Hiking To Closed Batman Cave & Above Hollywood Sign In Griffith Park / Amazing View From Wisdom Tree
Hiking To Hollywood Sign & Wisdom Tree
With Randomly Randy
Transcript
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today's adventure begins from my hotel
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room as a recording of this Tuesday June
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6
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2023 I am going to be heading to
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Griffith Park a Hollywood sign
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hike
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and who knows what else I will find
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on the peaks of Mount Lee
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where the Hollywood sign is
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it's a good day for it too
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the clearing here
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you see the subject matter at hand the
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iconic sign
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the side of the mountain
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it's a ways up there does it look like
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it's that far from here but it's always
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up there
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entering Hollywood land so fun fact
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these
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little pylons here were recreated at
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Disney's Hollywood Studios when you go
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into the Hollywood Tower it looks just
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like that
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into hollywoodland established 1923
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going up the hill trying to attempt to
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find a parking spot okay I have parked
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here
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where it's kind of an interesting little
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area there's like there's not a lot of
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parking there's some street parking on
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the right side of the road the street
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corner up in the Hollywood Hills so
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because it is a weekday as a recording
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of this
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you can park here but you cannot park
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here 8 A.M to 6 p.m on Saturday Sunday
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at holidays of course if you live in the
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area and you have a permit you are
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exempt from that but anyone can park up
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here according to the side
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on a weekday so that's what we're doing
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this is the corner of Rock Cliff Drive
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and duranda
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this is interesting
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there's like some wooden growth out of
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the top of this metal pole
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here and
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randomly Randy who has never been to the
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Hollywood side right I have not I'm
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excited for this yeah it's kind of a la
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thing to do you're out here have you
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ever been to California before I have
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one other time whether it's time briefly
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so but never been up to mount Lee in the
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Hollywood Sign no I was thinking maybe
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we we park here which I've learned about
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this spot from German and Venice he gave
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me kind of a little secret so shout out
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to him also check out randomly Randy's
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Channel he does a lot of movie locations
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traveling stuff things like that he's on
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YouTube as well and I think it's a good
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day for this because the the clouds are
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kind of obscuring the Sun a little bit I
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don't know it just came out right when
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you said that oh well what are you gonna
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do look at this
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I think we'll be good I think we'll be
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good I'm inviting you to join me and
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randomly Randy shall you
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this plant looks like kind of like
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something out of a horror film like it's
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kind of like like a it's like a
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demogorgon or something but look at this
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View
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this is how close you can get to the
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Hollywood sign on a weekday don't try to
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park here on a week on a weekend as the
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sign says it'll end badly
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once you start getting closer to it you
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realize just how large
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those letters really are
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massive so this is known as the doorway
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to Hollywood as the doorway to Hollywood
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enter
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wow
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can I show you both in the video yeah
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all right cool what's your YouTube
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channel uh third phase of moon um we
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cover the UFOs this is my twin brother
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Brent they call us the cousins Brothers
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if you're interested in the UFOs right
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now they drop something on the news
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about oh yeah recovered okay bodies but
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don't trust what the government tells
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you all right 90 of what the government
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tells you is going to be false okay fair
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enough but you guys you live in this
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neighborhood and you get to see this
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view every day every day wake up to it
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this is a good coffee spot so over here
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they have T-shirts
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uh he sells these t-shirts for nine
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dollars you said
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nine or ten dollars yeah look at this
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what a coincidence meeting you guys up
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here that's awesome and this is just
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right here this little overlook
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on the way up in the neighborhood
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I want this view I'm gonna live in this
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neighborhood
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man this is like a it's like a dream
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living here it's amazing
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and right over there is the Wisdom Tree
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not the Dreaming Tree I always like
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always get a mixed up Walt's Dreaming
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Tree in Marceline but yeah there's the
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we're gonna try to hike up there too it
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says about a 45 minute hike yes about 45
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minutes from now minutes we'll get you
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there all right we can do it
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you call it the door to Hollywood let me
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call it the doorway to Hollywood the
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doorway to Hollywood awesome let's check
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out these guys Channel if you want to
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see UFO stuff third phase of moon and
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never trust the man never trust the man
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nice meeting you both see you guys okay
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that was pretty awesome Meeting those
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guys what a coincidence
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walked past and they're like hey Adam
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and I asked where we parked if we were
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good to park where we parked and they
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said oh yeah as long as it's not a
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weekend
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so we're now going to walk through here
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and up to the trail
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they also alerted us to be careful of
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snakes
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so definitely gotta be careful of snakes
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up here mountain lions would be
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pretty scary too but
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definitely don't want to see any snakes
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there's a star right here almost like
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the walking Flame no name on that one
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though
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so we're gonna go up that way but if you
