WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en Title: Get Out There Podcast Episode 21: Camping Under The Snow Line In Eastern Oregon & Winter Plans and Hell's Canyon Memories 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:15.047 Welcome to the Get Out There Podcast. Outdoor exploration, backcountry camping, public land adventures, and river guide stories. 00:00:15.247 --> 00:00:16.547 I'm recording today. 00:00:16.787 --> 00:00:23.147 I'm out by the Wildlife Refuge listening to some birds that are still here kind of wintering through the winter. 00:00:23.327 --> 00:00:28.487 The water's pretty high out here, sort of through the rains and stuff we've been getting kind of recently. 00:00:28.827 --> 00:00:33.857 Some of those, I guess, kind of regularly expected winter storms, but I'm doing pretty good. 00:00:33.857 --> 00:00:39.917 I've been kind of working on some computer stuff, trying to get some office and photo stuff sort of sorted out, which has been going pretty good. 00:00:40.017 --> 00:00:45.537 But I've also been trying to get ready for sort of coming into the end of February, now into March, April, May. 00:00:45.717 --> 00:00:49.377 And I'm hoping to kind of ramp it up a bit for some more stuff. 00:00:49.497 --> 00:00:54.657 But I've been kind of prepping and then heading out on some day trips out to eastern Oregon, which has been cool. 00:00:54.777 --> 00:01:02.477 I haven't gone that far yet, but right around the corner I'm doing the big trip, and I'm heading out toward the Oahe River area, which is cool. 00:01:02.477 --> 00:01:10.497 I was talking about that a bit on the last one, and since then I've been kind of going out to some nearby spots that are past the Cascades but are out in the eastern Oregon area. 00:01:10.957 --> 00:01:17.557 And it's cool getting out into the sagebrush and stuff and kind of checking out what's out there in the area this time of year. 00:01:17.617 --> 00:01:19.557 But excited to go out on this Oahe trip. 00:01:19.737 --> 00:01:28.137 It's out in, I guess, like the real far southeast corner of Oregon, and it's kind of an interesting area to be out in this time of year. 00:01:28.137 --> 00:01:31.817 If I can kind of get the right weather break, it's really not too bad. 00:01:32.037 --> 00:01:38.277 Oftentimes the elevation out there is like 4,000 feet, 4,500 feet, an hour higher as you kind of get up in the hillsides and stuff. 00:01:38.397 --> 00:01:42.177 And those higher elevation spots can definitely be snowed out a lot of the time. 00:01:42.417 --> 00:01:48.417 I think like a lot of those mountainside areas, like if you're going out toward the Steens or something, I think that stays snowed in. 00:01:48.417 --> 00:01:52.377 And, you know, as you kind of go up that mountain road there, that'll be snowing in until July sometimes. 00:01:52.997 --> 00:01:54.897 So it kind of depends on the snow year and stuff. 00:01:55.017 --> 00:02:00.837 But at the sort of lower elevations, the base elevations out there, you can do some driving around. 00:02:00.957 --> 00:02:02.577 And I think they keep the highways pretty opened up. 00:02:02.997 --> 00:02:05.717 But it's not really an all-year-round kind of place out there. 00:02:05.837 --> 00:02:13.807 I mean, I don't know if you guys have driven out to Burns, Oregon, or out past from Burns to, I don't know what's the road, Burns to Vail or Ontario, 00:02:14.207 --> 00:02:15.427 as you're kind of going out toward Boise. 00:02:15.427 --> 00:02:20.907 And you can take, like, another road that sort of cuts out south of there and down deep into Nevada. 00:02:21.127 --> 00:02:23.087 You pass Rome and McDermott out there. 00:02:23.127 --> 00:02:24.887 And that's sort of where I'm trying to plan on heading. 00:02:25.267 --> 00:02:33.107 But there's a couple, like, hunting, well, I guess it would be big stretches of BLM land that go on out there. 