Yosemite National Park Grand Tour - Glacier Point / Grizzly Giant / California Tunnel Tree & MORE
A tour thru Yosemite National Park including waterfalls , glacier point , views of half dome and El Capitan , massive sequoia trees and so much more !
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so treasure down there
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is there hidden treasure down there did
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you see the X they say it marks the spot
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deep amongst the trees welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here coming to you from the
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heart of Yosemite National Park where I
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and my family will be boarding a bus
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tour called the Grand Tour that's gonna
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take us to a plethora of places I'm
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inviting you and you you two to join me
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Shelley you are here well I'm here
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right about there just gonna pan out and
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give you a a general consensus of the
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area I would imagine that most of the
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places that you're reading on this map
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are the places that we're gonna stop but
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I'm not a hundred percent sure I'm just
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kind of along for the ride hopping on a
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bus and wherever wherever they take us
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no one knows
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our pony has arrived well it's not
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really
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it has horsepower so I guess it falls
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into the same equation but it's just
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basically a big big tour bus the rock is
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3000 feet in height above the valley
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floor
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so a beautiful open area very close to
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Yosemite Lodge what happened here was
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the Ponderosa pine draft ponderosa pine
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trees died
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almost every single one of them was
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killed by a rain bark beetle [\h__\h] it's
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amazing you two started music on
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he's running 10 miles he walked up the
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old stagecoach road and get this great
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older theatre valley he goes all the way
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to they hear the park eggs and
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so as we go through this mineshaft
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albeit bigger than most mine shafts
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even artistically designed by these open
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I want to talk to you about goldmine
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now you're at the California Gold
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Country certainly not
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well we're seeing today for the most
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part because that's granite rock gold
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it's not mine
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but in the volcanic mountain range to
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the west of us east of this gold mining
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was an important part of our American
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history there sits a 10-story rock house
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the world that he get there how did he
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get there
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guys are awful quiet the Gorn paying
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attention explosion
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thank you glaciers first stop off of the
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tour this beautiful meadow check out the
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flowers that are growing wildly down
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there I'm not allowed to cross over this
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fence line in fact they have a sign here
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stating give plants a chance please stay
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off do not want to go trotting off
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through there as beautiful as it is you
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just have to view from afar now let
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nature do its thing
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there's a little teeny tiny pond right
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there if you did walk out there you
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might not notice it and tumble into it
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it's not very large the only like four
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or five feet in diameter wonder how deep
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it yes and that would be chief tenaya
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that was good
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okay now the name of the traffic had
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lived in Giuseppe Valley they were the I
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wanna be cheap
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oh lawd BG that's a good with them
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let's do that again haha 1 DG DG they
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were a branch of the southern be walk
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here that he won't be walk on that
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and
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the rock that we call our captain skin
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for them was the rock chief
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to park a doula
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dude doc Abdullah law became the
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assembly land-grant legislation in that
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law started all national cars of course
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not
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the land shall be set aside for the rest
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backseat and enjoyment for all for all
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there it is folks
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Genisys all national parks it over
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hanging right that glacier point it's
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off to your left when you get out there
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it's at Eddie's on the left and the
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other gentleman's name was John here
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John Muir Eddie's the one with that look
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like he's gonna charge San Juan Hill
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John's a guy that looks kind of spaced
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out if we continue up the trail just a
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ways as Glacier Point but I wanted to
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get a view from this angle as well very
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breathtaking right down there in the
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center of the screen is a waterfall take
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the zoom lens to see how close up I can
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get to it
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here's a shot of both of them the upper
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waterfall and the lower waterfall both
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had a frame pretty freakin cool take a
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look at that as it cascades off of the
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rock it's huge
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but from where I'm standing it's really
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hard to it's really hard to gauge on how
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big it really is and there's another
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section of it right down there
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let's get way up on it look at that you
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just hear the power of it from a ways
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away even from way up here you can hear
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the upper terrace pictured here you got
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the overhanging rock Yosemite Falls
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Mount Hoffman that North dome the basket
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dome
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all that right out there that's Yosemite
