Last Day In Boston - Hiked To Top Of Great Blue Hill / Castle Observation Tower & Best City View
Boston July 2022
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starting off fueling up with this
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self-pumping gas nozzle
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price per gallon
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regular 4.82 cents
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looks like there's a little street
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zamboni filling up
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as well over there here at the speedway
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this is my last day
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in boston
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we're heading on
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gotta make the best of it
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imagine driving that thing around
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cleaning up the streets sweeping the
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streets up
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that's a big brooms and sweepers right
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underneath the base of it welcome
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everyone out of the woo here to be
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honest i have lost track of how many
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days i've been on the road it is
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past 70 as of right now i've been in
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boston for a series of days as well as
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the red sox series
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still here is cowbell max and guys will
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be for a little while because you're
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going to be departing with me in the
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morning and we're going to be going to
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another destination where she will be
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there for a few days but we'll do a
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little mini road trip
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and then once we get there you'll be
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flying back to florida and
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with me you never know how long i'm
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going to stay on the road you probably
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learned that in our friendship like
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whatever i say i change my mind three
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seconds later he says he's going home
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but i don't i don't know if he's
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actually going home
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all right no spoilers
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inviting you to join me i'm gonna start
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off with some or foe do you
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pronounce it or foe
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honestly ghost man
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sorry and then whatever the wind blows
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we're going to the game tonight but i'm
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not going to film
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we're going to have a
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a game without a camera so soak up fun
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way one last time
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game three series is tied one on one
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join me
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shall you i love how many options there
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are here
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in this little area
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vietnamese cuisine
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one of my favorite things i always get
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it with the spring rolls
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this mural is pretty
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cool there's so many options we don't
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really know which one to choose but max
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has found one he is leading the way
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so it's about a five minute walk
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um
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four minutes actually four minute walk
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oh here's a vintage sign right here what
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did you call it a relic of the past oh
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that's that's like some of my
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terminology it's starting to start to
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rub off on you
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right there fine vietnamese cuisine
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this place is not open and
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coincidentally it's on adams street this
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is on my street
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it's not open though so we got to find
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another one oh here's another good one
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look at these are like from like the 70s
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right here these kind of like kind of
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plastic style sign a hard plastic rod
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and reel with the fish
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the little the fisherman there with the
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hook and p and j
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bait shop i always like this i always
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kind of guesstimate that these are from
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the 70s so they look like style of sign
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and this little area is known as fields
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corner right here this little mirror
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we're going to go to a place called faux
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ha
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ha restaurant right here on this field i
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always like looking at the steam going
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off of the soup here you got the steam
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coming off of the chicken broth just
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scraping your where's that steak yeah i
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guess so yeah they didn't put it in
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there you get to put it in there kind of
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yourself okay finished the meal and
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drove on to our next spot we're noticing
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there's a wild turkey over here
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on the side we're driving over to i
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think it's a state park right yeah
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going over to a state park look at this
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turkey dude this guy has a huge beard on
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him too
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it's a bearded turkey
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wandering around
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hello turkey
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not even not even part of a whole pack
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it's just one single turkey
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going through the field well
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there's a grassy slope
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dude that thing has a huge feeling i had
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to stretch the legs and work off that
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suit
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do a little walking
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there's some of these woods known as the
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blue
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hills reserve
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the headquarters located here at 695
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hillside street
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gonna go down some hiking trails and see
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what can be found in the blue hills this
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building here on site it's like an old
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barn
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there's an addition added on to
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a couple options here go to
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south skyline to great blue hill or we
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can go to hooton's park pond
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this little general layout of the land
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yeah you are here
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with a little arrow there
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just want to just take one of these
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trails see what happens
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wherever the wind blows just across the
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way there it said one mile
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is the length of this trek and one mile
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not too far of a walk
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but it's going to be an ascension almost
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the whole way but you know
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we're
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doing you can almost expect like a
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waterfall or like a river to be going
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through down this i've noticed that with
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a lot of hiking trails
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kind of resembles where like a
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water would be coming down but this is
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the hiking trail
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if you want to call top
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a lot of rocks looks like there's some
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stairs well
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yeah these are stairs right here look at
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this
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i carved into the side of the hill
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it's pretty neat just gotta take it kind
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of slow
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a lot of steps i know the overlook's
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probably gonna be pretty awesome when we
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get up here
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but the signs do not say how steep the
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incline is
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they failed to mention that
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look at this in order to stay on track
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we're following the blue markers that
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are painted here on the side of these
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these trees
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so we're going to continue this one
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there's the hole in the tree trunk here
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the tree has grown around almost like a
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donut hole almost looks like a hidden
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mickey
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kind of sword if you look at it from
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like a certain angle
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it's like a hole right there in the
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in the tree where the tree limb was up
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here
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and this is kind of circled around it's
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pretty neat you can see through the tree
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and pull back there you go it's almost
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like a heart also yes thank goodness for