00:02:33.187 --> 00:02:38.947 And then there's some of that that's been kind of maintained, some of it not really so much for, like, winter stuff. 00:02:39.067 --> 00:02:42.827 But some areas around the Oahe River and some spots that I'm going to, there's a couple. 00:02:44.227 --> 00:02:47.917 I guess it's sort of remote, very remote. 00:02:48.057 --> 00:02:55.677 Probably no one going to be there right now, but active enough by, you know, maintenance services by the state that you can get back in there this time of year. 00:02:56.077 --> 00:02:57.157 And it's kind of cool. 00:02:57.317 --> 00:03:00.057 Yeah, not as, like, hilly out there. 00:03:00.197 --> 00:03:05.657 You know, not as many trees to come down, even though they're doing a really good job this year of kind of getting everything, all those roads and stuff. 00:03:05.657 --> 00:03:06.837 They're keeping them pretty well maintained. 00:03:07.557 --> 00:03:13.317 Some of that stuff out there in the real remote parts of Oregon, they kind of let be until the season starts to change. 00:03:13.457 --> 00:03:16.137 But some of the stuff I'm going to should be pretty easy. 00:03:16.777 --> 00:03:18.377 The Oahe River stuff is pretty cool. 00:03:18.457 --> 00:03:22.497 A lot of hunting camps out there are a lot of kind of, like, remote, dispersed campsites. 00:03:22.537 --> 00:03:26.157 And it's cool kind of going through the maps and stuff and trying to find those in advance. 00:03:26.297 --> 00:03:30.437 I'm trying to kind of plan it out so that I've got a couple days of doing some stuff. 00:03:30.437 --> 00:03:32.997 I'm trying to, like, stay at a spot for a little while. 00:03:32.997 --> 00:03:36.877 A lot of the times I'm kind of, like, on a road trip, like a truck road trip sort of thing. 00:03:36.957 --> 00:03:39.737 But I'm kind of trying to set it up so that I'm sort of in, like, an area. 00:03:39.737 --> 00:03:43.617 And then I get to kind of roam around that zone for a little bit more time. 00:03:43.777 --> 00:03:50.637 And I'm hoping that that kind of is a different kind of set of photos that I'm able to make from it for being in a spot for a longer time. 00:03:50.757 --> 00:03:56.677 Kind of seeing, like, a sunrise, a sunset, a sunrise, and a sunset all in the same zone of an area. 00:03:56.697 --> 00:03:58.137 I think it's kind of cool when you're out there. 00:03:58.137 --> 00:04:10.857 And even though a lot of the time it's almost the same, it seems like a couple days of those exposures and experiences, they're different enough that it's kind of cool to have that variation in the photographs that you're making of an area. 00:04:10.977 --> 00:04:11.877 So I like that. 00:04:11.977 --> 00:04:15.477 I like the Oahe River Canyon stuff that I've been seeing out there. 00:04:15.737 --> 00:04:21.987 And a lot of those eastern Oregon landscapes and the rimrock natural features are really cool. 00:04:22.547 --> 00:04:26.167 And I like capturing them in this time of year, in the wintertime. 00:04:26.707 --> 00:04:28.867 Eastern Oregon in March is really pretty cool. 00:04:28.987 --> 00:04:30.527 I like it a lot out there. 00:04:30.587 --> 00:04:31.427 I like it in the summertime. 00:04:31.987 --> 00:04:33.907 It's a lot easier to kind of travel around. 00:04:34.787 --> 00:04:37.087 Well, in some capacities, if it's not too hot. 00:04:37.287 --> 00:04:44.927 But kind of part of the problem out there is there's really not many towns, not many resources, or at least, you know, to make it easy or light. 00:04:45.047 --> 00:04:47.687 A lot of these kind of like, well, I don't know. 00:04:47.767 --> 00:04:48.187 I'll get into that. 00:04:48.287 --> 00:04:51.687 But it's just a pretty remote, pretty harsh kind of country and stuff. 00:04:51.807 --> 00:04:52.427 And it's cool. 00:04:52.527 --> 00:04:52.987 It's really cool. 00:04:52.987 --> 00:04:56.167 And it's a lot of wilderness stuff or, I don't know, even hardly wilderness. 