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head this way you're gonna really really
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good view
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downtown Los Angeles it is a very high
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fire hazard going on right now with
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Smokey Bear not Smokey the Bear but
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Smokey Bear
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the downtown L.A over there that is
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quite a view
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and it is kind of hazy and cloudy today
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but in La you sometimes it's Smog and
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sometimes it's fog and sometimes it's
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just haziness
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beautiful now as mentioned the giv how
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he told me about this place last time I
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was out in SoCal
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but I did remember back the first time I
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visited California a decade ago I did
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come up here but the whole time I lived
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here years later I had forgotten about
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this spot so I'm glad now I know about
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it again so the goal is to hike up to
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the top looking down a pond the
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Hollywood sign
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and then we're going to Trek along Mount
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Lee
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getting a view on the other side of the
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valley and then this side into Hollywood
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and then end up
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right over there
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at The Wisdom Tree
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now I've done the Wisdom Tree hike
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before but never from this spot I did it
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from the Universal Studio side
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never gone across the top of Mount Lee
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before
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that one tree over there one thing that
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should be noticed you cannot get up and
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touch the sign without explicit
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permission
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which is kind of tough to get I remember
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a decade ago when I was out here I
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stated I tried getting really close and
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I went up this route and like a little
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alarm went off and there's like a voice
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recording that says you are too close to
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the side I'm paraphrasing but you can't
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go above it when you get up there you're
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gonna see there's a fence and you want
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to stay hydrated this is not the French
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Alps I'm gonna be hiking on but I got
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some Mountain Water what kind of water
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you got I just got some spring water so
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that's a spring I don't know if there's
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any Springs up here but maybe there are
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maybe some spring in our steps we have
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some spring in our steps so we got to go
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back down to go back up to get to the
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route we got to go watch out for snakes
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yeah I was wondering when the Griffith
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Observatory would pop into frame there
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there it is
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and there's downtown but even when
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you're at the observatory way over there
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you get to get a really good view of the
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sign we're way closer to even the
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observatory is I'm zooming way in I was
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a park ranger coming up here
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oh man should have showed a little leg
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showed a little leg it might have helped
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me he would have given us a ride a park
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ranger could take us to the top I mean
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no maybe you're left I'm wearing shorts
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I should have shown a little leg I cover
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mine for a reason he did not like my
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hitchhiking
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pose now this road is off limits to
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traditional traffic and local residents
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just a walking path except for the
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you know workers that just drove by it
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looks like at some point they had
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these little platforms set up that you
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wouldn't drive off the side so probably
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at some point this was a regular road I
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don't want to sugarcoat this we did Park
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really close
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this is really steep
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can you vouch for me on how steep this
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is absolutely I was actually going to
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record it and then you started yeah it's
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uh so we've we're it's definitely a hike
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even from the closest parking spot hack
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to get up there so just keep that in
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mind so I wanted to show this so this is
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the Hollywood side of the mountain and I
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always remember
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the Nick Cage movie the reform and
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Valley Girl the helicopter scene at the
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beginning goes past the Hollywood sign
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which is right there
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so it shows the Hollywood side and then
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it shows the valley which I believe
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hopefully I'm correct on this be able to
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see the valley
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I'm gonna go this way back in the 80s
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you didn't like the valley if you were a
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hollywoodian
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and if you were a a valley girl you
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didn't like Hollywood
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but I don't know if it's that way
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anymore about today this is the valley
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right down here look at this
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Valley on Woodside Hollywood on the
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other getting a view here so right down
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that church is where let me for
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Motorhead
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had his ceremony when he passed and
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one of my favorite entertainers from
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Three's Company John Ritter
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is down there also
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I mean just a lot of history of
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of who's here but over this way
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is ABC
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the Disney Burbank Studios
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are right down there in fact you can see
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the sorcerer's cap right there and to
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this freeway side of the sorcerer's crap
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cap
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not the sorcerer's crap but the
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sorcerer's capped and kind of winded
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from walking up here
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that was where the original Disneyland
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was going to be Mickey Mouse Park that
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freeway would have gone where we know
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now it was Disneyland would have been
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originally called Mickey Mouse Park but
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it ended up in Anaheim Now Burbank all
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right after some huffing and puffing
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walking up the side of this
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have reached a historical marker here
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we are now at kohanga Peak
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which was added to Griffith Park with
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the help and support of
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donors worldwide
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trust a public land
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oh check this out lucasfilm Foundation
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and Spielberg
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heck yeah
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city of Los Angeles the city was founded
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in 1781.
