Finding LOTS of Wrecked Old Cars In Mountains of Utah - Farmington Hike To Waterfall & The Hand Tree
Farmington Waterfall Hike Utah
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you today's adventure begins with a
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painted smiley on a rock as a recording
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of this Monday September 26 2022 I am at
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the Farmington Creek hiking trail
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I will be heading up up up
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the side of a Utah Mountain
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starting now welcome everyone Adam the
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woo here the beauty of these rocks
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the nice weather
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there will be some shade because of the
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mountain
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that is here but there will also be some
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sunbursts peeking up over the horizon
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as the morning starts to rear its head
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this is also my last day in Salt Lake
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City before tomorrow
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we'll be departing to head back to
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Central Florida
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it's gonna be kind of a peaceful day
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a little hiking and who knows what's
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going to happen after the hike who knows
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what I'm going to find out or supposedly
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there are some relics of old cars stuck
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up here somewhere kind of rotting
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rusting away as well as a waterfall if
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you hear the water going down there
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inviting you to join me shall you
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fancy meeting you both here
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my sister face here her husband Ryan's
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here
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they discovered
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this hike a while back and so we should
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go on a hike
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it's like someone is
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spray painted up there
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there's a little cave in there there's a
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little cave back in here see my shadow
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right here kind of waving at my shadow
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there are some paper plates in there
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that's kind of neat I'm sure people are
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probably congregate in here and
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do interesting things you just got to
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watch your your footing
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going down this
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tumble and fall would not be good
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yeah watch it on the
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trails around twisting angle twist an
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ankle yeah
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that's what I'm always in fear of and my
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sister just alerted me that that is
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poison ivy
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she has a sixth sense about these things
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don't touch I don't want that to brush
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up against the side of my leg
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I'm not really sure if I
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if it really affects me as much as it
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does hurt
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she uh
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definitely doesn't like poison ivy so
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down below us is Farmington Creek
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so Lagoon theme park where we went to
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the theme park the other night was over
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this way
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oh
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looking over the edge here
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so that's Farmington Creek way down
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there
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so I guess if we follow that up that's
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where the waterfall will be yes the side
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of the Hill yep it runs Trail runs right
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up the creek
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that looks like the leaves are kind of
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starting to change down there
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I know certain areas of the country
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these are already changing but I guess
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in here
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they're just now starting
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now the length of this particular Trail
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is about one and a half one and three
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quarter mile so it's gonna be about
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three and a half miles there and back
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not going up to the top of the mountain
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that was just informed and it's one way
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in one way out I mean there might be
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some other obscure pass but the bath the
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path we're taking
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is kind of going to be in see the
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waterfalls see the cars coming back the
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same way that we walk in
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very Rocky very hilly lots of incline
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stretching the old legs
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that is for sure
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feels good all right is this the
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waterfall you were hyping up it's right
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here this is it
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go back that's it all right we're
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turning around now this is the waterfall
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huh yeah
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I don't I don't believe I think it's
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another waterfall
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that's the water Trickle because we're
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going from this way
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not going over this tiny little
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waterfall continuing up one thing I also
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like about this Trail is there's lots of
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foliage so there's quite a bit of shade
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sometimes you're walking out in the sun
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but a good portion of it you're in the
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shade which is nice because the sun is
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out now
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in all its Glory so it's kind of nice to
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have a little shade
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as you're commuting through the trails
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here first I thought it was the wind
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rustling through the trees
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however it is the water down there
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let's watch my step here
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is this a rickety Bridge
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kinda maintaining the path but
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we don't fall over yeah it's not a
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rickety bridge but I'm gonna pretend it
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is
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before feel more like Indiana Jones when
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I'm doing these if I say I went over
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ripped and brick he's got to go that way
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we gotta cross over the river
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I forgot we had to cross I'm gonna take
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you I'm gonna take your path and go this
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way
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and I should have worn my order today or
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I could just go where she's going that
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works too
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you see where the sun is peeking out
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there from the shade
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and this very unique rock structure down
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very very big it almost looks like a
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whale popping up out of the ground
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that is a massive Rock
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oh yeah you can't see the Salt Lake from
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that is awesome
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way over there the Great Salt Lake and
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zoom out
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okay the path is closing in on us
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foliage engulfing
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path itself
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and I have brought water we all brought
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a bottle of water with us
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stay hydrated nothing too extreme
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because I don't think it's gonna be too
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bad but we did bring
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some H2O but take a look at this
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Rock here
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it's kind of teetering on a smaller rock
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back here that's holding it up
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possibly keeping it from falling over
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whatever you do
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don't like that all right first car has
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been found
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at the very bottom of this very steep
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incline
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he said there's another car you could
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get right up to yes I think there's you
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know the two of them you can get close
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to okay so this one I'm just going to