00:04:56.247 --> 00:04:57.767 You know, it's kind of contacted by roads. 00:04:57.767 --> 00:04:59.387 But it's really remote. 00:04:59.387 --> 00:05:01.887 And it's kind of difficult to move around in. 00:05:02.087 --> 00:05:08.187 And you're hours away from, I guess, much real stability as it is for society or for a lot of stuff. 00:05:08.187 --> 00:05:18.767 The whole area out there into Nevada, parts of Idaho, that southeast Oregon area into Utah, just real empty country out there. 00:05:18.887 --> 00:05:24.747 It's probably like one of the biggest sections in the United States that's that remote, that is that empty. 00:05:24.747 --> 00:05:32.787 And I think that's sort of some of the stuff that you get in that section of the, I guess it's part of the Great Basin, something like that. 00:05:32.887 --> 00:05:38.867 But, yeah, those real, you know, wide, sprawling kind of sagebrush fields that you get out there. 00:05:38.887 --> 00:05:41.907 So cool area, cool and really nice areas to photograph. 00:05:41.907 --> 00:05:51.367 What's cool, though, I like this time of year, the wintertime or kind of in like February, March, April, because you get a little bit of snow in those areas. 00:05:51.507 --> 00:05:54.507 So you can get some snow-topped rim rocks and hillsides and stuff. 00:05:54.627 --> 00:06:09.847 But you also get enough dynamics in the weather that you get some clear skies and you get some, I think, really cool kind of storm clouds that sort of get mixed up in the skies over the wide open eastern Oregon air out there or the landscape. 00:06:09.847 --> 00:06:17.407 And so sometimes you can get these really cool big kind of swirled storm clouds as they kind of start to mix up over the landscape out there. 00:06:17.807 --> 00:06:22.827 And, yeah, you get some real, I think, interesting visualizations, especially as you get kind of toward the evening. 00:06:22.827 --> 00:06:30.027 You get some really, I think, beautiful sunsets or sunrises or just kind of mixes with colors into the clouds and stuff. 00:06:30.027 --> 00:06:52.047 And like I was saying earlier on a couple other podcasts ago, some of those tools of using like long exposure techniques or using compression in those landscape photos when you're using like a 70 to 80 or, sorry, a 24 to 70 millimeter lens or an 80 to 200 millimeter telephoto lens. 00:06:52.047 --> 00:06:54.467 I think like those are really cool out in those landscape places. 00:06:54.667 --> 00:07:02.987 You can kind of do a lot of sort of interesting compression dynamics and you can do a lot of interesting long exposure stuff with those cool clouds, those cool colors and sweeps and stuff. 00:07:03.307 --> 00:07:07.167 So it's kind of cool to get to practice a few of those different pieces all at the same time. 00:07:07.487 --> 00:07:16.127 But having a good time, getting ready for this trip out to eastern Oregon, having a good time, kind of getting prepped with them by doing these longer sort of full. 00:07:42.311 --> 00:07:46.011 I'm out. I'm on a trip. I'm traveling around. I made it out to Eastern Oregon. 00:07:46.511 --> 00:07:51.211 I've been camping out now for one night, and I got some gear tips to go over, 00:07:51.371 --> 00:07:54.471 some stuff that I had kind of prepped in advance on my trip out here, 00:07:54.511 --> 00:07:58.071 and some stuff that's worked out to help me out staying out here in the cold. 00:07:58.251 --> 00:08:02.991 I got to tell you, it's cold. It's wet. It's been wet. It's wintertime. 00:08:04.331 --> 00:08:07.351 There's a lot of cold, a lot of sagebrush, a lot of wind, a lot of clouds. 00:08:07.891 --> 00:08:09.871 A lot of photographs, too, so it's been kind of fun. 00:08:10.091 --> 00:08:13.331 I've been making some progress on some photo stuff. 