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Falls different than the one I showed a
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moment ago this one looks to be just a
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little bit higher as far as the
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elevation that it drops down but it also
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has an upper falls and a lower Falls
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which is down here
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zooom way and he can kind of see it
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there careening through the mountain
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itself so awesome on this side we have
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Tenaya Canyon and Mirror Lake that would
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be what you're looking at currently and
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then up a bit is what is known as Half
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Dome and then to the left as clouds rest
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and then the echo Peaks as I shift to
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the left just a bit what are your
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thoughts on the on the Overlook it's
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amazing my first impression was a climb
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out on that rock but as I started to go
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over the side of the railing there was a
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sign stating do not in there there it is
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I mean I guess you could break the rules
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and hike out there it would be an epic
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picture but I'm not gonna take any
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chances probably for my own safety I
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don't want to have a brisk wind push me
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off the edge and go tumbling down next
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best thing is it just Teeter on this
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rock which doesn't tumble down over a
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Ledge or you can get right up here and
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survey the layout just a little bit
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above where all the other tourists are
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take a good little panoramic swirl
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whatever you do don't [\h__\h] that's a ways
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it's a ways it's a ways to hum there
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I'll just step back now what'd you think
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of that ledge looking down that you
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happen to take a glance definitely not
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I like the ambiance of the bird chirping
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behind me just listen closely held it
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hard for you out there to the left
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the mom Clark raped ready and I always
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tell ready
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everything we see out there to the south
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of this is with and Yosemite National
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Park
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there's highway 140 finding its way
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alongside the first-ever route towards
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Mariposa great view the Sierra tourism
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we are now in the water valley we have
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just a few minutes to go before we get
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to the hotel this is the Willona hotel
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fountain designated by that placard down
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there this is now called the big trees
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Lodge originally the Wawona hotel check
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out the roof it's a very unusual
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roofline I guess technically they aren't
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shingles still in good working order but
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they're just parts of it that's
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protruding up all that wood wood chunks
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up there making the roof line after
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stepping in doors near the lobby is this
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historic photograph doesn't have a year
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placement on it but there it is a
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classic car parked right out front
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pretty nice shot of the Sun blaring
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through the leaves trees are definitely
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getting taller in this neck of the woods
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and a little more unusual looking look
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at this one here going up it almost
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looks like elephant trunks or like
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tentacles hey little guy
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in a hurry to get somewhere he's trying
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to hide now it's playing
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hide-and-go-seek with me oh wait no wait
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nope I still see you nice old school
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covered bridge over a river way off to
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this side so stagecoaches it's like
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stepping back in time look at these
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things it's about a dozen of them just
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peek the camera over you can see they
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stretch all the way down to the end of
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this open-air barn we got some deer down
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here they're waiting across
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they're making their way across the
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waterway there they go hopefully doesn't
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get too deep for them you don't want to
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go swimming they just want to cool off a
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bit there's like a whole western town
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back in here some horse rides off in the
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distance some cabin some old homesteads
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all around even an old jail powder house
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jail
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as stated right there black powder and
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dynamite used to make it step inside see
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what it's like to be inside this thing
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there's a little bunk but not much else
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and to get fresh air there wasn't a
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whole heck of a lot of ways except maybe
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sticking your head out of that teeny
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tiny quarters to say the least
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a view inside the covered bridge and a
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little bit better look at the river that
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runs underneath it largest trees in the
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world classified by the largest 100 all
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of them are giant sequoias
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the Giant Sequoias are also above the
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oldest living things on the face of the
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planet
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now when we make this turn here
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you can imagine what it's like up there
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that's a special world there was an
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article in the national Geographics
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where they actually studied the category
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rock climbers climbed up there and lived
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among the tops of the three first
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impression when we turned that corner
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huge suppress to get a horse up on the
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back of that tree and stand with it like
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this you have to have a well-trained
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horse pretty amazing famous photo of