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zoom in on
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yeah I'll rusted out down there
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take a look at that
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there's the hood
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the passenger side door
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has been removed rusted out
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can't tell what kind of car it is from
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I guess someone either drove it left it
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down there push it off the hill this
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isn't really a road this is a path
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maybe above us as a road yeah there is
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there's one I look on the map there is
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an old one right up there so I imagine
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that I don't know if they did it for fun
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or
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so up top way up there's a
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a road so they could have driven off or
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maybe it was a bad accident
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now left down here forever
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this thing ain't going nowhere
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textbook
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look you're like almost like from a
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movie you're like surveying the
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landscape
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all right continued on
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to the second vehicle this one very a
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lot simpler to get to I say easy but
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then I don't want to like
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I don't want to mess up my
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stepping here
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going down to it look at this
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kind of ruled with holes here
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yeah this thing got really bit up when
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they dropped it off the top of the road
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it's almost like I'm looking at the
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Bonnie and Clyde car
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the holes in the side the engine
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well part of the axle down in there
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look at this where the wheels were that
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is awesome
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wow
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it's right off the path
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foreign
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you got the speedometer there
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the dashboard you got the glove box
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this is a relic
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some of these little souvenir down there
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somewhere
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so chose look at the oh there's the door
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open right there
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awesome
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that is so cool you can see we're
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impacted on the rock
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yeah that's great
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pretty awesome
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this was a lot easier hike down to than
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the first one
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that's why I filmed the first one for
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the zoom lens
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it was hard to get up when I went down
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there that is awesome
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there's five cars out here and you've
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only found three
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there's only three I said that there's
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five only three are visible I think I've
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only seen
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this is this pathway is pretty neat you
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got rocks on either side of the path
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we're still going up we aren't getting
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quite a bit of elevation here more than
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I was expecting and up another incline
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this is very interesting there's a full
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engine right here
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that's something you don't see every day
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out in the middle of the Woods
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side of a mountain and
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another car up top what kind of car is
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that
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much
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that thing is destroyed yeah got the
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seed in it still
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I still got to see that
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oh look you see the original paint on
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the side
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yeah cool this almost this is more
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recent than the other one yeah this
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seems like a 60s 70s probably
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it's a door
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it's probably a Chevy
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oh the steering wheel see the steering
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wheel over there yeah that's pretty neat
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I wonder if I could see it from this
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side
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Maybe
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that's pretty dang cool I didn't go back
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in the woods to go closer to it but I
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did
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I wonder if somebody removed this or if
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this just flew out of it
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hopefully there was no one in that thing
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when it went over
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over the creek once again
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continuing up this does look pretty dang
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it's like a creepy haunted hand here to
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the sky
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that is great yeah
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water flowing over there
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you go around this spot
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yeah that shows a better look at the
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hand with the knuckles and everything
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you're inside it you're passing through
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the hand
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that's so awesome
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I'm gonna slip through the fingers
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I escaped the hand
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all right here's the fourth car
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he's already climbed over there
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oh there's a path never mind there's a
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path look at this
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what the heck
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okay pass over this water here
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all right this is freaking amazing
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look at this
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waterfall this thing came off the top of
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the mountain which is Korean into all
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these rocks
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look at that though
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this is awesome it's probably my
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favorite of the four wrecked cars four
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bath over there so the other half of a
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cough maybe that's the fifth car
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that's cool so you guys didn't see this
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last time no because We're translating
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the other one
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okay it's not the fifth car this is
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still the fourth car
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however it became separated
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but it's still got the tire on here
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this is amazing
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I've never really seen any like this
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amount of wrecked Wheels vehicles at the
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bottom of a hill before I've seen it
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from a distance but not not the Bette
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Midler song but from a distance
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and other hikes but never up close like
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this
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make out
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look at this Boulder that's just like
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following the bottom of the car
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probably standing here might not be the
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smartest thing either like if this thing
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came down the hill
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I imagine it came down with the car and
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then it's landed on top of it yeah maybe
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so
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all right Boulder Zone
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but I don't know you never know if
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someone was on this or not
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look at a door there
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bottom of the car there I gotta go back
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across here
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I think this is my favorite of the four
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we've seen
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just the angle of it on those rocks
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though
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this is turning out to be quite a hike
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the hand tree and just past the hand
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tree the fourth wrecked car
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loving this hike all right we just saw
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an off-road vehicle up there car you can
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kind of see a fence up there so that's