00:08:13.451 --> 00:08:17.591 I've been actually kind of finally able to shoot some video stuff that I've been wanting to get produced for a long time. 00:08:18.051 --> 00:08:21.551 So that has been an advance, and I'm happy that that has occurred. 00:08:21.831 --> 00:08:26.411 Today, though, I wanted to focus in on a set of equipment tips that I was talking about, 00:08:26.431 --> 00:08:28.871 a few little things that have helped me out on this one. 00:08:29.031 --> 00:08:32.811 The first one is one that I've been doing for a couple months now, but I have a lighter, 00:08:32.811 --> 00:08:37.391 and it's got on it about a foot of duct tape. 00:08:37.571 --> 00:08:39.011 Actually, on this one, it's Gorilla tape. 00:08:39.151 --> 00:08:42.291 It's sort of a little bit more tacky, and then I've got my pocket knife in my pocket all the time, 00:08:42.331 --> 00:08:47.071 but I have this regular Bic lighter, and then it's got about a foot of duct tape 00:08:47.071 --> 00:08:51.111 sort of wrapped onto the handle of the Bic lighter, just across the Bic lighter itself. 00:08:51.251 --> 00:08:52.471 That stays in my pocket all the time. 00:08:52.471 --> 00:08:56.231 I've got another one like that in my bag, too, but while I was out kind of hiking around and walking and stuff, 00:08:56.231 --> 00:09:00.591 I'm able to grab that tape and then use it on anything that I need at the time. 00:09:00.671 --> 00:09:03.971 So if I have like a rip or a tear or something else that I need, 00:09:04.051 --> 00:09:06.791 that I'm able to get at that at any time, and I just have access to it. 00:09:06.911 --> 00:09:07.571 And it's been really cool. 00:09:07.651 --> 00:09:09.891 I've actually found a bunch of uses for that. 00:09:10.151 --> 00:09:11.571 Some of it's been while I was fishing. 00:09:12.791 --> 00:09:15.771 I got my fishing license a while ago, and I was able to hit some lakes and stuff 00:09:15.771 --> 00:09:17.691 that are stocked with trout throughout the wintertime. 00:09:17.891 --> 00:09:18.751 It's been kind of fun. 00:09:18.851 --> 00:09:21.091 Out on this trip, too, you know, just like some of these weird East Oregon stuff, 00:09:21.091 --> 00:09:25.191 I'm not going to be able to make it back to this lake for probably years, you know, 00:09:25.191 --> 00:09:26.211 as it kind of goes. 00:09:26.331 --> 00:09:28.671 I mean, I thought I was going to do this like four years ago, 00:09:28.671 --> 00:09:32.091 and it's been four years since I've been out into this spot or, you know, 00:09:32.111 --> 00:09:35.871 this area to go to these or to go to this little pond lake out here, 00:09:35.911 --> 00:09:39.191 which is pretty remote, but, yeah, has some stocked fish and stuff. 00:09:39.351 --> 00:09:42.751 And it's cool, yeah, like throwing some tackle together or throwing some kit together 00:09:43.391 --> 00:09:46.651 and having access to, one, a lighter so you have fire, 00:09:46.671 --> 00:09:50.331 and then, too, like you have the tape and stuff to wrap up to kind of secure whatever, 00:09:50.611 --> 00:09:52.151 I don't know, whatever kind of stuff might happen. 00:09:52.191 --> 00:09:54.431 But really a lot of incidentals and stuff seem to happen out here. 00:09:54.431 --> 00:09:57.331 One thing I noticed out in the desert specifically, and this happened just the other day, 00:09:57.411 --> 00:09:58.971 is a cut on my finger. 00:09:59.171 --> 00:10:03.071 Now I have some super glue that's packed into an ammo can that I have over on the side, 00:10:03.151 --> 00:10:05.311 and that's probably the first one I went to. 00:10:05.371 --> 00:10:07.911 I also have my first aid kit and some bandages and stuff like that. 00:10:07.991 --> 00:10:12.911 But what I did for the time is I had to, because I was just kind of out with my backpack and stuff, 00:10:13.251 --> 00:10:15.571 but I got it like wet, so I got to clear out. 00:10:15.691 --> 00:10:17.631 And that's a tough thing, like out here in the desert and stuff, 00:10:17.631 --> 00:10:21.011 my hands are like penetrated with dirt, you know, like there's dirt on my nails, 00:10:21.411 --> 00:10:22.311 there's dirt on my hands. 