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so again you got the valley over here
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and Hollywood on this side
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and this fence line
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is leading up to the Hollywood Sign to
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the summit of Mount Lee back at the
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Hollywood Sign 0.2 miles so not too far
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and also okay so kohanga Peak has
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technically
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a third of a mile that way and also
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Burbank Peak which is 0.7 miles which I
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believe
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is where
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The Wisdom Tree is so we're gonna head
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that way momentarily but first
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gotta check this out it's also a no
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drone zone so no drones up here
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there's Lake Hollywood where the dog
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park is down in that area
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actually the dog Park's right down there
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I can see the dog park from here really
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good angle to get a view of the sign
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not the back side of water
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the back side of the Hollywood side look
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at this
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this is epic oh you know what's cool you
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can see the people down there
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kind of where we parked on that little
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plateau
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That's How Far We've gone up
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Epic
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I have not been up here probably in
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about seven years
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no hiking allowed to the Hollywood sign
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over this fence
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don't even think about it but you can't
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hike up to here you just can't go past
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any of the fences
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yeah right here it looks like the aliens
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have landed look at this little like uh
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thing right here I don't know what this
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is really something else so you see the
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grip this Observatory over there you see
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the wood part you see the Holly part and
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you see the Holly wood
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part just amazing up here
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just the view you can see everything
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Valley on the other side
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and the Hollywood side on this side not
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a bad way to spin the day and the
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weather is turning out pretty dang
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pretty dang well I'm above the Hollywood
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Sign not at the Hollywood sign above the
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Valley
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we'll walk out to this little Peak here
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and look this direction
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part of the reason I wanted to walk out
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here because
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one thing I've noticed in doing videos
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over the years are just hiking anywhere
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you can go to the most secluded spot
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where about less than a dozen people are
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and they were always be someone with a
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radio blaring their music which is
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happening right up there it's like
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there's gonna be no one up there with
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music nope they got the old Boombox out
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Blackwell modern day Boombox that's the
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first thing I noticed when we were
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walking up and like are you kidding me
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yeah you do you do YouTube videos so
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it's like Authority in your side too
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it's amazing there's no one up here it's
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like six people up here two of them
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playing music loudly
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oh well it is what it is so we just
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walked over this way kind of makes me
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laugh at this point okay one thing that
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made Randy and I really really happy was
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this couple over here that's hiking from
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the top of this way and he just saw the
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sign how much excitement did that guy
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just have he just exploded yeah it was
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awesome that was that was pretty awesome
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he must have started over at the wisdom
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tree and walked this way but when he
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rounded that corner and saw this it was
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like pure emotion of happiness
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that was cool
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he's still cheering over there I love it
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now all along here you see this in a lot
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of different Bridges and fences and
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stuff people have put locks
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all along and memory of others or maybe
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to designate that they were here and
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people have placed little stickers so I
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have added one as well I am now at the
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back side of the Hollywood sign right up
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below this lock downtown LA off in the
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distance there's me in sticker vinyl
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form above the Hollywood side
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for posterity pretty cool
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pretty dang cool
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and we just talked to the guy that was
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very excited about going up to the the
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tree over there he said it's a pretty
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decent hike but it's pretty pretty
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doable so we're gonna head that way to
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the tree now there's a lock on this and
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people have I would never recommend
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doing it
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because alarms would go off people would
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be alerted
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and it's even just that you were saying
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how steep it is to even get down there
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sketchy looking yeah
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and the Hollywood side's been renovated
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and cleaned up since kind of the olden
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days if you watch like movies from like
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the 70s and 80s the Hollywood side was
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kind of falling apart oh look at this
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there's a copter coming in
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they probably got a really good view
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got the observatory off in the distance
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downtown
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I don't think they do copter tours like
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if this was Florida there would be
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copter tours going by this charge 25
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bucks to just fly past the side I don't