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where the road is let me zoom in as to
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where that bridge is
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so that's where everyone is driving
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their cars off either on purpose or an
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accident yeah it's harder going down
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than it is
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there is a rope right here tied to the
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tree
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you going first
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all right
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my goodness
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it's going right down the hill look at
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adventurous
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movie Black Sheep this isn't a root but
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what he's like hold strong little root I
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don't know how I'm gonna do this with
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the camera
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you see all the different knots
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that are there that helps
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this is quite the Steep incline all
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right in all truthfulness I hated that
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like that was not even enjoyable at all
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like what the heck why
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that was not fun
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can I see the video you got of me yeah
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and of course looking at it through a
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lens it doesn't really look that bad
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that is so
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dang steep
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you can even tell how terrified I am
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just from a distance like that
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did not like that at all but there
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definitely is a reward at the bottom
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this is awesome
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awesome waterfall here
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definitely a nice reward going down that
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little rope going down the Rope down the
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side of the Hill
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pretty dang awesome feeling the myth off
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of this nature at its finest
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this is an awesome hike
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Crescendo being the waterfall
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hiking down a rope down the side of a
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huge Cliff four wrecked cars
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and the Hand tree
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pretty good hike
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it's now time to go
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back I'm hoping going up is easier than
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going down because that was not fun I
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didn't notice this until my sister saw
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it
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maybe a rainbow hit that at some point
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leprechauns were out here
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yeah I can't imagine how slick those
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rocks are
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from Gears of that water going over all
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the algae build up on it
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where'd Ryan go he went to the top of
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the hill but but I think I just I just
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ruined that bit because I showed I
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showed him going to the top of it never
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mind
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wait wait is someone up there
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is someone at the top wait he can't hear
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us the water's too loud there he is
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right there
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yeah I wouldn't go any closer than that
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don't look down
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he's the king of the world oh if you
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can't hear anything I'm saying because
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the water's so loud all right it's my
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turn to go back up the side of this
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you think it's easier going up or going
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down the hill
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you've done this before I'm going up
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going up to easier are you just can see
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where your footing is gonna be you're
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just trying to instill the vote of
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confidence in me and I appreciate that
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okay going up
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a lot easier than going down
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but I'm very winded because you're using
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all your arms
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shrink
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you're going out to steep income
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I gotta Catch My Breath
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thankfully I have a little bit of water
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I am winded
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oh my gosh
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you both are making me look
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pitiful you're just like knocking this
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out like nobody's business
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not really I think going up is a lot
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easier
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they're going down
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you got it hang on to that
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you're good to go we did it guys
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nap time now we got a mile and a half
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now we got a hike a mile and a half back
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downhill though
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okay here's some of the leaves changing
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here too a little up close with the
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leaves very beautiful
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like fire red
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this is on the way back
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obviously because I filmed that order
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oh I even had to say that
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and on the way out
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pretty good view of the river down there
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let's zoom in on that too
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the River Wild
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wasn't that Kevin Bacon yes
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you're kayaking or whatever yeah I gotta
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re-watch that movie
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it'd be pretty good
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I don't know why I thought the River
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Wild which is a small stream blizzard
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alert
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there he is I see him
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I see you lizard
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okay we veered off on a trail almost
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there we're not we're going the wrong
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way we're not really lost but we did
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take a detour and I'm glad we did I'm
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glad he got kind of a little lost
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because here is one of the last cars
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right here
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we would not have seen this if we would
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not have veered off someone
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really loves 40 Peter I think there's an
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airbag
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oh there's a deployed airbag in there I
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don't know what that is or what it looks
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like it right where it would be
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that might be
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oh it is look at that yeah
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it's called the rubble in the front seat
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there wow
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the muffler down there
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so if we would have taken this wrong way
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we would have seen this
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that's awesome
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came tumbling down the hill either that
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way or probably from way up there yeah
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probably from way up there
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pretty neat yeah
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I knew there were five
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all right almost back to the car car's
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right down there
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not too far this is all looking very
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familiar
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just past the cave back there
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deja vu in reverse
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the last descent here
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be careful in the footing
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but
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but that's gonna do it
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for today this is the smiley rock it is
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I started on this and I'm going to end
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on this
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that's gonna do it for today for the
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smiley Rock what's the name of this hike
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again
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Farmington Creek Trail saw waterfall saw
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at least four desolate cars rusting away
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saw the Rope climb down
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and saw the hand tree
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and some pretty good views of gray Salt
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Lake
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see the next video the Vlog
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is over