00:10:22.551 --> 00:10:26.531 So as soon as you get like a cut on the finger, it's, yeah, you know, 00:10:26.571 --> 00:10:31.591 it's just like going to be a dirty, it's just going to get filled with dirt, which is bad. 00:10:31.631 --> 00:10:34.371 And that's sort of where you can get like some like little infections and stuff like that 00:10:34.371 --> 00:10:37.371 that end up being blood poisoning, that end up being kind of larger problems 00:10:37.371 --> 00:10:41.111 that you didn't want to have while you were out on a four-day hike in the desert. 00:10:41.111 --> 00:10:45.411 And you just, I don't know, cut your finger on a rock stick, your knife. 00:10:45.631 --> 00:10:48.611 That's normally what it is, is you cutting with your knife and then, you know, 00:10:48.711 --> 00:10:51.631 some nick or slip or whatever happens. 00:10:51.911 --> 00:10:54.731 I think I kind of like clipped it on something that I was grabbing at. 00:10:54.771 --> 00:10:58.091 It wasn't my knife this time, but it was a piece of metal that was mine. 00:10:58.091 --> 00:11:02.031 And as I grabbed it, it kind of like poked and then I got a cut. 00:11:02.151 --> 00:11:02.311 Shoot. 00:11:02.711 --> 00:11:02.831 Ouch. 00:11:03.071 --> 00:11:06.471 So I was able to, while I was out traveling, I was like hiking around. 00:11:06.591 --> 00:11:07.411 I had my backpack with me. 00:11:07.511 --> 00:11:09.431 I didn't have my first aid kit that's back in the truck. 00:11:09.431 --> 00:11:10.191 I don't really need it. 00:11:10.291 --> 00:11:12.991 It's just a little scratch on my finger and stuff, but I was able to wash it out with 00:11:12.991 --> 00:11:13.811 the water ball that I had. 00:11:14.291 --> 00:11:17.871 I was able to do a much better job at this with actual antibiotics and stuff later on, 00:11:17.931 --> 00:11:21.971 but I was able to yank some tape off of that and throw it on and kind of bandaged up my 00:11:21.971 --> 00:11:23.491 thumb right away, which was fantastic. 00:11:23.751 --> 00:11:26.611 Then I was able to use some antiseptic and stuff later. 00:11:27.981 --> 00:11:28.501 Cleared out. 00:11:29.901 --> 00:11:32.181 Superglue it, which is fantastic for those finger cuts. 00:11:32.781 --> 00:11:36.241 You can kind of put a little superglue on there and it'll seal up that right away as 00:11:36.241 --> 00:11:39.921 long as not a lot of blood contact or something, but for like a lot of 00:11:39.921 --> 00:11:44.881 light kind of superficial cut into the skin at the top, I was able to put a little superglue 00:11:44.881 --> 00:11:47.261 on there and then that dries up pretty fast. 00:11:47.361 --> 00:11:48.181 It sort of seals it together. 00:11:48.341 --> 00:11:52.001 And then additionally to that, I wrap it in a bit of tape and the tape works pretty good 00:11:52.001 --> 00:11:53.281 for like an outdoor bandage. 00:11:53.361 --> 00:11:56.201 It had like a little bit more stick to it and it was able to kind of seal up there a 00:11:56.201 --> 00:11:56.641 little bit more. 00:11:56.821 --> 00:11:59.001 You got to watch it a little bit, sort of like bandages and stuff. 00:11:59.121 --> 00:12:03.861 You don't want to get anything else, but yeah, it worked pretty good for some of the 00:12:03.861 --> 00:12:05.341 stuff that I was doing out there. 00:12:05.341 --> 00:12:09.821 In addition to that, I got the tape really most of the time is for stuff that I'm doing 00:12:09.821 --> 00:12:14.901 for like trying to like hang stuff up on trees or trying to get stuff set up while I'm trying 00:12:14.901 --> 00:12:17.221 to do some work stuff or set up a marker or something. 00:12:17.801 --> 00:12:22.021 I did some like .22 target shooting and stuff out there while I was out traveling around 00:12:22.021 --> 00:12:23.701 on the public BLM land and stuff. 