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think they do those here
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it's probably an officer all right we're
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kind of at the fork in the road now let
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me zoom in here we got a mirror
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I mean the sign designs which way to go
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so it's pretty simple to figure it out
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but here we are hello
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now we're getting into some real hiking
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here so it's got the same idea there got
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the hiking going on now
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up the top of this
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off of the path
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the drivable walkable path
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and now up the side of this hill
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oh check this out yeah it's Hefner
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overlook
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Hugh Hefner Overlook I never noticed
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this was up here before
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so The Story Goes that Hefner and a
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bunch of other locals
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in La purchase a lot of this land or
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assign some petitions I don't know the
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whole story but
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he's the thank on why this wasn't
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developed and housed all the way up to
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the top also Eileen Getty Ridge Trail so
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she also her and Hefner and others
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are to think on why there's no buildings
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and residents all the way up here on the
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top of Mount Lee
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I'm pretty sure it's I keep saying it's
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Mount Lee I think it's Mount Lee do not
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want to wear sandals or flip-flops
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through here
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because this very Rocky Terrain
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but where
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oh
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so good
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one of you though
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agreed one of you
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amazing because again the weather's
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perfect too it is amazing out here it's
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perfect
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all right carrying on
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continuing on stay off the path snakes
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we do not need snakes
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and definitely some ups and downs kind
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of steep
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kind of treacherous looks pretty safe
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all in all though my goodness this is uh
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this is steep
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thank you
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getting our steps
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oh wow
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okay just figuring out the coordinates
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here so we're going to go up the top of
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that we came down this way we got to go
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to the top of Burbank Peak and after we
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go up that incline of Burbank Peak it is
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straight across
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to The Wisdom Tree
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and it looks like the U.S flag I can see
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it from here is right next to the tree
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over there
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buzzing in my ear distracting me
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get out of my earlobe fly
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that's the destination you can see we're
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not the only ones out here doing this
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hike this is pretty steep look over here
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someone is with their dog
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a lot of people hike with their dogs out
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here too and that is a really steep
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incline right there
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great photo spot I'm sure it's like
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they're taking a photo
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this is probably going to be the most
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difficult part of the truck it's always
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amazing when you see some of the locals
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up here that are jogging
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up the side of these Hills
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because now
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here's the intense part
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right up that way this is almost as tall
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as me
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some of the spray painters and stuff on
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the side there
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yeah okay this is as tall as you you got
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it
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all right this copter is circling
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what if someone dropped the fence
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copter is landing on the top of the
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mountain there's a helipad over there I
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never knew that
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that's neat careful that first step or
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last step it's a doozy
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first half of this was not a hike it was
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just a walk this is a hike okay no
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snakes are mountain lions yet but there
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is a big Beetle right there
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crawling in
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okay see you later beetle
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moving on there's a little marker here
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it says kohanga
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city of Los Angeles survey control
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what do you call a geographic marker I
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believe stuff
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if I've never been on this Trail before
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I've been in the Wisdom Tree been in the
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Hollywood sign but never from one point
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to the other
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another marker here
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now I do believe I'm just gonna say
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well he almost just crushed that water
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bottle
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it was in my pocket
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we are at the top the tallest point of
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Mount Lee right now we are way above the
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and I think we're gonna go down just a
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little bit to get to the wisdom tree we
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are at the highest point of Mount Lee
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this is a pretty
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pretty Epic
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occasion I've never been to the spot
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before I'm standing right on top of the
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Geographic marker here so I'm really at
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the highest point of the mountain
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Hollywood over there I'm a little bit
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taller than you now because I'm on this
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little marker
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Hollywood there
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the valley let me spin her out let me
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spin around
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the valley behind us
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Universal City right over there