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the blue markings one right there on the
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side of the rock another one
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down there on the side of that rock
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definitely see the bluish hue also
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on the rocks themselves
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not as prominent as the blue paint but
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you can definitely see how
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it got its name
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look it's definitely like an aqua blue
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and still on the same track but now
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going back down
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the hill
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from up there so this is one mile
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lots of ups and downs not continuously
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up and not continuously down so it means
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going back the other direction
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you're going to be getting a workout as
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well just some incredible rocks through
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get that natural wind blowing against
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the
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the tree lumps
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eagle to freaking come back here and cut
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down wood on freaking state property
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and someone's been doing it
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yeah someone's definitely hacked into
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now it's definitely not flowing rapids
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by any means but we have to cross over
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this little whoop it's kind of muddy
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cross over this creek
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okay not quite dried up but very little
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water in it but it's very muddy
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let's go over those slick rocks
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and continue on to see another blue
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marking on that tree
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piece of cake
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i've heard the impression or the
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expression x marks the spot this is a
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spot but that's not the spot still got
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still about halfway there is looking at
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kind of the
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satellite view of the area it appears as
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if
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different pathways don't go that way
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don't go that way but if we continue
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this way
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we're halfway there
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i think the biggest thing is you have to
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really when you walk
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you're not really looking forward you
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have to look down because you don't want
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to twist an ankle so you're really
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looking down more than you're looking
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forward but i will say i've done quite a
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few hikes not a lot but
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you know a few over the
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time span of my life
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like in hollywood go up the hollywood
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sign the wisdom tree stuff like that
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there's no shade where other hikes like
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are very nice because there's plenty of
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shade and the sun's not
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you know directly
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going down your neck and your arms
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so this is nice here some others have
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carved their names
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into the side of this tree
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there's a z plus m there's a smiley
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face right there
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kind of little etchings tattooed on this
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tree
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people take their knife and just whittle
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will things into the tree itself
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it's like a tea and a heart or t and a
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zero
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oh here's a heart right there
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the cave of cobs
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cobwebs or oh there's a spider
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okay cobwebs don't have spiders in them
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but this is a spider web
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there's a spider right here in this
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little
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little cave
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trekking along
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all right even more stairs going up
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it's like you said you could see the top
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up there
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so this just this rock staircase
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goes up turns the corner and then goes
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what we think is going to be the peak of
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the pinnacle of our destination yeah
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should also add and we've only seen two
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people so far on this trail and that was
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right when we were starting off
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i haven't seen anyone at about three
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quarters of a mile
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what's that noise this might not
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translate well to camera
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but i have the camera pointed kind of
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just straight ahead level
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those are the stairs going up there you
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can see the
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the rock steps we got to continue up
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and kind of zoom in here i'd say it's
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like a 65 degree angle or so
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yeah up the
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stairs towards the light
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okay this says that there is a blue hill
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observatory and science center up here
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renovations are in progress
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whether observatory is closed
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construction will be happening through
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2022 so i don't know if it's going to be
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open by time we get there
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but that's what it looks like
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and it's continuing down this path here
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there must be main roads up here
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if there's an observatory and there it
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is
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oh there's somebody else up here another
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guy sitting right there
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this is the observatory look at all the
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satellite antennas up here
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there's another antenna so just like
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griffith park in la has the griffith
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observatory
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there's an observatory here
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and outside boston and even during
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construction they are
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they do have some information here of
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about the
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weather observatory we're just talking
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to the guy that was sitting on the
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picnic bench over here he was talking a
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little bit about it this is from august
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4th of 1894 a series of kites made by
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william a eddy
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lifted a special
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a specialty constructed thermograph off
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the ground
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on great blue hill look at there's the
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kites
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right there and it still kind of looks
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like a
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almost looks like a castle of sorts
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and that is still over there
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that castle even though it's under
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construction the castle looking
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item
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now look at these these are like some
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sort of weather equipment
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of some sort i don't know almost looks
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like bird houses
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and whatnot but there so he says
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construction zone do not go past that
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point but there's what looks like that
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that castle in those photos also the
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local we were just talking to said that
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a lot of the local news stations
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we use
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you know this area up here on blue hill
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to get the
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to get their weather that's what all
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these little antennas and whatnot are
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you'll also see up here look at this
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fancy item kind of spinning around all
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this our weather sensitive
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he also told us where to go to get the
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best overlook
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to the city so we're going to walk over
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there too
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pretty cool up here
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yeah this is up here that was a hike
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okay so there's obviously a road because
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this biker
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is now going back down the hill he rode
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up
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went up to the tower the weather tower
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and going back down so you have to
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really take the rocky terrain if you
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didn't want to didn't realize that
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so that was 2014 to 2015.