00:12:23.761 --> 00:12:26.361 And so I set up a target at like say 50 yards or something. 00:12:26.801 --> 00:12:30.281 And then I didn't bring a staple gun with me to staple on the paper targets that I've 00:12:30.281 --> 00:12:32.911 got, but I have this tape with me. 00:12:35.571 --> 00:12:39.191 A strip of tape and then I was able to throw it on to kind of tape this stuff. 00:12:39.351 --> 00:12:41.771 But it's sort of that stuff that it comes in pretty useful for. 00:12:42.651 --> 00:12:45.311 A whole bunch of stuff that I've been able to kind of find with it. 00:12:46.151 --> 00:12:50.991 The other one is, man, while I've been out here, like most of the time it's pretty dry 00:12:50.991 --> 00:12:55.731 and cold, which is okay, but it's sort of got like a wetness to it a lot of the time too. 00:12:55.871 --> 00:12:59.211 So it has come through and it rained a couple, or you know, it's just kind of like wet out 00:12:59.211 --> 00:13:05.111 here enough that as you move around for a while, you kind of have like a bit of dampness 00:13:05.111 --> 00:13:05.791 to you. 00:13:06.071 --> 00:13:09.071 And I don't know, it just kind of gets like wet over time. 00:13:09.171 --> 00:13:11.371 Most of the time it kind of catches on the jacket on the outside. 00:13:11.491 --> 00:13:15.411 But one thing I was noticing is trying to take a lot of opportunities to dry out clothes 00:13:15.411 --> 00:13:17.191 to specifically, I guess, dry out socks. 00:13:17.291 --> 00:13:20.491 This happened more when I was out around the lakeside in the water early in the morning, 00:13:20.671 --> 00:13:23.051 I guess like more humidity or dew or something like that. 00:13:23.051 --> 00:13:26.611 But just sort of a more like, I guess, wet experience as that was. 00:13:26.831 --> 00:13:29.231 A lot of the time though, it can be real wet out here. 00:13:30.411 --> 00:13:36.111 So even though it's a desert, I know it's wintertime and stuff and it's really cold and damp 00:13:36.111 --> 00:13:36.591 or something. 00:13:36.731 --> 00:13:37.531 It's different than wet though. 00:14:03.624 --> 00:14:08.724 we'll kind of chug through the winter for a little bit get into the snow we'll do that and i want to 00:14:08.724 --> 00:14:14.084 do a bunch of stuff like that out with you uh but then yeah it'll probably be like march april 00:14:14.084 --> 00:14:20.084 so we go and do a bunch of the cool outdoor stuff again uh but we'll i'm sure we'll find a 00:14:20.084 --> 00:14:24.904 way to get a cool vacation to somewhere warm in between now and then so a couple of the photos 00:14:24.904 --> 00:14:31.224 that are going up online in the last couple days i think over the weekend have you taken pictures 00:14:31.224 --> 00:14:37.864 of the uh of the sunrise when we were up in hell's canyon in the imnaha river area yeah 00:14:37.864 --> 00:14:42.124 that was a cool morning i really like that well you got a bunch of cool photos of me the photo i'm 00:14:42.124 --> 00:14:47.224 using right now for our profile pictures from just a few minutes after that yeah it was pretty cool 00:14:47.224 --> 00:14:51.744 that was a really pretty morning oh yeah it was a neat spot i had a lot of fun hanging out in uh in 00:14:51.744 --> 00:14:55.744 that little area it was a cool place to camp too just this little pull out on the side and then and 00:14:55.744 --> 00:15:00.624 then it dropped off into the canyon you can kind of just see it slope down a few hundred feet down to 00:15:00.624 --> 00:15:05.364 the base there where the uh where the river goes through and then you see the other rolling sets 00:15:05.364 --> 00:15:10.224 of canyons as it kind of goes back out toward the wallow mountains over to the uh the southwest 00:15:10.224 --> 00:15:15.744 it was cool i had a good time it was yeah really neat spot yeah it took a long time to drive that 00:15:15.744 --> 00:15:21.924 area though you don't realize how