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epic
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this is epic man this is amazing
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and the cloud formations they're nice
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it's not too hot those plugs all in my
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face
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all right A good view of Universal
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Studios down there it's going to get
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much better Universal City off in the
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distance still heading towards the tree
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is that Beacon I guess the story of the
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tree from what I heard was there was a
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fire up here years ago and everything
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burned down except that one tree and the
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tree's Still Standing that's the story
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anyway copter's taken back off from the
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helipad
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so down there is the Hollywood dog park
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way down there notice that cross that'd
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be a hike for another day but it'd be
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kind of fun to hike to that cross right
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there too
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from ground level the cross almost
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looked like it was near the tree but it
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really is not in the grand scheme of
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things nowhere near a desert flower up
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in the mountains here
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and right around this corner we should
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get a reveal of Warner Brothers Studio
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's I should say
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right down
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there quite the impressive view of the
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Warner Brothers Studios and back lot
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most the Backlot over here of course
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used in so many different films TV shows
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commercials
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covered in a great detail and done a lot
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of Tours down there
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a square from Dukes of Hazzard Monster
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Squad
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Pretty Little Liars this the
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water tower there where the Animaniacs
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live
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of course La La Land film down there in
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fact over here in that corner
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Smokehouse from La La Land where played
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the piano
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Scott on tape his favorite movie La La
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Land I wanted to bring that up that
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copter is just doing circles
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corrected my assumption
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Burbank Pete Peak gosh I am having
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trouble talking on this altitude
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Burbank Peak which has no future
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is right up here and that is where the
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wisdom tree is yeah you can even kind of
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see the steeple from the church The Lost
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Boys Church there
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uh what else was that the Lost Boys
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church was also in Monster Squad Church
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you were saying Gilmore Girls was also
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down there yep Gilmore Girls TV's Big
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Adventure
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countless yeah just a countless amount
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of
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this is Burbank Peak Peak I keep saying
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Peak Burbank Peak not peat
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be a good cowboy name for a big peak
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Pete gosh I'm having trouble talking
25:06
got really Breezy and Gusty all of a
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sudden
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another survey marker here
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we go Burbank
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the universal down there where I started
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earlier you can see the hotel I'm
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staying at
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right in the middle of the screen not
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the Super tall building up to the right
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but a little bit right in the middle of
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the Hilton
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sorry for my window you see some of the
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back lot you can see the blue screen
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from The Truman Show and Sully and all
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that that's where they put the water
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you see the Jurassic parking area
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you see The Simpsons ride over there
25:58
used to be back to the future rod
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it got really cool and crisp out here
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it's kind of cold almost
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it is quite the uh quite the elevation
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to get up here to see this flag above
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downtown LA you see La in the distance I
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lived in Hollywood for a while I lived
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in the greater LA area I lived in Orange
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County I lived in Anaheim I lived in the
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town of orange I spent a lot of time the
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last place I ever lived in SoCal was in
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Anaheim before that
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I lived in Hollywood right down there
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and when you're in Hollywood or in
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Burbank or in the valley anywhere around
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Griffith Park well unless it's obscured
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by a peak or something but most the time
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when you're driving around anywhere in
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these roads you could look up here if
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you see this Beacon looking down upon
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you
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The Wisdom Tree
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and this is this is how you get up here
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you got to hike up to it
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so anywhere you're driving around way
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way over there way over there over there
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just look up top of Mount Lee
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Burbank Peak and look for the Wisdom
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Tree still here all these years later
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I think I've used the term epic a lot of
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times you're playing a drinking game
27:29
and you're taking a swig every time I
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say epic it would not end well for you
27:32
so don't be doing that
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you ever do that in your videos where
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you say something over and over and over
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yeah you don't you don't mean to what's
27:39
what's the what's your word
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and all right all right
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all right we're here all right we're
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here yep
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epic good thing I start with it though I
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can cut it out yeah
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what do you think now that you're up
27:53
here this is epic
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okay this is something I never realized
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they evidently put this up here as a
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memorial to September 11th of 01.