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some guys on horses and their horses
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were standing on the top of the tree
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this very tree way back in the day
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preservation for hundreds maybe even
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thousands of years because they contain
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tannin that resists the insects and the
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agents of decomposition so the rule for
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a pine tree is it will decompose over
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the period of its life so if we stood
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for a hundred years at Falls it'll
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probably decompose in a hundred years
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this one maybe was two thousand years
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old when it fell and that rule kind of
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holds up maybe two thousand years maybe
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even longer some of these trees have
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been found to be very closely you can
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see some inscriptions people have carved
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their names and years and dates in the
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sight of it
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walking through a tree cut down the
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middle on either side I can't imagine a
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more beautiful sight than I'm looking at
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right here this week of trees are called
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The Bachelor and Three Graces to me this
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is the epitome of beauty defined by
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mother nature I would call this group
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the Harmony trees rather than the
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bachelor three graces in my opinion the
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most beautiful tree in the world that's
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just my opinion but I've seen a lot of
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trees and I can't think of any other
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tree that it's as beautiful as this
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grizzly giant aside from the beauty it
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has a reputation for size up close and
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personal with the one and only grizzly
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Giants look at the girth of that trunk
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and he was saying the branches are wider
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than a normal tree's trunk seven feet
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wide that is quite a sight the grizzly
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giant chunk of gone Oh God President
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Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 stood at the
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base of the tree you can see him there
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in the middle it's not in this exact
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angle it's actually around just a little
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bit so if we move this way you could see
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the slightly burned section from a fire
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a very long time ago that charred the
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base but right there smack dab in the
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middle is where President Roosevelt's
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would have stood with the rest of his
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crew and I personally think this is the
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best spot to get the magnitude
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of this look at that holy cow that's
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that's something else for many years
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I've seen postcards and/or photos of
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this the California tunnel tree I've
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always wanted to see it and walk through
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it I'm about to make that happen
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look at this you could walk directly
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through it I have to wait in line others
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there's a few other people in front of
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me
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including my sister I know it's a little
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dark but I'm about to get my got to get
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my photo taken she's taking the picture
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now I just did it
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I walked completely through the
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California tunnel tree bucket list item
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achieved there I am way down there well
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way down there compared to the limbs but
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that's me right there document you're
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talking about the other video being one
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of the biggest pine cones in the world
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look at that compared to that why what
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size how many ounces is that water
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bottle you're holding compare it well
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what is that like a 32 ounce water 33.8
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fluid ounce bottle compared to that if
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this is a bottle of water I'd be sitting
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pretty right in comparison to a Sequoia
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cone so you plant that in the ground and
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make a Sequoia tree look how tiny it is
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I think the big tree would come from the
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big cone yeah who knew that's so bizarre
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yeah is that alive or dead are you
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living like some sort of long antenna
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beetle there I don't know it's not
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moving one two three
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alright count of three this is one two
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three I think that's gonna be a good one
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it's when the angle of the Sun is 21
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degrees and I have a feeling that we
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might be okay as far as seeing a tree
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but if it's out here
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you'll have to take off your polarizing
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there it is oh yeah at a certain time of
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the day you can see a rainbow on the
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waterfall over there let me zoom in on
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it see if I can see it a little better
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oh yeah once the Sun gets to a certain
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position that rainbow disappears looked
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up pretty well to be here at the right
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specific time majestic creates a very
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interesting element colorful spectrum
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protruding down the side of that
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mountain check that out
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that is pretty freakin cool
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ground level view of Yosemite Falls
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between the two tree lines there the
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shadow does make it difficult to see if
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you look closely you can see it tucked
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away in there
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I've seen a lot of waterfalls today
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that's gonna do it for today from
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Yosemite National Park and for those
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that are curious I asked the guide if
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kyo simony sam had any correlation he
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seems to think that the cartoon
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character was a gold miner and that's
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who they modeled him after had had to
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