far like 23 25 miles is when you're just going about 15 miles an 00:15:21.924 --> 00:15:27.624 hour 30 miles an hour on a gravel road up in a mountain and it just takes like oh that's like an 00:15:27.624 --> 00:15:33.184 hour and a half of driving yeah whatever it is yeah it's really true i was i was noticing that 00:15:33.184 --> 00:15:38.304 especially on on this trip because i was looking at the miles that it was to get to the different 00:15:38.304 --> 00:15:43.804 points we're going on that road and i was saying oh yes it's not that far yeah but then you're you're 00:15:43.804 --> 00:15:50.224 on a dirt road and you're going like you're on a windy dirt road and you're going yeah not so fast 00:15:50.224 --> 00:15:54.984 this is a bit of effort to get moving around but uh yeah that's every that's a place i'd like to go 00:15:54.984 --> 00:16:00.164 back to with you i would really like to go back it's fun this is such a neat spot really beautiful 00:16:00.164 --> 00:16:05.604 it was cool having the truck and being able to just go through and uh and travel around on those 00:16:05.604 --> 00:16:08.724 those back roads without having to really worry about it that was really nice but that'd be really 00:16:08.724 --> 00:16:14.164 fun i'd like to do a couple days back there with you or you know me and you and another truck like 00:16:14.164 --> 00:16:19.504 robert or something yeah that would be whatever it is go back in there kind of well equipped to 00:16:19.504 --> 00:16:23.324 handle it yeah through and sort of travel through the backcountry and stuff check out different 00:16:23.324 --> 00:16:27.284 areas over there that'd be so much fun stuff like that would be really fun or a rafting trip over 00:16:27.284 --> 00:16:32.664 there that'd be so cool oh that would be really cool too bring robert's raft to the snake river 00:16:34.004 --> 00:16:40.844 we'll invite him to uh to a cool trip over in eastern oregon come on drive nine hours maybe 10 hours 00:16:41.924 --> 00:16:47.784 yeah the other photo uh is an old one it's from 2011 from uh from our trip to the tetons 00:16:48.384 --> 00:16:53.804 when we uh we came in from the yellowstone side after we spent about a week there maybe a little 00:16:53.804 --> 00:16:59.584 half a week something like that it was a good time i had a fun time in yellowstone we came into 00:16:59.584 --> 00:17:07.504 the tetons prepped for a backpacking trip and then you and i did like a couple nights going through 00:17:08.334 --> 00:17:14.294 what was it the cascade canyon over the paintbrush it was cool yeah beautiful it was really fun took a 00:17:14.294 --> 00:17:20.174 ton of cool photos we need to take this really cool photo of me hiking at uh sunset when we were 00:17:20.174 --> 00:17:24.974 coming up over the uh the top of the mountain there so it looks like a a cool picture of the high 00:17:24.974 --> 00:17:30.214 country and i really liked that photo and that that evening it was really fun had a great time up 00:17:30.214 --> 00:17:37.434 there and and so it was fun to to see that photo again and post it up one more time yeah i really miss 00:17:37.434 --> 00:17:42.894 uh being over in that area me too definitely another spot that i want to go back to 00:17:43.494 --> 00:17:50.234 i posted another photo of the tetons uh i think earlier this week oh yeah that was i remember seeing 00:17:50.234 --> 00:17:55.214 that one yeah that was like when we first arrived yeah that's right as we had first kind of pulled in 00:17:55.214 --> 00:18:00.154 that first that first evening as we were coming around uh into the tetons and you could see it as 00:18:00.154 --> 00:18:04.614 the sun was kind of dropping behind the mountains but it was really cool and purple and gold it was 00:18:04.614 --> 00:18:09.444 really fun i really had a great time uh when we were showing up there it was fun to show for the 00:18:09.444 --> 