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I have to be honest I don't know the
28:12
history of it but
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that probably was the first time they
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put this up here
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just to get the bearings Hollywood sign
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right here now I apologize for the
28:26
graininess so I'm going to zoom in just
28:28
a little bit but it's going to get a
28:29
little pixelated because we're way up
28:32
but you could see Courthouse Square
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and the lower Lots
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right down there the new Sound Stage is
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there past the new South stages towards
28:41
the top of the new sound stages is the
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back side
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of the Back to Future Courthouse
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you see where they put some of the hhn
28:50
mazes back when they utilize the lower
28:52
Lots until a couple years ago emblem
28:55
entertainment is down there Spielberg's
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company you got Super Nintendo World
28:59
over that way
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and I was noticing too
29:03
next to the blue
29:05
backdrop with the water if you look
29:06
really closely
29:08
you could see where Norman Bates and his
29:10
mother live right there
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it's like a house and
29:14
set with the wreck plane right over
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there and the nope sets right there
29:19
Jordan peels nope
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which are the actual screen news sets
29:23
they used to be out towards Vasquez
29:24
Rocks in that general area a few miles
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from Vasquez after they got done filming
29:28
it they moved all the sets here to
29:30
Universal and you drive through on the
29:32
tram and then you go in to this travesty
29:34
which is the
29:36
3D show Fast and Furious which
29:40
I'm not real big on okay we're trying to
29:43
hike an area that's really not too
29:45
trodden
29:46
get a better view down into Universal
30:10
is this the secret overlook
30:10
oh wow all right nice little
30:13
rock formation here
30:16
now this is about as close from this
30:19
Mountainside that you can look down into
30:20
Studio see what I can zoom in on it's
30:22
also interesting to get your bearings up
30:24
here so this little kind of dirt
30:26
patch right there in the middle of the
30:28
screen that is you go up to wit drive
30:30
and you go to another road
30:32
all that residential houses will look
30:33
down into the back lot of universal is
30:36
really high up
30:38
but it's we're way above that to where
30:40
that looks like it's ground level from
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let me zoom out
30:53
also fun fact when you're watching Back
30:53
to the Future with the Town Square and
30:54
the courthouse being right there at the
30:56
top of those newer sound stages
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just off to the side where lightning
31:00
strikes the
31:01
the clock tower goes down the DeLorean
31:04
hits 88 the theater all that
31:06
all those iconic scenes just over that
31:09
wall is a river
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and a golf course
31:16
movie Magic I just noticed you're
31:16
wearing a Back to the Future shirt we're
31:18
looking down at the Hill Valley awesome
31:20
and the fun about going One Direction is
31:22
you got to go back the other way
31:25
which is where we're headed
31:27
have not seen any snakes or mountain
31:29
lions yet so I'm pretty thankful for
31:30
that but I think this is probably going
31:31
to be the most treacherous downward
31:33
portion to start heading back whatever
31:35
you do
31:37
Don't Look Down Don't Look Down
31:41
the height difference
31:43
you got this
31:45
uh we're good we're good yeah just make
31:47
sure your feet are stable
31:49
take it slow no slippage it's all about
31:51
taking it slow
31:53
baby steps
31:55
well this is actually kind of
32:06
look at that lizard right there I
32:06
thought it was a snake
32:08
look at that thing it's like a
32:09
prehistoric creature there's another one
32:11
over here
32:29
watch out for these little Pebbles
32:29
whoo
32:30
I almost lost it there
32:40
ah it didn't work let's hopefully we get
32:40
a ride down the mountain
32:42
I need to try the leg oh I forgot the
32:44
leg
32:45
got the leg
32:47
certainly peaceful out here
32:49
The Observatory over there
33:00
almost back to the car
33:00
she almost just tripping these weeds
33:07
yeah I wanted to see what it was and got
33:10
caught up in the the foliage the weeds
33:12
or the curb something happened
33:14
kind of tough to see but there's deer
33:16
down there
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dear of Griffith Park look they're like
33:22
get some uh
33:24
chat there's a couple of them it's a
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family of deer
33:31
it's cool great thing about hiking is
33:31
you when you're going uphill and
33:33
downhill you work totally different
33:35
muscles
33:36
in your legs I'm definitely feeling it
33:38
I'm definitely going to be feeling the
33:39
burn
33:41
