life, honk cuz somebody did something brutal in a car ahead then come up beside them all mad and now looking at some beautiful girl, haha, so glad i checked this channel out after your recommendations, just amazing stuff