00:18:13.844 first time you're like it was cool we finally made it to the spot we'd heard about but we'd never seen 00:18:13.844 --> 00:18:19.864 before so it's cool yeah yeah the tetons are awesome one they were that was one of my favorite spots that 00:18:19.864 --> 00:18:26.884 we went i appreciate dramatic looking mountains so me too yeah yeah it was really cool uh and it's 00:18:26.884 --> 00:18:31.384 fun to see these photos again and post them up one more time it is i've really enjoyed getting to 00:18:31.384 --> 00:18:36.624 see some of these older photos from the tetons specifically yeah i got a bunch of those set up 00:18:36.624 --> 00:18:41.864 to go out a lot of the old photos are going to be set to go i think here up through the first of the 00:18:41.864 --> 00:18:47.044 year they're all scheduled out to go which is cool i like having all the uh the old pictures kind of 00:18:47.044 --> 00:18:50.844 prepped and ready to go and then i'm filming all the new photos that we're making in between now and 00:18:50.844 --> 00:18:54.784 then all the stuff from different trips that we're doing and i kind of put those in between 00:18:54.784 --> 00:18:59.184 too so that's like some of the other stuff that's going out but uh yeah some stuff from the 00:18:59.184 --> 00:19:05.324 tetons was going out this week we had these up this other photo from the imnaha area that sunrise 00:19:05.324 --> 00:19:11.284 some mist in the trees it was kind of lit up and looked really gold in the uh in the pine trees 00:19:11.284 --> 00:19:17.944 it was cool yeah this is a really pretty picture i like this one a lot it looks like a mystical 00:19:17.944 --> 00:19:25.704 little scene yeah it was just kind of a a misty i don't know it's just a little bit uh a little 00:19:25.704 --> 00:19:30.524 expression of uh you know the trees the mist and stuff it's cool it's light and color i like 00:19:30.524 --> 00:19:34.984 but yeah it's a fun picture i was glad to put that one out and then another one was like 00:19:34.984 --> 00:19:40.324 a real old picture it was from this little tunnel this spooky like freeway tunnel 00:19:41.204 --> 00:19:46.844 that we uh we put the car it was my old camry we put the car behind us and backlit the tunnel 00:19:47.694 --> 00:19:53.534 and then uh kind of silhouetted a person in the tunnel to kind of give this sort of spooky eerie 00:19:53.534 --> 00:19:58.854 vibe and we like took different pictures in front of it for a while it was really fun we stayed out 00:19:58.854 --> 00:20:04.314 there like super late at night uh probably would have weirded out anybody that had to go through the 00:20:04.314 --> 00:20:11.574 tunnel they just like these people do this is weird not what i wanted to run into uh but yeah we 00:20:11.574 --> 00:20:15.574 had a ton of fun it was cool uh just kind of setting up over there and doing a bunch of photo 00:20:15.574 --> 00:20:19.274 projects with your friends but that was back in 2008 so it's like kind of soon into starting 00:20:19.274 --> 00:20:25.044 college but that was one of like the early little photo project things that we worked on with my little 00:20:25.044 --> 00:20:30.224 d40 that little silly camera d40 yeah yeah i tried to use that thing for everything i could 00:20:31.264 --> 00:20:35.784 and uh and yeah i did for a long time but so yeah it was one of the early fun photos that i had 00:20:35.784 --> 00:20:40.944 that's a rundown of a handful of the pictures that i've had for the uh the last week or so or last 00:20:40.944 --> 00:20:46.454 couple days the weekend at least stuff that's been going up on facebook twitter instagram i'm running 00:20:46.454 --> 00:20:53.254 behind on instagram i gotta get more of my photos up there oh yeah i don't know it's tough but um but 00:20:53.254 --> 00:20:56.494 yeah i think that wraps up just about everything 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