also just the vibe up here is so
33:43
peaceful quiet and mellow and down there
33:48
it's a whole different experience
33:51
I like The Best of Both Worlds of LA
33:59
we were up there
33:59
we're above that
34:02
I think that's a kind of colorful
34:03
stencil here on the side almost looks
34:05
like neon colors
34:11
massive side
34:11
and this is the gate I go back to the
34:13
car and head over to another spot
34:14
Griffith Park day and went through the
34:16
gate closed the gate I didn't notice
34:18
actually neither one of us noticed there
34:20
are a series of stars
34:22
heading down here when you head out
34:25
and now that we're heading back down the
34:27
mountain gonna go past these
34:29
Little Rock pylons
34:31
leading in and out of the Hollywood
34:33
Hills there they are
34:36
iconic
34:42
going to the Batman caves Bronson caves
34:42
got a nice little parking area over here
34:45
on Bronson I'm gonna walk up to the
34:46
Bronson caves also known as the Batman
34:49
cage from the original series so if we
34:51
would have started from here to go up to
34:53
the Hollywood Sign we would have had a
34:54
2.3 mile
34:56
hike to even just kind of get to kind of
34:58
where
34:59
where we were we probably what hiked
35:02
three quarters of a mile from the
35:04
Hollywood Sign so we would have gotten
35:05
another at least another mile and a half
35:07
the Bronson caves really close
35:09
0.2 miles
35:11
this way
35:14
rock climbing is prohibited awesome
35:18
Falling Rocks
35:19
this area here is probably one of the
35:21
most used for filming spots
35:24
in well arguably
35:26
in Griffith Park
35:28
the Bronson cave
35:31
Bronson cave I don't know if it's
35:32
pluralized
35:34
or the Batman caves ooh it's like the
35:36
fence been knocked down over there
35:39
using some obscure old horror films
35:41
sci-fi
35:43
Alien movies TV commercials sitcoms well
35:48
not sitcoms but
35:51
TV shows cereals if you will
35:54
the laundry list too many to men even
35:57
mention
36:02
it's kind of weird
36:02
no access
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authorized personnel only you can't go
36:07
in here anymore
36:11
oh wow there's a lot of rocks that are
36:11
falling so it's like a danger zone now
36:19
this was not like this last time I was
36:24
I have taken the fence down I'm gonna
36:24
say that people probably still go in
36:25
there on a pretty consistent basis but
36:35
look at this the Batman cave oh the
36:35
other side
36:36
stuff too
36:38
yeah I guess it has been a while since
36:40
I've been here
36:48
let's walk around the other side
36:50
obviously people doing photo
36:52
's out here not heating
36:54
a warning I'm gonna say people on a
36:56
daily basis all day every day go in
36:58
there I'll take that that falling down
37:00
fence is stopping anyone
37:02
I don't really want any Falling Rocks
37:03
going on my head so I don't think we're
37:04
gonna go with it they've also placed
37:06
signs here that say no access
37:08
stay back Falling Rocks
37:10
so I've been out here probably 20 times
37:12
in my life you used to be able to hike
37:14
all up here in fact if you go up to this
37:16
little peek and look over you see a good
37:18
view of the Hollywood sign off in the
37:19
distance
37:22
but evidently it's getting kind of
37:22
dangerous around here it's falling
37:24
around and the Labyrinth is still back
37:27
on the ground a rock Labyrinth
37:29
and here's more of the fencing that they
37:31
put up that's been
37:32
either blown over by the wind or people
37:34
have knocked it down or just the
37:36
elements have like knocked it over
37:42
one scene I always think about around
37:42
this back end here is Bruce Campbell an
37:45
Army of Darkness when he wakes up from
37:47
the long sleep
37:49
I slept too long
37:52
it was out of this side of the cave here
38:01
yeah
38:01
if you're gonna take a nap in there you
38:02
might sleep as long as Bruce Campbell
38:05
and then wake up and realize why you
38:06
slept too long
38:09
yeah this all these fences
38:11
These Warnings are not being heated
38:13
because it's just it pulled all the
38:14
fencing back
38:16
also this is this is the lab Rock
38:18
Labyrinth
38:25
so many westerns
38:25
took place out here as well
38:46
it's like you can feel the coolness
38:46
coming out of the cave it's nice and
38:48
cool out here now it's even cooler
38:50
inside the cave
38:52
as the wind goes out
38:58
of stated this before but the difference
38:58
between a maze
39:00
and a labyrinth
39:02
is the fact that a labyrinth you start
39:04
at one point and there's only one
39:06
direction so if you continue around the
39:07
Labyrinth and you don't stop you will
39:10
accomplish your goal if you don't give
39:11
up and you will end up
39:14
at the finish line
39:15
that's what a labyrinth is
39:17
a maze would go this way then you could
39:19
hit an end and you'd have to backtrack
39:21
Labyrinth no backtracking one way never
39:25
stop
39:26
get to your goal accomplish your mission
39:28
you watch all those Alien films
39:32
Cowboys cereals
39:34
all those things you would never know
39:36
that right around the corner
39:39
is the iconic sign look at that
39:44
right there
39:50
they neglect to show that and any of the
39:50
TV shows and movies
39:51
they would always obscure that by a
39:54
camera angle
40:00
that's gonna do it for today
40:00
from Hollywood
40:02
we hiked up there
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all right I'll see you the next video
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the Vlog
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is over