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oh look at this one it's like snow
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capped
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a campbell stokes sunshine recorder is
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an antique piece of technology
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this bridge was erected in 1904 in
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memory of charles elliot landscape
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architect and this is like a three three
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or four hundred yards i'd say from
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where we just were now should be able to
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get to a clearing and see out possibly
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over
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the cityscape at some point but yeah
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there's this little bridge here that was
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built back in 1904.
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nice little in carving here and a little
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seating area which is nice and take a
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look up here there's like a tower and
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they do have some emergency
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personnel up here
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someone got injured so they had to
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come up and helping them out and that's
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happened kind of down the side of the
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hill but i just wanted to kind of
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feature this hill
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this little
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lookout tower that's here
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and the rock work of this is really
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really awesome
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the picnic tables and all that
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little wrought iron staircase i'm gonna
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walk up
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walk up here give a little
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a little walk through of sorts okay this
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is so cool
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it's like a castle
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built out of the rock look at this
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that is neat wow
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this is the lookout tower
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be able to go up in that
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this is pretty awesome welcome to my
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castle welcome to max's castle
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who knew this was up here i didn't know
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this was up here
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if you showed me a photo you go there's
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like some sort of like a tower castle of
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some sort i had no idea
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it was going to be this monumental
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i mean this stone looks like it's like
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from when it was built yeah oh
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definitely this is like seeing some
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years
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the bridge was built i think in 1904
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and it looks like the same kind of rock
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work as this or probably around the same
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time i think i've read something that
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the castle was like 1883 or something oh
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so even before the bridge yeah
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oh look at the fireplace
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okay this has no fires but
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this was originally used for fires
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this is awesome man
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you never know what you're gonna find
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when you just hike to the top of a
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mountain
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it's like someone has been
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putting some fires in there which is not
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good
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i don't even think it has a way out
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now this door over here is like
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something out of a horror film look at
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like what's behind this door something
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really wanted in there or out of there
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very badly someone was like rampaging in
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like a bear like
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or
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something evil
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trying to get out of there
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it's all locked up
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anything in there
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it's pitch black i can't see maybe it's
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sweet henrietta welcome to my fruit
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cellar here we go
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up to the top and we get this view
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this is just so cool i love starting the
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day off not knowing
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yeah there's downtown over there look at
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that
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i think that's harbor island over there
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how cool that is
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downtown boston
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the island over there
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yeah this is so neat
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it's all lookout towers probably like
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four or five other people up here
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as well so other people come up here
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they hike up here just to
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look at downtown
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i'm definitely getting some like
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griffith park vibes from us
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i know i'm not looking at la but
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just the hike and the observatory and
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overlook and all that
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is this the best
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best view of austin anywhere in the area
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i wouldn't be surprised all right i had
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to zoom way in but i'm just going to
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give a little
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peripheral here going across the
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skyline
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to the skyscrapers
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and whatnot just kind of panning across
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the neighborhoods the suburbs of boston
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yeah this is awesome
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well worth hiking up here
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and this is the non-zoomed in look and
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we're looking at this it's not like
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people are like taking a sharpie and
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writing their name in here and they're
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not just taking like a knife and carving
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it in a tree like this is like they're
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getting it very hard this is like
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granite or like concrete
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made out of rock and they're still like
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be able to carve their names
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in here like here's dave right here dave
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was it looks like vern was here
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vern hey vern
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got mo
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bunch of others and this is looking over
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the other section of i'm calling it the
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castle but it's like
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some like an old homestead with the
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picnic tables underneath it now and the
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fireplace there just trying to show the
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distance we went so the blue dot is
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where we're standing my car is way up
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here now look at that pond right there
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called hotten
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or hotten's pond
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so we're past that just to the left of
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hawton's pond and hawk's pond is way
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over that just shows how far we hike so
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we're basically parked right down there
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through the shrubs
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through the trees
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and not only straight across but up and
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down
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the hillside we just we put some we put
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some steps in
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and this is only one way we got to go
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back someone felt so accomplished they
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wrote i made it here
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and this i thought was like a fire but
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it looks like it's like a bird or
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pterodactyl of some sort all right
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heading back down now
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this is so awesome
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pleasantly surprised with the payoff
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once we got up here
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and i will say if i ever
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go back to boston and i want to get like
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a good view of the city this would be my
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recommendation or come back up here
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again what if you could drive up here
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whatever the place you could drive
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through and make the hike a little
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easier it probably is
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just drove okay that's true all right
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now i'm gonna start heading back
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i just want to get one last little look
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here at this
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and then go along
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go along this bridge
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back the way we headed in
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deja vu in reverse
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or something like that i learned
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something new today there is a tower
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at the top of this mountain peak just
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outside of boston learn something new
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it's always good to learn something new
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every day or at least on a regular basis
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back onto so skyline trail south skyline
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trail this marker here gonna head back
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down the one mile descent and ascent and
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rocky terrain we were just discussing
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what's more difficult going up or going
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down seems like going up you get more
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cardio out of it but going down
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it's a little more
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kind of dangerous because you got the
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gravity that you could fall and really
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kind of finding your footing
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on these rocks is very difficult
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so i don't know you work different
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muscles and
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and what not going up and down but this
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is quite the decent still on the way
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back was noticing this kind of pile of
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wood here almost like it was a bridge of
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some sort maybe water rolled through
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maybe not but
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it could have been going back by where
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the spider webs were earlier
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the boulderous regions
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yes my calves and shins
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are loving this
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well not really but
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getting
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feeling it
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i think after this hill
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we go
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level for a while now i got to thinking
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if anyone's ever taken out this isn't a
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sweet slide has anyone ever taken a
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bicycle down here and then i realized
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that they have a posted sign saying no
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bicycles down here
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yeah i would not have the best of luck
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i mean i've gone down a regular slide
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but this is probably even more more
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intense it's probably just like same
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steepness oh yes see some traffic going
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by
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looks like accomplished
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the goal
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i said it was only a mile there a mile
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back
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but it seemed like five miles there five
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miles back is the time it took
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and
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the rock formations the ascension the
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descension
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elevation
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and i'm gonna check and see how many
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steps i took
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when i get back over to my car
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that was cool the payoff was awesome all
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right south skyline trail to great blue
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hill
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it's supposedly only a mile but feels
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like much more
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you have may turn my
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legs
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into mush
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but i did it
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it helps that i'm not in the best shape
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of my life that that helps it
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you know it doesn't it doesn't help i
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should say
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i'm not the most fit person on earth i'm
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not the most unfit
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but that really just made me realize
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how i'm not the best shape that i have
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okay pulled up the health monitor on my
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phone my step length is 27.6 inches i
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have a wide stride walking speed
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averages at 2.7 miles an hour i went
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about 10 000 steps no 89
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shy of i went 3.6 miles okay they fibbed
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a little it's 1.8 miles there one point
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well
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yeah pretty much so we
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yeah pretty much that's this but that's
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about how it was we that's the thing too
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so even though
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only went 3.6 miles
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climbed 55
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floors that's like going to a hotel
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that's 55 stories all right max we did
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it
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good suggestion i have to give this one
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to max he said i there's a there's a
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place that has a hiking trail and there
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might be a castle at the top
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so thanks for the suggestion
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did something a little bit different
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didn't really show any small towns
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didn't show any back roads
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we're gonna go to a baseball game now
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i'm not gonna bring my camera
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predictions
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um six two raise six to two race you're
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calling it i'm not gonna edit that out
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game three boston red sox at fenway
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against the tampa bay rays let's get the
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series baby let's go
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whoa we'll see you in the next video the
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vlog
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is over